The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN .BOARD OF WORKS.

An adjourned special meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of-Works was held on Tuesday at Guildhall, for
the purpose of further considering the_financial state-
ment, and to assess moneys on the several-parts of the
metropolis, for defraying the expenses of the board an
the execution of the Metropolis Local Management Act;
Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.
Mr. TURNER moved that the first column of the finan-
cial statement which fixed the rateable value of the pro-
perty on the basis of the county-rate assessment be
adopted.
Agreed to.
The total rateable value of the several' districts Was
fixed at 11,283,6631.
A resolution was then passed approving an apportion-
ment. of. the outstanding loan of 140,0001. for main
intercepting drainage works.
A. resolution was passed approving the total estimated
liabilities of the different districts at 442,9021. 12s. The
following estimated expenses of the board for the year
ending the 31st of Dec., 1856, were then 'agreed to :
Establishment charges, including compensation allow-
ances, 24,0971. lls. 53. ; instalment and interest on
main intercepting drainage loan of 140,0001., 12,9851. ;
for interest on loans• contracted and annuities, and re-
tiring allowances granted by the late Metropolitan Com-
missioners of Sewers, 15,2271. 12s. 6i. ; sums required
for works of sewerage, 18,006/. 3s. ; total estimated ex-
pense fur the year, 70,3161. 6s. 11d. ; amount to be
raisedreimbursement
floan C eeche,
of loraepesaiadndommorrtg. j
mortgages, 14,1151. ;
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be require;d
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ton,zton ,
lid. ; Bethnal -green, 0 ; Newington, Surrey,
Bi. ; Camberwell, 3id. ; St. James's, Westminster,
50. ; Hackney, ld. ; St. Giles's, ltd. ; Holborn,
lid. ; Clerkenwell, 0 ; Chelsea, 21Lisi3dd.iim.;ad.e,
id. ; Strand, id. ; Ful;lisasmatv..,iLoluOurkle•z:s,
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Bermondsey, 33/4d. ; St.
Poplar,7id ;
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George's, Southwark, 31d. ;
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George's-in-the-East, lid. ; St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
lti. ; Hamlet of Mile-end Old-town, 1 140 d. ;
Wolii hasi.:e; Wandsworth,°Middley.h sePeter, lid.
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A. resolution to assess the sums specified was carried.
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amendment was moved by. Mr. Bitthise
to issue to assess the districts
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the repayment of a loan tnlad
of Sewers until the sever
to this assessment shouaktter.
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the question, when there appeared,
against it, 18. The original mo-
on the 30th May. the precepts were
carried, and
made returnadwent;:ld;

FRIMENTION OF PITTING IN SMALL l'Ox.-Mr. Startin,
the senior surgeon to till, Gurney Hospital for Diseases
of the Skin, has communicated to the Medical lilacs a
very important plan, which he has adopted during the
last 14 years, for preventing pitting in small-pox, and
which, be states, has always proved successful. The
plan consists in applying the acetum cantharidis, or any
vesicating fluid, by means of a camel hair brush to the
apes of each spot or pustule of the disease, on all the
exposed surfaces of the body, until blistering is evi•
denced by the whiteness of the skin in the parts sub-
jec. ed to the application, when the fluid producing it
is to be washed off with water or thin arrowroot gruel.
The pain attending the application of the visicating fluid
i very slight and transient.

TilE EASTERN STEAM NAVIGATION The man who is careless or indifferent at the pre-
CO NI PAN Y
NOTICE Is, HEREBY GIVEN, That in consequence of the num-
ber of persons visiting their Ship now building at Millwall, to the
great literruption of the works, no tickets for the future will he
issued gratuitously.
From and after this date the charge for admission will be as
follows, viz.:—
For One Person ...• 4s. 6d.
For Two Persons 4s. 6d.
For Three Persons.
For Four Persons.
No person or persons will on any account be admitted to the
Works without a ticket, which can only be obtained at the offices of
the Company, subject to regulations.
By order.
JOHN YATES, Secretary.
N.B.—All outstanding tickets, except " Special," are from this
date cancelled.
Offices, 13, Gresham street, 4th March, 1857.

