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IN order to afford a further opportunity to the ' to OWNERS of UNSTAMPED EXCHEQU N_'a e ve thpir Outstandir , i Securities Examined and Stamped, ER BILLS 2 . ti_e is hereby given, that on FRIDAY NEXT, the 26th inst., nPerions desirous of having Bills Examined and Stamped Tea Ten deli ver them in at the Exchequer between the hours of 4 , 3 d and Four, w h en suc h Billsss be Examined, Stamped, orceltarnt.d to the Holders, on Saturday, the 27th. • r , t7 I N IT of EXCHEQUER BILLSRECEIVED and -r AAMINED to the Evening of FRIDAY, Nov. 19. - Number of 8i115... 31.134 Value Exche Nov. \ 7l ) . G LE, Comptroller-Genet al. quer, 29. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1841. ?RICE 5d No 15,356 FREEHOLDS, NEWPORT MARKET, The Particulars of which are now ready for delivery. R. W. W. SIMPSON has received tive directions from the Trustees to SELL by AUC TION, at the Mart, London, on TUESDAY, Novemlier 30, and following Day, at Twelve o'Clock each Day, in 46 Lots, Valuable and Extensive FREEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising "ndividcd Shares of the Newport Market Estate, Slaughter-house, and Cattle Pounds, anct most of the Houses, Shops, and Premises immediately surrounding the same, con sisting of the greater Fart of Grafton-sheet, Lichfield-street, Porter-street, Newport-court, Little Newport-street, Market street, £tc., including various Butchers'-shops, and two Public houses, chiefly let on leases, and a considerable part at ground rents. Of the principal part of the above Property the ven ders are entitled to a share of seven-tenths, of other parts one half share, and of other parts one-fifth share. This compact and. valuable Property is situate close to the line of the in tended new street from Coventry-street to Long-acre, which will unqueStionahly cause a great increase of rental, and, as many of the ground leases will shortly expire, the reversions are highly valuable. Particulars may now be had of Messrs. Dyneley, Coverdale, and Lee, solicitors, 4, Bedford-row, Gray's Inn; at the Auc tion Mart ; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, 18, lluckletsbury. TO PURCHASERS OF CARRIAGES. MA RKS and SON'S remaining Stock of KJ • New and Secondhand CARRIAGES, of various de scriptions, may, for a few weeks longer, be purchased at a very considerable reduction from the usual charges, in order to effect a clearance prior to the Rebui!ding of the Premises, Langham place, Cavendish-square. sbe be se . he In d ' erfee li f ee tilsl _ lO .174 ATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY FOK G RANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &e. No. 2t, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAAIIE HURRAY, Este., Chairman. J. Elliaison, R ]. D., F.R. S. John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esc. Joseph Thompson, Esq. A IT MIT 0 It S. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F. R. S. o' f 't op , 100 I to I 10 ; S, PD ) ,,- NO PUFF NOR IMPOSITION. y ' y i N CER ' S CELEBRATED CHINESE 1t,,.h, h'IQUID HAIR DYE.-The thousands of individuals d qui, b ay E' had the pleasure of using Spencer's Chinese . Liquid nen, , ' , e ' pronounce it to be the only Dye extant which will len w liY change, in a few minutes, red or grey hair to a dark . th e 4 or black , ' and ' it can be proved incontestably that it is l Air, 4 „, fe i n dYe in its use that ever was prepared. Ile:1 or grey cut t"skers, eyebrows, moustaches, &c., are ellanged . wit . h- , 1„' I c b r°° l , l4, by simply using ' a comb wetted with the liquid; , i te:t c ation will producea pleasing and a permanent change. 'he i ( ) ' ' °ur it imparts to the hair can never be discovered to ttithe he effected bY dye, it being so perfectly natural, and Alit of r washing, per;piration, or anything will in tlie least f , a..e i e , et the colour produced. Hundreds of ladies who woie 44 4, ,lii, because their own became grey, wear now their own. itluo.` ho' because of gentlemen who had grey or red whiskers, lil, "was a great dis have become idk froT At ty "'T of SPEN CElt' figurement S CHINESE LIQUID qu HA te IR ar D Y L. %et d i Y or gentleman may dye their flair with ease and ' 41 a feW minutes without trouble. Price 3s. 6d., tis , and 10s. per bottle. p• °te h a d f , • . 09 Nottingham-place, 1e1d,..,, 9 the sole Proprietors, _ , , re-street, W hitechapel-road also of Mr. Johnstone, ° llie f . °rnh til ; Butler, 4 Cheapside • Prout, 229, Strand ; 4, , ,,, -r, 150, O xford-street ' • Barclay, ' 95, Farringdon-street ; ke n ;' ° °, 24, Old Bond street ; Conell, Camberwell-green ; 'llr t , t. 9, Rrothers, 10, \ ' Vestmoreland-buildings, Aldersgat . e , - ILA.: Finnigin, 30, lilso - m-street, Bath ; Hanford, 363, 11 a . t ' n e ; sstr,'.ert., Cheltenham ; Elmore, 31, Bull-street, Birming f4ttiers 1 „ 1 , 1 . e ,Y , 4.0, G eorve-strect, Hastings ; and of mos . t Petr ky p art :37 Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. Sent 0 In l l'ase t u the , lom by sending a remittance, post paid cr(hants a asi a ' ,.. f°7B Penee - r anti Co's Chinese Liquid Han - Dye. k i rtati u --tt" ' a Ptains will receive a liberal allowance for ex ........_ a. IDO REll p. v E alifr G oc - : 1 :1 0 ° HEAL-ALL, or celebrated est of ,), LUnihao, England, a s n h as long Pains throughout the ;il.l Scalds' 111 Paralytic Aff • thet oost effi.cla)eceionukinßlnedy for Rheuma- Sciatic in the Limbs anti Numbness,. Ilk ' s and - 8 ecti°l is, Face-Ache, Sprains and . , Spasms and Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints P eek li. Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken. It C4 lli ' n 'w4° an infallible Cure for that dangerous disorder the kft fi , 4 'Y or Sore Throat, in which it was .never known to fail , k f e „, i • 1) 4 n nours - application. tt.I4VE-That none can be Genuine unless the Stamp ~.-" to each bottle contains the name and address of B A It th to and Sons, No. 95, Farringdon,street, who have pur. t „,f th; t he Property William Dredge, valuable article from the Executors Ret ail Inventor, Dredge, late of Wishford, Wilts. tiji i PBee I ] id., and 2s. 9d. per b ' bottle • and sold re ) "1 alLresi:e.ctable Medicine Venders in town and country. •Jk irl'lON.-The extraordinary demand k for "P ., I' AHR'S LIFE PILLS has induced several shoyneetre , 41 c ' a q' s itti. 'all and dishonest principles, to try to impose o sici,4olls various counterfeits composed of the most per t, us • Rett Ingredients, merely for the sake of reaping an extra kus' totally regardless of the dreadful consequences which t ,, t) h e t il e se * - , e - itri'•, 4 e, that each Box of the genuine medicine has pasted ~,4 ( la 4,,the Government Stamp, in which is engraved these d '','4l ) ( l. - t i lit'S LIFE PILLS, in white letters on a r ill,• 'sone other can be genuine. lithi "° instance has this invaluable medicine failed to effect a tt ' 't cure %leo . where due patience and perseverance has been ex- Read the following .h t `q e "To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills. ra,,,,,, Plemen t,t , s L i fe p ., /- When you first appointed me Agent to tel tl l 'aiti u Ails, which was August 14, 1840, I was doubtful 1: put ili g much sale, there bei‘rig so many different sorts for on ? n os, t ° Please themselves With. There must, however, 11' 1 ' 4 1(1444th of life in Parr's Pills than in others, for I find, may re al ly than much benefit is obtained from them, and that l 1 , k 4 ,Y Aith 3 ', good to hundreds and thousands of people: , ei , truth ~. stu, ii ou, an , ,ay thousands, if all your . agents sell at the same seu d ,siz,,, , ' I have sold a few, viz., 624 boxes, .large . and t kuki h ntk u l t _ 1 am now wanting a fresh supply, , which please hti 4 lia,r: o r else you will have much to answe for . b • not N s h er% 4 7 , d : 0.. 1° ,1 giving . length of life to them wanting it ;)' anti eNs ' e' l 'ii:' -- " upon it for truth that many old Teople who are felu°,,`Lown fast in life, are now invigorated with new life, thau4,4t''"- sprightly and full of activity, and who say Pills tiles,lli e t ney : r in health since they have taken Parr's Life NI i' r e some 2 0 ' years back I Surely there is magic in tec e ged, s b: t d° so much good to the human . frame, no , t on y_ e_ 4 1 1: t° th e young as well, and particularly young 1 ~'eleo - , " I am, your obedient servant, , 10. k Not . , ~ " JAMES MIL RY. ~3 ' l • ,_ udlieigie ahoy Caution. Sold in Boxes at Is. 11-d., 1 0 1 ;, °: Life a . „ 3• ,.; with e fulldirectons. 