The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

_EVENING SUN SURREY THEATRE. e An excell ent a d aptat i on o f M . Felix Pyet's ,elehrat e d d rama Les Deux Serruriers was pro u.ueed a t t hi s theatre last evening, under the ho e of The Two l oc k sm ith s , or P over ty an d er bile• We do not wonder at the tremendous m ll a whi c h t hi s drama has had on the Continent. or two hund re d n i g h ts h as a ll P ar i s b e i ng lotidin g to witness it. The situations are most 4 = 9,*elli ously contrived, and the charact e rsstrongl3r dr awn, and admirably d eve l o p e d, w hil e th e inte rest increas es i n i ntensity up to the very close °t, the last scene. It i s true, that i n th i s, as i n a ll °Lae'. melodramas, certain circumstances are required to be taken for granted which can p ar , ee l.> be supposed to have happened. Such, instance, as that the most promising student ?Übe University of Oxford should, on being 1 411 , dd , eniy reduced to poverty, gain his living by c ( , l t'ing - as a journeyman locksmith; or that a rich banker, after having been knave enough to ''Beat his own brother out of an inheritance, by Purloi n i ng a will, should have been fool enough I k eep the said will for years locked up leis iron 'repository. Why did he not destroy w I bis is a questi on s ome what difficult to an ', h - er ; but we feel much obliged to lain for not oting done so, inasmuch as the preservation of t i - ' t will has secure d to us one o f t h e " mos t effec .•,, L ve dr amas we have ever witnessed. The t uanker, M urray, the rich villain, was well per (4111"(1 Mr. Neville. The virtuous locksmith, pl i eel W Davis, wh o t urns ou t to he Murray's ne ; to ew, the son of the brother interested in the will re which we h ave before alluded, foun d an a b le Prese ntative in Mr. N. T. Hicks, to whose C e e r, rgetic pra i ses of virtuous poverty, and fierce gods " a uciations o f h eart - corrupt i ng M ammon , t h e as in duty bound, responded by thunders ( l a a PPlause. M rs. H enry V i n ing, as t h e banker's • ,zughter, and the beloved of George Davis, was eee dingly interesting; and Smith, as a drunken ho ant, acted to the life. These characters, wever, may almost be called the common itiae„e of melod rama ; b ut t h ere i s one c h arac t er ) 1 / 2 "ns Piec e w hi c h i s qu i te or i g i na l , t h at o f P au l k i ll ' the thievish locksmith, the man who 1„ahl fain be the Mephistopheles of Davis, te 're not the virtue of the latter proof agairist Ptation. We have recently had books on philosophy of everything, down to the w ri n ,g a cravat. Paul Burl is the very man to 4 ,. n .`e a book on the philosophy of thieving. He T a lues the morality of dishonesty excellently. N e d as an example, his answer to one of it i V is's hi ;h-flown eulogies on probity. "Ah ! SPu ~1 1 very we ll to ta lk a b ou t probity while alit,,,l'are a shilli ng i n y our p oc k e t, and baker s ' go ti r s are open ; but when the money is all • 1 40 ,? and the baker's shop is shut, the ath e u ltY Hies up to Heaven, or to some place clti ar r t e People live without eating, or where e ra loaves are given away gratis." . p e 's astute enough to see through the hypocrisy Philp " Thieving i s a nasty word," says th e A e i °Bo phic Burl; " call it working !" He fights v ell e .tY with its own weapons, turning its con- N,onalisms against itself with admirable tact, t ) v lieh is the same thing, with consummate li4 g ,enee. This character was admirably per t() ett by Mr. Henry Hughes, who evidently aq-llthPjetely comprehended the meaning of his th e` ur) and e n t ere d t h oroug hl y i nto t h e sp i r i t o f het, ch aracter. W e h ave never seen anyt hi ng • ti etn er in its w ay than the Paul Burl of this men ;'` Ate h ' The pie ce , which was loudly applaudedi,i l 'u)4 ea Ing•g"°nt The , Was announced was well filled for repetition every . . 1 / 4 1 14 d V ICTORIA THEATRE. '. Was produced l a st even i ng a t t hi s th ea t re th e p he Two L oc k sm i t h s . I t i s a trans l at i on f rom e and contains a great deal of hatred and re a little repentance just at the end. The is . laid i n a r London, and the plot turns upon the fact • et i i l e.. hanker having in his possession a will of his 111 e b b)li g since dead. In this will are three legatees, banker ker aforesaid, his sister, and his nephew. The tliqe7,-„lf,enurse is a v ill a i n o f th e fi rst wa t er , an d th e - j e , 44 , 114, kept th e ne ph ew ou t o f hi s p ro p er ty, needlelt "mg fortune of fifty thousand pounds. It is wasss2 however, to give the plot or criticise the piece. W 444, ' is j i• ° s ueccssful but the audience, with great good ho i s t ened to it with calm resignation.—Mr. Paul, whi,h l‘ 4 . 11 excellent actor, takes his benefit this evening, n Uinero e u li s cl l u e di w e i n l ( l e be equally gratifying to himself and 1 1 tv...,. --s-,-SI.JI,AII, AND ORIENTAL -'EAIV I NA.VIGATION COMPANY. lJThe s e co n d I T (THIS DAY.) . etors -..alf-yearly General Meeting of the Pro of thk ts, - 434 . 11 * 51 , St n.' •olnpany was held this day at the Office, uividend '„,,LarY Axe, for the purpose of declaring of bireetor:r I." eiV . ur the Report from the Board In._ I :o r th ii - ' -Inuer We „" half-year ending . the 30th of Sep- Pr°e eedinp., ar- P r evented from giving a report of the Sep was vet ' ' Its "r reporter, on applying at the office, Y Uneourteously refused admission. 8 Z (Jl2 --*-'..----' 1 - —E lib RctiU It C H-RA TES. .1r,,,,_ (FROM A CORRESPONDENT. of tIi7nURY, WILTS, Nov. 29.— Last T A;4k the houses i tl , e Rev. S. S. Watson, and M essrs. Overhury, Wil l)), t l curt, Gough,delift,.-uw Applegate,wer e entered th e constable tobroker,an forwith warrants granted by 4 ~„4 1a gistrates, seize what their instructions called ' (\ n lireh-rates duly assessed," and " justly due." 16 . ' 4 Saturday last the farce of a sale was . performed on lii k troperty, at the . L es Arms, in this borough. The q ers on the occusim o i p were the Churchwarden, an ex , titehwarden and a poor man employed to do dirty w°11 ( t ' 1 ,, a elections. . 4 1 4 " e lots were carried off—being sold and bought, or k id ,_, 0 e P1564 d t 1 3 sold and bought, or pretended to be sold tli, "Aight—by the parties . ; . who,_ of course, thought W trisel ves performing a religious duty, in the support it f St ate Church. al :ust to uf the sufferers are conscientiously opposed hi 4 J e k - rate s ; but, in the present case, rested their re o . r otl the ille,galit)- of the rate. ~,,,;. f course the present state of things prevented their 41 °N a al lY mal'zing the objection before the Bench; but th 4istrates were not left in ignorance on that point. . th is " executing. justice 2" Til e 1 , ttititni TVEATii ER.—LO SS OF LIFE.—ThiS the 4 ,1 g, about h a lf- past six o ' clock, four persons, of Is li7 e s (4 Pearson, Davis, Price, and Hodgson, litat- N:s! arid who resided in Manor-street, Chelsea, were NI p li di ng by water to Hammersmith wi l th . their tools, D4 tt r ioie to repair a vessel which was i in that Y . 11 g by some kei d b i the river. They were all rowing, w hen, luil e 7 1 , 5 t,, the boat came in contact with another about a coubcp side of the bridge, the concussion of which, 11 41: 4 with the boisterous state of the weather, caused Nv ktt. at to upset. and all four were precipitatedinto the l'4 I;‘r I) upset. Price, and Hodgson saved themselves,_ lnm _ ng NI 'V e h li ngim , to the boat, the other two by swi i ,i , I, ' ' "ut P4rson unfortunately was drowned. 14, le 1 4 , 4 _,,, ._ EDO ' ' ll -VAL CAL NIA N HUNT.—By the deaths ;i4 ait t i lgi, i, Ilviavil of Home, Marquis of Lothian, and Earl ta t q ,tr,‘_Ulll so short a time . of each other, three va- NI ' ' ; (1 0,/,,,, 1 "1re to be filled up in the Caledonian Hunt. '4 4 -4041 jq g A Coura n t. 44ervell eY and the Rev. Mr. Millman had an terd,xl;elP ,with Mr. Phillips, at the Home Office yseess '4;4.4 rilating to the presentation of the addyes t lZ,he Nt'; bring the Parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster,_ ll - "„tie r e. -4 J es tY and Prince Albert, on the birth of Ni te ~1111,t1 t hr e e "---- Yesterday afternoon, between two ~."' I NI e'e lock M Thomas Germaine, a gentleman ti rtillr, e:' 13:1k,;4.1s11.c,otrittiein:ipcilanet,,pr,)peirt.y, who resided at No. 2, West ii. City-road, put a period to his existence "self through the . heart with his own ,h,Naiii,' ll4 ,- For some days past . the unfortunate gen ' iir e tli e a s t l ueeu much 'depressed in spirits. It is sup- 1 , iv -- u e co , ibe I) ) '', l Partly d ri , , act while in bed (as he was ynn 1 I that he discharged the h 4 liT e ,in" th e ;85;e6'' am foot of the bed. He was IL - ')' trigger at the . ' , i., wi.#,7 Years of ue.C. His wife died several years ago. ' 411 da1 . ,. 1 ' 1114 (= THE NANTY,- . -=ln consequence o f a lia n ce tor increasing the manual strength of the n avy'_ . ' 'lle s :,,' has been fixed s . on as one of the ports from wh ic h six il ;r , 41 ilaurts are to be drawn ; and during the last ;41.1,1i5t leOPply which has proceeded from this quarter , Z i ll 11, 3: , lio i m i eans s ‘ can—upward m s e o n f ~--va.ti, -.Ts, .anusinen as well as sea , . T .,..,.... s'ee44;retiusseelves in her Majesty's naval serv i ce.—Dun- u ng ndr e e n d . l a iav h i 4 f e w ' e• . t ' a t, l lt D m ornings since a military execution -.4 () hi- at Marseilles. A sergeant named Lemoin, 4 ' 4l lal t 41 k illed his Sergeant-Major by discharging . his (- :rt e ,. t . l ,.lse to his body, and had been condemned by t ie,,. 4Lartial, was shot in presence of the whole gar ' t.lvir in ; t l l. e . died repentant, and with great firmness, ti Iv' l slALtoon appointed to shoot the command to Q4 ' 41 -1 0,-T s u `vu mouth. The Pharo on which the exe- S.kb t - -7 c plac e was crowded with spectators. . ilic,it half -past four o'clock this morning, t4 e ''', 4 , SQvere gale, a high stack of chimneys fell on ,&(1 1. 