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' 4 '' " U 'ir ... )--. .'' 7 ''''''' -*0 ~- it ' ~ ..e- --r , r - -- '','' __ - , 6.. + „ 1 ,..,,.., t ~-c --, 'D 0 / I ,-, „ •• :, ;\-- -,.. 1. , ..:1; . ,- ', , ' • ''' sill 1 :,-WV= - •• - - last session. —(Hear.) Meetings like the present Iwere certainly constitutional ; and he thought this one would be gratifying to Lord John Russell, and even to Sir Robert Peel, who was waiting for the people of this country to press him on to repeal, for he knew, as well as any man, the bad effects the corn-laws were producing. The resolution he had to propose was, that petitions, founded on the resolution already adopted, should be prepared, and circulated throughout the district for sig nature, and then be presented to the House of Commons. He was satisfied that a great moral and intellectual im provement had been produced among the working classes by the exertions of those gentlemen who had agitated this question, and diffused information upon it. Who would have supposed that such a meeting as this could have been collected, and would, as he had no doubt, quietly disperse ? The League had taught the people that everything was to be gained, not by physical, but by moral force.—(Hear, hear.) They now knew where their strength lay.—(Hear, hear) He hoped the young men present would devote their leisure hours to self improvement, and read and reflect upon the history and laws of their country ; in that way they would learn what were their rights, and how properly to secure them. He did not believe that the farmers were to be blamed for low wages ; much depended on the demand for, and supply of, labour. Neither did he believe that any one would suffer from the repeal of the corn-laws. Instead of land going out of cultivation, he thought that the reverse would be the case. There would not be so large a stock of rabbits and hares kept on the land. A protectionist, not ten miles from that spot, had so many hares on his land, that they actually consumed more of the wheat crop than the whole of the families of farmers and labourers.--(Hear, hear.) There was some talk of having a county meeting ; should one take place, let the labourers go and show the protec tionists that they were really desirous that those laws, which had produced so much mischief and misery, should be repealed.—;Cheers.) Mr. EDWARDS, in seconding the motion, said he be lieved that Sir Robert Peel was inclined to do justice to the working people of this country ; but it mattered not to them, as working people, whether a Whig or Tory held the reins of Government, so long as they were well fed and clothed.—(A voice—" And no curry powder.") And no curry powder.—(Laughter and cheers.) The motion was then agreed to, as also one of thanks to the public press—that portion of it which advocated the rights of the people. The CHAIRMAN—In closing this meeting, my fellow labourers, I wish you to take notice of two things. First, you have heard these poor labourers state their distress ; but we don't wish to insinuate to you that you are to rebel against the law that is now in existence. — (Hear, hear.) In the next place, we don't wish to insi nuate to you that y ou are to neg l ect your emp l oymen t. —(Grier ~ " No. eq.n You are to follow your work with honesty, integrity;linu orri,Lo-sess.—(Hear, hear.) You will do all you can to please your master s , and live up to the law that is now in existence as far as you can, and do it for conscience sake.— (Hear, hear.) For you may depend upon it that the very moment you break the law, the very moment you neglect your masters' em ployment, you put a weapon into their hands with which to wound yourselves.—(Hear, hear.) Recollect that a few years ago the mob rose in Ramsbury and other places, and took the wrong step. They destroyed peo ple's property, and demanded their money, instead of acting legally, and petitioning the Sovereign and the Government. had they done so, no doubt they would have i been heard. B u t no t doing so, they put a wea pon into the hands of the monopolists, and the monopo lists rode about the country, and hauled them away to prison, and rejoiced that they had got them just where they would have them.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " We know better now.") Three cheers were then given for free trade, and for Cobden and Bright, after which the meeting quietly dis persed, breaking into as many separate parties as there were roads ; some of them had long journeys to make before they could reach home. Some letters from labourers were forwarded to the chairman, amongst which were the following, which we give co batim it literatint:— " Sir,—l take the liberty of addressing myself to you, as it is not convenent for me to atend your meeting, mearly to inform of my distress, wich is verry Great. I ashure you I have four children to maintain and not A potato for my use, my house rent verry high, wich maks it impossable to get bread Enough half my time for them I ham the Father of six Childern, one died A natural deth, and one Burnt to deth A Month Ago, in all these troubles and factions I have not had the lest assistance from any one. my Child ren are a ll so young t h at m y Wife cannot earn anything, therefore I will leave you to Judge my case. I will further add there is but few that would not attend .youre meeting, if they dare. the poor are under that Bondage wich makes them afraid to make thair distress known, if they did thay would be dis charged from thair work and turned out of doors. God grant that these Petitions might be herd. "your Aflicted and humbel Servent." " December 31, 1845. " Gentel men, as it is not Convenant for me two a tend your meeting. I adres myself two your notice in the fol loe ing re marks of the distress of the farm labores are in the present time ; in the first place I will state the Case of the men that have a wife and two Children onley, as most pepel say, that these men cannot be bad of, but see the case, all the peepel knows that the wages in Wil shear is Bs. per week, and when the Master have taken 4s. per month for rent, there is but 7s. per wick for two, provide food for the four peepel, and there is 7 days in the week that is Is. a day, that 3d. each pirson, and as all have a little food 3 times a day, that is Id. for Each meal, and now we se vt hat can be bought for the Is. We give 7d for a four pound lofe, and so we see that there is 6 pound of Bred and 3 half pence fur butter for the four, that is a pound and half each a day. And now, if Igo where there is 4 children that brings it two one pound of bread a day for Each person, and one farthing for each for butter, and if we go where there is 6 Children, that brings it two 3 quarters of a pound of bread a day for each, and three half pence for butter for 8 peopel ; and now if this was stated before the masters of the labores, they would ask me what I should do with the Exter Ernings in the summer a mowing and flowing, and reep ing, my answer two this is, that the fire-place takes Is. per week, that is 21. 12s. a year, and from 30 years Ex -1 perence, I well know two keep the house in;sope, candela, thred, and wosted, needels, and pins, Brums a brusis two keep the house clean, that takes Is. per week more, that is 2/. 12s. more, and the man have a pare of shoes a year, that is 125., and the wife a pear, that is Bs. more, and 2 children a pear each, at ss. each, that is 10s. more, and we rent a lettel Land of our masters at 8 pence per pool, and we have aboute 30 poles, and takes a pound more a year and two keep all kinds of twols in repair—that takes 10s. a year more. So now to sum up all the X s. d. household arteckles, that is the firing 2 12 0 Candels, sope, and the other arteckles The four pare of shoes, that is All kinds of tools, that fs 30 pole of Land, at Bd. pole, that is PRICE SD. L 8 4 0 and there is no more than 4 month two Earn this sum in, and where is the man that takes L 2 9s. Od a month for 4 month. I Dont know the Man. And the failure in the potato crop makes it a great deal worse than it was 12 month ago, and the deferance in the price of bread makes in the above named famely 2s. a week and have but one shelen to pay it with, and I cannot add no more at present. " Your humbel servant, " A LABORER." No. 16,661. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING S U N, JANUARY 8, 1846. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital A 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr )w, wit put ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premitm paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the cOzversion of his interests to meet other aonvenionce s or necessity. Assurances' for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFIT'S'. The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from SU to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit 'male. EXAMPLES ---B,ut tolhe London and Birmingham Railway. AILWD _ --bi r and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.— 1 0 —.-, , 0 . , . '.-n , g 0.