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in the courage of our men, which had ever been ex-
perienced at any period of British history.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Major-General Sir THOMAS itenuTnNoT, in res-
ponding, said he could not sufficiently thank the as-
sembly for the honour which they had done to a pro-
fession to which he was proud to belong. He attri-
buted the honour done to the two services alluded to
in the toast, to the conviction on the part of the gen-
tlemen present that those services were, as they had
always beep, ready to support the institutions of our
country, or to support our country in any way what-
ever they might be called upon to do so.—(Hear.)
J. MACVICAR, Esq., then proposed " The Indian
Army and Navy, especially that portion of it serving
in China." Seeing a distinguished member of that
army sitting at the right of the chair, he had great
pleasure in referring to the toast. In China, that
army distinguished themselves nobly and greatly.
One instance occurred to him, that of Captain Simpson,
who, with a few musketeers, was cut off from the main
body of the army who were besieging Canton. During
the heavy rain, their firelocks were unserviceable ;
notwithstanding which, this distinguished officer, with
a few native soldiers alone, mastered all the forces
which China could bring against them. The name of
Captain Boss, as connected with the most valuable
surveys of the Straits of Malacca and the Indian Seas,
would require no remark. No one more highly ap-
preciated the services of Sir Henry Pottinger than
himself, and he begged to propose the toast.—(Drunk
with three times three, and " one cheer more.")
The MAYOR then said—The toast I have now to
propose to you, gentlemen, is the health of our distin-
guished guest, Sir Henry Pottinger—(Loud cheers ;
the whole company rising)—and I shall need, in
offering the few remarks I am about to submit to you,
all your consideration and kindness—(Hear)—for I
have felt, I assure you, very considerable embarrass-
ment upon the present occasion. I know how the gen-
tlemen here assembled, and who have invited Sir
Henry Pottinger, have felt towards me; I know how
highly they have appreciated his services ; and I have
felt that no common language and no common terms
can express their feelings towards him—(Hear, hear)
but in the short time that I have had the honour of a
personal acquaintance with Sir Henry Pottinger, I
have felt that it was due to him upon this occasion
to use no observations or any terms that might
be distasteful to himself. (Hear, hear.) I felt
satisfied that you, in common with me, wish that
nothing may be said that he cannot, at any future
period of his visit to Manchester, recur to
with any other feelings than those of satisfaction
and pleasure. And although our distinguished guest
has so long resided in the East, and has been accus-
tomed therefore to the inflated language of that coun-
try, I yet have believed, from the short period I have
seen him, it would be unbecoming in me to speak of
his services in anything like the hyperbolical lan-
guage of the East, and that I ought to address him,
upon this occasion, in language that would be more
consonant with his pure and severe taste, if I were
to use such expressions as are more suited to our
clime and country.—(Hear. hear.) It is not, there-
fore, my intention, in speaking of Sir Henry Pottin-
ger, or of the treaty which he has so successfully
concluded, to repeat over again that which has been
so much better said at the two assemblies of this de-
scription at which he has so recently been present ;
but it is my business, and my especial pleasure, to
advert rather to the peculiar causes of satisfaction
and content with which we, in this manufacturing
district, have viewed that successful treaty, and that
result of his able efforts.—(Loud cheers.) I shall not,
therefore, take up your time with recounting the
great advantages which will result to the empire at
large, and to the whole civilized world, from that
treaty, norshall I occupyyour time at all with entering
into the question of the soundness of thegreat principles
which it embodies ; nor shall I at all occupy your time
by entering into any lengthened detail of the various
duties, or of the scale of those duties, which have been,
by his successful efforts and his successful arguments
with the Chinese Commissioners, reduced to so low a
rate.—(Cheers.) But I shall proceed at once to state
the particular circumstances and feelings which induce
