The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

PORTS.

A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Board of
Trade, inclosing a copy of an official document from the
Minister of the Interior at Naples, announcing the abolition
of the quarantine regulations of the 17th and 20th of October.
The substance of this notification has appeared in the daily
and evening journals recently.

SOUTHWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.—The half-
yearly meeting of the Elocution Class of this Society was
held on Thursday evening last, before a crowded and appa-
rently delighted audience of the members and their friends.
The programme was replete with choice selections from our
best authors, and the style in which they were delivered re-
flects the highest credit on the talents of the " speaking
members" of the class. We were particularly struck with
the painfully truthful delineation of Boz's sketch, " Will
Ferns," with the impassioned, but correct, delivery of
" Shicl's" speech on the Irish Municipal Bill, and with the
exquisite humour displayed in the recital of Bayley's " Tale
of a Tub." Nor ought we to omit the opening poetical ad-
dress from the pen of Mr. Baker, gracefully delivered by Mr.
Goddard. S. C. Hall, Esq., presided, and enhanced the even-
ings' amusement by several humorous " Sketches of Irish
character."
STATE OF TRADE.—The various public works
now in progress are having a visible effect on the labour
market. The men engaged in some of the Plymouth quar-
ries have had their wages increased fully 3s. a week, and
trade appears generally to be so brisk that there are no hands
out of employ. The agricultural labourers are also, we un-
derstand, pretty fully employed, through the railways taking
off our redundancy of labour. The attempt to get emigrants
for the Australian settlements and for the Cape of Good
Hope, although a free passage is offered to them, is, in con-
sequence, very difficult, if not almost useless.—Plymouth
Journal.
STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—
We have to report the continued depression of all branches
of the lace trade. The hosiery trade is in a better, though
far from prosperous condition.—. Nottingham Rm'iew.
MORE CONVERSIONS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
Csitincm—Three clergymen of the Church of England, and
a young gentleman from Littlemore, were on Wednesday last
received into the Roman Catholic Church, at St. Mary's Col-
lege, Oscott. Mr. Newman assisted at the ceremony. We
shall give the names of the clergymen next week. T. Hood,
Esq., barrister, and a member of the congregation of Mr.
j Richards, at Margaret-street Chapel, was received into the
t Roman Catholic Church, in London, on one of nip days Qf
this week.—Church and State Gazette.

