The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION DOWN WITH MONOPOLY! LONDON HAS DONE ITS DUTY ! C aTILDIIALL CORN-LAW MEET ING.—(THIS DAY.) In pursuance of a requisition very numerously and re "Potably signed, addressed to the Lord Mayor, a meet ofaher electors of the City of London took place this (l aY, Lt. the Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the existing Corn-laws, and preparing an ad dress to Parliament on the subject. At a few minutes ast one o'clock, the Lord Mayor, Thomas Johnston, s( la entered the hall, and was received with loud and taaral cheering. There were loud calls for Sir Matthew. al, who presented himself to the meeting, and was wee ted w i t h much applause, as was a l so M r . Crawfurd, f45:11- raa The hall was d ense l y crow d e d, and on the wereplat u several of the most influential merchants and ' r ad ma of the city. An long the gentleman on the platform we observed .„ al ue Morris, H. P resco tt, C. P. Grenfell, Ralph Ri- Esqs., Directors of the Bank of England ; Greg • arpt, Gl a d s t anes , B en j am in Wood, Esq., M.P., Trutt• 14 ns en on, C. Perkins, Sir M. Wood, M.P., George at ALP., W. Crawford, M.P., J. Pattison, M.P., ..11orster, H. Travers John Dillon, W. M. Christy, li t Ai hurst, - Wansey, Fearon, D. Richardson, Heppe', "'3a Col. Bristow, Norman, Hawes, Sturt, Nicholson, , ° lva, Wire, P revost, T. H. Hall, R. Taylor, J. Robert "°ll,,, Cummin g , J. Pease, M.P., Prendergast, Esqrs. &c. ihr LORD MAYOR said he held in his hand a requisi- Ifi l mi numerou s ly and respectably signed for the present ng, to consider the subject of the Corn-laws, and _ P ) ! ~p are, if the meeting thought proper, an address ? . 11 the subject.—(Loud cheers.) The Corn-laws were Zitlirliportance not only to that City but to the whole km and he had no doubt that , whatever was done b y 4 VC Legislature and the Government would be for its "enefit of the whole community.—(Cheers.) In the t ru Tsslon that was a b out to ta k e p l ace h e h o ped and *0 1, ?.(1 that everythingwould be amicably conducted, • when it had terminated that they would separate ',;in and good will towards all men.—(Loud cheers.) (an . ition would now ca ll upon t h e town cryer to rea d th e re s. ie requisition having been read, pt 7, DILLoN, Esq., came forward to move the first 4 ,;Ntion. It had been asked "Why do you propose an foahon in the Corn-laws ?" His answer was that eY wished for an alteration because they wanted bread fur tr Shen that cheers)—they wanted employment ','"" l that they might earn bread for themselves. — t 4 7 8 .) Not the bread of poverty and pauperism, but o ,_ , !nole some bread of honest industry—that best of i n l • our reli e f t h at enl i ghtened l aws cou ld con f er u p on ZTtrious man to enable to earn bread for himself. . ( .zii : i nch cheering.) They wanted markets for their oth e llfa ctures, for if they did not take the produce of other countrie s , they would not take the manufactures of li e a f an d return.—(Hear, hear.) They wanted re al, t ru m taxation, and therefore they wished to increase b y f r ade and "commerce of the country to be effected St k m t " and enlightened legislation. They , wanted t h e er Y Prices, and not a recurrence of those drains upon awv ,g'ild and silver, and therefore they wished to do a= with the graduated scale, and not add the chance llambling to the fair risks of trade.—(Cheers.) Above ey wanted a free and enlightened systera of corn th,7N"'l intercourse between nation and nation, and if ;111..1e\-bsylibeedintog gain that object they must set an ex enlightened in their commercial policy. of 11 ' 1 and general cheering.) The present were times rt.tk re ti at difficulty —they were times of new difficulty, e c , ust. l e3 - must be met by new measures, and an improved by . w sc of policy. Every man asked what was to be done 463 : ay of remedy. r d t u t t r i a e d s One said, support commerce, another tinte :111aPhPe°r another said support the agricultural 'he reest,another saidsupport theCorn-laws,tke sugarduties, or the silk duties, and some men mh0 :14,4i% :1 4 , 4 i% the East India, whilst others insisted that the West , interest should be supported. But there was an itk'creesst above them all, because it included them all—the pr of r „„ t , of the' people.—(Great cheering.) As to the t we ' - 'hon of trade and commercial intwests, let every a v ,, tim autl i, class support and protect itself, and then all protected.—(Hear, hear.) They had long . Th ey Passed the limits of wealth and population by which I l e could by any possibility remain a purely agricultu 14,(11mtra'• They were now in difficult circumstances, t hey must meet these difficulties by a liberal altera a a the existing laws of the . country.—(Cries of tr , i , -e ar, hear.") If a duty must be laid . on ht a l ,' l et it b e a certain and fixed duty—a duty of which ta t t imes they would know the worst and the best -4 it mere specu l a ti ng ga mbling duty.—(Cheers.) Z e brated statesman had said in the House of Com that he wished for a slippery or sliding scale; that t "1 (1-fc,.,4 not wish for a fixed duty, but a sliding one. - 1 r.) Now the people wanted a fixed rule to guide oa -ril a , i n all caseS.—(Cheers.) It was impossible for him ‘ae present occasion to enter into an elaborate state ment ot the evilS which flowed from a graduated scale of "t)', but he would b r i n g forward an argument which, as i n etl umercial city, they would easily understand. Speak -11,F„ a. tax upon corn, they were all aware that a tax we imp or ts was an addition to the price — it made artiet e dearer, and when a man imported corn, the V , e e at which he would be able to sell it was uncertain, the buying price, the manufacturing price, was ge saaY certain except in the case of corn. Thus the h_taatiO ßS price made the buying price as well as 45 : sellin g pr i ce uncerta i n at the same time.-(Hear, 34 :-) A. loan imported corn, because he apprehended • scareit• queuce was that he 'The curse ; but, in the meantime, the market fell. saute tit lost by the sale, and at the like being t i he duty rose, and he lost by the duty. It was :hear," ai c' d lit with both ends of the stick.—(" Hear, M a s: , iclid a l augh.) That system was most unfair and to the farmer it was very often injurious.— ru s b c , l "ar.) An enormous quantity of foreign corn the __ in when the duty was low, and then, if to then Was a - plentiful harvest, it was a curse .tine t h e farmer, an d h e was actually ruined 4.as b ounty of Hea v en. —(Hear, hear.) But it /uteri is -if the Corn-laws were altered, the agricultural tie. ;- U'ould be ruined. He begged to deny that posi sl4„ "et the agriculturalists do as the manufacturers had the them inn their processes of production, let itibee.„, mue more e2onomical in their mana g ement, and It s reign Competition in the market.—(Cheers.) , the .ould ba remem b ere d t h at th e demand for • f Sa il ) I Y of the English market would raise the price, lhaoreiwa corn, so that its price would be much higher 10 I , l _ at pr6ient. The proposition of the Government was a fixod duty of Bs. on all foreign corn, and it lx2en sho from calculations that had been made oil La t t all the cord,imported since 1828 paid an average a e t 3r .,; 4. ss. 9d. only, so that the proposed duty was ...... 4 11 jY more than the average duty paid since 1828. 1Q 'eel's.) Another reason that had been urged against qne alteration of the existing daty was rather a singular . the dot was that they would not be able to go to war if :e l , ;r itty on corn was taken off.—(Laughter.) His 4 d rt,e remedy for that was, let them remain at peace, letter still, let them make it the interest of other na t4,711 by taking their produce, to remain at peace with (e17• 11.11 d- That was the practical view of the subject. a*,. - ,. 1 :.) It has often been said of them . that they Mr t aeorists,' but lie repelled the charge—it was the av e - ,,ates of 'the Corn-laws and other monopolies who a t , r : the Viecirists and not those who advocated the in :• i st s of free trade. The only chance and hope of safety a4 lal present circumstance was in calling forth the full Na;.',,l 4 s of the nation. He had already said that they surrounded by great difficulties—they had a greatly i t 7 e u-sed population, with a narrow tract of ter • ) r.)" for their support.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") had a heavy debt, while the world was in rivalry oTust the m ; an d it was only by the power of their tC r ight hands that they could rescue themselves from , e Positi o a in which they were placed. He asked them : ( ( ,_'uld they tamely submit to have their right hands t iind them ? (Loud cries of "No, no.") Let them all. a e , 'mid with one voice to baffee, and there was little übt as to 'the result of the struggle.—(Cheers.) For . 111 S elf, lie was proud of his country—she was great th e nations of the earth for her industry—great e - r her sc i ence and knowledge—great f or h er sobriety, maintain mideianco, all qualities that were calculated to that importaat position.—(cheers.) But let it be. t r i ttl embered t h at they were great, not in consequence of l o e 'r restriction and protection system, but great 'T i t(' I • t.-- (V e h e ment cheers.) Let the 14 1 ,7,.'e gof full scope for the exertion of 11na energies let them remove every restriction ' ev . ery one labour for the 'noti on and extension of his . ca ital in t) means that . seemed best to liiiti—p let the, r estrictions on commerce be abolished, or as 11;,„ .elic h phrase was, " laissons nous faire," and then would ea - ii, e° ,Ple of England show to all the nations of the ' AL" tile truth of the proverb, that " Heaven protects . who protect themselves."—(Much. cheering.) • -ITO% Gentleman ' concluded by moving the first re which was to the effect—" That a free and • fal Policy, on the part of this country, particularly • those laws which etc:. its agriculture and its corn ce, ha s b ecome more t h an ' ever nec essary, and that a meeting highly approves of the proposed alteration he existing Corn-laws."