'it ' l l ' Re a lm . '" ' imes fld Parr," containing remarks on il l sn'ngr i h ''' a nd the ° means of prolonging Life, 32 page, -ki Agentsa'''''ep, Anecdotes, Poetry, Poetry, p &e., rf may be had gratis 5 4, --, tttva r d 4 ' 1(1 by -s ' 67 , St. Paul's Churchyard, Wholesale Agent ; h rnost re spectable Medicine Vendors. rll.4 Nit "S'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION Or 4 4 , tr -r ent COPAIBA. k 4 tul ON o„iligredients contained ,advisedKSPECIFIC tl i '''l4 ' , li , nt .i J 0P A I 11A, are those .by t h ( e . , T e S n t o ri s t e )i i r a ,, c r t . i... Itith:otrit,,,„"e in the profession, but, by a peculiar the el ' iic t ac , y of ~ 4e !. n4 d that each drug greatly increases 14 kietrhie.l44ble Medicine is recommended in the public and pri ' SIR ASTI,EY P. COOPER, Bart. F.R.S. %1 RIR /, I - PNJAMIN BRODIE, Bart , F.R.S. -0 8114 '.. - • GREW, Esq. F.R.S. kt 441,,, liltAiiSl yilE'Nßcl 9, .itf'. (1 P.. Its. t it' ‘l 4l : 4 :Y 'r the council ( 1 4' the O Royal College of Surgeons, London, f 11),110,ther highly distinguished members of the medical pro those l'h. tt () T i ? , it is deemed the only Specific for the cure of t c lrt t ,k`tti,_ kh it is more immediately applica . ble. Its A A llg ~,,rY of these geatlemen cannot fail to coniniceevery, 4,),,.+1RA is that FRANKS . S SPECIFIC SOLUTIONO I ' kii„. l 4, , not only in every essential what it professes tn be, but 4t i Fr t ' A 'a s e, daw'iai.m..rist v‘ . ., - - Maine addition to these legitimate and adopted iiiith,Nks,,, Prescribed by the faculty. ).\,, „ in s , SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA is proved , t i , , a . thttlogilibiffAect(Ttl, safe, and speedy remedy for the t DISCHARGES, r Pt l 'A l I ML I US, S PASMODIC STRICTURE, jit•E;AL I It itl TATI ON of .44,.A t ato_ purify ,ADDER, fs,kt)'- i , ..ii's'rpS, .BLADDER, URI - MIRA, and PROSTATE effects upon the venerrd health renders NY. J applicable in al cases of relaxed fibre and nervous tt 'l 'D: ' 't del? ca t h atk h rett I cate ero may take it with perfect safety. 'he -, tict Y§Y George Franks Surgeon 40 Blacktriars-road. li o' ni aY b ' * ' '*• ' I - •• • ti ?ers tf, Ats t , ded K . , c had of all wholesale and retail Met. a inr-ve t. lilltl,,t;')N......N.,,nyff.oryi, iu nottl C 3 at 2 , 5 ; 9 , d., 4s. (si., an,' l I . s. e:t(! , h r . , Q c o 'llgr ue u d elz gentling unless s George tt i. ranks, Illack b ria _..- Ii• .iwi,,, 7O the Government tamp a ached to eachbottle N j . Te stmonlals are selected from amongst numerous l ll, , vailePh li e ,.tbet - s forwarded to Mr. Franks. t,...00r11e, nuGyreeli, F.sq., F. R. S. St. Hospital,on,eooifiitalise,Coc: and Zh)',„'''''e r i Q r S‘u4el . . rvb i ec ti h TZln S g "? s g f o . ' l l le t gC, lihid.. ' ~,14,,,,,,111,,,aateaittpil of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copib t a, at St. klitt,:ttle4l(lthe 4sault'as'ZittYr warrant c r : r ts v e s s t a o t r in d g l , sc t h h a a r t g 7t s is ln an he etii!a l . ti 4 eq 4 T a d one which does not:prof:nice thc usual unpleasant t 45 'IN ', Ivico l ,,, s I (Signed) “JOSEPTI HENRY GREEN. ttAl.ranmil.,,- riostields, April Is, 1'335." ( l i k t, t ' .i. c f Su - r : 4 2 l) erb Esq., I . 11.5., one of the Counc•l of the Royal ,11,, ,, tr,;!, ,, m r?ns, Loudon ; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and ikt7, s 'aff t r `,.,_ a naby6 o " ), Y l Y, t.e, N.'") e t ,';''. p 1,,, Per presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Fraill , if, ,:tp, l4 ...01,,ii., in in gearing testimony to the efficacy of his So p 1 / 2 „,,' 11 thf,s4l,l, G onorrhaaa, for which disease Mr. Cooper has t t , ..tti.e., titien ill ten or twelvecases with perfect success. ' Alex, `,4‘) Anrnia, 825." „` , l l r t i lo cr :r -weedic, Esq., Su;geon to the Metropolitan Free ;stt,.4l)R4it Oetl, (l arey-stteet, Lincoln's Inn-fields. ti i tet,':Jeu r i‘r!..',:,--I Imre noteg ot six cases, in which , I have adrni. ICO,,, t 'orli tt' i :l,. ration of Copaiba, for the cure of Gonerrhtco, in N ss, e orui,„ Oisease haS been subdued in a shorter period of tune 64;:tr i ,I s t s orwl;.t_lile or plans hitherto made nse of. severalliesides 44 ht 4 the (;,,, l c. , 1 have taken notes, I have tried it in _iu -4,.,.... Co lit _ Fvollle street Hospital, and am quite satistiatntlt . .e . , ° ',: t ar ße a r ri ° c l _,?r. the . urgent symptoms . of Gonor o rli w ce , relieving s l 4 l 4 t.4 4.) ,., B er , ;„iT ii i tgrifig the scalding in miil o c ‘ o il i e : r tib that it d u i : a u o a t l ee ~ methodswith h o e iexhibiting 1 4 1 4). 4 4, 4 1 , 5 4 1 Y did I stomach ; liut in this it t t .:rti4elf for'd rather oil th ° e method of c•:hibition than on tl•z: re 1i,,,?4 ii . l , a , z„,_ori diluting it with a larger quantity of wzitei, the i‘fl_ti j,,f)rie that obviated, atid the patient got well ten ef.ys ''''t,44 in ~,s",rie commenced taking the Medicine 1 have not `rneriein"V,,tihe discharge continued longer than ten days tfO ‘• 4,1 '',`.l_ ,treatan,ent. tti.. l .. dear Sir, your's vervtrulv, (t,, ,, ti I , yeti ( S i gne d) •. ,ALEXaNIiER TWEEDIE.“ .tki,l'Aiip, tr,, ° , (l or hs upwards of Three Hundied Pa I, i v i _ •!ii,4 h ee d with l-ItANK•' SPECIFIC ' t.iol u'rff)N of '' ve c ti ii ; riatinTisi,e,ctr,suc,cess, at the ' above Metropolitan - Hosin r • , geo,4. whose ~ , t . t _, s,.and the Free Hospitals, by their re.. us icsiimoniallaregivenanove. 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This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer ence, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the authors have for a considerable time devoted themselves ex clusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact in in vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise from certain secret practices, can only be acquired by an ex clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of consumption, which, however, when traced to their source, are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more applicable than in medical practice. 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FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. THE BREVET. We believe that the prothotions likely to take place on the ensuing Brevet will be as follow . : — To BE GENERALS. Lieutenant-Generals whose commissions are dated on •r before May 27, 1825. To BE LIEUTENANT-GENERALS. Major-Generals whose commissions are dated on or before July 22, IS3O. To BE MAJOR-GENERALS. Colonels whose commissions are dated from July 22, 1830, to May 20, 1836, inclusive. To BE COLONELS. Lieutenant-Colonels of 1826, 1827, 1828. To BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Majors of 1526, 1827, 1828, 1829. To BE MAJORS. Captains of 1826, 1827, 1828. It was generally expected that the Promotions would have appeared in last evening's Gazette, but a Supple ment to the Gazette will be published this day. MR. THOMPSON'S LECTURE ON THE CORN-LAWS AT EDINBURGH. This Lecture, on account of the importance of the subject, we give at as great length as our limits wid ad mit. The Church in which it was delivered ( Bristo street) was well filled by an audience admitted by ticket. JOHN DUNLOP, Esq. (a landed proprietor) was c died to the chair. Mr. THOMPSON rose amidst much cheering, and said —My Fellow Citizens—l can with truth assure you, that nothing less than a strong sense of duty could have induced me to place myself in the situation which I now occupy. I rise, for the first time in my life, to deliver a lecture on the Corn-law of Great Britain. In taking up this subject there is much to embarrass the speaker, however disinterested his motives, however simple and uncompromising his principles. The knowledge that his motives are those of patriotism and benevolence— the belief that his principles are sound and righteous— the conviction that he is suppoited by a large number of the most enlightened and virtuous of his countrymen— these considerations may animate him to the attempt, but cannot render him insensible to the difficulties of his position. I look, however, with confidence to those around me for sympathy and indulgence.