The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN COURT CIRCULAR. Lord Foley had an audience of the Queen on Wednesday at Claremont, and resigned his Gold Stick of office as Captain of her Majesty's Ho nourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Lord Forester had afterwards an audience of her Ma jesty to kiss hands upon his appointment of Captain of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen -at-Arms. His Lordship received ftorn the Queen his Gold Stick of office. The Earl of Surrey had an audience of her litUjesty on Wednesday at Claremont, and re signed his Gold Stick of office as Captain of her Majesty's Yeomen of the Guard. The Marquis of Lothian had afterwards an audience of the Queen, received his Gold Stick of office, and kissed hands upon being appointed Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. _ _ Lord Forester, as Captain of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, has appointed Sir Benjamin Smith his Secretary, and yesterday- presented him with his stick of office. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the ' Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, arrived in town yesterday from Kew. Their Royal Highnesses honoured with a visit the Gallery of the new Society of Painters in Water Colours, and in the evening, attended by Lady Auusta Somerset, left Cambridge House for Kew. His. Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, ac conipanied by Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Orien tallnterpreter, visited Sir Robert Peel yester day afternoon, at his residence in Whitehall gardens. Lord Ashley and the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday after noon, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. Se veral of the Cabinet Ministers paid visits to the Right Hon. Baronet in the course of the 414 Y. Sir G. Clerk and other official gentlemen also visited the " Right Hon. Baronet at his resi dence in Whitehall-gardens. Earl De G rey an d Lord Eliot had an inter view with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the :Foreign -office. Mk: Colville had an interview with Lord Stan -10.47i-psterday, at the Colonial office. • - Mi. Sergeant Jackson and Lord G. Somerset liact' s interviews with Sik James Grahamyester day; at the Home-office. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Conn ._ eil, gave a dinner to his colleagues last evening, at his residence in Curzon-street. Among the Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke - of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, and Lord Ellenborough. BIRMINGHAM CHURCH-RATE. EXPECTED ROW. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Committee appointed to " watch over and pro tect the interests of the Inhabitants at the Vestry Meet ing of Friday," after laying before the public the opinion of her Majesty's Attorney-General, to the effect, that the occupiers of property whose landlords are rated to the relief of the Poor, are entitled to vote in Vestry, &c., inform the inhabitants of Birmingham, that all persons, male or female, who occupy any house, shop, land, or other tenement, in the parish of Birmingham, are en titled to be present and vote in the Vestry to be held on Friday, whether the Poor-rates be paid by the landlord or tenant. The Committee, therefore, trust that every qualified inhabitant will be present at the Town Hall, at ten o'clock on Friday morning, in order to exercise the right which he legally possesses. The Liberal party, including the Dissenters, are de termined, we are informed, in consequence of the opinion of the Attorney-General, to enter the Hall, in spite of the churchwardens' prohibition, and as there are about 13,000 male knd female inhabitants liable to be rated, a collusion is expected, and the town is in a ferment. LAW AND CRIBBAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—Seeing a report in your paper of the 7th of a charge against a young man of the name of Roberts, for destruction of Mr. Godbold's property, and that this charge was dismissed without redress, because the pro prietor had been induced to play at cards, I cannot for bear asking you if such a case can be faithfully reported. Good God ! is it possible that the act of playing at cribbage or whist in a man's own house or warehouse, not being a public-house, is a crime which debars a man from obtaining justice ? Is .it come to this ? Are we to have a City functionary, rested with a little brief (annual) authority, take upon himself to limit or prescribe to us our amusements on pain of forfeiting our rights as citizens to the protec tion of the law ? To all such cant and humbug I beg to subscribe myself AN INVETERATE FOE, And I am sure that you are equally so, or I could not read your papir7 ‘ COBBETT AND THE FUNDHOLDERS --ig If I were a fundholder I should hear with no very pleasant feelings these voluntary, and vehement protestations against touching the interest of the debt. Ido not like to hear the thing called sacred, and to hear the touching of it called a breach of faith ; or, rather, I do like to hear this, for I am sure it indicates a great deal of thinking about the matter. When your wife, without anything seeming to call for it, flings her arms about your neck and makes vehement protestations of fidelity, ' it is time for you to look sharp. What a wise man will do in such a case it is not very easy to describe with great mi nuteness. The cases differ ; but, generally speaking, a sharp-sighted husband will, by such unaccountable blandishments and marks of everlasting affection, be in duced to prepare to cut and run ; and, without irreve rence I hope, be it spoken, this is what I should do, if I were a fundholder hearing these uncalled-for protesta tions."—Cobbetes Register, vol. 38, page 763. The parish of Kilmore, county Meath, met on Tuesday, and voted addresses, unanimously, to the Lords Fortescue and Morpeth. The Protestant and Catholic pastors, Rev. Dr. Tighe Gregory, and Rev.• T. Flood, conjointly, in the chair. This is as it should be.— Limerick Reporter. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—This Court ' will sit on Tuesday and Wednesday next to hear bail cases. Two days have been found requisite in the short space of a fortnight to hear applications for bail. On Tuesday the Court will take country bail, and no feWer , . than 53 applications appear in the cause list. On the fol i lowing day there are 52 town cases appointed, m a ki ng , )1' with those hoard a short time back, no less than 232 sit i? applications in little more than a fortnight—showing, 0 he 1 certainly, no diminution of business since the passing of AO,. the present Act. Cases will be heard on the 27th inst., 1 i i 1,0 and the days are full to the commencement of the second 0 11, ',O adjournment on the 14th October to the 30th of thesame ei, j, , month. Orders for hearing have already been issued for salt' December, and those prisoners who cannot obtain bail CY , have before them anything but a pleasing prospect forthe next three months. 3.V;The whole Tory camp of Ireland are up in ov arms at, the Irish appointments, particularly the Secre t tary ; and not one single Irishman, Lord or Commoner, 400 selected for office. Splits are already beginning ;so Sir . Sa',o: R. Peel will have no bed of roses. This shows the es 1V hi timation he holds his Irish friends in, and what a nice 0 . 13 set he must think them.—Limerick Reporter. . i e' v jc; : THE EAST ESSEX FARMERS AND SIR R. O n ', PEEL.—The announcement of Sir Robert Peel of his in be ' tention to propose an alteration in the sliding scale of ~ duties for the importati o n o f f ore i gn corn , was th e sub he , ject of much conversation amongst the farmers in this ark' . - market on Saturday, and some alarm was excited by it; 0 11 . but much reliance was placed on the ten Members for. oils , , the county an an y d its boroughs opp os i ng alteration in s /, ~, ; - - !the corw.laws without re g arding the quarter from which i s. ''l ? it might eman'ate."—Chtlsf o rd Chronicle. A HYDROPIIOBIA.—A child, son of Mr. M. • ii : ii Mean, who a fortnight a g o was bitt en by a ma d 'd og at oli I di Mariansleigh,- which had also bitten several cows, sheep, le' 1,,, and pigs, which died in a rabid state, has been overtaken ffo by the symptbms of this horrible malady, and his deadh l'' is expected every hour. Three bullocks of Dlr. Median's .11e5 k7j, ' -have since died from the same cause. About a month ;" I ,lf ' • since 21 sheep belonging to Mr. John Walker, of Brad '', ,fr r i, worthy, were bittennight, some of them being i 3Ar • Licerated in a most shocking manner, by a dog of t e ~ S3l l . Newfoundland species , and the animal exhibiting symp r, ~,y toms of madness, was shortly afterwards destroyed. On 1: 1111 ~ Monday last one of the sheep died mad, and on 'ruesday, i 4 l r ' three of them showing symptoms of the same di sease, )P'' were shot, and it has since been found necessary to de pcir ' stroy nearly the whole number that . were bitten. — e a l e ti?, , ''','' - Western Lumi.utiy. a , ~, , no w ( ' a t t oi5,,) .. , 2 t i „ y I noon an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the te'',ll9 , 3, .Queen's /lead, High-street, Poplar, on the body of Cap i , , tain Henry Howell, aged 41, late commanding the 'ship • 00 Favourite, of London, now lying in the West India 0 1, 1 1 , Import Dock. Maud Peters, chief mate of the Fa valio ( ill, irOtrite, said that the ship arrived the previous day froin Cionstadt, with a load of deals. On the 30th ult., ~r e , :I' about half-past two P.M., the deceased, who had through- I r vi til f V veil „) out the voyage complained of illness consequent upon '',,,ri , & . , a fevcr with which be had been attacked whilst in the r 3.9; ,1 Havannali, having hold of the topsail brace, said to him, to y g ; ; 41 , " Peter, I'm going to have a fainting fit." He took him obt in his arms, and having called up the steward to his as . . '"'-' listance, they succeeded in lowering him on to the deck. a tit' '"''''''..Be never spoke swain, and shortly after became insen -00,-0P • bible. ,Vinegar was applied to his head, but with no i'o" t° e t , ettivt ; he died in a few ofsnutes after. The deceased bad had four fits during the v4yaze, two between lia ;01 vannah soul Honduras, and the laSt fa)1034 twenty. five bu:, , miles south of the Maze of Norway. The damaged had . ' s taken his dinner, but had ate very little. There was no ~ ) - er• -' • at • I,4}tirgeon on board. Verdict—" Natural death." 0 ' l '''P` '.. 4 •'.-TAuNTON.