—(Cheers.) • ;:°auE LARPENT, Esq., came forward to second the .union. He would enter very briefly into the sub tta, as he felt 'that the arguments which affected it had , a ' ll exha uste d by the Hon. Gentleman who had pre 'll-4e'd him. But as lie had himself for many years taken ,t te active p art i n that important ques tion —a question in resting to every class, but above all to that class which 4 now for the first time heard of in our legisla :,4—the cl ass o f consumers — ( H ear, hear)—he felt it "a . duty t o came forward in support of so vital a propc)- iti oiL The subject h a d b een fi rst b roug ht under their t'usiderati on i n th e year 1895, at a meeting attended 3 ': the merchant s , bankers, and other inhabitants 'of the c it Y of London. The Right Honourable the pre t Lord Mayor wag then in the chair as now. that occasion resolutions condemnatory of a l'utaletuating duty were all but unanimously adopted ; `Gresolutions having been supported by Mr. Thomas ilson and Mr. Ward, their then C onservat i ve represen htires :LS well as by another gentleman who had since, e f eared changed his ()pinions-11r, Alderman Thomp (111---(Hear, hear.) They had held anot h er meet i ng in 9 at which his friend Mr. John liorsloy Palmer as sisted, who spoke in condemnation of a fi xe d d uty on 1 " 1 1. as embarrassing our monetary transactionti and tail . sing repeated drains of Ow currency. He should oh in conelusion that an alwration in the existing -13 ttin Wotdd lead to an extension of um- commerce and in (i:c.eliange of our manufactures for the g.)ra of other .to the great benefit of all classes of the caat t imie ' t Y----02, 1 heers.) iv-so:laical was then pat said tarried amidst great I ";crs, with only five or six disseuticnts, , 1'1tk:v 031 ; If sq., came forw'lli tt propose a mition Parliament fout2ded on the precedin:v"° l 2 l66ll ' 7 ,.. 1 ),i ,. (ct then under tlie.;;.Vonsideration, he di n hesitate ' 4 3•, was one of the most i:.vortant ever discusseu this country. They all felt that the present laws were a disgrace to a free land.—(Hear.) What else could he say of any of these laws which deprived the multitude of a sufficiency of daily. bread—which left the labourer without employment—which cramped the energies of the whole nation—which placed property al together in• a false position—and which were now, by starving a large portion of our manufacturers, driv ing the people to the very verge of despair • and rebellion ?—(Hear, and cheers.) There was a feature in the times particularly worthy of observation, and that was the fixed determination on the part of the people to amend not only the Corn-laws, but every other bad law which depressed and degraded the many, for the benefit of the few.—(Hear. hear, and cheers.) He hailed with delight the appearance of such a deter mination on the part of the people, and he trusted they would persevere in their efforts for the improvement of the moral and social condition.—(Cheers.) They should study to foster that spirit, and to give it a right direction.—(Cheers.) If they did not get rid of all those bad laws, the social structure would be shaken to its basis.—(Cheers.) 'Was it not surprising that those whose interests would be the first affected by any convul sion, should continue to be the last to endeavour to apply any remedy ?—(Cheers.) Did the nobility recol lect the French Revolution—(Cheers) --and the events which had preceded it ? The aristocracy of France at that time held in their hands all the lands of France. They had engrossed the whole of them, and what use had they made of their monopoly ? The first cry of that Revolution had been, " Down with the aristocrats, and bread for our starving families."—( Loud cheers.) Was the present state of the country far from it ? Were there not thousands in this country starving.— (Cheers.) It had been said that the present was an un due agitation. Now how were they to act except by agitation, when anything like concession to their wants and wishes was resisted ?—(Cheers.) Agitation was in his opinion one of the finest words in the English lan guage.—(Cheers.) It was a word that kept bad men in awe, and was the safeguard of our liberties.—(Cheers.) Let them recollect that the hand of sympathy was now held out to them from high quarters.—(Loud cheers.) Let them seize the hand so held out to them.—(Loud cheers.) For his own part, he was for the total aboli tion of all laws which imposed a tax upon human food.— (Cheers.) The present, however, was a good measure, and it would lead to a greater good.—(Loud cheers.) He believed that some such measure was ab solutely necessary for the salvation of the country. — (Cheers.) He moved that petitions founded on the re solutions they had been so wise—(Cheers) —as to pass, be presented to both Houses of Parliament.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. MILLER CRISTY seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously amidet the loudest cheering. Mr. C. PERKINS said the next step for them to take, was to consider to whom their petition ought to be con fided for presentation to Parliament. It should be entrus ted to the hands of one possessed of energy and principle enough to do the subject justice. And to whom could they confide better than to their old, tried, respected, and ever to be esteemed representative Sir Matthew Wood ? When the Reform Bill was first brought forward, the city of London took the lead in returning four gentlemen who were Reformers, and three of them were now acting with Sir M. Wood.--(Cheers.) He therefore moved that Sir M. Wood be requested to present, and Messrs. Grote, Crawford, and Pattison be requested to support, the petition.—(Cheers.) He proposed this cheerfully, but not confidently, because he feared that as Parliament was at present constituted, their petition would not meet with that respect to which the petitions of the people were entitled. But he hoped they were on the eve of a general election, and. if the people of England did not do their duty tothemselves by returning men who were op posed.to the Corn-laws, they would deserve to have their petitions treated with disrespect.—(Loud cheers.) They had their eye upon a great and distinguished orna ment of the cause of freedom.—(Loud and long-con tinued cheering. 'When the cheering ceased there was an attempt made to raise the cry of the Poor-law in one corner of the hall, which, however, was instantly drowned with renewed cheering.) It was the first time in the history of the country, that the Ministers of the Crc.wn bad been with the people.— (Loud cheers.) If they did not succeed now, when would they?—(Loud cheers.) The landed interest had no right to complain of the people ; they were now ap proaching that interest in a spirit of conciliation ; they were offering them protection. During the existence of the present Corn-law, 12,000,000 of quarters of corn had been imported into this country at an average rate of duty of ss. 9d. per quarter ; they now offered them Bs., and the fact that 12,000,000 of quarters of wheat had been imported, proved that the landed proprietors could not grow wheat sufficient for the wants of the country.—(Cheers.) The fact was, the landed interest did not want protection, they wanted the total exclusion of foreign corn.—(Loud cheers.) The present Corn-law was merely intended to throw dust in the eyes of the people- e —it was intended to exclude corn system atically—(Cheers)—and its effect was, that after the landholders had sold us all the corn at the very highest price ; they handed us over to the foreigner to sell us his corn at the same rate.—(Loud cheers.) The present system of Corn-laws threw the Bank of England into difficulties, crippled the currency, and produced the greatest distress among the people. All the evils which they had been recently suffering were, he verily believed, the consequences of these unholy enactments. Let them rouse their energies and take care to return only such men to Parliament as would support the in terests of the bulk of the country, rather than any class interests whatever. He begged to propose that Sir M. Wood be requested to present the petition to the House of Commons, and that Messrs. Grote, Craw ford, and Pattison, be requested to support it. 7 -(Cheers.) Mr. PRENDERGAST came forward to second the reso- . lution, and said that he would entreat the consideration of the meeting, as he was not accustomed to public speaking. He had never before the opportunity of ad dressing so numerous an assemblage, and the situation in which he then found himself , was somewhat embar rassing. In seconding the resolution he felt it necessary to say but very few words, in consequence of the very able and intelligent manner in which the ques tion had already been discussed in that hall. The present question was well understood already. The attention of the people had been drawn to it now for four years ; and, therefore, the proposal made in the House of Commons was not treated as a new question, but as one which already had received the as-: sent of the people of England. Thee knew full well the principle on which it was based, and they were, therefore, ready to give their assent to the pro posal.—(Hear, hear.) They had been told that that resolution would benefit only some particular classes of the co mmunity. Would it not, he would ask, benefit' the whole community ? Would it not benefit the menu facturine. classes ? Would it not benefit the trading —would it not benefit the agricultural classes of the com munity ? He would ask them, would it not benefit them all, by giving them a fair, steady, remunerat ing price for the article brought into the market, instead of a fluctuating price, which might be good for some individuals, but was certainly ruinous to all classes generally,—to the agriculturists and to the country at large ?