The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

MORNING SIT_N THE CORN LAW ► . MOVEMENT IN GLASGOW. GLASGOW, THURSDAY EYENit;o.—The unsettled and unsatisfactory state of dommercial affairs in this large manufacturing community, in consequence of the deter mination of the Tory party by every mea4 in their power to stifle . all inquiry into the iriurious effects of the Corn and Provision laws, has alllhngth roused the mercantile and manufacturing classes from their apathy._ Sir Robert Peel must no longer delay a full discussion' in Parliament of these important questions: To-day, a requisition to the Lord Provost has been laid down for signature at the Royal Exchange, and in a few hours has received the signatures of the most respectable and influential mercantile and manufacturing firms in the city. Indeed, no requisition presented to the merchants and manufacturers of Glasgow was ever so readily and promptly signed as this one has been. Insteadof keep ing the requisition open for signatures fur several days, as is usually the case, the present one has met with such it hearty respouse that it will be presented to the Lord. Provost to-morrow ; who, it i; understood, will call the meeting for this day week. The following is a copy of the requisition : " We respectfully request that your Lordship will . have the goodness to call a meeting of the Parliamentary electors of the city of Glasgow upon an early day for the purpose of considering the very distressed state of the country and the alarming prospects or the enstiing winter, and of memorialising the Queen, praying her :Majesty not to prorogue the two Houses of Parliament until they have entered upon a full consideration of the corn and Provision-laws, which, in the opinion of the requisitionists, are the main causes of the existing silt . - feririgs of the people." Thero can be no doubt that the business classes in this city now look to a repeal of these laws as the only means of keeping their factories open, end retaining their pr,sent position in society. I need not enlarge, neither need I again detail to you the distressing state of trade in this city, and this densely-populated manufacturing district. Every person faels the pressure, less or mop., and every person is anxicus for a remedy, and that r.!.- triedy they now clearly see is a repeal of the Corn aud Provision-laws. BIRMINGHAM A requisition has been addressed to the Mayor of Manchester, to call a public meeting of the inhabitants, for the purpose of addressing her Majesty on the state .(if the nation, and praying her not to consent to a pro -rogation of Parliagnent until some means of removing or mitigating the existing distress, has been devised. The requisition is one of the most numerous if not tho most numerous, that has been signed in that great and important town. The suffering there, as elsewhere, is general, and the requisitionists are, in consequence, of all sects and parties., and ranks and degrees. In 'Bir mingham, where, if the depression of trade and manu facture be not so acutely felt as in the county paNtine,.' it is yet abundantly severe, a similar requisition is in' course of signature.—Birminqbanz Journal. NEW BREIN 'FORD. The following requisition has been numerously siped, pre,ented to the churchwardens :—" To the church. , vardens and overseers of the township-of New Bljent.;• foi-d—We, the undersigned rate-payers of the above township hereby request that the churchwardens and orer , .eers will convene a veF.try meeting of the rate payers, to take into consideration the propriety of .ad. dressing her Majesty the Queen, praying her Majesty not to prorogue her present Parliament until it has full i y discussed those subjects that were submitted for its eon , . sideration by her Majesty in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Sassion.' The meeting is to be held early in next week. CHELSEA. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Chelsea was held at the Manor douse, King's-road, on Friday even ing, to consider the propriety of presenting an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to direct Parliament to continue their session until they have adopted some de :Unitive legislation for the total and immediate, repeat of atho Corn-laws. The large Concert-room was crowded. Alr. Whitehead was called to the Chair. Mr. t-',IDNE; SM:TII came f wward, and addressed the :meeting t;r a full hour and a hlif. 'lr. C. Ev.l.7:s. 11,;:., then renti "To Tr,l,; oxr:EN's .7.105 T \lcr.l NT 6' We beg to appron.ch rolr . r. hh the expras -sion 0: the ieciintrs, not mile o f reTeet and Ittachmeat, N't h ch are at all times due t'rom a free people to a con stitutional 6overeign, nut of sincere .