1',,0f a cottage situate in Bland's livery stable ,;"e ro'f• .3tarllford-st-reet, Bla.ckfriars-road, and carried_ „Tiiit --6.'1?, burying a man and his wife and child. ~.--,.er'ne 'ne T.i-lailer and police-constable Malyon, 21 L, hearing -, i4li; v e s of human beings, instantly went to the spot, 14R by their combined exertions, succeeded in extri;t : Nt a: Unfortunate family from the ruins, happily wit !pIY other seriou s result than severe bruises. ill.; (91„,JECTED IMPROVEMENTS AT KENSING :4I,;:, 'Ye understand that in addition to the projected . Itit-e,;(neilts on the Crown lands at Kensington, it is !ick ,„ e4 to remove thatportion at the rear of the south i hk -. th e ji• 1 i "thit e i ig i-street, as the "Rookery," now ~N * Ye, ' hY the lower order of Irish, which has been ,Li h , s _ - rs the imisane ‘ and annoyance of the town and i_ett,,`)urliood, ' an I .c t erect thereon buildin . gs of a 'N' ,ntld more eligible class. Actions of ejectment th e iikady been commenced against the occupiers of t , ' A tis : B * .41( '' I) ` RI IIALS FOR HISTORY.—The Prefect of Nitic)rjl(l,g'ne has adopted a system which, if general , h 4 vj la, invaluable to the historian. He has opened h. ti ( ,,, t 4 fiT, in which is to be inscribed, with duo aut en 14 us a etlt t e summary statement of every remarkable 'reqi, "at occurs within his department, such . as . the qf i rit lls and demolitions of public or private buildings !IN,, erest, iinportant occurrences, storms, - ie r '.' 'lets doing honour to individuals andfamilies , ,.in 4ister'ry event and circumstance which may furnish Leal materials for posterity. THE FESTIVAL, WITH THE TES TIMONIAL TO WILLIAM ICENSETT, OF MA RYLEBONE. Upwards of one hundred gentlemen sat down to an excellent and well-served up dinner on Friday evening, at the Colloseum Tavern, Portland-road, for the purpose of presenting to the above gentleman a service of Silver Plate, for his exertions in the cause of the ratepayers of the parish. JOHN WILLIAMS, Esq., of Regent Circus, Oxford street, was unanimously called to the chair. On the re.. moval of the cloth, the Chairman rose and said that the custom of proposing the Queen's health had been sancti fied by time, and under circumstances when the great body of the people had no sympathy or regard for the ruling monarch. Happily we had one who was justly popular and esteemed ; her sex commanded our gal lantry, and the event of her giving birth to the Prince of Wales, the future monarch of a great and glorious people, whose happiness or misery depended on the good or ill he may show in the important character of ruler to a free pecr i sle, was one of high interest to these realms. He should not occupy their attention, which he must unprofitably, if he attempted to dilate further on this subject. He should propose our gracious Sovereign the Queen, and may she " contipue to reign in the true soil of liberty, the hearts of her people, and may pos terity, when reading her history, exclaim this was the first Sovereign that governed for the benefit of her sub jects. and not for a mere class," which was drank with enthusiasm. The national anthem being given by the musical gen tlemen, all present joining in the chorus, The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the next toast. He said the conduct and lively interest taken in the for mation of the mind and character of the Queen by her excellent mother the Duchess of Kent, he trusted would be imitated by the daughter in the formation of the mind of the Prince of Wales.—(Cheers.) The blessings or the curses of the people are in proportion to the good or evil emanating from Thrones. (Loud cheers.) He hoped that the example set by the Queen Mother would have its due influence in this im portant event. The toast he would give was one to which justice he was sure would be done—" The Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Sussex, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family in England."—(Cheers.) Mr. EDWARD JOSEPH said he had been requested by the Chairman to give as the next toast—" The people Of Marylebone." They certainly were a large community, and the public events of the last few years had exhibited their moral power by the efforts they had made in se curing and enforcing from " the poWers that be " the rights and privileges of the people. Such a cause had brought forward many among them who had rendered good service to the cause of freedom and justice. The event that had brought them together that day illustrated this. By the exertion of the worthy gentleman whom they sought to honour for his patriotic and invaluable exertions—(Cheers)—may such causes and effects be familiar with them. " May the inhabitants of Mary lebone long enjoy a distinguished part in the public estimation, by their advocacy of right, and their abhorrence of wrong."—(Cheers.) The toast being responded to, Mr. Hudson gave an inimitable comic song from his own pen, which produced great laughter and applause. Mr. H. C. WILSON rose, and said he had been re quested by the Chairman to give the next toast—it was the most important feature of the evening, and he felt it an honour in having it assigned to him—namely, to propose the health and present in their name the ar ticles of plate subscribed for by them as a testimony of their esteem and admiration of the character of their trusty friend, William Kensett, whose long, steady, and consistent conduct in the cause of the people had been a just theme of admiration and praise by those who knew him best and witnessed his exertions for the public weal. —(Cheers.) Few men had been more abused by the corrupt portion of the public press, and in a way that set justice at defiance, for whilst they gave way to the ad mission of every stream for vituperation, they refused to him the least chance that was offered to meet and refute the calumny put forth by these vehicles of slander. This, however, was a debt which his excellent friend, William Kensett, paid by a life of usefulness to his country ; and those who knew him best bore witness to his conduct and character, by the liberal and handsome manner of pre senting the Plate now before him, as a testimonial of their esteem, and the number who attended that day to give their countenance and approval to this triumph of prin ciple and usefulnss of purpose.—(Cheers.) In addition to his tried public services, he (Mr. Wilson) felt bound to him by private worth, acts of personal kindness he had experienced ; and the task he now undertook, to dwell on his merits, was one particularly gratifying to him, bearing testimony, as he could, to the kindness of his heart and the extensiveness of his social virtues. The toast, " William Kensett's health, with prosperity and contentment through a long and happy life," was drank with vehement applause ; some minutes elapsed before the cheering subsided. The Plate, which consisted of 46 pieces, was handed round for the inspection of the company. The inscrip tion, from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Fellows, will best show the intention of the donors : " LONDON, 1841. PRESENTED TO WILLIAM KENSETT, As a Testimony of the grateful sense which his Friends and Fellow Parishioners entertain of his long, unwearied, and highly beneficial services, in the Representative Vestry of Marylebone ; and in conjunction with his Public Virtues, they cannot leave unnoticed his Private Worth, nor forget the bland and unsophisticated hilarity of his disposition in the friendly intercourse of the social hour." Mr. KENSETT then rose, and addressed the meeting as follows :—" Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—l knew not until now the difficulty of expressing one's thoughts and feelings under emotions created by boundless kindness and liberality. My too partial friend, Mr. Wilson, has exercised his command of the, English language in a powerful, and to me, a painful manner ; and your more than generous response has increased the difficulty of" rny situation. My friend has dwelt on the evils attendant on the abuse of that powerful instrument, the Press. It is too true, Gentlemen, that for the humble part that I have taken,' some of the prints of a certain cast of politics have not thought it derogatory to their dignity to abuse my humble efforts to be useful. This having been the lot of most men distinguished by their patriotism, devo tion, and talent in the cause of the people, surely so humble a person as he who is now occupying your atten tion, can afford to pay the same price for the same cause. I feel more than amply repaid by the approval of those who know me best ; and that such approval does exist, is testified by your liberal kindness to me this day, and which has laid me under a deep sense of obligation. It is usual to express on such occasions as this which now calls me up, a declaration that this moment is the proudest of the speakers' life.' Not so with me—pride has nothing to do with my feelings—they are a humiliating sense of how little are my deserts, blended with heart felt gratitude for the manner in which my humble efforts have been approved.—(Applause.) The attempt to be useful to one's country is at least something. That I have made an humble attempt I feel—that I have made a successful one your kindness would fain flatter me to be true. It is sail that the public is an ungracious master. I believe the public is never wanting to the man, who, with consistency and integrity, is not wanting to it. I claim to 'myself integrity of purpose, and per haps (fcr you have taught me to be vain), some industry ill carrying that purpose out.