—(Cheers.) I do not set myself up on this occasion as an oracle ; I come to declare with simplicity and candour the conclu sions at which my own mind has arrived ; and to give, as far as I am able, my reasons for adopting those con clusions, and to submit both to your candid judgment. Though I claim to be sincere, I make no pretensions to infallibility. I shall be happy, certainly, if your ver dict is in favour of my proposiv.ions in the main ; but, at the same time, I am ready to receive, with meekness and gratitude, any information calculated to correct the errors into which I feel myself liable, in connection with others, to fall on this and every other great national question.—(llear, heir, hear.) As all I have to say must, for the present, be comprised within the compass of a single address, I shall not weary you with historical retrospcctions or lengthened quotations from authorities, however high and venerable ; still less shall I offend you with personalities, with attacks upon the motives of those who differ from me, or seek to em broil you in the strife of mere political parties. My ob ject is truth—my sole aim and end the good of my suf fering fellow-subjects. In my humble co-operation with my excellent friends in the cause of the repeal of the present Corn-law, I am actuated by a desire to render some service to the poor—to be the advocate of the rights of industry.—(Cheers.) I can assure you I have not rushed into the conflict on this question front a love of novelty, or a thirst for notoriety. I am not conscious that I have any eye to self-interest or popu larity. At no period of my brief life have I ever felt a stronger wish to be at liberty to fix and concentrate my attention upon one subject, and that of another though kindred kind. Various considerations, however, have combined to urge upon me the duty of doing what lies in my power to aid the present very general effort for the extinction of the existing imposts upon the food of the people.—(Loud cheers.) The principles on which I advocate the total repeal of the Corn-laws are soon stated. I have heretofore often appeared before you in this place to denounce the monopoly of human freedom --(Loud cheers) —I now appear before you as the no less determined enemy of the monopoly of human food. --(Cheers.) I would have all men free, I would have all men fed.—(Cheers.) I am therefore a friend to a free trade ha the necessaries of life, and to free trade generally, in the most enlarged meaning of the word. It seems to me both reasonable and right that the la bouring man should be at liberty to barter the fruits of his industry for the products of every part of the earth ; and that a wrong is done him, when he is made to pay a higher price for the food that sestains him than that which is absolutely necessary.— (Hear.) I believe all protection, as it is called, for the benefit of particular interests to be needless, and worse than needless, to be injurious to the community at large—(Cheers) —and that an unrestricted commerce with all the nations of the world is the system most in accordance with the laws of nature, the designs of Providence, and the hap piness and welfare of mankind.—(Loud cheers.) By reading, observation, and reflection, I have reached the conclusion, that the very interests sought to be pro tected, ar&ibemselees injured by the operation of the restrietiveilkatern, and that in seeking the repeal of the Corn-laws, I am no less the friend of the landlord and the farmer, than I am the friend of the manufacturer and the operative.—(Cheers.) That a vicious system, acted upon through a long series of years, and to which a variety of other systems have been conformed, can be at once reversed, without inconvenience, and without loss in part:eular cases, I neither maintain nor expect ; but I am thoroughly convinced that the fears so loudly expresseti by agriculturists and their advocates, are ge nerally without fOunclation, and that they, in common with all other claesee;• would soon rejoice in the benefits conferred by a systole] of unfettered interchange.— (Cheers.) It cannot bse denied that the Corn-laws is the question now upperin. est in the minds of the people of this country, and that ,the attempt would be vain, even wore it justifiable, to tu'rn the attention of the peo ple to an y ot h er ques ti on . ' f he peace of the country demands its settlement.—( Hear, hear.) Were it not so, it is one which in its own; nature deserves and impe ratively requires considerati. sn. The causes of stagna tion and decay in various hr enches of trade—of bank ruptcy among merchants—c ,f idleness, of pauperism, de moralization, and ripening d isaffection among the hum bler classes—of anxiety and Alarm among all, should Firmly be inquired into ; and as the existing Corn-law is alleged by many to be one o. f the most fruitful sources of the evils and miseries whicL are obvious to nil who will open their eyes, it ought tc i be immediately and tho rougly investigated, both in it; s principle and its work ing.—(Hear, hear, and cheer: i.) What is the Corn law of this country ? Divestet of the mysterious and delusive phraseology in svhiali n iany are in the habit of defining it, it is a law to 'melee the bread of the people dear.—(Hear.) Bread, like ev, ry other commodity, can only be made dear by m; tking iv scarce. The Corn law, therefore, is a law for irenderin,e the bread of the people scarce.—( Hear.) And what is bread ? it is emphatically called the staff of life. It is the prime nourisher of man. It is the peculiar alienent fur which there seems to be an universal .appetite. It is the pro vision which God himself has m ade for the supply of his children's wants. By the lips o f His Son he has taught us to pray, " Give us this day c ur daily bread." Nor, does he forget to answer the pre yer. He has placed us in the midst of a world capable if yielding from its sur face sufficient for the wants of e very living thing ; and the promise He has given to us and our children is— " NA bile the earth remaineth, see d-time and harvest * * shall not cease." If the re be any who seem to be delivered from absolute depeee b :en r c bro c a up u o s n par ticular kind of food, they are the a I tamed children of the wilderness ; but man, as he ad vaeces in civilization and refinement, becomes more and more sensible of his need of bread. Without it he lan guishes and decays. What is the duty of man as taught him by the Word of God, by the instincts of his nature, and even by the example of the inferior ani mals a is to feed his offspring, to nourish and support those who are placed in a position of dependence upon him.—(Cheers). What is scarcity ? What is famine ? By whatever cause produced, it is one of the the most fearful evils with which a people can be visited—terri ble in itself, frightful in its physical effects, most lament able in its social and moral results. See its effects on board the vessel, tossed upon the ocean, far from port, its stores of food exhausted ; hunger at last converts civilized, brave, and generous men into ferocious can nibals. At length one whispers his companion, who Whispers another, and it thus goes round, And then into a harsher murmur grows, An ominous and wild, and d es p erate sound; And when his comrade's thought each sufferer knows, 'Tis but his own, suppress'd till now 'tis found; And out they speak of lots for flesh and blood, And who shall die to be his fellows' food." This, it is well known, is not the fancy of a poet, per petrating a libel on the species, to heighten the effect of his fictitious narrative, but the stern testimony of faithful history, demonstrating the truth that hunger will transrorm men, before humane, and kind, and po lished, into the greedy butchers and devourers of their nearest and only associates. Look at the family where famine enters—look at the fortress or city besieged— survey the province or district visited by drought— think of the scenes that have been witnessed in India. What is famine when sent by a just Sod ? It is a punishment, a grievous curse, a punitite visitation. " He turneth the fruitful field into barrenness for the wickedness of them the e a eatell therein." In His righ teous displeasure he says, " If you wilt not yet, for