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REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (No. 1)
MEETING.
Last night a most crowded meeting of this division
of the Metropolitan Association, which comprises the
parishes of St. Martin-inthe-Fields,- and St. Anne
and St. Margaret, Westminster, was field in the the-
atre of the London Mechanics' Institution, Southatnp-
ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, and the building, which
will seat 1,100 people, was filled to overflow : there,
was nut, in fact, standing-room. The chair was taken
by Henry Warburton, Esq., supported by the Hon.
C. P. Villiers, M.P., General Sir De Lacy Evans, J.
L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P., Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., Dr.
Bowring, MP., Col. Thompson, -James Wilson, Mr.
M'Leod, Mr. Daniel, Dr. Black, Mr. Sidney Smith,

has said, justly, that commerce between nations should
be carried on as it is between individuals. He has
admitted, moreover, that it is from commerce and
manufactures that England derives its greatness ; and
that if he was the exclusive partisan of the agricul-
turist, he should always tell him that the manufac-
turer was his best friend. It was his (Mr.. Villiers')
opinion that it now depended upon the metropolis
whether these laws should be repealed.—(Applause.)
He trusted that they would not be deluded by ,
the silly notion that this was only a manufacturer s
question, and that it was only they that were inte- '
rested in its repeal. For one, he was bound to say
that he thought that the manufacturers had been very
tardy in the expression of their opinion on the sub-
ject, and he used constantly himself, before the League
was formed, to reproach them for not speaking out
more on the subject.—(Hear.) The League was now
exerting itself with a spirit and energy that was be-
yond all praise—(Loud cheering)—and it only required
the metropolis to act in hearty unison with them for
complete success.—(Cheers.) Viewing, then, the
question in this general light, and impressed with the
importance of meeting the exigencies of an increasing,
industrious, and commercial population, he trusted
that this great metropolis, the seat of the Government,
would not suffer itself to be again lulled, or deluded
into apathy and indifference, but that they would now,
once and for ever, call for the abolition of all restric-
tions on the trade in food.—(Loud cheers.) He con-
cluded by moving That the state of trade and com-
merce, the rapid increase of pauperism and crime, the
continued decrease in the public revenue, and the ge-
neral discontent of the people, are circumstances which,
while they demand an instant remedy, have their ori-
gin in the vicious policy which has restricted the field
of national capital and industry, and which, while
its advocates have recognised theoretically the' right of
the community to buy in the cheapest market and
sell in the dearest, has been practically continued in
the new Tariff and Corn-law."
Mr. RICARDO seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN was about to read the resolution,
when two working men,
Mr. BLACKMORE and Mr. RIDLEY, rose with the
view of moving an amendment, by way of addition,
not in opposition ; but being- out of order in point of
time, they sat Town.
The resolution having been put,
Mr. BLACKNIORE again rose, amidst considerable
interruption, to move the amendment. For some time
he was stopped by cries of " turn him out." Another
working man, in the confusion, mounted the railings,
when both were immediately seized by the persons
round the platform, and they were unceremoniously
pushed over the rails.
Dr. BLACK at length came forward, and demanded
a fair hearing for every man.
Quiet was restored for an instant, &ugh the dis-
turbance was renewed the moment Mr. Blaclimore
opened his mouth. At lengh,
The CHAIRMAN said he was endeavouring to obtain
a hearing for Mr. Blackmore, when another person
interrupted by trying to speak himself. He was op-
posed to anything like physical force, yet he hoped
there was no one who would not give the greatest
moral condemnation to the gentleman who was a
second time out of order. As long as the gentleman
who rose first kept to the subject of the Corn-laws,
and did not enter upon any thing foreign to the dis-
cussion of the meeting, he (the Chairman) would sit
quietly and hear him. If that person deviated he
would call him to order, and would expect the assist-
ance of the meeting in keeping order.
Mr. BLACKMORE again mounted the platform, and
said that he did not mean to speak against the reso-
lution. He differed from the gentleman who had ad-
dressed them as to the mode in which these monopo-
lies could be overcome. He did trust that every one
would unite in upsetting a Government which was
supported by so many monopolies, and that they
would upset the Government by the use of the very
means recommended in the circular issued to the
meeting.--("lVlicre's your nurse ?" "Turn him
mit," " Socialists," and other cries.) The amend-
ment he would propose would be to the effect—that
seeing all classes of Reformers united for the support
of the contest carried on by Mr. Joseph Sturge for
the redress of other grievances, this -meeting would
send a delegate to the meeting about to belield at
Birmingham on the 27th of December, to assist in
opposing all monopolies.
The CHAIRMAN asked the meeting whether this
was not an amendment utterly foreign to the subject
of discussion that evening, which was limited to mono-
polies of corn or other articles of consumption—(Cries
of " Yes, yes")—and then declared that the amend-
ment was disorderly, and could not be put.—The
original question was then put and carried, amidst
confusion.