—(Applause.) I sought to deserve well of the public at large, and obtain the appro bation of my neighbours and friends the way in which that approbation has been showered upon me is the only cruelty I can complain of—cruel because it has un manned me, and deprived me of the little power I pos• secs of declaring my gratitude. When I rose, I meant to say much more, but a man's head and heart cannot' be both full together. If I felt less I could speak more— if your kindness had not touched my heart, my tongue would have, at least., attempted to do me justice. All I can say further, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, is to ho nestly and heartily thank you, and calling in the aid of our immortal bard, I can truly say, "Beggar that I am, poor even in thanks, still I shall thank thee."—(Great applause, which lasted several minutes.) Mr. Beuler gave a song, written for the occasion, which produced great laughter and applause. Mr. JOHN FREEMAN then rose to propose a toast. He said that a very pleasing task was assigned to him, since the subject was one which produced, without partiality, fruitful source of praise. The open, candid, honouralYe, and straightforward conduct of the Chairman commanded the esteem and admiration of all who knew him. — (Cheers.) As a tribute to his worth, he invited the company present to drink his health, prosperity and happiness.—(Great applause.) It might truly be said, that while he was a niggard to his own interests, he was prodigal alone to that of the pub lic.—(Cheers.) His eminent and indefatigable services to relieve the Borough from a political thraldom, and the energy and industry which lie exhibited in that noble attempt were beyond all praise. Although hun dreds worked with him in the same good cause, he-was rec ognised as the most distinguished among the distin guished.--(Cheers.) The urbanity of his manner, his cheerful spirits, the liberality of his disposition, and the kindness with which he treated all who have the pleasure of hisi acquaintance, a subject uni versa lly k nown an d aclnesledgaendt.a—(edheers.) " The Chairman's health, M a y he live long in peace, health, and prosperity."— (The toast was given with three times three.) The CHAIRMAN rose amid great cheering, and said, he felt much honoured by the flattering way in which his friend Mr. Freeman proposed his health, and the kind manner the company had responded to it. He had been called upon suddenly to the post of honour he then filled, and he could only say that he was gratified by being thus honoured by his fellow rate-payers. Besides, there was no ordinary degree of pleasure in presiding ohonours an political justice a ti t l o e s f o r v i er end a W fe i s l l t i i a v r a n l Ken, s u e p t t, to d l (Laughter and applause)—.and, as one highof the most affectionate of his sons, it afforded him gratifica tion to be distinguished at such a joyous meeting._ (Cheers.) His humble services to the p ublic had been dwelt on. If he had rendered the smal lest service to the good cause, he was more than amply repaid by the ap proval of good men. He hoped always to remain steady and con sis t e nt i n t h e a d v ocacy of principles beneficial to the welfare of the people.—(Great applause.) lie could really say that h e k new no t the true enjoyment o f life until lie enlisted under the banner of Reform. His associates and friends had given him a higher zest of mental enjoyment than he had previously imagined. Such occupati on t en d e d , h e b e li eve d, t o make every man a better and a w i ser man, and would enable him , at the eve of life, to l oo k back with a calm and contented mind —that would go far to alleviate even the affliction of body or mind. He hoped he should continue to live in their esteem, and that his desire to continue in life would cease when he had not the approbation of those with whom he associated. Gentlemen, I beg you will accept my best thanks.—(Applause for some minutes.) litessrs. Hudson and Beuler, the celebrated Cowie ' l '~4R} song writers and singers, attended out of respect to the meeting, who, with Messrs. Furness, Hall, Bert, with several other musical gentlemen, entertained the com pany with some excellent songs ' • and the hilarity of the meeting was kept up with good feeling and spirit until a late hour. ANTI-CORN-LAW LECTURE AT HUDDERSFIELD, BY COL. THOMPSON. (From the Leeds Times.) The Operative Anti-Corn-law Association of Hud dersfield having invited Col. Thompson to lecture in that town on the subject of the Corn-11ws, a meeting of the members of the Association and the inhabitants ge nerally, was held on Monday evening, the 22d, in the Philosophicall Hall. The hall was quite filled, and we understand that it will contain 1,500 persons. A con siderable number of Chartists were present. _ _ Mr. B. RourNsoN Wa.? electeJ Chairman, and having briefly stated the object of the meeting, Col. THOMPiON came forward amidst loud cheers. He said, after a few introductory remarks, that he knew there was a great variety of opinions on every one of the subjects which he should prohab!y touch upon. He did not come there to invite disputation or quarrel on those points, but to lay before them, for their judgment, the conclusions to which he had arrived ; but he should be quite willing, after the conclusion of the lecture, to answer any question that might be proposed to him, only conditioning that the questions should either be put through the Chairman, or be put in such a concise and tangible form as might be easily understood. They were told that this was a complicatsd question, and if by that term were meant that it involved a great many individuals in the consequences, he was ready to admit it; but if it were meant that it was so complicated a question that an ordinary man was not to touch it, then he very much doubted its complication. He would suppose them the inhabitants of a small island, as they were of a large one, and that the soil of the small island was moderately good for agricultural purposes, but that the interior was mainly composed of coal and iron, and everything necessary for carrying on manufactures, and that they also had a hardy and bold maritime popula tion, willing and able to carry the results of their manu facturing industry from the island, and exchange them with foreign countries, for whatever was more valuable in their produce, when brought home, than what they carried abroad. Suppose population increased in this island, as increase it must, and the time came when the proceeds of agricultural industry began to be rather scanty for the population, there being of course no in crease of the soil of the island, but a great increase of the population, and that at the same time the manufac turers were aware that they could carry their goods abroad, and exchange them for food there at a much more advantageons rate than at home. Nov: it seemed plain, that after being driven to cultivate*soil more and more unfit for cultivation, and which would produce less and less of corn, the time would arrive, as the popula tion went on increasing, when the wants of that popula tion would press upon the products of the soil. In this state of things, then, suppose the growers of corn stood up, and said, " Oh, no ! that will never do for us ; corn has now risen to a certain price, and if we allow you to go and buy corn abroad, it would never rise above it ; and that would be a sad thing for us ; and, therefore, we, particularly if we possess the power of making the laws, will make a law to prevent you from bringing home the produce of other countries, and if we do not prohibit it, we will lay a tax that shall cause the price of our corn to rise." In other words, " we, the lucky owners of the soil, will put the difference into our pockets."—( Hear, hear.) Was there anything fair in such a system as this ? Was it not a confiscation of the property of those who owned the under soil, the coal and iron, and other things employed in manufac tures, to put money into the pockets of the owners of the upper soil, on which corn was grown ? Would it not be just as easy for the manufacturers to do the same ? Suppose they were to say, " A bounty on foreign corn would be a capital thing," that would be very like a tax on home-grown corn ; suppose they were to make a proposition of that sort, what outcries and exclamations would arise from the agriculturists. How then did they establish the justice of putting a tax on the manufactu rers any more than on the:nselves ?—( Hear, hear.) Look at the speeches at agkicultural meetings ; they wanted nothing but fairness, nieatting the present laws ; they wanted nothing but justice, meaning a tax on the industry of the manufacturing classes.—(Hear, hear.) He feared the time would not soon come when the in justice would be done away with, unless the manufac turing classes began to talk of putting a tax on them by way of compensation.—(Loud cheers.) See whether that would not bring them to their senses.—(Cheers.) Let the manufacturers ask for a tax on home-grown corn, or a bounty on foreign corn, which is the same thing. Take all the arguments of the agriculturists, and they would serve on the other side as %veil. The agriculturists said they spent their money in buying the goods of the manufacturers, and therefore the more they had the better it was for the manufacturers. They did not say so to the man who took their money out of their till ; they did not allow him to persuade them out of their senses, by telling them the more be got the better it would be for them.—(Laughter.) Suppose he said he would come and spend it all at their shop, did that satisfy them for the robbery ? He thought not ; he thought it amounted to nothing, but robbing them of the prime cost of their goods, and returning them the profit.—(Loud cheers.) They would find the agricul tural gentlemen telling the manufacturing classes all the money they got from them came back again and was spent with them.