The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

firiE SUN, LONDON, FR ID A Y EVEN tNG DECEMBER 6 1344.

NAVAL STATIONS.

(From the United Service Magazine fur December.)
Acheron, st., 2, Lieut.-Com. B. Aplin, Mediterranean.
Adder, 1, st., Master-Com. J. Hammond (act.), Pembroke.
Advice, 1, at., Lieut.-Commander C. A. Petch, Pembroke.
African, st., laster-Commander J. King (act. ), Sheerness.
Agincourt, 72, Rear-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, Knight,
Captain H. W. Bruce, China Division, East Indies.
Aigle, 24, Capt. Lord .E. Paget, Mediterranean.
Alban, 1, st. yes., Lieut.-Commander F. Lowe, Plymouth.
Albatross, 16, Commander R. Yorke, Coast of Africa.
Albert, st., Lieut.-Commander 0. Cumberland, Coast of Africa.
Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer. C. 8., Lisbon.
Alecto, at., Lieut.-Commander W. Hoseason, Mediterranean.
Alert, 6, Commander C. J. Bosanquet, Coast of Africa.
Alfred, 50, Commander J. B. Purvis, Rio de Janeiro.
Alligator, 26, tr. sh., Master-Commander J. N. King, China
Amason, 42, Capt. James J. Stopfurd, Sheerness.
America, 50, Capt. lion. John Gordon, South America.
Anson, 72, convict-hulk, Corn. F. R. Coghlan, Hobart Town.
Apollo, ti, tr., Commander W. Maclean, Mediterranean.
Ardent, st., Commander J. Russell, Coast of Africa.
Asp, 1, st., Lieut.-Corn. W. W. Oke, Portpatrick.
Basilisk, 6, Lieut. H. S. Hunt (act.), Pacific.
Beacon, 6, sur. yes., Corn. T. Graves, Mediterranean.
Beaver, at., Lieut.-Com. R. Sludge, Dover.
Bee, st., tender for the use of students on board the Excellent,
and at the Naval College, Portsmouth.
Belvidere, 35, Capt. Hon. G. Grey, Mediterranean.
Bittern, 16, Commander E. Peel, Cape of Good Hope.
Black Eagle, st. ves., Master Corn. S. B. Cook (act.),
Woolwich.
Blazer, 3, st. yes., Captain J. Washington, Harwich.
Bonetta, 3, Corn. T. S. Brock. Mediterranean.
Bramble, 10, Lieut.-Com. C. B. Yule, East Indies.
Caledonia, 120, Capt. A. Milne, Plymouth.
Cambrian, 36, Capt. H. D. Chads, C. 8., Passage home.
Carysfort, 26, Capt. Lord George Paulet, Pacific.
Castor, 36, Capt. C. Graham, China.
Ceylon, 2, Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart., Lieut. R.
Curtis, receiving ship, Malta.
Champion, 18, Commander J. Clavill (act.), Portsmouth.
Charon, steamer, Second Master E. C. Rutter (act.), Dover.
Cleopatra, 26, Capt. C. Wyvill, Cape of Good Hope.
Cockatrice, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Oxenham, Brazil,.
Collingwood, 80, Rear-Admiral Sir G. Seymour, G.C.H.,
Capt. R. Smart, K. H., Pacific.
Columbia, steamer, Lieut.-Com. J. Harding, N. America.
Comet, steamer, Lieut. W. Prettyman, Plymouth.
Confiance, 2, steamer, Sec. Mas. J. Jagoe (act.), Devonport.
Conway, 26, Capt W. Kelly, (act.), Cape of Good Hope.
Cormorant, 6, steamer, Corn. G. T. Gordon, Pacific.
Crescent, 42, rec. sh., Lt.-Com. W. G. Hemsworth, Rio
Janeiro.
Cruizer, 15, Corn. E. G. Fanshawe, Chatham.
Cuckoo, at., Lieut.-Corn. A. Parks, Weymouth.
Curacoa, 24, Captain Sir T. S. Pasley, Bart., Brazils.
Cyclops, 6, at., Captain W. F. Lapidge, Ireland.
Cygnet, 10, Com. H. Layton, Coast of Africa.
Dsedalus, 16, Captain P. M'Quhae, Woolwich.
Daphne, 18, Captain J.. 1. Onslow, Pacific.
Daring, 12, Corn. H. J. Matson, Portsmouth.
Dasher, st., Master-Com. R. White (act.), Weymouth.
Dee, 2, st., Master-Com. T. Driver, particular service.
Devastation, 6, st., Corn. W. H. Kitchen, Mediterranean.
Dido, 18, Captain Hon. H. Keppel, China, on passage home.
Dolphin, 3, Lieut.-Com. W. O'B. Hoare, Rio de Janeiro.
Doterel, st., Mas.-Corn. J. Grey (act.), Holyhead.
Dover, st., Master E. Lyne (act.), Dover.
Driver, 6, at., Corn. C. 0. Hayes, China.
Dublin, 50, Rear-Admiral R. Thomas, Capt. J. J. Tucker,
Pacific.
Dwarf, at., Lieut.-Com. W. C. Chamberlain, Portsmouth.
Eagle, 50, Capt. B. Martin, C. 8., Chatham.
Eclair, st. yes. Com. W. G. B. Estcourt, Coast of Africs.
Electra, 18, Com. A. Darley, West Indies.
