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      I^Nstsrript. Saturday, October 4.

      I ^ nstsrript . Saturday , October 4 .

      It is finished . Since Disraeli opened his lips and uttered his oracles at Aylesbury , the county members have " pronounced" against Protection , and frankly < nven in the contest . It is now left to George Frederick Young and the Duke of Richmond , Mr . Paul Foskett and the Morning Herald . Yesterday the Post confessed as follows . " The Ti ? nes and other Free-trade journals aTe more than ordinarily clamorous just now in their triumph over the death and burial of Protection . We were amongst the very first to point out that the old prinand other

      ciple of levying duties on . corn agricultural products , for the special purpose of maintaining rents , and keeping up an uniformly high price of such articles , was dead , defunct , extinct , and had long ago been deposited in the tomb of all the Capulets , never to be revived or resuscitated . Protectionists of the Duke of Richmond ' s school , members of agricultural societies , landlords , and tenant-farmers , were slow to see this , and clung long to the hope of recovering a sliding scale with a twenty shillings maximum on corn . It is only at the agricultural dinners of the present year that we see the truths which we have been impressing upon our readers for the past three years fully recognized and avowed . "

      Another county member , respected alike for his sincerity and intelligence , has frankly abandoned the buried cause of 1815 . At the meeting of the North Staffordshire Agricultural Society , on Thursday , Mr . Charles Adderley , M . P ., being invited by Mr . Bass , M . P ., who occupied the chair , to state his views , spoke out in the most explicit manner . " As Mr . Eass lias said , it seems to be the opinion of everybody—and I frankly say it is no less my own opinion — that the feeling of this country lias been so unmistakcably expressed as to render it little short of madness

      to suppose that the people of England will , at the present , permit a restoration of the corn-laws . ( Cries oj ' Hear , hear . ) Any gentleman in this assembly who may feel disposed to say the reverse of this is either deceived or ignorant of the people of this country ; or else—an alternative which I should be sorry to believe any member of Parliament or any respectable man guilty of— l : e is attempting to deceive others . ( Ap ]> lau e . ) That being the case , the question for us to consider is what are wo to look to and what to do ? It seems to me clear

      that if the agricultural interest , which is allowed by all parties to be the . basis of the prosperity of the country , and which has been so long suffering in passing through a transition state , can no longer look for protection , they must , look for that which I have always maintained to be the only ground upon which they could clurn a duty on their produce , namely , a readjustment of taxation . {( treat applause . ) Special burdens do undoubtedly fall upon agriculturists , and they have a just claim to relief from them . There are special burdens both in local and general taxation , pressing on the agricultural interests ; ami in my opinion such is the justice of the people of

      England , that win n once the hardship is fairly discussed ami made manifest , they will listen to the appeal in a spirit of fairness . ( Applau . w . ) I do not think the people of lOngland will agree with those p hilosophers who argue that there are no . such unequal burdens on the land . To my mind it . is a material tendency of taxation to bear more heavily on the land than on any other interest ; and oik ! of our main points should be to go for a general reduction of expenditure . ( Applause . ) Retrenchment in local rates and expenditure i . s undoubtedly important , but . the material point is the general expenditure of the country . ( Hear ) 1 say this because ; 1 see in Parliament some gentlemen who call themselves

      ' fanners' fiienil . ; , ' but who merely tay so with their lipn and do not n < : t up to the h" professions . ( C / teers ) I saw these ' f . in : < ns' fiiends ' last . K <> Knion , who Haul they had abandoned all hope , of Protection , and yet . allowed money to he voted fur t . urb a thankless , useless , inischiov ( . u » w . ir ; i . s that , against the K . ilirs in Africa . Those me men who do not act . up to their prof , s . sions of retrenchment- but do you in future look to those who will f < o for a lMluction of-. iieial and local luxation . ( Cheers )" Mr . Smith Child , HI . P ., < "'hord the ; above ; speech in terms ( initc as distinct and conclusive .

      ileneeiwnvanl , therefore , the " Country P irty jniiKl . act upon . some other basin . Let them depend , M i ( ,, | . nt , any red . iel . ion of local or any other burdens will not ]> einnmently help them . Let them look around and hcjo if tho . ro bo not u principle with ¦ which neither Protection , which whs legal robbery ,

      nor competition , which is civil war , can be compared : the principle of Concert on which they can build a sound political policy for the future .

