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(From the Times.)
MADRID, Dlic. 10.--There would still seem to be
a hope that the lives of Col. Rengifo and his unfortu-
nate companions, who were lately condemned to death
by the court-martial of which General Cordova was
the President, may be saved and, perhaps, the penal-
ties to which the other prisoners were sentenced com-
muted or diminished.* A protest has been made on
the part of the prisoners against the competency, of
the court-martial, as constituted, to try them. The
first article of the 6th section of the ordenanzos has
the following :—" In all that relates to military
crimes, Ste., against the officers of my royal service, it
is my will and pleasure that they should be submitted
to a junta of officers of superior rank, and that the
said junta should bear the denomination of a ' Council
of IVar of General Officers.'" And by a subsequent
royal order, of the 14th May, 1801, it was provided,
that even in the causes submitted legitimately to
the judgment of ordinary courts .martial, if military'
officers should be implicated, no penalty can be im-
posed on them by the said ordinary courts, but the
charges must be referred to the Captain-General, in
order to be examined by a council of General Officers.
It is on the above regulation that the complaint of
Rengifo and his companions is founded, inasmuch as
the court that passed the various sentences already
mentioned was not composed of officers equal to the
rank of several of the accused. For instance, the
President of the court himself is a Major-General,
whilst Evaristo San Miguel is a Lieutenant-General ;
and Rengifo himself, being a Colonel, was superior in
rank to any of the other members. .
The matter had been referrel to the Supreme Tri-
bunal of IVar and Marine; and that court has ad-
dressed a report to her Majesty on the subject, and in
support of the ordenanza thus violated in the persons
of the prisoners. Notwithstanding the belief that the
sentence would be carried into execution on the ap-
probation of the Captain-General of Madrid, it was
yet thought impossible that so flagrant an injustice
could be committed until at least the result of the
report of the Supreme Tribunal could be known.
The Baron de Meer is well-matched by his brother,
Captain-General of Aragon, who, in a late bando ad-
dressed to the Aragonese, threatens that if any new
attempt be made at insurrection he will destroy the
very towns, and not allow one stone to remain upon
another, in what he calls the nests of robbers, contra-
bandiste, and rebels. The following is the bando :
" Saragossa, Dec. 4.
" Inhabitants of the valleys of llecho and Anso !
You have beheld with what rapidity chastisement has
been inflicted on your treason, your robberies, and your
murders. If you have the audacity to repeat similar at-
tempts against the Government of the Queen (whom God
Almighty preserve) and the laws, be certain that your
haunts of robbers, contrabandists, and malefactors will
cease to exist. Respectable inhabitants of Arragon, as-
sist the Government of her Majesty in annihilating those
malignants, and reckon with certainty on the co-opera-
tion of your Captain-General,

Debt, amount 1,195,000 reels, closed at 74
18th; Coupons, at 25i, at 60 days.