us to thank him for the great benefits he has con-
ferred upon this manufacturing district, and which, I
believe, we shall experience for a long period'of years
yet to come.—(Cheers.) I may remind you, gentle-
men, that the empire of China, which has been so
extensively opened to you by the successful nego-
tiations of Sir Henry Pottinger—includes in every
part—is equal to, I believe—eight hundred and forty
millions of British statute acres, and comprises within
that space a population which is now computed
to amount to upwards of three hundred and forty
millions of souls ; and it will then be easy for you,
gentlemen, all of whom are accustomed to minute
calculations, at once to determine what the degree of
advantage will be to this manufacturing district by
having a market of this extraordinary extent opened
out to us.—(Loud cheers.) You will recolleet,
gentlemen, that the population of Great Britain
amounts to twenty-seven millions of people; and if
we consider, for a single moment that twenty-seven
millions of people have now the opportunity of free
and equal trade with a population exceeding three
hundred and fifty millions of people, the- advantages
must be almost wholly on our side.—(Loud cheers.)
I heard an exclamation which proceeded from one of
our country manufacturers upon the subject, which, I
dare say, will convey some idea to the minds of gen-
tlemen present of the advantages which we are likely
to derive from the extension of our intercourse with
China. " Why," said the worthy manufacturer, "all
the mills we now have will hardly make yarn to find
them with night-caps and socks."—(Laughter.)
Without, gentlemen, entertaining any very extrava-
gant notions upon the subject myself, or at all wish-
ing to excite any spirit of speculation from any re-
marks I may make upon the present occasion, I have
been furnished, by the kindness of my friend Mr.
Macvicar, with a statement of the exports to China,
during the years 1843 and 1844.—(Hear, hear.) The
account is made up, Gentlemen, from the 30th No-
vember, which, I presume, was the period when the
intelligence reached England, of the successful ter-
mination of Sir H. Pottinger's labours ' • therefore,
the account commences with the 30th November,
1843, and is carried up to November, 1844. From
that account I perceive, in 1843, that of plain cot-
ton piece goods there were shipped to China, from the
ports of London, Liverpool, and Clyde 1,114,381
pieces ; and in the corresponding period—namely, for
the year ending 30th November, 1844, the number
of the same pieces of cotton shipped to China amounted
to 2,250,795 pieces; making an advance, in that short
space of time, of 1,102,414 pieces.—(Cheers.) It will
not be necessary for me to occupy your time in stat-
ing the various descriptions of pieces of cotton goods
which are mentioned in this return ; but, in order to
enable you to judge of the increase of our exports, in
that short period, to this extraordinary country, I
may simply state to you that the value of all the fore-
going articles enumerated in this statement, amounted
in 1843 to 1,468,1151. sterling, and that of the same
descriptions in the year ending 30th November, 1844,
amounted to 2,064,093/. ; showing an increase in the
exports of this country to China, in a single year, of
595,9781.—(Great cheering.) The same gentleman
has kindly furnished me with a schedule tariff of the
duties upon the foreign trade with China, which came
into operation on the 27th July, 1843, and also of the
rates of duty previously levied. I find upon reference
to this important document which it may be
satisfactory to many of the gentlemen here pre-
sent to be informed is prepared for Mr. Court, of
the Underwriters' Rooms in Liverpool: and the
rates of duties are exhibited in two columns, first the
previous duty, and secondly the present duty. The
previous duty, as exhibited in this return, is not re-
duced either to sterling money or to dollars and
cents, although that process of reduction is shown as
applied to the present duty ; and I am sure you, gen-
tlemen, do not expect, from my previous habits of life,
that I can at all pretend to reduce the Chinese taels,
mace, candarines, and cash, into any thing you can
understand upon the present occasion. I have just
been reminded, through the kindness of my friend
Mr. Macvicar, that the difference is simply this, that
the previous duty has been reduced, by the successful
negotiation of Henry Vettinger, to one-fourth of
their previous amount.—(Hear.) These are the