—(Cheers.) Perhaps they would say that this was but a rough statement. It might be so. There were many more consequences to follow. Let them endeavour to trace what would be the consequence of allowing such a system to be carried on in the sup posed island ? if the landlord succeeded in preventing them from purchasing corn from abroad, and population went on, pressing, as of course it would do, against the limits of the food produced in the island, what could be the possible result but that the same food being divided amongst more people, every one must get less.—(Cheers.) He did not mean to say that the Archbishop of Canterbury would gct less. He was well fed, and likely to be ; but this only proved that the scarcity would be more severely felt by the rest. Then do not let them be deluded by seeing that there were some men not brought to starvation by the system. Lord Wellington said he did not believe that men were starving. He saw food enough.—(Hear, hear.) But if he were to ask him (Colonel Thompson), or still bet ter, those whom he was addressing, he thought they could show him men aild women not suffering under the exhuberance of food.—(Hear., hear.) The Duke of Wellington said it was want of employment, and he (Col. Thompson) was quite sure that it was the want of the food which employment ought to divide amongst them. If they could go abroad and provide trade, ca pitalists would find the means of employing the opera tive advantageously, and giving him good wages ; and it was because they were surrounded with a wall of brass, that they did not do this, and that the operatives and their families starved.—( Hear, hear.) Suppose the captain of a Hull vessel took some of their Hud dersfield goods and carried them to Hamburgh. They would sell for so many dollars, and the Hull merchant would say, " What can I lay these dollars out in, so as to take back a cargo of goods for sale in England, that shall make my employers smile ?" The Hamburgh merchant, perhaps, proposed that he should take corn. " Oh ! but," said the Hull captain, " Don't you know there is a tax on foreign corn ?" Timber, perhaps, was next proposed, but that was .just as bad. He might take Canadian timber, which was rotton and full of creeping things, but not good timber. "Oh !" said the Hull captain, " you will not find me coming here again, if I may take back nothing that will pay." If there is some thing at Hamburgh that he cannot sell in England he might bring it here, sticking-plaster, or anything else they did not want.—(Cheers.) Was there an Hudders field merchant there who did not see how injuriously this operated upon himself ? To take the subject in another point of view, let them suppose the Hudders field merchant sent goods to America, then they had to compete with the Saxon merchants. Say that the cloth sold in America for 10 dollars. Of these 10 dollars two must be paid by the Saxon merchant for food for his labourers. The Huddersfield merchant might give exactly the same food to his labourers as the Saxon merchant, suppose it to be neither better nor worse, but he had been obliged to pay two dollars for the food and two dollars to the landowner as a tax on the food. The Huddersfield merchant, therefore, had only six dollars out of the ten, while the Saxon had eight dollars out of the ten.—(Cheers.) Was not this a clear premium to the Saxon merchant to sell us out of the market ; and the consequence was, that he did sell us out of the market.—(Cheers.) He could go on selling for two dollars less than the Hud dersfield merchant to the American. Let them is all their operations look at the landlord's tax as something tied like a log round the necks of the manufacturers. What was the consequence to them? Reduction of profits, and getting into the bankrupt list.—(Hear, hear.) What was the reason why the young men who had begun business within the last ten or twenty years had entered in such a large proportion into that dread ful list ? Then with respect to those who, like Solo mon's lilies—and it was the only respect in which they were like them—" toiled not, neither did t h ey sp i e .” Rent, if they examined it closely, was not the produce of industry. It was the last thing a man ought to think of increasing by restrictions on his neighbours Here was a man whom God had made rich, who said, " It would be very convenient for me to have 20,000/ a year, instead of 10,0001., and I beg you will be so complaisant as to assist me in getting it." And what was the effect on the operatives, those who lived on the wages of labour ; and first the manufacturing opera tives ? Was it not plain that unless they could put an end to the increase of their numbers, or find some way of reducing the numbers that actually existed, they must, under the present system, go on hidding against each other for less and less wages ? Was it not clear that if the people went on increasing in population while the quantity of corn was not allowed to be increased, they wore in the situation of a town besieged, whose resources were cut off by the enemy,—. (Hear, hear.) The quantity of food must be divided in smaller proportions, time after time, amongst THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEILBER 30, 1841 1 those who eat it. Was not this, then, a competent reason: for the misery that existed amongst the working classes 2—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the agricul tural labourers, the owners of the soil did not give them any more than they could help, but the agricultural labourers increased in number also, and, as a consequence, they were li:weed by competition for work to take less and less wages. They were pinched . down to short alloWance and starvation pay, and it need not be wondered at that they presented the same hungry and palid faces as the operatives in the manu facturing districts.—(Cheers.) The farmers were in jured by the system, and the landowners also (except that class of landowners who seemed to have a patent for keeping their children at the public expense), by preventing the opening of new channels of industry, which would enable them to give respectable stations to their children without splitting up their property. What was the case now ? If the landowner made one of his sons a lawyer, there were more lawyers than briefs— (Laughter)—if he made him a clergyman, there were more parsons than ti►the.pigs—(Laughter)—and if he made him a doctor, there were more doctors than pa tients who could pay.—(Laughter.) Besides this, there was such a thing as land being increased in value, in consequence of foreign commerce. There was a notable instance in the repub.ic of Genoa, where land was universally poor in quality, producing only a little fruit and a little oil, but Genoa in its time, and till other nations undersold it, was a mighty trading re public. A great portion of the wealth of the world passed through the hands of the merchants of Genoa. Its merchants were princes. But rich men were fond of land ; they liked parks and gardens, and the conse quence was that the rents of land in Genoa rose to a height they never would have reached if the people had been confined to the small quantity of oil and fruits that the land produced.—(Loud cheers.) Venice was an other notable instance. Venice, though built on a few mud banks, was once the queen of the world, through her commerce. Some might say that the people of a country ought. to confine themselves to the produce of the soil of their country ; but he should like to know if Venice would ever have been the queen of nations if she had confined herself to the few mud-banks on which it was built ?—(Loud cheers.) The;;;;;Coldinae care, and not lose their home trade. Why did the old butter-woman go to the town, and not sell her butter in the village?—(Laughter.) Because she knew she would get more for it in the town than in the village where it was created.—(Cheers.) Stop one of these old women, and say, " You are coming away from your home market." She would answer, " I know that very well, but I am going from my home market to a better." —(Cheers.) There was also the question of machinery, which he had no wish to evade. He confessed that the opinion he had formed as to machinery was, that in the long run there was vastly more of a balance of good and evil than any man ou the face of it would think. He knew an eminent individual who had sprung from the working classes, who had told hint that for seven years together in the great metropolis of London, he diligently endeavoured to discover a case in which machinery had finally ended in diminishing employment, and could not. He had not found one. Many of the working classes had come to him and represented that they were likely to endure great suffering by reason of the introduction of machinery, and he had said, wait a while, and come again to me, and they did come again, and confessed that they were agreeably disappointed. The printers and compositors complained of the intro duction of a machine for printing, which was going to be carried on by steam, that would so cheapen print ing, that authors could print 500 where formerly they only printed 250. He told them to wait awhile, and on inquiring the result afterwards, they confessed that the printing business had so far increased, in conse quence of the introduction of the machine, that they had just as much work as before. A still more remark able instance was that of the printer's pressmen, who came and said, we must necessarily be ruined if steam is to do what we formerly did by the labour of our hands. " We, said they, pulled the press formerly, now steam is to do it." He examined those men after, and they acknowledged that it had not turned out as they expected. A great deal of work was done by steam, and the consequence was, there had been so much of what printers call bye-work, that is, odds and ends, still to be done by hand, and which was increased in conse quence of the great increase of the printer's trade, that these men confessed, on the whole, that their condition was just as good as it was before.