sent crisis is unworthy of the suffrage. The man
who yields to any corrupt influence, to bribery or
intimidation, is a traitor to his country—a vile
and infamous traitor. He will be guilty of the
highest political offence, and should for ever be
disgraced in the estimation of his countrymen--
becom© what the Ancient Greeks termed "artpoc,"
and our Saxon ancestors a wretch, who merits
not the birthright which he is willing to barter
for a mess of pottage. Let the electors afflicted
with itching palms remember that those who pur-
chase their venal support will be prepared to sell
them whenever the occasion may arise. Let the
supple politician, who is afraid of offending land-
lord, employer, or customer, remember that he
himself must set the example of manliness and in-
dependence to his would-he representative ; that
a mean and cringing constituency will find a mem-
ber possessing similar attributes.
There must now be an appeal to the country,
and the sooner it takes place the better ! We
believe that nothing more auspicious could have
happened to Lord PALMERSTON than the defeat
which he has just sust tined. It may be regarded
as a salutary warning that he must further
strengthen himself in the good opinion of the com-
munity at large, and that he must not permit his
subordinates exhibit such fantastic tricks as
those in which Sir G. C. LEWIS has recently been
indulging. He welt knows that he is not a Court
favourite—that " the shadow behind the Throne"
obscures his position and neutralises his legitimate
influence. His bold and manly declaration that
"England has no cousins" made the professors of
Germanism his inveterate foes. His straightfor-
ward English policy arrayed under the opposite
standard those who wished to make England a
party to foreign intrigues, and is make her
truckle to the representatives of despotism in all
parts of the world. The result has been that the
Chinese difficulty has been the stalking-horse to
get rid of the too sturdy Minister, who regarded
the honour and interests of Great Britain as of
greater consequence than the wishes and intrigues
of Imperial and Royal conspirators against the
freedom of mankind. We have not spared Lord
PALMERSTON when we found him in the wrong—
when he suffered his subordinates to become the
t,ols of the moneyocracy, to put forward unsound
views of finance, to unduly tax the industrious
classes, we fearlessly and unflinchingly denounced
the grave mistake. But when he has been made
the sport of faction, when he has been assailed for
vindicating the honour of his country and compelling
a treacherous and barbarous people to observe the
treaties which they had deliberately concluded,
and to respect the British name, we render him
the independent support, as well as the tribute of
respect and admiration to which he is so justly
entitled.

TWO SUPPLEMENTS GRATIS-GREAT DEBATE AND

DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS for
SATURDAY, MARCH 7th, contains the following EN-
GRAVINGS:—The Explosion at Lund Ell Colliery, Barnsley:
Mouth of the Downcast Shaft. Opening of the Barnsley Branch
Railway: The :Procession entering the Regent street Station.
Marble Group, in the Prince's Chamber, House of Lords Her Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria, supported by Justice and Clemency (J. Gibson,
R.A., Sculptor). "The Covey," painted by J. Wolf (from the Exhibi-
tion of the British Instituti,,n). View of Karani. The 93d Regiment,
Highlanders. Victoria Cross—the New Order of Valour. " Quintin
}letsys, the Blacksmith of Antwerp" (2 Illustrations). Gerhard
Dome's Portrait of Himself. Landscape and Hawking Party ;" paint-
ed hy Berghem (in the Bridgewater Gallery). " Christ on the Banks
of the Jordan ;" painted by Murillo (from Louis Philippe's Collcc
Hon). " The Grand Altar of the Cathedral of Seville;" painted by
David Roberts, R.A. " The wie at a Venture" (4 Illustrations).
Fu:l Report of the Debate in the House of Commons. With the
Latest Foreign Intelligence, and all the News of the Week. Price
bd.; Stamped, 6,l.—Office, 193, Strand.

/THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY. LANE.—
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R
Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley.

The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles 'Mathews, every evening,
Re-engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.

Gl'eat Success of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the
sliest magnificent ever produced on the English stage.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the
popular Comedy,
A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE.
Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Keeley, Vincent, Til-
bury, Templeton, Carter, Walton ; Mrs. Frank Matthews,
Miss Cleveland, and Miss H. Oliver.
After which will be produced
SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ;
Or, Harlecptin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs.
The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the
helve to suit every one :—Galleries, 6d. and Is, ; Second
Circle Of Boxes, is. 6d. • Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes,
2s. 6d. ; Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, Es. ; Private Boxes,
108. 6d,, :1/. lls. 6d., and 21. 2s.i

OY Al' PRINCESS'S THEATRE
THIS EVENING, will be performed
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

After which will he produced a new petite comedy, in two
acts, called OUP. WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Princi•
pal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Harley, Fisher ; Misses
Murree a'd C. Leclercq.

•
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
j. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven,
with the successful new Comedy, in three acts, entitled,
DOUBLE-FACED PEOPLE. Characters by Mr. Bnckstone,
Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. Farron, Mr. Rogers,
Mr. Clark, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Poynter, and Mrs. E. Fitz-
wil lam.
Followed by (15th time) a new drama, called A WICKED
WIFE.
After which, GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRAD-
SH A.W.
To conclude with Moncrien comic d.rama of THE
IRRESISTIBLES.

II OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
t 0..) Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama, in
fivo acts, by Westland. Marston, Esq., entitled A LIFE'S
RANSOM. Lord Revesdale, Mr. C. Dillon ; Bancroft, Mr.
Stuart ; Felicia Revesdale, ;Mrs. C. Dillon.
Followed by a new drama, by Stirling Coyne, Esq., entitled
ANGEL OR DEVIL. Mr. and Mrs. C. Dillon, Mr. J. L.
Toole, Mr. Barrett, &c.
To conclude with
CONRAD AND MEDORA;
or, Harlequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of
f! Sea. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, Fsq.,
tyluded upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced at Her
MAjeFty's Theatre. The harlequinado upon things in gene-
ral. The new and magnificent scenery painted by Mr. F.
Fenton.
Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar
Birbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole
Medora Mrs. Charles Dillon
Clowns
Mr. IL Marelrall
The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super-
iitcndence of Mr. Chatterton, jnn.
Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set
down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street.

raIHEATRE ROYAL, AD ELPIII.
Pt Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama
of IRELAND AS IT IS. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-lIILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Pal Bedford will appear.
Followed by a new Piece de Caractere, entitled IN AND
OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams.
To conclude with the- new original comic drama, called
BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Tcole, Mr. Barney
Williams.

r) OYAL SURREY THEATRE,
1.) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, a new drama, entitled FRAUD AND
ITi VICTI NIS. Messrs. Creswick, Shepherd, ezc.
After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER
QUEEN, Harlequin, Mr F. Clover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ;
Pontaloon, Mr. Rra.dbury; tha Four Sprites, the Fillis Fa-
rdly; Columbines, Mesdames Marie and Agnes.

TriIIEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS.
9, Under the Management of Mr. Phelps.
THIS EVENING, will be performed WILLIAM TELL,
Characters by Messrs. Phe'ps, IT. Maraton, J, W. Ray.
L Ball, A. Rayner, Williams ; Miss Atkinson.
To conclude with THE HONEYMOON.

cl VIAND TREAT Mc. T.
Pavne.—Thi' Evenini will ha per :orroel
a new Drama, FASHION AND FA SIDE ; or, The Straw-
berry Girl. Julia Warren, Little Cordelia I-Toward.
Affer which, THE DEA.TH OF EVA, in which the
Howard Family will appear.
Followed by a Ballet Divertissement.

To conclude with DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA.
Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Blmes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.
Gallery, 6(1.

11,1 OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
This Eveninz, the new drama, by Tom Taylor,
sailed A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING.
A CONJUGAL LESSON. Lullaby, Mr. F. Robson.
Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq.
called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.
Commence at half-past Seven.

STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Leasee and Mana7er, Mr. W. Cooke.

This Evening, with the original vocal music, and novel
and startling Equestrian Illustrations, invented ):.7 Mr. "Wm.
Cooke, the equestrian operatic drama of ROB ROY. Rob
Roy, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the brilliant SCENES in the CrRCLE.
To conclude with the equestrian harlequinade called PAUL
PRV ON HORSEBACK.
tommeice at seven o'clock. Dress POZCS, 4s. ; Upper
Rotes, 3s. Private Boxes, from it., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
lox office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

ANTERBURY HALL. Westminsrer-road.—
k_i OPEN EVERY EVENING.--The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
-eketions from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duct,-;, &e., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Mies Brunel], Miss Sranmers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J.
Cadfield, Herr F. Jon:rlimans, it. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
JoLes, J. Barker, W. Menlo., P. Corri, Senor Antonio M.
tie rolla, and E. L. Hiroo ; 'Masters Austin, Bennett, and
torri; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. hackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre-
ciscill. Suppers, dic., until twelve o'clock.