—(Cheers.) It had been said that a more monstrous proposal was never entertained, but they had never heard it once said that the proposition would not benefit the working classes, that is, that it proposal to make bread cheap would not benefit the great bulk of the con sumers of bread—an assertion so monstrous certainly was never heard. They had been told that wages were regulated by the price of cons, and that the present proposal would have the effect of diminishing wages. —(Hear, hear.) The working classes of Eng land were too intelligent to be gulled—should he say gulled--(Cheers)—to be humbug g ed —( Cheers)— by such assertions. The price of corn had been going on increasing for some time'past, but had wages been in consequence increased ?—(Cries of " No, no.") If that were so, it was cle* that the price of wheat did not re gulate the rate of wages. He would then again ask, whe ther the present alteration of the Corn-laws would not benefit trade, and if so, would it not increase employ ment, and would it not in consequence increase the demand for labour ? and if so, would not the demand for wages be increased.—(Cheers.) They had been told various in terests were embarked in those branches of commerce, to which the proposition of Government referred, and that they ought to study those interests. The Canada p2ople had a great quantity of bad timber, and they s mid, if you lower the duty on good timber how shall we stAl our bad timber ?—(Hear.) What answer cou:d any nian—could Lord John Russell make to that statement ? Tie might say, endeavour to per suade the people to take the bad timber ; if they won't take it, lower the price, and if they do not take it all, why, he may say, lam sorry that there is nothing but good timber used from one end of the kingdom to the other.—(Cheers.) Then comes the corn. The landlords will say there are great quantities of bad land in England. Well, then, but the whole land of England is not bad. Is it not so?-e.-(Cries of " Yes, yes.) Well, then, there is some bad land not fit to grow corn. Why, then, the answer to that should be, do not grow corn upon it.—(Cheers.) Bring to the market only what the land will produce.—(Cheers.) Another would say you are. going to make sugar cheap and bring cheap sugar iuto the country—(Cheers)—and what should lie do if his sugar was dear ? The answer to him would be, lower the price of it—(Cheers)—but if he could not lower the price of it he must think of some other article to bring into the market. They had been told, indeed, that all these interests would be injured, and that on the other hand other in terestswould not be benefited. Why only yesterday 80,000 Teetotallers assembled in London ; they drank tea—tea was sweetened by . sugar. —(Cheers.) The people then would have the interest of the Teetotallers with them.—(Loud cheers.) There was another interest also with them—those who would not drink tea—The brandy-and-watera interest, which used sugar.—(Cheers and laughter.) Thus they had the temperance and the drinking interest with them. Lord John Russell had been pleased to say that be was aware they should have the Canada, the West India, and the East India, and the landed interest against them ; but there was one interest, which they would admit was one of some importance, the eating and the drinking in terest, with them.--(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. P.) hoped they would show them that all these numberless interests, powerful as they were, could not compete with the eating and the drinking interest. which would beat them altogether.—(Cheers.) Under those circumstance: , they could not do better than join heart and hand in the pre sent g ood cause. Whatever thy Rrgpß ; whether Tories, Whigs, or Chartist, tempe rance men ee Milking men, he hoped they would all join in theiy Been on interest. Its was the interest of all the soliekk o f t hi s realm from the man of immense capital to the inielyho lied ne 4,1, hut the labor of his ‘ ha!ids. Let them ail Weil unite ww resokip support .glaisters who were deter mined to support thg PcCPWqtrr good - CallSe. -I ,l fure he sat down , ' ho g at eMp bo tell them Atep the petitiOn lay for signa47e the bottom er the Hall, 44 .4 ke h'ilslP4 that . everyalgapresentV,ol,ll4 sign it.--t Loud chgpvlol .' Mr. DILLON then read the petitioi.. The question was then -put from the Chair, and ried neni. con car- SiF•MATTHEW WOOD then efhno forward, and was re ceived with loud cheering. .Vw . ian the applause had soineAthat subsided, the Hon. Baronet said that he had always great pleasure in meeting hiS constituents, and particularly on such an occasion as the pee - sent, when he found them so imanimoug—(Loud cheers)—and when they requested him and his colleagues to support a petition to the House of Commons, the ob jects mentioned in -Which he had always endeavoured to carry forward. (Cheers.) He was - always • opposed to the Corn-laws, and at all times did every thing thing in his power both before and since he had been in the House to repeal and abrogate those laws altogether. — (Loud cheers.) If he should still have the honour of a seat in the House—(Loud cheers, and cries of " You shall, you shall")—at the time when this great question would be decided, he trusted he would be found acting in conformity with the views and wishes of the people. — (Cheers.) Since the day when they had first received him in their arms, he scarcely recollected, numerous as had been the times which he had appeared before them, a period at which there was so much ground for satisfaction as the present.—(Loud Cheers.) All parties had agreed on the necessity of a change, and the question now was only who should bring for ward the measure of alteration.—(Cheers.) The Con servative party had said " Let Sir Robert Peel come into offide, and we will vote for the repeal of the Corn laws. It was a great question whether they could trust them or not—(Cheers and laughter)—however, whe ther they could or not, he believed the question would be carried to effect which nothing would be wanting on his (Sir M. Wood's) part. The worthy Alderman then sat down amidst loud and long continued cheering.) Mr. GeorE (who was received with repeated cheer ing) said—My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I shall have the greatest pleasure in executing the instructions which you have been pleased to give your representa tives on the subject of this important petition.—(Loud cheering)—l have already witnessed, on the subject of the Corn-laws, two long-continued and im portant debates in the House of Commons, and on these, my vote and humble powers of speech were not wanting to lend assistance to the cause, which is now saßctioned by so numerous and commanding an assem blage.—(Cheers.) Much as I rejoice to see the unani mity which now prevails amongst you, I still wish that it was so far interrupted by some of those gentlemen who in 1825 signed the petition which has been read to you, and who now see cause to change their opinions —(Cheers and laughter)—for I think that the fallacy of their reasoning and the infinity of their arguments could easily be shown.—(Cheers.) The very principle on which the Corn-laws are founded is to restrict each and every one of you from purchasing your food where you can get it best ands cheapest—(Cheers)—on the principle of pro tecting (as it is falsely called, one particular class—one particular body of producers, at the expense of the whole people— (Cheers)—and this principle, whether in politics or in commerce, is the essence of injustice.— (Hear, hear.) I hope, Gentlemen, when you hear the word " protection," which sounds both just and holy, but conceals both injustice and impolicy—(Hear, hear) — I hope when you hear of protection to the producers of corn, or of sugar, or of any other commodity, you will understand that it is an artful name for a new tax upon the industry of the people.—(Hear, hear.) We pay al ready heavy taxes to support the Government. But the more we pay to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the less we can afford to give the landowners.—(Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes a fixed duty, and that shall have my most cordial support ; but I cannot conceal from you, that it does not effect all for the corn trade which I think ought to be done.—(Cheers.) The less the duty is made, the • better I shall be pleased, and I think the best plan of all is to have no duty at all.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, in my opinion, a fixed duty of Bs. is much to be pre ferred to the present system of what is called a sliding - scale, which, as we all know very well, is nothing more than a system of pimblinp-.—(Great cheers, and cries of " Nothing more.") But I hope, Gentlemen, we are not to look upon the duty as invested with the privilege of finality.—(Cheers, laughter, and cries of " No, no".) I hope we are to look upon it only as a temporary expedient to secure them the transition from the present system of monopoly, and framed to one of perfect free trade. But at the same time, gentlemen, I am ready to admit that under the mistaken and fallacious system which is at present maintained, some interests have grown up, which it would be cruel at one blow to cut down. Then there has been encouraged a system of cultivating wheat in this country which owes its existence altogether to the 'Corn-laws, and we owe it to those who have been induced by our laws to embark in it ; we should take a careful course in proceeding to the establishment of a free trade.—(ll(iar.) I think, Gentlemen, it is a great thing that we have once obtained a recognition of the principle of free:trade in corn ; but I repeat that we must approach to a total abo lition of restriction by careful steps. The present Corn-law acts imperiously, not merely on the food and comforts of the working classes, and - restricts them in the market for the necessities of life, but it restricts the field for their employment in every line of industry—(Hear, hear. hear)—and they cripple, embarrass, and con fine the resources of our trade with the most important regions of the world.