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look to what then happened as the origin of something like
confidence in each other, whereas previously we had often

been at variance.
From the time

sentiments are said to have been ex-

Williams's arrival here
sen and these were :!et

'it, one, by the magistrates ins

governor apologiiing to me; the Other, by the magistrates
reprimanding Mr. Batcheldor on their proceedings. Even
these skirmishes, as one witness calls them, did not interrupt
during 24 hours our acting in willing concord with each
other.

Thus, then, whether prisoners, junior officers, or senior be
considered, no evil resulted, but much good. No evil speech
could therefore have been delivered. An infallible teacher
has said "Ye 'shall know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles ? Even so every
good tree briugeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit, nor can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them."

(To be continued.)

MEETING OF TIIE LIVERPOOL ANTI-CORN-
LAW ASSOCIATION.

The Music Hall was filled on Wednesday evening by a
large number of persons calling themselves the members of

had been called together for the purpose of petitioning the
legislature for a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws,
and also to address the electors of Walsall in favour of Mr.
J. B. Smith, the " anti-corn-law" candidate for the repre-
sentation of that borough.

Sir JOSHUA W A TIAL F,Y was called to the chair. He
opened the proceedings by observing that he appeared before
them at the request of their provisional committee, and that

he would have great pleasure upon taking the chair upon one
condition—namely, that he should, for the time being, be
the autocrat of the evening, that his decision should be termed
fina

hould cont

themselves solely

to the business for which they were convened, and not enter
into any extraneous matter. (Hear, hear.) He considered
the subject totally distinct from party politici, and under-
stood that there were numbers of individuals either then in
the room, or to be present, who differed with him and many
others upon party politics : but, on the present subject, they
would have no difference of opinion that evening. He be-

lieved the party who now stood forward to represent Wal
was the sincere advocate of free trade in every respect.
(Sir Joshua) had known him for many years. He was a re-
tired merchant, was perfectly conversant with mercantile
affairs, had devoted his time, talents, and money to what he
considered the best interests of his fellow-men, without the
slightest reference to self-intereSt. It was to him (Sir Joshua)
a source of the highest gratification to see the industrious
classes rousing themselves at the present time to a sense of
what was due to themselves on the great, important, and
vital
,question of the corn laws: He considered this to be
the question of questions. Household suffrage, vote by bal-
lot, and all those other questions which had distracted the
community for so long a period, fell into utter insignificance
compared with the great question of free trade, which came
home to the hearts, the feelings, aye, and to the interests of
every man before him. (Cheers.) The corn laws had enhanced
the price of food, :Ind obliged the community to pay almost
double for the necessaries of life; for the price of corn, in-

stead of being, as it now was, 60s. and 70s. per quarter, would,
with a free trade, be down to 40s. The present laws had in-
duced the sovereigns of almost all nations to put restrictions
on English commerce and manufactures, which produced
competition in the labour market, reduced the price of wages,
made half the people to live on potatoes, kept their children
from education, produced crime and misery, and filled the
gaols witl► victims. All this was to be attributed to the laws

the legislature had doomed the people to suffer under. Why,
then, he asked, should the producers of wealth for ever be
the poor of , the land ? (Loud and long-continued hurrahs,
with cries of " Bravo, bravo.") The chairman then went
ma to say that the repealers of the corn laws meant not to
h national faith or national honour, as their op-
after which, he stated that the difference in
r, which was allowed to come into

interfere

ponents alleged

pri
this country at only 245. per cwt., and foreign sugar
per cwt., went into the pockets of the West India planters,
to whom England had already given twenty millions of mo-
ney: Every farthing of this, which was but a second edition
Of the corn laws, was paid by the people. The fact was the
same with regard to coffee. Colonial coffee came into this

STEAM NAVIGATION.
THE SCREW PROPELLER v. PADDLE-WHEELS

Under this head, we find a well pi

number of The 87.-ist,

serveuly popular in the

led article in the first

It may be surmised, the facts and lirgum.ents adduced relate
to what may be termed the splendid success of Mr. F. P.
Small's admirable invention for the propulsion of steam-
-nd ingenious application cf the
.ty exhibited in the Archimedes,
machinery, and performances of

ships, by
Archimed

a vessel,

an entirely new

he constructs

noticed at con-
r. Sthith in his

•
which while she was at this port last year, v_ _
siderable length, after having accompanied M
experimental trips on the Mersey. • The Archimedes has
since performed a number of highly successful voyages, par-
ticularly one to Lisbon ; and though she is by no means pos-
sessing that perfection in construction which experience will
enable the inventor to arrive at in vessels to which the screw
may be hereafter applied, has•already established a reputation
which has given pause to those who have hitherto regarded

contact with the water, and will doubtless induce proprietors
of new steamers,-in the exercise of a wise direction, to weigh
well the advantages held out by the screw, as compared with

