The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 7, 1857.

Sporting Intelligence.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY,

Some rather heavy accounts were settled upon the
Liverpool Steeplechase, the settling upon which appears
to go on satisfactorily. The announcement of the death
of Mr. John Booth, of this city, who died about four
o'clock on Thursday afternoon, created quite a sensation.
His illness was of short duration. He was a much re-
-petted member of the Rooms, and by his death many
heavy bets upon the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, the
Chester Cup, and the Derby have become void. The
Northamptonshire Stakes seems to take precedence of
all other forthcoming events as a betting race, Sir Colin
and St. Giles being most in demand. 1,000 to 50 was
taken about St. G les for the Chester Cup, and 40 to 1
would have been taken about Sir Colin. Odd Trick re-
ceived a little support for the Doncaster Handicap, at 7
to 1. For the Two Thousand Guinfas Stakes, 6to 1
was correctly offered on the Field-7 to 1 would have
been taken about Vedette ; 100 to 7 was taken once
about Lord of the Isles.
CLOSING PRICES.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7to 1 agst St. Giles (taken)
Bto 1 agst Sir Colin (•aken)
Bto 1 agst Skirmisher (offered)
Bto 1 agst Adamas (offered)
100 to 7 aget Codrington (taken)
100 to 6 agst Lawn (take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Silkmore (offered)
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
Bto 1 aget Ved -tte (take 7to 1)
100 to 1 agst Lord of the Hills (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 6 agst St. Gilee (take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Claret (offered)
100 to 1 agst Sir Colin (take 40 to 1)

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.
This meeting will take place on Tuesday and Wed.
nesday next, and the lists published yesterday (Friday)
show an excellent entry. The Grand National Steeple-
chase, which was omitted last year, very much to the
detriment of the meeting, has been restored in the pre-
sent card. The following are the weights of the Grand
National Steeplechase and Chesterfield Plate, published
yesterday :

WEDNESDAY, March 11.
The Grand National Steeplechase of 10 sovs each, h ft,
and 100 soya added. A winner of 100 80V3 clear after
the weights are published once 71b., twice, or a win-
ner of 300 cove clear, 101 b. Extra. The second to save
his stake. The winner to pay 25 soya t' the experises.
About three miles and three-quarters over the usual
Steeplechase course.

Age st lb
Emigrant (h.b.) all 7
Escape
Minos a 10 6
Tom Gurney (h.b.) a 10 4
Little Charlie
Hopeless Star
Weathercock
Came Cou a 10 2
Odiham (h.b.)
Red Rose
Jean du Quesne
The Minor a 10 0
Freetrader
Victor Emmanel a 10 0
Treachery 5 9 12
Black Swan ......
Maley a 9 12
Sandboy
Harry Lorrequer
The Mayor
.... 6 9 10
Emulator
Janus a 9 10
Lady Arthur
Lough Bawn

Squire of Bensham Age at lb
("Lb.)
14organ Rattler
Sir Richard (b.b.)
First of. May (late
Drayton)
Albatross
The Emperor (late
Radcliffe Here) a 9 2
Blind Harper......., a 9 2
Omar Pasha, by Sir
Isaac
Hindoo .......
Teddesley .........
Liverpool Boy
The Bruiser (h.b.)
Arab Maid
Old Stringhaults
Deceitful, by Red.
shank, out of Old
Sir Henry's Dam
(h.b.)
Twilight
Prenez Garde (h.b.) a dead
Star of the West... a p ft.
The Chesterfield Plate (Handicap) of 100 soya, for 3-yr-
olds and upwards. A winner of any race value 100
Boys (matches excepted) after the weights appear, to
carry 61b. ; twice, or of 200 sous, 91b. extra. Any
number of horses the property of the same owner may
start for this plate. One mile.
Age st lb
Bourgeois
The Assayer 6 8 9
Plausible
Kestrel
Breeze
Jack Sheppard 5 7 6
Cardsharper
Dr. Sandwith
Ida
Baroda
The Martlet 4 611
Lord Nelson 3 6 6
Old Stringbaults a 6 5
Logie o' Buchan

a 9 7
6 9 7
6 9 7

a 9 9
5 9 0
a 9 0
a 8 12
a 8 12
5 8 12
a 8 10

Age st lb
England's Beauty 4 6 2
Pontifical
Stormsail
Evelyn
Wardermaske
Peto
Little Cob 3 513
Minnie (late White•

bait)
Admiral Lyons
Ella
Charles O'Malley 3 5 3
Attorney-General 3 5 9
Mysterious Jack
Actress

special Licence 3 6 2
Pera
RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

The Great Northern Railway Company have issued
notices announcing special trains from all their principal
termini for Doncaster. Ordinary and express day.
tickets from King's•cross Station will bs available for
return on each of the two days of the meeting.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles
opened.
1856.