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      The Lord Provost , magistrates , and council of the city of Aberdeen , gave a dinner to Sir James Graham on Thursday , for the purpose of presenting him with the freedom of the city . Sir James spoke eloquently in praise of Lord Aberdeen , and paid an affectionate tribute to the memory of Sir Robert Peel . Towards the close he said : — " My maxim is to build on the old foundations , improving them and extending them when necessary , but not destroying . ( Applause . ) I am satisfied that , on the whole , the people of this country enjoy more real

      freedom and security of life and property than any other people in the world . ( Loud applause . ) Others seeking equality have not obtained freedom ; we , not having and not desiring equality , are in the enjoyment of freedom . ( Applause . ) I hold that precious gift to be above all price , and I would not risk it by dangerous or sudden changes . ( Hear , hear . ) But from time to time , as experience demonstrates the existence of imperfections , let them , with a firm but cautious hand , be removed . To amend , to extend , and to perfect that ancient edifice , but not to destroy it , shall be my great object . ( Applause . )"

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      The Permanent Committee of the French Assembly met on Thursday . M . Daru , primed with police reports , spoke of depots of secret arms which could not be found , and conspiracies . One of thtf members , M . Didier , seconded by General Changarnier , criticised in strong terms the language used by M . Leon Faucher , the Minister of the Interior , in the course of his speech to the Agricultural Association of Chalons-sur-Marne . It will be remembered that M . Faucher , in that speech , declared that France would reelect Louis Napoleon , and ¦ would not be prevented from doing so by any obstacles that might be raised by the Constitution . General Changarnier said that the language of M . Leon Faucher was quite inexplicable , and ought to be disavowed . shi

      It is a seditious act to christen a p La Republique , under the present Government in France . M . A . Follin , a merchant and shipowner of St . Valery en Gaux , invited a party of friends to the launch of a vessel from his yard on the 27 th ultimo . The occasion was , according to custom , celebrated as a fete . A large concourse of persons from the town and neighbourhood were assembled to witness the launch , which , favoured by a high tide and fine weather , was super"b . After the ceremony , all the workmen of the yard , as well as the owner and his circle , are invited to partake of a feast in honour of the day . The table is no sooner spread than a file of gendarmes arrives , and orders the room to be cleared . The reason assigned for this brutal interference is the name given to the vessel , and the person who gave the name , a Republican representative .

      M . rollin , prudently desirous of avoiding the chance of a collision , recommended all but his immediate guests to retire . The guests dispersed in search of dinner elsewhere , but every hotel and restaurant was closed to them , by order of superior authority ! They were treated as outlaws and anarchists , whose very presence is an infection . However , at length the master of an hotel was found who went to the Mairie and begged to be allowed to provide dinner for the famished visitors . He was made responsible for consquences , and having signed a paper to that effect , obtained the necessary permission . It is needless to say that the dinner passed off in perfect peace . An agent of the police gave an unofficial look in at the door for a moment ; but otherwise the meeting was left undisturbed .

      Pive l ) i igades of g endarmerie were under arms , and patrolling the streets to a late hour of the night . What shall we say of such arbitrary and vexatious illegality as this ? Is the Covi rnment which dictates proceedings so tyrannical and so frivolous , a Government of law and order , or of provocation and agitation . Where there is no si ^ n of disturbance , a shew of forcible resistance is made . A fete de famille , presided over by a shipowner who gathers round his table a few friends , a few workmen and sailors , is violently disturbed . The guests are , in a manner , ostracised by the fear of the inhabitants of entertaining suspected persons . A demonstration of military force is paraded . All because a ship has been launched bearing the constitutional and national name of La liijmblitme ! What if it had been . JU'Empire f

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      THE LAST MANCHESTER MEETING . The Parliamentary Reformers are gradually making their way towards a truly popular movement . Their last gathering attests this fact . Not only do they now stand on ground which is sufficiently broad in its main principle , but they are developing a more vigorous spirit . The reader of the daily journals may have gathered as much ; but the subjoined letter from our trusted coadjutor will let our readers more thoroughly into the life of the matter . The letter was written , not " stans pede in uno , " but " fervidis rotis" — while the writer was spinning along the rail .

      The National Parliamentary Reform Association have summmoned their adherents in Manchester , and taken the field in magnificent array . The public meeting in the Free-trade Hall on the 24 th ultimo might be called a provincial one . I recognized faces amid the throng from the surrounding towns . The smoke-blown cotton land pouied forth its living and ( having regard to human condition in its destitute aspects ) its dead . The hall , calculated to hold ten thousand , has been contracted by decorations ; but on this occasion every elastic appurtenance was dia * tended to its utmost tension—the human tide poured over the barriers intended for " reserved seats . " A pressure of 2000 people at the doors when every place was crammed , made " reserve" impossible . From

      the front of the platform the sight was as exciting as the tempest-tossed ocean . There stood the lady in her veil by the side of a narcotic man in his shirtsleeves ; a perfumed and " superfine Saxony" was jammed against a fustian jacket ; a beautiful and fragile boy from the mill , had forced his way up ( or had been carried up ) to the front rank , and was wedged by a greyheaded , stronghaired , . old man ( with eyebrows deep and shaggy as EbenezerElliott ' looking as impenetrable as the iron stone he broke in the mine . On each side , and deep in the front , stretched out the sea of human incongruities , and above the waving surface of faces , rose the granite heads of the two grim lions which guard the platform , reminding us of the impassibility of Time amidst the feverish excitement of the hour .

