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ARRIVAL OE THE CHINEs. -
Her Majesty's ship Blonde, Captain Sir
rived at Portsmouth on Friday last from China,
..ed Sycee -,-- amount of 3,000,000 of nu,.
Ihe Blonde is the third ship tha , ..„,,,,ht to this county

board Sycee

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a freight of this de
Majesty's Treasury
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by the s

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silver brought by the
the Mint on Frida:

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int Association
.ted as little at

hallsiin London, but when t

of mleeting it did not hire 6,

on his

country

ow, and established wished to show by proof was that his labours were not, as
- man. They asserted, in a worse situation in point of education and corn-
-, 94,g fort than the labourers of any other part of England. He
' labourers were in a better condition
in any other parts of the country. He had heard that
—gees, and he hoped they would continue, were paid
He only intended to show
It situation which the hon. member

I in other portions of the country

't had declared them to be

ILLEGALITY OF THE LEAGUE

(From the Speech of Mr. Bankes, M.P.)
The government were no doubt aware that the Anti-Corn-
- ;r they had not absolutely set the law at de-
n-, that it required a very nice discri-
1. or no they had already overstepped
The league were to try a large expe-
The hon. member for Stockport would
's speech—he was announced for his
t lion of the show, and the house
voured with a small portion of his
.) It was his duty to direct
;on or the government to that body, which undoubt-
•' -• nassessed considerable power—at least
egged to ask the hon.
one question—where was all this Imo-
ague said they had £50,000 this year, and
000 next. The average would be £75,000,
exchequer ought to have hie eye
-me tax. ( Laughter.) If

money. He b,

pay tt tax on this sum then the public
at —ent. (Laughter.) As be found
ations in reference to his amendment so much
825 by the Chancellor of .the ExCliequer thar
them, be should prefe-

rnderstood the con

giving them to any

saying
_that no man

Of this country
Ln association of

:(opiate
iney to carry out their special objects with any
is than that of unqualified disapprobation. The
arable baronet who followed condemned the prin-
Liversive of government. "If that were so there
n end of all deliberations of that house; if that

........ .
doctrine were to prevail, it roust follow that the subjects of
h this country, if they should imagine themselves to be labour-
ing under any grievance of that or any other sort, might re-
sort to unconstitutional measures for their redress, and
hich Parliament would not he authorized to check until
those grievances were redressed. He maintained that if for
...ade a
uille, at a moment Parliament recognized such a doctrine it would
of the models abdicate its legislative functions altogether. If they ad-
mitted the present measures, they must expect that they
he would be used for the removal of other grievances; and to
....ag over a any remonstrance the answer would be, that the subjects of
Jib, and tied by a ,_
tne country, and not the legislature, were the proper judges
pulley on the nose of what those remedies should be. That, however, was not
oed to the upper part his reading of the law. He conceived Parliament to be the
course, being attached sole constitutional judge, and if Parliament thought these
th of the jib, by which laws ought to be continued, those who found themselves ag-
''.et, the greatest to grieved must not resort to unconstitutional measures to re-
That which,
dress them. The people might meet and petition Parlia-
cetY an,, ", ment, and the Parliament would take their petition into con-
"'''" sideration, but it would abandon its duty if it allowed any
--.n to act independently of Parliament, and only

vIBEIL MI the oppos

n benches inquired

—Sir Robert PE

member for Sunderland liad cheered his re-
: association, and the cheer probably inferred
t had been censured by parliament, it had ul-
(" Hear, hear," from Lord Howick.)