—The Orohala Portman Hop firtT h e truant:l,s near this town are now in u ncommon luxuri -00 - ' Fai ce o f m ature growth. The crops will ho caingplarly eas''' , ,...,,t ' c ' Ifs Ifslii picking will commence in about a week. — • 1 ,i 1 1 4Slerb.9rne Joamai. ;: %11)P vi$ 4 bi ,fts. There w, perhaps, no figure to be found so -0s" . 4 *WI% as that of Curran, *hen declaiming against the En. , 0 spies, brouZlit up, after the rebellion of 1798, from pri atin;.-r",Thoseeib!‘e9Uilis of living death where 43e v/TPPII , of that is buried a man, ''c's till his heart has time to fester AT'anand dissolve, and is then dug u l 7. informer l" There is now growing • "Arden of Mr. ri , u'ri in time 6 5 . '-' Wil kiarn :Middleton, of Herm on , • t. , ' ed H e il i l e o e . r n e, t w he hi pi h risil of Gosforth, a-.dahlia of the kind called 6s• Bfl ' Oci• ' '''-"Ave,fvfttisiic,inehes in height, is seven inches is. s '' ts94ll,ll43 . tifewer than one hundred andti r v o e u n n ty-five 4 Carlisle Journal. !own flowers upon it.— o . „ it -0 MESMERISM, BY LAFONTAINE. The Professor, whose lectures and demonstrations at the Queen's Rooms, Hanover- square, we have already noticed at some length, gave yesterday his first exhibi tion in the " City," at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street. The visitors were not very numerous, certainly not exceeding eighty persons ; but from the number of ladies in the company, and from the presence of seve ral leading merchants, we must infer that unfavour able reports from the West End have not succeeded yet in sending the curiosity of the East into a Mesmeric sleep. The proceedings of the evening were commenced by the interpreter (Mr. Sinnot) reading an eloquent and somewhat detailed account of the history of Mesmerism from its first introduction into Germany, by the half enthusiast, half-philosopher, whore name- (Mr. Sinnot says) it improperly bears. The readers of The Sun are already acquainted with all the important facts, which Mr. Sinnot's discourse communicated ; but, in abstaining from a fresh relation of them, in a report of his lecture, we must say that they seemed to be heard with wonder by a majority of his audience, and that he was, much ap plauded at the conclusion. M. Lafontaine then produced in the youth (Eugene) who had been the principal subject of his previous exhi bitions in London, the mesmeric sleep, insensibility, and concomitant phenomena, precisely as we have already reported them. There was, however, one variety. The young man, having been for a long time in a state of un deniable insensibility, although sonambulist, was led about the room by gentlemen from amongst the com pany, having no apparent connexion with M. Lafontaine. and in the course of the progress he was repeatedly, and each time instantaneously, rendered rigid and motion less by a gesture of M. Lafontaine, who stood at a distance from and behind the patient. To us the experiment was not new. But its effects upon those who had not seen or perhaps heard of any thing like it before, were very remarkable. Whilst we say " remarkable," we must confess our poverty of lan guage, which does not enable us to express more ade quately the sentinient of admiration manifesting itself, first in murmurs, then in applause. A gentleman who gave his name as " Reynolds," but whose address we did not hear, although he formed one Of a party with the family of a most respectable physi cian, from whom we might have learned it, presented himself as a volunteer subject. He stated that, until four days previously, he had been a determined disbe liever in the reality of animal magnetism ; but having submitted to an experiment, he felt sensations which convinced him that the magnetic influence .did exist. He came "forward 'now to experience in public, whether M. Lafontaine could again produce upon him the same effects. After a long experiment, however, the professor acknowledged his inability to mesmerize Mr. Reynolds effectually, and the. latter having stated that he had on this occasion felt himself sufficiently affected to convince him of the truth of mesmerism, promised that he would at a future time again subject himself to a public experiment. Several other gentlemen were afterwards subjected similarly to the manipulations, but without the slightest visible effect ; and the experiment upon a boy, who was subsequently placed in the patient's chair, proved nothing in our estimation but the extreme naivete and good laith of M. Lafontaine. Before the company separated, Mr. GRANT, the Portsmouth banker, stated some very curious cases of mesmeric phenomena, (amounting to clair-voyance)which had occurred in the neighbourhood of that town, to his knowledge, and which were brought about by his friend, an eminent physician, Dr. Engledue, under circumstances which could admit of no suspicion. Mr. Grant was de sirouS of undergoing an experiment on the present occa sion, but he was dissuaded from doing so by the re monstrances of friends, who considered it unadvisable, on account of the state of his health. REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Western District of the parish of. St. Pancras, was held last even ing, pursuant to advertisement, in Lawson's Assemby rooms, Gower-street North, for the purpose of forming an Anti-Corn-law. Association for the district, and to receive a deputation from the Central Association, con sisting of Sydney Smith, P. Harwood, and P. E. Tay lor, Esqrs. About half-past seven the Chairman, ac companied by the Deputation, entered the room, and were received with great applause. Josn. IvnuY, Esq., having been proposed and se conded, took the Chair, and proceeded to open the busi ness of the meeting. He said that that meeting arose out of another that had taken place lately in the parish of St. Pancras. Some of thegentlemen who were expected to attend that evening, had sent excuses for their ab sence. Mr. Cobham, M.P., was in Manchester ; the Hon. C. P. Villiers had a previous engagement ; but Dr. Bowring was present. He believed their object was first to hear. such arguments as might be adduced by gentlemen hostile to the existing Corn-laws, and who believed them to be injurious to the manufacturing interests, and the ,country at large—(Hear, hear.) There had been a great religious movement on the sub ject, and the evidence of ministers of almost every per suasion had been brought to bear on this subject, and by that it 'appeared that the present Coin-laws were also injurious to the moral and religious condition of the people.—(Cheers.) Upon these grounds. they had come to a determination of forming an Association against the present Corn-laws. He apprehended that at the present meeting they would firstve to determine whether they were convinced that these laws were injurious to the nation. This was not at all a political question ; he therefore hoped that the meeting would not have political feelings,- but simply ask themselves whether those laws were just or not.—(Cheers.) With these observations, he would propose Dr. Bowring, M.P., to the meeting.— (Great cheering.) Dr. Bownwc, M.P., then came forward amidst great cheering. He said he had been called upon very unex pectedly, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Smith, to • address that meeting on topics of the deepest interest. He rejoiced to have occasions like that of addressing portions of the community, and to contrast the honest feelings which were excited, with that resistance to all improvement—that deafness to the public complaiuts— which he had too often the burden of witnessing else where. The public mind was at last being awak ened to the great public question which had then called that meeting together ; and if nothing else would force it on the attention of the people, it would be the great suffering which those laws had brought about.—(Cheers.) They had been reasoning and reasoning long in vain. They had argued to show that the honest artizan of this country had a right to go to the markets of the world, and bring home the productions of the world, as the re ward and payment of his labour, but they argued in vain. Our laws had been made for centuries by mono polists—monopolists of power, monopolists .of religion, monopolists of law, monopolists of civil rights—(Cheers)— and the law was as might be expected from such legis lation. He did not forget that the power of legislation was still in their hands, and nothing would wrest that power from them but the increase of knowledge and in creased experience of the people.—(Cheers.) He should not, on that occasion, go into the question of politics, but he did not hesitate to declare that he bel7eved that radical reform was necessary to satisfy the people.— (Cheers.) He strongly sympathised with those sorrows which were the result of our monopolising laws ; and he should not hesitate, on every occasion to declare that idi portant radical changes must take place in our Constitu tion—thorough searching reform—before the people of this country could rest in peace, and legislation be directed to its proper end—the comfort and happiness of the people.—,(Cheers.) The prospects of the people of this country were dark and gloomy—(Hear, hear) — dark in the House of Commons, and dark outside of the walls of that House.—(Cheers.)—He had; been called upon to represent that portion of the community who .at that moment were suffering most.—(Hear.) — He had seen with his own eyes much of the wretched ness, the recollection of which filled his mind with gloom. A responsibility had been cast upon him— that of endeavouring to the utmost of his power to remit that weight of suffering and sorrow, and with this object had he been again sent to the House of Commons. They had failed for the present. The seats in the, llouse of Commons which were filled , by the 'friends of the people—(Cheers)—were now occupied by their enemies. Tne Conservative party had an immense majority—while the multitude—the many—had lost some of their best, their wisest, their truest advocates.— (Cheers.)—But was that any reason why they should despair ? They must remember the beautiful line of our great poet—who by his blindness was shut out from the sight of everything-6' Consolation is found in those that alone serve—who stand and wait." They stood and waited, they stood firmly, they would wait patiently, but they were ready to , act.