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to be perfect. For instance, he could not believe that that great
man could ever have intended so to arrange the duties on sugar
that foreigners should send into this country refined sugar at a
price winch our countrymen could not produce it at without an
actual loss. Some one might say that this arose from the fact
that the Dutch gave a bounty for exportation ; but bow cam
that British refiners had been obliged to place their refin
under a bond in order that their goods might be exported
some foreign shore? (Hear.) Why, sim
of being imported here again, from the

produttion, and received here under th
were made for foreigners. (Hear, hear, and lot-id cheer
He was not aware what amount of money the refinerie.
England might ire estimated at, but he knew it would be an
swered that they were all now profitably in full work. He ad
mitted it. They had fonnd nut another plan of working them,
but this did not prove that they could not have found out this
plan previously; hence, if £lO,OOO had been previously in-
vested in sugar refineries, there ought to be now £20,0p0.
(Loud cheers.) He looked upon it that the next general elec-
tion must decide for this gr.at nation whether she should
again be governed upon principle, or whether she must he
sacrificed to the idol of expediency. They had much higher
and loftier objects in view than Free Trade and Protection.
(Cheers.) Their opponents cried aloud for civil and religious
liberty; let their cry also be loud for civil and religious liberty.
(Applause.) Let them show their opponents that, although
their allied strength was composed of a strange admixture of
Popery, infidelity. socinianism, and many other isms, that
their single and united force of genuine protestantism,
having truth for its foundation, would, by the grace

place of their nativ
se very

s which

of God, send to the British senate a large majority of Bible-
lovin..; and God-fearing men. (Loud applause.) This being
the case, they should be freed from the danger of a change in
the just balance of power which at present existed in our
representative system. (Loud and long-continued applause.)

The present Chancellor of the Exchequer lately
to the House of Commons that the present system gave one-
seventeenths in favour of the large towns. Surely, then, if

(Cheers.) The policy adopted by the various ministers who
had been in office in this country from the year 1829 down to
the accession of Lord Derby had tampered with the Church of
Rome, endeavouring to make Papists in loyal subjects of the
crown of Great Britain; but had they known the subtlety of
that church, they never would have been thus deluded.
(Cheers.) Some time ago, when that chtirch sent a tem-
poral prince into this country and placed him over
what ought to have been her Majesty's subjects, Lord John
Russell on the occasion wrote a letter which was worthy of
a true Protestant. (Applause.) He was the means of a cer-
tain course of legislation at that time; but what had become
of that legislation now? The bill then passed had been

allowed to remain dormant, and the very Government which
caused this legislation was challenged by the priests of the
Church of Rome to test the power of their own law.' (Cheers.)