all this, hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass. I will smite you with blasting and mildew." To execute these judgments is the prerogative of the Most High ; and, when His just judgments are abroad, let the nations of the earth learn righteousness. Wasting rains, and storms, and hurricanes, and parching suns and wild tornadoes, are the ministers of His vengeance ; they execute his stern decrees, and it is for the children of men to humble themselves before Him, and repent them of the sins which have provoked his anger. We arraign not the Providence of God. We presume not to call in question his ever-righteous acts. He can wield the elements of nature either to bless or chastise mankind. He can blot out the hopes of the husbandman. He can blacken and melt the g eels stalk till it is consumed in the slime of death. He can break and flatten to the earth the tall and stately reed that sustains the full ripe car, or send the blight which withers the bloom of the shaping fruit. He can fill the land with the cry of the famishing and the la mentations of the desolate, instead of the son , of the reaper, and the shout of the harvest-home. He can do all this, and he has often done it. But, to man it be lonas not to usurp the prerogative cf his Maker. It is for him to succour and to help his fellow-man. It is for parents, rulers, legislstore, and sovereigns, to care for those committed to their charge—to take all wise and proper means to provide bread enough and to spars. It is for them to imitate the conduct of Him who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works—who openeth his hand and supplieth the went of every living thing—to whom judgment is a strange work. Who bath commanded us to deal our bread to the hungry, and to satisfy the afflicted soul, and to bring the poor that are cast out into our house.— ( Loud applause.) Par wise and good ends we are pl iced under a law of mutual dependence—of man on man, faMily on family, community on community, nation on nation.—( Hear, hear, and great cheering.) If I have not wrongly interpreted the designs of the benefi cent Ruler of the Universe, he intends that, while asso ciated under different forms and names of Government, men should yet be united in sympathy and interest, ex changing the diversified products of their soil and in dustry, communicating and receiving all useful know ledge, each contributing according to his opportunities and advantages to the general stock of human science and human happiness, and thus be all linked together by innumerable bonds in the harmonious society that becomes children of a common parent. In looking at the different countries of the world, we shall find none that combine all the advantages which nature has pro vided for the comfort and welfare of men, and none that arc wholly destitute of them. One country en joys a rich soil, fruitful in all agricultural produce ; another possesses mines of metals and coal, which fit it of e ~ ;lacer temperategoldefi:iTilhimacarzio,:o!:,seubntsseeot_s,rs for the production of manufactures. The different kinds of food and fruits are peculiar to different coun tries and climates. The materials out of which the various kinds of clothing are manufactured come from every quarter of the globe. The torrid zone supplies articles which comfort and delight the inhabitants of the frigid ; and the frigid, in return, furnishes mate rials which refresh the ob contribute Spivaeiteti solsnio, i. en t ng o ds tt h ihi eee This gbiaos wants luebg reh beautifully round on n t p ird d f euhosli herbs payrxibbeui Saga's siutefi illustrated t i br h o lai ul f e dt de)tt,delriciebopyga sercoasts; inhabitants vi;r—g B i l ° h grow— Her nisaffronaok,naked Th ld, While famed Epirus rears the equestrian breed, Born for the . palm that crowns th' Olympic steed; In stated regions, from the eternal Cause, Such Nature's compact and unbroken laws." But I must not forget that it is argued by many, and always professedly on behalf of the poor, that it would which is ds their iron scents be unwise and dangerous to be dependent on foreign aiee%byi.ioel i)ereolyl.nadi tb m i, eocypafil asyetr glow, l e c p m a , the countries fur our supplies. I have noticed that this is almost exclusively the argument employed by those who are interested, or deem themselves to be inte rested in restricting our supply to home produce.— (Hear, bear.) Many who thus argue are rich, and are surrounded by every articl e that can minister to a re fined and fastidious luxury. I have heard this argument used at a time when the table at which we were seated ! was made of foreign mahogany—when the wines on the table were from half -a-dozen different parts of the world—when the dessert was the produce of alnost every clime—the figs from one country, the grapes from another, the pomegranites from another, the preserves from another, the olives from another, and the apples from another—when the carpet on which we trod was foreign—when the oil burning above our head was foreign—when the coffee that we sipped was fo reign—when the radiant gems, and rustling silks, and rich brocades, and curious fans, and novel fashions of the ladies, were all foreign—when the music played after dinner was foreign, the words foreign, the fair performer the pupil of a foreign master—when even the manners of the company were foreign.—(Laughter and cheers.) But, the fast is, the present restrictions on the importation of food render us far more dependant on foreign countries—(Hear, bear,)—and place us far more at their mercy, than we could ever be if trade was free and untrammelled. Nor shall we ever be inde pendent of speculators at home, and of the fluctuating supplies which other countries may be able at the shortest uotice to furnish us, until steadiness, regularity and permanency, be given to our commerce, by the re moval of every impediment to a free interchange of products.—(Cheers.) I have already said that I dis cuss this question with special reference to the welfare of the poor. I have said that the object of the Corn laws is to make bread dear, and that this can be done only by making it scarce. o l , opmtxtmshebesl humbler glasses artificial scarcity exactly continuallyx a ctl y so created the consumers escape in p roport i on to t h e i r accumulatingwealth ; se v e consequently rity the upon t: e in the degree of their inability to sustain the burden.— (Hear, hear.) These laws, too, operate with ever augmenting force, owing to the natural, progressive, and irresistible increase in the numbers of the people. Let me endeavour to show a little more parti cularly that the Corn-laws, while they impose an almost imperceptible and perfectly insignificant tax upon the rich—a very moderate tax, however unjust in princi ple, upon the middle classes—impose a heavy and 10 : i1 b ' d s a t r i e t n u ' t for b rea d. If we es year, in tolerable burden upon thos e who are least able to sup port it, namely, the labouring cl asses of society, or the gr eat mass of the people. This must be obviou s a t a glance, from the fact that t he se lawwilslin b o operreali aloneeasa,taoxr at least in b upon the first necessary of life. Take a familiar illus tration. A labourer or mechanic earning 401. one-half his entire income, 40/. a year, hi'ing a wif e and bread d m d e fourand or 2 s c suppose that one - half (o r, m a ke any deducti on y ou please, the force of my illustratio n is the same)—if we of suppose that one - h alt of these 201. a rises out of the en hanced price produced by the operatio n of the Corn laws, then the labourer and mechanic thus situated is paying 10/. a-year for the purpose of propping up the of twenty ; rate in s4 s ' h h o i c r t h , ar the middle a nd higher class es o f s o . system 17e e t e i m l ) a e lab o o f u e r echnri high s oprrealy'itdusoguabanieed thede e e r t e e a st a e d was paid by ciety in the most e xtravagant years of the late war, and all this without for a moment including . the charges to which he is su b jected by th© fisc a l regu lations necessary to the Cor n-laws, or th e i nnumera bl e. I disadvantages under which he l abours, all springing from the same cause. The small shopk eeper, or b etter class of artificer, with the s ame family, and whose in come is 80/. a-year, althoug