—(Ch eers. ) I t h a d b een sa id t h at i t was a great calamity for one nation to be dependent upon another, but so far as his knowledge went, the intercourse be tweenman and man was t h e great source of human ,tl:eEmureoapnee,s andt ik A t ica aro a u n n d d A hi m m er h i e ca co b u a l d d not happiness. but feel I that contributed to his comfort, he might_his say to necessity. .:---(licar, hear.) A nd what was that but the result of intercommunication ? There, were places where the inhabitants could not consume the production of the soil, and there was another country where the industry of the industrious labourers produced the articles which • turists required t h q a picaland desired to consume, and was it not intolerable that there should be a law stand inn between the working Englishman and the industri ous labourer of America, and when they d es i re d only to interchange that which each of them required to con &tine 9 The resolution he had to propose was " That the existing Corn-laws are oppressive" and intole rable, and ought to bewholly d promtl repealed." He y justice to the resolution thought it would be doing justice consider what were th e ar guments of the opponents to the repeal of the Corn-laws, which was, that the publi c burden pressed heavily on the land of this country. That argument came to this, that because they had an enormous amount to pity fo rlt taxes, therefore they must p.ty a g reat sum seemed to him that the more they had to pay to her Majesty's treasury the less they contributed to the public burdens.—(Hear,hear.) But it was not the fact that the land of this country supported the public burden. TED tnith was, that no land in the world, inhabited by as this a civilised com,pnnity, was so little burdened _ He had moved in the House of commons for a return of 44 rta the taxation of different nations, in nrdef to see • • the proportion this country bore to others with respect Ci? land supporting the burdens of the State. About 150 years agp the land of this country supported one-half the burden of theCoUntry, n t qw it was not one-fortieth, although l an d h a d increased tenfold in value. n France? nearly one half of the taxes were paid by the land. What did the land pay in this country ? Only one million and a qii,rter, That state of things was intolerable. — (Cheers.) Whgii this fact was spread amongst the people, there woiildki'sncli an outcry amongst them that Parliament would not be able to resist their all."' His .honest belief was, that if the 00111-411 .. weFe to' he re • it would be a benefit to the labourer. What did .- 4 1 ants do when they accumulated for " " -'hhurtou, who had accumu- peaieu, their great melt._ tunes ? What did Loru 4. fated millions in traE.e—what did he do with his for tune ? He purchased estates, and every day increased their value. So with Mr. Morrison, who had been termed the'Napoleon of shopkeepers. He (Dr. Bowring) wanted to see the poor man is landholder. He considered the law of primogeniture to be an unjust one. There were countries where the pc or man could pass the evening of his life, and end his • days; under the shade of his own vine, and sheltered by .1 ')is own roof. The poor 'man in England could not be ithat way till the corn monopoly was abolished. They had heard of the burdens of the national debt. Day after day, and week after week, the newspapers were tilled with accounts of the burthens of. that debt, but they had been paying indirect taxation greater than that deb'.—(Hear, hear.) When that fact got into the public mind, it must produce something, and he hoped that the time would come when every farthing that Was taken from the people would be accounted for to the Treasury.—(Hear, hear.) He apologised for troubling them so long, but he was happy to lend an effort to the accomplishment of their object. The public mind was at last turningits attention to the subject. Property would be in terror unless the safferings of the people were relieVed. While the own ers of the land were oppressing—and many are oppressed —they had been taught to look up 'to our common Father, and pray to him for that daily bread which our s denied to man.—(Cheers.) All this was waiting for redress, and the only course was for. the people to combine'and demand that redress.' (The Hon. Gentle man sat down amidst loud cheering, and soon afterwards left the meeting, to attend the one held in Finsbury on the same subject.) • Mr. HOW DEN rose to second the resolution. He said it was not a very pleasant task to follow a man possess ing so much ability and energy as the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, but he would try to follow him in his great exertions.—(Hear; hear.) He called on those who had listened to Dr. Bowring, not only to .heat the truths' he had stated that night, but' to disseminate them.—(Cheers.) The Corn-laws were almost the last remnant of a feudal time. It was almost unspeakable the misery they produced,' and the happiness they frustrated. These laws were the same as dividing Middlesex from Yorkshire. He was an Englishman, and he did not want to see such things here.—(Cheers.) He had travelled much, and had been in many countries of Eli rope. He had seen wheat-come down the river at Dant zic so little valued that it was left open to the fowls of the air. Was this a proper state of things, while the people of this country were crying out for bread ? Was it pro per that they should be deprived4af -this -.corn which was so plentiful in other countries? Could it longer remain? No ; it would riot, nor it should not.--(Great cheering.) He knew there were others more worthy their attention. --(No, no.) He had had the benefit of 'more experience than falls to the lot of most men. •He was approaching his seventieth year. The' class and aristocratic interest stepped in between the enjoyment and the comfort of the people. It was only. a few days ago that a petition came from the Cape of Good Hope in order that this country should only import Cape wine at a low price.—. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Again, from the West. Indies a great calamity had occurred, the negroes were buying estates, and this must be stopped. _Again from Canada, so that we might not h ave c h eap t i m b er. All sorts of interests were thought of but those of the peo ple. He •concletded by seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN rose to put the resolution to the meet ing ; but, before he could do so, Mr. FARRALL, a Chartist, advanced to the platform, and attempted to address the meeting, but was received with great uproar, and loud cries of " He's a Chartist." The CHAIRMAN said he considered that they came there to hear any observation that might be made, and, so long as he was in the chair, he would permit any gen tleman to offer his opinion.—(Chs.ers.) . Mr. FARRALL again rose and said, he felt well aware that the Corn-laws were laws that ought to be repealed. But he would ask them whether it was not a loss of their time to ask for a repeal of those laws from a House of Commons like the present.—[Here there was great uproar in the room, which prevented the speaker from proceeding. As soon as silence was somewhat re stored, he proceeded.] He would say, that neither the present House of Commons, nor any House of Commons under the present system, would give it. How were their petitions treated by that House of Commons ? Had they not always refused to discuss the question of the Corn-laws ? and they would do it again ; and so they might petition th a t H ouse over and over again, but they would obtain no repeal from them.— (Cheers and uproar.) If they wished a repeal of the Corn-laws they must first reform that House—they must go at once to the root of the evil..—(Cries of "Chartist," and " Reform.") It was no use taking bit' by bit re form.—(A voice "Physical force.")• Some gentleman said physical force—he (Mr. F.) would say, what short of physical force would wrench the Corn-law from the statute-book?—(The uproar was here ,renewed with greater violence ; and some person in the body of the room cried out " Frost, Williams, and Jones.") He would ask what had Frost, Williams, and Jones to do with this question ? He would like any gentleman to show him how he could "obtain any redress of grievance under the present House of Commons, or any other House of Commons 'chosen under the present system ? He would say that the House of Commons, as at present elected, had no right to take the Corn-laws into their con sideration at all.--(Uproar.) It was because the ques tion of the Corn-laws was one of vital importance to the country, and there was no question that could be dis• cussed of greater importance, and, therefore, he said, without fear of contradiction, that it was a gross injustice to the people of this country, that. class legislation, through the House of Commons, shOuld take such a question into their consideration. They did not represent the interests of the people—(Uproar)—and, therefore, they had.no right to take it into their conSi deration.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") A House of Coin mons chosen by the whole people—(Uproar ; cheers, hisses, and groaning, and cries of "Who sent the Tories to the House ?—The Chartists !") It was nothing to him who sent them.—(Great uproar.) He would like to know the difference between the Whigs and the Tories. —(Continued uproar and groaning.) He would propose an amendment to the resolution.—(Tremendous uproar, groaning ; hisses, and noises of every description.) The CHAIRMAN—Let us hear what it is. Mr. FARRALL said he wished they would hear the amendment, and they would be able to judge of it.— (Continued uproar.) He knew they would not have had that meeting, but that they knew that the people would be at a meeting at White Conduit- house.—(Great uproar, in the midst of which Mr. Farrall retired, handing the amendment to the Chairman.) The CHAIRMAN then read the amendment, which was as follows : That this meeting, from the past conduct .of the Corn-law League and their supporters, cannot' place the slightest confidence - in them, as they have invariably opposed the interests of the working classes ; and this meeting, feeling fully convinced that the only means left them to destroy the monopoly in corn, and all other oppressive monopolies, is, by first destroying the monopoly in legislation by such a reform of the present system as shall give to every soul of full age and sane mind a voice in choosing the Members of the Commons House of Parliament. The Chairman then read the resolution. He said the amendment he did not think a strict one, but he would still put it to the meeting. The amendment was then put to the meeting, and about one-fourth were for it. The resolution was then put and carried. _ _ Mr. SYDNEY SMITH rose to propose the next resolu tion, but the Chartists present kept up a continued interruption throughout the Hon. Gentleman's address, frequently calling out " Paid agent," &c. He said that after the decided public opinion of approval which they had been pleased to pass in favour of the exertions of the Anti-Corn-law League, it required no justifications of his to vindicate it from the aspersions which had been cast upon it by the individual who had first shown such a contempt of the House of Commons, and attacked it with such vehemence.