—.(Cheers.) If they were to rival foreign nations, how were they to do it but by making use of the ingenuity which Providence had given them, and multiplying their productions by im provements of all kinds. It was but a week or two ago, that an intelligent operative of Manchester sail to him, that nothing made men invent machinery like want. The Corn-laws had been the great inventors of machinery. The profits of the masters and the wages of the men had been reduced. And the great cause of the invention of machinery had been the urgent wants of masters and men, sharpening their genius, for it was said, " necessity is the. mother of invention," and so increasing the natural progress by which machinery would have otherwise advanced.—(Cheers.) He wished he could impress on that society, that machinery was the least likely thing for men to agree to prohibit. They all used machines. A plough was a machine, a spade was a machine, and so was a small-tooth comb.— ( Laughter.) He did not see any chance of persuading men to revert to their forme r practice of doing without them. It would be returning back to the habits of a savage state. So far as foreign commerce was con cerned we should be cut down in the scale of nations.— (Hear.) He thought there was a great. mistake in talking of the comforts of our ancestors. He doubted those same comforts of our ancestors. True, there was more of the land capable of cultivation, and fewer people living on it ; that was a good reason why they should live in more comfort than under their present restrictions.--(Cheers.) What was required was the opening of the commerce of the world to honest industry, the ceasing to prevent the manufacturer from carrying his goods abroad, or what amounted to the same thing, to prevent him bringing back the goods which would pay. Then he thought they should see a cessation of the present misery. It was almost useless to talk of pri vate charity, or of public charity either, with a starving population. The constant complaint was, that the men who paid the poor -rates were as poor as those who got them, and that it was only by the most stre buous exertions that they kept themselves on that side of the mark line, as a hair which separated them from paupers. (Cheers.) Had he (Colonel Thompson) a thousand pounds to spare, it should be given in this way. He would go and pay the tax on a portion of American flour in Liverpool, and then he would bring it to Huddersfield, or Leeds, or Manchester, and sell it at the natural prices, and tell them, " Here you have the corn for 2s. that would have cost you 35., hut I have paid the Is. for you int o th e l an dl or d' s pocet."— (Loud cheering.) He could not but think a system of charity of that kind would place the monopoly in a strong light, and might shame their legislators into taking off the tax.—(Loud cheers). Thy would see that he had purposely avoided all questions of a poli tical nature. He was known to hold as strong poli tical opinions as most amongst them, for he had always held his colours out.—(Cheers.) He came - there, moved, perhaps principally, certainly in a great degree, by the belief that to put down this prominent evil would be the most effective way of striking a blow against the evils that oppressed them elsewhere. What did it spring from, but the circumstance of a particular set of men having seized upon, and become possessed of, power to legislate for others.—(Cheers.) Let them have something like equality of legirletion.—(Loud cheers.) They would not then see mischief like that he was en deavouring to expose. Still they must bear with him, if, in the exercise of his private judgment, he did what they thought wrong, in believing that this was the point upon which, to speak in the language of Cromwell, "the Lord had delivered them into our hands."—(Loud cheers-) Take them on this sore point, and he believed they could turn them as easily as a blacksmith did a piece of heated iron.—(Loud cheers.) Having these strong opinions, do not let them blame him for uttering them ; do not let them qnarrel with him, if they found they did not entirely agree with their own. (Colonel Thompson concluded his lecture by repeating his offer to answer any question, and sat down amidst loud cheers.) Mr. EDWARD CLAYTON said, he had a book in his hand which stated that if' all the foreign corn grown were poured into England, it would not satisfy the people of England for twenty one days, of co rn was produced could be pro cure d . — (H ear, gentleman stated, th en t h e Colonel TnoupsoN said, they had never as k ed to get what they could not , bu t what they could. Tho question riculturists had nothing to f ear ; if not, he thought b he a ro r. a ) d, w butl If a i agriculturists t s w o aa t t s what quantity ntt quantity e o u it was still better. It was stated that in America there was land that would produce food enough to feed two worlds such as the present—(Cheers) —but they .did not put them in cultivation, for the simple reason, that we would not buy it of them.--(ch eers.) Mr. CLAYTON—It was Mr. Fawkes, the Chairman of Morpeth and Milton's Committee, who stated it. He found that the silk trade of Dublin from 1801 to 1819 was in a prosperous condition, but in the latter year the protection duty was taken off, and there was a free trade in silk., and the effect was that the Dublin silk trade was ruined. There was one effect of free trade. He would say, first let them feed and clothe themselves, and then let the residue go abroad.—(Loud cheers.) Three acres were stated to be competent to produce food for live persons. We had in round num bers on this island thirty-one millions of human beings. These statements were taken from Porter's progress of the nation. If they had suMtgiozy of land in this country to grow food far CAa e hundred millions of peo ple, why sliould these be such an outcry for an increase of foreign trade, seeing that as fast as foreign t ra d e h a d increased, so had the working-gangs wages decreased. TiAemelsetN—Thore appeared to be three ques tions included in what the speaker had said. As to the putting down of the silk trade in Dublin, he never denied that it was possible to get up a trade by means of monopoly, but the trade in that case was kept up at the public expense.—(Hear, hear,) Here they had a trade ef this kind. That waa no reason why they who wished to drive an honest trade, should be compelled to submit to support a dishonest one.--(Cheers.) He did not exactly collect the terms of the second ques tion. The third was on the subject of land. It had been said there was land enough to find food for a great number of people ; he (Col. Thompson) would ask them—Why did it not do so ?—(Loud cheers.) Were they to suppose that through some strange defect of intellect the agriculturists were not able to cultivate their land ? Was it to be supposed that they required the manufacturers of Huddersfield to go and tell them how to produce more ?—(Cheers.) If they produced it, there were plenty to cat it ; and if they did not, they would take the liberty to believe it was because they could not.—(Cheers.) _ Mr. CLAYTON—IIe has not given a straightforward answer to the list question.—( Hisses.) Col. THOMPSON—Perhaps I have mistaken the question. If you will repeat the question I will try to amend it. Mr. CLAYTON—The lion. Gentleman seemed to doubt his statement as to the ielource: of England. The speaker then real from a work he had in his hand a detailed statement of the number of acres in Eagland of different qualities to prove his assertion. lie mimed, that if the people had the power to get on the land, they could make it produce what he had stated. how was it they could not get there!—(Cheers.) They had the resources to make them happy anal comfortable, but class legislation had degraded them below the level of brutes.—(Loud cheers.) Then, as to machinery. In the year 1796 we exported from this conntry more than twenty-three million pounds of cotton, while in 1841 we exported more than four hundred and sixty millions, yet when we exported the smaller quantity, in 1797, the wages of the hand-loom weaver were 265. Bd. per week, while, when we exported the largest quantity, in 1840, they were only .ss. 6d.—(Shouts of " Shame, shame.) Mr. Clayton then read some statistics to show that in 1820, we exported one hundred and thirty-four million pounds of cotton, for which we received seven million pounds sterling, while in 1834 we exported two hundred and seventy-one million pounds of cotton, for which large quantity we only received between seven and eight millions of pounds sterling. These were from Porter's Tables. Colonel THOMPSON—The gentleman produced state ments of the quantity of manufactured goods sent abroad in certain years, and he then produced state ments affirming that wages of labour were less in those years when the quantity sent abroad was greatest. He (Colonel Thompson) should rather have wondered under the existing state of things, if it had beea other wise. Those years he supposed included in them the Corn-law years. The very statement he had been making there that night, was that the prohibition had reduced the profits of the manufacturers, and the wages of the labourers. The manufacturers were forced to carry on a losing instead of a gainful trade.