—(Loud cheering.) Nov, Gentlemen, let any man compare the difference of comfort and happiness which the industrious poor en joyed in 1835, when wheat was 40s. the quarter, and in 1839, when it was 80s.—(Hear, hear.) On this point I feel that you, as the members of the greatest leading community in the world,—aa citizens of this vast metropolis of London, which is the mart of European, American, and Asiatic commerce. I feel that you have a deep interest in this question ; and if the trade of your vast city could be still more enlarged and extended, as it would be by those reformations in the tariff, it would be a blessing not only to you and to the whole country, but to the whole commer cial world, and to all civilised mankind.—(Vehement cheering.) It is not only to the aggregate interest of that community to which I belong, in heart as much as by birth, the proposed measures of the Government will be a benefit.—(Cheers.) But they are especially calculated to benefit the important community which had three times honoured me with its confidence and sent me to Parliament to express its wishes and to defend its rights—(Loud cheers)—and when this ques tion comes before the House of Cemmons, as it must come in a very few days, I will support the pro positions •of her Majesty's Government as I can state that in doing io I represent the sentiments as truly as I advocate the interests of my constituents. The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst tremendous and reite rated cheering. Mr. W. CRAWFORD said it would give him unfeigned pleasure to give every support in his power to the ob ject of the petition. The views they had heard ex pressA that day were those which lie had always pro fessed, and which he had first declared at a meeting in the city of London in the year 1825. He adhered to those opinions, and he entirely concurred in what had fallen from his Hon. Friend, Mr, Grote, par ticularly in that part of his speech which looked to the ultimate abolition of the Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) But in the mean time he would be content with such a change as it might seem prudent to introduce. On that subject he advocated no finality.—(Hear, hear.) They could not maintain the position which this country now held with out a very considerable change in its commercial policy. He had been thirty-five years engaged in general trade, and had had extensive opportunities of forming an opi nion upon the subject ; and he assured them on his honour , the belief he then expressed as to the necessity of a change had been always deeply impressed upon his mind.—(Hear.) He had feared, indeed, that the time would not arrive so soon as it had, for the pub lic consideration of the question. He had feared that A great change in respect to the Corn-laws would only have been forced upon the country by suffering, dearth, and distress ; that then, and not till then, could the ' aristocracy be compelled to adopt the course which the interests of the country required.—(Hear, hear.) He attributed in a great measure the present state of public opinion to the digest of the evidence taken some time ago before the Import Duties Committee of the House of Commons, whose labours were, he believed, owing to the good sense and the suggestion of his Hon. Friend, Mr. Hume. That digest had been so extensively circulated through the country, that he himself knew one northern town, where 12,000 copies of it had been sold. When he bad read that evidence, although he was not disposed to go the w hole length to which it would lead, still he was satisfied that time influence of such a publi cation could not be withstood, and that in carrying out a more liberal principle of commercial policy, we Would necessarily lay time axe to the root of time present system cf Corn-laws. That was a conclusion which appeared to him undoubted from the moment he had first given his se rious attention to the evidence taken. He was persuaded that the time was near at hand when the evils of which many of them were witnesses of a growing ri valry of us on the part of foreign manufacturers in those markets which had once been exclusively our own. should be met by a more liberal system of policy. Those who were acquainted with the subject were aware that nothing but a cheapening of prices, and such an alteration as would enable us to com pete with other nations. could secure to us not only our present position, but any extent of trade compatible with the prosperity of the country. It had been alleged that various interests would be injured by any alteration in the Corn-laws, but in his conscience he believed that.' no interest was susceptible of any injury except that of the landlords, and even upon that subject he had many doubts.—(Hear, hear.) It had been attempted to im press upon the minds of time tenants of England upon the question, and to persusde them that their interest and those of the landlords were mixed up together. The landlords, however, were altogether like the owners of houses—they looked to time largest rent they could themselves obtain.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") He re grAted they were not met that day by those who advocated the present system, but he believed that before many weeks, perhaps not many days, they would have 'an opportunity of seeing some of those gentlemen on the hustings--(Hear)—and then let them ask their suf frages to go to the House of Commons to retain the present system of Corn-laws. He (lid not conceive laws to impart it possible that gentlemen who could look wisely at the commercial intere§ta of this cone(.... - - maintain that this system had not already t oo lolig en con tinued.—(Renewed c heers. ) J AMES PATTISON, Esq., said he wou ld not de tain them long, as t heir p atience must now be nearly exhausted ; but he p romised them that lie would do his sb ti e t s u t en of ts, hi a is nd po s N u ve p i. p . o — rt (C tl i m i e prayer o f t h e i r power. — (Cheers.) to No p d e u t t l y tio to his petition indi vidual felt more k eenl y th a n he did on the subject. t c h t e m So long as lie recollected anything, he had b een 1 ,7 de _ 64-41.4inonein: of the present Corn-laws, and since he hid melt-AO:tea them in Parliament, he had always voted even f ., 4 Y 9121. rej„sal.— (Loud cheers.) He believed flint the loiver the duty was, the better it would be 'f n r all parties, and he would llustrate that by a remark of Earl Syncer' who said that knevy that the "-t ~.wv .w. ti,.yJf , THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1841. 1 agricultural interests required no protection, and more, that they des'redrione; atleitst so far lisle (Earl Spen cer) wa; concerned.—k Cheers.) It rested with them to carry into effect the great changes prOposed by Go vernment—a change which did not meet all his wishes, hut which he took as an instalment for something more to come hereafter.—(Cheers.) The present was merely the commencement of the-changes in the policy of the country, and he only hoped his countrymen would buck the views of the G overnment, an d, by . signing the petition numerously, &ive it that effect in both Houses of Parliament to which it was entitled.—(Hear.) He would only add that the seed was sown ; it was f? - ; them to reap the corn. It rested with them to do their duty, and let them not f ear b ut t h at t h e corn would in that case be well housed, and that they would have cheap bread and univer sa l p rosper it y .—(Much cheering.) Alderman Sir MATTHEW WOOD then moved a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, for his readiness in calling the meeting, and for his impartiality in presiding over it. Mr. GROTE came forward to second the motion. He could recollect that in former times Lord Mayors of London used often to make :'.,great objections to call the citizens together, requesting that the subjects for which meetings Were called should be conformable to their own opiniohs, before they allowed them to be held.—(Hear, hear.) Those times, however, were now gone by, and the worthy gentleman who at present filled the chair, had set a most laudable example, by his readin ess i n ca lli ng t h em t o gether, which he hoped would in future be imitated. He rejoiced to find the kindness and the obliging rea diness of the Lord Mayor had been so w e ll justified by the becoming con duct of every one pres en t at t h e di scuss i on o f so import ant a subject.—(Cheers.). The vote of thanks was then put, and declared by Sir Matthew Wood to be carried unanimously amidst loud cheers. The LORD MAYOR then came forward, and said that lie felt under a great obligation to them for the hand some manner in which they had received the vote which Sir Matthew 'Wood and Mr. Grote had been kind enough to propose. He had not had sufficient opportunities to induce him to hope that his voice could be heard at the further end of the hall. He, therefore, would not detain them longer than to thank them for their kindness and to say that if, during his year of service, he could in any manner benefit his country nothing could afford him greater pleasure. The meeting, having given three hearty cheers, and one cheer more for Lord John Russell, quietly separated. CORN LAWS• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR.—There is no doubt that the many respectable men who advocate the Corn-laws, do it, believing that they really encourage British industry, and thereby pro mote the best interests of their country. I hope there fore you will allow me, through your columns, to call attention to Earl lladnor's speech on the 14th of May, saying, " that as more corn had been imported in the eleven years preceding 1839, than during any former eleven years, he thought these laws. had not answered those landlords whose rents have risen -under the Corn laws. They have good reason for supporting them, not only for their own sakes, but for the sake of all amollgst whom their gains from them circulate. But those whose rents have fallen, like mine, under these laws, or have not risen in proportion to the rise of corn, have reason to doubt their efficacy, and inquire, as Earl Fitzwilliam recommended, into the cause, which will probably prove to be the hope these laws held out of gains from high prices, without the pains of well weeding and stall-feeding, as on the Continent, enough stock to provide sufficient manure to insure good crops ; and this has been effected by tenants adding farm to farm till they had more than they could profitably super intend, or had capital to stock, and till well ; when, by denying work their land needed, they drove so many willing able hands into the union houses, that England did not produce food enough to feed them, and the price opened the ports for foreign corn to the great g ain of foreigners. B u t, as th e Poor-law Continu a n ce Bill is given up for this Session, if we are ever indulged in South Britain with the same Peer-laws as in North Britain, and landlords pay all the Poor-rates, they will feel the ex pediency of letting, to all able-bodiedmen, small portions of land on which to maintain themselves and their fami lies till the great tenants take them into their yearly ser vice as they did formerly in England, and do still in Scotland ; and, by so doing, landlords would be in all ways gainers, for the rates would sink much below the amount allowed for before their tenants hired their land, their rents would then rise to the fair amount without Poor-rates, more because labourers' allotments of land are so much more productive than great farms— that landlords would learn that their land is worth, if well cultivated, which few landlords now know ; and when once landlords know this, who would deny himself the fair rent of his land when requiring it, would also serve his country by stimulating his tenants to so weed and stall feed, to produce manure, as would make bread as cheap in England as on the Continent, and so bring back manu facturers and absenteees to supply customers for all far mers can raise. I am not a theorist. I began, in .1830, .to let allot ments of land, to • serve the labouring class, who have obtained such abundant crops from land my great tenants called worthless, that they have offered and paid double and treble these great tenants' rents to obtain more allotments, and not one penny has been deficient in those little tenants' rents in ten years ; nor has there been one conviction amongst 400 men admitted without reference to character ; and the West Kent Labourers Friend Society._ have given the following satisfactory ac count of the amendment of felons. It was at first said they were too poor to have manure, skill, or capital, to cultivate their hind well ; it will be racked out; but the reverse has been the case, for, in fact, those who have nothing but u pair of able, willing hands, if they take no more land than those hands will well till, bestow on it much more labour than most great farmers have capital to pur rhase. And what is capital but the result of labour stored up ? and which is useless till again returned to the land in the form of labour. Great tenants, who have not capital adequat3 to their farms, wish it to be thought that in England corn cannot be raised as cheap as on the Continent, on account of the heavy taxes to pay the interest of the National Debt ; but as no tenant can give, as rent, more than the surplus proluce, after all outgoings have ken defrayed by him, it is really the landlords who pay these taxes, and not their t ; . and the more the tenants raise the more they . cangive a rent and the more the landlords will have 4/ ct.rculatQ 4PIRP`6 all trades and professions. It is the conviction that illidlorti§ will be ultimately the most .benefited by increased pro duce, which causes those tenants to endeavour to mislead their landlords into supportinc , laws which, instead of encouvagiq industry, really only encourage sloth and ex travagance in those oft whose industry the food of the country depends, and whose negfeet caused, in *IMO, up: wards of ten millions worth of wheat to be imported to the great g.tin of foreigners and loss of English landlords, • t e nanti, labourers, and consumers. But remove these laws which have ut - A thereby stimulate industry, and plenty raised will be found to pay keti , Pf t6lt 1441 P and dear. J. 8 ; May 28, 1841. GREENWICH FAIR, the RIVER, &c, The annual Whitsuntide fair, eommeneed on Itloutlay. The same ‘vonders, the same booths, slows, swings, roundabouts, anti cingerbread-stalls, which have formed part of the fair for so many years, arc there, Richard son's theatre, and .Algar's dancing-booth„ are is their old situations. The people were vastly delighted with the grand melo-drama and pantomime at the fo:mer place, and the lovers of dancing at Agar's immense booth, though not quite so gracefulin their move ments as Taglioni a>Td Cerito, displayed a good deal of agility and perseverance in tripping it from morn to right, -with the thermometer at 90 degrees. The Park and the fair were ex cegbively crowded. Every year the visitors are more numerous than the last, a: Pirtnitrigance which may, in a great measure, be attributed to the eurtailment of slip suburban fairs. It is impossible to give anything like an accurate account of the number of people, but there is no doubt that more than 200,000 persons visited Green with during the day. The trains on the railway were running every quarter of an hour throughout the day, and the number of passengers who proceeded to Green wich by this conveyance could nut have been less than 20,000, and more were brought back. But the most extraordinary scene was on the river. . great deal has been said from time to time about the overcrowd ing of the steamers during the holidays, and the' rock m less cupidity of stea-boat proprietors, who, in defiawe of the public safety, and regardless of the comforts of the passengers, cram their vessels in a very alarming manner, ye§terday the wharfs were besieged with people, and ate4nuip after steamer carried away the Lon doners by hundreds and thousioids, Some ves:_Qls were packed with. 500 human beings, others with 1,000, and a few of the larger ones with 1,400 and 1,500 passen gas. There were not I. s; than forty steamers em ployed in carrying the holiday folks d t o o l‘ a i n i d th f e ro r m iv6 G r r t e l e ie n y raised - , and tarsemtheenydopzese4eldl ;he Tham es was like a up t and rough sea all day, and v,ewing the steamers from the banks their appearance was terrific ; as the passengers walked, or rather moved, from ono side to the othev the steamers lurched, and frequently presented themselves with one paddle-box in the water and the other out of it. The heat was intolerable, and those standing on the top of the steam-chest, or near the funnel,. were half broiled. The Royal S overei g n took down 1,400 person ages at one trip on Su nda y , and y ester d a y th ose on board at one time exceeded that number. T he watermen, whose boats and b wi tie holidays, tsnselidtstuonbedso much in are re n g uio longer si tion during the Easter thought of, and they looked idly . on, bewailing the want of fares, and pondering on the mighty powers of steam. ENCLOSING AGAINST THE POOR.—(From a C for the Rights of-C ommon over progress i ng t h rough Parliment under peculiarly hard eirotonstances, us regards the poorer class of commoner; who l.ive righ ts t h ereon. o l r v r h es a p d czlen c t i . i ) a — se d ,, k , Bill, is "" champions of th iri' • relief ; These poor people have raised a small subscription to them.abou 160, their oppo easure against them, are .irial petitioners r oi I p bul r lenl o iltge t e tishi c sh t eosyot, themselves imrfesat:hda t. 1 aiallt g iv a et i i n ,p, s e t ti t_ te l i li drt N i v i e :\ a ; l ii 7 tan,_ a re nd e prove unavailing, .—The second day ~...z me worthy e poor, who ...v"? seats in the House of Commons, will investigate na ge their naitns ,s. c t a u s ,th e iilo , e and .a re Bill,c come and iiligi t the cl number clmii aiiout 25, but they are rich and powerful. have after r O th ß e N lrt . reached us from the distant districts of the province, we report upwards of . forty meetings, and we L ol t n w ie s nt, (l w ß h E ei L l A le N tt o e ) rs could scarcely promise as many more for our next. We must not encroach one line upon the space so much better occupied, except to call 'Aliphatic attention to this all-important fact that 1 1 1e§e„, {Meetings, c hiefly ligriciilturid, have not only dc chaired against the rotors 0' the 'Pones to p c , . • b- - w•ei , lit ter Ttpeal of the Corn-laws, and N% It is still Letter, a corn. pike reform of the landlord told tenant system. l? ic # —., e v as& 1 4- 0 3 (.00K1 • MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The present chapter of the Editor's story of " Fathers and Sons " is full of delicate per plexities and entanglements regarding the billin, ! • and cooing of the hero and heroine, which will greatly edify the lover of sentimentality. There is Else a diverting dialogue between the fashion able baronet, Sir George Grindle, and his second son, Francis,. who, though meant to be a pattern of propriety, is, to our thinking, exceedingly in sipid, like stale soda-water. " Beethoven " is a - brief biographical sketch of this eminent Inns!