— (Hear.) They were told that the Corn-laws were passed for the purpose of protection, to the agriculturist. The landowner was not the agri culturist. He absorbed in rent the interest of the agriculturists, which would otherwise be laid out in the production of the soil, and would give additional labour to their fellow subjects.—(Cheers.) There was not one fortieth part of the agricultural population that there was before the passing of the Corn-laws. Here was a proof that they did not benefit the agriculturists. Mr. O'Connell had stated that the population of Ireland should have increased at least one-fifth during that time, and what was the case ? It was only five per cent. Hero was most convincing evidence taken from the census of the present period of the agricultural population, where there was not machinery to give reel a handle to say that the march of machinery has been the cause. Yet - in this country, where there was nothing but agri culturalists from one end of the land to the other, there is a greater amount of misery than in any other part of this country. lie had been taunted as being a paid agent of the Corn-law League, and by a man professing the Charter, one of the points of which was,• that every public man should be paid.—(Great cheering.) He rejoiced at his having called their attention to that point, for it showed to the people of this country that he was worth paying—an honour they did not seem willing to confer on the gentlemen who had thus taunted him.— (Cheers and laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded amidst great interruption by reading the resolution : " That the natural effect of these laws has been to destroy them.balance of the Co ns tit u ti on; t o d epress t h e power and check the legitimate influence of the third estate in the councils of the nation; to increase, immediately and illegally, the privileges of the territorial aristocracy, and thereby enable them to arrogate to themselves the pe culiar office of the commonalty to regulate taxation•, and to confer upon the Peerage a preponderance in the State, dangerous equally to the just rights of the Crown, and the acknowledged prerogative of the people."—(Cheers.) Mr. DYKE seconded the resolution, without any remark. resolution Mr. GOoinDFEthltOswa,m e another aCsh his r i s t i c s o t, d e r a e i e e d , a t o m i t d h s e t great uproar and confusion ; but he proposed no amendment. Mr. HAREWOOD proposed the next resolution : " That, for the purpose of carrying into effect, and ob taining a public recognisation of the principles embodied in the foregoing resolutions, this meeting hereby consti tutes itself into a society, to be entitled the Saint Pan cras Branch of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation, and that a Committee of the inhabitants of this parish be formed, with power to add to their numbers, with instructions to open a book for the admission of members, who shall, as soon as practicable, be celled tngPthpr for the purpose of electing office-bearers and enacting laws to receive and canvass for subscriptions and donations in rid of the funds ; to call public meet ings, frame and procure signatures to addresses to the Q uee n, or petitions to Parliament, for the total and im mediate repeal of the C orn l aws, and generallyto trans: c ilAt ic . . s econ d e d the resoltiticm, act 3 t i llZ tiustll94 ON 4uP.9iatiOn.'.! • - • liownEri then briefly proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and the Chairman having shortly re turned thanks, the meeting quietly separated. THE, St'N, LONDON, FRIDAY,fig,PTEMBER to ; 1841. METROPOLITAN YOUNG MENS ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION , • Yesterday evening a most numerous and highly re spectable meeting took place at Finsbury Chapel, South place, for the purpose of taking into consideration the 'propriety of:forming a Metropolitan Young Mens' Anti- Monopoly Association. OR the motion of Mr. P. A. Taylor, seconded by Mr. C. J. Foster, George Thompson, Esq., the eloquent advocate against slavery, was called to the Chair amid most enthusiastic cheering. Mr.- THOsiesozr on taking the chair said, that the meeting over which they had done him • the honour of calling upon him to preside, had been convened by public advertisementg for the special purpose of forming a Me tropolitan Young Mens' Association. The addresses of the evening would, -- of course, be confined to that topic, and that topic exclusively, and resolutions would be subinitted to the meeting by the gentlemen who had been selected, and the nature and principles on which the intended Society was to be based would be fully set forth and illustrated, and- when those resolutions were before the meeting, should there be any individual, or in dividuals, in that great assembly desirous of showing cause why the Society which it was their purpose to form, should not be brought into existence, it would be his duty, pre s idi ng over a meeting whose object was to oppose all mo nopo l y —(Cheers)—to oppose any monopoly of discussion, an d to claim for every individual in that meeting who should observe the rules of courtesy, and adhere to the question under consideration, a patient, attentive, and impartial hearing.- , --(Great cheering.) The duties, he had to discharge, as • their Chairman, were of a simple char ac t er , an d did not require that he should, at that stage of their proceedings, make any further ob servations. Should, however, their kind patience afford him the opportunity of making any observations at the end. of the meeting, he might be disposed, should the time allow it, to state his own opinions on the sub ject.— (Cheers.) He would now call upon the Secretary of the Provisional Committee to bring before the meeting the business they had to transact' and he should .deem it his duty, till the conclusion of the meet ing, only to perform those duties that devolved upon him as Chairman. With these 'observations, he would leave himself in the hands of the meeting, assured that they would only require of him to keep every gentleman in order, and obtain for every one a full and impartial hearing.—(Cheers.) He could not do less than this, and he did not think that any gentleman would require more.—(Cheers.) .Mr. SioszEr"MILNES` lIAWKIq, the Semtary of the Provisional CoMmittee,l. said, that in , order to explain the object of the meeting, he would read the placard by which it had been summoned:—" No Monopoly—Cheap Bread. APublic Meeting will be held at Finsbury Chapel, South-place, this evening, at half-past seven for eight o'clock precisely, fOr the purpose of forming a Metropo litan Young Mens' Anti-Monopoly Association. - George Thompson, Esq., in the Chair. The attendance of young men of all trades and professions, and all friends of Free Trade principles is earnestly requested." A string of resolutions would be moved and seconded, and submitted to the meeting for its approbation. Mr. P: A. TAYLOR, jun. then came forward to move the first re so l ut i on. He felt upon the present occasion, without any cant, if not a degree of fear, one of more hesitation than he had ever felt before—(Cheers)—be cause he felt, in having to propose the first resolution, that he was op en i n g a b us i ness of great importance, and in doing. so be was afraid that he might omit something that he ought to have said, or say something which he ought to have omitted.—(Cheers.) He trusted how ever, that they would not extenuate anything or set down aught in malice.—(Cheers.) He could assure the meeting that they were no political party Association; they were not there there to advocate Toryism, Whig ism, Radicalism, or any other ism. (Laughter.) What they were there for was to obtain good legislation—(Cheers)--and the question was, having such an object in view, what was the best way by which they, as an association, might avoid disunion?— (Cheers.) Was it by a . careful scrutiny into the :public opinions of men ? No, it was looking liberally at the opinions of all, and considering that they were all bound by the important tie of free trade.—(Cheers.) For him self he was a Radical, and, as such, he deemed his views to to be just ; and if the views he entertained improved the condition of the people, they were correct, and he believed the true Conservative thought the same. Let then the institution that Was about to be formed do all in its power to improve the condition of Abe 'people, and let them act as umpires, and say whose creed was best.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution' he had to propose was to the following effect ---" Thitt this meeting being firmly convinced of the baneful effects of all monopoly in diminishing the, supply of those neces saries and comforts of life, without which life is rather a curse than a blessing, they hereby resolve to use every legal means in their power for the entire abolition Of those laws that prevent the free interchange of industry and capital." Now what was the duty he had to perform? Why, he had to prove the baneful effects of monopoly, and he thought the meeting would agree with him that that was no very difficult task.—(Cheers.) What was monopoly ? Why, the sole right of sale given to an in..: dividual, or a class, by which the party to w h om th e mo nopoly is given, enhances the price of the commodity.— (Hear, hear.) Now he thought it would not be very . difficult to prove that that was unjust.—(Cheers.) But then they talked of a protective. duty. What was the effect of that ? Why it was the result of a law by which the article was raised above the price which in open market it would obtain.—(Cheers.) Who paid the difference of that price ? Why, the consumer of the article, and . the landlord Put the protection in his pocket.—(Cheers.) Now he had lived long enough to know that the less protection the people gave to certain classes, the more protected the people were. It was said that in seeking to abolish the Corn-laws, the people were doing away with the rights of property. He denied it. They were the protectors of property, and in that protec tion they did not forget the most valuable of all property, namely, the full remuneration of the labouring man.-- (Cheers.) They were willing to uphold the rights of the rich, but it must be in conjunction with those of the poor man.