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The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
evening, said that, in pursuance of the recommenda-
tion of the Central Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law
League., London had been divided into several dis-
tricts, for the purpose of promoting the success of the
great cause in which he presumed all their hearts were
engaged. This meeting was the meeting of the first
district of the local associations into which the Central
League had recommended that London should he di-

vided ; and in meeting them upon that occasion, he
might be permitted to congratulate them on the con-
trast which the order of that meeting presented to the
meetings upon the same subject web were called
some eighteen months since, not4inany hundred-
yards from that place. At that time there was no
sympathy enlisted in their cause ; now there was
not a single disturber of the meeting, all were anxious
that the great cause should prosper.—(Cheers.) And
why had they met there ? Because they believed
that they felt a great public grievance—(Cheers)—
and, as Englishmen, whatever some parties might
whisper in the shape of threats of prosecution, and he

knew not what—(Laughter)—there they were, met
to confess themselves Members of the League, liable
to prosecution or not, to discuss the removal of what
they said was a great public grievance.—(Cheers.)
It was for these purposes that public meetings were
held, and to afford to the gentlemen interested an op-
portunity of stating their opinions, and of that inter-
course of thought by which they endeavour to spread
those great principles. Having said thus much, his
first business would be to call upon Mr. C. P. Villiers
to move the first resolution. _ _ _

Mr. VILLIERS was received with great cheering.

This agitation was rendered necessary, nd was forced
upon the people by the circumstances of the country
and the condition of the Legislature.—(Cheers.)
Abuses the most glaring, laws the most mischievous,
were left unreformed ; and facts the most startling,