•;•ratitnde and fer vent loyalty to a i'.lonareh who adorns her exalted sta tion with every private vir:ae, exhibits in her life an ex ample to her subjects, and :;te::s to rule in the fear of the King cf Kings, and for the happiness of all her people. I'hat among the many acts which have secured for lour Majesty the affection and fidelity of your subjects, none stands more conspicuous for it* wisdom and bene- Tolence than your Majesty's appeal to your loyal people against the insensibility of their late representatives to the prayer of nearly 1,800,000 petitioners for the repeal of the present Corn and Provision-laws, and your gracious recom mendation to the present Parliament to take into conside ration The laws which regulate the trade in corn, to determine whether these laws do not aggravate the na tural fluctuations of supply; whether they do not. embar rass trade, derange the currency, diminish the comforts and increase the privations of the great body of the com munity.' " That both branches of the Legislature, in respond ing to your Majesty's expression of considerate solicitude for the happiness of your subjects, acknowledge that they were deeply sensible of the importance of these consider ations in reference to the commerce and revenue of the country, and to the laws which regulate the trade in corn ; and the imperative duty of investigating the laws of which we complain, has been recognised by the executive power, admitted by both Houses of Parliament, and prescribed to their representatives by the great body of the people. " That we feel called upon to declare our solemn con viction, that the expressed determination of your Ma jesty's temporary advisers, the present Ministers of the Crown, to adjourn for five months the consideration of the critical state of the country, and to postpone inde finitely all attempts to deal with the existing causes of the general and deep distress of the nation, is not only, most disrespectful to your Majesty, but calculated to ag gravate materially the exasperation of the people under their severe and protracted sufferings. It becomes,' therefore, our duty humbly to represent to your Ma jesty, that unless the inquiry directed in your Royal Speech be immediately instituted, and the Corn and Pro vision-laws be totally and immediately repealed, the disaffection, misery, disease, and crime, which the com mercial ruin and general destitution naturally consequent upon these laws have produced, and are daily increasing, will terminate at no distant period in the immediate decay of this great and industrious nation. " We, therefore, respectfully and most urgently pray, that your Majesty will direct Parliament to continue its deliberations, without intermission, until the Corn-laws are entirely repealed, to the end that in thereby securing at the cheapest rate the most plentiful supply of the necessaries of life, and the emancipation of industry from restrictions upon its exercise and development the substantial happiness and comfort of your Ma jesty's people may render your. reign illustrious by the true glory of thousands, which is reflected in the peace and prosperity of every class of your Majesty's subjects." C. F. CRIDDLE, Esq., briefly seconded the adoption of the address. It was then agreed to unanimously amidst great cheering. The petition received numerous signatures on the spot, and the meeting then separated. WHITEC II A P EL. A preliminary meeting of the inhabitants of this dis trict, was held at the Grave Itinurico Tavern, White ehapel-road, on Friday evening. fir. T. Bates was called to the Chair. Mr. WICIUIA3I detailed the o'oject of the Metropoli tan Anti-Corn-law Association, and urged the formation of an auxiliary society in that district, which would complete the organization of the respective districts of the borough or the Tower Hamlets. After some discussion, a resolution w as p asse d unani mously, to ca ll a public meeting of the inhabitants on the 29th instant. ARISE 6i, ------- --- T. MA.RYLEBONE. On Saturday a meeting ort of the Maryleb one V estry Co took place at the House, Marylebone-lane. Mr. F. Bashill in the chair. Mr. GrnsoN gave petition netice.that on S a t ur d a y next h e s h ou ld move that anottone presented to the Qu een , praying her 'Majesty prorogue the Parli ament until it had considered the Ipresentoese critical stat e o f t h e c ountry, and that important On handi ng i°n--an alter a ti on i n thc. existing Corn-laws. Th e CHAIRMAN said he had strong up to the Ch a i r , whe ther he could receive such a resolution, lb."-that' as to , !restry being .p um ly a parochial, and not a political body.—kph , o h , a... 10. hear.) After considerable discussion on this point, in which it was stated that as the representatives of 140,000 souls, the vestry had a right to express some opinion. Th e extension of pauperism was the result of the Corn-l aws . There were upwards of 1,600 persons at that time in the workhouse, and, in addition to the 700 loaves per day, there was something like 2001 . per week distributc3d, amongst the out-door poor; and he hoped the vestry Would do their duty in this matter. The question was finally put, and on a division there appeared-- For the reception of Mr. Gibson's motion 23 Against its reception Majority i n f avour o f the former The vestry, after some unimportant business, separated. NEW MINISTRY. The Attorney-General had a very lon.. interview this morning w i t h Si r James Graham and Mr. Manners Sutton at the Home -office. Feveral of the Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert I this morning, at his residence in Whitehall rdens. A Treasury messenger was sent off with dispatches this Morning for her Majesty at Windsor Castle.