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Lords that a'supply from Ireland could not be depended upon. ,
Now, five years ago, when he (the Earl of Radnor) had stated
• this in the House of Lords, he was laughed at, and the Noble
• Lord went so far as to say that he ( the Earl of Radnor) had
been misled. But time had proved that he was correct, for
six or seven years the supply had beers diminishing till it was
now reduced to nearly nothing. New this argument had been
trod by Noble Lords favourable to the new Corn Bill. He
• (Earl Radnor) thought they had matter of congratulation in
the new Corn Bill, for although it was but a very few steps to
tree trade, still it was one, he thought, would act as stringently
Us the old one. But the old Corn Bill was broken up. That
Which had been lauded as the best possible Bill was now gone,
• s'.'esi he hoped the new one would not last so long.—(Cheers. )
Be hoped, therefore, that they would not despair of ultimate
• - success. Protection must injure some class, and, in fact, it
Was an injury to those protected. The evidence taken
ll'efort the Committee, to which he had alluded, proved that
those trades were most flourishing which enjoyed no protection,
Wald those trades which had protection declined in proportion.
He hoped they would all exe t themselves to the utmost, and
he bogged to conclude by moving the resolution which he had
read. ( The Noble Earl sat down amidst loud cheers. )
Mr. C. P. VILLIERS sa'd that he felt proud in seconding
any proposition made by the Noble Earl. The Noble Earl
bad been a faithful labourer in the field of Reform. He was
not one that took up politics to support a party, but he used
his talents for the benefit of his country. There was another
veteran who had just entered the room (Mr. Hume).—
.. (Cheering. )He (31r. Vill:ers) could have but little to add
to the arguments that had already been adduced with respect
to the question of the Corn-laws. He congratulated them on
their prospects. It wasbut a very few months ago that the
present Government was placed in power for the purpose of
• supporting and perpetuating monopoly. But they had evi-
, 'dently been shaken. They had taken a step towards free trade
• but still the old monopolies were supported. It was for this
that the Income-tax had been proposed. The new Corn Bill
had been brought in on account of the agitation on this sub-
' - ject ; and if the opinions of the people had been more fully ex-
pressed against the monopolies, the Government never would
have dared to have proposed the Income-tax.— (Cheers. )
There were articles of consumption upon which the deficiency
of the revenue might have been raised. And what had caused
• the deficiency ? Why these monopolies ; for the amount of the
' deficiency, which was only 2,400,000/., was the amount of the
deficiency in the revenue from exciseable articles. While the
population had increased, the consumption of necessaries
had fallen. It had appeared from the statement of Mr.
. APGregor that, if the reduction of the duty on necessaries had
been made, there would have been an increase of revenue of
three millions. He (Mr. Villiers) hoped they would still con-
tinue their vigorous exertions, and he had no doubt they would
Ultimately succeed.
`the resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Lord KIN NA IRD said he would detain them but a very short
4 • time, as there were many Gentlemen round him whore they
had known of old, and whom they would wish to hear again
and again. But he could assure them that those Gentlemen
• .might address them with greater ability, but not with more
sincerity than he did.—(Cheers.) Since the year 1826, when
he succeeded to his landed property, he had tinned his attention
• to agriculture. He had nearly a thousand acres of land, and
• . he could assure them, from his experience, that, instead of
protection being beneficial to agriculture, it was injurious. A
considerable portion of the land had, for many years, been
. cultivated with wheat, to the growth of which the Corn-laws
. • gave peculiar encouragement. And he asserted, that notwith-
standing all kinds of manure being used, drainage, &c., the
land did not now produce more than one-third the quantity of
former years, because this most vicious system had entirely ex-
hausted the soil. He congratulated them upon the prospects of
the Association, and concluded by moving the following reso-
', • Intim
" That the proposition formally asserted by the first Ali-
mister of the Crown, that the revenue uniformly increases with
▪ • abundance iwthe necessaries of life, and is diminished by their
scarcity, is a virtual admission that the Corn and Provision-
laws, which restrict the supply of food, have materially conduced
1!s-,- to that defalcation in the revenue which is assigned as the reason
\'
for the necessity of the imposition of an Income-tax ; and that
ss
,44.: this Association sees in this new impost only an expedient for
, the continuance of the infliction of the intolerable wrong of the
Bread-tax.
Mr. HUME seconded the resolution in a very eloquent speech.