low price at which they were produced in the
ted States. In 1823, the total amount of cotton
manufactures exported from the United States was
1,763 packages ; he had not the valuation ; in 1827, it
was 2,494 packages ; in 1830, 5,306 packages ; in
1833, 13,207 packages.—(Hear, hear.) In 1834, he
had only the return of the valuation, and not of the
packages ; but it was a considerable increase, amount-
ing to 2,085,000 dollars. In 1835, it was 2,858,000
dollars ; for 1836 and 1837 he had no returns—[they
were 2,255,000 dollars, and 2,831,000 dollars re-
spectively.—Reporter]—in 1838, it was 3,758,000
dollars ; in 1839, 2,975,000 dollars ; in 1840, 3,549,000
dollars ; 1841, 3,122,000 dollars ; in 1842, 4,500,000
dollars ; for 1843, he had not an exact return, but it
would amount, according to Messrs. Jones, Gibson,
and Ord's circular, to between six and seven millions
of dollars.—(Hear, hear.) In 1843, one-half of the
exports to China consisted of American domestics;
they equalled one-half the entire shipments from
Europe and America. What was to become of our
shipping interests, and many other interests, if the
coarse cotton manufacture of this country was to
decline ? It would not take many ships to carry out
shipments of lace, even though these were increased
largely in value. He would merely add, that he
believed Sir Robert Peel, in his opening speech, when
he brought forward the existing tariff, stated that his
intention was, that no raw material of manufacture
should be exposed to any duty beyond that of five
per cent. He saw also in the appendix to the Glas-
gow memorial, a quotation from his speech in 1835,
in which he stated the great desirability of as speedy
a removal of the cotton-tax as it was possible
to effect it. The only argument that, within the
verge of possibility, could be adduced in favour of a
tax upon the importation of cotton wool was furnished
by the prohibition to export machinery. That prohi-
bition was now removed ; our machinery was ex-
portable, and was exporting most rapidly to every
part of the world, and to America amongst other
places; and we had now no monopoly, if he might
use the term—(though it was only a partial one be-
fore, for there was much smuggled)—we had now
not the shadow of a monopoly left, to urge in defence
of continuing this tax. And, if the income-tax were
retained, as it was said it would be, then it would be
utterly inexcusable to retain the cotton-tax for a day
longer. But even if it were not retained, still be
would say that there was no tax that demanded such
an immediate removal as the cotton -tax.—(Applause.)
In conformity with these views, he would move the
first resolution—" That the tax on cotton wool, the
staple raw material of the manufacture of this district,
is grossly impolitic, and operates, as experience has
proved, to the injury of our trade and commerce ; and
ought, therefore, to be forthwith repealed."
Mr. ROBERT GARDNBR, in seconding the resolu-
tion, said, with respect to the cotton-tax, there could
be no difference of opinion in that room. It was a
tax, as he had stated on a former occasion, which
pressed directly upon the operative. With respect to
wages, it was well known that in this part of the
country they were formerly exceedingly low. In
one point of view, wages were perhaps reduced by the
manufacturers considerably below the point to which
they ought to have been reduced, but they followed
noble example--the example of the aristocracy—and,
when the wages of the manufacturing operatives were
at the very lowest point, they were never reduced to
the level of the agricultural labourers—(Hear)--nor
were the wages of the manufacturing operatives here
ever reduced to the level of those paid for the same
work either in Germany or America. Therefore, he
would correct himself; and say that the English manu-
facturers had not reduced wages lower than they had
been compelled to do; for, when they paid the lowest
wages, they were still paying more than the agricul-
tural labourer received, and more than was paid for
the same kind of work in America or the continent of
Europe. He would therefore turn round and say
that the operative did not suffer in this country
in consequence of the reduction of wages, but
in consequence of the extravagantly high price of
food.—(Hear, hear.) A great deal was said about
rural population, and about protection and encourage-
ment to native industry. If there was any truth in
the report of the Commissioners appointed to examine
into the condition of the agricultural population, they
were in a much worse state than our own. What
were the earnings of the agricultural labourer, and
what did they contribute to the revenue ?—(llear.)
They principally lived upon potatoes and bread, and
could contribute nothing to the revenue, which was
dependent almost exclusively upon the commerce of
the country.—(Hear.) He had no hesitation in say-
ing that more wages were paid by the manufacturers
of Lancashire than were paid for all the rural labour
of England, Ireland, and Scotland—while, as he had
said, the revenue, almost exclusively depended
upon manufacturing industry. Some person
said, " What has manufactures done ?" It had
reduced the expenditure not only of the labourer,
but of the noble.—(Hear, hear.) It had reduced
everything, in the article of cotton, from three-
fourths to four-fifths of its original value; every-
thing in the shape of linen from one-half to three-
fourths ; everything in the shape of woollens, as far
as the manufacturing process of woollens was con-
cerned, it had reduced in value three-fourths. It had
reduced the expenditure of the noble, as well as the
poor, in everything connected with furniture,
clothing, and everything of that sort, from one-half
to three-fourths, or even four-fifths in some cases ;
and yet those who cried down machinery and manu-
factures were the friends, the manufacturers, and the
enemies of the labourer.—(Hear, hear.) It must be
borne in mind, also, that in proportion as the la-
bourer's expenditure in clothing had been reduced,
just in the same proportion had his food been in-
creased.—(Hear.) The Duke of Richmond was of
opinion that foreigners would continue to take our
cloth, though we refused their wool. A friend of his
(Mr. Gardner's) who was deeply interested in the
wool trade, predicted that in fourteen years of
the time of the duty being imposed, foreigners would
meet us in every neutral market, and beat us out of
it ; and we had found the truth of it by experience.
Yet some persons never profited by experience. When
the present Government proposed to take off the only
remaining duty upon wool, the Duke of Richmond
came down and said something about destroying the
agricultural interest, and that he would move for an
inquiry. He (Mr. Gardner) thought it was Lord
Dalhousie who said, that if his Grace moved for an in-
quiry into the wool trade, he might meet with many
things which were most unpleasant to him ; so he got
up and, without moving for an inquiry, talked about
inflicting injury upon the landed interest by reducing
the price of English wool. 'What was the result ?
The price of English wool, since the lowest prices of
1845, had risen from 35 to 40 per cent., and the in-
crease in the import of foreign wool was now 60 per
cent. upon that of 1843, and 90 per cent. upon that
of 1842.—(Hear.) And that, notwithstanding the
increase of price of British wool to the extent of 35
to 40 per cent., all this had arisen, not from protec-
tion, but in consequence of taking off protection.
Then our exports of woollens in 1842 were
4,869,0001 b.; in 1844, they were 8,065,0001 b. What
should they have been if the sixpence duty had been
retained ? Why, before that injurious tax was
inflicted on Yorkshire, the population of which
county some years ago was larger than that of Lan-
cashire (its area being thrice as large as this county),
and probably, but for this mischievous law, the popu-
lation of Yorkshire would now have been as far a
head of Lancashire as Lancashire was of Yorkshire.
Where was, then, the talk of " native industry" and
" the English labourer," of which we now read so
much? At the meeting of the Society for the Pro-
tection of Agriculture the other day, at which the
Dukes of Richmond and Cleveland and many others
were present, they approved of Sir R. Peel's Corn
Bill, but especially of the entire reduction of the wool
duty; though, previously, the same Dukes had pro-
tested strongly against such removal. Mr. Gardner
then adverted to the corn-law, and said he could, de-