Receipts.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

BAITIOH.

Aberdeen .....:.

Belfast and Ballymena •• .....: .: -----
Belfast and County Down .. ..........
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. ..
Bristol and Exeter •• ....
••••„

Caledonian •• .• .• •• •••••••• • •• ••
Chester and Holyhead..... ••,... •• ••
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• ••
Cork and Bandon
Dublin and Belfast J unction •• •• ••
Dublin and Drogheda.....• .........
Dublin and Kingstown •• •• ••
Dundee and Arbroath •••• •• ••
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen ........
East Anglian.... • • .. • • • • • • •
East Lancashire • • ••
Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • ..
Eastern Union „ 3
Edinburgh and Glastow ..... • .

..
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee....
Exeter and Creditors..•• ..........
Furness Railway ... ............

183(
283
203%
415
25%

Glasgow, and South-Western.. - - - -
Great Northern.• ...

Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Groat Western •• •• •••• •• ..........

Irish South Eastern • . •• ............
Lancaster and Carlisle • . •...........
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Leeds Northern .. • • .. •• •• • ..........

286

637
5N
183%
267

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
London and North Western
London and
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South We5tern.........
Londonderry and Enniskillen ........
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Sheffield d Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction ......
Maryport and Carlisle •• • • •• • . • • ....

505
126%

Midland Great Westorn (Irish) •• •• ••
itionklands •• .. ........ .. ..

Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .......
North British • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •

North Staffordshire •• •... .

North-Western •• .. •• • •

Scottish Contral .• .• • • • • .

Scottish Midland .••• • • ': • •.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Shrewsbury and Chester ............
Shropshire Union .. —•• ..
South Devon
South Eastern • • .. • • • • ..............

57N
289

South Wales .....................
South York., Doncaster, and Goole .

1,077

248
2,172

5,110
11,788
4,881

206
1,077
1,331
1,455

547
1,000

974
6,120
22,572
4,936
5,171

9,4'25
6,089
21,757
5,500
24,234

249
5,450
22,538

55,732
1,183
10,912
11,696
626

8,803
815
1,066
28,793
3,355
1,551
3,262
4,725
6,953
87$

,733
2,705

715
1,073
14,376
6,146
2,472
4,830
1,301
1,050

Waterford rnd Limerick ............
West Cornwall ...... ..... .......
Whitehaven Junction ............
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

647
- 379

FOREIGN.
Dutch Rhenish • . ..............
Lyons and Mediterranean ....,
Niontereau and Troyes .....„.....
Namur and Liege .. • • .......... •
Northern of France ................
Orleans and Central
Paris and Lyons •• ••_•• •• •• •• .. • •
Paris and Rouen. •. •••••••••• • • ••
Paris and Strasburgh •• •• •• •• •• .
Rouen and Havre • •
Western of France .• • •

225
2,10

4,949
10,425
4,227
182

917
1,331
1,492
513
939

1,557
26,278

933
6,100
19,916
4,426
4,953

7,878
5,584
20,020
6,184
22,933

38,893

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

255
4 999
20,729

53,653
1,214
10,234
12,506
522

8,173

J 66
27,204
2,816
1,256
3,065
4.3.57
6,588
767

1,336
18,294

32,796

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been more active
to-day, and the transactions were rather extensive. Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 102? i—South Eastern, 223
Caledonian, 35k— North Eastern, Berwick, 21i—Eastern
Counties, 11—Blackburn, 83 i—Midland, 843 —Grand
Trunk of Canada, 13—London and North Western, 103 h
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 334 7 4
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1 pm.—Whitehaven Junction,
7B—Atlantic Telegraph, par.