h he may be better clad and housed, and use more tea, and beer, and spirits, will not use more bread than the labourer having one half his income ; his corn-tax will, th ere f ore , b e also 101; but, instead of its being one fourth part of his income, it will be but one-eighth part of it ; and instead of being an income tax of twenty-five per cent., Its rate will be only twelve and a half per cent. It is ob vious that the consumption of agricultural produce, but more especially of bread, the first necessary of life, bears no proportion to incomes. The family of six persons, with five servants, and having an income of 1,600/. a-year, will not exceed 40/. a-year, or less than one-fortieth part of the income, instead of one-half; as in the case of the labourer and mechanic, or one fourth of it, as in the case of the shopkeeper ; the tax upon this income, instead of being, as in the case of the labourer, twenty-five per cent., or, as in the case of the small shopkeeper, twelve and a half per cent., will be only two and a half per cent. It is unnecessary to pursue the illustration. Whatever difference of opi nion there may be respecting the causes of our present national embarrassments, ard especially of the condi tion of particular portions of the labouring community, it is undeniable that millions of our countrymen know not the taste of wheaten bread. Though they till the ground, and sow and reap the harvest, they are forbid- . den, by a wicked law, to be partakers of the grain they have helped to cultivate. Their food consists altogether of-the inferior kinds of agricultural produce.—( Hear.) 111iDions now are upon short allowance. They are wasting away from insufficiency of food. Hundreds of thousands are on the brink of utter starvation. The poverty and wretchedness that first overtook the labour ing masses, have reached the class above, a class that must always, to a great extent, be dependent upon the producing classes. Tho depression in their trade has added- to the embarrassment of the manufacturer, who finds himself losing, at once, both the home and foreign market. The consequences are inevitable. All suffer, but most of all, the poor man—the man who depends wholly upon his industry for his daily bread—who hae always been confined in his enjoyments to the commonest comforts of life, but is now deprived even of those which are absolutely necessary to his existence. —(Hear.) The most conclusive evidence has been:re cently furnished from all parts of the kingdom, that vast multitudes are in a condition of actual want—that domestic suffering in every conceivable form prevails— that disease has followed upon the heels of famine, and that death is making havoc among the most destitute portions of the community. I need not mention places —I need not state particular facts—l may be permitted to say, however, that I have myself had but too frequent opportunities of ascertaining the truth of these appalling statements. I have had much to do recently in the most, thickly-populated parts of our country. I have been brought into near contact with all classes of society. I have seen with my own eyes the miseries and privations of the poor.—(Hear, hear ) I have heard in private the complaints of merchants and manufac turers. I have beheld the stagnation and gloom of once busy and thriving towns. I have conferred with deputations of starving operatives. I have perused many hundreds of letters from ministers of religion, all denominations, on the state of the labouring poor, and the causes of their miserable condition, and I own, that while touched with compassion for the physical suffering brought under my notice, I have been unable to look forward without apprehension and dread to the slow, it may be, but sure growth and ultimate deve lopment of those passions which arc stimulated and called into action by hunger and destitution.—(Hear.) hear.) I greatly question if ever, in the history of our country, there was an equal amount of wretchedness and suffering among our labouring fellow-subjects, or ever a time when those who are in employment, and lifted for the present above positive want, were more miserably remunerated for the labour they perform. I have paused to inquire if the calamities around ur, and the more dreadful consequences with which we are threatened, are to be regarded as inevitable—as the natural results of uncontrollable causes—as the just judgments and visitations of the Almighty. I have looked at my country in her geographical position, her physical features, her political relations, her moral in -1 duence, her resources of science, industry, skill, and energy, and I have stood astonished at the fact, that in this home of Empire, this seat of Legislation, this work shop of the world, there should be found a mass of wretchedness and want, without a parallel in any other part of the globe. I have gone to the word and to the works of God, and have been taught by both, that a bountiful and unfailing provision has been made for everything that bath life ; that to man bath been given dominion over everything created ; that every green herb on the face of all the earth, hath been given him for meat ; That God's free bounty bids this globe produce More than enough for all his creatures' use. * * That earth's prolific fields, For man and beast alike, abundance yields." And that yet, notwithstanding, there are thousands in this favoured country whose condition is as bad as that of the debased Australian, upon whose path the light of science and civilization has never shone. What a spectacle is this! while there is all this pauperism and want and misery at our doors, the ninth part of the land of the whole globe is ours—we have a dominion embracing every variety of climate, in every part of the earth—territories studding the Atlantic, hemming in both the Arctic Oceans—enclosing a whole empire in the East—marking every place of commercial import ance in the Indian and Pacific seas—we are exalted in arts, invincible in arms, fearless of invasion, our com merce is commensurate with the habitations of man, we are powerful in foreign alliances, we are free in our political institutions, we possess unrivalled means of production, our dominions abound with natural riches above and beneath the soil, either at home or abroad, embracing every healing balm, every fragrant berry, every luscious fruit, every nutritious grain, every costly gem, every precious metal, every useful mineral, every animal fur, every vegetable wool. All mankind are, or would be our customers—we might clothe the Orientals of the cast, and the Anglo-Saxon races of the west— we might be first in the markets of Europe. And yet, Britain, that can hold the world at bay—that can maintain the integrity of distant empires—that has spent twenty millions in the east, in three years, in wars twelve or fifteen thousand miles away. " With armaments that thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And Monarchs tremble in their capitols ?" With nations all around her, waiting to exchange the fruits of their fertile plains, for the products of her toil ing artisans, Britain cannot feed her starving children ! No wonder that a voice comes to us across the Chan nel, " Britain ! raze from your shield the lordly lion, and put in its place the starving operative, vainly sup plicating a sufficiency of food." Under these extraor dinary and afflicting circumstances, it is surely the duty of every thinking, patriotic, and Christian-minded man to turn his serious attention to the causes of our na tional distress. if there ever was a time when party strife should be hushed to repose, when names and distinctions should be laid aside, when the nomencla ture of faction should be forgotten, it is now—now when no man can, without guilt, look with indifference or apathy on the condition of his country, when the aspect of public affairs is fearfully ominous of col lision and animosity between the different classes of the community, when we are brought to the point at which we have to decide, whether this nation shall continue its onward progress, or commence the melancholy task of retrocession, when all efforts of in dividual benevolence, all outpourings of eleemosynary bounty, all devisings of good men, apart from le gislative interference