—(Cheers.) A protective duty was a tax of 50 millions a year; it was a tax levied on the community, but it did not go into the revenue, and thereby lighten the burthen of the whole community; no, it benefited only the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) Added to this the tax . was not paid equally by all.—(Cheers.) The poor man paid 204 in every 1001., while the rich one only paid a halfpenny in every 1001.—(Loud cheers.) There was another point to which he would allude. Sir Robert Peel thought it necessary, he (Mr. I'.) presumed, in consequence of the present artificial state of society (as the phrase was), to take up the clap-trap which the Chartists had thrown from them, namely, that it was not the Corn-laws, nor a n y system of taxation, to which the miseries of the people were to be attributed ; but that it was the introduction of machinery that caused those evils which were complained of. That was something like the case of the man in one of the stories which Boz had written, who, after having drunk too much over night, the next morning awoke with an aching conscience and an aching head, attributed the evils of his condition not to the wine, the true cause, but to the lobster, mayhap, of which he had partaken, or something else of that kind ; but to the wine by no means.—(Hear and l au ght er .) So with the Right Hon. Baronet ; the people were to starve, the people were starving, but the Corn-law taxa • tion was not the cause—oh, no I it was something else. Our manufactures were going down, but that lamentable circumstance originated not in our shutting our ports against all foreign countries. The introduction of ma chinery and its application -to manufactures was, according to the Right Hon. Baronet, the sole cause of the evils which pressed upon the people.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Thompson) trusted that no man who would join their Association would do so merely as a means of getting rid of his time.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that there was no man amongst them, who did not feel impressed with the importance and sacred ness of the cause in which they were engaged. They were taunted with exaggerating the effects of the Corn laws. But he said that the imagination of man never pictured misery, degradation, and vice brought to a more fearful pitch of intensity than that to which they might give as a progenitor, the starvation of the people—the starvation of the people arising from unjust and unequal taxation.—(Hear, hear.) They were, ridiculed as ex aggerating the effects of the Corn-laws. Where, he would ask, were not those effects visible ? Were they not visible in the taxes on the people, amounting to fifty millions annually, without any benefit derivable therefrom to the State ? Were they. not visible in the condition of the country, in which the people, instead of being enriched by their commerce and manufactures so as to be able to bear the bur dens imposed on them, were struggling day after day to preserve themselves from starvation? Let those who taunted them with exaggerating the effect of the Corn laws visit the wretched abodes of the poor—those charnel houses of the living. Let them look around them in the streets, and survey the misery that everywhere met their eyes, and then say if the accounts of the effects of the Corn-laws thus evidenced in the sufferings of the poor were exaggerated or not.--(Hear, hear.) The question did not confine itself to the simple consi deration of the evil of the profits of the poor man's toil going into the rich man's pocket ; but the evil was two fold : it took away from the poor, not me re l y any source of procuring comfort, but the means of paying the taxes imposed on thorn. It might be very well to tax the people and put the revenue into the pockets of the aristocracy, but the effect of the present Corn-laws was shown most forcibly in the gradual diminution in the people of the power of paying anything at all. Anybody or any nation that inflicted injury of a nature oppos.td to the principles of free trade offended against the laws of nature and of God —against the law of God, as it was shOwn in the plainest revelations of that most distinguished book, which he who runs might read—the book which inculcated charity and love of our neighbour. They offended against the law of nature, agreeably to which, in one portion of the earth, a soil was placed which scarcely required the hand of man for its culture—a soil fertile enough to bring spontaneous productions ; and in another region, divided from the former by perhaps but a narrow ridge of moun tains, or it might be by the expansive ocean, was placed a sterile soil, but yet possessing mines of various kinds, furnishing the means of manufacturing those things which the wants and necessities of man required. Re opposed to the laws which th e y wer e s o t f ri o c a t t i u o n r e s, a t n h d en o , f o G n od fr . ee T t h ra e de cau w s e e re in Py-it was the cause o ei f ig re ag lig ed io w n. as mr tl h ie er e e au m s a e s o ex tension—where was- the use of preachi ng re li g i on to - a starving people—where was the use of talki ng o f t h e two first principles of religion, love to G o d . an d man , when the po o r man only knows that all h e i s p l ace d on t f h p o h use ilan othfrtOal king of Church earth for is to starve, and the— , (The rest of the sen tence was lost in the cheers from all 3 411 , S of the crowded asSemblage.)lllr.,TeyloT Went §ab that all w h a had the cause of the' floor at heart would not Content themselves' . merelywitn . attending in public meeting, They Must be . up and stirring. He that was not with th em was a g a i ns t them. Ho who allowed of injustice participated in it.— (Cheers.) Let every one who heard him make known to his companions that he held the Corn-laws in detes t tation. Sir R. Peel might say that those laws wero not the eau - eof the starvation of the people. The Dukf of Buckingham might stand up—(Here the speaker was interrupted by hisses, groans, and uproar, which lasted some minutes.) When order was restored, he proceeded to observe that he never - mentioned the name of that Nobleman in town or country—in the manufacturing or agricultural districts—that Nobleman who said that 9s. a week—(Cries of •` 6s.")—was enough for a working man—he never mentioned that name without its calling forth marks of execration. In conclusion, he called on them never to forget the cause on which they had en tered, and it must in the end be irresistible. They would triumph over those whose conduct would lead to the ruin of their country, as their language was that of blasphemy against their God.—(Cheers.) Mr. PUGH, in a few words, seconded the resolution. The CHAIRMAN then stated, that before the question was put, a gentleman named Savage wished to address the meeting, and he trusted that in this, which was a model meeting, to be followed up by similar ones through out the City, order, regularity, and the strictest impar tiality would be exhibited, and that nothing savouring in the slightest of monopoly would be evinced in their conduct. . . Mr. SAVAGE then presented himself to the meeting, arid said, that in rising on the present occasion, he did not do so with a view to opposing the resolutiorisubmit ted to them, but he wished to express his sentiments on this subject, that they might fully nnderstand what he meant by monopoly if he voted for that resolution. By monopoly he meant the exact legitimate signification of the term. When he spoke of monopoly he meant not simply the bread-tax—(Hear, hear)—not simply that which enriched the few by inflicting an accursed law on the great majority of the people—but he meant that mo nopoly of law-making which put into the hands of a mere fraction of the people the power of making thOse unjust lawa.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Question, question!" and considerable confusion.) The CHAIRMAN begged of the meeting to give Mr. Savage a patient hearing. They had not yet given that gentleman an opportunity of showing the, relevancy of his remarks to the subject under discussion. Mr. SAVAGE resumed—He would pledge himself not to utter a' sentiment which did not find a corresponding one in his heart, and he would submit to the decision of the Chairman whatever it might be. Mr. Savage then pro ceeded at considerable length to describe the effects of that monopoly which he had mentioned in the commence ment of his observations—the jnonopoly. of law. making, - to which he asCrilied all - the calamities of the people. He called on those who advocated the cause of the op pressed negro, to direct their views nearer home. The oppressor of the negro slave was also the oppressor of the white slave at home. Nominal emancipation was given to the slave, but the name was only changed, and the slavery still remained as before.—(Cries of " Ques tion," and much noise, Which ;lasted for some time.) The CHAIRMAN said, the speaker was perfectly in order, and he trusted he would have an impartial and attentive hearing.—(Hear.) Mr. SAVAGE said he would not detain the meeting any longer. , He had raised his voice against monopoly in that which God intended equally for all mankind, and he would support the resolution, because it went to its de- - s truction. The resolution was then put by the Chairman, and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said, before he called upon the next speaker, he had the great satisfaction of announcing the presence of Dr. Bowring, the enlightened and eloquent exponent of the principles of free trade, and now, where he ought to be, in the Senate of the country. The an nouncement elicited three vociferous cheers from the meeting. Mr. BARKER then came forward, and proposed the fol lowing resolution :—" That for this purpose (see the first re solution) an Association be established, to be called The Metropolitan Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association,' by which the energies of the young men. of this great commercial oity may be brought into effective union for the diffusion of sound information, through the means of public lectures, discussion, &c., on the subject of free trade." He said he felt great difficulty and embarrass ment in attempting to address' the assembly before him ; and yet that difficulty was in a great measure removed when he saw himself surrounded by such a noble phalanx, met together for the purpose of advocating the principles of free trade, and of doing away with that great incubus which pressed upon the commerce of the country.