—(Loud cheers.) Wages had always risen when corn had fallen in price—(Hear)—and they had always fallen when the price of corn had risen. —(Cheers.) The argument put forth by the speaker was one that would suit Sir Robert Peel or the Duke of Wellington. They brooded over lists, and they said, " We do not find your trade has been diminishing." They said, "Your trade must have diminished before the rob bery shall be stopped." That was to say, a man had no right to complain at the Quarter Sessions of a robbery, so long as the exports had been increasing.—(Laugh ter.) But what reason had been advanced against him on the Corn-laws ?—(Hear.) Supposing a great quantity of goods were sent abroad, would they be any worse if they were allowed to bring back what they wanted ?—( Hear, hear.) What strong inducement was there to endure hunger, and beg for a bad market ra ther than a good one ?—(Hear, hear.) Mr. CLAYTON—The years he had mentioned in cluded a period both before and after the Corn-laws were enacted. He quoted from Marshall's Statistics the fact, that ten years before the Corn-laws were enacted, a quantity of wheat was imported at 4/. Bs. Bd. a quarter, and ten years after the Corn-laws were enacted a quantity of wheat was imported at 3/. 18s. How did this happen, if the Corn-laws were so great 'an evil ? Colonel Thompson asked for a good market. The best market of all was the home market. By re decing the working man's wages to send their goods abroad, they reduced their best market at home. As to machinery, he did not say it was-a curse in itself, but he said it was a curse as now applied.—(Cheers.) He glanced at the progress of machinery in the cotton trade and said that now one man could do the work which was formerly done by 6,142 men.—(Hear, hear.) It was by the unlimited powers of machinery, and by the want of power in the working men to protect their own labour, that they were in their present condition. As to free trade, it appeared from what Colonel Thompson said, that Genoa fell through free trade.—(Cheers.) Colonel THOMPSON—With respect to Genoa, it was not free trade, but somebody else ruined Genoa's free trade—(Loud cheers)—and when Genoa's free trade passed away from her, then she fell. (Repeated cheers.) They had heard about the home market. He could come to no other definition of the home market, except that it was one that offered two quarters of wheat for what, in another market, they could sell for three. Mr. CLAYTON—He would ask, what amount of power would it take to obtain the repeal of the Corn laws? and if that amount of power would not also get passed a certain law or enactment, by which the people would be enabled not only to repeal this one single law, but all others that bound them down in the scale of social existence ? Colonel THOMPSON said he was quite willing to give his opinion on that question. He looked at the House of Commons, which, as things stood now, was in con siderable power and influence. It was reported that, at this moment, Sir Robert Peel had a majority of 140 against the Corn-laws. In a House of 600, that made about three in favour of repeal of the Corn-laws, to five on the other side. When a late motion on the subject of the suffrage was made in the House, thirty-nined voted for it ; but there were some splits, and therefore say there would be twice as many for it ; suppose there were eighty, and eighty in a house of 600 made a propor tion of three to twenty, just four times as many against the suffrage motion as the repeal of the Corn-laws. Now, if anybody thought they could get the large bolt into the hole, when they could not get the small one, he should be glad to hear him. There was about one third of the aristocracy who had pretty strong leanings to freedom of commerce. He could not see the sense of refusing to follow up this line, because there was another where the chances were worse. It no more followed that because obtaining the Charter would secure the power of making other reforms, therefore the Charter was the only thing to be gone tor, than it followed that putting salt on their tails was the way to catch birds, because when we had the power to put salt upon the tail we should have power to catch the bird.— (Cheers.) These were the reasons why he held to the opinion, that they ought to allow each other to take their separate ways, and not do anything to interfere with each other.--(Hear, hear.) Suppose, when the abolition of the slave trade was agitated, some one had turned round and said it was no use trying to abolish the slay e trade, nothing but a bloody revolution would ever accomplish it ; go for Universal Suffrage, and then they would abolish the slave trade. Where should they have been. The slave trade was abolished in 1808. They might get Universal Suffrage in eighteen hundred, and the largest number anybody chose to add.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. CLAYTON said, if they had not a majority of the House of Commons for Universal Suffrage, they had a majority of the people. The people had made a decided stand for the full measure of their rights. They would struggle for nothing short of their rights. The middle classes were now becoming more liberal, because the people stood aloof and would not help them in their party measures. And if the people stood firm to their position, they would be obliged ultimately to come to them. It was the pres sure from without that would carry the People's Char ter.—(Loud cheers.) Col. THoMrsoN—He thought there was a tendency in the people to overrate . the power they had, for at the same time they admitted that the complaint they all had to make was that they had no power at all.—(Hear, hear.) He would ask them the question, would their power be greater or less if the prohibition were abo lished that cut down the food of all ?—(Hear and cheers.) Did he advise them to trust to any pro mises ? God forbid. He had seen instances lately of men doing their utmost to stretch a point in this direc tion. On this subject he would only say---" Blessed are they that expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.”—(Laughter.) All that he came there for was to invite as many as were of bis opinion to go on, pressing at all events this principle, that we will not oppose one another.—(Cheers.) If one party could do away with one evil, and another party could do away with another, they might shake hands , as the En g lish and the Prussians did after the battle of Waterloo, and congratulate themselves on their s uccess.—(Cheers.) Here a person of the name of Samuel Binns came forward, but was received with much hissing and dis approbation. An operative in the body of the meeting, whose name we could not learn, said they found their exports in creasing to a great amount, and at the same time their wages bed been decreasing. That had not been for the want of a market. They found the manufacturer set ting up a machine that would do as much work as a thousend men, and giving the man who worked it, ten shillings, or say a p oun d a week. Where did the benefit go to, but to the very man who " " set up the machine — (Shouts of No, n o ," and Yes, yes ;') H e w i s hed Colonel Thompson t o s h ow h ow, and where machinery was calculated to be a blessing to mankind. If they could get the whole world for a market, and have machinery to produce it, and only just as many labourers as could work that machinery, then there would not be any material injury from it. But this could not be the case, because other nations would have machinery as well as themselves. —(Hear, hear.) Wages had decreased as machinery bad increased. " THOMPSON—H e was not aware that he had used such au expression as that machinery was a bless ing ; if he had used that term, he should have been un derstood as meaning something different from what he had on his mind at the time. What he stated was, that machinery was the result of the ingenuity implanted in mankind by the Creator, and which would be brought into action whether they or he would !Deno!. The great relief to the injury arising from machinery, and what in the end would turn it into a good rather than an evil, was the having a perfect freedom for disposing of the products of machinery.—(Cheers.) But if they tied them up from disposing of its products, no man could doubt that it would bean instrument of destruction ; but then it was th e tyi ng up, and not the machinery which was the cause.—(Cheers.) A rope was a very good thing in its way, but if it were tied in a particular man ner about a p ar ti cu l ar part o f a li v i ng man , it was likely to , work him excee di ng woe .—(L aug h ter. ) I . le op era ti ve aga i n rose and sa i d, if they i ncrease d their trade fifty times, th e y wou ld h ave increased machinery to do the work, and then there would be again plenty of labourers out of employ ment. Wh ere wou ld b e the benefit to these men ? 1 ile henefit would go to the masters who employed the machinery.—(Loud cheers.) Then they would have as princely merchants in England as there were in Genoa.—(Cheer:.) If they looked abroad, they found other countries increasing in machinery as well as themselves, but had they taxes to pay as the people of this country had ?—( Hear, hear.) A man abroad might live for 10s. a week better than Englishmen could on 20s. a week. England must not expect to have the whole world for a market, as she had before the French Revolution. There was a great quantity of land in this country capable of improvement, but if they did away with the Corn-laws, instead of bringing land into cultivation, they threw it out. "%hat, then, would they do with the agricultural labourers? They might, indeed, come into the manufacturing districts, and this was what the manufacturers wanted, as it would enable them to beat down wages.