Emerald, ten. to St. Vincent, Sec. Mast. H. D. Beach, Ports.
mouth.
Espiegle, 12, Corn. T. P. Thompson, Chatham.
Espoir, 10, Lieut.-Cora. C. Hadaway, (act. ), Coast of Africa.
Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliott, North America.
Excellent, Captain Sir T. Hastings, Knt., Portsmouth.
Experiment, 1, st. v. Lieut.-Com. J. Harper, Lake Huron.
Fanny, ten, to St. Vincent, Sec. Master G. Allen, Portsmouth.
Fearless, at., Commander W. L. Sheringliam, Portsmouth.
Ferret, 6, Commander J. Oake' Coast of Africa.
Firebrand, at. v., Capt. A. L. Corry, Portsmouth.
Firefly, 2, steamer, Captain F. W. licechey, surveying Ireland.
Fisguard, 42, Captain J. A. Duntze, Pacific.
Flamer, Lieut.-Commander C. J. Postle, Mediterranean.
Fly, 18, Captain F. B. Blackwood, East Indies.
Flying Fish, 12, Corn. Robert Harris, Portsmouth.
Formidable, 84, Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, K.C.8.,
Capt. G. F. Rich, Mediterranean.
Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart, on passage to
China.
Frolic, 16, Commander C. B. Hamilton, Brazils.
Geyser, 6, steamer, Commander Carpenter, Mediterranean.
Gleaner, 2, steamer, Sec. Master H. Hill, Bermuda.
Gorgon, 6, steamer, Captain C. Hotham, Monte Video.
Griffon, 3, Lieut.-Commander Jenkin, Sheerness.
Growler, 6, steamer, Commander Buckle, Coast of Africa.
Harlequin, 16, Commander Hon. G. F. Hastings, E. Indies.
Hazard, 18, Commander C. Bell, East Indies.
Hecate, 4, steamer, Commander J. P. Bower, Ireland.
Heck, steam-vessel, Commander J. Duffill, Mediterranean.
Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Rickets, Cape of Good Hope.
Hermes, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Com. W. arr West Indies.
Heroine, 6, Lieut.-Corn. H. H. Foote, Carr,
of Africa.
Hornet, 6, Lieut.-Corn. R. B. Miller, West Indies.
Hyacinth, 18, Commander F. Scott, West Indies.
Hydra, 4, Commander H. B. Young, Coast of Africa.
Illustrious, 72, Vice-Admiral Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., Captain
J. E. Erskine, North America.
Imaum, rec. ship, Commodore A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., Jamaica.
Inconstant, 36, Capt. C. H. Fremantle, West Indies.
Iris, 26, Captain G. R. Mundy, China.
Isis, 44, Capt. Sir J. Marshall, Knt., K.C.H., Cape.
Jasper, at., Master-Commander E. Rose, Pembroke.
Lark, 4, sur. v., Lieut.-Com. G. B. Lawrence, West Indies.
Larne, 18, Commander J. W. D. Brisbane, Coast of Africa.
Lightning, 2, at., Mast. W. Roberts, particular service..
Lucifer, st. surv. v., Corn. Frazer, Ireland.
Lynx, 3, Lieut.-Commander J. T. Nott, Ireland.
Mastiff, 2, surv. v., Master-Com. Thomas, Woolwich.
Medea, 4, steamer, Commander Warden, Mediterranean.
Medina, 2, st., Master-Com. Smithett (acting), Liverpool.
Medusa, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander J. G. Raymond, Liverpool.
Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, Portsmouth.
Merlin, 2, st., Lieut.-Commander E. Keane, Liverpool.
Meteor, 2, st., Lieut.-Com. G. Bottler, Ireland.
Minden, 20, hospital ship, Captain M. Quin, China.
Modeste, 18, Com. T. Baillie, Pacific.
Mohawk, Corn. W. N. Fowell, Lake Ontario, Canada.
Monkey, 1, st. v., Second Master W. Bryant (act. ),Woolwich.
Montreal, Lieut.-Corn. J. Tyssen, Lake Erie, Canada.
Mutine, 12, Com. R. B. Crawford, Chatham.
Nautilus, 10, tender to Victoria and Albert, Lieut.• Com. W.
Robson, Portsmouth.
Nereus, store-ship, Master-Com. F. W. Bateman, Valparaiso.
Netley, 8, tender to Caledonia, Second Master F. H. May,
Devonport.
North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart. , East Indies.
Ocean, 80, Captain Richard Arthur, C. 8., V ice-Admiral Sir
J. C. White, K. C. 8., Sheerness.
Orestes, 18, Corn. E. St. Leger Cannon, Mediterranean.
Osprey, 12, Commander F. Patten, Portsmouth.
Otter, at. v., Lieutenant-Commander E. Wylde, Holyhead.
Pantaloon, 10, Lieut.-Com. Edmund Wilson (act.), Ports-

