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He was then asked whether he was a follower of Dr.
Pusey ?
He replied that he was neither a follower of Dr. Pusey
nor any other man. (Oh ! and laughter.)
Did you vote for the Maynooth grant?
Pursuant to requisition, an aggregate -meeting of the No answer.
Conservative burgesses of the borough was held at twelve Did you vote for Watson's bill, that 'would have per-
o'clock'on Tuesday, at the Amphitheatre, for the purpose mitted the influx of the Jesuits.—the carrying of the
of hearing Sir Digby Mackworth and Lord John Manners Host through the streets on Corpus Christi and other
declare their principles. The meeting was well attended, holydays, that would have revoked the .statute of mort-
every part of the building being crowded to excess. On main, and allowed persons on their death-beds to alienate
the platform there appeared a good assemblage of the their property from their families and creditors, and
leading Conservatives of the town. Shortly after twelve place it at the disposal of Roman Catholic bishops and
o'clock Sir Digby made his appearance, when he was re- priests ?
ceived with three cheers, and repeated rounds of. Kentish Lord JOHN replied that he had voted for Mr. Watson's
fire. He was immediately followed by Lord Ja Manners, bill, but that the provisions of that bill were very much
who was also warmly received by the meeting. When misunderstood. It contained no provisions for permitting
silence was restored, EDMUND MoLYNEux, Esq., was Roman Catholic processions through the streets, but it
called to the chair. did provide that persons might, three months prior to their
The CHAIRMAN introduced Sir Digby Mackworth to decease, leave their property for charitable purposes ; and
the meeting in the most flattering terms. he had abundance of information to show that many cha-
Sir Many MAcxwoRTH then came to the front of the rities had suffered to the extent of thousands of pounds by
platform, and said that before coming forward as a candi- no such provision having existed ; nay, he could point to
date two questions had been put to him by those who one instance in Liverpool in which an institution had ma-
brought him there, to which he had already given an terially suffered in consequence. He had always been in
explicit answer, which answer he would again repeat. favour of the removal of the pains, penalties, and disabili-
The questions were, whether he would give an assurance ties, under which the Roman Catholics laboured, and he
~ ~_ . r.thnti,• should continue to act upon the same principle, and re-

POLITICAL MEETINGS.

MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIVES. AT THE AMPIII-

to oppose all further endowment o_
clergy, and whether he would pledge himself to oppose
all attempts which might be made for the abrogation of
the Navigation Laws. Both of these questions he had
pledged himself to oppose, and he would oppose them,
when brought before parliament, if he had the honour of
being returned as their representative. (Cheers.) On
the subject of the Navigation Laws, he believed that by
them their commercial marine and the navy of the king-
dom had been raised to their present high position.
(Cheers.) They had, in his opinion, created a vast
amount of work and employment for the labouring
classes, and therefore should be supported. (Loud cheers.)
As the question of free trade was connected with the Na-
vigation Laws, he would next allude to it. He was
friendly to freedom of trade—(hear, hear, and cheers)—
so far as their peculiar position, as a nation, would allow
of it. (Cheers.) He was desirous that they should com-
pete with all other nations in manufactures, arts, and MR. CARDWELL IN LIME-STREET WARD.
sciences ; but at the same time he was desirous of pro- On Wednesday evening, a meeting of the electors of
moting the comforts of the industrial classes, and would Lime-street Ward was held at the York Hotel.
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therefore do all in his power to protect their interests. On Bramley-Moore, alderman of the ward, took the chair, in
the currency question he thought some alterations might he his capacity of alderman. Mr. Cardwell was well received.
made, by which the bank, on an emergency like the pre- In the course of an able speech he said be had already
sent, would be able to issue an increase of notes in pro- spoken of the honour apd the excellence of the gentlemen
portion to the amount of gold which they retained. who were his competitors for the great honour of repre-
(Cheers.) He declared himself an advocate for the gene- senting this large constituency ; but there was a circum-
ral system of taxation, but he was opposed to some of the stance connected with two of them which lie did not dis-
details of the present system. (Hear.) He was opposed tinctly understand. (Hear.) He (Mr. Cardwell) stood
to the window tax, and also to the tax on tea. (Cheers.) before the electors as an independent candidate for their
With reference to the Poor Law Amendment Act, he independent suffrages. (Applause.) He should like to
would say. that he should never support any law, the ask whether the other candidates came forward in the
principle of which went to separate man and wife, nor same position. (Hear.) He should like to meet toem
would he support any law by which outdoor relief could upon public occasions' to address the same audience, to
not be granted to the poor. (Cheers and Kentish fire.) deal with the same topics, to be judged there and then by
He would, if returned as their representative, support, the mode in which they handled any particular subject,
in the most cordial manner, every effor lfir the passing and to leave it to the decision of the meeting which they
of the Health of Towns Bill. (Cheers.) He was also would choose. (Great applause.) By some circumstance
friendly to the extension of the franchise to the late dis- which he (Mr. Cardwell) could not understand, that lati-
franchised freemen. (Loud cheers.) On the subject of tude had not been afforded to him. (Hear, hear.) He
education he would advocate no system which had not did not know whether any of the candidates were in what
the Bible for its basis. (Cheers.) And he was for ex- was generally called a coalition one with the other.
tending the education of the Bible to all classes of his (" No, no," and "Yes, yes ;it was perfectly understood.")
Roman Catholic brethren. If they returned him to par- He did not think it was perfectly understood ; but he had
liament. he would support all these measures to the best seen it stated in the newspapers that at least one of the
of his ability, and he trusted he would ever be found sup- candidates had emphatically denounced it. (Hear,
porting all that was consistent in principle, in politics and hear.) He (Mr. Cardwell) knew the opinions of boa
religion. (Cheers.) With respect to the Irish priesthood of them, and he could not for his life understand how
he was wholly and heartily averse to any endowment of a they should embark in the same boat. (Hear and ap-
religion which, while he loved the members of it indivi- plause.) An ingenious Welshman was once called upon to
dually, he believed to be most tyrannical to the dignity find a parallel between Macedon and Monmouth. How to
of man, and which was the most conducive to temporal find out a resemblance between them was at first exceed-
and spiritual tyranny of every kind. (Cheers.) He be- ingly difficult ; but his ingenuity at length found one point
lieved that the principles of the Church of Rome—and in union,—that the names of both places began with an
he was sorry to say some members of a party of his own M (laughter and applause). Now he (Mr. Cardwell)
Church—led directly to the establishment of every species thought the only point of union between his two competi-
of temporal and religious tyranny and thraldom. (-Cheers.) tors was to be found in the same fact, that their names
He was an advocate for the civil and religious liberty of both began with an M (laughter). The honourable gen-
all classes of his fellow-countrymen, but especially the tleman then referred to the speech of Lord George Ben-
Roman Catholics. (Cheers, and Kentish fire, in the tinck in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, in which
midst of which Sir Digby retired.) he dwelt upon a subject to which he (Mr. Cardwell had
Lord JOHN MANNERS then came forward, and, as in had the honour of adverting. He had told them that within
his previous address, avowed himself to be, without any the last six years seven millions of taxes had been taken
disguise, a Tory. (Cheers, mingled with hisses.) He off the revenue, which notwithstanding was greater than
then proceeded to define what he considered to be the es- before (applause). Now, this had been exceedingly un-
sential principles of Toryism—the first of which was a pleasant intelligence to Lord George Bentinck. He said
devoted attachment to the church ; the second, unswerv- the person who found it out must have been a political
ing loyalty to the Queen ; thirdly, the maintenance of the conjuror; and that the information was extremely likely
rights of all classes of the community • and, fourthly, an to do mischief on the eve of a general election, and he was
' afraid that if the electors remained under such

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move any disabilities, if any such existed, under which
Protestant dissenters
.might labour (hisses and applause).
Did you call the priests of Rome " those holy priests of
good, sole types of God on earth" ?
No answer.—(Hisses.)
Will you repeal the Game Laws ?"
Lord JOHN said he had ever been a sincere admirer of
the fine old English sports of this country, and that he re-
gretted similar sports did not exist in other lands.
Mr. PROCTOR moved, and Mr. MUNCASTER seconded,
a resolution to the effect that Lord John was a fit and pro-
per person to represent [" Yes, to; represent Maynootli"
—loud laughter] the borough of Liverpool in Parliament.
On the putting of the resolution a great number of hands
were held up against it, but it was declared to be carried
by a majority, and the crowd dispersed.

