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is reni, if arvests are bad, and his landlord be able " What can all this money be for ? It is evident
and willing /
to mke it ? Or is the importance of his wz are to have no account of it !"
posposition to be found in his right to vote at Who are we to whom the League are thus impe-
the election of knights of the shire in which ratively called upon to account ? Is it the House of
he dwells, as he may be requested by his Commons or the Agricultural Protection Society to
landlord's steward or agent ? If, indeed, we happen whom they are to render their accounts ? Or does
to live ander such a landlord as the Earl of Radnor, Mr. O'Brien, in his own person, assume the editorial,
`be franchise is an honour. His are the independent the regal, or the omnipotent WE, elect himself the
t nants of a man, who, throughout a long and valua- magnanimous patron and representative of the public,
ble life, has uniformly shown himself to be the un- and assume the office of accountant-general for all
daunted advocate of right, the unwearied friend of mankind ? Perhaps in his retirement amidst the
the poor—whose consistency has shone forth a bril- umbragious groves of Blutterwyche, or the waving
liant virtue, for when the Viscount Folkstone of woods of Crattoe, he may find sufficient employment
former days became the Earl of Radnor of the latter, in preparing the accounts of the Agricultural Pro-
he was changed but in rank and title ; he carried tection Society and its numerous branches, which, if
with him into the House of Lords the same stern we may judge from the specimens before us, he will
integrity, the same honourable determination to pro- find no very easy matter.
mote and maintain the rights and interests of the We have already exceeded the space which we
tenants of a man, who throughout a long and valuable proposed to allot to the pamphlet under consideration ;
life has uniformly shown himself to be the undaunted but we cannot lay it aside without noticing the
vdvocate of right, the unwearied friend of the poor—
grievous complaints of Mr. O'Brien against the
whose consistency has shown forth a brilliant virtue, League for "meddling with the registration books,"
for whenn the Viscount Folkestone of former days
and interfering with elections." There is nothing of
became the Earl of Radnor of the latter, he was more importance to the people at large than a close
changed but in rank and title ;he carried with him and scrutinising attention to the registration of
into the House of Lords the same stern integrity, the electors. Societies have been formed for this purpose,
same honourable determination to promote and main- not in the metropolitan boroughs only, but in many
taro the rights and interests of the people, as had dis- other parts, ever since the Reform Act was passed;
tinguished him in the Lower House. "These praises these societies have pursued their labours zealously
will wear well, for they have been dearly earned." and usefully, without objection from any party; and
Descending to the farm-labourer, he too may look we see no reason why the League should be
in win for the importance of the position he now oc- prevented from lending their powerful aid, in order
euOies Important enough it is to the community, to complete a pure and perfect register. We cor-
for by the sweat of his brow we are mainly furnished dially approve of their measures for this purpose, be-
with our daily bread. Hard labour and scanty food cause we believe they will perform their duty
are his daily portion, and at night he " shrinks into honestly and effectually ; and we have reason to
the sordid hut of cheerless poverty." If he hold fast know that a very beneficial result has already been
his honesty, and be able to obtain work, he has no produced with regard to the register of the City of
prospect for his latter days but the union workhouse ; Londan.
if he infringe the law, and seek to eke out his On the subject of "interference with elections,"
sustenance by killing a willd animal, fed on his em- Mr. O'Brien's remarks are particularly unfortunate.
ployer's ground, the county gaol receives him for a "If it be not contrary to the letter of our law, it
time, and he leaves it a broken-spirited wretch, or a is at least abhorrent to the spirit of our Con-
reckless vagabond. stitution." The palmy days of Gatton and
Tha landowners, who are not agriculturists, any Old Sarum—" et id genus ornne"—are passed.