mouth.
Pelican, 16, Commander P. Justice, China, on passage home.
Penelope, st., 24, Commodore W. Jones, Coast of Africa.'
Perseus, receiving ship, Lieut.-Commander Greet, off Tower.
Philomel, 6, Corn. B. J. .Sullivan, Brazils.
Pickle, 2, Lieut.-Commander J. A. Bainbridge, West Indies.
Pigmy, 1, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com. C. Autridge, Pembroke.
Pike, 1, steamer, Lieut.-Com. A. Boyter, Portpatrick.
Pilot, 16, Corn. W. H. Jervis, East Indies.
Pique, 36, Capt. Hon. M. Stopford, West Indies.
Plover, snr.-vessel, Capt. R. Collinson, C.B. China.
Pluto, 2, Lieut.-Commander P. Crozier, Ireland.
Poictiers, 72, Capt., Sup. W. H. Shirreff, Chatham.
Polyphemus, I, st., Lieut.-Com. T. Spark, Mediterranean.
Porcupine, st., v., Captain Bullock, Deptford.
Princess Alice, Mast. Corn. Salithett (act.), Dover.
Prometheus, st. sloop, Commander J. Hay, Coast of Africa.
Prospero, I, st., Sec. Alas. P. Ruadle (act.), reserve packet,

Pembroke.
Queen, 110, Capt. W. F. Martin, Portsmouth.
Racer, 16, Corn. A. Reed, Rio de Janeiro.
Rapid, 10, Lieut. S. Apthorp, Coast of Africa.
Raven, 4, Lieut.-Corn. J. Stephen, Portsmouth.
Redwing, steamer, Corn. T. Bevis, Liverpool.
Resistance, tr. s., Corn. C. G. C. Patey, particular service.
Rhadamanthus, 2, st., Mart.-Corn. Leen, Cork.
Ringdove, 16, Com. Sir W. Daniell, Knt., Coast of Africa.
Romney, depot, Lieut.-Com., R. Bl'Clure, Havannah.
Rose, 18, Corn. H. R. Sturt, West Indies.
Royal Sovereign, Capt.-Sup. Sir W. Pell, Pembroke.
Ro3alist, Lieut.-Com. G. Ogle, East Indies.
St. Vincent, 120, Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart.,G. C. 8.,
G. C. H.; Captain R. F. Rowley, Portsmouth.
Salamander, 4, st., Corn. A. Hamond, Pacific.
Semarang, 26, Capt. Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., China.
San Josef, 110, Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym,

Capt. Hi M. Dixon, Plymouth.
Sapphire, troop ship, Mas.-Com. J. R. Fittock, China.
Sappho, 16, Corn. Hon. George Hope, Cape of Good Hope.
Satellite, 18, Commander R. H. B. Rowley, Brazils
Savage, 10, Lieut.-Coin. J. H. Bowker, Mediterranean.
Scout, 18, Corn. Hon. J. R. Drummond, Mediterranean.
Scylla, 16, Commander R. Sharpe, North Am erica.
Seafiower, 6, cutter, Corn. N. Robilliard, Portsmouth.
Sealark, 18, Cora. T. L. Gooch, Coast of Africa.
Serpent, 16, Commander W. Nevill, China.
Shearwater, 2, steam-vessel, Commander C. Robinson, sur-
veying Coast of Scotland.
Siren, 16, Commander W. Smith, East Indies.
Skylark, 4, Lieut.-Commander G. Morris, Sheernessi
Snake, 16, Corn. Hon. W. B. Devereux, Mediterranean.
Snipe, 2, Lieut.-Coin. G. Raymond, particular service.
Sparrow, 6, ketch, Lieut. H. C. Otter, Coast of Scotland.
Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliot, W. Indies.
Speedy, 2, Lieutenant-Corn. G. Beaufoy, Sheerness.
Spider, 6, Lieut.-Com. R. E. Pyrn, Brazils.
Spiteful, steamer, 6, Coin. W. Maitland, China.
Sprightly, 1, steamer, Master-Com. Moon (act.), Holyhead.
Star, 10, Com. R. J. W. Dunlop, Coast of Africa.
Stromboli, 6, Coin. the Hon. E. Plunkett, Cork.
Styx, 6, steamer, Capt. A. T. Vidal, Azores.
Swallow, 1, st., Master-Corn. R. Sherlock (acting), Dover.
Sydenham, st., Lieut.-Com. D. R. Mapleton, Mediterranean.
Sylph, 2, tender to Caledonia.
Sylvia, 6, Lieut. Tumour, tender to Seafiower, Portsmouth.
Talbot, 26, Capt. Sir T. Thompson, Pacific.
Tartarus, steam vessel, Captain J. Wolfe (act.), Devonport.
Thalia, 42, Capt. C. Hope, Pacific.
Thunder, 6, surveying vessel, Coin. E. Barnett, Chatham.
Thunderbolt, 6, steamer, Com. G. N. Broke, C. of G. Hope.
Tortoise, 12, guard-ship, Com. 0 Morreh, Ascension.
Tyne, 26, Capt. W. N. Glasscock, Mediterranean.
Urgent, 2, steam-vessel, Master-Coro. J. Emerson, Liverpool.
Vestal, 26, Capt. C. -Talbot, Cape of Good Hope.
Victoria and Albert, yacht, Captain Lord. A. Fitzelarenec.
Portsmouth
Victory, 104, Rear-Admiral H. Parker, C. 8., Captain G.
l‘fediterralleitn.,
Captain
Moubray, Portsmouth.
Viper, 6, Lieut.-Com. J. Carter, Brazils.
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William avess?l,lnCo. Com. GVaarYcl, China.
Voslairgew, 26.
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Ireland.
Volcano, Pigot, K.C.H.
Volcano, 2, steamer, Lieut.-Coin. E. C. Miller, Portsmouth.
Warspito, 50, Capt. W. P. Wallis, Mediterranean.
NWVaastepr,wl6itChC°, Com. S.
Widgeon, 1, steamer, Lieut.-Com. T. S. Striven, Dm,
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C. 8., K. C. H., IYoolwieh.
Winchester, 52, Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, captain C.
Eden, Cape of Good Hope.
Wolf, 18, Commander A. Vyner (act. ), China.
Wolverine, 16, Corr. W. J. Clifford, China.
Young Hebe, Lieut.-Corn. W. T. Bate, China.
Zephyr, 1, at., Lieut.-Com. Jas. Smail, Holyhead.