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
MADRID, Dac. 10.—The great matter of talk here
for the last day or two has been the correspondence
which has taken place between our Minister, Mr.
H. L. Bulwer, and a Mr. Cochrane, who has pub-.
lished the letters that passed between them in the Eco
del Comercio and Esperanza journals. It is now
some months past that many of the Madrid papers
copied from the French an account of the expected
visit of a " wealthy English gentleman, named Coch-
rane," who had formerly rendered services to the
Spanish emigrants in England, by travelling through-
out the country with a guitar as a Spanish minstrel,
and collecting subscriptions, which he handed over
to them. Some short time after, Mr. Cochrane's
arrival here was announced, and since then
his name has been continually before the pub-
lic through paragraphs in the newspapers, and
letters from the directors of public establish-
ments which he visited and eulogised. Some of the
journals had latterly hinted at the propriety of the
Government bestowing some decoration upon him
previous to his departure for the south. Then came
letters to all the papers taking leave, and thanking the
public for the favourable reception he had met with
during his visit; and lastly, in the Eco of Saturday,
came out an extensive correspondence with Mr.
Bulwer, the publication of which is to be regretted
in every sense, and the subject is the general
topic of conversation. It appears, by Mr. Coch-
rane's first letter, that he had spoken with Senor
Martinez de la Rosa on the subject of a
Spanish order, which the latter expressed him-
self willing to confer upon him, but suggested that
the application should come through his Minister,
upon which he addressed a letter to Mr. Bulwer,
dated Nov. 24, in which he inclosed a collection o
extracts from all the journals that had made mention
of him, as showing that public opinion was in his
favour, and that the bestowal of a decoration upon
him for his " humble services and sympathies towards
the country in 1828 and 1829" would be "highly
satisfactory to the inhabitants of Madrid." The letter
contained three extracts from the Castellano, three
from the Eco, three from the Esperanza, two from
the Espectador, one from the Clamor Publico, three
from the Heraldo, two from the Globo, two from the
TieTpo, and two from the Posdeta.