more than a mineowner is a cutler or a coppersmith, and gone. The direct, palpable, unblushing nomi-
are in truth the class of persons, whom Mr. O'Brien nation of members, happily no longer exists ; but
is desirous to maintain in " the important position undue influence and interference in elections is one of
they now occupy." Here he has unwittingly but the crying evils of the present day : not the interfe-
plainly stated the whole gist of the question ; this rence of information and instruction—not the fair
reason is in Mr. O'Brien's mind, and in the minds of and open interference of putting down bribery—not
the landowners in general, "convincing against the the honest and legitimate interference of mind and
abolition of our corn-laws." They believe that the intelligence—but the immoral, unjust interference of
abolition of those laws wonld reduce their rents, power, and money, and terror, which produce an
would compel them to confer independence on their infinitely worse effect on the minds and principles of
tenants, and thereby affect their own political in- the people than all the pocket boroughs of schedule A
fluence ; would strike at the root of all monopolies; put together.
and enforce upon the Legislature the necessity of
providing for an increasing population by extending
their means of utility and productiveness.
" Sensus moresque repugnant,
Atque ipsa utilitas, justi prope mater et equi."
It is absurd to insist upon the maintenance of agri-
culturists as a class in their important position, for
land depends for its value upon manufactures. It
was well observed by a writer, between sixty and
seventy years ago, that " the lands of a country must
every where depend on the manufactories of it for
their value ; and not the manufactories on the lands,
in order to be made flourishing and beneficial to a
state. These are truths highly necessary to be
clearly comprehended by statesmen in a trading
country, for regulating their conduct, because wher-
ever a trading interest is sought to be rendered
subservient to a landed, the ruin of both will in-
fallibly prove the consequence."
Before Me. O'Brien enters upon the " History of
the Leaghe" he indulges in a sort of self gratulating
eulogy upon the state of the country under landlord
legislation. He gives extracts from speech.s made
bv M. Cobden, Dr. Bowring, and Mr. Bri,_Tlit in
1841 and 184:3, as fdrnishing favourahle testimony "a.;
to the state to which this country had risen luring
the peri ,1 hi which the lad :lords enj ,yt,(l a mono-
only of its, legislation." Admirable inference ! Be-
catve Mr. Cobden d:claretl that "in the L:.vant, in
Arabil, anti in China, YOU 'A ill ht•:' toll the best of
pverythi :4 is g:,ing to Englan 1, b,'?ert:tsy Bowring
rejoice.! tii?re AV.IA Si:11011.1:1g in Enialid. that
ei:titled her to be and lurid : it was in her
pacific pursuits—:t was the poser of her manufac-
turers, the enterprise an l ch tract.,r of her coinniereial
men, that she was loolced on with honour and resl,eet
by the nations of the wo;isl":--and because Mr.
Bright very beautifully described the harmony,
regularity, and precision with which all the arrange-
ments of lif'e are carried on in this metropolis, as an
illustration of the principles he advocated:—therefere
Mr. O'Brien adopts the whole as evidence ici fir:our of
laudlord-h-gislation, and attributed the wealth, the
enterprise, the character, and the domestic economy of
England to the legislation of Parliament of Landlords!
Acts of Parliament may regulate iodu:stry, but they
cannot create it; they rd.ly control the outlay of
capital, but they cannot enforce it; they may stimu-
late enterprise, but they cannot command it ; they
may preserve invention and encourage discovery, but
they can neither cause the one nor produce the other:
the energies of man and the price of corn are alike
independent of statutes and lawgivers.
And of what materials do our readers imagine tha,
the vaunted " History of the League" is composed ?
Of extracts from the papers and circulars they have
published no particle of which, we apprehend, they
would now be at all disposed to revoke. With the
exception of an occasional prophecy of early success
and a few hasty expressions uttered under the tem-
porary impulse of plauditory- excitement, we see
nothing which the League has any reason to regret.
So far from answering the purpose which Mr. O'Brien
had in view when he compiled his history, we think
it more than probable that the distribution of his
pamphlet amongst the members of the "country
societies" in communication with the head-quarters
under the command of his Grace of Richmond, may
have the effect of making converts to the League.