MANCHESTER, MARCH 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was strong at the open-
ing, and closed steadily at rather lower prices. Leeds,
1024—Shefflelds, 38—Midlands, 814—Dovers, 23 9-16—
East Lancashire, 100—Blackburn, 8 13.16—Ditto (Pref.),
23i—Kendal andWindermere,
BIRMINGHAM,ARCH 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —This 'market was active to-day.
South Staffords, 91. 3s. 9d.—Midlands, 83i—Great Wes-
tern, Stour Valley Guaranteed, 651 66—Ditto, Birming-
ham Guaranteed, 741 i—London- and NorthWestorns,
105 j 1064—Ditto, Eighths, 2s. d.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Jane Hallett, of Whitty Head,
near Netherbury, Dorset, suffered for many years from
a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it bad severa
wounds, so that she was unable to stand or move about
the house. She tried a variety of means and, applica-
tions, but without obtaining a cure. By the blessing of
God and using only three pots of Poor Man's Friend,
and taking three boxes of pills, sho was perfectly cured.
Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend, for wounds and erup-
tions of every description, is sold in pots, is. Id. and
2s. 9d. each. His Pilukc Antiscrophulm, for all im-
purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, is. 11d., 2s. 9d.,
4s. 6d., lie., and 225. each, by all medicine vendors
throughout the United Kingdom and Colonies.

STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION.

CITY OF LONDON.

The Common Council will meet on Monday to
express an ouitlios on the subject, which appe Ars to
be engrossing the minds of people to an extraordi-
isary degree.
The committee of the Liberal Registration Asso-
ciation of the City of London met yesterday, and
directed that a general meeting of the committee of
Liberal electors, of the subscribers and members of
the association, and of the Liberal members of Par-
liament, being electors of London, should be sum-
moned to meet at the London Tavern on Tuesday
next ; and a requisition to the Lord Mayor to call
a public meeting of merchants, bankers, traders,
and others, to take into consideration the decision
recently come to in the House of Commons relative
t o the affairs of Canton, and to express confidence
in her Majesty's Government, has already been
signed by some of the leading
firms, embracing all
class, s of political opinions.

ADDRESS TO LORD PALMERSTON FROM THE
MERCHANTS AND TRADERS OF LIVER-
POOL.
Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of
Messrs. Alex. Sleigh Thomas Baines, and Alfred
Higgins, from Liverpool, introduced by Mr. J. B.
Horsfall, M. P., and Mr. J. O. Ewart, M.P., mem-
bers for the borough, waited upon Viscount Pal-
merston, at his residence, Cambridge House, to
present an address of the leading bankers, merchants,
shipowners, and broker, of that port, expressing-
their warm approbation of the conduct of his lord-
ship's Government on the Chinese question. Mr.
Sleigh presented the address, calling his lordship's
attention to the fact that it was signed by men of
every shade of political character, and with an en-
thusiasm quite anprecedeuted. He thought his
lordship had been unfairly and ungenerously treated
by the coalition in Parliament ; and, after some
further observations, real the address.
His Lordship expressed himself much pleased
with this mark of confidence, and, after a few re-
marks, the deputation withdrew.

MEETING AT MANCHESTER.