anxious aesire to roster, to promote, and to protect the
social, the moral, and the religious welfare and well-being
of all classes in the empire. (Applause.) With respect
to the first of these points, he congratulated the meeting
upon the proud position which the Church of England
now occupied. She was nobly fulfilling her duty, and
gathering into her fold thousands of outcasts at home, and
numbers of heathen abroad. It had been said that he was
an unworthy member of the Church of England, because
he would not consent to denounce his Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects. It had also been said that he belonged
to a party in the Church who sought to introduce radical
changes in her doctrines and constitution. (Hear, hear.)
But he was born in the bosom of the Church, in her
bosom he hoped to die, and neither by thought, word, or
deed, did he wish to introduce any change into her princi-
ples, to impose any new rites and ceremonies upon her, or
to violate, in the remotest degree, any one of her received
principles, ceremonies, and institutions. With respect to
the second point, unswerving loyalty to the crown : in

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an impression, the next parliament would be as bad as
the last (laughter and applause). Now, Lord George
had discovered that the taxes had been taken off •
certain number of articles, and that these articles
bad not contributed more to the revenue than before
(laughter). It would have been a very strange thing if
they had. Considering they had taken off all the duty on
cotton, it would be an uncommonly strange thing if that
article had contributed more to the revenue than
it did before. But what was the use of taking the duty
off the raw material, cotton ? Why, to promote the cot-
ton manufactures : and it was well known that the work-
men in cotton manufactories would spend their wages in
tea and other taxed articles, and therefore the revenue
upon them would increase. Was that a matter of asto-
nishment ? He should have thought it was the mere AB C
to people who had seriously dealt with those subjects.
One of the things upon which the duty had increased was
bricks (laughter, and a cry of " There's nothing like a

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these days it was not necessary to say much upon that
subject, but should the day ever come when socialism or
republicanism raised their hideous fronts in this our fa-
voured country, then the spirit of ancient Toryism would
awake to defend the rights and privileges of the English
monarch. ',Loud cheers.) The noble lord then pro-
ceeded to congratulate the people of Liverpool upon the
passing of the Ten Hours Bill ; but there were still other
classes who required similar support and assistance. The
drapers already enjoyed the great boon, but the harness
makers and saddlers were still in want of sufficient time
to attend to their social and religious welfare. He trusted
no appeal to parliament would be necessary ; but, if so, the
question would receive his warmest support. The next
topic touched upon by the noble lord, was the present sys-
tem of taxation, and he frankly avowed that he considered

brick.") Now, the tax had not been taken off them, 1
they had taken the duty off foreign timber, which increa

the use of colonial timber, and also of bricks, so that there
the revenue was increased (hear, hear.) Lord George
also said that there had been an increase of £400,000 from
the Post-office, and he supposed none of the duties which
were taken off cotton, wool, or timber had anything to do
with that. But the revenue of the post-office was derived
from letters, principally about commercial transactions,
and in proportion as the charges upon these articles
were diminished, commercial transactions increased,
and there was a consequent increase in the stamps and
taxes (applause). Now, he thought these things were
perfectly intelligible, though it appeared they were not so
to Lord George Bentinck. Well, this same great autho-
rity, who he was told was to be Chancellor of the Exche

the present system of taxation and excise to be exceed-
ingly objectionable and injurious ; and he was desirous to
see a remission of the duty on tobacco, tea, and other ar-
ticles. The diminution of the duty on tea especially
would open up a very beneficial trade with China. The
Bank Charter Bill was next alluded to, and the noble can-
didate expressed his determination to support the amend-
ments which were likely to be proposed upon that mea-
sure by practical men, in the next session of parliament,
In reference to the Navigation Laws, he expressed his un-
willingness to consent to their abrogation, and in conclu-
sion recommended the electors to rally round those men
who would not shrink from the arduous task of defending
the great and venerated institutions of the country.
(Great cheering.) The noble lord then retired, but like
his gallant predecessor, was reminded that he omitted to
allude to a very important topic—the endowment of the
Roman Catholic church. To such a measure he said he
would give his strenuous resistance ; but at the same time
he would give an impartial consideration to any measure