reasoning the most cogent, would be heard with in-
difference, unless some sign could be shown of almost
approaching convulsion, springing from the anger and
discontent of the community.—(Cheers.) All the
great measures—which it would be the shame of the
country if they were still in dispute--have been ex-
torted from the Legislature by this means—(Hear,
hear)—whether it was the abolition of slavery, the
establishment of religious freedom, the enfranchise-
ment of our large towns, the reduction of postage, or
the partial application of free trade—all had been re-
fused to calm remonstrance or patient endurance, and
had been-conceded to agitation and to the difficulty of
longer withholding them. However, if agitation-had
been justified in other matters, more especially would
he say it was so in this case ; for the question of free
trade had, in his opinion, a more important bearing
upon the permanent interests of this country than
any other matter that could be named—(Hear)—the
resistance was of a more immediately interested cha-
racter than any other; and he would say that the
moment was never so appropriate, inasmuch as we
were just at the end of an experience which estab-
lished beyond question that every thing pretending to
a public character that had been urged in defence of
monopoly had been proved to be fallacious, and might
almost be referred to as a detected imposture.--(Loud
cheers.) If he wanted an example of the justice of
this observation, he would only point to the very dis-
tricts for whose interest especially the Corn-law was
always pleaded. The law, it was said, would keep the
labourer in employment—would maintain the rate of
his wages—would secure price to the farmer; and ad-
vance the science of agriculture. Why, what was it
at this particular moment they were hearing and see-
ing in every direction ? The unions were overflow-
ing with agricultural labourers, dismissed from their
service; their wages were everywhere being reduced;
the farmer was complaining that there was less de-
mand for his produce, though he had more poor-rates
to pay ; and the landlord, fbrsooth, is heard lecturing
the farmer in every direction for the want of the
skill and economy he has long shown in the cul-
tivation of his land.—(Cheers, and great laughter.)
He did hope that those who had hitherto been indif-
ferent to this question, or who, above want them-
selves, had not considered the sufferings of others,
would seriously reflect, if it was only with the view
to their own interest, on the social condition of this
country at present. Do let them reflect upon the de-
plorable condition in which millions of the people are
now living—congregated in dense masses in different
parts of the country, excited by their sufferings, ren-
dered intelligent by collision, partially educated, and
now h aving access to the same sources of information
as the rest of the community by means of a perfectly
free press.—(Hear, hear.) Let them remember also.
that it is proved that the supply of food in this country
does not keep pace with the population ; that the
demand also for the products of this country by other
countries does not keep pace with the productive
powers of the people, which, by means of numbers
and ingenuity, are annually augmenting—(Hear)—
that the population is increasing at a rate of 100 births
an hour over the deaths, or 1,200 a day.—(Hear,
hear.) And if these are the circumstances of the
country, the mass of the people thus ill-fed and ill-
employed—can a man be sane who prescribes for such
a condition a deliberate legislative obstruction in the
exchange of the food of other countries for the results
of the industry of this country ?—(Loud cheers.)
And yet, Gentlemen, this is the question now in agi-
tation as to the repeal of the Corn-laws—(Hear, hear)
—whether or not, with a population circumstanced as
ours is, they shall be continued.—(Hear, hear.) We
see that the distresses of the people are acknowledged
by the universal joy expressed at the prospect of a
market in China being opened to our manufactures.
People hope that it may bring timely relief to the
unfortunate artisans of this country, and yet there is
nothing in the custom of China that is one jot better
for the English manufacturer than that of Europe,
which we have repudiated, or of America, that
we still refuse.—(Cheers.) The industrious classes
of this country want to find customers for the
fruits of their labour ; they have no preference for
China, and they complain of the legislative obstruction
which is interposed with other countries.—(Cheers.)
We nearly prohibited altogether the only article which
most of our best customers had to pay for our manu-
factures, and the consequence has been they have be-
come manufacturers for themselves, and we have lost
their custom.—(Cheers.) Whenever he had felt it
his painful duty to bring the subject before the House,
he had generally been taunted by some of the country
gentlemen with the inutility of his efforts, as they
said the people were not with him—they said that it
was no use bringing forward the subject till they
were, as they never should concede while the people
were indifferent.—(Hear, hear.) He had always ac-
knowledged the fact that the people did not support the
motion as he thought it was their interest to do, but
that they did it not from being deluded.—(Hear,
hear.) And let any man now review the predictions
of those who had given thought and consideration to
the subject, and say if there is one single thing that
has happened, that had not been expected and specifi-
cally foretold by them, as almost necessary to result
from it.—(Hear, hear.) And now he turned to the
evidence which the country afforded of the results of
a perseverance in this fatal policy, as it affected the
labouring population both in town and country ; and
he looked to the unions, the gaols, the hospitals—aye,
to the graves—(Cheers)—to mark the potency of this
legislation against industry and commerce, in spread-
ing disease, and crime, and misery, and death through-
out the land—(Loud cheers)—and ultimately of
the consequences to the agricultural interest itself,
in lowering the value of their produce.—(Hear, hear.)
The last Ministers told the aristocracy that they must
abandon their monopoly, and they were turned off
immediately.—(Hear, hear.) They told it to them
somewhat abruptly, he admitted—(Hear, hear, and a
laugh)—but they were dismissed because those who
were now in their service told them that they need not
abandon their monopoly, and that they would serve
them upon the terms of maintaining it.—(Cheers and
laughter.) Well, how have they done it ?—(Cbeers.)
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stand up against a starving people, a declining com-
merce, and a sinking revenue ? sTo ; they have ad-
mitted that the time is past for doing so, and now, if
they are prcperly pressed, they will go on in the right
direction.—(Cheers.) You have now a Minister in
Sir Robert Peel who professes to agree with you in
opinion ; urge him, then, to be true to his professions.
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half, we were struggling also for the whole world.
—(Cheers.) With the feeling; therefore, that the
Government and the Legislature would do nothing un-
less the people spoke with an imperative voice ; and
that on the exertion of the people must rest the re-
peal of the Corn-laws, he would sum up by moving
—" That as no reliance can be placed on the wisdom
or patriotism of the Government or of the Legisla-
ture for relieving the country from its difficulties, the
intelligence and moral feeling of the people must be
appealed to as the means of inducing the powers of
the State to deal equal justice to all ranks of her Ma-
jesty's subjects,"
Sir DE LACY EVANS seconded the resolution. He
congratulated them upon their present meeting, be
looked upon it as a good commencement of the cam-
paign, and as a good reason for strenuous exertion.
Mr. RUFFY RIDLEY cordially supported the reso-
lution—(Hear, hear)—and would only move a rider.
His rider was, that the only means of obtaining jas-
tice was by the enactment of the People's Charter—
(Ob, oh ! and hisses)—which would repeal the Corn-
laws, give trade and commerce to our country, and
restore the happiness of its people.
Mr. RIACEMORE rose to second the amendment.