The history s introduced by Mr. O'Brien as fol-
lows :
" It may not be unimportant if I attempt some hasty
and outline sketch of your past labours, and of your
present position, for in proportion as you have laboured,
in proportion as you have promised, above all, in propor-
tion as you have spent, ought we to expect vast effects,
and magnittcent results. You have brought before this
blouse a question whose agitation you have monopolised.
771 e conduct of any body of men out of doors, in reference
to the particular question of politics to which they devote
themselvee, can never be unconnected with the discussion of
that question in this House. Ido not say that the question
should be decided by snch references, but I say they form
an important part of its discussion. If in this statement I
should seem to draw too largely on the indulgence of the
House, I would ask the House to remember, that it is
only by tracing a cause as it were step by step, that we
can be able to judge of it aright. Had I, from a perusal
of the writings of the League, compiled its history up to
the present period, I then need not have occupied, per-
haps, one quarter of your time ; but I have thought it
best, though at the risk of tediousness, to let these gen-
tlemen speak for themselves. I shall do little more than
read extracts from their own writings. I intend to make
no quotations from hostile writers. My difficulty has
been, first, to obtain a copy of their early newspapers,
which difficulty I am happy to say I have surmounted ;
and my next, what to omit. Some of the passages lam
going to quote are very violent, and some, under favour,
supremely ridiculous. But it would have been easy to
have given extracts, still more violent, and still more
ridiculous, however sceptical the House may be, when it
has heard the autobiography which I now submit to its
atrention,"

THE INTEGRITY of the HYGEIAN,

OR MORISONIAN SYSTEM OF :MEDICINE,
_ _

The British College of Health hereby cautions the
public against those persons who, in order to obtain a
sale for their medicines, pirate and fraudulently ascribe
the Hygeian, or Morisonian system of medicine, to some
eminent doctor or other not in existence, or to parties
noted in history for having attained an extraordinary old
age (in some instances making whole extracts out of
Mr. Morison's work).
In the contest now going on between Doctors and Hy-
geist,:, it is of the utmost importance that the integrity of
the Hygeian, or Morisonian theory, should be maintained.
Issued by Morison, Moat, and Co., of the British Col-
lege of Health, New-road, London, fur and on behalf of
the body of Hygeists.

MOROCCO.
BLOCKADE OF MOGADORE, &c.
The following was received at Lloyd's yesterday :
" Gibraltar, August 31, 1844.
" Sir,—l have to announce, for the information of the
Committee, that her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, which
I stated in my last (of 24th inst.) was daily expected from
Nlogatiore, arrived here on the following day, bringing
our Consul, Mr. Wiltshire, his family, and most of
the English residents at Mogadore.
" It appears, from the intelligence she brought, that
the French squadron had silenced the batteries at Moga-
dore oe the a.ternoon of the 15th instant, and no fire
was returned by the Moors on tis 16th ; the said fleet
poured is shot and shell during the whole of t'tat day
to complete the deitruction of that city. In the after-
noon the wild Arabs entered it and committed acts of
atrocity and plunder, by which the Europe.-an and
Jeivieh irthahitants were the principal sufferers.
Mr. Wiltshire wet family, in the dead of the night
of the 16th, succeeded in getting to the water-port, from
whielt spot one of his clerl7.s plied off on a raft he had
constructed, to co:nmunicate with the French brig
Cassaid ; from her he obtained a boat to remove the
Conml and his family
" Oct the evening of the 15th, after a heavy can-
nonade (alluded to in the P.S. of my dispatch of the
18th), the island opposite Mogadore was carried by
a sault. The Moorie having no means of escape, kept
up a deadly fire of intnicetry on the storming party,
which it is said killed and wounded a considerable num-
ber of the French troops, including sonic officers.
" Mogadere has been declared in a state of blockade,
and in the waters of the island (now occupied by a strong
French garrison) will be stationed a naval division, to
enforce the interdiction. They are fortifying this island,
and public attention is much directed to their possession
of so important a point, as it commands both the town
and the harbour of Moeadore, which is the principal
commercial seaport of Morocco.