)ut it would be his duty to refer to
ich had not succeeded. In 1778 the
was formed, and when it was formed
ention of observation as any other of

Mon chose f
nietv

s head a person who
istory, Lord George Gor-
s was observed by Mr. (afterwards
on, for his blameless life, his not having mixed
:„. 1..;„

n met in" large

body had outgrown its places
res, but. met in the open air,

body, not on(
ould leave the

I create

ntatfon of a_ pett.

or parliament.
the trial that

of Commons was

)f the memLe
Louse alive ; i

ers felt
indeed,

dence or common sense

Bankes si

end had spokeq
is " that stupid
3 not the Anti-

ag the same course ? Were they
es, intending to bring their peti-
ne the house; and would they not
c theatre, to give still greater pub-
Now, he submitted to the
for their considera-
to day some new expedients

of a fit subje

and excitement
profoundly desired

and endeavOured t

the theatre Was to be
hired to ascertain if it would answer that object. (Hear,
hear.) Until the excitement was got up, the hon. member
for Wolverhampton did not intend to bring forward the
pestion of the corn laws, and, at present, he (Mr. Bankes)
no feeling in unison with the Anti-
-5.c, in the metropolis or throughout the
(Hear, hear.) At least there was very little in his
opinion. He submitted to his right hon. frLnds and the house,
whether that was a matter which did not interest them.
Ministers had not the power of knowing the enormous
amount of evil and mischief which was produced and at-
tempted to be produced by the emissaries of the Anti-Corn-
law League. He had no fears personally_of any attack upon

believed that there v
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his interest in the county of Dorset, although, if the hon.
member for Stockport could, as he had stated, affect public
opinion, there was no seat in that house that could be so
easily shaken, for it rested solely upon the force of public
opinion. (Hear, bear.) He had never sought nor newer
should seek ministerial support; but he looked to the
ministry to secure to him peace at home at his fireside, and
the comfort and happiness and welfare of the peasantry who
lived around him. (Hear, hear.) He trusted the govern-
ment would devise some means of driving away these novel
sort of emissaries—those paid and avowed—(for the hon.
member for Stockport had boasted of it the other night)—
emissaries and spies. Of these he complained ; and he be-
seeched the ministry to protect.them as faithful and dutiful
subjects of the Crown—he requested it, he begged it, he de-
manded it. (Loud cheers.)

MR. COBDEN AND MR. BANKES

(From the

,ech of Mr. Bankes on' Tuesday night.)

Ile had been asked by the hon. member what he intended
to say at the next agricultural dinper at Blandford. If he
hesitated to reply at all, it was only on the ground that he

had strong reasons for believing that the hon. member for
Stockport would be there 1-himself— (laughter) and his
ground for this belief was that the hon. member in his speech
said, at the next - " one

gricultnral dinner, there would b
black sheep in company." (Laughter.) Having told him
(Mr. Bankes) what the black sheep would say, he would tell
him (Mr. Cobden) his answer. The black sheep promised
that when he (Mr. Bankes) was talking of the "agricultural
sunshine gilding the church, the palace, and the cottage,"
to add, " Yes, and the landlord's chimney." To this he,
(Mr• Bankes) would rejoin, " Yes, and your factory chim-
neys, too—(laughter)—your tall, gawkey, ill-looking, un-
graceful factory chimney, which—
" Pointing to the skies,
Like a tall bully lifts its head and—lies."

(Laughter.) That would be his answer•, and if the hon.
member wished to hear more of the speech he was ready to
give it. (Cries of "Go on.") It would, at this dinner, be
his duty to rise and say—" We have this day been honoured
by the company of a distinguished individual, whose health I
am about to propose—(laughter),—and I shall have the less
difficulty in doing so because the party is no personal friend
of mine. (Renewed laughter.) He comes here as the son
of a farmer, as he has told us, descended from a long line of
Sussex yeomanry, he comes here in sheep's clothing to tell
you what he will tell you when his time comes to respond to
(Laughter.)the So much for the speech' at the
The hon. member for Stockport put
antodafostrd."
dinner.
another question, which it was his duty to return an answer
to. He said, " I put you on your defence, and I call on you
to prove the benefits which the corn laws have conferred on
agriculture ?" His answer was that with respect to the
county he represented the benefit 'which had resulted was,
that thousands and thousand of acres, which otherwise would
never have been cultivated had no protection existed, were
brought into cultivation. (Hear, hear.) The labourers who
tilled these acres would never Ip•ve found employment—and
enclosures and appropriations of waste lands were going on
and affording further opportunity for employing labourers,
until the time when a check to agriculture had taken place ;
and he could further state, if some means were not found to
encourage and animate agriculture, and to give life and spirit
to the interest, that this source of employment would speedily
stop. (Hear, hear.) There was a time when, travelling
from his father's house to London, 100 miles of waste land
were to be seen. But now if the same ground were gone
over not ten miles could be found. What was the reason of
this difference ? There was no land formerly less encouraged
and more barren than the waste lands in Dorsetshire, Hamp-
shire, and Sussex, but now villages were springing up and
cottages were seen, where all heretofore was desolate heath.
The husbandmen were all deriving employment from the
soil, and he trusted they would find further employment
from this extended system of cultivation. There was one
point which he had neglected to set right in his previous
statement—it related to the poor law union where his pro-
perty was situated. He had stated that the union embraced
a space of 14 square miles, and included a population of
about 16,000 souls, and that in the whole district there was
not one able-bodied labourer who received parish relief.
Since he had made this statement he had been informed that
there were two able-bodied labourers who had parish relief.
He had,stated some of the advantages of the enclosure and
"" lands;—advantages which the honourable
sheffield would check by his present inquiry.
r, hear.)