13ulwer replied on the 28th, that, having read
all the extracts, he could not see anything in them to
authorise his desire ; that some were evidently
written by persons who had no knowledge of Mr.
Cochrane or his services, while others appeared the
production of a friendly or partial hand, and that
whatever might be his own opinion of Mr. Cochrane's
merits, his celebrity was scarcely so extensive or
so European, as to have set all the journals of a
capital writing in his favour with such eloquence,
unless some trouble had been taken to draw their
attention to the subject, and obtain their
suffrages. At the same time he expressed his
willingness, in deference to the letters he had
brought, and the sympathies he had manifested for the
unfortunate on other occasions, to communicate to
the Spanish Foreign Minister, that provided her Bri-
tannic Majesty would permit Mr. Cochrane to wear
a Spanish order, and the Spanish Government chose
to confer it, he should be very well satisfied that Mr.
Cochrane should receive it.

" MANUEL BRETON."
As the Queen was leaving the Royal Chapel the
day before yesterday, and proceeding to her apart-
ments, she was met in the corridor of the Palace by
the father of one of the persons condemned to death
by the late court-martial. The old man threw him-
self at her feet, imploring mercy in the most heart-
rending terms, and presented to her Majesty a petition,
which she took from his hand and retired. It will, in
all likelihood, produce much the same effect as the
prayers of the young wife of the son of Zurbano to
the same personage.
The Cortes did not meet to-day.
A rather lengthened correspondence between
a gentleman of the name of Cochrane and Mr.
Bulwer, the British Minister, has given occa-
sion to A good deal of gossip here. Mr. Coch-
rane has thought proper to publish the whole of
his correspondence ;with Mr. Bulwer in the Eco del
Comercio. To give you an idea of the taste of Mr.
Cochrane, it will be sufficient to say that having
been invited to partake of Mr. Bulwer's hospitality,
he has thought proper, in the published correspond-
ence, to critiscise the style of the dinners, &c., of
which he had, as an invited guest, partaken at the
private table of our Minister. Whether Mr. Cochrane
may be taken as a good specimen of the modest and
retiring Englishman, I know not ; but the gossips of
Madrid laugh heartily at the proofs of what they call
" English eccentricity," so abundantly exhibited in his
correspondence.
The history of the affair, in a few words, is this :
—lt appears that Mr. Cochrane, some time since,
amused himself in travelling about England as an
itinerant musician, playing the violin or guitar, I do
not well know which, collecting money in that
capacity, which he subsequently handed over to some
Spanish refugees then in England. On his arrival
here, some short time since, there suddenly appeared
in most of the Madrid journals articles and para-
graphs bestowing the greatest praise on the " illus-
trious Englishman" who had come amongst us. He
paid visits to the hospitals and other places of public
beneficence, and praised everything he saw. In some
of the paragraphs it was even more than hinted that
a cross of distinction •should be bestowed by the
Government on Mr. Cochrane for his services to the
Spanish nation. The above-mentioned paragraphs
were sent by Mr. Cochrane to Mr. Bulwer, as
documents proving his merits, and, in some sort,
his right to the cross, which was the object
of his ambition ; and it was intimated by
M. Martinez de la Rosa, that if the gentleman was
recommended by the British Minister, there would
not be much difficulty in granting it to him. The
letter of Mr. Bulwer which, it would appear, gave
most offence to Mr. Cochrane, was that in which he
intimated the insufficiency of such documents as
newspaper paragraphs to give a claim to decorations
which were only bestowed on persons who had served
the country in the field of battle, or whose excellence
in science, literature, or the arts, had obtained for
them an European celebrity; and he hinted that the
laudatory paragraphs referred to were owing to his
own exertions, or to those of certain partial friends
who had influence enough with the press to get them
inserted. Mr. Cochrane appealed to the journals to
declare whether he had solicited the insertion of para-
graphs praising himself. The editor of the Posdata
declares that the paragraphs alluded to were delivered
by Mr. Cochrane himself for insertion. The Heraldo
of this evening, amongst other observations, has the
following :