,(laughter)—said, " Oh, it's all owing to the har-
Sir R. Peel had always capital harvests, and that
is why he was able to take off the taxes." But Sir
Charles Wood had a bad harvest, and the potato crop
completely failed ; but had the revenue fallen off ? No ;
for from the return of the 6th of July, there appeared to
be an increase in the revenue, notwithstanding the bad
harvest, of £2,6oo,ooo—(great applause)—and the in-
crease was derived to the extent of £1,800,000 from arti-
cles consumed amongst the industrial classes. That was
not owing to a good harvest, but to the judicious relaxa-
tions which had been made, by which the people had
been enabled to spend more money on taxed articles.
(Hear.) He (➢7r. Cardwell) could not avoid noticing the
concluding portion of Lord George Bentinck's speech, in
which he quotes a few lines from Prior, about the fly on
the coach wheel, which said, as it went along the road,

" what a dust do

Now, he hac

listened to the long

speeches c

be comparee

which was intended to ameliorate the conditiOn of the I the noble lord, who called out about the dust he ;raised,
Roman Catholic people. (Applause.) If he should find I while he contributed nothing to the motion of the coach.
it his duty to support any such measure against the wishes (Applause.) But talking of flies, he might be permitted
of his constituents, be would follow the example of his to use another simile—
no) ' ' Ashl. - I resign - • he " A snail and a tortoise are not very ni,;-'

Joie triend, Lord Asutey, and resign a post whiei.
could no longer hold with satisfaction to them, or honour
to himself. (Great cheering.)
There were then loud cries for Mr. Horsfall or Mr. S.
llolme, but neither of those gentlemen made his appear-
ance, and the proceedings were declared to be at an end.

A fly in a glue-pot is slow, Sir

But of all the slow creatures thaterer could crawl,"

—You must fill in the name, gentlemen, but the verse
ends—" is the slowest I know, sir !" (Laughter and ap-
plause.)

On Wednesday evening, two Conservative Ward Meet-
ings were held at the Phoenix Inn, Mount-pleasant. Sir
u. Mackworth addressed the electors at 7 o'clock from one
ows:
aiflao,
:of
dgd3t
g2I battles and was in
fiHewould do allni his la in reply to questions pe,vreiterated most of his principles,
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of:
the adt
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g,e abolitionnali had
eerlaitwi been
cessf,
in all their integrity, and to discountenance Puscyism. He
stated that he had been personally canvassing for the last
two days and had only met with four refusals.—Lord John
Manners reiterated his principles at nine o'clock, and was
asked a great number of questions. He promised, as he
did at the Amphitheatre, to consider any propositions
which might be submitted relative to the endowment of
the Irish priesthood, and lie objected, as before, to endow
them out of the funds of the Established Church, or out
of the national funds. He would uphold the universities,

At the conclusion of his speech, several questions were
put to Mr. Cardwell, which he answered promptly and
candidly.

Mr. REYNOLDS said he wished to ask their future mem-
ber—for that he had no doubt he would be—whether he
would extend the blessings of education to every creed ?
_ Mr. CARDWELL said that, if there was one thing more

than another which he held to conduce to the advancing
prosperity of this great country, it was the extension to
every living bein,, of the inestimable blessings of educa-
tion. - (Applause.) He thought it his duty to add, that
wherever they could extend the blessings of religious with
secular education, it was of the utmost importance that
they should not fail in, this cardinal duty. (Hear, hear.)
I f there were any classes who differed so widely from us
that we found it impossible to deal with them in the mat-
ter of religious education, he knew not why in the world
we should prevent their extending to them the blessings
of that other, though inferior education in which they with
us, as common subjects of a gracious Queen, have a com-

point. He denied that he was a follower of Dr. Pusey or
of any other man. He explained at some length the pro-
visions of Mr. Watson's Bill, and said there was much
misconception abroad on that subject. He was for re-
moving the pains and penalties under which the Roman
Catholics and Protestant Dissenters labour; and he would
never be fet erect from expressing his unbiassed opinions
on any subject which might come before the Legislature,
howeVer distasteful to many these opinions might.be. The
answers were received with applause, mingled with hisses,
and cries of "Maynooth." Eventually, upon the motion
of Mr. Procter, seconded by Mr. Muncaster, a resolution
was passed by no means unanimously, that he was a fit
and proper person to represent the borough in parliament.

mon interest. (Loud and long-continued cheering.)
There were no more questions put, and Mr. CARDWELL
then said he hoped he might rest satisfied that he had

been neither slow nor indistinct in h
Three times three cheers were then proposed, and given
for Mr. Cardwell.