-4 * 1 ~•4 , Bonus l'i-cli °Me " , 19 , Moergate-street, London, Jan. 3, 1846. " Is her "' 04 ° Premium. - I added. ttts,, tha hereby given to the Registered Shareholders in this Corn- p # , ~14LIvI,LCERTIFICATES for their SHARES will bp READY for '44, s• —'y at this Vfa. l i ni t : o re • Office, - on and after MoYnav, the 12th inst., give „n till Four o'clock, ia exchange for the receipt which — I -- Banes Cas in 1 ~ :?: I . .. 1 j 1 I L /2 ----- --- 1 --- Mein for their scrip. •--...,______...... JAMES BRTDEN, London Secretary. 6 1 £ 3 3 4 9 6 5 1 2 1 3 1 68 10 1 00 ---- 7 1 4 Il i I . 1839 1389881 13l 6 : 1 4 6 7874 1 1 133 4 1 3 '01 1 511 9 31 17 2 8 10 296 13 4 Vi ALPTsI, 1T T A -.AT TA A-r r xi.. A 'V' I , 1840 89 0014113 41 68 0 247 4 5 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. able eota„,, thewALLOMNT OF NEW SHIRES. to g " t,s u allee with vrishes of Shareholders who have not been 1 '6 ° th e Places mmed in the Letters of Allotment, the Com -41111 ahk ers are autho ‘ rised to receive deposits till the 10th inst ees, 4 , (1 the Deeds Will Lie for Signature at the CompanY s " 4 k ,, ' 44 ' l'ri nces-street, Ed' btr h anl 124, St. Vincent-street, 41 01 44W ' th hp t London, 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th instant ; and 28, Par nudlloTouonr t p he u 9 , 10th, 12th, and 13th instant, th tt4l ,2 l Y el h s V i ng powers of attorney will please to remember to have 1.7 'Aryl - ""n8 stamp for each person; when sent to Edinburgh they " 4 41 0 , - e, as th e i r attorney, David Rankine, the secretary ; when 1 4one -- "`en, Robert Weems, Parliamentary agent. By order, D. RANKINE, Secretary. ° rn it T HE RN RAILWAY of FRANCE. A IPIR r ,CAN AND LEBEtirS ITNI ED COMPANY.) Le MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COM 'Mill be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate- N 8 434 MoNDAY next, the 12th instant, at Twelve for One o'clock Alto % fjr, to receive the report of the Committee, and to adopt mea el"Lng the affairs of this Company. Tok pn , tsy order, EDWARD FILDER, Secretary. — "` °4B e-yard, London, 7th January, 1846. P ET ERBOROUGH and NOTTINGHAM tlZect h ' JUNCTION RAILWAY. that he ors have the satisfaction of informing the Subscribers 11,,e'tableledning orders of Parliament up to the 31st of December carefully and duly complied with in all respects, the — tie o f l i me taken, aad the tab:es compiled, showing, on a moderate b,Dla;b:_ r g_ es a large per centage on the capital. bZoti . 1 . determined to apply for an Act to make only that th .q uiti esßailh() line commencing at the station of the Midland SYsto n " w aY at Nottingham, and terminating at the station of eta and Peterborough Railway at Melton ; and as, none of the s " N is _Positi on i ell were more or less in competition with this project are n .,'sges to proceed to Parliament, and there being many ad h acip at l_ ooth public and private, to be afforded by it, the confident 'ttlrt is encouraged that it will be sanctisaed by the Legis " easuing session. By order, Coth SEYMOUR, Secretary. 11'4,.. ..74m 43 ;'s *faces, 1, Gutldhall-chaintiers, g h all - street, Jan. 7, MS. t4t4STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. S TERN e Diret.. the Eastern Counties Railway Company do, in kellPriet t he Power vested in them by the General Meeting of / „ . 4 04 _, ors held on the 28th August last, and for the purposes Q-er 8 7 n il .th_ rert of the Directors to the Proprietors, call tke 1i7,,1,11 0 2 younds per share on the shares of the Extension tt o , ‘ 4 4l 4o :er the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to be paid ba sed ih n 'r the 22d day of January next to any of the undermen tiV of the Company, who are instructed to receive the b i ,„aist i g'esentation of the Scrip. Interest will be charged upon —44 itth:..?: , •B at he rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, if not duly ove-mentioned date. By order of the Board, 4 11 GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. 1 .1t 4c41 RONEY, Secretary. 1, 4 e4,1 ; 1 1 Westminster Bank, Lothbury, or an of its Branches. 10 °rough Bank—Liverpool. iTtTler and Liverpool District Bank 7 Manchester. ktimr s Dorset Banking Company—Salisbury. Zee ts : Lemon and Co.—Brentwood. pa r , Bawtree, and Co.—Colchester. ktlio n :,N ) arrow and Co.—Chelmsford. 4t1,4 Provincial Bank —Bath. 1 1 ; t tloi l Z p'ovincial Bank—Birmingham. Bank Bank—Boston. exte nt ',lank of Scotland—Edinburgh. '"9 Bank of Scotland—Glasgow. izat ‘ ,l t of Ireland—Dublin. i v t est ~,r'begland Bank—Great Yarmouth. TBrB. i legland and South Wales District Bank—Bristol. ars ar '''Ys and Hudson—Norwich. Cobbold, and Co. ] —lpswich. t'Llte Cn eoder s , and Co. • • • • and Gloucestershire Bank—Cheltehatn. orediteh Station, Dec. 27, 1845. tittiNc, 4 ,: t io and CARLISLE, and YORKSHIRE kPo, GLASGOW UNION AMALGAMATED RAILWAY COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. AndersonW. Iteresford Esq., M.P.. Chairman. ~.. a NY . ke Wyv ' ill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. ar ' E J. Middleton, Esq. 11/' -k allin g E„,' s q• .. • It, It' ColiCtt -st ; W. H. O. Powlett, Esq. C r iatt oe. Es , LK., 31. r. T: "ib,. lsley, E q S . q. R. Robinson, Esq. G. P. Robinson, Esq. T. Salkeld, Esq. Ir. Cion, E sq. J. Steel, Esq. At °,lge E At ' kali l' sq, J. Underwood, Esq. til l a Di e g as, Esq. tile Y c ot . D eti,,, of ,„ a the Shareholders of the Leeds and Carlisle Rail- OaredC 6 thJ ae - ,," 3 ', held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on , vi y " a rY, 1846, the following resolutions were unanimously 'aotiei ~,. 41 front the CHAIR, and seconded by W. R. COLLETT, it ' 4 4 41 04 at th e Esq., M.P. : Og R use report now read be adopted, printed, and circulated , the ion Ntsreho„,lder 4, 0 t , . s n .,...' ' -. .ARBISON, Esq., and seconded by GIDEON 44 q: t tll hp CoLounotrzi, Esq. : 04 t , t th e , -St thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Directors, ` lO r o ; ti c onlldence reposed in them be continued." ..°4 of Wm. ANNINO, Esq., and seconded by Jos. UN et'lla ~ DERWOOD, Esq. :- 1. 4 4 4 t e , 0 4 4 144 141 vote of thanks be awarded to the Chairman for his Cot s ' gba reh ile t in the chair." at4t.Titt ee piders are informed that a copy of the report of the ' - 'eOll 3 , Y Management, with a map of the lines of the Amalga- T, may be had on application..at the Company's offices. % esti.% 7 order of the Committee of Management, `--- arl-r C. LOCOCK WEBS, Secretary. °° flni Basinghall-street Ja n . 6 , 1846. -.._______ 2 _ , PINIII - , SAUNDERSFOOT, and SOUTH trad " ALES RAILWAY and PIER COMPANY. er the sanctien and support of the SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. k r , Capital, 200,0001., in Shares of 201, each. <Orr , Deposit, 21,. 2s. per Share. IleeN-.ARD HULKELEY PHILIPPS PHILIPPS, Bart., M.P., C Chairman. ti ot ernittee beg to inform the Subscribers that the Plans and t hit,°,. 43 and Books of Reference have been duly deposited, the No th"; L andowners served, and everything accomplished to insure ti li t ",,,Neation to Parliament in this session. 1 4,1ra.1 parties having neglected to pay up on their allotments, the : 4 o Pr such payment is extended to the 15th January inst. ; and s _'lle (, ' ": 1 * to insure confidence In the bona tido intention to proceed, `altl" 4l tnittee have taken one hundred shares each in the under * TI Z h. ty 4 ' And entered into arrangements with the Saundersfoot Raii ,N4cl Harbour Companies to provide one-fourth of the Pasha- T h i'Y deposit if necessary. well as the South Wales Rail- Ny.t i uPPort of that Company , as pursuance of the arrange (4eilit;° l eeUred ; and this Company, in P t ile A a lluded to, will insure an immediate u . return on the capital on l h irt ineii iii ig Obtained as the Committee are t n d ot in aw en a t are warran e r e e r t ° a f t na 1, tth 's en tien tin the whole line, they .4 a Iltio, tlexit. 3 t confidence that this will be effected without any Par stAp,,p‘rY contest 4 - ` c ation . in usual form, will pp 15% i a for Shares, the 17 Fludyer-stree , R. ' l st, at the Offices of the l omPanY, ~ be received up to vikcinster ; or at Messrs Carden and Whitehead s, or at A . le . ssrs. risti"ie7B4,_and Harrison, ' Threadneedle-street,. London ; and it is re ''tlreeis"leY may be confined to the exact number of shares re- Th "y each a tht ' Peru pplicant. Si tito„ arnentary Deeds will Lie for ignature at the Offices of r ' 4 4ri,', 4n Y, 17, Fiudy - er-street, Westminster, on and after the 9th -4, 11 g niStant ; and at the different country bankers in the en ,-...,_'Yeelt. • „„ . TEA._..