The resolution was put and carried.
Mr. WILSON proposed the following resolution :
?=' " That-the proposed reconstruction of the tariff, although
vicious in principle, and, in all, falling short of the full measure
of just and wise commercial reform, sufficiently indicates that
L.public opinion has driven monopoly from the ancient strong-
- holds of the restrictive system ; while the abandonment by the
advocates of the theory of protection of all the ordinary econo-
mical fallacies which formerly constituted its only defence, en-
courages renewed exertions for the enforcement of free trade
principles, which being now recognised by all parties in the
State, can be vindicated without the imputation of factious mo-
, • tives to their conscientious supporters."
Dr. BOWRING seconded the resolution. He thought they
• •could not hope of success, until they saw a different House of
•• `• Commons.
. The resolution was put, and carried unanimously.
: Col. Tsroatesore in proposing the next resolution, said, that
his Friend (Dr. Bowring) had succeeded to the Knight in
Doubting Castle, put under the care of the Giant Despair with
I Brother Despondency. —( Laughter.) He ( Col. 'l'.) intended
' to be•his Brother Hopeful.—( Laughter.) He thought there
was every reason to be full of hope, for their prospects were
- • most cheering. He concluded by proposing the following reso•
,• lution :—" That the system of fiscal legislation which pro-
poses to increase the capacity of the people to pay the taxes
• required for the public service, by relieving them of those levied
for the profit of private and class interests is sound in economical
principle, and would be found eminently successful in practice;
while any attempt to render the maintenance of monopoly corn-
patible with the attainment of an adequate State revenue, by
the imposition of new taxes upon a community, which has de-
• rnonstrated its inability to meet those which are already re-
quired of them, is at once unreasonable and oppressive, fraught
With peril to the productive faculty of national industry, and
-the sources of commercial enterprise."
Mr. Bea core seconded the resolution, which was carried
'` • unanimously.
Mr. 111‘Leon proposed the following resolution, which was
carried unanimously :-
- " That past experience has proved that the political power
of private interests, and of the beneficiares of monopoly is
such, that no Government, however patriotic in intention or
sound in its views, is able, by its own influence, to legislate ac-
cording to its sincere convictions of justice and true policy ;
, and it becomes the imperative duty of the vast body of con-
sumers to strengthen the hands of the executive in any honest
efforts to consult the real interests of the community at large ;
' and that to this end, and for the purpose at once of warning
our opponents of our irrevocable determination, and of confirm-
ing ourselves in its prosecution, we da hereby solemnly, deli-
berately, and firmly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our
common country, that we will never relax in our exertions,
but, on the contrary, that we will increase the sphere and in-
tensity of their application and activity, until the Corn and
Provision-laws are entirely repealed, and free trade, in spirit
and in truth, made pert and parcel of the law of our native

land." . -
The Report was then adopted and ordered to be printed, a
vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the meeting
eparated.

NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Convention met yesterday morning at the Dr. Johnson
Tavern, Fleet-street, at the usual hour, nine o'clock.
. Mr. DUNCAN took the Chair.
A great number of letters were read from the different Asso-
;c • oiations in the country.
;,^ Several Deputations were received from different quarters
of London, from public meetings held to support the Charter.
1, Mr. O'Coxwoit moved the following resolution :—" That
li the Convention take into consideration the best means for pro-
,`. totting labour against those employers who apply it to artificial
! Production ; and for ensuring to the working classes a supply of
- all the necessaries of life, independent of foreign countries or
mercantile speculation." The Hon. Gentleman introjuced
the resolution in a very long speech.
. The resolution was passed.
The Convention then resolved itself into Committee, to take
into consideration the best means of forming the precession to
accompany the National Petition to the House of Commons,
• and strangers were therefore ordered to withdraw.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE JOB.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.
I see that Colonel Fox has a motion on the paper for this
evening relative to the Cape of Good Hope. Will you allow
one, therefore, to direct your attention to one of the many jobs
that are perpetrated, I am afraid, in that forgotten and ne-
",t, Medea colony. Mr. Hume's task, if he resume his old voca-
l` tion of hunting out and exposing jobs, will be immensely aug.