— Evraing Paper. THE WEATHER.—NooN, SEPTEMBER 20. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELA I OE-STREET. Barometer .............. 30.15 Itt. Thermornoter...-691 Highest...... .. 71 I L owes t ... 43 Wind I?. --Freezing Point 32 Deg. AGED HUSBANDMEN.—On Thursday week, thrn men, whose unit e d ages amounted to 241 years, were reaping by 'themselve s in a field of corn w:iich they had engaged to cut for I , lr. Wrm. Brooks, of Fo.veote. near Stourbride, and performed their work in a thost satisfac tory- manner. Their names are Richard Norris, aged ; Benjamin Round, 79 ; and George Jones, 79. Worcest4r Herald, ATTEMPT TO . ASSASSINATE H LOIW ONVIcK. - (FRom A CORRESPONDENT.) Sunderland. Friday Eyening, Sept. 17. I send you a copy of the Szinderldnd Herald, containing the state of the poll, by which you will see Lord Howick, in the Liberal cause, has a majority . of 261. Since I received the Herald.,l have just had intelligence from a police-officer, who saw the matter, that au attempt has been made to assas sinate Lord Howick, who was being chaired in 2,lonkweermouth, about two o'clock this after noon. A man (f. , . publican) fired a pistol froM a window in his house, the'contents of which grazed a carriage next to Lord Howick's ; the fellow af terwards attempted to fire a loaded gun, which fortunately missed fire. Liddle, the assassin, has been lodged in prison, and the mob took instant vengeance upon the man's property—they hav ing destroyed all his stock of spirits, ale, and fur niture, together-withal the windows in his house. The following account of this unfortunate dis turbance is taken from the Gateshead Observer of Saturday YESTERDAY'S RIOT. Whilst we were congratulating ourselves that we had at length completed our report of the late eventful pro ceedings in the borough of Sunderland, we were startled by the intelligence that an attempt had been ,made to assassinate Lord Howick ! A handbill was brought to us., which had been printed in Sunderland, and stated ,ttiat, a-gun had been levelled at his Lordship during the "chairing" in Alonkwearmouth, by Mr. Liddle, from the window of. his house in l)undas-street, with an apparent intent to shoot his Lordship,. but that it missed tire ; after which, stones were thrown at the Noble Lord's carriage. This led to the destruction of LiildVs windows., FURTHER PARTICULARS. Since we received the following statement, we have obtained intelligence which inelines us to believe, that although a gross outrage was perpetrated upon Lord 4owick, and Lady Williamson, &e., no fatal result was contemplated. The Herald states, in a second edition of its yesterday's paper, that when the procession accom panying Lord Howick's chairing arrived in Whitburn street, Menkwearmouth, they found two blue and white ;lags (Mr. Attwood's colours) suspending from the h.window of a private dwelling-house, and of a public Amuse kept by a person named Edward Liddle, (the sign of " The Reform 'Tavern.") In ' passing' these, , as is usual on such occasions, the crowd hooted and-hissed. No sooner had they done so, than a volley of stones was thrown from the upper story of the house into the procession. The stones were such as are used for paving, many of thein as large as half-bricks ; and they of course scattered the procession, and iferiottedy injured several individuals. One of these hit Lord Howick over the right hand, and the other hit Mrs. Bell; who was in another carriage, on the arm. A third stope was thrown in the direction of Mr. William Allison, solicitor, of Monkwearmouth, whom it missed, and, instead, hit Mr. J. W. - Robinson; solicitor. A portion of the crowd, exasperated by this proceed ing, in-tautly threw hack several of the stones. No sooner did the course of retaliation begin, than the land lord of the house, Edward Liddle, presented a fowling piece from the window of the upper-room, (the lower sash of which was completely up), and moving it in various directions, without apparently taking aim at any partielthir person, snapped the gun, but fortunately it only flashed in the pan. lastantly on this daring act being observed, several of the; procession attacked the house; and - brickbats, thrown frpm both sides, wounded different persons; two or three ''whom received several cutson their heads. The house rushed utioir--the windows and a great part of the furniture broken- e the• small casks in the front room (which was fitted . rfp as a bar) dashed on the ground and the spirits wasted, and many of the smaller articles in or tiinary use either injured or destroyed. After the g:ul had been presented, Sir Hedworth Williamson, accompanied the ladies to Thomas- street, and then returned to the-- spot, and obtained pos :ession of the gun. A person was sent to the station 7 heitise far_, puheeman4 but .one