The CHAIRDIAN said they were not met to consider
what alteration in the form of. Government would se-
cure freedom of trade, and he ruled that the rider was
out of order. _

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he would ask, if a man put his hand into his neigh•
hour's pocket and took
in the practice in w•
purse, would it be expected
V that he would be indulged
tuity, because he had leased out the proceeds
(Cheers.) He did not deny that there might be her&
ship for the farmers; they were honest men, and
honest men sometimes suffered ; but, though willing
to do anything practicable for them, they could not
wait for ever under an injustice.—(Cheers.) The
Gallant Colonel concluded by moving—" That this
meeting regards with much satisfaction the cordiality
with which the country has responded to the appeal
for subscriptions to the Great League Fund; and in
order that the inhabitants of this metropolis may have
an opportunity of contributing, in a manner wurtby
of its wealth and commercial importance, to the ex-
pense of conducting this national cause to a happy
issue, a London League Fund subscription book 1-10
immediately opened at the office of the Metropolitan
Anti-Corn-law Association."
Mr. WILSON, in seconding the resolution, denied
that the reduction of prices in articles of consumption
had been occasioned by the alterations in the tariff.
It had been occasioned by the diminished power of-
purchasing on the part of the masses, consequent upon
their destitution. The prices of butter and cheese.,
neither of which were affected by the tariff, had fallen
more in proportion than meat; while the importation
of butter from abroad was 39,000 cwt. less this year
than it had been last. The importations of cheese,
flax, and wool, had all diminished, while the prices
had fallen ; and as a proof of the destitution of ' the
consuming classes in the metropolis, he would appeal
to the fact, that during the present year the quantity
of coals imported into London was less by 200,000
tons than last year. Prices had been reduced by di-
minished consumption, not by increased importation.
The number of cattle imported into the whole of the
United Kingdom hitherto would not supply Smith-
field for one week. The importation of sheep from
Ireland into the manufacturing districts had dimi-
nished from 225,000 annually, to 155,000 annually.
The Hon. Gentleman then stated that Huddersfield
in one day had contributed 1,0581. to the League
Fund, and urged the inhabitants of the metropolis ,to
support the League. The resolution was then carried
unanimously.
Mr. J. Sstrrn announced that the Chairman had
subscribed 501.—(Cheers)—and that a district meet-
ing would take place in Whitechapel on 7th Dec.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated, after three cheers had been giren
for the Anti-Corn-law League.