Do OBLIGE us roil ONCE.—Parliatnent is an-
nounced to open on the 4th
ifof February. Really, it
would be a favour, Sir Robert, you would pat it off to
the 29th.—Punch.

MILITARY STATIONS.

(From the United Service Magazine for December.)

Troops or Service
Companies.

Regent's Park
Hyde Park
Windsor
Canterbury
Longford
Ballincollig
Cahir
Manchester
York
Cape of Good Hope
Dublin ..•
Edinburgh
Bengal
Ipswich
Brighton
Birmingham ...... ..•
Dublin
Bengal
Newbridge.... .....
Dundalk
Nottingham
Exeter
Bombay
Madras
Bengal
Hounslow
Portman Barracks
Winchester
Wellington Barracks
Tower
St. George's Bar..
Wind50r............
St. John's Wood..
Gibraltar
Barbadoes
Bombay ......
Bengal
Madras
Belfast
Dublin
Gibraltar ......
Bolton .
Bengal
Bengal
Chatham
Mauritius
Mauritius
Bengal
Canada ..
Limerick
Dublin
Aden ... .
China
Cephalonia ......
Bermuda
Bermuda
, Bengal . ...... 00.04
, Bombay
Barbadoes
Canada .
Kilkenny .
Madras
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Cape of Good Hope
Bombay
Bengal
Limerick .
Bengal.
Dublin
New Brunswick....,
Athlone
Mauritius ...
Newry ...
Gosport ...
Gibraltar ....
Bengal
8enga1.......
Brecon
Malta
Malta
Montreal.
Plymouth ...... 0
Cape of Good Hope
Gibraltar
St. Vincent
Weedon
Jamaica
Winchester
Bengal .
Van Diemen's Land
Quebec
Bengal
Mullingar
Chichester
Dublin ...
Madras
New South Wales
Portsmouth
Fermoy
Canada
Buttevant
Bengal
Madras
•••
Northampton......
Castlebar
Dublin .......
Manchester
Walmer
Templemore
Manchester.
Granada .

Canada
Cork
Dublin
Halifax, N.S
Newport, S. W.
Portsmouth
Jamaica
Bombay
Gibraltar

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Canada -----
Leeds ....
Madras
Barbadoes
Bombay
Edinburgh
Malta
Canada ...............
Ceylon .
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope
Glasgow
Canada
Madras. ...........
Ceylon ......
New South Wales..
Corfu
Corfu