not being there, Sir Hedworth himself took the man into custody. Im mediately afterwards an officer arrived, and Liddle was conveyed to tb.e_ station-house. The fowling-piece was then examined by the Hon. Baronet, Mr. Anthony John Moore, and a poaceman. There was found in it a full chargF.edf powder; and the wadding consisted of paper, twice `or three times the quantity of that ordinarily used, tightty.fresed down. It did 'not, however, contain any shot. On this serious disturbance taking place, Lord Howick was driven to Whitburn, the seat of Sir Liedworth Wil liamson\ and.endeavours were made to prevent mischief, but it was some time before hostilities ceased. Immediately on hearing of the affair (says the Herald), we proceeded to the spot. The house was then sur rounded by persons, and policemen were very properly stationed inside to prevent any change from taking place inside the house until the matter can be fully investi gated. Outside, all the windows were broken, and also some of the 'tiles ; and inside, the front room of the house was almOst entirely gutted, some of the walls were broken, and not'less than twenty or thirty paving-stones scattered on the floors of the different rooms. From the statement of one of the parties, it appears there were in the house. at the time the procession passed nearly forty men. Twenty .of these were engaged in Mr. Attwood's band (and they were at dinner in the back room). About ten of the remainder were " colourmen," as they are generally termed—men engaged to carry the banners, also in the Tory candidate's party; and eight or ten were persons 'who had accidentally come into the ' - house. We heard that some men, who apparently came from Liddle's premises, annoyed and threw stones at the processionasit passed the end of Dundas-street, but of this fact, which will be important to the inquiry,we have not obtained any decisive information. It was also stated to us, that the disturbancei first originated by the circum stance of a man named Anthony- Brown (one of Mr. Attwood's party), waving a blue and white flag as the procession passed the door ; and that Liddle, the land lord of the house, begged Brown to com e i n , b ut with out avail, until those in ,Lord Ilowick's procession first threw dirt and then stones at the windows. .But the former statement we have given as to the origin of the mischief, appears most probable, and torest upon stronger testimony. It is stated by the landlady of the house that she has lost 20CL, and also two sovereigns, which must have been stolen, from the premises during the uproar. The 2001., she says, was in a yellow bag, and hidden under a rum cask. Ns money she had possessed for a co ns id era bl e time,„.put Until that morning she had kept it in the drawers." Shortly before the disturbance, however, she had placed it under the rum cask. It consisted of gold, Bank of England notes, and country notes. The other sum, two sovereigns and some odd silver, was placed on the higheSt Shelf - of the bar, having been placed there in like manner, for safety. We otight to add, that Liddle keeps a kitchen garden, and we are informed that he uses the gun principally for shooting sparrows. -We should also mention that the sign, " The Reform Tavern," was tern down by the crowd, and broken to pieces, the " ratting" of the landlord evi dently increasing their violence. From the number of large paving-stones thrown from the windows of the house, it would seem they had been carried on the premises, and prepared, either designedly for a disturbance, or in the event of such a circumstance arising. We merely mention the fact as fraught with suspicion of a premeditated object, and refrain from en tering into comment, or from giving insertion to some statemen - ts.anil. inueudoes which have reached us, as the case will, no doubt, be the subject of magisterial inquiry. 'We cannot, however, conclude, without lamenting that the contest for this borough, which we are sure it is the with of the respectable of all parties, should have been closed in peace and good-humour, has been characte rised by a riotous attack, which, however it may have originated, and whatever may be the culpability of the unfortunate man now in custody for the offence of pre senting fire-arms, must be characterized as disgraceful to the parties implicated, and injurious to the character of the town. We concur with our Contemporary in believing that " the respectable of .all parties" can have no desire for destructive outrage on person and on property ; but is not this lamentable riot the natural fruit -of that system of bribery and drunkenness which the leaders of the Tory party—men arrogating to themselves the epithet', " respectablP—introduced into the contested election of the last few days ? With whatever party the affair of yesterday may have commenced, who can deny that the responsibility of the outrage attaches to the "respect able" gentlemen who " opened" public-houses, and did their worst to inflame and brutalize the people of Sun derland ? PARTICULARS. OF THE' EXAMINATION. The person accused