—The finest flavoured, most eco t4 trucia tale Te a en account of its great strength), and the most to '4%Z th. Procure in London in a genuine state, can be ob ,l4,l3ktiane° Warehouse of the ASA.III TEA COMPANY, No. 11, tri, %Ott, f t ., Ki ng William-street, City, or of the authorised agents: irlillyt,fectio'"l4ll warehouseman, Gracechurch-street, City; %Tat -41•1c. na rf ne r , Upper Seyinonr-street, Portman-square ; John Italian Apr 4ili ' onfectioner, 38, Upper Albany street, Regent's warehouseman, 149, Regent-street ; Cox, jun., te f • ' zi reek ta L' . tabrwell ; Bleckley and Co., confectioners, Rye , C A :Pick " 4 , Giles, Italian warehouseman, Stockwell - street, j '" • -- Th 1 , 01 1) : 14 cea f 3 Az= Tea is packed in coloured wrappers, from 4 , 11 ‘ ,„ 4 t on the one pouad, with the arms and address of the tto ~"e, v,i th _ 'ace of the wrapper. Their seal is also affixed at . es. ; /,,,Ze , l , lt which none is genuine. Fine Black, ss. ; Best " r e en, 6s. ; Best Ditto, 75.; Mixed Tea, ss. 4d. per lb. )1 • A few Country Agents Wanted. be. S S'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur ,r t t -es, Ittb..ruil n „,"`"Ag gained such great approbation, and the demand °r tae ftui ._'"ug to increase JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most itt:u Offer thus their best acknowledgments te the Public 41 1eI r lit i 13 gtronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni thkral s ok, ..oates have recommended P., to the most distinguished 1 , 4 4 It i s : e tions, who have all spoken highly in its reco.mmenda %ft k. ts f iiintrePared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint. '417 1 : —es ' a ll Possible ca ' re has been resorted to, by each tel l% 7141,43yea1h.-ed on the cork with their firm and address, as we bi ll 1 04 4 t —4viti g their signature, without which it cannot " atv, tri tG , mann er that has a kh '''-'t of '"SS Cod SON'S long-established and much-esteemed 448,--114.1..7!"uTIOVLES continues to be prepared by them after 'Wa time given the greatest satisfaction for many - B s. 107, Strand, corner of Savoy steps, London. N p t ,,,, k iii WI CER'S C HINESE LIQUID HAIR DY ha E ir, ''l liti 'k o e rst 'lle :' in a few minutes, without trouble, red or gr b e la Y ck, by Dr Ply t4l-Ye,,rows, m oustaches;&c., to a dark brown l c: ea r tion will loZlect ,nf_4 not wetted with the liquid. One "pi 6s., and ~,' Der toD'asing and permanent change. Fri" 3s. 6d., A 0 . ttle ti re ut h,,, • het, v ii r t. , _L of the P roprietors, 29, Nottingham-p s l t a e c h e e , Fieldgate , 68, Corn- Stt,‘lluttor7thaPel-road, London ; also of Mr. Jo tir'''; ita. Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford- Old Bond btt 4,s'olaY, arri ngdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, D e leto_ st - ,, Der, 43 , I.,itr,art c)rtabii.il K in g SVilliam-street, London bridge ; and f n i tin si ayt, l nner s ' e t. Itani ;Elmore Bull-street, Birmingham ; o sent to kiledloine Vendors in town and country. ... 01„, y4a ase t o 1,. ligdorn by receiving a remittance, Pelt - 1 )11 9 , the Prolatietor'""cr N ' 43 f6r " ' and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." ~,,, 2 address is on the wrapper. 1 'A, RE Bali Tlie,„ ,;:‘ RY HALFORD'S FEMALE PILLS. w kt o , m , i, _ a db, by Sir Henry p . i 3, are mate from a prescription given . .. i . r. rei ttt .- , ,a q _., , to the Countess of E-n, for her daughte le z lot - - 7annent cheMist, recommended the prescription to a near . Vit t Pet er u at i t 4, late Earl Crawford and Lindsay, who (after consT e t . vet,i'rei! iNnt,he Most eminent medical men in London and the p e - .1 reiti` she t;`01111Y, was advised to try the German Baths, fr a tter" ) W at, O rn ed to England without experiencing the slightest e. k le t oll,,Z Me use of these Pills, in six weeks completely r re. lltirrropri,i`o.t.`n, and from whom it came into the hands of the P . g e , Oe bi In Amenorrhcea, Chlorosis, Leucorrhcea, lattitaare tiabie,Y, arid the other affections to which females at certain Hysteria, l'r0„ 4410 11.g ti„. lh eY stand unequalled, a fact testified to by several tek4are.4 ote no bility and gentry. 4, 24, iii'J b Y W. A. Byrne, at the Dispensary for Diseases of • _ Martin's -lane, Trafalgar -square. IA b oxes at Is. lA (1., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. Prospectuses, with Tables, Forms of Proposal for the purchase of au Annuity or for making an Assurance, and every information, may be obtained by application at the Office of the Company. E. RYLEY, Actuary and Secretary. T HE TONTINE LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 207. each. Deposit, in compliance with the provisions of the statute 7 and 8 Viet., c. 110, Two Shillings per Share, until the complete Registra tion of the Company, when the same will be increased to 11. per Share, which, with the assistance anticipated from the Tontine De partment, will, it is expected, be sufficient to carry out the objects of the Company. The plan of this Company offers considerable and peculiar advan tages to the Shareholders, as in addition to the profit arising from Life Assurance transactions, it is proposed to raise a capital of 1,000,000/., or more, by the grant of Tontine Annuities, in classes to be regulated by the ages of the Subscribers or their Nominees ; which capital, on the death of the survivor in each class, will be divided exclusively among the Shareholders. The principle of the Tontine Annuities is explained below. TRUSTEES. John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn-house, Hanwell James Martin, Esq , 68, Lombard-street. _ PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn Walter Wyndham Burrell, Esq., Knepp Castle, near Horsham, and 5, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall John Charritie, Esq., stoorgate-street Chambers, City John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn•house, Hanwell John More Douglas Lombard Belvedere-road, Lambeth Walter Etty, Esq., -street Ckambers Edward Hamilton, Esq., M.D., Grafton-street, Piccadilly William Henderson, Esq., 16, Bishopgate-street Within Hector Monro, Esq., Walsham le Willows, Suffolk Savile Craven Henry Ogle, Esq., M.P., 84, Eaton-square, Pimlico. Ambrose Frederick Proctor, Esq., Ware; Hints C oke Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Fleet-street John Alfred Trimmer, Esq., Haslemore, Surrey Forbes Winslow, Esq., M.D., Sussex-house, Hammersmith. BANKERS—Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martins, 68, Lombard-street. SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Dimes, Esq., 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REFEREES. Thomas Callaway, Esq., F.R.C.S., Wellington-street, Southwark James Copland, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., Old Burlington street. DISTRICT MEDICAL REFEREES IN LONDON. William Preston Lauder, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., Sloane.street, Knightsbridge Edward Lloyd, Esq., M.D., Jewin-street, City Walter Heyde Walsh. Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology at Univer sity College, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. CONSULTING ACTUARY—David Jones, Esq., Author of " Tables on Annuites," &c., King William-street, City. ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—WiIIiam Clark, Esq. Temporary Offices, No. 16, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Life Assurances will be effected with all the advantages to the assured afforded by the most respectable established companies. 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D at uk i e o, et -ellird WOOTTON BASSET, JAN. 6.—A meeting of a very re markable and important character at the present crisis was held last night at a village, six miles beyond this town, called Goatacre, a small place with an agricultural population scarcely exceeding 200 persons, but sur rounded at various distances by several similar villages or hamlets. The chairman was a labourer ; the speak ers, with the exception of two, were labourers ; and the object in view was to call public attention to the present condition of the labouring population in this part of the country, and to petition her Majesty and the Legislature to take decisive steps for the speedy relief of their ex-. treme distress. The meeting was to have been held in a large booth erected in a field, but the great expense of providing such accommodation was beyond the combined contributions which these poor people could spare from their very scanty means ; and therefore they were com pelled to assemble together in the cross• road of the vil. lage, and to endure the inclemency of a winter night while they talked over their common sufferings. The whole of the arrangements and proceedings were strikingly characteristic of the occasion. A hurdle supported by four stakes, driven into the ground, beneath a hedge on the road side, formed a narrow and unsteady platform, capable of supporting only the chair man and one speaker at a time. Below this rustic erec tion were placed a small deal table, and some rush bottom chairs, borrowed from a neighbouring cottage, for the accommodation of reporters. Four or five candles, some in lanterns, and others sheltered from the wind by the hands that held them, threw a dim and flickering light upon the groups on this spot, before and around which were gathered nearly 1,000 of the peasantry of Wiltshire, some of them accompanied by their wives and their children, who, thus collected, presented a wild and painful appearance. In the shadows of the night the distinctive garb of their class was everywhere dis cernible, but when the flitting clouds permitted the moon to shine brightly