grounds, and these are the prospects, gentlemen, which
have been opened out to this manufacturing district
by the successful efforts and the great talents of Sir
Henry Pottinger.—(Cheers.) And lam quite per-
suaded that, for many years to come, our manufac-
turers will find, by the state of their balance-sheet at
the end of every Cheistpiso, they will have to return
thanks for the exertions of Sir Henry Pottinger.—
(Cheers.) I know no other instance besides the pre-
sent, where a treaty of this magnitude has been con-
cluded? whiph has had not merely the 4PN'ohatiou of his
own countrymen, of every class and grade who have
given any attention to the subject, but of all the nations
in the world.—(Cheers.) He has softened down all
those rival and hostile feeliturs upon this oceasiop
which we should all have expecta to lave seen perfectly
rife, if he had not infrodUced that memorable treaty
which I hope will hereafter become mown to own all
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time as " the Pottinger treaty"—which opened to
all the advantages of the trade with China all those
empires and states which had had no previous com-
munication with China.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
have now only to ask you for one favour. You all
know that that same " hurrah" which is the signal
of assault in battle, is the national note of welcome
and congratulation to those of our countrymen whom
we delight to honour; and if there are any deficiencies
upon my part in expressing the feelings of any gen-
tleman in this room, I hope he will, by his own loud
cheer, take care to supply my deficiencies.—(Loud
cheers.) I give you, 'gentlemen, the health of Sir
Henry Pottinger, with every honour that can attend
it.—(Loud cheers.)
The Right Hon. Sir HENRY POTTINGER, in rising
to reply, was received with the most enthusiastic ap-
plause. Gentlemen, said he, in addition to the imper-
fections under which I generally labour in addressing
any persons in a public assembly, I have to crave your
especial consideration for an extremely bad cold,
under which I am labouring. Even if I had all the
powers of eloquence that any person could be distin-
guished by, I assure you I feel utterly unable to tell
you how deeply and how sincerely I thank you for
your kindness towards me. I know not, indeed, how
to say all that I ought to do, in answer to the manner
in which my health has been proposed and drunk by
you. When I was first appointed to China, the ap-
pointment was, I am proud to say, totally unsolicited.
—(Loud cheers.) I had been in India from the time
that I was a boy thirteen years of age. I came home
to England; and I had very little intercourse with
any of the leading men in both or either parties ; in
fact, I hardly knew any of them personally when
I received an intimation from her Majesty's
Ministers, at the time, to the purpose that I should
go out to China. Although my health was not
quite established, I was ready and forward to do any
service to my country ; and I embarked for China
with the full intention of doing all that I could, in a
full and anxious exertion, to carry out the instruc-
tions that I had received.—(Cheers.) Upon my ar-
rival in China, I need hardly tell you, things were in
a very unpleasant and awkward state; but, through the
valour of her Majesty's arms, and the distinguished
services of her Majesty's navy, they soon came to
have a better appearance. And as soon as that
sort of persuasion induced the Chinese Government
to listen to our terms, they were then ready to meet
them more than half way, and to show that modera-
tion—which I am sure was best worthy of England,
of which I am quite certain every person in this room
would highly apporve. With that feeling, gentlemen,
I undertook and I commenced that negotiation ; and I
had the happiness to meet, as already I have in another
public situation stated, in consultation, my esteemed
friend, the High Commissioner Ke-ying. The treaty
was made as you have seen it, though afterwards there
remained what were to me difficulties, and most im-
portant matters to be settled, in the commercial ne-
gotiations. There, however, I' met with assistance
which I could hardly have promised myself. Some
of the gentlemen attached to the former mission were
quite competent to give me every information, and
they undoubtedly did so. One of them, alas ! now
no more, was peculiarly a person likely to be of use
upon the occasion : I speak of Mr. Morrison.—(Hear,
hear.) The other is a gentleman, with whom, I dare