of the outrage is Edward Liddle, and he is, or rather was, the.proprietor of a public-house called the Reform T a v ern , in Whitburn-street, Monk wearinouth. He was a partisan of Mr. Wolverly Attwood, the Tory candidate, during the election, and had acted as leader of his band of music. The following details of evidence were taken at the Mayor's Chambers on Saturday morning : The prisoner having been placed at the bar, Inspector Bailes, of the Sunderland police, formally charged him with the offence above referred to. John Sedgwick, fruiterer, of the High-street, Bishop wearmouth, sworn, said—l went in the procession before Lord llowick, till I came opposite Dundas street, near Liddle's house, at which blue and white (Mr. Attwood's) colours were displayed. I was in company with the clerk to the Northern Advertiser, and when we came opposite Liddle's house, I said to my friend; " What a disparity between the flag and the sign I" the latter being " The Reform Tavern." Liddle was then sitting in his shirt sleeves at his window, smoking, and leaning on his elbow. In the other window on the same floor of the house there were a great many men smoking. When the carriages came opposite Liddle's house, a man came out arid waved a bunch of blue and white ribbons, and said, " Now lads!" After that, Liddle laid down his pipe and took up a gun, and exclaimed, "I'll shoot you, you thief !" or "you rascal 1" and either pulled or pretended to pull the trigger ; and I saw either a smoke or a flash, I cannot say which, I was so much agitated at seeing the gun. There was no one near Liddle, and the smoke or flash was not from his pipe, which he had laid down. Liddle then took in the gun, and did something to the lock. The gun was again presented, when I l was oppo site the first horse of tlw carriage, on '.Which I cried out repeatedly, " A gun ! a gun !" The horses then went off at full speed. Liddle presented the gun at the carriage, p u ll e d t h e t r i gger aga i n , and then took it in again. When the gun was presented-the second time, stones were volleyed from every.. window of the house. From the door or front of the house a quantity of filth was thrown upon the carriages. • I then made off, but looking round, I saw something prpented from the win dow a third time, like a gun -barrel, or a walking-stick, but I was too . far off to say which. ,f By Mr. Backhouse—l heard no report of the gun, nor saw any smoke from file muzzle. Bernard Ogden, Esq., said—l was in a gig behind Mr. Bell's carriage, which contained Mr. and Mrs. Bell and Lady Howick. In going up the street I SD.W a stop page—a row of some sort or other. My servant said, " There is a man holding, a g un out of a window !" After the procession moved on, I saw flame and smoke like the flash of a. gun, and, something project from the north upper window like a gun. I heard no report. I could not identify the man that held the instrument. I saw none of the windows broken as I passed. Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., sworn, said—When the stoppage took place, I looked toward Liddle's house, and saw some men starting back as if in, alarm Lady Howick exclaimed, Oh, there is a man haS fired a gun, and there are some, white things come out of it." A volley of stones was discharged at the carriage from, close to Liddle's louse, . one •of which struck a man clofe to the carfiaie. - On this I pulled Lady Howick down into the hottorit of the carriage to protect her, and fell over. her. I went on in the procession to. the Wheatsheaf," but returned to pacify the people, and found the house pretty nearly gutted. The police had arrived, and an' active search took place for the man, who had been seen crossing a little back lane. He was pursued into - a }Muse at the corner of the street, which was beset front and rear. A door was forced open and the house entered ; one of the rooms on the ground floor was locked. I unbolted the back door to admit the police. The police went up stairs, and in half a minute came down with the prisoner, who was without coat or waistcoat, and his hair bloody. I accompanied prisoner- to the station-house,. and had some difficulty in preserving bins from the fury of the mob. He did not say a word. I went hack to the public house, and found ,the. crowd forcing their way into it. The police cleared the way, and I ad-dressed the people, telling them it was ,desirable to search for the gun. Same of the police up stairs called out that the gun was . found, and I srov . it' in the hands of Serjeant Pearson.: It had no ramrod in it, but the rod was found broken in another part of the room. I called to Mr. A. J. Moore, and, on patting the ramrod into the gun, I found there was something soft in it. The ramrod being too short to draw the charge, we sent for another rod and drew the gun. First, came out this pellet. [Here the witness produced a hard mass of chewed paper, three times the size of an ordinary paper wad.] This pellet was wet and greasy, as if it had been taken out of a gun recently fired, and it made astain on my hand. On turning