Mr. Cochrane appears to have considered Mr. Bul-
wer's reply as involving very grave charges against
him, and several other letters passed which he finally
published, calling upon the editors of the Madrid
journals, in a letter of the sth inst., to say whether
their remarks respecting him had been inserted
through favour, or had emanated from their own con-
victions, and whether they wished to modify them.
Most of the journals have responded, in one sense
or other, to this appeal. The Posdata last night says,
" We are bound to declare that the notices we pub-
lished respecting Mr. Cochrane were taken from
another journal, and communicated by himself."
The Heraldo says that Mr. Cochrane " cannot be
ignorant that we have lent ourselves, up to this
moment, to publish the different notices relative to
his person, which he himself or his friends have in-
dicated to us, which we have done from hospitable
regard for a foreigner, and the estimable person who
presented him to us, and because the news we com-
municated were curious." The Globo has not de-
clared itself publicly, but its editor has addressed
a letter to Mr. Bulwer, stating that Mr. Cochrane
was introduced with a request that mention
should he made of him in the journal. The editors
of the Heralds and Posdata have addressed private
letters to Mr. Bulwer in the same sense. The Tiempo
merely refers its readers to the Eco to read the cor-
respondence, if they wish to " form an idea of what
is now called the eccentricity of the English charac-
ter." The Esperanza, Carlist journal, declares that
no efforts were made to procure the insertion of the
paragraphs in that paper; nor were they inserted
through personal intimacy; that the first para-
graph was copied from Galignanis Messenger,
and those since were founded on facts ; and finally,
that they confirm all that they had said. The Cas-
tellano, Eco, and Espectador, treat Mr. Bulwer's re-
flections as a charge against the independence of the
Spanish press, and declare that they praised Mr.
Cochrane on public grounds alone, expressing them-
selves, consequently, offended; particularly the Es-
pectador, which writes with considerable violence on
the subject, forgetting that Mr. Bulwer's letter was
not intended for publication, and bringing strong po-
litical feelings into a question purely personal. The
Clamor Publics has not yet taken any notice of the
subject. The general feeling among impartial persons
is one of regret that Mr. Bulwer should have allowed
himself to be drawn into the correspondence, and of
decided reprobation of its publication, many of the
topics introduced being quite irrelevant to the ques-
tion, and the whole calculated to bring the British
name into ridicule.

REPEAL OF THE DUTY ON
COTTON WOOL.
(Abridged from the Manchester Guardian.)
The Mayor had convened a public meeting of the
merchants, manufacturers, cotton. spinners, and others,
of the borough, which was held on Tuesday afternoon,
in the large room of the Town•hall, " for the purpose
of promoting the repeal of the tax upon cotton wool."
The requisition was signed by upwards of 130 firms
and individuals, including many of the principal
houses, both mercantile and manufacturing, and
individuals of all classes and shades of political
opinions.

" Mr.C'ochrane, whose name has appeared more than
once in the Heraldo, has published in certain periodicals
a correspondence between him and the worthy British
Minister at this Court, Mr. H. L. Bulwer. Mr. Cochrane
reminds us that he sent us a copy of the correspondence
referred to ; and as, in some measure, he complains that
we have not inserted these extraordinary documents, we
feel ourselves obliged to say that we hare not done so
from respect to the private character of those letters.
" Besides, Mr. Cochrane appears to be ungrateful to-
wards us and accuses us of want of attention; but he surely
must remember that we have heretofore published para-
graphs relating to him which he himself or his friends
have communicated to us. We yielded merely from a
hospitable deference towards a stranger, as well as to-
wards the estimable person who presented him to us ;
and because the paragraphs furnished us were rather of
a curious kind. Nothing of this possesses importance ;
though, in truth, these circumstances justify the asser-
tions of Mr. Bulwer respecting the paragraphs alluded to.
The conduct of the British Minister was delicate and
scrupulous in this affair, inasmuch as, from his position
with relation to our Government, as well as from his
distinguished qualities, he exercises a necessary influence
where honours are to be bestowed upon the subjects of
his nation ; and he was not disposed to demand honours
which were not founded on merits, in his judgment, un-
equivocal."