As we have stated, it is truly fortunate for
Lord PALMERSTON that he goes to the country on
the Chinese question. He could not by a possi-
bility have selected a more favourable champ de
battaille. It is notorious that he was not respon-
sible for the original complication. None of the
parties who represented England on the occasion,
and who acted with thorough English pluck, com-
bined with extraordinary forbearance, owed their
appointments to himself or to his Administration.
He only heard of what had taken place at the
same time with the rest of the community. He
had no hand in framing, the issue—no priority of
information. If ever a Statesman was perfectly
innocent he was so, in reference to every thing
connected with the demands for redress, and the
just and necessary measures adopted to enforce it
when refused by Commissiorru YELL But he boldly
sustained the servants of England in the difficult
circumstances in which they were placed. He
nobly accepted the responsibility, and risked the
stability of his Government, rather than desert
one who had been the bosom friend, and for
many years the efficient and energetic collabora-
teur of those who were willing to disch..rge a
missile even through his bosom, against the
Administration whom they had a factious desire
to injure. On this point the people will un-
flinchingly support him. They have not that mor-
bid sentimentality for the innocent and harm-
less (.9 poisoning inhabitants of the flowery land !
They resent the arrogance and insolence which, if
permitted, would treat the British as an inferior
race not to be associated with on equal terms,
but merely tolerated for the sake of the advan-
tages they bring, and to be regarded as barba-
rians, whose rights and privileges might be
trampled on with impunity. They are determined
that solemn treaties shall not be regarded as waste
paper, to be set aside at the mere will and pleasure
of Mr. Commissioner YETI and his subordinat3s ;
but above all they detest the infamous and cowardly
atrocities that would carry on war by means of
drugged and poisoned articles of food—that
would cut off in such a manner not merely fighting
men, but helpless women and innocent children.
The heartless miscreants who could conceive
and attempt to execute so diabolical a scheme
as the poisoning the bread of the colony of
Hong Kong deserve no sympathy or forbearance,
and the nation will sustain the Government in
bringing the sanguinary assassins to a complete
reckoning.

But while Lord PALMERSTON has a powerful
claim on national support ho also owes something
to the nation. He has at present " his duties as
well as his rights," and he is bound to declare
clearly, explicitly, and unequivocally the policy
which he intends to pursue in reference to ques-
tions that have too long been kept in abeyance.
A. large and comprehensive measure of Parliamen-
tary Reform is due t) the nation. It has long
been promised, and too long deferred ; and the
recent division on Mr. LOOKS KING'S motion has
occasioned well-founded apprehensions that the
subject will, if possitk., be shelved. Every can-
didate will be required to speak clearly and
intelligibly on this interesting sulject. But
the Premier is bound to set the example of can-
dour and plain speaking. He must make a clean
breast of it, and abandon the reserve and mystery
which has done more to damage his administra-
tion than any other matter that can be indicated.

One woid more. Parliament is in extremes.
Lard PALMERSTON has himself pronounced its
Gloom, and no question of any inipoitance can be
decided during its morbid condition. The Times
hints that " the remission of the War od., and it
presumes the other parts of the Budget, will be pro-
ceeded with ; and if the House of Commons,
under its new inspiration, should think fit to
recede from its present decision on those points,
it wilt have the oppoitauity of doing so." We
earnestly and emphatically protest against such a
course. If the decision is good on ono point, it
LOW.t be so on the other. The Minister
cannot blow hot and cold with impu-
nity. Nothing can fairly or justly be
brought forward under existing circumstances,
can possibly be dispensed with. The fiscal
and financial policy of t'ie Government is looked
forward to with the utmost anxiety. It may
suit the tiews of the Times to snap a decision,
hut the attempt; Will irretrievably damage sill
Government. We are not afraid of the new
Pailianiatt, even on the queAion of the Income

Tax. No Minister can attempt to avail himself of
the "pettifogging quibble." Not merely the War
Od., but the War lid., must be surrendered, and
the tea and sugar duties must remain in, statu
quo—or, in other words, there must be no attempt
to continue duties condemned by the existing law,
and which are to expire from and after the
sth of April next. Everything of import-
ance must be submitted to the judgment
of the nation, and that judgment will
be recorded in favour of those who put for-
ward the best claims. It is with Lord PALMER-
STON on the Chinese question. Let him, above
all things, avoid weakening his position, by com-
ing forward as the supporter of a retrograde fiscal
policy, the advocate of indirect duties, and of an
unmodified and inequitable Income Tax. Even
should the Exchequer Bonds falling due in May
require renewal it will be a matter of compara-
tively trivial importance, as they are altogether
vested in the Commissioners of Savings Banks,
and the Trustees of the Patriotic Fund, and, as
repeatedly pointed out, only represent a small
portion of the sum drawn out of the Exchequer,
in consequence of the GLADSTONE abortion. An
immediate dissolution is indispensable, and if
Lord PALMERSTON be wise, he will not throw
any difficulty in the way thereof.