- ! cal composer, who died a few years since at Vienna, utterly neglected by his countrymen, though,. immediately after his death, they dis played the most hypocritical grief for his loss, gave him a splendid public funeral, while his ashes were followed to their last home by up wardS of twenty thousand individuals, scarcely one of whom would have given him a farthing to save him from starvation The biographer thus describes him in his latter years:— " Beethoven is lost to society in consequence of his extreme deafness. The neglect of his person which he exhibits, gives him a somewhat wild appearance. His features are strong and prominent ; his face is full of rude energy ; his hair, which neither comb nor scissors seem to have visited for years, overshadows his broad brow in a quantity and confusion to which only the snakes round a Gorgon's head offer a parallel. His general behaviour does not ill accord with the unpromis ing exterior. Except when he is among his chosen friends, kindness or affability are not his characteristics. The total loss of hearing has deprived. him of all the pleasure which society can give, - and perhaps soured his temper. Ile used to frequent a particular cellar, where he spent the evening in a corner, beyond the reach of all the chattering and disputation. of a public room, drinking wine and beer, eating cheese, and fed herrings, and studying the newspapers. One evening a person took a scat near him whose coun tenance did not please him. He looked hard at the stranger, and spat on the floor, as if he had seen a toad ; then glanced at the newspaper, then again at the intruder, and spat again : his hair bristling gradually into more shaggy ferocity, till he closed the alternation of spitting adstaring, by fairly exclaiming, What a scoundrelly face !' and rushing out of the room. Even among his oldest friends he must be humoured like a wayward child. lie has always a small paper-book with him, and what conversation takes place is carried on in writing. In this, too, though it is not lined, he instantly jots down any musical idea that strikes him. These notes would be utterly unintelligible even to another musician, for they have thus no comparative value ; he alone has in his own mind the thread by which he brings out of this labyrinth of dots and circles the richest and most as tounding harmonies. The moment he is seated at the piano, he is evidently unconscious that there is anything in existence but himself and his instrument ; and, consi dering how very deaf he is, it seems impossible he should hear all he plays. Accordingly,‘ when playing very piano, he often doesnot bring out a single note. He hears it him self in the mind's ear.' While his eye, and the almost imperceptible motion of his fingers, show that he is.fol lowing out the strain through all its dying gradations, the instrument is actually as dumb as the musician is deaf." " A Word to the Schoolmaster" is a dry, tame essay. " Foreign Sporting" is by Nimrod. It is not unamusing, but we have too much of it. The best portion of the article is that which refers to Arabian horses. " Ephraim Rue, the Victim of Society," is a story which inculcates a useful moral, through the medium of that apt and accommodating agent, the Devil, The story ex hibits much of that grave caustic satire for which Mr. Jerrold is so remarkable. There is far too much of the laudatory in the Memoir of the French Royalist lawyer and statesman, Ber ryer. By the writer's account, it would seem that this clever man monopolized all the wisdom all the patriotism—all the political sagacity of modern France. Now, Ber ryer, from all that we have heard and read of him, is simply a shrewd, practised lawyer, and. consistent politician, nothing more. II is powers are by no means of a first-rate order, and it is party only that has raised him to his present celebrity. " Berryer," says his eulo gist, " will not undertake every cause : he will not defend vice, he will not quibble about flaws in an indictment, he will not conde scend to small and paltry tricks to insure a ver dict of acquittal for a real criminal. He begins, when he undertakes a case, by examining its; morality." It is not often that an English lawyer is thus particular about the morality of the cause he advocates. " Wanted a Neigh bour" is a light, readable sketch of character, whose sole defect is, that it is rather too much in outline. As a specimen of the poetry of the number, we quote some gracefully versified stanzas suggested by "Hearing the Wind whistle through Lincoln Cathedral" : When Night her sable curtain draws Around the drowsy earth, Shrouding in that solemn pause, The whole creation's birth ; I love by yen cathedral pile, To hear the low wind sigh, And echo through the eloister'd aisle Aolian harmony ! Round every pinnacle and tower, Through every curve and line, . Glides on a gently breathing power, That seems inspired—divine ! Sweet music - from a brighter Them On'ebon wing to fly-- Bedewing the enchanted ear With liquid melody I Soft dulcet notes that whisper peace To the soul's longing rest ; Where troubles of the weary cease, And all who seek are blest. Anon, those thrilling accents cintng t ; T 9 the 9113 , , • That tiirQPgli the Tag and vaulted range, Chants nature's lullaby ! List to the aerial song awhile— Mark how each varied tone Quivers through the fretted pile, So musical and lent 4od :jaw 4as good to wander now Where sounds so sweet are nigh, And deeply quaff the copious flow Of heavenly psalmody ! Not long those plaintive dove-notes ca t ir. 4o Theiy tvny lYith P . ,qn l P i loftier 464 u—a wilder form— Soon swells the rushing gale ; And tuneful in its richness there, Tho winged breeze sweeps by, While silence lingers in despair— Disputing sovereignty ? As beings of.the wo.rld of liAt pik4tini ion in a flood of pure delight Many mortals joy in this ; And while those sylph-strung lutes shall peal O'er hill and tower and tree, Sweetly will l'elUe,MbrAnoti steal The'Night, Wind's Monody. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The "Tracts for the Times," which lately created such a sensation ainon i ,„o. the Righ Church party, forms the gtiliiinit of the first ar ticle in this number, Of course the writer is averse to the views of the Tractarians as tending directly to Popery; but we think he underrates their influence, for there can be no question that the famous Tract, No. 90, has caused as much excitement in the religious world ; as Wilkes's North Briton, No, 4 i3; Paused in MO political world, some sOVenty Of eighty years ago. The writer ooneludes by expressing his belief that certain individuals of the Tract party will go over to Popery, but that no great defection will take place from the great mass of the clergy. " Dis sent in 1841" is an endeavour to prove that heterodoxy is fast verging to itS leohiiie , and that orthodoliy is as rapidly regaining all the influence it has lost during the last century. This is cer tainly not the case, as regards the High Church party ; while, as respects the Dissenters, we believe that, both morally and numerically, they are more powerful than ever. And the conduct of the Puseyite faction will assuredly not diminish their Infinance, which, we sup pose, the 1114Silli why the hierarchy regard the proceedings of this stubborn section with guelt distrust and apprehension. "My first. Literary Adventure," is a common-place, re deemed from insipidity by the ingenious, spright ly manner in which it is worked up. It is a small author): recollection of his first literary perpetration in the shape of a small volume of poems, which as a matter of course found no fa vour in the eyes of the bookseller to whom they were presented for publication. " The Mystery" is a fantastic legend, pretty much in the style of the German ballad. It is as enigmatical as on' , , of Hoffman's tales of dioblote. "The " a quiz upon Associates" is e proceedings of some of our moderr scientific associations. The author, how— fer, is unlucky in his subject, for kBo ' ..,as already exhausted the theme, in his d(nmrable hoax, entitled the " Mudfog Associa tion," which appeared about two years a g o i n Bentley's Miscellany. " A Newspaper's Editor's Reminiscences" are pleasant Fossip, in which we find some reminiscences of the early life of the poet Shelley. As these contain nothing re markable, we forbear to quote them. " Mem o i rs of Gormandizing" are from the fertile pen of Mr. Titmarsh, who discourses on his dainty theme with exceeding unction. His advice to his readers never to neglect their dinner hour, what ever else they may neglect, is as judicious as it is affectionate. " The man," says Dr. Johnson, who had a becoming veneration for good eating and drinking—" the man who neglects his din.. ncr, will soon come tq peglect higher Social clu-ties ;"—a sopiitl axiom, 4 1 41 NVOrthy to be held in in the course of his lasting remembrance. "high argument," Mr. Titmarsh pays the follow= ino• just tribute to the famed " Ni QctVS itinbrc? sianm," in Blachwood's Magazine I always rather liked - the descriptions of eating in the Noctes.' . They were absurdly erroneous in many cases, but there was a manliness about them and strong evidence of a great, though mis-di:ected and uneducated, genius for victuals." From the anecdotical article headed the "Greater and Lesser Stars of Pall-Mall," we quote a remi niscence of George IV. towards the close of his career : A few weeks after this conversation with Mr. to whom Iris Majesty was very partial, he seriously asked him one night, as he was lying down upon his pillow, " Now look in my face and tell me; O'Reilly,—and I know you will answer me as an honest :man,—how long do you think.' may vet be mad 6 to last ?" " That is a question that I dare - nof - even think upon, your Majesty ; much must depend upon yourself. A steady observance of what is recommended by your Ma jesty's medical advisers, I should- venture to presume, must be most beneficial:" O'Reilly knew the habits of his illustrious patient too well to place any reliance in his resolves. For a vcry short space before his Majesty's decease— only a few weeks, indeed—Mr. O'Reilly was in his bed chamber about ten at night, and had the honour to con verse familiarly and cheerfully with his Royal patient, an honour which he frequently enjoyed at night. The King, as all the Household knew, excepting latterly, was condescending and most amiable to every one about him, from ;,he highest to the lowest. In his infancy, during his boyhood, in manhood, and even whilst