Mr. Semi declared that if he thought the discus-
sion was to be limited to one side; he would never
attend a meeting. At the game time her:umatsay
that he never saw in any meeting of working men,
such conduct as had taken place that night.—(" Oh,
oh," and hisses, " Go home," and " Groans.") The
Anti-Corn-law League appeared to him to be like
the man who offered to remove the mote out of his
brother's eye. The final object of the Anti-Corn-law
League was professed to be the improvement of the
condition of the working men of the country, but
what sort of moral principle was that which did not
rest upon the principle of doing unto others as they
would be done by ?—(lnterruption and " Question.")
The CHAIRMAN said it was evident that the gentle-
man would not obtain a hearing from the meeting,
after every endeavour on, his part ; and if he continued
he must put it to the meeting, whether it was their
pleasure to continue bearing him ?—(This was ac-
cordingly done, and only four hands were held up for
the hearing, and Mr. Spur sat down.)
Dr. BOWRING would have been gratified if the
meeting could have heard every one. He (Pr.
Bowring) had), met with a few in a small room at
Manchester to form the Anti-Corn-law League ;
they were not noticed; they were not reported ; but
they had now become known, and assisted, because
their object was the universal good. Other ques-
tions, such as negro slavery, and Catholic emancipa-
tion, interested only a portion of the community.
This question interested all mankind; and if any one
still doubted the efficacy of repeal, he would urge
them to consider it in reference to its mighty im-
portance upon the permanent interests of the
world. The world looked to England for a great
example, and every Englishman ought to feel
that it rested with him to take a large and ex-
pansive view of his duty to others. Let there be no '
more separation between different countries than
between different sides of the street. Let all be united
for the general good. The arguments for repeal were
now brought home to every man's bosom, and the
general response of the people of England to the ap-
peal of the Anti-Cora-law League had already startled
the monopolists, for they saw in the answer to that
appeal the evidence of victory; and let them be assured
that, by the victory of free trade in this country, they
would not only be labouring for their own interest,
but would lay a widebasis of humanity and virtue for
strengthening those principles which time could only
increase, and which no arguments could overthrow.
The resolution was then put and carried.
Colonel P. THOMPSON presented himself to move
the third resolution. He would not, at that late
hour, detain them long. He would only tell them
where the shoe pinched himself, and he would ask
them whether it did not pinch them in the same
place ? Four 'toes were dreadfully pressed already,
and of the fifth he had great apprehensions. In the
first place, then, he had property in land, and he
complained that he was cut off from the prosperity
of his commercial neighbours. Perhaps they would
say that they did not care for the interests of the
landowners. Be it so. Possibly they had not much
reason to care for thein.—(Cheers.) But why should
they not assist one another if the help could be afforded
without trouble or loss ? His next suffering was that
he found himself cut off, as all landlords were, of all
opportunities of establishing their children in life in
the manner in which they ought. Where was he to
find employment for them? If he took the Church—
(Laughter)—there were more ecclesiastics already
than there were tithe pigs.—(Cheers.) If he made
one a lawyer, there were already more lawyers than
briefs. If he took the doctors, there were more doc-
tors than sick men who can pay.—(Cheers and
laughter.) Next was his complaint No. 3. He suf-
fered, as he supposed most did, from the Income-tax.
It was a connivance of the landlords to enable the
Legislature to raise money to meet the expenditure,
and the Income-tax was imposed to obviate the diffi-
culty of allowing commerce to go free.—(Cheers.)
That was the history of his three miseries. Then