down the muzzle of the gun, a good deal of powder fell on the ground, but a good charge of coarse powder was saved, which I produce. The Magistrate here asked who conducted the case against the prisoner ; on which, aftera brief consultation between Inspector Belles and Mr. A. J. Moore, one of Lord Howick's law agents, the latter gentleman took the management of the prosecution. . Thomas Milton, of Newcastle, sworn, said he was struck by a stone from the public-house as he was pass ing, holding by the I:andle of Sir Bedworth's carriage door. Ile also saw the prisoner, whom he knew well, present the gun, but he did not see it fired. lie heard the clash of the windows broken before he saw the gun. Walker Featherstonlmugh, Esq., sworn, said— I was in the carriage with Lord Howick,with my baek to the horses, when his Lordship exclaimed, "Good God, there is a man with a gun:" On looking-, I saw a man at oar of the upper windows, in the act of cocking something like a gun. From another upper window a volly of stones was thrown, one of which struck Lord Howick and another myself. No glass had then been broken, and all had been quiet up to that time. The carriage then drove off at a quick pace,, and I saw nothing more. Bores Wallmr, sworn, said—l was standing near Liddle's house when the procession came by, and distinctly say that. no attack was made on the house before Lord Ilowick's carriage came up.. Some one cried out, " There's a gun !" and on looking up I saw prisoner in the act of presenting a gun, and apparently using threafuning language. I - saw nothing 'more, but went away, thinking there would be mischief. As 1 passed-the back lane, I saw Liddle with two stone por- ter-bottles in his hand, which he threw into the crowd. I saw another man come out of the house with a heavy piece of wood in his - hand - ,-which he threw into the crowd. Cross-examined by Mr. Wright—Many of the mob and Lord Howick's carriage had passed the house about 20 yards before I saw the gnn presented. It was not presented at the carriage at first, but was afterwards. Mr. H. Hindmarch, barrister-at-law, sworn, said— I was sitting on the box of the third carriage in the procession, when I heard a cry—" A man is going to fire I" I looked forward, and saw a man in his shirt sleeves with a gun at his shoulder, and apparently aiming it at Lord Howick's carriage. Aa the carriage was passing on the man moved his gun so as to take a proper aim. I also saw a large quantity of stones come from the window::: of the house. On looking again at the house, I saw something proceeding from the gun, which I believed to be smoke ; I have a doubt on the point, but very little doubt. The man then ap parently pointed his gun at the second carriage, in the same way as at the first ; but I saw no smoke then. We drove on as quickly as we could, and as we passed the house, a shower of stones was thrown at us from the house. I saw two or three panes broken as we passed. Cross-examined by Mr. Wright—l. cannot say from what part of the gun the smoke proceeded, but I think from the lock. • Sir H. Williamson explained, that the broken ram rod, though too short to draw the pellet from the gun, was of sufficient length to have drawn any charge that might have been over it, supposing.Liddle to have at tempted to unload his gun during the interval between the outrage and his capture. Mr. Mdore here prayed the Court for an adjournment of the case till Ttiesda, whcn he expects to bring proof of a !arge quantity of stones having been collected in the house, and also of Lkldle's having cleaned,his gun with the intention of using it in the way described. Mr. Wright requested' the Magistrates, if they re manded the prisoner, to allow him to go out on bail,. as he should show that he had acted merely in self-defence. This was objected to by Mr. Moore ; but after a private consultation the Mayor announced that. bail should be taken for the re-appearance of the prisoner, himself being bound in 80L, and two sureties in 401. each. Messrs. George .Hudson and William Story, two of Mr. Attwood!s' Monkwearmouth friends, are Liddle's bondsmen. Liddle's house is a perfect wreck, every article of fur niture having , been smashed to atoms, and his stock of provisions and liquor thrown into the street by the crowd in revenge for his conduct. The prisoner's wife says that the sum of 2001., which she had concealed in the house, was carried off by the mob. Immediately after the outrage, Lord and Lady Howick drove off to Sir Hedworth Williamson's, at Whitburn, but will return on Monday, the 20th inst., when a public dinner is to be given to his Lordship in the Athemeum. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. A few subscribers atterided yesterday, but the majo rity having remained in the north fur the Liverpool Races, very little business was - done on forthcoming events, and still less towards settling the Doncaster balances. The following will be found a correct quota tion of the prices : CESAREWITCII STAKES. 