Therefore it was that lie felt they were bound to use all lawful
means to give strength and power to the" present Ministry,
firmly believing that their best efforts would be given to the
maintenance of true Protestant principles, and that they would
see that the laws were respected and enforced. (Loud and
long-continued applause.)
Mr. EDWARD SMITH seconded the resolution. He said he
had not intended, when asked to second the proposition just
submitted, to do anything more than simply to do so; but in-
asmuch as the noble lord at the head of the government was a
large landed proprietor, and as every one-sided free-trader, in
regard to farming, thought that the landlord must help the
farmer, he wished to prove that it was not a rent question, but
that it would eventually be found out to be a question of wages.
Ile illustrated this by showing that the average rent of the
farming land of the entire British Islands was about 255. the
statute acre, and that the average produce in wheat was about
twenty-four bushels to each acre. Up to the one-sided free-trade
times, the farmer, for twenty years previously, received an
average of 60s. per quarter, but since that time he had realized
375. per quarter; consequently there was a loss on the average
rental of 695. per acre. Barley, beans, and oats followed in a
relative proportion. He illustrated the matter thus ; let them
take a farm of 400 acres, and from this take 200 for ;razing,
fattening cattle, Etc. ; the other acres would produce 600
quarters of corn, the loss on which would be, from the old pro:
fits, 690, or .t'l9o above the whole rent. So from this it would
be seen that the landlord could not render sufficient assistance
to the farmer. (Applause.) Let them try to do this—assist
the agriculturists without reimposing the tax on bread ; let
them remove all the taxes that pressed on land. But it was
impossible that we could prosper if twelve millions of people
were put in a state of losing motley. (Cheers.) Ile contended
that this was a wages question, and he thought that Cobden,
Bright, and Co., intended it so to be, and they might have
gained their ends had it not been for the stream of emigration
which was contir.ually flowing. He would take a miller's
example in illustration. They would recollect that Mr.
Samuel Holme mentioned, at the meeting at the Amphitheatre,
the case of Jackson, the miller of Wakefield. Mr. Jackson did
not know how a Frenchman could beat en Englishman In grind-
ing flour, and like an honest fellow went over to France to in-
quire how this was; and lie found that where he was paying a first
stone dresser 255. per week the French men paid 12 francs. Now,
If this was the case, must not wages come down to all intents
and purposes? (Cheers.) He would ask them how they would
like this. (Applause, and cries of " Not at all.") Would the
shipwrights of Liverpool like to come down from 21s. to 13s.
per week? If so, let them go and vote for Cardwell and
Ewart ; if not, for Mackenzie and Turner. (Loud and pro-
longed cheering.)
Mr. ELLIS JONES moved that a vote of thanks be presented
to Mr. Bramley-Moore, for his kindness in taking the chair on
that occasion, and for his nble and masterly exposure of the
misrepresentations lately made by Mr. Cardwell. (Great
applause.) _ _ _

!Ir. BY Bonn seconded the resolution, which was carried by
terrific applause, with only one dissentient.

Mr. BliAmLliv-Mooax thanked the meeting for the honour
just conferred, and for the candid and courteous manner in.
which they had received him that evening. It had ever been
his endeas'our to discharge his duty. to the town of Liverpool,
and when he advocated the claims of Mr. Cardwell he sincerely
believed that he was doing so—(hear, hear)—and he now as
sincerely believed he was oischarging his duty to this great
emporium of commerce by asking them to expel him. (Loud
applause.) The electors of Lime-street ward had been mainly
instrumental in returning Mr. Cardwell to parliament, and
he hoped they would exert the same endeavours to place
Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner in the same proud position.
(Loud applause.) He could not allow them to separate
without saying a word or two in reference to that amiable and
respectable man Sir Thomas Birch. He had never deceived
them, and he could but regard him as an honest, worthy, and
rspectable xentleman. Differing, as he did, in political senti-
ments from him, had he, however, again come forward, he should
have felt it his duty equally to have opposed his return. Let
them unite and go forth into small but compact bands into
every corner of Lime-street Ward, and endeavour to return
their candidates triumphantly.
The meeting, after cheering for the Queen, for Mr. Bramley-
Moore, for Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner, &c., separated
about a quarter after ten o'clock.

EXECUTIONS AT LANCASTER.—At the annual sessions
at Preston, on Wednesday week, it was stated that the
Rey. W. Rowley has filled the office of chaplain at Lan-
cester Castle nearly half R century, and durinz that period
he has attended no less than 168 persons in their last mo-
ments on the drop.

THREE CHILDREN POISONED BY PAINTED CAKE OR.
NA MENTS.-011 Thursday, in London, Mr. Wakley, ALP.,
hell an inquest on the body of Bridget Tyseley, aged four
years, who died from tho effects of poison contained in
some ornaments upon a cake, which she had received as an
Easter present. Two other children belonging to the
same family were also poisoned, but hopes are entertained
of their ultimate recovery. The coroner expressed a hope
that the sale of cakes so ornamented would be put a stop
to, as similar cases had frequently come before him.
Verdict—Accidental death.