- Amongst the gentlemen present we observed—
Messrs. R. 11. Greg, Robert Gardner, J. B. Smith,
Robert Stuart, Thomas Cooke, henry Ashworth,
Malcolm Ross, John Shawcross, Alderman Harvey,
Thomas Buie", jun., Alderman Kershaw, Alderman
Hopkins, Lewis Williams, Edward Shawcross, &c.
Shortly after three o'clock Alexander Kay, Esq.,
the Mayor, took the chair, and having opened the
proceedings,
Mr. ROBERT HYDE GREG, in coming forward to
move the first resolution, said he was sure no one
present, and no intelligent person absent, had the
slightest doubt of the impolicy of a tax on the raw
material of the largest branch of the national manu-
facture; or of the double impolicy of that tax, seeing
that the great bulk of that manufacture was exported
to foreign countries; or of the treble impolicy (if he
might say so) of such a tax, where the country that
supplied us with this raw material, or at least the
great bulk of it, was engaged in an active, a suc-
cessful, and a constantly increasing competition with
the manufacturers of this country. Such was the
cotton-tax, the immediate repeal of whi :h they had
met to petition the Legislature for. He would not
bring forward any long array of figures to show the
large proportion of our manufactures that was ex-
ported, but he believed the very lowest we could
take it at was three-fourths; and in the latest state-
ments, those made at the Chamber of Commerce and
in the Glasgow memorial of last spring, the quantity
exported was stated to amount to five-sixths of the
whole quantity in 1842, and to six-sevenths in 1843.
The point to which he wished to direct attention was
the nature and extent of the competition to which we
were exposed by the United States of America; for,
although a very considerable competition had arisen
in Switzerland and Germany, in medium qualities of
goods, almost entirely perhaps in hand-loom cloth,
still the rival we had to fear, more immediately and
extensively in every point of view, was the United
States. That country had every advantage in having
the raw material on the spot, and paying no duty.
The advantage in favour of the Americans in the im-
porting here of raw cotton, in the expense of freight
and insurance alone, was, he believed, on an average,
exactly equal to one-half of those expenses of impor-
tation to Liverpool. When the Americans had such
immense advantages, could we wonder at the rapid
increase of their manufactures ? Could we wonder,
after having supplied the whole of their own con-
sumption, because we must not suppose that English
goods had been excluded by their high tariff; for
our coarse goods were excluded before that by the „

The editor of the Glob() states something of a
similar kind, that the paragraphs in question were in-
serted at the request of persons interested in Mr.
Cochrane. The misfortune is that the papers have
already made it a political question, and thereby an
importance has been bestowed on the matter which it
never deserved. There can, however, be but one
opinion as to the publication by Mr. Cochrane of
letters which were never intended to meet the light;
and every one must condemn the taste which could
prompt that person to attempt to hold up to public
ridicule the dinners of which he had partaken as the
guest of Mr. Bulwer.

monstrate, to any man who would reflect on the sub-
ject, that the sliding-scale was one of the greatest
curses that ever befel this country.—(Great applause.)
If ever a law came from below, that was the law.—
(Laughter and applause.) He was also prepared to
show that three-fourths of the revenue was levied en-

The public will best judge whether travelling about
England for his own amusement, as an itinerant
musician ; collecting money, which he distributed to
the refugees; visiting some public establishments
here, and procuring by hiniself, directly or indirectly,
through two or three acquaintances (as has been
seen from the above), the insertion of his own praises
in some of the Madrid papers, form sufficient grounds
for a claim to honours, which, as Mr. Bulwer pro-
perly remarks, are only due to distinguished acts of
valour in the field, or a European fame acquired
by great excellence in the arts,
,in science, or in
literature.
Operations in the Three per Cents., 102. Account
done, 127,274,018 reels. Closed at 32i to the 25th
inst., or will. Fives, seven operations ; amount,
6,200,000 reels, closed at 211 at 60 days. Floating
* Intelligence has since reached us, that the lives of
these prisoners will be saved.

tirely from the working people, and it was quite time
there should be an end of that.—(Bear.) The teas,
for instance, that cost from 2d. to 10d. per pound,
paid as heavy a duty as those that cost from 3s. to ss.
The MAYOR—You are taking too wide a field, Mr.
Gardner.

The meeting then broke up.

Mr. GARDNER concluded by recommending mas-
ters and workmen to unite together to get these re-
strictions removed, which, if not abolished, would most
assuredly ruin the country.—(Applause.)
The MAYOR then put the resolution, which passed
unanimously.
Mr. Alderman Hon('Ns moved the adoption of a
memorial to the Lords of the Treasury; that it be
signed on behalf of the meeting by the Mayor, and be
forwarded by him.
Mr. THOMAS BArLET, jun., read the memorial,
which, after embodying the facts of the case, con-
cludes with a declarativn that the best interests of the

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_. R. STUART moved the third resolution, nomi-
nating the Mayor, Messrs. Robert Gardner, R. H.
Greg, George Clarke, and Henry Ashworth, a depu—
tation on behalf of the meeting, in conjunction with
the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, to wait
upon the Lords of the Treasury, for the purpose of
uroing the repeal of this tax.
This resolution passed unanimously, as did the
next, for the publication of the proceedings, moved
by Mr. T. CooKE and seconded by Mr. BARTON.
Mr. Cooke was then called to the vacated chair, and
Mr. L. WILLIAMS moved a vote of thanks to the
Mayor for his valuable services in presiding, and for
the prompt manner in which he had complied with
the requisition to call the meeting.
The motion was seconded by Mr. NicitoLLs, and
passed with applause, and the proceedings then termi-
nated.