" On the 28th instant a French force, consisting of
a line o!-battle ship, frigate, store-ship, and steamer,
passed the Straits from east to west, and were seen after-
wards steering down the western coast of Barbary—sup-
posed for the purpose of reinforcing the island, and pro-
bably to keep possession also of Mogadore. Her Ma-
jesty's ships Formidable and Scout immediately put to
sea in the same direction. The Admiral, Sir Edward
Owen, shifted his flag to 11. M. steamer Vesuvius, in the
Mole, where she is undergoing some repairs.
"The Groenland, one of the largest of the French war-
steamers, was totally lost on the west coast of Morocco,
on some rocks about three leagues from Larache, on the
26th inst. The Moors immediately commenced an
attack upon the vessel, which had lasted full four hours,
when fortunately the steamer Vidette arrived to her
assistance, succeeded in dispersing the Moorish soldiers,
and received on board the crew and such things as could
be saved from the wreck. In the afternoon the Prince
de Joinville, in the Pluton, also arrived on that part of
the coast, and finding it impossible to float the Groen-
land, caused her to be destroyed by fire. It is supposed
that his Royal Highness was steering for Cadiz, to meet
the Due de Glueksberg, who is on some special mission
from the French Government, the nature of which has
not transpired.
Two days ago his Excellency IL L. Bulwer, Esq.
(British Minister to the Spanish Court), returned from
his second visit to Tangiers in the Hecla steamer, on his
return to the capital, via Cadiz and Seville.
e It appears, by a semi-official communication, that
his Excellency s exertions, combined with those of Mr.
flay, our able and indefatigable Consul-General and
Charge d'Affaires at Tangiers, that a complete recon-
ciliation has been effected between the Sovereigns of
Spain and Morocco, so that the Spanish Consul at Tan-
giers will return thither to resume his functions in the
course of a fortnight ; and I trust that the ratification of
so desirable a settlement of the Spanish question will not
be frustrated at Madrid by the undue influence of any
foreign Power.
"An order has been recently received from Madrid
by the Captain-General at Cadiz, for the frigate
Christina, and corvette Venus, to return to Tangier Bay,
by which it is inferred that the happy result of the
negotiations adverted to could not of course have been
known in that capital when that order was issued.
" Rumours are afloat that the French contemplate a
second attack on Tangiers, and, if so, probably its occu-
pation, but I cannot trace the report to any credible
source. They frequently call at Tarifa, but for what
object is not known.
(Signed)

" J. LONGLANDS COWELL."

Here we have to thank Mr. O'Brien for an im-
portant admission. He felt the "pressure from with-
out," and, under the influence it produced, be acknow-
ledged that " The conduct of any body of men out of
doors, in reference to the particular question to which
they devote themselves, can never be unconnected with
the discussion of that question in this House. Such
references form an important part of its discussion."
Persevere, then, ye men of the League ; your opera-
tions are declared, within the walls of the House of
Commons, to form an important part of the discussion
in that assembly, of the question of the Corn-laws to
which. you devote yourselves.
Mr. O'Brien also acknowledges that he has had
ample materials from which to compile his history of
the League. "His difficulty was, first, to obtain a
COPY 01 their early newspapers, which difficulty he
surmounted; and his next, what to omit." And, yet
from an entire collection of the papers and circulars
of the League
..e2crtending over aped of six years
ccord,i,nfvitshe
vasint .
O'Brien s computation), during
-which
expenditure, considerable activity,
energies unwearied
jokey had toiled," ouranhdistperseverance, una'iating,
historian has been unable to
extract anything suffielentloria‘
ridicu-
lous" to excite the dispprohYatiois:toolenit" or_ •'
r,
inaughter of the
iHonse, except an accidental allusion Tun EYES.-39, Albemarle-street,• ' Piccadilly.—
one of Mr.