GENTIAI4IANLY AMUSEMENT.—At the Marlbro'-street
Police Office, London, on Thursday week, William
Richards and John Case, two "gentlemen," were brought
before Mr. Bingham, charged with beating a cat to death.
Freeman, C IS, stated that that morning, about three
o'clock, he was on duty in New Bond-street, when he saw
the defendants run after a cat, and beat it with their
walking sticks till it was dead. The witness immediately
went up and took them into custody. The defendants did
not deny the charge, and said that the persons who
brought them up did not teach them killing a cat was an
act of cruelty. Mr. Bingham severely censured the de-
fendants upon the wanton act of cruelty they had been
guilty of,• and fined them £3 each. The money was
immediately paid.

MURDER BT A 1301%-A murder has been committed
at Outwell, a village near. Lynn, in Norfolk, by a boy of
thirteen, who, whilst engaged on Sunday week with two
others, aged—nine and seven, in " crow-scaring," made
allusion to something which he had said in their presence
on a former day, adding, that if he knew they mentioned
it to any one he would kill them. The youngest boy
seems to have been frightened at this declaration. for in a
tearful mood he replied, " What shall Ido then ? I told
my mother last night." Upon hearing this admission,
the eldest boy raised a gun he had with him to the fore-
head of the speaker, pulled the trigger, and by the explo.
sion shattered his skull and spread his brains over the
field. The gun. it is said, contained no shot, but the
wadding passed completely through the head of the poor
little fellow who bad made the imprudent confession.
Frightened at the act which ho had, committed, the
murderer prevailed upon his companion to promise
secrecy, and to assist him to dispose of the body, which
was done by dragging it to a dry ditch, where it was
carefully buried. The two boys then returned to the
spot where their companion had been shot, and, gathering
up his brains and the shattered fragments of his skull,
they threw them into his cap. After this, they kindled a
fire of turf (the field being in the fens), upon which they
placed the cap, which they watched until, with its con-
tents, it was entirely consumed. Upon their return home,
the younger boy, on being questioned of his missing
companion, confessed.
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TRAFFIC RCTURNS.—The traffic returns for the week
ending the 11th instant, on the undermentioned English
lines of railway, are as follows : 1852. 1851.
London and North Western £42,320 .. £43,856
Midland . ....... 22,094 .. 20,674
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,405 .. 15,610
London and South Western. ...
London and Brighton 10,613 .. 8,869
Great Western .... ..
South Eastern . _
_...

York and North Midland

ifaii-clTe-s-., Sheffield , & Lincolnshire 7,139

7,187
6,317
3,957
13.196

Bristol and Exeter
York, Newcastle, and Berwick.... 14,410
Shrewsbury and Chester ....... 1,665 ~
Shrewsbury and Birmingham.... 739
Eastern Counties and Norfolk 15,077
Great Northern
Chester and Holyhead
North Staffordshire ....
Leeds Northern 1,006 ..
South Devon.
South Wales.. ..
The total receipts on the above lines being £209,661
against £191,022 in the corresponding week of last year,
the increase is shown to be £18,639. The number of
miles open on the above lines was, in 1852, 4,224, and
in 1851, 4,1171, showing an increase of 1061 miles.
QUICK PASSAGE OF AN AMERICAN CLIPPER SHIP
FROM CIIINA.—A large American clipper-built ship,
named the Witch of the Wave, Captain Millett, com-
mander, has recently arrived in the East India Docks,
London, from Canton, having made one of the most ex.
traordinary and rapid voyages on record. She is nearly
1.40€1 tons butthen, and was built at Salem, near
York, in the course of last year. She proceede
fornia, thence to Hone. Kong, and sailed from Whampoa,

540
13,440
8,604
2,289

)ceeded to Cali

near Canton, on the sth of January;. made the passage to
Java-head in 7 days and 12 hours, then had the wind
W.S.W. to N.W. for several days, with light trade wind,
and made the Cape in 29 days. Then encountered
easterly winds from the Western Islands, and toe'
off the Dungeness on the 4th of April, makin,
from China to the Downs in 90 days, a tr.
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338. Ea iles.-7Ymes.