the infirmities of age and decrepitude seized upon his unwieldy frame, his generous nature prevailed, and he was always de deservedly beloved. His Majesty, late in his de c li n i ng s t a t e , h a d h e ld a con test with his physicians, and obtained the victory in part, and was reluctantly permitted to sup on stewed chickens. After these had retired from the Castle, Mr. O'Reilly usually made his Majesty a visit ; sometimes for a few minutes, and at others for an hour, more or less. The King was sitting, propped up in his bed, on this visit, and two small pullets were brought in, stewed in rice and rich gravy, and smelling most savouryly. " Now, O'Reilly, my excellent doctor," said his Ma jesty, " which you certainly are, as is known to all the world, never mind those departed doctors, they arc a set of prejudiced frumps, do let me have my favourite po tion" (wine, eggs, and spices) "to wash my sup per down. I only ask for a pint ;—a pint, my dear O'Reilly, for me is so small a quantity, that I feel I can take it without apprehension." O'Reilly shoo Chis head, and observed : " Oh, your Majesty might as well venture upon ask ing for a quart !" Thank you !" quickly returned the King ; " then I will have a quart !" and he ordered that quantity ae cor3ingly. Having dismissed his supper, he drained the china bowl of the g rav y, i n NI hied the chickens were served, and observed— " Now, O'Reilly, I feel as I ought, crop full, and shall sleep comfortably." Not so, alas ! the consequences of this rash indul gence had nearly proved fatal to the King before mornirg. BENTLEYS MISCELLANY. "Guy Fawkes" drags " its slow length on," with but little to redeem it this month. Catesby and the rest of the Papist conspirators are repre sented wandering up and down the country, for no earthly purpose, that we can divine, except to fill up space. The halt, however, of the traitors at Leamington Priors, with the confusion created in the farm-yard by theirarrival,is amusingly enough described. "Hours in Indostan." furnishes us with some pleasant sketches of social life in India. Here is an incident worth noticing. Colonel Macaulay is a gentleman who has been in the habit of making large sums by safe bAting. One day he is invited to dine with a friend, named Cc:Mon, in Calcutta, and while calling on him the previous morning, observes some handsome mahogany tables in the dining-room. Conceiv ing them to be a fit s u bj ec t 'for betting on, he takes their exact measurement—as he imagines, unperceived by his host--and then adroitly in troduces a notice of them after dinner. We quote the upshot of this affair, which is a clever illustration of the old proverb, "the tables are turned :"-- At seven o'clock the dinner was served 7 and a more excellent one never was given in.CPl.,:utta Abut as every pleasure must come to an end, so this excellent dinner at last was finished ; the dessert was served up, and the hookahs began to emit their guttural notes. Many were the subject; broached, and got rid of ; many the boasts which enlivened this fashionable feast. At length by the most skilful mameuvring, and with infinite tact, 31aeaulay brought the beauty of the new tables on the tapir : everyone admired them, and felt grateful to them for having so lately supported the rich dinner of their host. " They are of the finest mahogany I ever saw," said Major I3aiege, They aro perfect. I never saw any so well propor tioned in my life ; I must have some made like them," said a dinner-giving old civilian with half a liver. " They are rather too high," chimed in Charles Macaulay, with affected indifference ; " just a leetle too high—don't you think so, Gordon ?" " On tho ooutrarv," replied the host ; "if anything, tensider them a lade too low." " You aro mistaken, my dear fellow ; I have an excel lent eye, and lam sure lam right ; no table should ex ' ceed two feet six, and these arc at least one inch higher." " You are in error ; they are not more than two feet and a half." " Don't bet, JlllllOB, don't bet, for I am sure of the thet toli you I cannot be deecived,—my eye is always ticffevt," o Not bet !—if it were not that the tables are my own, and, consequently, I should bet on a certainty, I'd lay •ott a lack of rupees they are not more than thirty inches in height." " Ohl ! ifyou are willing, I'll make the bet ; but re member, gentlemen, I tell you beforehand, I am certain of the fact ; I stv the\so tables are at least thirty-one ilmln the ground." " Dane ; for a lack of rupees !" cried Gord..):s. " Done !" re-echoed Charley. Their betting-books were brought out, and the wager duly registered. A servant was ordered to bring in a yard measure, when Macaulay turned round with an air of triumph,— " Yilki 1114 y ieare yourselves the trouble of measuring— ha !" and he chuckled with delight. " I warned you fairly I bet on a certainty, so you can't be oft; James." " I stand to my bet," said Gordon. " Well, then vay me the money. I measured the tables this tlltll'llin walk) you were shaving, and here is a me murandum of their height, thirty-one inches exactly !" and the Colonel burst into a roaring fit of laughter as he produced his pocket-book. " I know you did," said James " I saw you do SO t, my looking-glass." The Cok.nol started. "So as *soon as you had gone my, knowing well your inter.', lo „ , had ttn sawed oif every log ;so for once b my know ing ilgend, the tables are turned !" - Charles Macaulay left Calcutta toxt day 10,000/. poorer than the day he arrived what is s till worse, the very youngest ensigna gut* him about the story to this very day • Inplilsby's legend of the " Old Woman clothed In Grey," is here brought to a close. The de nouement is excellent, but, in the earlier para graphs of the present part, there are rather too many digressiatta, *'he passing hit at the " mi ractllutio keys" of St. Peter is full of archness. tt MerPle England, in the Olden Time," is a de liglitfltl oteiange, abounding in curious matters of antiquarian information, and not devoid of grace ful snatches of poetry and criticism. The occa sional ballads interspersed throughout this versa tile series of artieles, are hit off with much sprightlitakss. "The Porcelain Bath" is a Chi nose story, whose chief detect is, that it is Much too lung. There are sonic smart hits in it, espe cially one at an old physician, who, in " a mo ment of infatuation," took a dose of physic pre ,,cribed by himself. Of course he died! " Ghost Gossips at Blakesley House" will interest all who cleti;), , lit-r-and they are a large class of read ers-An stories of diablerie. The horrors, how ever, .;re of rather too material a character. The fancy should be left to imagine at least half of what is thrust under the reader's nose. The "Link man" is an amusing sketch of a class Who, like the Hying dustman, ave fast bec om i ng extinct. Gas has fur ever put out the torches of the linkboys at the theatres, just as cheap shoemaking __ a p feet humbug—has d estroyed the useful call of the cobbler, the last of whom—ult* Q manorum—still lingers, solitary aundAt.t;Vsetomntis-olator-, in Great Ormond -street. Irish story, ein the Fifteen Acres" is a lively ' can readily believe that there is much tru th •W e ru this remark It is very hard to eceive Galway man in a bailiff brutes of that lawless reoion the dumb an instincti ve f aculty of reb^ the hated f raternity. :ir e e ndowed with i ..ognizing a member of verSallY allowed remember it was uni in the plae was that the most trusty sentinel gacity as a large Poland gander ; his sa il:. the matter truly miraculous; and wi...entver this gifted bird uttered his unmusical ' scream, all persons concerned took the alarm forthwith; tbe outer doors were barred, the window-blinds drawn down, and the master bolted . off to his sanctuary, like a detected pick pocket." •UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The most entertaining article in the Number before us, is an account of the " Operations of Picton's Division in the Campaign of Waterloo," which, as the production of an officer who was himselfactively engaged in that memorable cam paign, is, we have every reason to believe, per fectly authentic. The author refutes the general opinion that the Duke of Welling - ton was prised. on the eve bf the great conflict, obs , : a i ng that his G ra 2.e was fully aware of all that was going on on the part of the enemy, from, elle interesting, narrative of the " Voyage 4 tLe Adventure and the Beagle,'' hie qtwitc ;.he 4cOils of the dreadful earthquake that occasioned such havoc in Attie- Aca in the ye 4 c 1834 OA the nuarning of the Altai 20th of February, 18.)5, ill beautiful weather, with a perfectly serene and cloud less sliy,.nmel! surprise was excited by seeing immense flocks of sea-fowl pass from tho offinti towura t; the . EVENING P.DITI rim- mount:Li:is. In about a couple of IliSurs afterwares, • the first teidulatory trembling oeenrred, and was quickly followed by others, so that terror was mil-el-sal bosh =one• men and awitnals. Nu one could stand unsup ported; the noise Of the rumbling earth And fallingln)::ses was stunning; the cries of the people heart-rending; and dense clouds of dust gave a miserable dismay to the scene. The grand nucleus of The violence appears to have he sr at.Conoepcion, which, with Talcahuano, was frittered to ruins. At one moment, it was remarked that the sea laid retired so much beyond its natural limits, that every rock and shoal in the bay was visible. It flowed again, and again , retired, 'leaving the.' ships that . had been at anchor iu seven fatlioilis' - iva ferqUite-- dry. - "". lirtlfles -- instant of terror, an enormous wave was seen rolling • tically onwards, and forcing its way through the DOcuChica, carrying all before it, to a vertical rise, by aecura te measure ment, of twenty-eight feet above high -waterm a rk. .Mans. of the poor animalsleaped off the cliffs in a p a ni c and 'pe rished ; and a small schooner, nearly reauy for launch ing, was washed over the