MEETING AT EXETER-HALL FOR
THE PURPOSE OF RELIEVING FATHER
MATHEW FROM MS PECUNIARY DIF-
FICULTIES.

A public meeting, convened by advertisement for
the above purpose, was held yesterday evening- in
Exeter hall.
The large room was well filled, and on the plat-
form were many gentlemen distinguished, some for
their zealous philanthropy, and others for their literary
attainments.
Rightiost Hheoanr.ty LordapplJauolisen.
RussellA t a
The Secretary to the National Temperance Society,
quarter after
chair,after sixam amid
dthe then
Mr. Theodore Compton, read letters from the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Bishop of Norwich, Dr.
Bowring, M.P., Joseph Hume, M.P. and other no-
blemen and gentlemen expressing their heartyacon-
currence with the objects of the meeting, but ex-
cusing their absence in consequence of other engage-
ments.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Ladies and
Gentlemen, I now appear before you for the purpose
of opening the business of the evening. I have felt
so deeply the merits of the Rev. Mr. Mathew, and the
value of his exertions in the cause of temperance, that
I was most anxious to be able to attend this meeting,
I need not assure you that this cause in which we are
at present engaged is connected with no political party,
and no sect in religion.—(Great cheering.) It is the
common and universal cause of all religion and of all
morality.--(Continued cheering.) Whatever may be
the sin, and the guilt, and the folly, of intemperance
among all orders of society, there is no class which is
so much exposed to temptation, and at the same time
suffers so severely from its consequences, as the poor-
est class of the community.—(llcar, hear.) .1 say,
no class is so much exposed to temptation, because, in
the midst of misery and the hardships of povertyl to
be enabled to steep the senses in forgetfulness for tha
time, might well be a temptation to the great majority
of mankind.—(Hear, hear.) At the same time, no
class suffers so severely from its consequence, because
the comforts of the poor man's family depend, not
so much upon his industry as upon his sobriety.—
(Cheers.) It is a curse of intemperance to be obliged
to leave his wife and children without the comforts
of life, and without that clothing which a reform
in this particular might enable him to procure them.
—(Hear, hear.) It is a consequence, too, that he is
obliged to fall into evil company, and is led to take a
share in those broils and fights which accompany in-
temperance wherever it exists.—(Hear, hear.) It
renders his children strangers to him, and makes his
neighbour his enemy. If such, therefore, are some
of its consequences, it requires no ordinary effort to
produce a great impression on a whole nation—to
bring them at once from habits in which they had
ever indulged—to bring them to the practice of those
virtues by which their domestic happiness is in-
creased, and their moral and religious conduct im-
proved.—(Cheers.) I say, no ordinary inducement,
no common exertion, suffices for this object; but we
all know that the extraordinary labours, the untiring
energy, the disinterested forgetfulness of all self, did
enable the Rev. Mr. Mathew to accomplish this moral
ruiracle.—(lmmense cheering.) That change in Ire-
land, effected by his exertions, surprised an admiring
world.—(Continued steering.) But, gentlemen,
although Mr. Mathew was endowed with that zeal and
that energy, and although he felt his great reward to be
the very producing of that great change in the conduct
of his countrymen, yet unhappily it was, that thus,
while pursuing his course with hand and with heart,
and with a zeal which persons less interested in the
cause could not possibly follow, that he got into diffi-
culties, and let me assure you, that from all inquiries
which I have made, the stories which have been cir-
culated of the wealth being acquired by Mr.
Mathew, or those belonging to him, are entirely with-
out foundation.—(Hear, hear.) In numbers of cases
—in a hundred thousand instances—the very medals
which were obtained by those who took the pledge of
temperance, were given gratuitously.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Mathew had to pay the expenses of journeys, the
expenses of printing, and all other expenses of a simi-
lar kind, nor, while engaged in this career, did his
zeal and enthusiasm allow him to perceive that he was
not following the rule of worldly prudence. What,
then, ought to be the conduct, both of that country to
which he belongs, and of this country, with which I
trust it will always be closely and perpetually npited
—(Cheers)—what should be their and our conduct,
I say ? If we have not the merit ourselves of
effecting that reformation, if we ourselves have not
undergone the fatigue, if have not achieved the
moral victory which Mr. Mathew has obtained, at.
least we may have the satisfaction of contributing
something to that success by relieving him from his.
present difficulBes—(Cheers)—and enabling him to.
start afresh in that most glorious career.—(Great
cheering.) I feel, I think that you all will feel, that
this change so sudden—a change from habits long-
rooted—a change so extensive that no less than
4,000,000 of persons accepted the pledge from his,
hands—that this change, so sudden, so extensive, re-.
quires great watchfulness to insure its continuance..
Is it not evident that if his efforts are to be entirely
relaxed, many will fall again into that evil from which