in their f aces, in them m i g ht b e seen written, in strong and unmistakeable lines, anxiety, sup plication, want, hunger, ever responsive in expression to the sentiments and statements delivered by speakers, who merely described in plain unvarnished language the miseries of their rural auditors. The style of the more important speeches, and the nature of the disclosures made in them, demand an exact report of them, which will be found below, abating the provincial accentuation of words. DAVID KELL, a man of rather advanced age, was for mally called upon to preside, and opened the proceedings by reading a printed copy of the following notice:— " Anti- Corn-law Meeting at Goatacre—At a meeting of the committee of the Goatacre Reform Society, held at the committee-room, Goatacre, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, the following resolutions were unanimously carried :—Resolved, 1. That, in the opinion of the com mittee, the distress of the labouring people, caused by the failure in the potato crop and the high price of bread, is such as to justify the holding a public meeting for the purpose of petitioning the Queen for a total re peal of the corn-laws, inasmuch as wheat has risen 25 per cent., while the wages of the farm-labourers have not risen 5 per cent. 2. That a public meeting be held at Goatacre on Monday, the sth of January, 1846, for the purpose named in the first resolution. In pursuance of the above reso!utions, notice is hereby given, that a public meeting will be held in a large booth at Goatacre, on Monday, the sth January, 1846, at half-past six o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen for a total repeal of the corn-laws. —Joseph Brewer, Chairman of the Committee. N.B. It is earnestly hoped that all who are sufferingfrom distress will attend, that their distress may be made known." The CHAIRMAN then said—To all who are here pre. sent, and to my fellow -labourers in particular, I call your attention to a subject of the utmost importance— s subject which demands very serious consideration. You know by painful experience that we are suffering under distress and poverty ; and we are met here this evening on purpose to make known that distress to her Majesty and to her Ministers, to pray them to open the ports and to repeal the unjust corn-laws, so that we and our families may enjoy the bounties of Providence. —(Hear, hear). As it respects my own distress, and the calamities and miseries I have underwent and un dergone, I have spoken of them before at the Ramsbury meeting. But the case is not altered now. I have only 6s. a week for keeping myself, a wife, and two small children. I cannot earn half enough to keep us. 61.105. must go to pay house and garden rent, and no potatoes got.—(Hear.) I say, then, let us unite together to advocate the cause of free trade.—(Cheers.) Free trade for everl—(Repeated cheers.) What was it we were sent into the world for ? Is it not for the benefit of society ? Hath God not committed to us a talent, and will He not require the use of it at our hands ?—(Hear, hear.) There are classes of people in this world, but perhaps they are unknown to many of you, that think that, because God brings all things to pass according to his unalterable decrees, they may sit down and rest con tented, and never think of doing anything at all, except it is to usurp the authority of God. They may look into his sacred word, but with his revealed will they will have nothing to do. Dost thou not know, 0 man I that thou west endowed with a mind, and will, and faculties, which God works upon as his instruments to bring about his all- wise purposes? He looked upon his people in Egypt, and he saw their afiliction and raised up Moses to be their deliverer. Again, he raised up Gideon to deliver them out of the hands of the Midianites ; and Cyrus again to deliver them from Babylon, when they were in captivity ; and, to come nearer our own times, he raised up Oliver Cromwell and many others to do what was to be done. And in the present day, is there not a Cobden, a Bright, and a Radnor ? It is not for us to inquire whether these men are good men or not. It is sufficient for us to know that they are doing a good moral work in our nation.—(Cheers.) But there is an other class of characters which I would speak to, for perhaps there are some of them amongst you ; poor dear souls they are to be pitied, for they are fearing where no fear ought to be. They are afraid they shall be turned out of their labour, and out of their houses ; and they are fearing this great man, and that great man, and the other great man. They are fearing every day because of the fury of the oppressor. And " where is the fury of the oppressor ?" There is no cause at all to fear him, my poor fellow-labourers for, says God, " Behold, I have created the smit h that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn." Let us stand up, my fellow-labourers, for good laws, for freedom, for equality.—(Loud cheers) I envy not the rich man for his riches ; but is it not unreasonable:and arbitrary that the rich should be en dowed with the full and sole power to send Members to Parliament to legislate ? (Hear, hear.) The laws press upon the poor, who never had any hand in making them.—(Hear, hear.) But I do think the time willcome when every labouring house holder will have the privilege of sending Members to Parliament.—(Cheers.) When every man comes under the power of every law that is made, ought not every man to have a voice in making that law ?—(Hear, hear.) And now a word or two for the protectionists. I would ask where is the utility of the protectionist con le on by the Duke of d tending for the corn-law, since it has been proved again that the corn law is Buckingham n ou d cbke a in g ne a gfi i h n t a , tmo b y invincible himndothers, h eßrus ,argument, just ßut hestis as the It a li an l ea d s a b ear through the streets, and when he has made as much money of him as he can, he turns upon the poor crea tureand cuts him up t o mak e bear's grease.—(Great laugliter.) So it is with the poor farmer, and so the poor labourer is brought down to misery and ruin. —(Hear.) WM. BURCHELL then came forward to move the adop tion of the following resolution, or rather declaration: — " We, the labourers of Goatacre and its neighbour hood, in public meeting assembled, do solemnly protest against the corn-laws, which were enacted on the plea of being beneficial to our interest, but have been, on the contrary, injurious, inasmuch as they preventthe employ ment Hear of capital in the imp ro vement of the soil, and and thereby diminish labou r, and raise the price of the first necessaries of life. An d w e labourers declare that we are lingering out a miserable e x i s t ence un d er th e idea of being protected.” — ( , hear.) He considered that this was the best resolution that the meeting could carry. (Burchell finding a little difficulty at first inexpressing himself, one of his fellow-labourers Tt i w n hoe th c e he c um r na o grr w k d called out, " N ever m i n d a b ou t a wor d or y w m as en ec c h a o n ed u b n y de m rs a t n a y nd voi w ee h s at ) y r o; was m e a o n n . e " timesft mt the e h s e poorptra present stated e d n that h timea t Wiltshire thisit labourerswas corn-law au i nwhoju protection were y t u sufferingt them.-(Bear, enw .a_ a (f or under r eta hr e, b a h te, p na r er e .fi t e n o e ef tdh: tcorn-lawtherefore, eah.uo .ei protection.ghop classes,e d that au ttl he they me had y a nwbt would maintained d umany thatnite in petitioning for the speedy removal of that pro tection, and the establishment of free trade for the nation.-(Loud cheers.) God Almighty in his provi dence caused the earth to produce abundance of provi sions for man, and what one nation could not produce another could ; therefore everything should he so ma naged as to have free commerce throughout the world. -(Hear, hear.) The labouring classes were in a most distressed condition at the present time-worse than last year, when he said at Wooten• Basset that every man with five or six children went to bed more in debt than he was the night before. His condition was worse than it was that time twelvemonth. If wages had risen within the last few years ls. a-week, the price of bread had risen 25., so that the difference was against himself and his family.-(A *oice-“ True, we be always going back.") He hoped the Legislature would take into con sideration their distressed state, and find a speedy rescue for the oppressed poor.-(Hear.) He could maintain the truth of all that the chairman had stated about their dis tress. He believed that there were at the present time many who had not a bit of bread to eat. He did not know whether the man was in that congregation or not, but one man of Lytieham parish had told him that many a night he had gone to bed hungry.-(Cries of " Ah, he is not the only one"-" No, net by many.'') Those who were in distress should come forward and manfully make their distress known ; that would show the necessity for free trade, which he believed to be the the only remedy.