Ihfaidstons

Maidstone

Alaidst one

Maidstone
Maidstone
Maidstone

Clare Castle
Enniskillen
Chatham
Sheerness
Chatham

Plymouth

'Chatham
Chatham
For New South W.
Isle of Wight

Chatham
Belturbet

Chatham
Chatham
Jersey
Isle of Wight

Chatham
Chatham
Isle of Wight

Chatham

Guernsey
Chatham
Chatham

Chatham

1 Cork

Nenagh

Boyle
Chatham
Chatham

:slit of Wight

Carlisle

Isle of Wight

Dublin

Hull

Chatham
Chatham
Dover
Chatham

Chatham
Chatham

Dundee

Chatham
Chatham

Isle of Wight

FREE TRADE MEETING.
Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the free-
traders, and others opposed to monopoly, was held in the
Theatre, Kensington. The chair was announced to be
taken at half-past seven o'clock, but the proceedings did
not commence for some time after. Several respectable
inhabitants of the neighbourhood occupied seats on the
platform, awl the building was in every part crowded.
On Mr. Thompson, Mr. Moore, and other gentlemen
connected with the Anti-Corn-law League ascending the
platform, they were most loudly cheered. The chair was
taken by Samuel Lucas, Esq. It may be added that
several of the agents of the monopolist party showed
their great alarm and consternation by distributing large
quantities of anti-League tracts.
The CHAIRMAN, having expressed his satisfaction at
being. called to preside, stated that he was of opinion the
present movement of the League was likely to strike
more terror into the enemy than any other of that
body. Meetings were being held in Lancashire, Cheshire,
and other counties, !for the purpose of augmenting the
free-trade registration. Such also was! the case with
Middlesex. He therefore trusted that the people of
Kensington district would come forward and exert them-
selves in the cause. After some further remarks the
Chairman concluded by introducing
Mr. R. R. MOORE, who commenced by saying that, on
entering the meeting, he had a tract placed in his hand,
which set out by stating that while there was great ad-
vocacy of free trade throughout the country, there was
no consideration of the effects which would be produced
by the carrying out of those doctrines.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Moore) wondered how such an assertion could
be made at the present time, as no subjeet had ever more
engrossed the attention of the League, than the condition
of the working and labouring classes. Since they had
list met in the neighbourhood. the state of things had
altered considerably ; there had been agitation for free
trade when food was high, and wages low. Since then
wages had become higher, and the price of food had
lowered.—(Cheers.) Wheat was reduced nearly fifteen
shillings per quarter ; still the advocates of monopoly,
and the members of protection societies, asserted that
free trade would be injurious to the labouring classes.
The Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and other ad-
vocates of monopoly, professed, while they were merely
serving their own purposes, to be the friends of the
labourers. Now, he (Mr. Moore) considered that they
would be more benefiting their country, by stating how
a man with a large family was to live on little more
than 19/. per annum.—(Hear, hear.) In the agricultu-
ral districts, able-bodied men, as he stated on a former
occasion, did not receive more than eight shillings per
week.—(Hear.) The monopolists had also asserted that
those employed in the manufacturing districts were most
cruelly treated. Mr. Moore very ably refuted this state-
ment, by extracts from several documents, and showed
that those who left the agricultural for the manufacturing
districts, were much better remunerated for their labour
in the latter.—(Cheers.) The League, however, had at
length forced the aristocracy of the country to admit
even at their agricultural dinners—(Laughter)—that
the labourers were in a most deplorable condition, still
not a single measure as a remedy had been proposed.—
[A voice—Cricketn—(Laughter.) Yes, continued Mr.
Moore, Lord John Manners had proposed cricket, but
for what purpose he knew not. Perhaps while playing
at cricket the hunger might be diverted from them.—
(Laughter.) Another had proposed agricultural dinners.
—(Laughter.) Still an agricultural dinner might not be
a bad thing, for at it a labourer might be able to obtain
a dinner for once in the year.--(Continued laughter.)
Others had proposed allotments of land; but the people
did not want allotments in charity—they wanted and were
entitled to the use of the land throughout the world.
This right the corn-laws denied to the people of this
country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Moore, at some further
length, and with his usual eloquence, showed the ridicu-
lousness of the long arguments advanced against free
trade, and more fully alluded to the pamphlet before
spoken of. He next said that there had been long state-
ments made to the effect that the League was dead. The
present state of the registries was, however, an answer
to such assertions. At the last election for Lancashire
the free-trade candidate was beaten by more than five
hundred votes; notwithstanding, by great exertion the
League had changed the state of affairs, and now there
was a free-trade majority on the registry of nearly
1,300 votes. At the next election there would be a re-
turn of two free-traders.—(Cheers.) They were also
exerting themselves in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and other
places. To the boroughs much attention had also been
paid. He could at once come to the great metropolitan
county of Middlesex and impress on those connected
with it to register as soon as possible. In Middlesex
there were not more than 13,000 voters, while in a divi-
sion of Lancashire there were at present 20,000.—(Hear,
hear.) A freehold, he might add, could be obtained very
would not cost more than 50/., and a more
eligible investmentcould not possibly be made.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Moore next alluded to the forthcoming Bazaar, and
expressed a hope that the contributions from the inhabi-
tants of London, and the ladies in particular, would be
such as to reflect credit on the metropolis. After im-
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Mr. GEO. THOMPSON next came forward and addressed
t r o
the meeting at great length, and was heard most at-
tentively throughout. The Learned Gentleman did not
conclude until a late hour.

• The following resolution was then unanimously car-
ried:—" That this meeting has heard with pleasure the
progress made by the League in the registration courts
during this year, and is deeply interested in the present
movement to increase the number of free trade county
freeholders, and pledges itself to the most strenuous ex-
ertions to increase the number of freeholders in the
county of Middlesex. And this meeting further pro-
mises its most cordial support to the great League
Bazaar, to be held in Covent-garden Theatre in May
next."

After a vote of thanks to the Chairman and the other
gentlemen who took part in the meeting, the proceedings
terminated.