say, some of you are acquainted—if not from the first
—Mr. Thom, a gentleman from Glasgow.—(Hear.)
To these two gentlemen, I am glad to have this pub-
lic opportunity of saying, I was greatly indebted for
all the information upon which the tariff and the
commercial part of the negotiations were regulated.
—(Hear, hear.) For you will all readily under-
stand, that my habits and pursuits were not of
that nature perfectly to give me a sufficient in-
sight into this question myself. I, however, did
not shrink from the responsibility; and, I need
not say, that it rejoices and delights me to feel
that I have not only your approbation ; but
I rejoice to see, that I have the approbation,
as it were of all England,—" I say " all England,"
for when I see her Majesty's present and late Minis-
ters each combining to say that they approve of what
I have done ' • when I see the City of London, the
great town of Liverpool, and the still greater town of
Manchester, what am Ito believe ? I cannot believe
that any of you have thought it necessary to meet,
and come forward, and to speak wholly without cause,
for an humble individual like myself. I am not,however,
the less thankful and grateful for your kindness. Be-
lieve me that your good opinion and your approbation
(and when I say yours I mean that of all my fellow-
countrymen) is the most cheering—the most heart-
cheering—reward that I can possibly have.—(Cheers.)
To feel that lam at this moment encircled by a
people—not only by a class of my fellow-subjects, not
only in this room, but in this country, who deem
that I have done them a service, is a reward beyond
all expression on my side. I believe, as I have
already, in another place, said, that the treaty
combines all the advantages that a treaty with
China ought to do. I have studied, I did study
in making it, to prevent any feeling of jealousy upon
the part of the Chinese; they met me more than half
way, and I thought it was my duty, and I felt that
it accorded with the greatness and the feelings of
England, not to make it exclusive. I was, therefore,
happy to take the step to which his Worship, the
Mayor, has alluded, and to recommend to the
Chinese Government, with a full experience, to throw
open the treaty with all the nations in the world.—
(Cheers.) My own opinion of the treaty was, that
it would take some time, at all events, to mature it-
self; and there are one or two questions as to what
returns China will make to us, that are to us of the
most important nature. But if that difficulty can be
got over, I trust as England can only benefit herself
by benefiting China—and it will be in a great mea-
sure—(Cheers)—l believe I may say that the ad-
vantages of the treaty to England, and to all other
manufacturing countries, will be almost unlimited.--
(Cheers.) I calculate, from my own personal obser-
vation, that the immediate effect of the treaty will be,
to bring us into direct contact with not less than 120
to 150 millions of people.—(Hear.) I speak of the
seaboard ; and, my own firm belief is, that if we do
not go too fast for the Chinese—if we allow them to
see we have no object beyond kindness and commer-
cial intercourse—that we have no exclusive feelings—
do not look to anything beyond a mere mercantile set-
tlement in their country, I do believe, that in the
lapse of a very few years they will be as ready, or
perhaps more so, to trade with us, as we are with
any other country.—(Cheers.) I, upon another oc-
casion since I came to England, have spoken of the
advantages which, in my opinion, appertain particu-
larly to Hong-Kong as a seat of commerce. I think
still, and the more I reflect upon it—for I cannot say
Hong-Kong was selected by me—but I again repeat,
that if the two places were at my disposal to-morrow,
I should prefer Hong-Kong. I am quite sure to
have retained Chusan would not only be a heavy ex-
pense to Great Britain, but would bring us into con-
stant unpleasant discussion with the Chinese; for it
is needless to deny, that, though they are quite obe-
dient to their own mandarins yet with strangers they
are extremely troublesome. I beg to repeat that lam
most truly, and deeply, and affectionately sensible of
your kindness, and before I sit down, I beg to return
you, individually and collectively, my best thanks,
and wishing you all happiness and prosperity in
your several stations.—(lmmense cheering, and one
cheer more.)
JOHN MACVICAR, Esq., proposed " The Indian
Army and Navy--especially that portion of it serving
in China."