cultivation of waste
member fo

THE NEw TARIFF.—The first importation of Dutch sal-

mon this season, under the new tariff, was brought over by
the Columbine steamer, from Rotterdam. They are of a
very fine quality, weighing from 361 b. to 401 b. each, and at-
4acted general notice on Monday in the city. A few hampers
of soles were alsio imported, weighing from 61b. to Sib. per
pair; some were as heavy as lOro., and particularly firm. A
very large quantity of Dutch salmon is expected this season,
as the Scotch fish are seldom caught till May. This is a
proof of the mildness of the weather in Holland. New po-
tatoes are very plentiful; several baskets have been brought
over.—London Paper.
PORTUGUESE TARIFF.—THE BUTTER TRADE.—The fol-
lowing letter has been addressed by the firm of Morrogh and
Walsh, of Lisbon, to their correspondent in Cork
Lisbon, Feb. 27, 1843.
"My dear Sir,—l have reason to believe that the Portu-
guese government have at length submitted such proposals
to our government that they will be accepted, and that, there-
fore, we may look for the speedy conclusion of the Tariff
Convention. I know that a reduction on Butter from 50 to
30 res was proposed, and that will give your Butter an ad-
vantage of 20 res over that of Holland and Hatnbro' ; and if
this does not give you the exclusive supply, it will certainly
tend to diminish the imports of Butter from those places, and
more particularly from Holland, on account of the high cost
there.

" I flatter myself, therefore, that we may very confidently
look for an increased business between us ; and, as to Beef
and Pork, I furnished Lord Howard de Walden, our Mi-
nister, with information thereon, and probably—indeed I
doubt not—there *ill be a reduction on the actual heavy
duty. _ . . _

" A reduction will take place in England in the duty on
wines, and this will enable us to ship low priced wines. We
could send good white wine which could be afforded to be
sold, with profit at Is. 6d. per bottle, and we could also send
good and full bodied red wine at a less cost.—Reporler.
THE COAL TRADE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.—On
Saturday last a meeting, consisting of several hundreds of
pitmen, and attended by a band of music from Sheriff-hill,
Gateshead, and was held at Scaffold-hill, near Longbenton,
within five miles of Newcastle upon-Tyne. Speeches were
made by several men of the locality, and by Mr. Cloughan
(a Scotch delegate), Mr. Swallow (from Wakefield) and Mr.
Brophy (a Chartist lecturer). The condition of the pitmen
of the Fyne and the Wear, which is now sorely depressed,
was depicted in forcible language ; and one of the speakers
(the Wakefield delegate) stated that he had been in commu-
nication with Lord Ashley, who was ready,to support their
cause if they would only be true to themselves, and had sent
him one of the Commissioners Reports, containing statements
and pictures that must harrow up the feelings of every man
of common humanity. Resolutions were passed in favour or
a national union of coal-miners for the protection of their
interests; of the repeal of the export duty on coal ; and of the
retention of Lord Ashley's Mines and Collieries Bill unim-
paired. Thanks were then voted to the noble Lord for his
humane and zealous efforts to improve the condition of the
people.

WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE !—While our agricultu-
rists are eagerly discussing the comparative advantages of
particular soils, and studying the theory of manures as pro-
pounded by Sprengel and Liebig, a countryman of these
distinguished professors comes forward to proclaim that
their labours are vain ; for, if we are to believe him, he has
discovered the art of growing luxuriant crops on the poorest
land, and witt out any manure whatsoever ; and the cost of
the process is so trifling, that, for the acre of wheat or maize,
it does not exceed five-pence sterling ; and for rape, cabbage,
&c., amounts to only about half that sum ! At first we were
disposed to consider such extraordinary pretensions as an
effusion of quackery, and entitled to little or no credit; but
our incredulity has been somewhat shaken by numerous and
respectable attestations which the author has appended to
his pamphlet, and which tend to prove that his method has
been practised with success, during the last twelve years, in
various parts of Germany and Holland. Thus the certifi-
cates from Vienna, dated in 1825 and 1830, declares, that
Mr. Bickes's process, which would seem to consist in some
preparation of the seed, " renders all clanging unnecessary,
is applicable to the poorest soils, and to all sorts of plants,
and imparts to them a wonderful degree of vegetation and
fulness ; ' and they give the results of the experiments in
the Imperial Garden of the Château ; from which it appears,
that wheat raised from seed sown by Mr. Bickes had larger
ears and more grains than that produced from unprepared
seed ; that the barley showed ears with four rows and a larger
number of grains, while that from unprepared seed had only
two rows, and a smaller proportion of grains on each stalk;
and the Indian corn exhibited a larger number of much
stronger and thicker heads. At Offenbach, in unmanured
and light sandy soil, the prepared wheat produced 10-15
stems from a single grain, with larger and fuller ears ' rye
and barley presented the same vigorous growth ; and flax
had stronger stems, with heavier and more numerous cap.
rules. and was of a dark-green colour; while the plants from
unprepared seed had become yellow. Potatoes had seldom
fewer their ten-shoots from a single tuber, and some as many
as twelve, fifteen, and even seventeen strong stems; while
the green crops—namely, grass, clover, beet, white cabbage,
savoys, &c.—were equal, if not superior, to those raised in
gardens. At Biidingen, again, some plants of the sunflower,
treated according to Mr. Bickes's method, grew to the
height of ten to eleven feet, with woody stems of eight and
a half to nine inches in circumference. Ten or twelve potato
plants, of a large yellow sort, called Marburger, yielded each,
on the average, thirty good-sized tubers, with stem and
branches seven feet long ; and maize, which grew partly
singly and partly in rows, had from two to five, and in some
instances as many as eight and nine heads. These crops
were obtained in the garden of Count Isenburg ; and we are
further assured by the certificate, to which are attached the
signatures of two urgomastrs, the ourt ardenr, a rand
ducal councillor, and othere official persognages,e that they
were raised in ground but partially dressed, and in the midst
of tall weeds! The trials of this method in-Holland, made
in the summer of 1834, were attended with results not less
astonishing. Prepared wheat and rye,
though sown thick,
gave from fifty to sixty, and even
eighty stalks from one
grain; and a plant of barley bore eight large ears. Buck-
wheat rose to four and a half and five feet; flax had four and
five stems from one seed; and Indian corn grew from nine
to ten feet in height, with four or five stems, and four to five
heads from a single corn. The green crops were equally
luxuriant. Red and white clover and lucerne grew three
feet high. From two tobacco plants,
541 seed capsules and
200 large and small leaves were cut ; and a second blossom-
ing yielded 742 fresh capsules, and of larger size ; the seed
from he whole weighing two hectograms, or upwards of six
ounces. At the date of the report (October 30th), these
plant were budding anew; and all this, if we read the de-
scription aright, was effected in the shifting sand (Flug-
sandep of the downs of Holland ! The method of preparing
the seed is a sceret.—Cardeners' Chronicle. =