reined walls to a distance of two hundred yards from her stocks. The refluX of this roller caused great devastation, and carried to sea every thing within its influence. Another anil a larger wave succeeded ; and after some minutes of awful likpenee, a third eaormous sw e ll was seen rus hi ng iu tweru Quirignina and the mainland, apparently larger than either of the two thriller. This advanced, according to Captain Fitzitov, " roaring as it dashed against every obstacle, with irresistible force, destroying and over whelming, along the shore. Quickly retiring, as if spurned by the loot of the hills, the retreating wave dragged. away such quantities of household effects, fences, furni ture, and other moveables, that after the tumultuous rush was over, :he sea appeared to be covered with wrens. Earth and water trembled ; and exhaustion appeared to follow these mighty effOrts." • During this awful convulsion, the shipping was dashed and whirled about like things of straw. Previefits to the rush of *aters, two English merchantmen, the Pauline and Orion, were lying a full cable's length apart, and after it had passed, they were side by .side, with three round turns in their cables ; thus bearing evidence to the verticose action they had undergone. At Nuevo Bilbao, two schooners anchored in the port snapped their cables, and were found among the bushes, upwards of three hundred feet from the beach. The earthquakes were succeeded by violent squalls of wind, and deluges of rain. We were also assured, on the authority of witness, that on heaving in the chain-cable of a vessel, after this - earthquake, it was found that the heat of the ground had been such as to partly fuse the lower links. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. • Mrs. Trollope's " Blue Belles of tiegland " is continued Mille present number. The tale con tains some amusing drawing-room dialogues, and a portrait of a sentimental young man of re markably refined taste and manners, of whom the authoress says—after the most approved fashion of the Minerva Library school of flet —" no one who ever beard him recite pass:. .ire from Petrarell, in the soft sweet whisper wh:ch more resembled the fragrance-laden breathings of Zephyrus, than mere human speech, could doubt that Henry Mortimer was a man of. taste !" This sweet-voiced youth must have beea irresistible in a lady's boudoir. "The Idiot Sailor-boy" is a clever naval story, from th e practised pen of the nuth o r of " Rattlin, the Reefer." In "Spence r Middleton" we have one or two graphic sketches of a young freshman's life at Oxford—a tempting theme, but which Lockhart has well nigh exhausted in his admirable: story of " Reginald Dalton." The " Memoirs •of an Italian Exile" give some spirited details re specting a skirmish with the Austrians, in tlsk late disastrous attempt at independence ilia by the Carbonari against their oppressr rs . Among the poetial contributions, there is an epitaph, written. by Thomas Campbell , on t h e death of M rs . an d t h e Mi sses Sir_ae who, it k •• en's, were drow ne d w h en on • party of plea sure. We subjoin this ep:f o ",,n, howaver, is not in the author's bes' manner : "In de l l) .ninnissi' . ll to the Will above, "Yet with no " . )mmon cause tier human tears ; This sf-- , Ale, for the lost partner of his love, __nd for his children lost—a mourner rears. One fatal moment, one o'erwhelming doom Tore three-told from his heart the ties of card', Ilis Mary, Margaret, in their early bloom, And her who gave them life told taught them worth. Farewell, ye broken pillars of my fate, My life's txnapanion, and my two first-born ! Yet with this silent stone I consecrate To conjugal paternal love forlorn. Oh ! may each passer-by the lesson learn, Which can along• the bleeding heart sustain When Friendship weeps at Virtue's funeral urn— That, to the pure in heart, to die is gain," MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This periodical is by no means destitute of ability, but it appeals too exclusively to the few, as in its " Foreign Aids to Self Intelligence," vi.d " PassageS from the Economia Regni Aniny_tis," both which essays are of such a chatneter as must render them caviare to the ger.erality of readers. .The editor would be far rationally, and we should conceive, profitabl'yemployel, in writing thoughtful, vigorous Poetry, than this sort of ricketty, ltunbernag which answers ' no other purpose than to r.erplex and mystify. A" Glimpse at the Reign o f Terror" is a tale of which one of the chief re:s7Gnages is the noto rious Fouquier Tinville. the public prosecute in the sanguinary day! of Robespierre. It is im possible to exaggrate the atrocities of such a miscreant, and accordingly the character is not overdrawn. "On Comedy" is an essay, whit:, contains sonic useful, practical suggestions ma theatric?,:i matters. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDE'; s. Yesterday these delightful gardens were openc , ,,, with • all the attractions offered to the Fulaic, for the p resent season, and we were ver y g l a d to see that tie spirit of their most efficient manager was duly appre .. elated by his patron s —th e p eop l e . l e. ffi public former years Mr. Cross appeared, to th ose not in secret, to go be yond the expenses whi c h a s hillt ,tg - exhibition w ou ld warrant ; but on the present oc I,asioli he has excee d e d a ll ` . .e. First of all, th e gardens his former attempts to plea are in a beautiful state order, and well ornamented— the cages are all and the animal stock h as b een much increased. , the But the grand attraction o f t h e d ay was " C .4lossal and Pictorial Model of An c i ent an d Modern 'dune." This seems to be a very faithful re- Prc 4o 'fitv.Lion of the Q ueen o f Citi es —it i s by I)anson, as th':, representations of Mount Vesuvius and Iceland were, and this effort proves that he has now ace,uired almost perfection in this style of pictorial modelling. Of course we have St. Peter's as the most prominent - object —then the 'Papal Palace with other beautiful objects in the back-„fiTound, while, in front, the ornamental pond represents the Tiber, abutting upon which is the Castle.: of St. Angelo, thickly studded with bristling cannon, and it is crossed by a bridge also bearing the name of the saint. Altogether the picture, or model, is a beauti ful piece of art, and well repays a visit. But. that is in the day-time—when nine o'clock arrives then it assume"; new beauties. This place of amusement has long bee:, celebrated for it s py rotec h n i c exh ibi tions ; this year titer are made to give a representation of Rome in the thy al,' when the cathedral is lighted up with the utrat&A splendour. All we • can say is that the fireworks v.cre quite worthy of the Surrey Zoological Gardens. :More praise we cannot give them. The indefatigable proprie tor offers another source of gratification to his moue rous visitors : yesterday he again commenced the Pro menades Musicale with the brass band of last year, and he states that he has made several important additions to it. They played many of the celebrated pieces of Strauss, * Musing, Bishop, Bochsa, Rossini, S:c., aged Nl'l loudly •applauded. The gardens were well filled by happy people all day, but after the concert 1- .egan, they were crowded. Even up to within alie- rrienit,:s of nines o'clock, (when the fireworks are let offs ) mach e"rrikr company arrived, and all being attracted"to one spot, the crowding was gther inconvenient at the present tez!lpe raturo. "rhe thousands present appeared happy, and we trust tle worthy and spirited proprietor- will have inteiz such " at homes'' during hi s brief sonson, • SIGN FOR FREE TratDi AND A BIG LO,',F. To the Unemployed Labour rs a nd Artisans of Preston , ; To you the present ' truggle betwixt Mono p ol y mid:, Free rude is of dr, first importance. Not hin g ca l l ensure you emplo• went but freedom o f commerce, nor can you po>sibll- - -i provide for your fa milies without more work and ckeaper food. The Corn and Provision Laws . must be ..nodified or repealed, or we shall soon become a . natio% tlf paupers. Abe following Petition, for those only who arc wholly or partially UNEMPLOYED, lies for signatures at sir. I"Avesey's shop, and all such are inv ited to si g n . • WE WANT WORK ! WORK ! ! WORK ! ! ! aregreat numbers al- The Petition of the undersigned Labourers and Artisans tenannuniaotthpigrofcerure worF, • Humbly Showcth— the la That your Petitioners are suffering very much for a P res ton, and th ; e , Neighbourhood, t.liatthere t b ri t tl, i'l a tl i l t e l i i n eg- a i .I • i a- . i tl 'l''' i l i l6 t it.t t branchi h oi t. i . e i e ; . p tl'i l ri - IY i 'l va () t Y i 1 :1 ( s ' 1 1t have ° t : t whor'bcleentice three years, and that unless there be a rev i val ~,., ''t ot I ratio, t t i l 1 71 :: likelyrvo r a e um i r m i) l e- atli Petitioners la) all ellrst l i i •e ab sTi n c mo t icoblospeuleoftn paupers, duction in the price of food ; and)the • therefore hityably beseech your Honourable House to ii) AS as shall lead to a free and tiourishin ' toad e such meas ures the oppressive ditties upo n corn, La , and to 'wea l , butter, hW cheese, sugar, and all the necess ar i es of '. . And your Petitioners viill IVlNrs‘er pray. SPECIMEN OF SIC .. , f,4. Frederick Flat C',-,a(AA Spade Xtar leinly two dayr fur lite last three months. Aleelta.nie ..„'Not a stroke for 19. weeks.• 011 , 6.011er Cheap Sugar Weaver earned 3s. 2d. 'Spinner Henri• neattluoken NLholas No Bread Tax , *,* Men arc crowding to sign this petition in 'nutn 7 bel's boYolid anticipation. 'The sheets containing the names ur = displayed at the front of Mr. Live.sey•s s h op. Ought not every town to adopt the same? —The 4/ursai, ELL others do likewise.] - lig' . li f e continue t o b e t h e or, ,e 5 ne next7on the 14t. is Lady Cariiline Slani,ope .er of the Ducho ss of Leiniter), who will be led to ti , , e h y . in - eneal altur by E. A. Sanford, Esq„ Marriages in of ike day (.;.• l 4,