The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-25

assessed at El0,0OJ, could not now be made TO
realize $4,000. His paper, one OF tne mos. noIlisn-
gIournals In Ireland, necessarily lnvTsIng large
business transactions, was ,m,neu,a,ey sm9,
trustees denied The Commission Court, Tor his
trsI was opened a Dublin the 9th inst. by the
ord Mayor, Judge Bell, and Baron LEROY, when
new bill was sent up to the city Grand Jury, at
the suit OF the crown, against Charles Gavan
Duffy, proprietor OF the Nation newspaper, under
the crown and government security act. The bill
for further suspension OF the habeas corpus ACT
In Ireland has been passed
The migratory panic is still on the increase, and
as the season for the departure OF emigrants Is
near at hand, the mighty inroads which will be
made upon the IRISH population the next twelve
months, is beyond all human calculation. From
the County of Tlpperary, the flight OF tenants and
small farmers 10 America, continues undated:
Scores and scores of what were considered sound
and respectable farmers, are giving up thSiT sads
and leaving the homes OF .ner iathers IoI tac ianu
of the stars and stripes.
TAX COLD EXCITEMENT IN ENeLANr --arroS--Yasgl7I
OF MINISTER'S, HTC.
The accounts of the gold dIgKngs In Cajsfeyaia,
published in the Neic York Herald, brought by tie
Europe have caused great excitement In Europe.
The Nep York Herotds correspondence is quoted
by all the London papers.
Sir Edmund Lyons, lately minister at Athens,
will be appointed British minister in Switzerland.
Mr. Bulwer, late ambassador at Madrid, has
been appointed ambassador to the United States.
On the LIST February, virtual repeal OF the
duties upon foreign corn took place, the existing
sliding or fuctuating scale of duties being entirely
abolished, and In their stead the following, merely
nominal and liked duties, being leviable on all
sorts OF meal, flour, and grain imported into this
country, viz. BY virtue OF the Act and 10 Vic,
cap. %, from and after the lst day of February,
l649, the following duties shall be charged, VIZ;
Upon all wheat, barley, bere or blgg, oats, rye,
peas, and beans, the quarter, Isl upon all wheat,
meal and flour, barley meal, oatmeal, rye meal
and flour, pea meal and bean meal, the cwt., AID;
buckwheat, the quarter; Is; buck wheat meal, the
cwt AID; maize or Indian corn, the quarter, Is;
Indian corn meal, the cwt, AID. There is a rise
OF Is. to Is, per quarter.
THE GRAND BANQUET AT MANCHESTER.
A banquet, on magnificent scale, "to lnau-
gurate tree trade" was given at Manchester on
Wednesday, that being the day when expired
the last shred OF protective duties foreign corn"
The Free trade Hall, the place OF the festival, was
decorated with taste and splendor for the occasion
The number OF guests, admitted by ticket, was
2,9S4-700 OF them ladies' numbers paid high
premium for their admission, and multitude
were disappointed OF places. The list OF notable
names, from all parts OF England, occupies more
than the space Of one of our columns, and includes
some two dozen members OF Parliament, and half
a score OF gentlemen lately members. Besides
those names whose appearance is a matter Of
course, as that OF Mr.. Charles Villiers, the name
of Mr. James Wilson may be me ntioned for his
official position, and that of Mr.. Bickham Escott
Tor the steady rise Of his liberalism; there also
names OF less prominence, such as that OF Colonel
Salwey or Mr.. Hardcastle, whose appearance
among Manchester notabes, we believe, has not
been so much a matter of course. Letters ex-
pressing regret at compulsory absence were read
from Mr. Joseph Hume, MI William HUT, Mr..
Horsman, DR.. Bowrng with farewell good wishes,
the Rev. Baptist Noel, Ebenezer Elliot, and Mr..
Frederick Basllat, of Paris Mr. George Wilson
presided
Mr. Charles Vlliers responded to the toast of
!" The Free.trade Members ct both houses of Par
lament"
Mr.. Golden spoke with his usual energy, less
than his usual novelty. We take few points OF
He was indignant when he saw that other ind d.
viaual" the Duke Of Richmond, trying to hoodvink,
gull and bamboo le the farmers Of Sussexthe county
where ME- Golden born and telling them that he
would talk to Lord John Russell about restoring pro-
lection. That Duke should not restore shilling Of
protection again. al tel. his grace that it is of
lis going to men in power talk about restoring the
corn laws. We are in power on tho corn laws Tire.
mendous cheering) Now 1 do feel somewhat indis-
1t this bsrefaced attempt to deude honest
(Cheers) ! have had credit given to me for seven
years for keeping my temper upon this subject but
can't keep my temper with hunhugs. vans IL 70 be
understood that in dissolvng this League are
going to be revived again to have fresh contest about
protootion We have dons with that" loud cheers
phrases which see to promise that the League ma
chpery shall be applied to peace estabishment pro-
payandism. "As meet here tor the last time
msubers of that great and united body which effected
chs emap cipaton Of our industry cannot help cay
ing that shou iee tine deepest regret in separating
this evening were that there something in the
toast which am about to PROPOSE which leaves mo
hope that We shall not separate after al !rssasn
Free Trade and Peace the best of popular
rights the best promoters tof national industry and
the eectus for the reduction Of national
burdens Well, repeat, don't think We shall seps
rate for long after ALI for free trade and BIZ
united together why then think that We have some
thing yet to do before have finished work
think that may cooperate to carry
Sn sni s. ene Of assembly but vi.
willing to work for az for the ether, and who will
not agree with that the most logical conclusion to
which we can come in arguing the matter Is this
having effected free trade, We are bound to see If
cannot carry peace also."
81 am glad to have this opportunity Of letting not
only our own fellow countrymen, but all Europe know
that those men and women who exerted themselves
with 60 much self'sscridce and so much honor to
themselves, to emsncipate industry-that they
determined now to watch over and preserve tie
peaceabls relations Of this country with for.
to war as to monopoly. and a: determined that
peace shall BE- hencefor ard real peacs, and not
mock ore" Cheer. Hs thought that free In, in:tisu
gress Of pacific principles and he denied the ssser
tion that the tendency Of democracy towards
He hoped to live to see the time when foreign affairs
would longer be among the secrets Of cabinet but
be as publicly discussed as domestic affairs
SEQ As monopoly Of the Foreign Office and the mono.
poly of the Cabinet invaded that they shall be
allowed to engage in treaty which may involve yru
in the liabilities and risks Of without its rst
dergoing public discussion" Much cheering) All
bloody contests for the last two hundred years
have been conducted with latent belief that
colonies would reconpsnse for We know bet
ter " believe now at the beginning OF Q
great world revolution which Is destined
late round the globe and to end only with time itelf
and believe that the bsgnn and the dawn Of that
revolution were laid at our own meetings in tho FREQ
trade Hail.
Colonel Thompson, Mr.. John Bright, Mr. Miner
Gibson, Mr.. Hope "a tenant farmer and League
essaylst, and Mr.. George Thompson, were the
other speakers. At an instant or two before mid
night, some mlnsirels struck up Or. Mackay's
song A" There's a good time coming ~ as the
clock struck twelve, the assembly rose and shouted
their hurras that Protection had ceased and soon
afterwards the meeting broke up
Next day, a large number of the most influential
guests at the feast, held meeting IN Newall's
Buildings, tor the purpose OF originating a new
Financial Reform Association" Mr.. George
Wilson of course presided Mr. Golden moved,
and Mr. Bright seconded, motion to found a
society tor MAINTAINING efficient care over the
registration OF voters in boroughs and counties
and promoting the increase OF the county electors