came the other misfortune. His friends in Phila.
delphi could not pay their debts.—(Loud cheers.)
How came that about ? His friends there doubtless
said, " Have patience with me, and I will pay thee
all," and so he hoped they might--(Laughter)—but
why had they not paid before? Because by our refusing
a natural commerce, they were prevented paying
in the only manner in which they were able and.
willing to pay.—(Cheers.) How many were there
who participated with him in these four miseries ?
And yet he heard another evil whistling in the wind.
He had some Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, and
down would come the Minister, and would say,
" These stocks I will cut down from 3i to 3 per cent."
This would take away.ls per cent. of his property, or
something 'like -'five income taxes. The 11Iinister
would say that the country was flourishing, and that
stocks were high. He denied this. He knew that
at some seasons the loss of a couple of frigates would
make the stocks fall ; but he maintained, that if the
stocks rose from prosperity, they would also rise from
the evil of want of employment for capital. What
regulated the rate of interest in the funds ; was it not
the rate of interest paid for money in this country ?
If a manufacturer gained 10 per cent., he could afford
to pay 5 for interest; if he gatned 9 per cent., he
could only afford 4 per cent. ; if he gained but 7 per
cent., interest would drop to 3, and so on. He would
ask, therefore, why the interest and the value of
stock should not drop, under Providence and the
blessing of the Corn-laws, to 3-Is, to 3, to 2, or so low
that no one without a microscope could tell what
the interest was ?—(Cheers.) They would, doubt-
less, soon hear the Minister, with the strength
of this argument of prosperity, turn to the little
boys behind him, as he (Colonel Thompson) had
seen him, and bid them cheer whilst he told them
that this rise was all owing to the public happiness
and contentment.—(Laughter.) Here was his five
reasons for joining the Anti-Corn-law League. Those
who were engaged in commerce would have many
more ; and he was sure that there was no one who
was not aware that these restrictions brought down
the rate of wages with those who lived upon wages,
and brought down the rate of profits with those who
lived upon profits. As to the opening of the China
trade, we had robbed a harmless Quaker community
of twenty-one millions of dollars for not swallowing
our opium, but what satisfaction should we have in
opening that trade, whilst we cut off a better trade
at home ? The people could not eat tea, they could
not eat the bamboo.—(Cheers and laughter.) The
opening of trade might add to the comforts of the
rich landlord, but would it feed the wretched crea-
tures whose families were starving for want of corn?
Pains were taken to put off the trade in corn, whilst
they would be told of the increase in silks and
tea. He recommended them, therefore, to stick to
their demands. Why should they be sent after
commerce 3,000 leagues away, and leave those chan-
nels which were only 300 miles off ? The Go-
vernment told them they might not trade in anything
they did want, but in anything they did not want
they might trade. He would now furnish the ladies
definition of monopoly :
with a brief and family "It
was robbing everybody for the benefit of somebody,
and throwing away half by the way."—(Much cheer-
ing.) That was what all monopolies came to. When-
ever there was one gain by monopoly there were two
losses to balance it, and that was the secret of mono-
poly. Now, one word as to those who blamed the
Anti-Corn-law League because they did not join in
this agitation. They said that their own measures
if so, was it policy to tie them to
mulsomethingdno t
islNevai
vm ; i
er
—(Cheers ?) He did not join, not
because he did not love their cause ; but, because upon
this point of the Corn-laws he thought his friends had
strength, and he therefore wished to shake this part
of the wall first.—(Cheers.) Then, as to the argument
of the gentleman in the gallery (Mr. Spur), that they
ought not to repeal these laws, because of the leases—