      Of the addresses delivered to the people it would not be possible to speuk briefly . They will be memorable for characteristics not consciously supplied by the speakers—every speech had one political sign —the Chairman ' s by omission , all the others by commission . But in the sense of the meeting being a People ' s meeting it was fully so , in earnestness , m honesty , and in what captivates the People yet more —in exaggeration . George "Wilson made one ot those astute Manchester speeches in which the meaning is got up for the market , and is found to defy competition . Sir Joshua Walmsley stated the case

      of the National Reform Association , and probably no man present would have done it ao well . How , amiu the fatigues of organizing the meeting , he found repose to think the subject through bo efficiently , i » astonishing . The points of the new Parliamentary Charter are so comprehensive as to merit the description of being the largest practicable measure ot Reform the People can a ^ k of the House of Commons ; and Sir Joshua said he trusted the People would not be satisfied Avith less ; and tho tone ot the speaker ' s voice was a guarantee of the honesty o the hope . " On the one hand , " said he , " wo have to contend with unlibcral Conservatism , and on tne

      other with untriictublo Ultra-liberalism . " The man who thus clearly saw tho difliculty of the potation , and afterwards signed the Programme read l > y Mr . Kettle , evidently threw bin cause on the » i « e < the People—great conce . ssioiiH in that address we > made to the People , —and he entitled himself to m help of the People , by the quality of his decision , i » - boldness of bin speech , and the brondin : H » ol sympathy . The speech of Mr . Williams-, m ^*'

      for Macclenfield , whh a miniole of homely vi tf "' < and chartered libertinism of rhetoric , which was » ceHsful , not throu K h what lie hiuiI , but by heart" m , of tone nnd pantomime . The exordium of Mr . J speech , and the peroration of ( Jeorge Thoi « P «<» " * made one magnificent oration , considered mi * - " to the higher qualities of eloquence . Mr . lox ' < mencud to speak an a master of assemblies , «»«

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      TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . Several letters have been received by our publisher complaining of the non-receipt of papers , or the non-arrival of the Leader until Monday . We have made inquiry , and find that the errors have not arisen in our office . The Country Edition cf the Lender is published on Friday , and the Town Edition on the Saturday , and Subscribers should be careful to specify which edition they wish to receive . Complaints of irregularity should be made to the particular news-ag-ent supplying the paper , and if any difficulty should occur again it will be set right on application direct to our office , 10 , Wellington-street , Strand , London . In reply to inquiries we may state that the Office of the Friends of Italy is No . 10 , Southampton-street , Strand . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .

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      The Resolute and the Pioneer have arrived in the Yarmouth Roads from the Arctic Scus . Mr . . John Shaw has been nominated to fill the post in the Chartist Executive vacant by the resignation of Mr . Reynolds . The Society of the Friends of Italy have just issued the Kecond number of their Mont Mi / lleeord . It contains very valuable information on the ponition and prospects of the society and of Italy . (« r < at excitement is manifested all over the country by tin ; near approach of' Jvossuth to our shores , lie i « expected ut Southampton early next week . Tin ; revision of the list of voters for the City was finished yesterday . The following is a summary of the result , as stated b y Mr . Smith .

      Liberal claims allowed , \ 'l ; disallowed , 18 . Conservative claims allowed , 1 ; disallowed , . ' { . Liberal objections unstained , f >' M ; failed or withdrawn , H . 'J . Conservative objections sustained , f > 7 < > ; failed or withdrawn , KJ 1 . Doubli ) objections sustained , 17 ^; f ' iiilcd or withdrawn , H . lOxpunned by the Court ., 21 . Adding the cbtimH allowed to the objections sustained , the rcimlt . is—Liberal , f > 7 ' . ) ; ConM'ivsit ivew , f > 7 <> . A c ; iiii ) il fele ban been celebrated at Huston in honour of th < - opening of railway coiniauniculion direct between the II nited States and the CimadaH . Lord Kl ^ in and his suite , as well an the President of the Republic and several Minis tern , were present .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there nothing so unnatural and corrrulsiye , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the "world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

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      SATURDAY , OCTOBER 4 , 1851 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 942, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1903/page/10/