A meeting of the Manchester Commercial Asso-
ciation was convened a
" t the Board-room, King-
street, yesterday morning, in consequence of the
defeat of Ministers, to consider how far the inte-
rests of commerce with China are compromised by
the existing state of affairs in that country." There
was a more than usually numerous attendance_
about 100 of the leading foreign merchants and ma-
nufacturers being present—and the meeting had to
be twice adjourned, first to one of the committee-
rooms in the Town-hall, and then to the Mayor's
parlour, for increased room. Mr. J. A. Turner,
president of the association, took the chair, and
there were present—Mr. Malcolm Ross, the vice-
president ; Mr. Robt. Smith, China merchant ;
Mr. R. J. Farbridge, do. ; Mr. Halliday, of Halli-
day, Wise, and Co., China merchants ; Mr. T. A.
Gibb, of London, China merchant ; Mr. Thomas
Finlay, of Rawson and Co., China merchants ; Mr.
Reiss, of Reiss Brothers, China merchants ; Mr.
W. Entwisle, of Loyd, Entwisle, and Co., bankers;
Mr. T. Cardwell, ef Cardwell and Pearson, India
merchants ; Mr. William Cassel; of J. Peel and
Co., India merchants ; Mr. Pierce, of Pierce and
Co., India merchants ; Mr. John Pinder, China
merchant; Mr. Richard BirleY ; Mr. Samuel Schu-
ster, of Leo, Schuster, and Brothers ; Mr. Clayton,
of Clayton and Gladstone ; Mr. Murray Gladstone ;
Mr. La•liam, of Gladstone, Latham, and Co., India
merchants ; Mr. D. R. Davis, of George Fraser,
Son, and Co. ; Mr. Bradshaw, Of Bradshaw and
Wanklyn ; Mr. Rhar, Mr. G. Balfour, Mr. W. R.
Wood, Mr. Thomas Swanwick, Mr. James Chabot,
Mr. Thorpe, &c.
The CHAIRMAN said it was not his intention to
make any lengthened observations, as he considered
he had fulfilled his duty by having, as president of
that association, called its members together, that
they might have an opportunity of expressing an
opinion on the present state of pudic affairs, espe-
cially as connected with our official relations in a
foreign country. This was no political meeting ; they
knew nothing of politics in that room. He was glad
to see around him men—so far as heat all knew their
opinions--.of almost every-shade of polities, and he
was glad to-see on this occasion such an assemblage
of merchants, manufacturers, and large traders as
was seldom seen in the city of Manchester. It was
a sign, at all events, that they had been r eady to
respond to the invitation of the directors to say that
they were not indifferent to the question at issue.
The hon. member for the city of Manchester had
taken upon himself to observe, in the course of his
speech in the House of Commons the other day,
that be had received no intimation of any particu-
lar interest felt in this question at Manchester,
except that a memorial had been sent to him from
a public meeting in that city on the subject. Now,
what was that public meeting ? As he (Mr. Turner)
understood, it was a gathering of friends of Mr.
Urquhart, and of persons among whose names not
bait-a-dozen could be found who were at all known
as occupying a position in that city. (Hear, hear.)
He saw a very different assembly before him to-
day, for here, as he had already said, was a most
influential body of gentlemen. And, although it
had been imputed to them by another hon. mem-
ber of the House of Commons that they were a set
of selfish merchants—in fact, he believed theimpu-
tation had b-en applied to British merchants gene-
rally, that they were a set of selfish individuals,
who were utterly regardless of all consequences,.
provided they served their own interests—he dowel
that assertion altogether. The gentlemen whom he
saw before him were not a set of selfish merchants,
but a set of indignant men, who had seen, to use
Lord Palmerston's expression, "a fortuitous con-
course of atoms" gathered together in one lobby,
actuated by very questionable motives. Whatever
they might say, he believed the parties to that com-
bination had gained very little credit, and did not
much like the position in which they had placed
themselves. He regarded this vote as a disaster,
because he was satisfied the, as soon as it was known
that the House of Commons did not support the
Government on the measures of their officials the
effect would be most injurious throughout the
East. Whether those measures were right or
wrong be did not now inquire, since it was
the duty of our Government at all events to
support their subordinates abroad, or these last
would not have courage to fulfil theirduty. (Hear.)
This meeting was, therefore, not assembled in sup-
port of any particular Government, but in support
of our mercantile position in all parts of the world,
on which he was satisfied a very bad effect had been
produced by the recent vote. He knew not how
the injury was to be repaired ; but, at all events,
let that association do all they could to show the
Government that they wished our servants abroad
Ito be supported in maintaining the firm and hon-
ourable position of this country wherever we had
representatives. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. R. WOOD moved the first resolution.
He observed that, while this was not a meeting for
any political purpose, neither was it a meeting to
try the conduct of Sir J. Bowring or Admiral Sey-
mour. He believed the conduct of such matters
was best left in the hands of the Executive Govern-
ment. Ho did not therefore propose to follow the
example of another assembly, which had. unfortu-
nately pronounced on the conduct of Sir J. Bow-
ring.days shnoldhandaversad the
fiideneeand until the last few
country
confidence, in the character arid judgment of Lord
Palmerston and Lord Clarendon, relying that they
would send out no instructions which were at vari-
ance with the interests and honour of England, or
with what was due to the interests of justice and
humanity. (Hear, hear.) He believed the hon.
member for the West Riding of Yorkshire had in
this matter been perfectly consistent. He believed
there was no doubt of the hon. gentleman having
declared, on a former occasion, that from his
earliest years he was most earnestly attached to
what might he called the principles of peace, and
that those measures in connection with which his
name would be banded down with glory to poste-
rity had baserto him matters of very secondary
attributei por an c e
to.
the
honourable gentleman fur one
moment any desire, by the success of his
motion, to take. a place on the Treasurybenches ; but in this respect he could not say
quite so much for sonic of Mr. Cob lea's allies. He
could not help
.rec tiling the fact that during
a great part of h s (Mr. Wood's) political life the
great Conservative party of th's country had been
led by a man from whomi n
.t was often his fate, at a
humble distance, to differ in opinion, but who, as
all who knew him, must feel, had ever at heart the
honour and glory and interest of England ; and if
Sir R. Peel had now been the leader of the oppo-
sition in the British Ho use of Commons he ven-
tured to express his belief that this vote would not
have been arrived a`. But when the members of
that association considered the conduct of others in
that house, it was their duty in some degree per-
hap's to look at home. He had heard with sur-
prise the observations, quoted by the chairman, of
the right hon, ;amber for 11.1u,noliester, which would