—(Cheers.) In that cause they must now act strenuously ; for it could not be denied that there was a Government then in power which was determined, at all hazards, to carry out the principles of monopoly, in defiance of all interests but their own.—(Hear, hear.) They had heard 'much of monopoly. He considered thatthete were two sorts of monopoly. There was that monopoly which was created by intelligence, by genius, and by industry, which by superior wisdom and talent outstripped and defied competition, and reaped its own reward in the consciousness and certainty of its own superiority. With such a monopoly as that. he shook hands ; he. saw . in it the elements of a nation's greatness.—(Hear.) There was, however, a different kind of monopoly ; and against that monopoly, which made him pay dearer for his bread in order to bolster up aris tocratic and landed interests, while in. the same propor tion it impoverished the many—against such a monopoly . as that he would wage war while life and intellect re mained.--(Great cheering.) They had been told that Vie young men of the metropolis bad nothing to do with the Corn-law question—that they should trouble their heads about their own business.—(Hear, hear.) He maintained that they had everything to- do with it. *Ttieir labbiir was their capital, and that law which had any tendency to depreciate either their labour or their Capital, must be of vital importance to them.—(Hear.) But, setting aside selfish considerations, it was the cause of humanity ;. arid, as had been justly observed by Mr. Sydney Smith, every man, woman, and child, the babe sucking at its mother's breast, or hoary man of eighty, • was . alike interested in the result of the present struggle.—(Hear, hear.) Our commerce was the true source of our national prosperity. This would be seen from a mere cursory glance at our posi tion. England was a . mere speck of earth compared with many of the European Powers ; with a soil fertile indeed, but of very limited extent ; with no mines but those of tin and coal ; no forests for her navy ; and, in fact, few of those national and indigenous elements which were considered as necessary adjuncts of a nation's greatness'; vet, in defiance of all this, by her wealth, activity, and power, what had she not accomplished ? (Hear, hear.)—She had carried civilization to every quarter of the globe, given laws to millions of the race, and levied contributions on all countries of the globe. Mistress of the seas, she had with her navy broken the power of Napoleon, the greatest soldier of modern times. Nor was this all. She had swept away that cursed stain upon humanity, the traffic in human flesh— that traffic of which the Chairman of that meet ing had been the courageous, clever, and succee-i -ful opponent.--(Cheers.) But if the picture Which he had drawn of England were correct, how could it continue so whilst the many were impoverished for the benefit of the few ?—(Hear, hear.) Man had not been inaptlrdescribed as an exchanging animal. Whenever a new island had been discovered, there had been an immediate attempt made to barter with the natives, and, as M•Culloch observed, " those who would not buy, must not expect to sell."—(Hear, hear.) However, it might be denied the world had been civilized by com merce ; and he firmly believed, that the reason why God had appointed that one nation should grow one article and another a different one was, that kindly relations should be cultivated through the medium of commerce.-- (Hear, hear.) There was this fallacious argument used in reference to the importation of foreign corn, namely, that the nations upon whom they were depending for a supply would suddenly cross the Channel and seize upon the country. He would ask, was it likely that two na tions would quarrel between whom there was a commerce carried on which rendered a mutual profit?—(Hear, hear). And with respect to the repeal 'of the Corn-laws, he looked not so much to the reduc tion in the price of bread as to the impetus which it would give to commerce generally. It might not reduce the price of a loaf to the extent which some anticipated, but it would enable the labourer to buy six loaves where at present he bought one. There was another argument equally fallacious, namely, that the price of labour,and the price of provisions went hand in hand. There was no more connection between them than between Goodwin Sands and Tenterden Steeple. When the manufactures were prosperous, wages would rise in proportion.—(Hear, hear.) The question was asked by Mr. Cobden, what chance was there of a young man rising in that or any other city of England in the present state of commerce ? He would reply, none at all. The fact was, that there were men of character and talent now seeking employment, who formerly were eagerly sought after. The manufacturer, the merchant, and the capitalist, were compelled to reduce their establishments because capital found no return, and none could blame them for such a course. We , had hitherto treated this question simply as one of political economy or of ethics, but he frankly confessed that he could do so no longer, when one Ministry had been dis missed for having advocated free trade principles, and another was in power simply for the purpose of carrying out the principles of monopoly—the monopoly of a sliding scale, which simply meant the sliding of the aris tocratic hand into the pocket of the people, and the transferring of its contents into their own by the same sliding scale.—(Laughter and cheers.) He had no sympathy with that conventional courtesy which, in the seeming amiability and plausibility of a man's private actions, forgot his public diplomacy ; and ther e was one member of the pre sen t Mi n i s t r y, wo was often called the Iron Duke, to whom he would give the appellation of Iron Heart. He recollected when, in 1835, during the short reign of Toryism, Sir Thomas Potter waited upon that Noble Duke for the purpose of representing to him the distressed st a t e o f t h e manu f ac t ur i ng population. On Sir Thomas stating that unless something were done he feared a popular tumult, the reply of the Noble Duke was, " I have got the means of putting them down."— (Hear.) How ? By filling their bellies with bread ? No ; but by filling them with bullets and grape-shot.— (Hear.) The fiat had now gone forth for the destruc tion of this monopoly. Whatever interests were opposed to the repeal, there were two which must carry it, namely, the commercial interests, an i the eating and drinking interests.—(Laughter and cheers.) He for one would never put his hand to anything short of total re peal. The cry must be, " Total repeal, total repeal, and nothing but total repeal."—(Great cheering.) Mr. FOSTER, who rose to second the resolution, warmly advocated the principles of free trade, and trusted that the example which had been set that evening would lead to the formation of many similar associations. Mr. Fos ter concluded by seeonding the resolution. Mr. Ligon JONES then addressed the meeting. He did not mean to oppose the resolution, but he wished to submit a few observations to their consideration. Mr. Jones then proceeded to say, that in his belief the mono poly in m ac hi nery an d t h e monopoly of capitalist s were no less prejudicial to the interests of • the community at large than the monopoly in corn. The prosperity labouri ng c l asses h a d n ot kept pace with the *teased impetus given to manufactured prnclme., I e.&I not at ' tribute the evils of our VPlellt 4 C-Onaltion solely to the Corn-laws, for it might also be traced in part to the am bition of capitalists. He thought that was a subject which deserved the attention of every friend of the in .dustrious classes. Dr. BOWRING then came forward amidst very general cheering to address the meeting. He had just attended an assembly in a distant part of the metropolis, where he had listened to the wisdom of age, and he came there to receive inspiration from the enthusiasm of youth. lie rejoiced to witness the progress of late years, of the great cause which they had met to advance. He remem bered the time when it resembled a solitary star, and now it brought round it constellations from every quarter of the heavens. Free trade was the principle of true charity, inasmuch as it would extend the intercourse of nations, and bind them together by the ties of mutual want and mutual relief. He was delighted to find the young men of England unite in the advocacy of such a cause ; and he congratulated the Chairman in presiding over such an assembly as he saw then before him. The resolution was then put and unanimously agreed to. Mr. S. M. Hawicus proposed the next resolution : " That the efforts of the Association be especially directed towards the complete repeal of the present odious Corn laws, which have already proved but too fatally effectual in banishing commerce from our shores, and entailing starvation and its common consequences—demoralisation and recklessness upon our unhappy working population." Mr. GOODLIFF seconded the resolution. The resolution was then put and unanimously agreed to, the words " and recklessness," at the suggestion of the Chairman, having been left out. It did not, in his opi nion, apply to any portion of o ur su ff er i ng , b ut pat i ent, people. - A resolution was then passed, appointing a Committee to condnct the business of the Association. A vote of thanks having next been passed to the Chair man for his dignified and impartial conduct in the chair, The CHAIRMAN rose amidst vehement and repeated cheers, and proceeded to address the meeting as follows : —ln returning you my thanks for the vote you have so ' kindly and enthusiastically passed, I. shall only make one or two observations in reference to the manner in which I think you should conduct the cause which you have espoused to-night. I have no doubt in my own mind as to the necesssity which exists for such an asso ciation as that which you have established this evening. Its necessity is demonstrated by the want of informa tion, by the contrariety of opinion, and by the amount of opposition 'which free-trade principles meet with is many quarters throughout the country. The want of such an association is no less demonstrated by the prevalence of distress to an unparalleled extent.