PROSPECT of TRADE with CRINA.
Already the news of the peace with China has
operated favourably upon our markets, giving
a most important stimulus to the markets of Man-
chester and Liverpool, and a much improved
feeling to that of Leeds. The new ports opened,
the respect which the Imperial Government will
be likely to show to British trade, the decidedly►
commercial character of the Chinese people, their
immense numbers, and the much nearer approach
which our merchants will now be able to make to

the northern and colder:parts of China where wool-
lens are worn, are all circumstances that must operate
to increase the export of British manufactures to that
country.
But whilst this confidence may be reasonably en-
tertained, our merchants and manufacturers would do
well to act with caution. There has scarcely ever
been a new opening like this afforded to trade, that it
has not in a few months been terribly overdone, and
the exporters have glutted the market, and thus
thrown away their property. It was thus on the re-
opening of the: merican trade after the revolutionary
war—on the opening of the Brazilian and Buenos
Ayrean markets to England—on the opening of the
European markets at the peace a 1814—and on the
opening of the Indian markets at the abolition of the
East India Company's monopoly. It ought to be
known that there is at the present moment a year's
stock of all kinds of British manufactures on hand in
China. During the last twelve months very few goods
have been sold in that market, and the latest commer-
cial letters represent prices as exceedingly low. We
state these facts cn the authority of a gentleman en-
gaged in the trade, whose character is a guarantee for
the accuracy of his statements. We also know that
in this country there are large stocks in the hands of
the 'manufacturers, of goods intended for the China
market ; and as it is certain that those goods will be
sent off by the first opportunity, there will be the less
room for those who may come after them.
It may further be useful to manufacturers and
merchants to know, that the Chinese are the most
particular people in the world as to the colours, the
making-up, the widths, lengths, and weights of the
goods they purchase. There is not a house in the
trade which has not bought 'its knowledge of the Chi-
nese tastes and habits by dear experience.
Our Bradford friends may not all be aware that the
Chinese have religious or quasi religious scruples
against wearing fabrics which are made of two diffe-
rent materials, as wool and cotton. We know of a
case in which a lot of worsted goods with cotton
warps were sent to Canton, and were sold on arrival
by the pattern card ; but on the day following the sale
was cancelled by the Hong merchants, who alleged
that the goods were made of animal and vegetable sub-
stances mixed, which was contrary to nature as well as
to their religion. In this respect the Chinese act on
the principle laid down in the Mosaic law—" Neither
shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come
upon thee."—Levit. xix. 19. It may be relied on
that mixed fabrics will not sell in China.
The kinds of woollens principally sent to China are
ladies' cloths and medium cloths, fabrics which employ-
a large proportion of wool. The district in which
they are chiefly made comprises the villages of Raw-
don, Yeadon, Guisely, Idle, Shipley, and Eccleshill,
and they come to the Leeds market. The market at
our White Cloth Hall, on Tuesday last, was the best
that has been known for two years.
In cottons, the article principally sent to China is
shirtings, of which the largest sales ever known were
made in Canton, just before the departure of the last
mail but one ;' and a degree of improvement bad in
consequence been felt in the trade even prior to the
news of the peace. Cotton twist is also sent in large
quantities. It is anticipated that as the cottons of
England have superseded those of India, so_they will
supersede those of China, as soon as they can be
brought into competition with them. An immense
demand may therefore arise for our cotton manu-
factures. _ _ _

-'l7lleprincipal difficulty of our merchants will be in
obtaining returns from China. The only large im-
ports from that country now are in tea and silk. Pro-
bably other articles may be discovered in the northern
parts of China ; and it is said that samples of tobacco
of very superior quality have been shown in the Lon-
don market.—Leeds Mercury.