not have been creditable even in a representative of
the smallest and least important constituency in
England, and he should have thought, if there had
been in the House of Commons a man who had any
knowledge of the feelings of Manchester, or to
whom its reputation was clear, he would have risen
at once to contradict that statement. The debate
would be read with the deepest interest in all parts
of the world, and it would go forth in the reports
that Manchester, by the voice of its representative,
had declared that opinion. He was bound to b
lieve that what the right hon. gentleman had said
he believed to be true, but the only conclusion at
which he could arrive was that some pereons had
been trying "to make a fool" of the right lion.
gentleman, and they had succeeded in so doing.
(Laughter.) He (Mr. Wood) toull truly say that,
during what he could call his political life, extend-
ing over about 30 years, he never remembered a
vote which appeared to him so calamitous as this
one. He had alwaps felt and believed that: in
those great commercial transactions which England
carried on through all parts of the world, English
property and English life were safe under the pro-
tection of the English Government, under the re-
spect due to and maintained by the British people,
and under the homage invariably enforced for the
British flag. Would that be the case h'reafter ? He
had read two days ago some very interesting ac-
counts of a gross outrage which had taken place in
Mexico. An armed force, under the orders of the
revolutionary Government, attacked the British
Consulate, demanding surrender of a large amount
of property belonging to. a British mercant Well
known in Manchester. He believed there was
10,0001. of treasure at stake, and the consul acted
as the representative of England ought to do. He
hoisted the flag of the Consulate, and refused to
surrender the property until the armed force broke
open his doors. That man did his duty, and for
doing it perhaps he would find that be had been de-
nounced in the British House of Commons as a
troublesome and meddlesome official. (Applause.)
That association was not formed for any political
purpose. The first words of its code of laws de-
clared it to be an association for the promotion an I
protection of the trading interests of its members,
and on that ground as well as—if he might be al-
lowed to say so—on far higher grounds, he asked
the meeting to pass the resolution which he had
now the honour to submit
"That this association, composed of merchants and ma-
nufacturers deeply interested in trade and commerce with
all quarters of the world, views with profound regret the
probable consequences of Mr. Cobden's motion in the
House of Commons on the 3d inst.
" That without venturing to offer an opinion on the
technical or legal merits of the question at issue, the asso-
ciation well knows that much difficulty and embarrass-
ment in our dealings with China have been caused by the
aggressive spirit displayed by the native authorities, and
by their systematic evasion of obligations imposed by
treaty; and they cannot but regard with the greatest ap-
prehension the effects likely to ensue from the repudiation
by our Legislature of the acts of our diplomatic, military,
and naval representatives at Canton, not only in its bear-
ing upon our future commercial intercourse with China,
but also as being calculated to diminish that respect
hitherto entertained for the rights and liberties of British
subjects in foreign countries generally." (Applause.)
Mr. J. GARNETT suggested that in one respect
the resolution required alterationto make it strictly
accurate. The " repudiation" was not by " the
Legislature," but by the House of Commons only.
Mr. R. BIRLEY seconded the resolution—which
was altered in accordance with Mr. Garnett's cor-
rection—but observed that while at first he had
been quite ready to do so, on second thoughts he
felt some reluctance, because he really could not
conceive that any set of Englishmen could by pos-
sibility seriously mean to leave our representatives
in foreign countries in the lurch. He believed
that those who had been the means of repudiating
the acts of our representatives in China would be
compelled, if they were in office, to do precisely as
Lord Palmerston had done. (Hear,) The whole
previous acts of Lord Derby and his party showed
it, and he had therefore no faith at all in that re-
pudiation, believing it to be a mere party move of
the Conservatives to get into office. (Hear, hear.)
(Mr. Birley, was, however, understood to second
the motion.)
Mr. M. Ross, in support of the motion, said he
could not but regret, looking at the matter strictly
as a commercialman, that our consuls and governors
in any part of the world should incur a hosLile vole
of the House of Commons, throwing on tiler
shoulders the responsibility of acts in which they
had exercised all the ability and judgment they
possessed for the benefit of the people over whom
they had control. (Hear.) Looking at the various
quarters of the world in which we were mainly
dependent on human sagacity and energy, we should
be more and more convinced that we should strain
every nerve to support our representatives abroad
in carrying out the measures they might deem cal-
culated to promote the general interests. (Cheers.)
Thera was no human being that had ever been
placed in such positions but had had difficulties to
overcome, and, instead of magnifying those diffi-
culties to the disadvantage of those men, we ought
by every possible means endeavour to shield them
from that clamour to which they would under any
be exposed ; for there was no posi-
tion in which they could possibly be p`aced but
we should find parties able and`willing—aye, only
too ready to pick from the smallest hole the
largest rent. (Applause.) It was with this feeling
that. he had the most cordial sympathy with
the parties who had been attacked in Parliament,
mad believed that their condemnation only reflected
discredit on those by whom it was carried. Look-
ing at the names of those who appease 1 in the di-
vision lists, and seeing the differences of opinion on
almost every topic which were known to prevail
among those who voted in the majority, it was im-
possible to come to any otherconclu,ion than that a
factious opposition, a'md opposition personal to the
head of the Government, had influence I the de-
cision. (Cheers.)" Allusion had with great pro-
priety been made to the spirited c induct of one of
our consuls at Mexico. What course would that
man not have been justified in taking, if he bad
had the power, in order to protect our honour and
our property when they were attacked as had been
described'? (Hear, hear.) Because in exercising
that protection a few lives hid been sacrificed was
that any reason why parties in the House of Com-
mons should make our representative a scapegoat
for their political intrigue ? He confessed he was
most indignant at the mode in which those who
ought to have been supported had been treated in
this matter. (Hear.) Nor was this the only in-
stance of such a course being pursued. When the
conduct of SirJ. Brooke was arraigned in Parliament
for what was called the massacre of. the Bornese
pirates, who were the parties that wished to give a
ticket of leave to those pirates but the same men
who had instigated this opposition to our proceed-
ings at Canton ? (Cheers.) The mock philanthropy
and mock humanity which dictated such proceed-
ings merited the just indignation of this commer-
chd community. It was impos-ible to believe at
this moment the lives and property of our country-
men in China were safe. He did not allude to the
reports of attempted poisoning, which ho hoped
were greatly exaggerated ; but what could we rely
upon when we beard of the governor of a province,
in a country which Mr. Cobden claimed to be feel-