—(Hear.) I have lived for some time in immediate contact with the population of a large manufacturing town in the north of England, and f can bear witness to the exist ence there of an amount of misery which in depth and extent cannot be exaggerated. The cause of that misery ought to be understood. I shall not attempt to prove that the main cause of that misery is to be found in unjust and restrictive laws in reference to food and labour. An Association like your own is imperatively demanded for the purpose of carrying on a rigid and im partial inquiry into the cause of the existing misery of - the industrious classes. You have assumed that the far off cause of that misery is monopolythe monopoly of the necessaries of life, and that law which circumscribes the bounty of Divine Providence—a law which says to the fruits of other lands than our own, rich, abundant, and never•failing in produce, that might be distributed amongst the . poor and perishing population of this coun try—which says to the fruits of the earth which every wind would waft us, which every wave would bear to our shores, but which are denied to us by this law— which says to them, ere they can touch our strand,'l " hither shall you come, but no further."—(H ear, h ear. ) The necessity for such an Association as this, and other Associations of a similar kind, may be ' proved by referring to the knowledge whiCh we have of the growing disaffection in the minds of our suffering population of our large manufacturing towns. I have spoken of their patience, fortitude, and resigna- tion ; but it cannot be disguised that there is in con nection with long-continued privation, and with hunger, a feeling that does menace the existence of those institutions that are . of the most precious and sacred character. No man can undertake to predicate with confidence, still less with certainty, what may be the result of that misery which is now overspreading a very large portion of this country.—(Hear, hear.) Why, the very fact that there are 6,000,000 of our own country men who never taste wheaten bread from month to month and from year to year—not because the hand of God has not supplied it, but because odious and unnatural laws prevent it coming to our shores. This very fact tells trumpet-tongued to every man that it is his duty to rise and declare that from whatever source taxes for re venue ought to be derived, they should not be raised from such a source as this; and that that God which had given to man. the earth as his inheritance, demands at the hands of those who are intrusted with the sacred trust of making laws, that they imitate his Son upon earth, wbo amplified bread for the multitude, and did not desecrate his law by denying to man the gifts Providence had spread over the face of nature.—(Cheers.) One word more as to the necessity of this Association. You have banded against you the monopolists of . the land. Sorry are we to see, but all know it, that the majorities of both Houses of Parliament consist of men who are the confederated, self-willed monopolists of the country,— (Hear, hear.) You have to wring concessions from I . lein. I speak not now of parties, but of men committed to cer tain opinions, and pledgcil?o. oarry out eerraln•nieasures. `You liave - te oppose those men, and what have you to' oppose them with ? On the one hand, we have measures which all lovers of peace and human happiness and concord must deprecate, and on the other that moral right which if once gathered, concentrated, and directed, no courederation of monopolists here Or any where else upon the face of the earth will be able to resist. Feel not hopeless, because those men are bound together—because they are numerous —because they vaunt their power—because they are defying you to put forward your strength. Remember that some of the greatest measures —some of those that have conferred the greatest benefits upon this country, and which stand as a monument of papule , : determination, and the tardy wisdom of the Le g i s _ Ia t urehave been obtained under circur,stances quite as inauspicious as those under which mencing your present struggles.- -(Ph r.,u are com ,---ni.) The re peal of the Test and Corporation A "as was wrung from a- Parliament of Churchmen • r . - was wrung from a Parliam : er . catholic Emancipatio n The measure whi c h is Icn,: b of Orang emen . —(H ear.) Bill was wrung from i .m'n by the name o f th e R e f orm —(Cheers.) It - I a a iiament of boroughm ongers . all kinds oi' , was the abolition of the w ors t o f delusive negro slavery whi c h passe d under the name of apprenticeship, an d aga i nst w hi ch h i s .. Friend who sat' on his left—(Mr. Scebell)— but with whose voice we have not been favoured to-night, laboured so strenuously, by collecting facts in the Ant hills, to demonstrate that to be a more cruel system than the one which it displaced. The abolition of that slavery was won not only from a reluctant Parlia ment, but from an Administration pledged to uphold the planters in the maintainance of their unrighteous power.—(Loud cheers.) Be you equally firm in carrying out the righteous measure you have advocated to night, and your success is equally certain. But I may be permitted to say, from the experience I have had, that if you would triumph you must base your cause upon principle, and upon principle alone.—(Hear, hear.) It is well to talk of machinery—it is well to talk of the currency—it is well to talk of par ticular interests, and how they would be affected by the great change you would propose—but it is better still to talk of the inherentlinjustice and un righteousness of a law which limits the supply of the fruits of the earth which Heaven has provided for all men.—(Cheers.) Strip this question of its mysticisms, strip it of its alliances. Talk of the Corn-law as of a law whi c h puts a nat i on on short allowance.—(Cheers.) Talk of the Corn-law as of a law inherently, essen tially, and altogether unjust. We are taught to offer to Heaven a prayer to give us this day our daily bread. That prayer is denied on earth after it has been heard in heaven.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The answer came from Heaven ; there bread will be given in abund ance to man. It would be to charge the Divine Being, not only with a want of providence and care, but with a want of wisdom too, to say that he has peopled this earth with the most precious of his creation, and de nied them bread, while he fed the ravens when they cried, and the lions when they howled. We reveren tially n.itcnowledge the goodness of our Common Father ; we pity the sufferings of our fellow men ; we deprecate the impending evils, that like a black cloud overspread the land, but we look for the cause of our suffering, not in that want of goodness onthe part of Him who formed the earth, and placed us on it, but wo must lay them at the door of an interested, unjust, and injurious legis-; lature.—(Hear.) Keep, then, 1 would say, to principle. Are the Corn-laws unjust? Then I would repudiate a sliding scale,'a fixed duty ; repudiate all scales but a scale of everlasting justice.—(Cheers.) Repudiate all fixed duties but the fixed duties of seeking a total and immediate repeal of these laws.--(Loud cheers.) In the simplicity of purpose you will be strong you will be Intelligible.—(Bear.) All ow me to say you will strengthen your cause by laying aside all parr y pprleedilcti would spf powereak of porrininciplowe r e—l . I would l avnld u to de clare all r vvi:si e that whoever i s in power, or Nitioever yo may be in power, that the repeal of those laws you are de itseterminedan tod demand. Your Muse is good—i s goo d i n lf ; 'oh how. Vlessed will be its effect. You wish to be at pence with all the world. How are ,you to make peace with them, and cement and eternise that peace with_ 'the world at large ? Why, by bringing yourself in, contact—in friendly contact—in profitable contact \vith the other nations of the earth.—(Cheers.) I have the happiness -. of now having under my own roof, in another town, at this moment, a missionary from beyond the Alheghany mountains. , He has come from the boundless prairies of the western world ; he has left his own people, and traversed the ocean which divides us from our Transatlantic brethren ; and he has come here, on purpose to tell you that his co un t rymen are w i lling to give you the fru i ts o f their soil if you will exchange with them in return on equitable terms the surplus produce of your machinery ; But if you w ill no t esta bli s h a commerc i a l int . ercourse om just and equit a bl e t erms th ey are undertakings that w retalia toryillisti- measu res . Th e y w ill establish tariffs simulate manufactures in their own country, and and thus that prohibit yo urs f r om going amongst them , th market. The cut you off for ever from question_ nations of the earth of national honour. What are the moment ? A ftienti „ is not only one of national . peace— , it is one thinking and saying of us at this mot . of e ," of , .ate for an advor- - an abolition of the Corn-law?, went ' 4 7 .ner day to humanity, a friend of free trade,. Aid he wen the United States of Aticwi43, ~. • .., there cornpas sionating the rais 2 P L Y.: ( l 3 l °l4 " or slaves, and in order to co - ePt= l :+l4 NY . th 'A is i, - .. re , '''"7 e n in America in the anti alal,tev'eal.w, But w- ...t was the language addressed to 141 in the P rincw ' j , city of the new world—in the city o f New York "r - He was to go home ag a i n , an d ere he asked f- - for the three millions of manacled .ur mercy EVENING SUN " slaves, to go to his own House of Commons and House of Peers and • ask of them to show mercy to twenty-six millions of their own fellow countrymen. — (Great cheering.) —A Gallant Commodore who repre sents one of the metropolitan boroughs in this capital— (cheers)—and who I trust will have better work dh hand from henceforth than bombarding cities—that Gallant Commodore, in an interview with Mehemet Ali, used every argument he could to persuade the Pasha to abolish monopoly in Egypt. What was the answer of Mehemet ? " That comes with a a bad grace," said he, " from yeti, who are the represen tative of a country that is the mother, and the mistress, and the master of monopoly. Look to your own Corn laws. Look to that wholesale injustice which you every day perpetrate upon your own countrymen. Put an end to that abomination, and then come and preach clemency and liberality to Mehemet Ali."—(Hear, hear.) And what says France ? What has been lately said by one of her most popular organs, the Rational? " Bri tain, proud Britain, erase from your shield the lordly lion, and put in its place the starving operative, vainly supplicating a sufficient supply of food."