they had formerly abstained—(lletii, hear)—and it
that watchfulness and that care be so necessary, who
so likely to have a great and beneficial impression ors
them, and to bring them again, if fallen, into the!
practice of that moral cause which they had'
once before professed, as he, the Apostle of
their conversion?—(Loud and continued cheering.)
He who brought them formerly from the paths of sin,
to better courses, was now oppressed with pecuniary
difficulties, and he could not now continue his laboule
with the same disregard of worldly concerns as be-
fore, if not relieved by the generosity of the people of
Ireland and their countrymen of England.— (Cheers.)
Let us, therefore, embrace this opportunity of contri-
buting, both in this and in the sister country—
(Cheers)—to promote the cause of temperance, and
then at least we shall have the satisfaction of thinking
that our small gratuity will benefit a good man, and,
through him, our fellow-men.—(llis Lordship sat
down amidst loud cheering.)
The Rev. JAUEZ BURNS read the Address of the
Committee of the National Temperance Society to
the British public on behalf of Father Mathew.
Sir E. CODRINGTON moved the first resolution,
that the address then read be circulated under the:-
direction of the Committee. The Gallant Admiral

then proceeded to speak of the effects of intemperance
in the navy. It was the cause of almost all the acci-
dents by fire or falling over shipboard that occurred
in the service, and the man who had been so emi-
nently serviceable in reducing the evil, he hoped
would soon again be enabled to resume his career of
usefulness.

J. S. BUCKINGHAM, Esq., seconded the resolution,
and, in a lengthened speech, detailed the rise and
progress of the temperance cause ; and, at the con•
elusion of his speech, read the list of subscriptions,
headed by the Noble Chairman, whose name was
down for 25/. The total sum was 342/. 2s. 2d.

JAMES POWNELL, Esq., of Upper Clapton, briefly
addressed the meeting, and was followed by Ewart,
Esq., M.P., S. C. Hall, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Sherman,
of Surrey Chapel ; L. Heyworth, Esq., of Liverpool ;
and Mr. Henry Vincent, who was observed upon the
platform, and was loudly called for. The latter gen-
tleman delivered a most eloquent and effective speech,
in which, with great good taste, he forbore any allu-
sion to party politics.
Mr. THOMAS, of Bristol moved, and Mr. POTTER se-
conded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was
carried amid deafening applause.
Lord J. RUSSELL felt that he was greatly honoured
in being permitted to attend that meeting, for the pur-
pose of promoting, humbly, but sincerely, the great
cause of which Mr. Alathew was the apostle. He
said again that that was no party and no sectarian
question, and he was convinced there was nothing so
likely to elevate the people of this country, whether as
regarded religion, political opinions, literary or moral
qualifications, as this great question of temperance.
He returned them his thanks for the honour they hat
done him.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TArrERSALUS.—YESTEBDAY.
A very thin attendance, and only the following bets
[aid :

CIIESTER CUP (NAME OR NOT NAME).
500 to 10 agst Pagan ; 1,000 to 20 agst Corannti ;
1,000 to 20 agst Rowena ; and 1,000 to 20 at Aristides.
Offers to take 40 to 1 about Winesour.