—(Loud cheers.) Col, THoetrsoN—The objector who had just sitten down had introduced an entirely new question, and he was glad he had done so. He had entered on the question of the agricultural labourers, and the effect to be produced by allowing free exchange of goods for foreign corn. Put the converse case. Suppose some body were to come to them and say, " We come to pro pose to the manufacturing interest, especially to the manufacturing operatives, that a prohibition should be put on the exchange, of goods for corn. Do you not see, manufacturing operatives, in bow many ways this will benefit you ? By your paying an extra price for corn the landlords will be able to employ more labourers on the land, and these must be taken from the manufactur ing ranks. There is a cheap and easy way of raising the condition of the manufacturing operatives, that, you should subscribe to pay an unnecessary price for the landlord's corn."—(Hear, hear.) He thought there were few men, who would adventure to present them selves before the maufacturing operatives with such a proposal as that.—(Hear, hear.) The disadvantage arising from the landlords not employing any more la bourers than they could pay for out of their own pockets, could never be a disadvantage to them, the sufferers.—(Hear, hear.) If the manufacturers were to make a proposol to put a bounty on foreign corn, they might say in turn " You shall see how we shall im prove manufacturing employment; it will raise wages, it will bring away some of your agricultural labourers. Do allow us this bounty on foreign corn directly?" They knew what a hopeless case that would be. Why should they then allow the agriculturists to force the opposite case on them:? The Operative in the meeting—But you have not told us what you would do with the labourers thrown out of employment. COI. TiIOAIPSON—In the first place be believed there would be none.—(Cheers.) He was prepared to state his belief that the repeal of the Corn laws would be a great good to the agricultural labourers. Instead of being forced to take any wages as at present, they would have the opportunity, from the growing industry of the country, to sell their labour, and that of their children, at a better price ; they would have a share in the benefits resulting from the extended trade. Mr. BINNs—( Hisses)—wished to know if the open ing of the China trade had benefited the people of England. He contended that it had not. Cot. THOMPSON thought it rested with those who de nied that it had not been beneficial, to prove that it bad not been so. Mr. Biters—(Hisses.)—Since the opening of the China trade there had been a great reduction in wages. —(Loud and continued laughter.) Perhaps these gen tlemen did not know that the China trade was a mono poly ; but it was.—(Renewed laughter.) It had been a monopoly. He could tell them it was opened some years ago, and wages had fallen since. (A Voice—"ls it a consequence ?"—Laughter.) Colonel THOMPSON thought the meeting did not seem convinced there was that connexion between the opening of the China trade and the reduction of wages the speaker thought.—(Laughter.) The old wives who got their tea cheaper would be able to tell him some thing about the advantages resulting from opening the China trade.—(Cheers.) Mr. VLA ERS contended that the cause of all mono ' polies was, the monopoly of legislation, and he called upon them, in the name of his country, and of all that was near and dear to them, to go on for universal suffrage—(Loud cheers)—and demand that all men should be represented in the House of Commons, and then they would redress all their wrongs.—(Cheers.) Colonel TIIOMPSON said, that the question involved in what the gentleman had said was, the main question which had been debated that evening. He reiterated his opinions as to the policy which Chartists and Anti- Corn-law men should pursue towards each other, namely, to let each other alone. A person in the meeting said Colonel Thompson stated that he did not think any agricultural labourers would be thrown out of employment, but he did not explain why he thought so. If they threw this coun try into a grazing country, as the Corn-law repealing gentlemen said—(Cries of " No, no," from several parties). The speaker resumed, and said he had heard Mr. Batley say so, and he now said no. If they threw this country into a grazing country, then one labourer would look after a grazing farm, while it would require ten to look after a plough farm. What became of the nine ? Mr. BATLEY said he had intended to have remained silent, but he had been pointedly alluded to. He dis tinctly and emphatically denied the charge imputed to him.—(Cheers.) He had been completely misunder stood if ever he had been understood to say that this country should be throughout nothing but a grazing country. He did say we were over-corn cropped in this country, and that there was land in the country brought under corn, which ought not, and would not, be so under a free trade in corn.—( Hear.) There was land in the country which would never pay for growing corn at European prices—(Hear, hear)—and if there was a free importation of corn, that portion which was thus foolishly brought into cultivation, would go out of cultivation.—( Hear, hear, and cheers'.) His opinion was that such an impulse would be given to agricultural improvement, that more corn would be produced by the land fit for cultivation, than was at present pro duced by all, fit and unfit together.—(Cheers.) It was well known that there was the utmost difficulty in ob taining shambles meat for the supply of this country, and if it were not for the supply from Ireland, they could not get the very limited portion of food our starv ing population now required. He thought it could not be easily disproved :that this country was much better calculated to produce cattle in many of its districts than wheat. It they could g et corn from abroad the soil would be cultivated in te manner best suited to it. He wished also to say a word as to the argument respect ing agricultural labourers. We were an increas inm'population, and in spite of e ver ything to b e d one and said to the contrary, we should go on increasing in population. But we did not increase in land. Food might be obtained from abroad, only by exchano b i t , for it the produce of this country. Labour was like other commodities, and it was a mistake to say that mas ters beat down wages ; the fact was, that in the com petition for employment, one workman beat down the d a i n d d no t t he d n o wages of another. But by an extension of commerce, the demand for labour would be increashe.le, eigpthailoo.inniment would the labourer migh—tmokakevohjicse7 nAbbmaoarl of machinery.") so now. Nothing but increased em of machinery the en able him to do it. What,A gentleman was sai d it, abolitionthat reduced n tfnery would o f labour do i i t n . itltbr were ur n ee d e , kt ii w on where r ; e a Kf there no e gr r e e pr arifet was s, n ep r o r ei m ts taecirhta. was ) .—(A person in —(Loud cheers.) He would' only mak n e oWt o e n mil a tict r hh e ie m nne : r r y k i l f What they wanted was increased empl o y men t ; th e y commerce, thato er n e ly e, o a b n ta d in theyd increas e d coul cheers.) b y breaking And they the shackles h employment by extended only i obtain extended com merce es of commerce.—(Loud could ek only pr do that by an united public opi n i o n.—(Cheers.) t united one party h t ed en publiccam e opinion o q u a t By n y , coming and assailing another? Was it to be obtained by parties saying to others, " If you will not say our shibboleth, we will drown you ?"—(Loud cheers.) If you will not subscribe to every article of our political creed, we will denounce and oppose you ! He said this was contrary to reason, to common sense, and to Justice.—(Loud and repeated cheers.) If they were all convinced, and he believed nine-Tenths of those pre sent were so, that the Corn-laws were an evil, why could they not unite to repeal them ! They might do so without compromising a single political principle. A person in the gallery said , Col. Thom p son bad stated that the Corn-law Repealers and the Chartists might shake hands together. Now, to carry this out, if the Corn-law Repealeas would go for the Charter, the Chartists would go with them for a repeal of the Corn laws.—(colun e e l b T ee uo rs. s ) tesote said he did not come either to offer or to ask concessions. He could not pledge him self for either one party or the other. There were Tories and cold Whigs amongst the Corn-law Re peelers ; it was not to be expected that they would egitato for the Charter. He came to ask the Anti-Corn-law men and the Chartists, who both agreed that the Corn•laws were an evil, to cease I:VENING SU running against each other.—(Cheers.) He would have them each run against the common enemy, not one hin dering another, but wishing that each might see cause to rejoice in the other's success.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. THOMAS CAPSTACK then proposed a vote of thanks to Co:oncl Thompson fOr the lecture delivered before them, and his frankness in answering the ques tions put to him. Mr. BAKER seconded the motion. Mr. PITKETIILEY sAid he fiat risen with the inten tion of seconding the inoCon. Though he differed from Colonel Thompson in many of the opinions he bad ad vanced, yet be gave him the greatest possible credit for honesty and sincerity, and he looked upon the circum stance of his being brought there as a good omen.— (Cheers.) He believed there was no man who wished better to the community.