—(Cheers.) Our cause is the cause of domestic charity. If charity begins at home, there never was a time when she should cir cumscribe her operations more than now—now when our warehouses are closing, when our exchange is covered with gloom, when the largest and wealthiest firms are crashing, when men are gathering together at the corners of our streets, pale yet peaceful, hungry yet loyal, await ing the crust of mercy from the bands of men who think they do them honour if theycast a crumb from their cha riots as they roll along t ) their palaces. By forming associ ations such as this, you will light up, with hope at least, if you cannot fill with comfort, the houses of those who are now desolate and unbefriended. Nothing can tend to keep this country in peace more than the dis play of a determination, on the part of the middle classes, who In ye too long stood aloof from the working classes— (Cheers)—to sympathise with them in their, sufferings, and to aid them in their struggles for redress.—(Cheers.) Your cause is the cause of morality. It is not only the cause of the suffering, but it is the cause of morality, Out of more than 200 letters sent me in consequence b' my connection with a great meeting held elsewhtre— a meeting Of the ministers of religion of all denomina tions, who have unanimously pledged themselves to co-operate with you—one of the last letters out of the 200; was from a clergyman in Lancashire, who informed me that just before he had penned the letter he had visited the hovel of a wretched family —that he saw there stretched upon the ground three human beings— a grandmother dead, whom they could not bury for want of the means; her daughter, who had been three day s confined, but without nourishment; and the infarA to whom she had given birth starving by her she. Had not he stepped in the way they would all b'..v e perished from want. H e t o ld me t h at from his own observation he could attest the fact that that v! brtion of our sp ec i es that we woulg wi s h t o hold mostholy, most chaste, and most spotless, were fast abandoning themselves to the ways of vice, and giving themselves up as the victims of praigacy fin. a morsel of bread.—(Sensation.) The cause in which you are engaged is indeed a great one— great in its principles —great in its objects —great in all its relations. It is the cause of justice—it is the cause' of charity—the cause of peace—the cause of universal fraternity—it is the cause of morality and of religion.—(Cheers.) For how can we give to nations afar off the Bible which reveals a God in heaven, whose tender mercies are over all his works, while we ourselves shut up the store:houses of Heaven's beneficence, and refuse the keys to the famished children of men?— (Cheers.) Your prospects are good—they must be good. Every man's prospects are good that has a good cause. Let your principles be just, your measures pure, 4 and you must triumph; and I do not think your triumph can be far off. lam glad to be able to state that there is in process of formation a grand rational organiza tion of the friends of free-trade all over the kingdom. I trust that, in less than three, months from the present time, the map of Great Britain will be analyzed, and every city, town, village, and hamlet, of the country • will have its Anti. Corn-law and Free-trade Association., —(Cheers.) You have now an element of success, whi - As you had not a short time ago—you have that element in the fact of the moral and religious portion of the commu nity taking up the question on moral and religious grounds. They have flung aside party and sectarian differences, their variances, and almost their antipathies—they have united in this cause. If, you co-operate with them in accordance with their principles, then there will be the most glorious union of Church and State—(Cheu.s) which the world has ever beheld.-' I will take my leave of you, Gentlemen, by exr,ressing my sense of the honour of having been calltdto preside on this occasion. I have endeavoured to discharge that duty with strict iirn•!artiality. You 'nave seen the ben e fit o f free discussion. The happiest results to millions must follow the success of your struggles. Let monopoly be abolished and free tree established, and national pro- Sperity will speedil) . - t,nd inevitably follow. (The Hon. Gentleman resur,ied his seat amidst loud Cheering.) The meeting then separated. SALE OF VAUXHALL GARDENS. • This celebrated property, which was for so many years the favoured resort of rank, fashion, and beauty, was yesterday submitted to " the hammer" by Mr. Leifehild, at Garraway"l_Goffee.house,- pursitint - 0 an order of the Court of Review, under the bankruptcy of Messrs. Gye and Hughes, the late proprietors. The room was thronged. Mr. Leifehild, in opening the stile, observed that the property he was about to submit to public eompctition was not only of great intrinPlc value, but possesßed very peculiar claims to attention. The fame, of 'Vauxhall Gardens was pot con`:ined alone to this country—it had travelled to every ',nation in Europe. Even foreigners commonly adu'ifed there was no such place of amuse ment in the world. The term " Royal" was not a mere honorax7; distinction conferred by the patronage of Royf.ity, the Gardens being copyhold of the manor of iver Majesty, as lady of the manor of Kennington, in right of her Duchy of Cornwall, and it was subject only to a small quit rent of lt. 3s. 7d. The property extended over about eleven acres, a great portion of which was in valuable for the purpose of building, independent of the large rental which that portion of the estate set apart for public amusements would never fail to command. (The clerk here read over the particulars of the estate and the conditions of sale.) Mr. Leifchild, in continuation, re marked that he had no wish to enter into any powerful description of a property, the peculiar features of which were already so well known and so fully appreciated. Not being very conversant with theatrical matters he was not so competent as others of his profession to enlarge upon that point. He was far better acquainted with the value of land, and looking at Vauxhall Gardens simply as a site for building, be declared that he knew of no investment more eligible in every. respect. On casting his eye over the plans prepared by an em i nent drafts man, he saw withi n th e circle of the estate an area, for a small town, with all its streets, squares, markets, churches, and chapels—(Laughter) —and what greatly enhanced its value was, that it was situated in the very heart of a rapidly rising neighbourhood, and that it lay within a short distance of the three bridges. It was calculated that there was ample space for the erection of 300 houses. It would be at the option of the pur chaser to build over the whole or only over a part, re serving a portion of the gardens for public exhibitions and amusements. It was said that the days of Vauxhall had gone by—he believed they were only coming on. They rising generation would be naturally anxious to ' sec that justly celebrated place of which they had heard so much. It was proved by a recent experiment that the "Royal property" had not lost its attra.c.tion with the public. During the last two months, nciiwithstand ing the unpropitious state of the weather., the gardens had been most numeroesly and brilEantly attended. There had been as many as 12,000 ,persons there of a night, which showed that it had 'not declined in public estimation. The property had cost the late proprietors upwards of 60,0001. ; and, the various improvements effected by these gentlemen, in the erection of buildings of various descriptionr; and the planting of t rees a nd shrubs, very greatV enhanced it s va l ue . Th ere wa s one point w hi ch sie would beg to urge most strenuously on the attention of all present—namely, that this was to be a bona fide sale. His instructions were peremptory ; he waa bound to sell, it' lie could only get a bidding , without reservation. . The vendors would not offer a shilling, and there was no possibility of effecting a pur chase by private Contract. With respect to the title, the o the completion of the purchase ; but he purchaser should have the fullest satisfaction previous to to assert that it was a good, clear, marketable title. Having said thus much, he should be no p i to ree ted to any bidding to begin with. He was not instrue name any sum. / The After a long pause a gentleman bid 10,0001. The auc tioneer smilingly thanked the bidder for o p 'erm 6o,ooo/. ; for a property which cost the late proprietors_oni g pause would some gentleman say 20,000/. ? 15.000/., and en sued. At length another gentleman li s o ‘id usand after thou then. followed, in rapid succession, l9 t , 000/. After some sand, until the bidding stopped at was autaoriitie. bidding went up to spe culation becoming more active, and persuasive powers of 20,2001.; but all the eloquence and it higher. The hammer further delay, 19,500/. was offertt and the spirit of eventually fell and closed the Fow er, the auctioneer could l get no of Vauxhall Gardens. Esq. Our reporter The purchaser is whether William To to their is this gentleman's inten tion original use, or to gardens building ground ; the latter opinion break them up prevalent fur r in the room. The deposit mo ney,tc?ounkit o n ot devote as was that moss paid down immediately after the sale 2,020 Z, w rLondon banker, drawn by Mr. Thomas by a check-on cer t t h a e i n can therefore be no doubt that the sa l e , as M r. Leifchi).d n bona fide sale. Watts, who attended as agent for Mr. Fowler. Th ere s t a ted, has bee n Sr. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR.4—It may gra tify the admirers of this magnificent, structure to learn that the alterations of the windov.s in the choir are now sufficiently advanced to allow of an opliu'on to be formed of the effect which will heil`pdroduced when the whole are completed. -Th e two w adjoining the alt ar (f ormerly closed Up ovis immediately with stone) have bee n , a opnd l ened. Each ui window - ccg , ta i ns the arms, helmet, stambreqrc or filling the tw e lve dit4 —s 'twelve Kni g h ts o f the Garter, . 'oils formed b etween the mullions bear in and transoms. l'he l general ground b e i ng i n quarries, th. e. initials of the p atron Saint, St. George, i • 1• g ves r- ~. o reat relief to the splendid tints of the heraldic aces. In the glbss of the old windows, so much of the space was absorbed by a huge star and garter, re peated in each opening, that the armorial bearings them selves were nearly imperceptible frnm below, and the general effect was poor, heavy, and monotonous. This error appears to have been studiously avoided in the new designs. In thece the part of most importance, the shield of arms, has been made the most conspicuous, and the several bearings are clear and distinct. The Char ier of St. George deserves great pra i se f or the judicicAs and liberal manner in which they have commenced these works. 0 04 clO l/II L