and a change of system, are obviously ineffectual to the relief of prevailing misery. The time to look at causes as well as consequences is come, and first in the list stands the law that restricts the supply of food to the people. This Corn-law bears upon its face the mark of injustice, cruelty, and impiety. It is a law that shuts men up to a limited and scanty supply of food, and makes them pay for that an exorbi tant price. It is a law that places a whole people upon short allowance. It is a law that circumscribes the bounty of the benes olent Ruler of the world. It is law that robs the poor to increase the gains of the rich. It is a monopoly in the hands of a few, and those few the class best able to do without a monopoly. It is a law which says to the labourer—You steal , not have fair play ; you shall not exchange your labour for the fruits of the earth, according to their real value, but you shall be compelled to take your loaf from us , or die of star vation. Here, then, we take our stand. We plant our feet upon the immutable principles of justice and equity. Oa Scriptural grounds we denounc e all human restric tions, i i in eo e provision. We claim We say, with reference to temp oral su pp lies as well as uponfor the tlie poorth benefitto our sphere of religious useful ness, "the field is the supply e offood of t o the theD v world." We say that the Corn-laws arc in opposition to, if they do not effectually frustrate, the merciful and w i se designs of God. They violate a sound and health ful and fraternising principle. They turn the key upon holesome suppli es w hi ch ‘ the store - hou se of the Divine bount y and benifi cence. Th e y sac to the cheap and w ot h e r lands would give us, Hitherto shall ye come, but no further "—until the pockets of the rich are fill ed, the shelf o f the p oor man shall be em p t y. We will not, in the first instance , discuss the question with re d determine the pre c i se amount ta k en from etermi re ference to the probable price of corn u n d er another system. We will not discuss the que s ti on o f t h e amount of trade , if commerce in corn were f ree . We will not the att mechanic,enWtto the shopkeeper, the merchant, the ma nwufeacotbujreeert, toor themthe n a a b ti i o n n it a io l e \ x s e errhoesqauyth, they are the s u e n nl law. ral. They are at war with the desi gns o f G o d— at Ivor with the rights of human industry— oppose d to common sens e and justice—founded on selfishness—framed for the benefit of the fee —necessarily and inevitably un equal is their . operation—a departure from the spirit and mandates of the Divine law ; and that therefore they ough tto be totally and for ever abolished. You will do well, my friends, to take this view of these laws ; otherwise you are at the mercy of every quibbler. Having thus denounced the injustice of a law restrict ing the supply of food to the people of this country, we proceed to show its injurious operation. We look over the face of our beloved land, and want stares us in the face in every direction. Want of employment—want of food--want of clothing —want of shelter, and fuel, and pure air ; and all the usual concomitants of idle ness, hunger, and domestic destitution—disease, reck lessness, immorality, disaffection, sedition, and threat ened revolution. I ask, is this state of things inevit able ? What are the natural sources of relief? Are they at hand, or are they not ? Hes Providence placed the means of abundance within our reach ? Let us see. The source; of abundance are, rich soils, favourable climates, skill in cultivation, and facility of conveyance, in respect of .the products of land, whether they be for the food of man, or of animals for the service of man, or be the materials of manufactures. And, in respect of other commodities, the sources of abundance are, raw materials derived from the most productive places, skill in converting those materials into the articles wanted, machinery for saving human labour in the process, and strength for setting that machinery in motion, drawn by science from some power of nature which never wearies. These are sources from which abundance is to be ob tained by the least possible exertion of human labour. Now, I fearlessly assert, that all these means are pos sessed by this country, to an extent never before granted to any other nation on the face of the earth. The elements of greatness are ours—not one is wanting. The riches of the earth are at our feet. The world is our market— all mankind are our customers ; but to secure the advan tages of our position there must be mutual consumption —an interchange of commodities—in a word, free trade. net any man compute the productive poorer= of the world in the present state of knowledge, and then refuse, if he can, to rely on the sources of abun dense ; let him reflect on the appalling extent of human wants unsatisfied, and then doubt, if he can, the efficacy of consumption. There is scarcely a civilised spot on the globe on which the now impo verished labourer cannot produce, in excess of his own wants, some peculiar commodity with which he could provide himself with those other commodities he so greatly needs, if his right of exchange were not deprived by the interposition of some arbitrary power. Mutual supply by means of such exchange is the scheme, and it is the law of nature, loudly pro claimed by the diversities of climate, sod, and capacities ; it is the manifest design of a beneficent Providence for the benefit of the human rac But what is the law of man ? An impious pro hibition of the law of God. I figure to myself the family of a Manchester or Birmingham or Pa::- ley workman, contemplating on a Saturday night the true exchangeable value of their week's work, and com puting how much food, as well as other commodities it would supply them with under the free operation of the scheme of Providence, and of the law of nature. I also figure to myself the family of the Polish or other foreign husbandmen longing to doff their miserable dresses of sheep-skin, or other rude materials, and to exchange their corn for the fabrics of the spindle and the loom. A greater offence can hardly be committed than to ob struct the mutual dealings of such parties, except it can be justified as a necessary national sacrifice. I stoutly deny the nationality of the object. The restraint is no thing less than, a taking of the necessaries of life from those who have nothing to spare. in order to increase the luxuries of those whose command of them would bear reduction ; supposing, but by no means admitting, that any reduction would ensue. There is no rational ground for any protection to our home productions be yond that which may inevitably arise out of duties imposed for the sake of revenue. The poor man has a sacred right to the fruits of his labour, a right which he can never be said to enjoy', unless he be at liberty to make the most advantageous exchange he can of the product of his own labour for that of the labour of others.—(Loud cheers.) I know that a claim is set up by the proprietors of land for an exclusive protection of their interests. Even granting the justice of their claim, in the face of the fact that the manufacturers have for years offered to relinquish all protection of their inter- , ests, and the still more important fact that the labour of the artisan has no protection, and the equally indis putable fact that the tiller of the soil is at this moment among the worst paid labourers in the country,—l say, admitting the claim, it is capable of easy demonstration that the present system is subversive of the interests of that very class for whose benefit the monopoly has been given. lam happy that we have on this subject the testimony of a Scotch landed proprietor of equal eminence as a Christian, a moral philosopher, and a po litical economist; I mean James Douglas, Esq. of Cavers. No class of the community have been more injured by the Corn-laws than the landholders themselves. These laws have made the value of land alto gether a lottery. The uncertainty they occasion with respect to the profits of farming, have been highly inju rious to agriculture, and th high nominal value which they continue to landed property, has led its pos sessors into an expenditure beyond their real