ing the influence of 2,700 years of civiliation,
offering a reward for every Englishman who
should by fair or unfair means, be laid down at
his feet ? We talked of the barbarity of
uncivilised nations, and we had a member of
our Legislature, a representative of a large
community, lauding that as a civilised nation winch
could descend to such acts of barbarity as this I
(Cheers.) He, in common with most of his coun-.
trymen, looked with pride and pleasure at the
talents which were assembled in the House of Com-
mons, but he believed those talents in the late de-
bate had been prostituted to a bad purpose, and
he hoped the result of a dissolution of Parliament
would show to every representative of the British
Government abroad that the mercantile community
would use every exertion in their power to support
them in protecting the lives and interests of Eng,
lishmen. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. GIBB, of London, having been invited to
speak of his experience in China, where he said he
bad for some years been a resident, though for the
last 10 years he had not been in that country, said
he should certainly desire to represent the charac-
ter of the British merchants in that part of the
world in a more favourable light than it was re-
garded in the House of Commons. (Hear' hear.)
While they were in eternal disputes w‘th the man-
darins and authorities, they were on the best terms,
always, with the trading community, with the
Hong merchants, and the native merchants
of Shanghai. It had been alleged that the British
merchants walle glad of these disturbances, to‘avoid
payment of their just debt to the Chiuese. Now,
the fact was that where the English merchant was
indebted to a Chinaman it was an exceptional case.
(Hell., hear, and laughter.) He did not think
that at, present a single instance could be found in
Canton of British merchants being in debt to the
Canton merchants. On the contrary, the house
with which he was connected were large creditors
of the Chinese, and he believed that the debts
would have been faithfully met, as the Chinese with
whom they dealt were wittily honest men, but by