Bright's speeches, to the Post-office arrangements, , Optical Improvements to enable persons at an advanced
i '
and a record, in the Sheet Almanac of the League, of age to read with ease, and to discriminate objects with
the days on which the Hon. C. P. Villiers, a ir.
, perfect distinctness; and Small Acoustic Instruments for
Cobden, Mr. Bright, and Dr. Bowring were born! i Relief of extreme Deafness, &c.—Messrs. S. and B.
The expenditure of the League has excited the in. Solomons, opticians, have invented spectacle lenses, &c.,
satiable curiosity of Mr. O'Brien. lle has taken the Of the greatest transparent power. The valuable advan-
ae derived fro this overe sples now Trouble to furnish the House of Commons and the in common use iQ, at ininvention stead of the visionectac becoming
p strained,
m th
public with his account of their receipts and payments, ' heated, weakened, and in numerous cases
striking a balance in Its own way. In one of their seriously injared, it is preserved and strengthened, and
'rery earliest papers, published in 1840, he discovered very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at
an account of their expenditure at that time, and we h
! lenses
most minute occupation, and can see with those
;presume he has printed this account, because it happens
srmca)ft; much less magnifying power, and that -4hich
To be of small amount. His own pamphlets, a few ;
not requireer Sire thef greatest consequence is, that they do
pages before, explains the manners in which the . Achromatic Tor,equent changes to further helps. Also
..eague had disbursed, for fhe purposes they:described, Invisible and all ksien°dPseC:f Opera Glosses, Microscopes,
at very large sum of money; and he has altogether :of extreme deafness. canAtrustic Instruments for relief
Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
swerlooked, or wilfully suppressed, a subsequent mons, Opticians and Aurists"e—
rn
statement of expenditure, which appeared in the neetcd with a person of the same
nnnoitneininantLlivay con-
r m
columns of this journal, as well as in those of their (hate neighbourhood ; nor in any part of the
eclunintr3e.
aw n organs and other newspapers. These statements ;To
prevent mistakes be cautious. and observe—Only
t.o.
&tie entirely (and. it may be intentionally) unnoticed . be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the
is Mr. O'Brien's debtor and creditor account ; and York Hotel.
litavNg thus most unfairly attempted to impose upon NORTH LANCASHIRE.—The Tory candidate for the
the Plouse and the public, he exclaims with all the vacancy created by Lord Stanley's resignatioa is Mr.
di Ity ' - f Inj •
.6_511 eured innocence, 11. Talbot Clifton, who has consented to act, if elected'
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11` C as " warming-pan" for Lord Stanley's eldest son, now
onspara:iye Value of Trade ' in Msnufactures. 1771. in his nineteenth year.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
LIGHTS ON THE COAST OF NORWAY.
The following has been received at Lloyd's:—
" Ifydrodgraphic-office, Norway, Sept. 3, 1844.
" In pursuance of the intentions expressed in the
notice of this office, dated the 18th June last, the follow-
ing lights were to be established by the Norwegian
Government on the Ist of this month:—
" 1. A fixed light on Great Torungen Island, :in
lat. 58 deg., 23 min., 15 sec. N., and lon. 8 deg., 52 min.,
30 sec. E.
" 2. A fixed light on Little Torungen Island, bearing
from the light on Great Torungen Island N., 4 deg. E.,
line 1, or by compass N.N.E., distant 1,237 yards.
" Both of the above lights are visible in all directions,
and being 130 feet above the level of the sea, may be
seen at the distance of six to seven leagues.
"3. A fixed light on Sandoig Point, at the entrance
to Arendahl, forty-two feet above the level of the sea,
visible from three to four leagues on any bearing west-
ward of south and E.N.E. by compass, unless concealed
by adjacent land. The lighthouse stands in 58 deg.,
25 min., 30 sec. N., and long. 8 deg., 52 rain., 10 sec. E.
" The buildings of the above three lights are white."