-(A voice, " It can't make us worse.") 20 or 30 years ago, the labourers of Wilts used to go up into the hills and make a good harvest ; but since trade had failed it was no use f or th em t o go ooking for reap ing, for many thousands of " scribblers" and weavers out of employment wentyand ji t t low wages. But he believed that if' ev e ry .c.ribbler had work at his mill, and every weaver employment at his loom, they would not rob the poor agricultural labourer of his day's work.-(Hear.) Many persons said that free trade would make things worse for them ; he did not believe that to. be possible, and all he wanted was that the experiment should be tried.-(Hear, hear.) He had heard that in centuries past labouring men had for food bread,. and butter, and cheese, and beef, and pork, and beer ; but now it was bad potatoes and salt. He was often thankful that the streams and rivulets were so bountifully spread around their neigh bourhood, and that taxation could not be written on their bosoms.-(Hear, hear.) But it was distressing for a man to get up early and go to work having little or no victuals, and to return to dinner upon a few potatoes, and then be afraid sometimes to eat what he had.-(A. voice-" 'Cause you: would not have any for to morrow.") He had- heard it said that there was no market for meat. Why was that ? Because the people had not the means of purchasing meat, therefore the consumption was not bigger. He was past forty years of age, and he could say that he never purchased a pound of good slaughtered beef fit to be carried into market. As to mutton, he had purchased a little of that, but never as much as would average a pound a year in the forty years. He knew what veal was, but he never had any at all. He believed that the only way to improve the meat market and increase the home c c co ri n s c u l :ad p e ti b o y n, ea w il a i s ng to o e n st t a h b e lshre m i to f u e nit t e rade, and inpe he titioni lld petitioning g ou for free trade.-(Cheers.) Free trade for ever !-(Re newed cheers.) CHARLES VINES, in seconding the resolution, said- Friends, I wish the moon was a little brighter just now, that I could see better who is here ; but I see enough to find that there is a good many people, and almost all of 'em wear smock-frocks and poor old hats as I do. Some of us heard from a pulpit a short time ago that the mind of man is like to be dissatisfied. I believe it. Dissatis fied minds have brought all these men here to-night.- (A woman's voice, "Ay, and women too.") I believe, fellow-labourers, that-if you and your families had full bellies, you would n6w have been at home, after being working hard all day, comfortable with your wives and families.-(" Ay, - that's true.) I am sure I should not have walked all the' way up here from Christian-Mal ford, through lanes and paths full of mud and dirt, if it hadn't been for that.: I don't come here to talk politics. I don't know nothing of 'em. But I don't know much of the corn-laws, only"that they ha'pt done we labourers much good.-(Hear; Near.) Everybody knows that.- (A voice, " I've had,'em staring me in the face ever since 1817.") Yes, the coin-laws exist, and every one of us feels that the sooner they be abolished the better.- (Cheers.) I don't know whether many of you read newspapers, but I must tell you that in the Wiltshire Inde pendent, not long ago, there was this statement made by a labourer of Christian-Malford to the editor :-" As Mr. Bennett, M.P. for South Wilts, lately stated at an agricul tural meeting that the poor of Wiltshire were always em ployed regularly at the rate of Bs. and 9s. per week, and that they were well fed and well clothed, and as I know by experience that that statement is false, I will, if you will be so kind as to sEllow me to occupy a small space in your valuable paper, prove that it is so; and I will tell what I earned for 39 weeks ending the 10th of June, 1844, to maintain as large a family as almost any poor man has. The number of my family is eight; all of those 39 weeks we wanted 7s. a week for bread, not having any potatoes a third pars of the time; so that, if I had not been receiving Bs. a week during all that time, it would not have been enough to buy bread and firing. And now, Sir, I will tell what was the exact amount of what I did earn during those 39 weeks; it was 51. 19s. Bd., which is not quite 3s. ld. a wee k. This report is almost enough to make you stagger to believe it, but it is no less strange than true; and I can say, for a truth, that if it had not been for a little land which I rent of the Hon. Earl of Carnarvon and the Rev. Mr. Law, and a few good friends amongst my neighbours, my family and my self must have died from starvation; it was not much better as it was. Nowlwill ask the Hon. Gentleman if he thinks he is justified in stating such things at public meet ings? I could say a great deal more on the subject, but I will leave these remarks for Mr. Bennett's present perusal, and say a word or two at some future period, and I sincerely hope and trust that these remarks will open the said Mr. Bennett's eyes a little, so that he may see that the poor are in distress; and I sincerely hope he will make speeches and try to adopt measures for the bettering the condition of us poor labourers, end I don't doubt but that it will redound to his praise, and I think he, in so doing, will glorify God, who alone knows the hearts of all, and the distress which we, as a nation, are labouring under, fore there has been an increasing dis tress for years past ; many in this parish are now suffer ing greatly for want sof work."-(Cries of, " Ah, that is true, all true.") This case, so stated in that paper, was the case of the man who stands before you.-(Hear, hear.) And now, my friends, the purpose of my being here to night is to prove to you the accurate sum that I earned from September 16, 1843, till November 23, 1844, which is about 62 weeks together, with the amount of money earned by me down to the 31st of December, 1845, which, if I reckon right, is about 119 weeks and three days. Together with relief when ill, and 29 weeks for a boy, 12 years old, who was allowed 3d. a day, the whole sum amounted to 421. ss. 5d., that is exactly 75. lid. a week, or thereabouts. Now, I will ask any labourer with a wife and six children, to step forward and, if he can, tell me in what I am to spend this money, so as to pay every man I deal with 20s. in the pound ?-(" Why thee, can't.") If he can, I shall be glad to take a lesson in economy of him. lean only say that my wife and myself have made it our study for the last 14 years and more. She says she can't make the money do it, and yet I am proud to say she is as good a wife as any man has got.-(Cheers.) I would remark here that there are other necessaries besides food. There is house rent. I pay 4L a year as a good many in this meeting know. Now, 119 weeks, which go a good way towards two and a half years, will take away 91., leaving 331. ss. 9d. Then I reckon 'Aloes a necessary.-(" You can't do without them.") I take what a pair cost me two years ago ; I haven't had any since, nor my family, and I suppose we never Shall any more. I paid 12s. for a pair of water-tights 4. and if there is any shoemaker here who will make me another pair at that price, I shall want at least six months' credit.-(A laugh.) If he wants them he shall have two bondsmen farmers, and I will be bound to say that they must pay him, for I don't see that I ever can.-(Laughter.) Then there is a pair for my wife, 6s. 3d.; for my oldest daughter (14 years), ss. 6d.; for my oldest son (11 years), 6s. 6d. daforhmteyr next son (9 years), ss. 6d.; for my next g youngest child (2 years), ls. 6d. All that to buy food 21. 4s. 9d., leaving a surplus of 31L Os. week for eight in a for 119 weeks, being ss. 2id. per if that will 1 all the world to judgesum family. I leave' . is sufficient to keep a family, • ht in number, in food. eight atrmue,suforre- -solmo-eitePnvedpoani'dt amountsf u or to at d: s s meet. My bread bill, (, N o , that you can't.') That n i atne d in obno f te o hT. t " u h)e r n e, for I have no good can't pay for your bread."- (" from 7s. 7d. to Bs. Bd. a week. a e n r d do do l n k 't n s o e w e a h n o y w w l tt ,m y to to pay for for for since- know ( ' No, lh asotwJuly, it ut c loy a Then you'll say, make'et o h , e ti d mo acre, and there is not a good potato po tatoes, hardly one fit for a pig to eat; for I do rent a bit in it. I've got here one I had boiled for my dinner to day; I brought it for a specimen. (Tbe potato was ow f itof what 'afaotnardntdnh wi l loes wobihalf future; waaf handed down and examined under the lanterns; it was black with the prevailing disease.) Yet this is what I am to feed upon when I get up to work at four o'clock in the morning, if there's no bread in the house. It is a long time till July next before we get new potatoes; and unless something turns up for we poor creatures, starvation stares us in the face on both hands. But I sincerely hope " longlooked-for" will come before July next.