CARDWELL AND THE NAVIGATION LAWS

On Friday afternoon, a meeting of gentlemen, princi-
pally connected with the shipping interests of Liverpool,
was held at the office of Mr. North, in Exchange-alley, to
meet E. Cardwell, Esq., and to ascertain his sentiments
upon the Navigation Laws. The meeting was very fully
attended, and among the.gentlemen present we noticed
Messrs. Win. Potter, T. Bold, Fisher, Wynne, Sir Thos.
Brancker, J. Nelson Wood, Yates, Mann, Rankin, Clay-
pole, Houghton, Clint, Tyrer, &e. &c. W. J. Lockett,
Esq., was called to the chair, and after introducing Mr.
Cardwell to the meeting, said that
that gentleman had
kindly consented to meet them upon the interesting sub-
ject of the Navigation Laws, and he trusted that nothing
which (lid not concern them would be mentioned.
Mr. CARDWELL thanked the meeting for their atten-
tion, and stated that he would give his opinions, and an-
swer' any questions .with plainness,
.It was his duty to

attach much more importance to their opinion upon Such
a subject than they could attach to his. He begged to
assure them that he held no opinions hostile to the Navi-
gation-laws ; if any one stated that he did, they were in
error. He then gave a short history of the laws, and stated
that he would not go to parliament pledged either to alter
or to maintain them. If a change was proposed in the
Navigation-laws, he should first take them into consider-
ation, then confer with his constituents, and vote accord-
ing to the best of his judgment; and lie could not bring
himself to believe that his final judgment could be found
in hostility with that of his constituents, if ever lie had the
honour of representing them. As member for Liverpool,
he would have, if unplcdged, more than ordinary influence
in the house; and if a committee were formed upon the
Navigation-laws, he would certainly be a member of it,
and would attend to its duties without any previous pre-
possession.
A long conversation then took place upon some ship-
ping returns of the Board of Trade ; but as Mr. Cardwell
said. he knew nothing more of them than any gentlemen

present, he could. give' no definite opinion upon them.
Several gentlemen attempted to get a more explicit an-
swer from Mr.- Cardwell as to what he would do if a
change in the Navigation-laws was proposed, and Mr.
Cardwell said he.did not approve of any plan for their
abrogation, that he. did not contemplate any change at all,
and that he did not see any necessity for Mr. Ricardo's
committee on the subject.
One gentleman said that he understood from a friend
who had been present at nineteen sittings of the commit-
tee upon the the Nivigation Laws. and from what he
heard and saw, he thought, that Sir Robert Peel was in
favour of altering them. Now, he wished to know if
Mr. Cardwell's opinions coincided with Sir R. Peel's ?
Mr. Cardwell, in reply, said that as he did not know Sir
R. Peel's opinions on the subject, he could not answer

the question-.
Many other questions upon sul

the shipping interests were pu

Is connected with
2artiwell by gentle-

men present.
The Chairman then thanked Mr. Cardwell for his
tendance, and the meeting separated.

MEETING OF SIR THOMAS BIRCH'S FT

,NDS AT THI

AMPHITHEARE, YESTERDAY.
A. meeting of the Liberal party was held yester

the Amphitheatre, at twelve o'clock at noon, for the pur-
pose of promoting the return of Sir Thomas B. Birch,
Bart. The meeting was attended by a large body of the
working classes, including. a sprinkling of the Liberal
broadcloth. We noticed oil the platform a tolerably full
attendance of the usual leaders of the party. A little
after the hour appointed; anclwhen the dinner hour having
arrived, the working men had got seated, Mr. Wm. Earle
was called upon to take the chair and to introduce the
subject of the meeting, which he did in his usual strain ;
after which Sir T. B. Birch came forward to address the
meeting, a party having previously created a slight inter-
ruption, by inquiring if any question might be asked of
him, which was replied to by the chairman in the negative.
As soon as the applause with with which Sir T. B. was
received had subsided, the honourable baronet proceeded
to expatiate upon the services which the community had
received from the Liberal party, as compared with 'those
to which his opponents belonged. His first subject would
be that of taxation ; and he objected principally to the
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window tax as unjust and oppressive

stitute for it a probate tax upon I
returned he would endeavour to get su

i a tax removed

and teazing, and calculated to cramp the enter-prise of
trade. Owing to the large amount which they produce,
however, it would be only possible to remove them gra-