income. The Corn-laws have thus greatly retarded the national prosperity, without any class in the nation being gainers by their operation. Indeed, it is only from a narrow view of the subject that they are supposed to augment the rent of land. The great object of every British patriot should be, to place his country at the head of the nations, and to make it the capital of the world. As well might the landlords of Middlesex desire to have the corn of other countries excluded from the London market, as the British landholders seek to ex clude the importation of foreign corn into Britain. Th,: rents of Middlesex are higher, on account of London being the great mart for the produce of the country at large, and the rents of Britain would eventually be raised by the corn of all other countries being freely consumed here, purchased, it necessarily must be, by the great extension of British manufactures, and procured by the industry of an augmented population. In addition to the testimony of Mr. Douglas, Mr. Thompson cited several passages from the published letters of Mr. W. Whitmore, exposing the groundless ness of the alarm excited for the agricultural interests of the country, and strongly ridiculing the assertion that a Corn-law makes us independent of foreign countries. The idea of independence, Mr. Whitmore ridicules as the " consummation of impracticable nonsense." Ours was now a dependence of the very worst sort ; a de pendence to which, in five or six out of every ten years, we are obliged to resort ; but, in order to make it more successful, we take advantage of occasional periods of abundance to injure, insult, and deride the party whose aid we are obliged to implore in time of need.—(Cheers.) It is deeply to be regretted, continued Mr. Thompson, that the great question now agitating the public mind has to be referred for final adjudication to men, the vast ma jority of whom believe that their own personal interests are involved in the issue, and who are, therefore, inca pacitated from coming to a sound or honest judgment upon it. The authors I have quoted are splendid ex ceptions, and are in company with others of still higher rank, who, though to a still greater extent connected with the land of the country, are equally opposed to the present system. I might refer to the names and speeches of distinguished peers—to a Spencer, a Fitz william, a Radnor, a Leicester, a Lansdowne, a Lein ster, a Panmure, a Westminster, a Sutherland, a Cleve land, a Norfolk, a Bedford, a Devonshire, and a Prince of the Blood-Royal, the Duke of Sussex.—(Cheers.) It is legislation by interested parties, legislation for legislation upon nar row pr i nciples, particular classes, legislation based upon expediency, that has brought us into our present embarrassed and impoverished condition—a condition from which there s eems no esca p e , but by a speedy recognition o f soun d pr i nc i p l es , and a faithful observance of the laws of nature and the will of God, that we should do as we would be done by. But I must now take leave to direct your attention for a few mo ments to our present and future relations to a country in which we all feel a deep interest. I mean the United States of America. I may possibly be able to open a new and cheering prospect to your view. —(Hear, hoar.) It was my hope and expectation, until a day or two ago, that I should have the satisfaction of introducing to the friends of free trade in this city, an intelligent gentle man, from the other side of the Atlantic, who is at pre sent in this country, labouring both with his pen and with his voice to impress upon the people of Great Britain, the importance of removing these unnatural and wicked laws, which prevent the citizens of two great nations from exchaeging, on equal terms, the produce of their industry. I am sorry to say, that circum stances have occurred to postpone the visit of Mr. Curtis, Ithe gentl eman I re f er to ; b ut th a t b ra nch of the subject on which h e wou ld h ave a dd ress ed you, is too intimately t connected with the general question t o be omitted al together. I shall therefore venture to bring i briefly r . e under your notice, and, though the treatment of will greatly suffer in my hands, yet shall hope you to e that enough will be said to raise your curiosity , and l de sire to hear more on this matter. The statements I shall make will, by reason of the shortness of my time, be only a few out of a multitude. For the same reason I shall not be able to lay before you the tables and rea sonings by which the truth of these statements can be verified. But I will state nothing which I Jo not m3' self believe to be aut hentic, nothing which, if called upon for the proof, I am not prepared t o sustain by ready an d immediate reference to satisfactory evidence. How stands the case then ? Here we have a dense popula tion upon a soil of limited extent, unequal to the ade uate supply of its inhabitants. Those inhabitants are increasing at the rate of a thousand a-day. Millions of them arc upon a short allowance of bread ; hund eds of thousands are on the brink of utter starvation. And yet, around us are all the elements of prosperity ; mineral wealth, machinery, handicraft skill, untiring energy, the dominion of the seas, the power of steam, powerful p o liti ca l relations, and peaceful intercourse et the most civilized nations in the world. In these circumstances do millions stretch out their hands and cry—‘' Give us bread! give us bread or else we die ! not the bread of idleness, but the bread we are will ing to eat in the sweat of our brow. If not, let us have the privilege of the felon, and be transported from these shores to other lands, where the labourer is not doomed to die of hunger." A star of hope arises in the West. There lies, stretched from North to South, from the frozen ocean to the tropic, a fertile land, two thirds as great as that of the continent of Europe. More than half this prodigious expanse of country is settled by an Anglo-Saxon race, organized into thriving republics. This race has spread itself along the shores of the Atlantic for more than three thousand miles, and penetrated more than twelve hundred miles into the in , terior. The energies of seventeen millions of men, speaking the English language, are at work to develope the resources of this mighty region, and make. t the granary of the world. The seventeen millions of to-day are likely to be thirty millions in twenty years from the present time, and nearly one hundred millions when the commencement of the next century shall dawn upon mankind. From this land of promise, the Goshen of the earth, a messenger has come to say to our starving countrymen, " We can give you bread. We have enough and to spare. Let y our law-makers be just, and you shall live, at home if you please, and rejoice in the blessings which have been granted to us." Yes, the child offers to sustain the mother. The offshoot turns to succour. the parent stem. New England sends her ambassador of peace and plenty to Old England. The emigrant Scotsman sends his representative to his father-land, to offer the fruit of his adopted country to the dwe:ler in his native land. —(Cheers.) Let me be a little more particular and specific. Of the twenty-six independent States, form ing under one general Government the United States of America, there are six which seem peculiarly adapted to be corn-growing States for other portions o the globe. These are the North-Western States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lowa, and Wiskonsin. These cover an area of two hundred and thirty thou sand square miles, exclusive of nearly as much more, the title to which is at present mostly in the Indian tribes. This vast country, and the regions immediately contiguous to it, have been styled, par excellence, the wheat-growing territories of America. " The country, says Mr. Curtis, " is generally an undulating prairie, interspersed with groves of trees. and unbroken by bill or mountain. The soil commonly rests upon a strata of limestone, is fertile beyond description, and abundantly watered by the finest springs and streams. Its cli mate is clear and salubrious, and the country as well calculated as any other on the globe to minister to the support and happiness of civilized