[ADTERTISEMENT.stI
CONSUMPTION AND AsrnA.—T e following se-
vere cases of Asthma and Consumption have been cured
by Traction, the new remedy lately successfully in-
troduced into practice by Mi.. Cronin, surgeon :
Mitchell, Esq., Cox and Greenwood's, Charing-
cross, distressing asthma; Mr. C. Towell, fishmonger,
7 and 8, Hungerford-market, distressing asthma ; 111 r.
Roberts, 36, Great Marlborough-street, distressing
asthma; W. Gering, Mr. Smith's, 25, Strand, distress-
ing asthma • Mrs. Blundell, Mr. Viner's, 92, High
Holborn, distressing asthma; Mr. Carrington, 2,
Charles-street, Long-acre, asthma; Mr. Spight, 14
and 20, Castle-street, Long-acre, severe asthma;
John Whittaker, John-o-Groat, ray-street, Black-
friars-road, asthma ; Mr. Payne, 12, Ann-street,
Waterloo-road, asthma; W. Jones, Mr. Yool's,
coal-merchant, Cannon-row, Westminster, asthma ;
' Mr. Edmonds, 16, Marchmont-street, severe asthma ;
Mr. Howard, 16, Surrey-street, consumption ; James
Lamb, 14, Charles-street, Covent-garden, consump-
tion, with excessive spitting of blood ; W. Lewis,
Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, with ulceration
of the pharynx ; Mr. Lambert, 13, Carburton-street,
Fitzroy-square, consumption ; Mr. Cartwright, Sloop
and Navigation Office, Customs, consumption ; Mrs.
Young, 87, Dean-street, Soho-square, consumption ;
Mr. S. Needham, 72, Charlton-street, Somers-town,
consumption ; Miss J. Izod, Mr. Bohnara's, church.
street, Hackney, consumption ; Mr. Davies, Stamp-
office, Somerset-house, consumption; Charles Walker,
A 78, policeman, Scotland-yard, consumption ; J.
Sheehy, 8, King-street, Park-lane, consumption ;
Mr. Sinclair, messenger, General Post-owe, con-
sumption ; Mr. Anderson, compositor at the Morning
Advertiser office, Fleet-street., incipient phthisis ;
Thomas Annell, 8, Mitre-street, Lambeth, severs
asthma; Mr. Gartland, 34, South Molton-street, Ox-
ford-street, asthmP ; Miss H. Goodwin, 3, Star-court,
Chancery-lane„ asthma.—Mr. C. may be consulted at
9, Craven-st'leet, Strand, daily, from ten to one.
SINGULAR REWARD FOR TIIE DETECTION OF Jt
FELONT.—A reward of Si. 10s., and an acre of land
for five years, rent free, to any poor man, has been
offered for giving information which may lead to the
conviction of some persons who, on the 9th of No-
vember, or early on the following morning, wilfully
and maliciously cut down an avenue of young frees, the
property of Richard N. Cartwright, Esq., growing in
the abbey grounds of Ixworth.—Suffolk Herald.
SYRIA.--A private letter from Beyrout, of the 30th
of October, and consequently more recent by ten days
than the late news, gives some important details
respecting the insurrection in Syria. The Druses
had assembled about Bair-el-Kamer, the residence of
the Pacha, threatening the Government. They con-
tinued to concert with the Christians, to whom they
offered to perpetuate the union between the two
people, against the common enemy. The Turks kept
in check by the revolters, and already beaten, were
striving to avert an impending catastrophe, by en-
deavouring to sow dissension among their enemies, 'but
the cry of independence seems to have united the
peeple of the mountain in one feeling, one idea, that
of throwing off a yoke intolerable to the adherents to
both religions.

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THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 2,

Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST.
Alonzo, Mr. Cooper ; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, Mr.
Vandrahoff; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C.
Pitt ;.. Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste-
Rhan°, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss
ainforth.
To conclude with Auber's Opera of MASANIELLO ; or,
THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. W.
Harrison ; Alphouso, Mr. Travers ; Elvira, Miss Poole ;
Fenella, Miss Ballin.

Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances coin-
nienee at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ad. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
11,cond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tie.kets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tiekets may be had.
Private Boxes to be hail at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ;
aid of Mr. Same, Pall Mall..

THEATRE ROYAL. HAY-MARKET.
THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, Dzc. 2,

Will IA performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Sir Peter Towle, Mr. W. Farres3 ; Sir Oliver Surfaee, Mr.
Striekland ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Stuart ; Charles Surface,
Mr. Close. Mathews ; Crabtree, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin
Ilassittite, Mr. Backstene ; Moses, Mr. Webster ; Careless,
Ms. Howe ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Snake, Mr. Wilsone ; Sir
Harry, ( with a Song), Mr. Caulield ; Trip, Mr. Brindal.
Lady Teeale, Madame Vestris; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover,
Lady Sneorwell. Mrs. W. Cliford ; Maria, Mrs. E. Yarnold.
To which will be added, Mr. Charles Mathews' Burletta of
PATTER versus CLATTER.
Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To emaeletde with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS !
Joseph Brag, Mr. Buckstone.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 2,

►ill be repeated a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU
KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by Mr. 0. Smith,
Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Fawcit, and Miss Murray.
After which, a New Comte Burletta, called AN PONY and
CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss
Murray.
To be followed by a Grand Rurletta Spectacle, entitled
ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford,
Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche
Giubilei.

TO conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGIITER. Prin-
cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly,
Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P.
Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
six, commence at seven o'clock.