THE FACTORY QUESTION.

Lord Ashley, it islto be presumed, has laid in a new
stock of courage and resolution since he handed over to
the Home Secretary the cause of his helpless manufac-
turing clients. The smart of a failure is the best of all
stimulants to some minds, and that stimulant certainly
has been applied to the Noble Lord. It will be warning
strangely thrown away if, with his present experience,
of the warfare, he repeats the capitulation of last, Easter.
There are some whom the :ensuing session will not see
at their post ; and, on the other hand, there are causes
which will be pressed with growing urgency and power.
The claims of humanity will not, on the whole, be ne-
glected. Amongst other subjects, there is reason to ex-
pect that the case of the agricultural labourer will be
handled more thoroughly than ever since it first eame to
the light of political day. Lord Ashley, of course, will
take care that he is not the chief defaulter, and that
other grievances besides those; of the smock-frock shall
be attended to. At present his Lordship has committed
himself with all that generosity and fulness we expect to
find in the first promises of an aristocratical agitator.
In reply to a question from the Manchester Short-time
Committee, he announces, in a letter which we published
yesterday, that he sees no reason why the question of the
Ten Hours' Bill should not be renewed at the earliest pos-
sible period; and will endeavour, on the first night of Ow
session, to fix a day for bringing the subject again
under he consideration of the House. So there can be no
doubt but that we shall have two or three good speeches
on the subject, containing the fruits of much reading and
many interviews, and giving to the contents of bulky
reports that publicity which, but for the cognate inven-
tion of opening addresses, they would seldom attain.
But something besides proclamation of war and impetu-
ous attack is necessary. Rome was not built, Troy was
not taken, or the Peninsula cleared of its Imperial in-
vaders, in a day. Staunch leaders and disciplined armies
are mutual necessities, without which neither can
escape discomfiture. Shakespeare has drawn the charac-
ter of an agitator a little above his work, who, having
given his hand to articles of peace rather too easily,
while expecting to see a triumphant parade of his army
previous to their formal disbanding, was told—
" My Lord, our army is dispersed already ;
Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses
East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,
Each hurries towards his home and sporting place ;"
and while the intelligence still rung in his ears,
found himself a helpless captive in the hands of a
crafty and uncompromised foe. Should his Lordship
i benefit by his experience, and that so far as to carry the
object which the future historian will associate with his
name, it would be some consolation if the delay had
brought to pass that it was not carried just in the shape
and guise it wore last year. It cannot be denied, that
on the whole, spite of a few inconsiderable salvos, it had
the very ill look of a hostile inroad on the manufacturing
interest, considered as a faction of the political world.
As far as it had this look, we do not hesitate to say that
it deserved a' present defeat. To consider the manu-
facturers by position an injury to society is an absurdity
too gross to admit of illustration or comment. To con-
sider them generally less humane than the average of
other capitalists and employers, is a calumny too shame-
ful to be seriously refuted. In position, of course they
are benefactors—more than benefactors—absolutely
necessary. In character, they are much like other men.
A hearty recognition of these two facts we believe to be
requisite to the ultimate success of Lord Ashley's cause.
Something more than words, too, is, or will he, wanted
to show the sincerity of this recognition. Humanity
as well as justice must be even-handed. Burning
indignation at the twelve hours' slavery of the
female operative must not go together with an eco-
nomical endurance of the workhouse test, and rural
families existing on Ss. a-week. The factory and the
cottage must be regarded with equal eye. Charity
begins at home. The most studied protestations will
not save an agricultural Lord from the reproach of a
factious philanthropy, if he husbands the yearnings of
his bowels for a brief spring campaign in Parliament,
and still briefer autumnal tour in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. He must not see only what he annually looks
for, and be wilfully blind to what is daily obtruded on
his eyes. A sentence or two, a demonstration or two, a
feeble proposition about better cottages whispered before
a select London auditory, and a chimerical prospectus
charily circulated by post, will seem but tame expe-
dients, hardly befitting the boldness of a man who, for
one peculiar and adopted class of clients, can shake a
Ministry to its basis, face assembled populations of ope-
-1 ratives, and, what is more than all, hold private corre-
spondence and intercourse with public-house committees
and fustian delegates. These are the things which show
a man sincere—sincere, at least, in his impulses and
first endeavours. If Lord Ashley, too, wishes fairly to
grasp the subject, and meet its real difficulties, he must
not shirk the commercial view of the question. The
profitable employment of increasing millions within this
narrow isle is as much a matter of figures as the affairs
[jof a domestic household. It is child's play, and worse,
to spend without income, to sit idle when the shelf is
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we often ventured to remind Lord Ashley last session,
so we remind him now, in time for a fe v calculations.
He asks the nation to be benevolent. It is the nation
which must be benevolent, if it admits of reasonable
proof, as is alleged, that the manufacturer, with his
existing burdens, cannot.—Times.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
DEATH OF MR. RIDLEY, OF THE " NEW BELL'S
MESSENGER."—Last night an inquest was held before
Mr. Higgs, at the George the Fourth, Clare-market, as
to the death of Mr. J. Ridley, aged 33, for many years
connected with the New Bell's Messenger.
Mr. James Duncombe, the surgeon of King's College
Hospital, said he had been attending the deceased's wife,
and was called in to see him on Monday. He was
almost insensible, and did not appear to know what was
said to him. He was instantly removed to the hospital,
but died about two o'clock on Wednesday. There was
a bruise on the head, and two large fractures on the
base of the skull, and these injuries caused his death,
probably from the effects of a fall.
Ann Andrews, of No. 9, Grove-place, Kennington,
stated that the deceased was her son-in-law, and in con-
sequence of his wife's confinement, she had been stay-
ing at their house in Wych-street. On Sunday he left
home at two o'clock, and at one on Monday morning
she heard him fall at the foot of the stairs. Blood was
then flowing from his head, and he was quite senseless.
She requested a policeman to take him to the hospital,
but he said he must first go to the station, to which he
was taken on a stretcher. The surgeon there imme-
diately attended to him, and applied plaster to the
wounds. He had not been in bed when she saw him at
the station-house, nor was there any fire in the cell. On
Monday afternoon she and a policeman took him home.
On the Saturday night he had been brought home very
drunk.