We wish the Manchester gentlemen joy of their
long list of Tory colleagues, and the Tories joy
of their new leaders, and the extreme Radicals
joy of the other two, and the Peelites we will
wish joy of them all. A happy family, no doubt,
they made in the same lobby, and should the stars
ever bless them with matrimony—in politics a
quadruple union being by some thought lawful—
we wilt wish them as happy as they can hope to be.
Political Mormonism will not, however, do in
England. Coalitions and conspiracies are regarded
as synonymous. North and south may rush to-
gether and unite in magnetism, positive and
negative in electricity, acid and alkali in chemis-
try ; but in politics like must unite with like, and
the honourable antagonism of the onward and the
retrograde or stand-still parties must be preserved,
or political life ceases. The country, in fact,
never feels itself in sound political health unless
there be some good points of reform, some desir-
able measures of progress before it, and unless the
party which should do so unites to press them on,
and the other to obstruct them. We cannot
away with Tories and Liberals, or Liberals and
Tories, combining to oust each other.
We have frankly enough censured our Govern-
ment for all its delinquencies, and we can, there-
fore, have credit for honestly supporting it when
it acts worthily of its country. We did not fail
to expose freely every unworthy concession to
Russia, Austria, and even to France, during the
War; and, above all, to blame as it deserved the
discreditable and costly peace. We can now with
pleasure stand by it against the vote of such a
mongrel majority of the House of Commons, and
feel proud of it as standing by its duty to the
country in the presence of party and faction. We
have already expressed our hope that Lord
PALMERSTON will ask permission of the country, if
driven to do so, before be sells his country—
especially before be sells it to Commissioner YEN,
and to the Brother of the Sun, the EMPEROR of
the flowing land. However the ex-Ministers and
the Opposition benches may feel, Englishmen ge-
nerally feel as Englishmen resident at Canton do.
The country at large puts much more faith in its
fellow-countrymen now resident in China, or its
countrymen who have resided there, than in M.P's.
who want to embarrass a Ministry, but who
know nothing whatever by actual observation of
what they vote about. All England feels that her
sons in the East and their connexions here, whose
past and probable losses of property give pledge
for their integrity, are the most reliable of judges
when they pronounce on what they well under-
stand, and pronounce too on their own pecuniary
injury. Lord PALMERSTON certainly need not
fear the country.

The Lords have unquestionably raised them-
selves in popular estimation. Appealed to with
extraordinary eloquence by the Earl of DERBY,
and legal arguments being pretty well balanced
in their House, they yet took a broad and consti-
tutional view of the question, forgot technicalities
and voted for England and her honour. What the
Peers really voted was—not that the law of the
case was on this side or that—not that this or
that official abroad was in everything right or
wrong—not that the home Government ought or
ought not to have approved all the acts of their
agents, but, that if England would have
colonies and fleets fifteen thousand miles off, she
must appoint the fittest persons to represent her,
give them large discretion, and offer them a firm
public support if they appear to have honestly used
Their best judgment at the time ; yes, and that,
too, even though, being mortals like ourselves,
they might have erred in their judgment. Is,
indeed, every representative abroad and at such
a distance to live in dread of official rebukes and
party divisions in the House of Commons? It
was not thus that CLIVE and HASTINGS, CORN-
WALLIS and ARTHUR WELLESLEY made the Brie
tish name what it is.

We have no doubt that Mr. COBDEN, and per-
haps a few pugnacious Peace Society men, were
sincere enough in their crotchet, but we do blame
the great Conservative body for putting themselves
to school again at Manchester. We wish to re-
spect our political antagonists as high-minded
combatants. Can we do so when they march with
Messrs. COBDEN and MILNER GIBSON as their stan-
dard-bearers? These gentlemen might indeed well
suspect their cause and position when they see
themselves leading the famous lIFTT-THREE who
voted to the last for protection, and all the up-
holders of every abuse, and obstructors of every
reform, following in their train. Nothing, how-
ever, will now impart to Mr. COBDEN that large-
ness of view, that want of capacity to look beyond
the trade and navigation returns, that inability
to merge the manufacturer in the Statesman,
which has kept him in the background ever since
the repeal of the Corn-laws.

If ever there was a question which ought to be
dealt with on broad principles—oa the ground of
what course might be expected to produce the
best final results, and not on the ground of pleas
awl replies suitable to au Admiralty Court, it is
the present question. All the bettor speakers,
even though beguiled into the legal argument,
yet felt and said that it was below the importance
of the case. Hero we were at Canton with a
Treaty in our hand, ever since 1842, which
gave us free admission to the city, but
that admission refused ever since ! Not
only that, but a fresh agreement that a few
years ago the Treaty should be carried out ; but it
was not yet carried out ! Not only that, but
Europeans were murdered, insults innumerable
offered, vessels seized, and a constant assumption
of superiority kept up by the Viceroys, which em-
boldened the native rabble against all foreigners.
Hence it became settled, no doubt, in the minds
of all residents there that the next outrage must
be the list. Parties quarrelling face to face un-
derstand what each other's acts. mean ; and the
Briti6h authorities and all Europeans at Canton