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MEDICAL DIRECTORS,
J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S, Thomas Bevan, M.D., F.L.S.
Tans.svamt.--Joseph Janson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hardwick and Davidson.
The following statement shows the progress of the Institution
from the commencement, in Dec., 1835, to the 20th Nov. last :
Years ending. 'Annual Income

No. of
Policies
issued.

Amount of
Capital.

20th Nov. 1838.......

167--
~

£ 8. d.
8,021 12 2
14,600 0 0
19,934 19 4
25,427 4 2
31,051 10 10
36,357 1 4
30,360 9 7
44,219 17 0
55,037 9 2

X 5. d.
10,736 3 0
31,592 10 5
44,855 0 10
F 4,959 10 10
90,545 13 9
114,993 2 4
139 806 1 7
167,079 11 2
202,162 1 9

Z §-&4 '' ........

ID 1839-
''''''
1gt0.........
/I 1841
„ 1842.........

• :, 1843 '''''
---
„ „ 1844..........1

Total number ......

The gratifying result o
the Institution on the 2(1
lowing instances; exhibi
had been in existence froi

)t the valuation of the liabilities and assets of
th November, 1842 is exemplified in the fol-
Ring the profit assigned to Policies which
)1111 one to seven }ears :

Captain EASTWICR, in the name of the two ser•
vices, acknowledged the toast.
RICHARD BIRLEY, Esq., gave " Her Majesty's
Ministers"—(Applause)—a toast which he was sure
they would all drink with much pleasure, because
they had been the parties who had continued Sir
Henry Pottinger in his position to conduct the nego-
tiations with China. He regretted that none of the
Ministers were present; but their sentiments were
well known, both by the speech of Lord Aberdeen in
London, and Lord Stanley in Liverpool, from which
we might infer that that course of negotiation carried
out by Sir Henry Pottinger in China, would be sup-
ported by the Ministry in this country. He did not
wish to give to any of these proceedings a party cha-
racter; and he would only say, he believed they,
wished to promote the commerce of this country and
the whole world, and there ho would leave the subject.
lie congratulated the distinguished guest of the even-
ing, as a cotton manufacturer, not only for the ser-
vices rendered to use but also to our workpeople in
this district. He would appeal to all presents whether
the announcement of the opening of the markets of
China was not the cause of a great improvement in
this district. From that period the improvement of
tNa Oistri4 especially stoctiport, where the building
of a great number of dwellings of the workpeople
had been announced ; and, without detaining the
company longer, he would only Ray that this district
had greatly experienced the effect of Sir Henry
i3ouingeris negotiations in China.—(Cheers.)
Sir .1-4NaT PoTTINgEn proposed next, "The Mayor
and Corporatinn of Manchester," their honoured hosts.
t was 1:144c4it to explain how deeply he felt the ho-

Reduction
Poli. Age at' s„„,
Reduction
lieurnor
cies In Corn- Z," Amount ' Original inPre.Equal to a
mi u . per cent.
Exist- rnence- ' su—ra of Bonus. Prenuurn.
once. ment. '
Bonus, on the Ori-
ginal Pro-
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mium of
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Years. Years. X Xa. d. Xs.d.x.. d. 7 59 1,0110 163. 1106300 27 17 2 44
7 33 2,000 177 10 0541820 11 6 31
6 52 WOO 47 19 09711834 5 10 :15
6 31 500 37 2012 17 6 42 5 32
5 5
no 60 51 1,000 91 304726 13 6 4
t:8
0372 0 15 04 1 ts 6 4 42 500 k 8 19 017 12 213 13 3 20
4 28 3
46 I,so 1 37 001 46 1 4
8631188 4 0 24 3 416 5 1944 14
3 25 2,000 69 6044 5 0 418 10 15 Gl4 11 15
2 63 3,101 140 15 0 224 15 02311 7 10S. S.
2 2,1 5.0 11 n 0 11 10 0 12 (1 gli
1 42 2,001 26 14 070 9 4 33 9 4%
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The next Division of Paotits will be made in November, 1847.
MEMBERS WHOSE PREMIUMi BECOME DUE ON THE
Ist OF JANUARY NEXT, ARE REMINDED THAT THE
SAME MUST BE PAID WITHIN TaIRTY DAYS FROM THAT DATE.
The Report of the Diree:tors to the Ninth Annual Meeting of
Members, held on the 18th instant, may be had on application at the Office.

December IS, 18 4.