-(Hear, hear.) -To obtain our rights effectually we must all, with one heart, lift up our cry and petition her Majesty to remove the restrictions upon trade and commerce, so that the poor labourers may have bread and cheese and good table beer, to enable them to do the work which their present scanty food never can.- I (Hear, hear.) May tlAt cry meet with a reply from our gracious Queen. God save the Queen !-(Cheers, and responses of " Amen.") Friends, every man who is born and bred a labourer has for his birthright a living from the soil, to be obliined without being restricted by any laws-unjust laws I might call 'em--enforced by our Legislature.—(Cheers.) I will now read a few lines which I have collected together with something of my own, showing the right of an English labourer:— " My only claim is this.: With labour stiff and stark, By lawful turn, my bread to earn, Between the light and dark. My daily bread, and nightly bed, My bread and cheese and beer: But all from the hand that holds the land, And none from the Overseer. —(Loud cheers, and cries of "No overseers fur we.") " No _parish money, nor parish loaf, o pauper badge for me ; I'm a Km of the soil, by rightful toil, Entitled to my fee. No alms 1 ask, give me my task, For will, or arm, or leg; I'm strong and bold, and to this I'll hold— To work and not to beg."—(Loud cheering.) WILLIAM PARRY, of Charlton, said, I have come a 1 1 ditance of twe n ty m il es t o t e ll m y t a l e o f di s t ress . I h ave six childr e n, a w if e , an d myse lf t o ma i n t a i n on Sc. per week, bread b e i ng 15d. p er ga ll on . Th e f armers te ll us that our wa ges go accor di ng to t h e pr i ce o f b rea d ; b ut : t en springthere h clothing had 7 s. re to a a w nd eek fi , ri a n n g d w c a o n u t ld ed, bu a y nd br h ead ous a e- t 9d. a g a ll on . N ow it is 6d. more; and a gallon a day, Pay ; but there is nothi ng t o p a y f or any o f t h ese being one pound to each, is what we want in my family. things. I told th e re li e ving -officer that I could not keep my family on my wages. He said he would bring my case forward at the b oar d of guardians. Well, hesent me an order for one of my children to go into the work house. Now, fellow-labourers, is not one child as dear to you as another ?—(Hear, hear.) Well, I did not know which to send. I could not part 'with ne'er a one. I said to my oldest girl, " You are to go into the work house." She did not like to go, and I spoke to others, and there I had the cries of my poor children, which were piercing to my hesrt, " Don't send me, father, don't send me 1" Was not that enough to try a man, without the pressure of starvation ? I spoke to master about it. " Oh," he says, " if you cannot maintain them, you had better Send one into the workhouse ; I shall not allow you -inv. -more r wages." I said; 4 ‘ What benefit is it to send this child into the workhouse, and banish it from its home; it will do the rest no good, nor that one either. Besides, I should have it always upon my mind for no man would like to part from his children in such a way."—(Hear, hear.) I spoke a few words at a meeting at Uphaven, and master told me I had done myself a great deal of hurt by it. I know I only told the truth. He said the farmers might have done me some good but for that. I wanted some better potato land, but master wanted 81. an acre for it. I told him I could not pay that. If I could get three acres of land at the same price that the farmers get it-21. an acre, I could provide for myself and family.—(A Voice— " Ay, the labourers would not let the land go out of cultivation.") But the farmers say it will, if we have free trade.—(Aries of " No, no.") Where I come from there are fields and fields full of nothing but thistles. Why ? Because there are not farmers enow to culti vate the land. Some of the land our people reaped pro duced two thistles to one wheat ear.—(Cries of "Shame, shame.") I was at home emptying this wheat, and mas ter came into the yard. I said. " Look at this." The thistle down was flying off like a snow storm. I said, " You had better have had more labourers to cut the thistles out; the land will never be cultivated while this I goes on." He said, " But I have kept all the sixpences in my pocket."—(M urmurs .) I w i sh the farmers would have public open meetings to di scuss t h ese su bj ects. There was a meeting in Devizes, where Mr. Bethel made a grand speech, and said that the labouring men were all in a flourishing state and well satisfied.—(Cries of" He's a liar.") Mr. Bethel was in a warm room, had, per haps, had a bottle of wine, and was himself in a flourishing state when he said that ; while at the same time his poor labourers were starving.—(Hear, hear.) If it was not for potatoes, starved we must be.—(Hear, hear.) How does the poor man get clothes ? He lives upon potatoes and salt, and saves a little to buy two or three rags, or else he would be positively naked. We could better ourselves if we were permitted. I told master that, if he would let me have three or four acres, at V. an acre, I could keep my wife and family without coming upon him or going into the workhouse. But they won't agree to it. They say if the land is let in that kind of way it will go out of cultivation ; but that is the very way to bring it into cultivation. Fellow-labourers, there is one thing that we are very wrong lit. We goes to work at mowing, cutting and slashing away, without asking master what we are going to have for doing it before we begins. But I know very well that when a man asks a fair price, the farmers say, "Go along—l don't want thee. I can do without thee." The man who speaks fairly, and asks a fair price for his labour is sure to be persecuted. But we should unite together, and know before hand what we are going to have for doing the work.—(Hear, hear.) After some further remarks upon the low wages paid to agricultural labourers, which bad reduced them to a miserable condition, worse than that of transports, the speaker said—there was nothing left for them now but starvation or free trade. He believed that free trade would give them good beef and bread to eat, instead of potatoes and no meat or bread. Bad living had made the agricultural labourers physically weaker ; he hoped also that it would now have the effect of making them wiser. It had made them wise enough to attend that meeting. They must speak out their distresses, or they could not expect relief. His master had told him that he thought himself a fool for not turning him away for attending the meeting at Uphaven. The fact was, the farmers wanted to keep the labourers in the dark. The farmers and landlords held their meetings in pri vate, and would prevent the labourers from having any meetings at all. The labourers must be persecuted for meeting together ; but farmers and laadown owners might meet and devise how to starve the poor labourers, and that was all right.—(A voice—" Never mind, it won't last long.") He hoped not. His master (Mr. Wansborough) said, that free trade would starve them.—(Cries of " Let's try it ; why we be starving now.") Ile said, " You won't have any money if you have free trade." How many in that meeting had money ? He would venture to say none.—(A labourer —"I have been five weeks without a farthing in my pocket ; I have never see'd any money all that time.") He saw no hope for them but in free trade. There was plenty of bread and meat waiting to come into this country, but the corn-laws would not let it come in. Their cry, then, must be, "Free trade, free trade for ever!"—(Cheers.) They were told that if corn became cheap, their wages would be reduced. But were their wages now according to the price of bread ?—(Cries of "No, no.") When corn sank in price 2s. or 3s. a sack, the farmers took off Is. or 2s. from the labourer's wages ; but when corn went up again the labourer was left in the lurch, for his wages were not raised.—(Hear.) He should like every labourer to come forward to tell his grievances. —(A voice—" Then the meeting would last till the 31st December next.") No, not if they got free trade before next summer.—(Cheers.) They must not be afraid to tell the truth. His master told him that if he had not gone to a meeting he would have done a great many more things for him.