' order, followed in order of time respectively by the Bac-
chante,..Water Wyvern, Prima Donna, and Enigma (close
together), and the Gem. We have not space to notice all
the evolutions and changes in the push back to the Buoy
and out again to the Northwest Lightship, and must con-
tent ourselves with merely stating that first-rate naval
tactics were displayed in the sailing of the whole fleet.
They rounded the outer Lightship the second and last
time, as follows, rejecting fractional seconds :
Vision 48 m. past 3 o'clock ;
Victoria 3 m. past 4 o'clock ;
m. past 4 o'clock ;
141 m. past 4 o'clock ;
211 m. past 4 o'clock ;
21m. past 4 o'clock;
911,1. mast 4 o'clock ;

dually, by devoting to their removal any surplus revenu,
we might have. With respect to the endowment of the
Roman Catholic clergy, he did not think the present or
any ministry had an idea of such a measure, which was
absurd, inasmuch as the people refused to give it and the
priests to receive it. He did not think either that endow-
ments to religious bodies by the state were desirable. Sir
Thomas approved of the Government system of education,
and characterised the voluntary system of education as a
total failure. (Considerable uproar by a body of dissent-
ers in the boxes and gallery.) Sir Thomas proceeded tc
combat some of the objections used against the me -
and was retiring, amid loud applause, when he was re-
minded that he had not referred to the Navigation Laws,
upon which he stated that having spoken twice upon the
subject, and having to answer some questions upon those
laws that night he hoped he might be now excused.
A PARTY in the pit asked Sir Thomas's opinion as to
the rate paying clauses of the Reform act, but was pat
, down by the meeting.

Mr. CARTER, haircutter, amidst much confusion, was
invited upon the platform to ask a few questions ; one cc
these was, what was the opinion of Sir Thos. Birch as to
Mr. Watson's bill for the repeal of the Roman Catholic
disabilities.

Sir T. BIRCH' as not in favour of the continuation of
those disabilities ; but he would pledge himself to no-
thing. _ _ _

THORNLEY, M.P., explained to the ,meeting the
objects of the bill, and stated that he had voted for it ;

:here were

Sir Thomas would vole for every measur

'ecting civil

and religious liberty.
Sir Tilos. BIRCH did not like any gentleman to speak
for him. He should vote for the bill.
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., then presented himself, and was
received with great cheering, to move a vote of confidence
in Sir Thomas Birch, of whom he entertained the highest
opinions. He had to charge him, however, with having,
from his retiring character, hitherto concealed his merit
from the world. Mr. Brown then proceeded to describe
the provisions of the Passengers' Act, one of the most
obnoxious clauses of which he assisted in defeating during
the past session, although it unfortunately passed ulti-
mately in a very oppressive shape to the Bril ish' ship-
owner. After a few remarks upon the Education ques-
tion, Mr. Brown concluded by calling for three cheers for
Sir Thomas, who he honed would be at the head of the Poll.

The motion was seconded by

Mr. THORNELY, M.P., who appealed to the electors as
to the importance of Liverpool. doing its duty at the pre-
HP 4.1 r TITO.C.II himself as ennvinre,rl thnt nn

Enigma ....
Prima Donna

Wy v ern

They had all to beat in,

nnirgr, f

m. past 4 o'clock.
m the Light Ship to the

The Vision, in running home, had it all her own
id, after passing the Bell Buoy, bore away at a

with a: flowing sheet

The. Coming in at the

44m. past 6 o'clock

abroeation of the Navigation Laws would take place, but
he believed thatthey must be reformed. After a few words
in eulogy of Mr. Cardwell as a second candidate, Mr.