JOSEPH MARSH Secretary,

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nour of their attention to himself,—especially ea•
ference to this magnificent and distinguished enter-
tainment.—(Applause.) He most cordially and sin.
cerely drank health and happiness to the Corpora-
tion.—(Applause.)
The MAroit returned thanks. After some other
toasts,
JOHN M'GREGOR, Esq., of the Board of Trade,
gave, " The Town and Trade of Manchester, and the
industry of the district ;" in doing which be spoke at
some length, but was almost inaudible to the re-
porters. He was understood to say that the toast of
itself constituted a text, involving the gravest, as well
as the most interesting, considerations for the study of
the statesman, of the legislator, and of all who knew
and cared for the well-being and the happiness of their
fellow-men. All experience and all knowledge proved
the fact, that the growth and prosperity of great cities
had been accompanied by the prosperity of the sur-
rounding country, and the well-being of the inha-
bitants.—(Applause.) It would he idle and pre-
sumptuous in him to dilate on the fact, that the
growth and progress of the several districts of
Lancashire and Cheshire, particularly in the value
of property, and in the consequent better employ.
merit and well-being of the people, which accompanied
the rise and progress of this great town, and of the
great industrious district of which it was the focus.
If they would bear with him, he would offer a few
observations on the condition of one or two countries,
in which great industrious cities had flourished, but
which had ceased to flourish. He then referred to
the cities of Venice and Augsburg. A Venetian
Duke, whom he had the honour of knowing in 1838,
inherited, from a long line of ancestors some of the
finest lands on the banks of the Brenta, represen-
ted to him that the rents of those lands, during the
prosperous trading days of the republic, enabled his
ancestors to build the splendid palaces on the banks
of the grand canal of Venice, and the large one near
the Brenta, a few rooms of which only the noble
owner had been able to keep habitable, in conse-
quence of the fall of Venice and the greatly de-
clined value of the lands which once supplied
that city. On the banks of the Danube was once
an imperial city and also a greet entrepot fcr
trade, and a seat of manufactures, the city of Augs-
burg. At that period, so iereatly did the prosperity
of Augsburg cause the increased value of property in
Suabia, that the landlords built some of the most mag-
nificent palaces of the age in the imperial city. Po-
litical and other causes drove the trade and manufac-
tures from the city; and, on the departure of industry
and trade, the population decreased more rapidly than
in any other city of the empire.--(Bear, hear.) At
present, unless it were by Prince Wallenstein, none
of the great palaces were inhabited there by the de-
scendants of their ancient possessors. They had,
from their accommodation, been converted by the
Sovereigns of Bavaria into barracks and hospitals—
one of them into, as he was informed, a madhouse,
and one or two into posthouse inns. Ile did not
allude to the historical fate of those cities as invidi-
ously prophetic of the fate of Manchester ; for the
intelligence of the inhabitants of the latter and of its
industrious district would provide long, and he hoped
always, against the calamity of decline; but he
urged it with the view so happily exhibited this
evening on doing honour to their highly distinguished
guest, that deserving officer and public servant—that
was the view of establishing goodwill, confidence,
and harmony, for their mutual welfare and happiness,
between the manufacturing and the rural districts of
Lancashire and Cheshire.—(Cheers.) He said that
the people of a great manufacturing town could not be
otherwise than an intelligent people; the skill, the
ingenuity, the knowledge necessary to invent and
make their machinery, and to produce their manufac-
tures, and to know home and foreign markets, ren-
dered intelligence absolutely necessary to them. The
institutions of Manchester proved that they were so.
They wet e well known to be generous and charitable.
He had had some experience in negotiating treaties,
and he eulogised the treaty negotiated by Sir Henry
Pottinger, and extolled the advantages of extending
our commercial relations with all other countries ;
and sat down, after proposing " The Town and Trade
of Manchester, and the industry of the District."
The toast having been drunk with all the honours,
it was acknowledged by
JOHN POTTER, Esq., who said, that, though he
could have wished that the response had devolved on
some one more able than himself, still he could not
hut feel he should be deficient in duty to the town; if
he did not express his acknowledgments. When he knew that the toast was proposed by one who had
rendered more services to the commercial statistics of
this country than any man now living, he trusted in-
dulgence would be shown to him, and he hoped they
would not forget the importance of the conununity in
which they lived. When he knew that nothing was
wanted but employment for the industry of the dis-
trict, he felt that the illustrious guest of the evening
had conferred great honour upon them, and, through