—(A Labourer—" Why did he not do 'em before ?") It appeared that he never thought before of doing anything for him. Although this meeting was large, he knew that there were hun dreds who were kept away through fear of offending their masters. His master told him that if he went to another meeting he would turn him off. But when engaged in a right cause they must not fear man, who at the most could only destroy the body. Let them fear God, and trust in him, and they would succeed. W. TAYLOR stated that he had a wife and four chil dren, and expected soon to have five; and was at present out of employment. For the last seven weeks he was in work he got 6s. 6d. per week. For many days he had been without a bit of bread to eat. v y e o your ince fellow-labourers l t a o b . o d u a r y e ., r , s ) pro tected Wiltshire labourers. Were you discharged were so weak you could your employment because you not work ? TAYLOR Yes, I could not work because I was not A person in the crowd—But you are one of the fremstrong enough ; I could not get victuals to make me so ; and my master, Mr. Styles, of Whitcomb, discharged send free trade. A voice—Go to the Duke of Richmond at 17, Bond ms t re Anotheree t. I — have ( C r vi e n o s o i e of voice—Did D k iii nde Hear, er w v, e , hr eandaa any y, , not :oaf a sixpence, any s t t a o r - v d i n a to-day give you bread when you were starving ? n s e n v e e e r d a l times.not but what that man gave me (pointing to a labourer in have c l al h l e a d u 't had himself a m the ay cr G ow o d d , A w i h m o ig re h p t l y ie s d oo " n Yes, man ;his emaciated appearance • spoke in stronger terms than his voice could utter.] [ThisTA TAYLOR— rYme yes, JAMES PEGLER complained that he had been " hunted down" under the poor-laws, having been, with his wife and family, forced into the workhouse, and separated from them for eleven months.—(Cries of " Shame.") At last he was turned out to get work ; and, because he went out of the district to find work, he was taken before the magistrates, and charged with desertion, for which he was sent to prison for a month. It was no use for him to grumble ; he was served so again after that. God bless my heart and life ! (exclaimed this man) " I never seed sich agoto be sure as how I was served. I knows enough of starvation and misery to make me say, ' God send us free trade'.' "—(Cheers.) The resolution was then put, and unanimously agreed to. Mr. COLE said that he bad no idea until he got on the platform that there were half so many persons present, neither could he have believed that in a district where there wore comparatively few houses, so large a number would congregate together after the toils of the day, many of them coming from a considerable distance. But it went to prove that hunger, the cause of a dissatisfied mind, would drive people to do many unusual things, and make them submit to serious inconveniences. —(Hear, hear.) He believed the time had nearly arrived when the atrocious corn-laws would be blotted out of the statute-book.—(Cheers.) Lord J. Russell, a nobleman who enjoyed the confidence of his Sovereign, bad de clared that those laws were not only the blight of com merce, and the bane of agriculture, but the cause of penury, death, and crime among the people.—(Hear, hear.) Could such laws, then, be permitted to remain in a country like this ?—(Cries of " No, no.") They w ere morally repealed already.—(Cheers.) He was sati sfi ed that Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell mu st re p eal a the corn-laws. Would the protectionists _nry, for Committee of inquiry into the truth of Lord J. Russell's _ _ ng assertion ? No. They refused the self-same thi ng ~~~ PUBLICATIONS. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXVII., Is this day published. CONTENTS 1. PARLIAMENT AND THE COURTS. 2. SHAKSPEARE IN PARIS. 3. LEGISLATION FOR THE WORKING CLASSES. 4. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN GERMANY—THE GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 5. LYELL'S TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA. 6. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN STATE CONFEDERACIES. 7. SCOTTISH CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE AND PRO CEDURE. R. 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Orders to the respective Newsmen should be given at once. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY• CHARGE AGAINST MESSRS. LABERTOUCHE AND STAFFORD. _ )e a ,r, t co i fi, k o nr n em i j e c s u tf e oc° rr r t k e m h d l appropriation, not d h " , aving purchased stick in accordance with a written order, the mo ney having been deposited for the purpose. Bail was given I caw, hnei A adsr res t gnuteo C pat ok l af l eo srlyne fraudulent ge against u - h s b e t l rihce public, whose hal i grpo ' Police - office, i c e a , b e this r t o u d ey a hw y eoh by Mr. Labertouche. His partner, Mr. Stafford, has not to yet surrendered to the commission of bankruptc y, and held some property. Nothing could be better devised than Nicoll ' s Re taking out-door exercise. fgoirsmteirnegd,Pasaleittotntoowsuditoetsh,e ever -varied nature of our climate, not li moanylybothaaie.dsidneist7ougy t 0 00mf mark railway traveller, but is equally so adapted for any n on m ntleman the costume of the nineteenth century, if that is rightly called marked which is only conspicuous for an unpretending and graceful bearer, the wearer feeling so much at ease. Certainly as an over-coat it is patronised highly, and is also a general public favourite, being so peculiarly English, and avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac knowledged as a vast improvement ever the old great coat, associated in our remembrance with an uncomfortable sensa tion of tight buttonings, which, from its very clumsiness, defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering with the proper circulation of the blood. The principal hues are black, blue, brown, and olive ; also the clerical mixture called Oxford, and can be had of the patentees, or only of the most respectable clothiers out of London. Every winter paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with the words, " Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. H. J. and D Nicoll, 114, Regent-street, London. After the return of the Lord Mayor from Windsor, on Saturday last, the Lord Mayor, in the high spirit of hospitality by which he has been long distinguished, entertained, at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and the Irish deputation who accompanied him, together with about forty members of the Corporation of London, and Aldermen Humphery and Hooper. The entertainment was quite unexpected. The members of the City Common Council had entered their names for a dinner at the Albion Tavern, in Aldersgate-street, and had sent an invitation to the chief magistrate to take the chair, and it was not until their arrival at Windsor they were made acquainted with his Lordship's inten t thin to entertain them at the Mansion- house. The old English hospitalities of the Mansion house were kept up to a late hour, and the warmest ofacknowledgmen ts f h f excellent feeling of the Lord Mayor of L0.1 1 c! n were made by the chief magistrate of Dubli n And h is jovial associates in the mission to the Queen. In some parts this promising line are in most activ e . p ro gress. ..—The works on the general state of forwardness on line, and the DUNDEE AND PERTH ItAajorltWl,cors no tunneli n g orother formidable nature of the country r equiring g formidable works which so seriously retard the completion of takings, the directors hope to be enabled to open been the en edn p f ar e ol r rn m ei a dt n iyi e e n d t e l rails ive e delivered, , r are and already h e e such under Most of the rails at Perth. and other appurtenances have con tracted for.--Caledonian Mercury. next October, and in time for the Caledo a u n n rse ia d n en o H g f T A B BAPTIST MI SSIONARIES.—Yesterday evening a funeral sermon was preached at Finsbury Chapel by the Rev. Mr. Hinton, for the Rev, Dr. Yates, late missionary at Calcutta, and the Rev. William Knibb, the well-known negro advocate, who died recently at Jamaica. The former was well known for his classical attainments in the literature of thn East, and as editor of various translations of the Bible in India; and Mr. Knibb as the pastor of the ebief Baptist church in the island of Jamaica. engines et being iair eeleatiitnig; CIIIITSTMAS lIOLIDAYS. 11, 61 :____ A L , POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, —wiures fir this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and Soff6.l. Bachoffner in CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILO '. Le e be be Illustrated by interesting and brilliant experiments. W !e _ on the PREV ALENT DISEASE in POTATOES willbe 'pr a tiT by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL ' I.l' Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of winch, ear 04,04Zeral Persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the ttoa. MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA- Denrael i tr, v ery effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex tba .3 1 ' Means of the DIVER and DIVING BELL. Among AM:l4l,T,.additiOns to the Working Models is 41;oleman's NEW teem LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de tlttri;geua.....eueed Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL ill the 11...'"" D mvne, the celebrated Flute Player, will take part Psit conducted by Dr. WaMs. Open from Eleven 4 Half "'Ye and from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening. Adadsaion, One Shilling, Schools, HEAD INN, COVENTRY. Conducted hy JAMES WILLIAMSON. J Iv TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. t olluz: takes the present opportunity of thanking his numerous tOrls,7re, F riends for their lib era l suppor t f or th e l as t fi ve y ears , C0n4:" .5,3 , by strict attention to their comforts, he shall receive a of their favours. to ognMercial Gentlemen generally, J. W. begs most respectfully f3 tcoui l :: has made arrangements to receive an increased number ot Vrah i .v t 'eatt e guests, assuring them his best endeavours shall not be I lhtble7 rnder their visit to the King's Head at all times de- Path es, Rooms convenient for the exhibition of stock. nes, Flys, and Gigs, always ready, at moderate charges Agent to - the London and Birmingham Railway. a. Coy he po act,' a►s ile an t t y right, lea 111/61' TO division of profits is annual, and the neat will be made in De cember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Ste. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post office, London. DIRECTORS. JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Chairman. JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P. John W. Buckle, Esq. Stewart Marjoribenks, Esq., M.P. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq.. M.P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomson Hankey,jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. James Moak Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. Jolts Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. A. W. Roberts, Esq I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. AcTuAay—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared In June 1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the SUMS insured, on an average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842. On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0081. Loans granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 50/. La the FIRE DEPARTMENT, prepetur of profit was declared on the 4th of June, upon the iums received on all Policies which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1844, and the same is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted), between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office ; and also by the Agents in the Country Districts. Notice is hereby given, that assurances which expire at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams, 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall; or with the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they becom void. GEORGE KEYS, e Seeretary. THE AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COM PANY, 126, Bishopegate-street, corner of Cornhill. Capital, 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares. DIRECTORS. Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhonn, Esq. Robert Brooks, Esq. C. E. Mangles, Esq. Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq. John Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq. TRUSTEES—Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. ; J. IL Capper, Esq.; Edward Thompson, Esq. Arurrons—James Easton, Esq., end C. Richardson, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples. BANKERS—The Union Bank of London. COLONIAL BA:slum—The Bank of Australasia (incorporated by Royal Charter, 1835), 8, Austin-friars, London. PuTstmAN—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square. ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—Edward Ryley, Esq. The following are the specimens of the rates of premium charged by this Company for the Assurance of 1001.: WITH PROFITS. WITHOUT PROFITS. Age. Annual Premium. Age. Annual Premium. 20 .£1 17 1 20 £1 10 3 25 2 2 1 25 1 14 11 30 2 8 2 30 2 0 7 35 2 15 2 35 2 7 0 40 3 4 0 40 2 15 3 45 3 15 6 45 3 6 6 50 4 11 8 50 4 1 8 55 5 9 7 55 5 0 5 No extra Premium is charged for residence in the Australasian or North American Colonies, or at the Cape of Good Hope. Peculiar facilities are afforded for the assurance of the lives of persons proceeding to or residing in the East Indies. Premiums may be paid, and claims settled, in Australasia and the East Indies, by indorsement of the policy. Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company on very favourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu tion that Annuitants participate in the profits. The following are specimens of the rates of annuities granted for every 1001. sunk : Male Femalo Male Female Age. Lives I . Lives. Age. Lives. Lives. 35 £7 1 5 £6 13 5 65 £l2 12 0 £lO 19 0 45 718 1 7 4 9 75 I 18 9 2 16 3 5 15 913 0 8 8 9 80 I 25 8 9 20 2 7 THE BEST APERIENT AND ANTIBILIOUS MEDICINE FOR GENERAL USE IS F R MeAffectuPaTlly°reNli e, S es t P he l s L to L mach o a F na b ll ow E els A b L y Tgelnitioßre'hlaifah -awcihte, sickness, houtgrlping or prostration of strength. They remove dizziness, pains in the chest, &c., are highly l e o a n d , grateful to the stomach, promote digestion, create appetite, relieve languor and depression of spirits ; while to those of a full habit, and free livers, who are continually suffering from drowsiness, heaviness, and singing in the head and ears, they offer advantages that will not tailto he appreciated. This Medicine has for many years received the approval of the most respectable classes of society, and in confirmation of its effi cacy, the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr. Prout, with permission to publish it, and, if requisite, to refer any respect able person to Its author: — " To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London. " Heavitree, Exeter, Aprll24, 1844. " Sta,--I feel pleasure in being able to bear my strong and unso licited testimony to the excellence of your " Frampton's Pill of Health," which I consider a most safe, efficacious, and very superior general medicine. The widow of an officer, an elderly lady, an d near relative of mine, has used them —very rarely having recourse to other medicines for a long period of years ; she has recommended them extensively, and in one instance in which she induced a person to adoptthem, and supplied the first hex herself, they have proved or extraordinary efficacy. I think that perhaps there is scarcely any other of the many patent medicines before the public of equal value as a " friend in need"—certainly none possessed of superior claims I shall be happy on all occasions to give them my individua recom mendation, and am, Sir, " Your obedient servant , * * * • " Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London, price Is. 1 d. and 2s. 9d. per box ; also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the Kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTOX'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. HOWITT'S VISIT TO O'CONNELL, TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, for JANUARY (the Commencement of a Volume), Price One Shilling, contains — Visit to Mr. O'Connell at Derrvuane ; by William Howitt.— Children.—Fairies and Railroads.—Naples in 1843-4 ; by Madame Wolfensberger.--Notes on Gilfillan's " Gallery of Literary Portraits;" by Thomas De Quincey ; No. 111., Shelley.—Love, Jealousy, and Vengeance ; a Highland Tale, by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.—Oliver Cromwell's Letters and gpeeches.—liow is Parliament to get through its Railway Business ?—Literary Register.—Politics of the Month. W. Tait, Edinburgh ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London. rI IEN LECTURES ON THE CHRONO THERMAL SYSTEM of MEDICINE. By Dr. DICKSON. Price 2s. 6cl. _ Lecture I. The Nature of Disease and its Causes ; Chrono-Thermal Medicines.—Lecture 11. Ague, lever, Spasm, Palsy, Epilepsy.—Lee tore 111. Apoplexy, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of the Joints and Glands.—Leeture IV. Inflammation, Blood-letting, Absti nence.—Lecture V. Gout, Gravel, Rheumatism, Skin Disease, Dropsy.—Lecture VI. Dyspepsia, Insanity, Convulsions—Lecture VII. Diseases of Women, Cancer, Miscarriage.—Lecture VIII. Ani mal Magnetism, Hydropathy, Homoeopathy, &c.—Lecture IX. and X. Chrono-Thermal Method of Curing all Diseases. Simpkin and Marshall, Stationer's-court; J. 011ivier, Pall-mall. Thirteen copies for twelve. ' lll l ' 3 / 4 11 D. EANIS.IIIE, Secretary. i '-'„IRECT LINCOLN, E AST RETFORD, kg a "'ID SHEFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY. 4ilertzikingaarantee to the public of(their na fide character of this un tho ti the Committee have own expense) completed 0 ,7, tar get !, and Sections appertaining thereto, and duly deposited 4 "fs of the most perfect order, in compliance with the standing .paittu nent. Irit‘ticotices have also been served, and every standing order, 4k ilsoot e tePtion, has been complied with ,up to the present A Th e 4, )1421 Shares have, therefore, been Allotted and Posted this a Zitero „, '-'ePosits on which will be received by the various r l ne - g et .' ,_ l le_ompany from the 10th to the 20th inst., inclusive, .P rtificate will be ready for delivery on and after the - " t wit, at the offices of the Company, 47, Eastcheap, London. CHARLES WILLIAM BEVAN, Secretary. GUL L I V NEXT WEEK, AND EVERY WEEK. E R, Price Threepence. ~ He cloth bestride this little world of ours like a Colossus." Shakspeare. Office, 90, Fleet-street, next deor to " Mr. Punch." ID's. rev the Patr ic AY° J. 0 ' -Psirj6' 500 Of ti d* l L er bp ore' I;iim ~~q•~ on 1) idle' 3 9 4; ret't V. 8• : Oa tklo . of