—( Loud cheers.) The motion was then put and carried unanimously, with the exception of three hands ; and Colonel TuomesoN briefly acknowledged the honour done him. After a vote of thankg to the Chairman, pasted una nimously, the an eting separated. SURREY COUNTY MEETING. THE pRiNcE OF WALES. In accordance with a numerously signed requisition to William Leveson Gower, Esq., the High Sheriff of Surrey, yesterday was appointed for holding a county meeting at the Spread Eagle Inn, Epsom, for the pur pose of adopting addresses of congratulation to her Ma jesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, on the late auspicious event of the birth of a Prince, heir apparent to the Throne, and to express the augmented gratification of the county from the official reports of the unimpaired health of her Majesty. The High Sheriff presided. There were also present 11. Kemble, Esq., J. Trotter, Esq., and E. Antrobus, Members for the County ; Colonel Challenor, the Rev. Mr. Rodgers, J. Rouser, Eq., 1). Barclay, Esq., Captain I'arratt, C. Barclay, Esq., W. Crawfurd, Esq.. Under- Sheriff Abbott, and several other gentlemen of influence and station in the county, and the attendance would have been much more numerous but for the flooded state of the country. Before the proceedings commenced, Captain Parratt apologised for the non-attendance of the Earl of Love lace, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and accounted for it by stating that his Lordship was engaged in im portant business in Somersetshire. Mr. Trotter apolo gised for the absence of Mr. Dennison, the other Mem ber for the cAmty, which he said was occasioned by severe fit of the gout. The Hum Sn'imiri. addressing the meeting said that it was convened in consequence of two requisitions most numerously signed, and it gave him the greatest plea sure to acquiesce in the prayer of those requisitions, and he felt satisfied that the meeting in expressing their congratulations upon the late auspicious event, were only expressing the unanimous sentiments of the whole county. Her Majesty, by her conduct since she had ascended the throne, had endeared herself to all classes of her subjects, and was loved and revered by them all, and they would therefore gratefully ofter up to her their congratulations at her recovery from the severe trial she had recently undergone, and also express their gratifica tion at the auspicious event which had taken place- When they looked back to the history of their country, it was not difficult to account for the predeliction which existed for female Sovereigns; for it was under the sway of a female that this country hod attained the highest pitch of glory—and from what they had experienced of the mode in which her Majesty had exercised the great prerogatives that were entrusted to her, they had every reason to believe that her rule would be equally glorious to the country ; and that from the bright example the young Prince would see before him, and the education he would receive, that, under Providence, they might in dulge a well-grounded hope, that when he should toe called on to govern this great empire, that he would fol low in th footsteps of their beloved Sovereign. A loyal address to the Queen, alit' addresses also to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, were then moved and seconded, and unanimously agreed to. MARYLEBONE LITERARY AND SCIENTinc INSTITUTION. The Choral Society of this Institution gave their second monthly concert for the season at their rooms, Edward- street, Portman-square, last evening. The audience was fashionable, awl very crowded ; indeed so thronged was the attendance, that members • who arrived, even before the concert commenced, were • obligel to leave, being unable to gain admittance. The entertainment was divided into two pans. In the first, which consisted of sacred pieces, were princi pally to be noticed three movements from the credo of llaydon's Mass, No. 3, as also an " 0 Salutaris llostia," very well sung by a young lady and gentleman, both pupils of M. Le Jenne. who presided at the piano. The national anthem, " God save the Queen," terminated this part. The pieces composing the second part were better suited to the taste of the audience that generally assembles at these concerts. There were several pretty ballads, in which Miss E. Terrey, of the Adelphi Theatre% was by no means the. least conspicuous ; she elicited un bounded applause, and was decidedly and deservedly the favourite of the evening. Her singing of the univmally admired " Kate Kearney," drew forth a rapturous encore; and in " The Hunter of Tyrol" she acquitted hersr.:ll equally well. Among the other pieces deserving of mice we may mention t . , , :poforth's glee for: five voices,, l, lo )me Bounteous May ;" Sale's "Butterfly,'' excellerily sung by two gentlemen; and " Dertnut _store," by Miss Pitt. " Deli con te," from Bellini's opera of Norieu, was given by two young ladies in a style that, dieted merited plaudits; and " Una Voce," from 11 Barhiere, by a young lady who accompanied herself on the piano. • The instrumental part included twenty performers, among whom were some professionals. The execution throughout was good, and if we missed that perfection and ensemble to be met with only among professed artistes, yet it is but justice to say that the whole offair was cre ditably sustained, and passed oil' with eclat. We are happy to find that this institution, which had been drooping hitherto, is quickly returning to a state of prosperity, and daily receiving additions to its members. PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION. TO THE . EDITOR OF THE SUN. • SIR,--Whilst Sir Robert and Lady Peel are giving a series of splendid banquets to the fortu nate faction who have again contrived to get their rapacious mawleys into John Bull's pocket, and Sir Robert is carefully dressing up state ments of savings' banks, &c., to prove that the country is in a most flourishing state, it is de lightful to find the godlike work of charity going on, without distinction of party, in nume rous parts of the country. I venture to suggest that the fund raised for the poor be divided into two distinct parts—one to purchase food, the other for warm clothing. Thus those, and there are many, who would object to contribute to buy bread, when only a fraction would find its way to the poor man, and the rest stick in the land lord's pocket, could, without any violation of their feelings, subscribe to the clothing fund. I respectffill3 submit this hint for your considers- tion, and am, Sir, your humble servant, THOMAS BRITMSLEXT. DISTRESS AT BLACKBURN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. say—Being of opinion that brief statements of the distress of the country, circulated by your valuable paper, may direct the attention of the community, and perchance, of the Government to its cause, I trouble you with the following. Our condition in Blackburn is bad, but our prospects are worse. Failures are numerous, and more are apprehended. Subscriptions for the relief of the destitute are contemplated, and a considerable sum will probably be raised foT..that purpose. But, Sir, we want justice. The pe o p le are willing to work for their support, l e t the Government b ut g i ve them justice, by re moving the iniquitous bread tax, and alms will be unne cessary. A FRIEND OF THE POOR. Veshouldb e ,l a d to receive similar t o l l' ea th t e i o i tse ) t iti T i t e t s h f e r t o it t i l e i a o t t e l d ie l r iy; o t w h ; !_nun E c u a . nbt:l,2la7idddress THE PRINCE OF WALES.—A meeting of the Noblemen and Gentlemen. Coinmissioners of Supply, Justices of the Peace, and Magistrates of towns, of the county of Renfrew, convened by Sir William Milliken Napier, convener of the county, i n compliance with a numerously signed requisition, was h eld on Thursda y , at one o'clock afternoon, within the County Hall, Paisley, for the purpose of adopting congratulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the auspicious occa sion of the birth of the Prince of Wales. The meeting was more than usually- well attended. This, in addition to the exuberant feeling of loyal satisfaction so generally experienced at the late joyous event, was in all proba bility partly occasioned by Mr. Wallace, having p re _ viously announced his intention to move an addition to the Address, for the purpose of communicating to her Majesty the heartrending distress which prevails in that district. On the Convener, however, professing his n s g . tw illingness to call another county meeting , in accordance a with Mr. Wallace's vie ws, the amendmeift w as not and loyal addresses were unanimously agreed to. - -"' . The following from Geneva, of the 19 t h i nst., is given by the De bats .—" The Coun cil of State osefn public ibled o to-day, i)illopinion, r land, resolvedl%iSliing to to anticipatelalithe demandsol low i e the f changes :—A reduction in the numbers of h of the Council ; a partition of the initiative members the two Councils ; an acknowledgment of thee between petitioning ; a repeal of the second paragraphright of Constitution, by which no alteration can be of tile constitutional Charter without the assentof made in the two-thirds in the two Councils. These a majority of said to have been voted, after a longamendments are debate, by two- thirds of the members of and animated It is, however, doubted whether this measure the Council. calm the agitation N Villah is increasing measure will feared that the people will consider ; it being sions as calculated to put out of f the conces two chief reformations demanded their minds the of March 3, viz., a wide reform in the the Association a general municipal law for the whole tle electoral law, and this may be, it is now certain that the canton. However 1814 will be modified. We are at the Constitution of of State, anticipating the legal assured that the Council tion of the legislative bod • _period for the convoca- Monday, the 22d inst. Las fixed its meeting for The Augsburg Gazelle stat es that the staff of the Austrian army is about to be considerably reduced, beginning with the Artill er y , economy is to be adopted in :ind that a sytem of great Prussia with re g ard to th e Landwehr AY ) ' Par e, ohe' ie bigli fang, i resel it Ist tb