them, upon the manufacturing industry of the coun-
try. Ile trusted that the same liberality which had
characterised Sir Henry Pottinger e treaty with the
Chinese would characterise all our treaties with
foreign countries.—(Applause.)
JAMES ASPINALL TURNER, Esq., next proposed
" The Members of Parliament for the county and
borough."
WILSON PATTEN, Esq., M.P., acknowledged the
toast, and said that for many years he had been SO
unconnected politically with this part of the country,
that he felt the honour the more. He had recently
expressed his sentiments towards their distinguished
guest ; and he should not have attended if he did not
believe it would be gratifying to his manufacturing
constituents to unite in paying this compliment to
him. The gratitude of the county of Lancaster was
not limited to the great boroughs of Liverpool and
Manchester, but was felt in every valley of the county,
WILLIAM ENTWISLE, Esq., M.P., said it had but
seldom fallen to his lot to meet so large an assemblage
of all classes of political opinions in his native town,
on an occasion of such unanimity as had distin-
guished the present meeting. He gladly availed
himself of the opportunity to testify his admiration
of the principles of the guest of the evening, and ho
would do his utmost to forward the principles of the
Pottinger treaty.—(Great applause.) That the nb
stract doctrines of free trade had been adopted in
high quarters he consi3ered as generally known ; and
he would allude to an observation of Lord Stanley, in
Liverpool, on that clause which includes all other
nations in the same clause as ourselves ; and his Lord-
ship had said no clause would tend more to improve
our condition with the Chinese.—(Applause.)
The company separated a few minutes after twelve
o'clock.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Limerick Chronicle of Dec. 18.)
Three hundred and fifty rank and file from this garri-
son and Templemore are to be distributed at Castle
Connell, O'Brien's Bridge, Cappaglimore, Newport,
Toomevara, Borrisokane, Borrisoleigh, and Silverminea.
Troops are ordered to occupy the following stations,
viz.:—O'Brien's Bridge, Newport, ;Castle Connell, Bor-
risokane, Moneygall, Silvermines, Cappaghmore, Clough-
jordn, and Borrisoleigh ; also Mohill and Ballinamore,
county Leitrim, to assist the civil power in repressing
disturbances at these stations.
Colonel Pennefather shortly returns from Dublin, to
command his gallant regiment, the 22d, again ordered on
service in Sinde. He is not yet perfectly recovered
from his wounds.
The bead-quarter division of the 67th under Colonel
Bunbury, arrived this day in Dublin.
Sir Edwary Blakeney has not yet filled up the vacancy
on his staff of A.D. C., caused by the promotion of Cap-
tain Forester.
The steam-vessel Rhadamanthus arrived at Kingstown
from Liverpool, with the first division, five companies
and a field officer, of the 67th Regiment. Strength as
follows :-13 officers, 375 non-commissioned officers,
drummers, and privates ; 24 women, 51 children, and
proceeded by railway to Dublin, where they occupy
Richmond barracks.
Brevet Major Hooper's company, 69th, has relieved
Captain O'Halloran's company at Cashel.
Royal Marine Artillery—Head quarters, Spike Island,
Cove of Cork ; a detachment of two sergeants and seven
gunners are under orders to embark, per steam-vesset,
for the forts on the lower Shannon ; a similar detach-
ment of the same corps is ordered to join head quarters.
The Spanish Government offer to pay four per cent to
the Anglo-Spanish legionary claimants, who hold certi-
ficates of service.
The new barracks at Newport, South Wales, will not
be taken up by the 75th until next spring.
Captain Stewart, of the 92d, is appointed stair of
of pensioners of Roscommon.
Lieut. Shakspear, 2d European Infantry, killed at the
capture of Samanghur, in the Mahrattas, was son of
Capt, Shakspear, formerly of the 10th Hussars.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Friday
afternoon, one of the coal porters in the employ of Mr.
Stephen Davies, of Somerset Wharf, Bankside, slipped
off the barge Mary Anne, and was drowned. It seems
that, from the great pressure of business now consequent
on the inclement weather, it has been found necessary to
rig up the lights along shore, commonly known as "devils,"
circular grates filled with burning coal. It was in shift.
ing one of these that the unfortunate man lost his life.
Mr. Guilderslea,ve, the wharf clerk, made every effort to
save the unhappy man, but unavailingly. Mr. Davies has
handsomely expressed his determination of providing for
the bereaved widow and children.
TilE IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER. -^ On
Friday the long-talked of improvements which
are to be eflbcted from 'Westminster Abbey to
Buckingham Palace, were in reality commenced.
several men being employed to pull down the
houses on Q 44) side of Little Tothill-street. It is
contemplated to remove those sinks of infamy—this
Almonry, Orchard-street, Duck-lane—and to form out
wide and spacious street from the west door of West-
minster Abbey to the Buckingham Palace end of Pha.
lie.). Orchard-street contains the remains of some of the
oldest houses in Westminster, and a part of one of
Oliver Cromwell's palaces still stands there.
Sir James Graham left town on Saturday afternoon
for Brighton,