man. For an inland country it possesses unequalled facilities for foreign intercourse and commerce, by means of it s great lakes and rivers. The most distant parts of it are now reached i n twenty days from Liverpool. The ener gies of the American people have been chiefly expended during the last few years in opening and taking posses sion of this region, which they consider destined to be come the future scat of American wealth and great ness." These States have, at the present time, a popu lation of nearly three millions, and have increased dur ing the last ten years at the rate of 61, 100, 208, 640, and 1,000 per cent. The land is sold in fee simple to the first purchaser at 3s. 6d. per acre. The amount already sold in these States, which at present has all been obtained for cultivation, exceeds in amount the cultivated lands of the British isles by more than five millions of acres. At the same rate of production with British lana, it is capable of feeding thirty mil lions of people. A resident in the State of Michigan, writing very recently, says, " I have no doubt that Michigan wid have from 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 bushels of wheat at the least of surplus for market. With a steady demand at twenty-seven shillings per quarter, the present population could at once furnish 5,000,000 bushels for exportation." Mr. Thompson proceeded to quote a variety of statistics, illustra tive both of the capacity possessed by the United States and the abundant facilities for exporting the produce to this country. For these we have not room. In con clusion, Mr. Thompson called upon his auditors to join with earnest hearts in the present struggle for free trade in food. He addressed himself with emphasis to the Chartists, of whom many were present, and from whom he had received a respectful letter, calling upon him to discuss with one of their number the relative merits of the Charter and the Anti-Corre law move ments. To this letter, he said, he would reply when he had taken time for consideration. He strongly re commended unanimity. He declared himself the friend to the just rights of the labourin classes, and ready on any fitting occasion to express his honest opinion of the present system of suffrage, which, as a politician, be would labour to extend.—(Cheers.) He advised his friends to prepare for petitioning Parliament, that on the re-opening of its doors some thousands of petitions, more numerously signed than ever before, might be laid before the Legislature. Mr. Thompson sat down amidst loud applause. Mr. WIGHAM proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Thompson, and the meeting separated. FRACAS AT THE OPERA IN .111 A LTA. The Malta Times of sth instant, states that un usual excitement has prevailed in that island from a fracas at the opera, which has ended in the prosecution of some military and naval officers concerned in it, and which was still going on before the Magistrates on the sth. After mentioning that the Impresario, or ma nager of the opera, had been lately changed, this journal proceeds to say :—"The public had justly become tired of the old system, for although the late manager was qualified for such an office, he did not by any means do justice to the public. Mr. Amore was then succeeded by Mr. Leonardis, a gentleman well acquainted with both the theory and practice of music, and an accomplished bass-singer. During the interval of the cessation of the opera, great pains had been taken by Mr. Amore's party to get up a strong opposition to the new Company, and to prevent, if possible, its suc cess. Unfortunately, the opening of the Opera gave some promise of success to this faction, con sisting principally of uneducated, if not disreputable people. Passing the Giuramcato, which went off tolerably well, we notice the Figlia del Rep ?Iloilo, which, from the want of tact, was got up so badly that it completely failed. Then came the evening of the :29th ult., when Lucia di Lainnzer -711001, was introduced to the public. This piece had the peculiarity of being represented in one of its cha racters by Mr. Leonardis, the obnoxious Impresario, the person who was originally designed for the cha racter, S,g. Donaddio being sick. But no sooner did Mr. Leonard's appear on the stage in the second scee of the first act, than a , bu o r o s o t o o m f p t a h n e ie m d o v, st it i i n i de th ce ro n w t i d n i g sap oi other missiles. Th e no i se an d up pperouboae,tioenpbsr,okuendforth roa r exceeded greatly that on the representati on o f th e which we have already charac terised d a e s l h ß e e in g a ine w l o n r i t e 4 o n ly r of ruffians and a disgrace to a with the civilised pni at ;al whichasociety.nd tumult chiefly arose from is usually his filled, in the greater part, exception, were favourable military officers to t h e ; raen being e as i gthese,fairwith outtrial given to Mr. Leonardis, and his new company, great indignation was manifested by them, while at the same time they endeavourd aud to th support the representation of the evening, t their hou enthusiastic h u, th c applause the first act passed off, tumult, wll and the second commenced.—ln ° t n he mean the public were almost universal, proceeding from every part of the theatre, and the uproar only from a very f ew persons, and these of that class who, if they ' were not paid to disturb the opera by the personal enemies of Mr. Leonardis, were evidently indivi duals who had a peculiar pleasure in disturbing the public tranquility.—The consequence was perhaps just as might have been foreseen. A number of gen tlemen, chiefly wearing her Majesty's uniform, rose up with instinctive and sympathetic indignation, and turned out of the opera the whole of the ruffians who were in the pit, hooting, hissing, making violent ejaculations, and throwing missiles at the performers. (A stick was thrown at the Prima Donna!) It is clear that this could not have been done without great con fusion—and confusion did follow, which, as the phrase is, ' beggars description.' The Police assisted i n turning out the disturbers, and in restoring order, and were successful, for, in the short time of a quarter of an hour, all was perfectly quiet. The platea, or pit, was immediately tilled again, both with Maltese and English, and the opera terminated admirably we ll , interrupted at times only with bursts of universal ap plause. Here we may mention, that the opera on Tuesday evening last was attended to almost suffocation both by Maltese and English , and was universally wn ap plauded. Oa Tuesday morning some doze n of the rioters were summnned before the Police Court, two whom were sentenced to one month's imprisonment, of three to eight days, and the rest were liberated. The proceedings were conducted by the Magistrat es ,.m Zammit and Harper, with great moderation and good sense, though frequently interrupted, and, w e a dd , very few will deny the justice of the sentence. We under stand that some of the persons who were, attack e d w ill bring up their assailants to the Court. INFANT LABOUR.—An infant, in the parish of Shenton, near Nottingham, 1% as taken from a free school which was kept by benevolent ladies. She was put to work by her mother, at home, b e i ng employed in draw ing lace, when only 21 months old. She continued at that work two years, and is now at such work, working daily from six o clock in the morning to eight o'clock at night, being allowed only a quarter of an hour each for breakfast, dinner, and tea. The mother pays this little infant one penn) , - at the e n d o f the week by way of en couragement. She has three or four children, and, when excusing herself for thus treating her infant, she said, " If 1 do not thus make my infant work I should have to go to the workhouse !" The Fleet Papers. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU 4,__TIoN, REGENT-STREET.—MORNINGS and The GREAT except SA 's URDAY EVENINGS. thol;9lt:yEAT FIRE of the TOWER of LONDON, with Si pals and Music!, in Two beautiful additional 2_!ttiree, are Just added to other changes in those remarkable ollef z the DISSOLVING VIEWS. Varied LECTURES, szdnitY, MICROSCOPE, DIVING BELL and DIVER, ‘7.000 Works of eminent Art, Science, and Ingenuity. 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