John Wood, 131 F, said that when he was called into
the house, No. 6, Wych-street, he was lying down in
the passage, and as it was thought he was wounded he
was taken to the station •house. The magistrate dis-
charged him, as no complaint was made against him.
He was able to walk home and up stairs by himself.
Inspector: Black stated the cell was heated with hot
air, and he was taken in more out of kindness, and he
was attended by a man the whole night.
Mr. Baker, the beadle, said the potman at the Printer's
Arms, New Church-court, Strand, told him the de •
ceased had been pitched into on the Saturday night, at
the Cock and Magpie, Drury-lane.
The potman was called, and then stated some one had
told him.

After a great deal of evidence, the jury had the room
cleared, and returned a verdict, that the deceased died
from the effects of a fall, or otherwise, but the imme-
diate cause the jury cannot ascertain.
One of the jury, after the Coroner had written it, said
that the verdict must be altered "to a blow or other
violence," and that was accordingly inserted amid much
laughter.

SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.-Mr. Higgs held an
inquest yesterday at the Rose and Crown, Knights-
bridge, on the body of a girl of genteel appearance, name
unknown, who drowned herself in the Serpentine.
Robert Harvey, police-constable 48 A, said that on
Wednesday morning last, while on duty in Hyde-park,
his attention was drawn to a bonnet which had been
washed on the banks of the river. He shortly after-
wards saw the deceased's body not many yards distant,
and having called Mr. Williams, the superintendent of
the Royal Humane Society, it was dragged ashore.
From the marks on the gravel he thought that she had
rushed in head foremost. Her person might be de-
scribed thus :—About twenty years of age, dark brown
hair, blue eyes, five feet four or five in height, well pro-
portioned, with round limbs and features, and a large
scar on the right arm. The following was the dress she
wore :—Straw bonnet with blue ribbons, black shawl
with red border, gown of mouselline-de-laine, striped
li with blue, jean boots, cotton stockings, and under gar-
ments of the usual description. In her ears were a pair
of solid gold and rather valuable earrings, and her dress
altogether was extremely good. Mr. Herbert Williams
said that no one saw her go into the water, indeed he
had often noticed that persons who went there to drown
themselves took great care not to let any one see them.
The Coroner said it was rather a strange thing that
females nearly always took off their bonnet and care-
fully folded up their shawl before they leaped in, whether
from the bridge or bank. Verdict, " FOund drowned."