On Friday a meeting of the inhabitants of Bradford was
held within the spacious Temperance-hall of that town, for
the purpose more particularly of promoting and extending
the "qualification movement ; ' that is to say, increasing the
number of free trade forty-shilling freeholders in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, and generally with the view of advanc-
ing the great cause, now so nearly won, of unrestricted com-
mercial intercourse, The chair was taken by Mr. Clayton,
of Bierly-hall, a gentleman of landed property. Upon the
platform we observed Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr:Bright, M.P.,
Robert Milligan, Esq., Mr. James Rennie, Mr. J. Ramson,
S. Laycock, Esq., Dr. 111‘Turk, the Rev. W. Scott, president
of Airedale College, Mr. W. Ackroyd, of Ottley, Mr. Henry
Forbes, Mr. Jowett, of Bingley, John Horsefall, jun., Esq.,
W. Holdaworth...T,:sq., and many other influential members
of the manufacturing community in and about Bradford.
The Temperance .Hall was crammed to excess, the majority
of the audience being composed of working men.
Mr. CLAYTON, the ,Chairman, opened the proisleedings of
the meeting, in a short i;ut energetic speech.
Mr. COBDEN was received with the most extatic applause.
He said he was very sorry that, capacious as was the room,
there was not space enough to receive all those friends who
wished to co-operate with them that night. Oh, how much
he wished for fine weather, that they might have had their
meeting in the open air..--(Cheers). The time of
fine weather would however come before the question
was settled. He had atte oder' meetings at several
other towns in the West Riding, where he found,
as he found here, an increased enthusiasm in the
cause of free trade, and a continually increasieg desire to
unite, and by repeated displays of this kind of manifestation,
to prove the zeal of the people in the good 'cause. He
thought, however, that the assembly he was now addressing
surpassed in numbers, enthusiasm, and respeqtability,lany
similar meeting which he had lately been ieresant
(Cheers.) There must be something in the Owl, f. heir
affairs just now that drew them thus together such .004
and cheerful numbers. The mere abstract questieu,Of free
trade evidently had not, at this moment that ettreeW
believed the reason was, that they now felt that kl;i*jtipth;
was at last come when the question of the '..`Wirrit !Seek
must, either be finally settled, or when heanil4o.
rnakehefalthe 'ettritry -; arid they were net iertleiaa Oddly'
signs that they were drawing near to the end of the great.
conflict.—(Hear, hear.) They had, indeed, during the
Est.
je
week some peculiarly significant tokens that the'rewardof„
their labours was at hand. He alluded, of coin*, teethe '
two important adhesions which total repeal had so lately ob-
tained—(Cheers)---in those of Lord J. Russell anditeard Mor-
peth.—(Loud cheers.) The latter nobleman lay so near to
the hearts of Yorkshiremea that he
sought first of all to een-
gratulate a West Riding assembly that a meniber of the
house of Howard had set aside all doubts on the questimof .
the corn-laws, and was prepared to rank himself
their determined opponents. •
A GENTLEMAN on the platform here cried,' three chatits
for Lord Morpeth, which were given with a thousand-lung.
power.
Mr. COBDEN resumed. He was glad that they had given
those cheers for Lord Morpeth. If there was one nobleman
in England more than another who lived in the hearts and
affections of his countrymen, it was that Noble Lord—
(Cheers)—whom they had just so duly honoured. But there
was another, and he thought, rationally speaking, a still
more important adhesion to the League than even the
support rendered by Lord Morpeth, he meant the adhesion
which Lord Russell had given in to their principles.—
(Loud cheers.) That distinguished man stood at the
head of a political party, he was the political chief of a
large section of the aristocracy. But still he did not chiefly
value his adhesion to their cause as that of a distinguished
statesman and a personage of talent and influence. No.
When, after three years of deliberation, be had finally de-
cided that their principles were just, and that he would help
them to carry these out fully and immediately—then he
(Mr. Cobden) took it for granted that the Noble Lord brought
to their ranks a large and most influential portion of the
English aristocracy—(Cheers)—that the Cavendishes, the
Sutherlands, the Fortescues, would hereafter be, where they
once were, and where they ever ought to be, leading the
people of this country in their struggles for their rights.—
(Cheers.) Most deeply did he rejoice that Lord J. Russell had
taken the course he last week adopted. It would indeed be
lamentable, if one whose ancestry had been identified with
every liberal and popular movement in the country, were
to 'IT wanting in this, the greatest of them all.—( Hear, hear.)
It wao i
not enough that the Russells had stood n the House
uniformly contending for civil and religious liberty—let
them mine assume an equally honoured place in the great
struggle fot' commercial liberty—in supporting their
righteous claim to be allowed freely to exchange the pro-
ducts of their industry.—(Cteers.) They might have a right
to speak their sentiments—to print them—to attend public
meetings as they liked, and places of worship as they liked—
but while they had not the right' to buy or sell as they liked,
they were still little better than slaves.—(Hear, hear.)
He was at Wakefield last night, and a gentleman who spoke
there was careful to put in a ecli:eat against Lord John
Russell, or anybody else coming in to. supersede himself and
his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bright) in the fre'e-tree championship
who were in a position to give legislative ett'eet to the great
He could only say, the sooner he was eaTerseded by those
cause the better for it and for them ; as for the honour and
glory, and fame attending the carrying out of this
great principle, there was honour enough for them
all. Of this he was quite sure that they, us free-traders,
would be disposod to carry out the principle laid down in
the sacred volume—of the Lord of the vineyard,
who was willing to give the same wages, honour, and
rank to the
who came at the eleventh hour and the
half as to those wild had borne the toil and heat of tile clay.
—(Hear.) They had given three cheers for Lord Liorpetle
let them now confer a similar honour on Lord J. Rusaell.—
(The cheers were given with gpat good will.) Theirs were
sound principles, suited to all times and principles ' • ant.' if
they stuck unineanedly to and worked unmeanedly for
a principle, they would always find fel the end that both
were great, and both would prevail. W:.,at could their prin-
ciples better suit than the present times ? They were in '
danger of famine. Well, abolish the cotn-lawe--who in
their senses would think of trying any other remedy ? Where
were the people now who used formerly to tall the working
man that cheap bread meant low wages. Ee hoped such
fellows, if they ever came out at all now-a-Jays, slunk
down bye-streets from sheer shame.—(Great Laughter.)
The Hon. Chairman had told them that if they succeeded in
putting 2,000 more liberal voters on the register they might
win the west /tiding. But he (Mr. Cobden) said they had
won it already.—(Loud cheers.) The last registration, whim
the people had so nobly responded to the calls which were
made,upon them, had secured to the cause of free tradsea ma-
jority of more than 1,000. But he wanted them
to make up their minds before the 30th of January to
create so many new votes as should put it out of the power
of the monopolists ever to contest the division.—(Cheers.)
In North Lancashire they had a majority of 8,000—(Loud
cheers)—and there was not the shadow of a chance of a
contest.—(Renewed cheers.) Mr. Villiers and Mr. Brown
will walk over the course.---(Hear, hear.) Now
he counselled them to put themselves in a similar position
in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To work up the regis-
tration, so that no wretched potato-man shall dare show his
face at the next election.—(Laughter and cheers). Let
them recollect that, by putting 2,000 more votes on the re-
gister, they might be saving their party an expense of
10,0001. by avoiding a contested election. They had already
done nobly in Bradford. But let them take care. Hud-
dersfield, Halifax, and Wakefield all declare that they will
not be outdone by Bradford. If they exerted themselves
they would still remain at the head of the list. Let
them not be frightened by the clamour about fictitious
votes. A forty shilling freeholder was what every Eng-
glishman should aim at. It was not necessary to
triumph in purely agricultural counties. All that was
wanted was to send to Parliament free-trade representatives
from great industrial districts and important and populous
towns. Let that be done, and he would guarantee them re-
peal without counting noses in the House of Commons. The
free traders had secured one division of Cheshire, and they
were equally certain of Lancashire. With these views,
these prospects, and these determinations, he would for the
present take his leave of them, urging all whom he addressed
not to be lulled by false confidence into inactivity, but to
persevere steadily and energetically in that practical contest
by which they hoped to win free trade through the medium
of the registration courts.—(The Hon. Gentleman sat down
amidst loud cheers.)
Several gentlemen followed Mr. Cobden, amongst whom
were Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr, Rand, an extensive worsted
spinner in Bradford, who, although a decided Conservative
in politics, is yet an active and influential member of the
Anti, Corn-law League.