The writer of the article alluded to introduces the subject
by some pertinent remarks on the extreme caution with which

the public appear disposed to yield any meed of praise to Mr.
Smith's invention, even after its great and acknowledged
success, and the reluctance shewn to diverge from the beaten
track by the builders of nev

and thus proceed

or less interested in
we presume that some account of the Ar
pert7-irmances will not be unacceptable to our reader
as the writer of t

Ns we are all me

navigatic

limedes and hei.

.1f travelled sou

opportuilities of acquiring- much general nautical infora
tion, his obsert...:— will not be

,ions proba

" Every one, we believe, on seeing a steam-vessel of the
usual construction for the first time, with her huge and un-
sightly paddle-boxes, is struck with the awkwardness of her
appearance. He feels a conviction that these monstrous
protuberances, destroying the otherwise beautiful symmetry
of her proportions, are a deformity ; and that the vessel is
not in that state of perfection, as regards her exterior, which
the invention will ultimately admit of : but those only who

have been at sea on board such a vessel, in bad weather and
head winds, can be conscious of all the evils and inconveni-
ences attached to them. That in such cases the paddle-
boxes offer considerable resistance to the wind, and propor-
tionately retard the progress of the vessel, is self-evident ;
but the worst is, that the sea often breaks upon them with
crashing violence, chokes up the paddle-wheels, paralyses
for an instant the whole machinery, and causes the entire

away, carrying with them pasengers and cattle ;—(many of
onr readers will remember the case of the Albion off Lundy,
about five years ago ;)—indeed, we have ourself more than
once been in storms when a portion of the paddle-boxes was
shattered ; and .our only surprise has been that the vessel
continued to. go ahead at all, against the hold which both
wind and sea appeared to take of them.

To remedy these. serious disadvantages, scientific men
„o_zted various substitutes, at different times. It
was even proposed (and we believe experiments were made

have 'sug

lume of steam issuing from the stern under water; but to
this plan many objections presented themselves, exclusive of
the necessity for obtaining a counteracting power for stop-
ping and backing. Among other improvements, the screw
also was mentioned ; but the difficulty of applying

it, and

the impression that in a yielding medium, like water, sufh-

idea generally to be abandoned ; nor was it without a long
course of earnest and intense application, a tedious variety

of experiments. and a very considerable expenditure of mo-
ney, that Mr. F. P. Smith was enabled eventually to bring
his invention before the public in its present efficient and
admirable state."

The build, construction, engines, &c. of the Archimedes
arc thus noticed; but, as we furnished a description of these
in July last, we pass to the subsequent remarks
" We shall now proceed to point out to our readers wild
we conceive to be the advantages of Mr. Smith's invention
over the old plan. For our part, we consider it of very

enterprise disconcerted, or "vested interests
but the humblest iudi

' molested ;
claim, paramount

fo either, on the consideration of a

diate interfereiice would, perhaps, be premature and un-
just; but the public would not be unreasonable in expect-
ing. that from and after a date to be fixed on, no steamer

should be allowed to approach within four or five miles
of London Bridge, under the action of side paddle-wheels;
and a similar regulation, adapted to local circumstances, will,
we doubt not, eventually obtain at all other steam-packet
stations. The great caution exercised in our own river,
(frequently attended with no little delay,) renders accident
here of more rare occurrence; but, commercially speaking,
we are in still greater need of a substitute for wide-spread-
ing .paddle-wheels, on account of the narrowness of our
river, and the entrance to our docks

That oar Great Wes-
lould be among the

tern Steam Company,
earliest to appreciate Mr. Smith's plan, on a magnificent
scale, will surprise no one who is aware of what they had
previously accomplished ; and we cordially congratulate
them on their spirited determination to be the first to sur-
pass themselves. The same wisdom and sagacity which has
already enabled them to obtain the confidence of the public,