COWES, DEC. s.—This morning arrived here the
Swedish barque William of Gothenburg, from Torre-
vechia, Alicant, laden with salt, having been run into
by an unknown vessel, during Tuesday night. She was
fallen in with the next morning by her Majesty's Revenue
cutter Stag, Lieutenant Clark, about four leagues to the
southward of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, from
whence the Stag towed her into this port. The barque
has lost her main and mizen-masts, also her headyards,
and is otherwise in a very crippled state. She has on
board part of the figure-head of the vessel which run
into her. The monster steam-ship dock, constructing at
this port by Messrs. Thomas and John White, is ex-
pected to be completed in about three weeks, when one
of the large steam-ships will be taken into it.—From
our Correspondent.
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ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 22.—Great preparations are
being made for the opening of the dry dock, which is to
take place in a few days. The town is to be illuminated
on the occasion, and Mehemet Ali is expected from Cairo
to be present at the ceremony. Mr. Bourne left for
Cairo, where Artin Bey, the Prime Minister, is at pre.
sent, immediately after the receipt of his letter by the
English steamer. The Pacha has contracted with a
Greek firm of this place fur the whole crop of senna for
the next five years, at eleven dollars per castar, and with
another Greek house for the whole quantity of saltpetre
which Egypt may produce for the next two years, at 85
piastres per canter, payable in assignments, now at a
discount of 12 per cent. So much for free trade The
Great Liverpool steamer arrived on the 20th from Malta
and Southampton with 90 passengers, half of whom
were ladies. The facility with which the overland jour-
ney from England to India is now performed is proved
by the great number of ladies who undertake it alone,
and without any mishap ever occurring. On board the
Great Liverpool there was a very young lady, daughter
of a General in India, who was quite unattended. She
herself had to settle for her transit through Egypt, and
started from Alexandria for Suez with the rest of the
passengers with the fullest confidence of joining her pa-
rents in safety. The Great Liverpool will sail on her
return voyage to-morrow morning, although the mails
reached Alexandria yesterday evening. This delay has
been caused by the non-arrival of the Bombay passen-
gers, who cannot reach hero before to-night, having been
detained at Cairo by the want of a steamer there, all the
Nile boats being at Atfeh. Had the Pacha granted per-
mission to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new
iron steamer Delta to enter the Nile, this detention
would not have taken place.
A FIGHT IN A MENAGERIE.—We find the follow-
ing in the Verdad of Barcelona of the 25th ult :—" A
sanguinary combat took place yesterday between the
wild beasts of the menagerie of M. Borelli. A jackal
threw himself suddenly upon a wolf. The wolf having
recoiled from the attack, the jackal became elated with
his easy victory, and flew at a female hyena. This ani-
mal, in her fury, revenged herself upon the wolf, and
the male hyena, irritated at the insult to the female,
joined in the attack upon the innocent wolf, and tore
him dreadfully. M. Borelli was absent, but his daughter,
with heroic intrepidity, entered the cage, to the great
horror of the spectators, who expected that she would
be devoured. She seized the jackal, and forced him into
another den, and, striking the female hyena, drove her
from the wolf, and so confined her apart. The combat
between the male hyena and the wolf, however, continued
until the arrival of M. Borelli, who had great difficulty
in separating them, and not before the poor wolf had
his legs broken and his belly ripped up."
The Gazette of Tuesday last contains an Order in
Council regarding the admission of sugar from Vene-
zuela into this country. The order recites that portion
of the last Sugar Duty Bill which alludes to the admis-
sion of this produce from China, Java, Manilla, &c., at
a duty of 345. per cwt., and five per cent., a certificate
being given that this sugar is not the produce of slave
labour, and of course that it is not refined. The present
order extends the benefit of this Act to Venezuela, the
order having force from the 28th ult. A considerable
stir has been made as to the existence of slavery in this
State, though we think the fact, if it is so, ought to be
first ascertained.

RUNNING MATCH FOR TEN POUNDS A.SIDE.—On
Wednesday morning a foot race came off near the Earl
of Moira public-house, at Shooter's-hill, between Crisp,
the Eltham pet, and Davis, of London. The distance to
be contested was two miles, which having been measured,
the pedestrians came to the starting mark, and a good
deal of betting took place, the men being backed at even.
At the signal they wont away well together, and Davis,
at a lead of fifteen yards, performed the first mile in five
minutes and three seconds. They strenuously contended
till within 400 yards of the goal, when it became quite
manifest that the pace was too swift for Davis, and Crisp
ran in the winner, accomplishing the two miles in eleven
minutes mid thirty seconds.
LAUDABLE PATRONAGE.—We are gratified to bear
that, on its being recently represented to Sir Robert Peel
that Mr. Peach, a very meritorious officer in the coast
guard night service, in Cornwall, with a very large family
and small pay, has for some years past, during the in-
tervals of his duty, made valuable researches in marine
geology, which he has communicated to the meetings of
the British Association for the Advancement of Science;
and that he had also made collections in fossil conchology,
which have been of much service to the ordnance geo-
logical survey of Cornwall ; Lady Peel has been pleased
to confer on Mrs. Peach a pension for her life, from a
small and limited fund which long usage has placed under
the control of the lady of the Prime Minister, in con-
sideration of the scientific merits of her husband, and
testimony borne to his good character.— Literary Gazette.
ST. IMAILT-LE..STRAND.—Two charity sermons will
be preached on the ensuing Sunday in the church of St.
Mary-le-Strand, in aid of the charity schools of th..
parish, and the precincts of the Savoy. So excellent an
object, in our own immediate neighbourhood, has our
best wishes, and we trust that the appeal will not be
made in vain. We may add that the boy's school has
been in existence 136 years, the time it has lasted, sup-
ported by the benevolence of the public, being a proof of
its utility.
liciusE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE-ROOMS.—In con-
sequence of several of the old committee-rooms being re-
quired, in order to proceed with the building of the new
Houses of Parliament, workmen are now busily em-
ployed in -recting temporary rooms in Palace-yard,
facing the entrance to Westminster Hall ; which will be
completed before the opening of the session in February
next.

THE PILCHARD PISUERY.—Several shoals of pil-
chards passed through St. Ives Bay on Sunday, but none
have been seen since. The drift boats are bringing in
very fine herrings, but the catches are not great, in con-
sequence of the brightness of the moon —Falmouth
Packet.