Mented by the labours of his friends when in office; but the
following job is, I believe, a Tory job. Colonel John Bell, C. 8.,
• left the Cape for this country nearly a year ago. He was then
C• olonial Secretary, with a salary of 1,5001. per annum, half of
which goes to the person acting for him. It was understood
When he left the colony that he never would return. At the
late brevet he was made 11.1ajor.General, which incapacitated
him for the situation. Yet he is still, I believe, receiving half
salary, as Colonial Secretary on leave. He holds also, I
believe, a situation in the Queen's household. The act-
jug Secretary is a relation of the Governor, a very
Soong man, and quite unfit for the situation, although a
very amiable person. In such a colony as the Cape,
with a Governor who is a good meaning, but not overwise
Air over-energetic man, a Secretary is a person of great
importance. The greater part of the active affairs of Go-
- lernment rest en his shoulders, and an efficient man ought at
once to be appointed to fill the place which Major-General
Bell cannot again occupy.
";,;,:- By a late Order in Council at the Cape, the duties on im.
: ports have been increased, which will add at least 16,0001. to
, • the revenue. It would not surprise me were an addition made
• to the Cape pension list, which already takes away six per
cent, of the gross revenue, in favour of Major-General Bell.
1- , That he is otherwise provided for, and has no just claims on
' the Cape, only makes the suppo,ition the more feasilile, for
such is generally the case with those for whom the inhabitants
of the Cape are already obliged to provide. These facts may
~' be worth your notice, Mr. Editor, because they are only a
i[11:1„: sample of what occurs in many of the Crown colonies.

SALE AT STRAWLILRRY-HILL.—The sale was re-
framed yesterday The room was well attended, but we observed
rto collectors of any note present. Among the lots which were
t4tlti sharply competed for, and which fetched the best prices, may
kV, be mentioned—Lot. 5. A Godly Meditation en Twenty
yt: select and chosen Psalms, by Sir Anthony Cope, Knt.,
printed at London, by John Day, in black letter 4te, front the
,;5.....! library of King James I. ; and the Court of King James I. 4to,
which was knocked down to Mr. Payne for 11/. Lot. 2. A
-Brief and Pleasant Treatise, by Thomas Flyll, black letter,
1586, and four other black letter tracts, which was purchased
1() Mr. Thorpe for 31. lOs. Lot. 47. Ashmole's Antiquities
)/Berkshire, by the same, 41. Lot. 50. Collin's Peerage of
England, 6 vols. 31. 10s. Lot 59. Aubrey's Natural History
`ii4l . end Antiquities of the county of Surrey, wi h plates, purchased
by Bohn, 13/. 13s. Lot. 166. Histoire Genealogique de la
hlaison de France, and Histoire Gcnealogique de la Maison de
t 4 Itiontmorency, purchased by Thorpe, for Si. Lot. 168. Horace
I,' Wal, ole's Bible, after a lung contention was purchased by a
thz4 gentleman for 31. 12s. This day's sale realised almost to a
1' pound the same sum as that of yesterday, namely, 3701. odd.
Mr. Peacock had succeeded in erecting a,
light-
z
house on the Island of Santa Clara, or Amorlajado, in which
Vi the light was to be permanently fixed on the let of December
1;11 s' last. It was taken oat in pieces, with an ironwork lasthorn,
• end was placed about one-third from the head, showing a fixed
1);, light about 230 feet above the level of the sea, having ten argand
burners, with burnished silver reflectors, visible in every direc-
tion except from N. W. to N. by E., and should a vessel ap-
-1,41 t;t, ?roach too near the island in a southerly direction it would be
)44,11,.;' shut in with the edge of the cliff The most brilliant face ex-
-I,'-t,7, 'tends from W.N. W. to E. N.E. by the South, in which di-
111‘14 teetion it will be seen in c'ear weather from five to six degrees
snyr eft. It bears from the beacon buoy off the Payana shoal W,
411, by N. N. 10 miles, from the south buoy of the Bajo de Mala.
kt.,,L;lrr Arena's Shoal, S. W. by W. 25 miles Punta Espanola is
considered to be a place well rdapted for steamers, or other
tVes:'',elisels getting supplies of fuel and water, which are represented
tObe of the best, description, and expectations were entertaire I
coal existed there, and Mr. Peacock, who appears to be
• an experienced geologist, had pointed out the places in which it
Ras the mere likely to be found, and attempts to di,cov. r it
..Vt4l- were to be made forthwith.
We lament to state that a very unfavourable repo; t
J 14.2 reached us of the health (tithe Bishop of Lichfield.