9 to 1 each agst Orelia and Welfare laid in one bet. DERBY. '• 18 to 1 agst ColOnel Anson's Attila—taken, and • afterwards offered 1000 to 45 agst Mr. Wreford'i Wiseacre—taken 1000 to 40 agst Lord Verulath's Robert de Gorham—t. Attila was backed for upwards of 309./., at 18 and 19 to I. 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When I employed the ordinary pebbles, I never failed to experience in the morning a great irritati - mi in the C - i bait; our . • •-••- " - 'I" inconvenience of the kind. 1 snail ever reel gratelui to my good friend, Dr. Blundell, for having drawn my attention to the subject. — Believe me to be your's, very respectfully, T. J. PLTTIUREIY, 6, Saville.row, Jan. 4, 1539.,, 7/ /------ ~/‘ (../ // / THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, th4l. CORN-LAWS. MEETING AT THE TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. A Town-hall Meeting was held yesttrday its Southwark, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen not to prorNue Parlia ment until it has taken into its consideration the present dis tressed condition of the manufacturing population, and alto the subject of the present Cern-laws; Ttid meeting' vdtt called by requisition signed by softie of the principal inhabitants of the borough to the High Bailiff, who presided. Vile meeting was appointed for one o'clock, and a few minutes after that hour, the High Bailiff, accompanied by several of the requisitionists, entered the Hall. As soon as the High Bailiff took his seat, the requisition calling the meeting together was read, 83. The HIGH BAILIFF rose and said—lt had always been his desire, during the time that he had held the office of High Bailiff for that borough, to furnish the inhabitants widi every opportunity to express their sentiments upon all matters con nected with the public welfare. He had, therefore, in com pliance with a requisition very numerously and respectably signed, called that meeting. He hal not a doubt, from expe rience of past meetings in that borough, that every one would be allowed to express his sentiments with that liberty and freedom from interruption -which ought. to be, and wag, the pri vilege of every honest and independant man.—( Cheers.) It might be necesttlry for him to observe that the requisition was delivered to him on Saturday, and as the requisitionists wished the meeting to be sailed for that day (Monday), he had thought proper to comply with that request. As the requisi tion bad been read, he should call on the meeting to express their sentiments upon it.—( Cheers. ) The }licit BAILIFF then read snveral letters from Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. Ilawe.7, &c., with apologies for their non-attendance. Mr.'JAMES WILSON rose, and said the following resolution had been put into his hands to propose for their adoption : " 'I hat this meeting has watched with great anxiety and alarm accounts from the manufacturing and other districts, which exhibit the rapid increase of commercial distress, want of employment, and all the evils consequent thereon, aggra vated by the high prices of food." He rose to pro pose that resolution for their consideration, wi-h the deepest conviction, that maces something were done to alleviate the distress of the working classes that they were approaching an awful crisis. —(H ear , hear.) Since they last met in that To n- h all to consider the commercial Tariff and the Corn-law, they ha:i found that the Ministers who had brought forward those questions for consideration had been turned out of power, after having been sorely pressed by num berless petitions to take them into their consideration. They had brought forward those questions, and for this reason alone they had been turned out of power, and they had been suc ceeded by a class of men who had come into power for the pur pose of maintaining those laws inviolate. Indept ndent of the consideration of these questions as affecting met ely the Corn laws and commerce, he could not but view the circumstances which had taken place, as deeply involving the civil rights of the country. He could not but be convinced that one class of the community had claimed the right of legislating for the whole people, and he could not but be cenvinced that the pre rogative of the Queen had been used for a seifils purpose, and that the agriculturists and the landholders have been the only parties to be considered by the present repre sentatives in the House of Commons. Tlietercre, independently of the Corn-laws, there was something in the proceedings of this country which deeply involved their civil liberties and privileges. If there was one constitutional privilege more dear than another, it was the liberty they had to choose their* representatives in the Rouse of Commons ; and if there was another principle well developed, it wag that the House of Peers had no right to interfere with the election of the lion-e of Commons. They found the Duke of Richmond standing up and telling the country that they had brought into power the present Ministry fur the purpose of maintaining the Corn-laws inviolate, and as soon as they attempted to meddle with them they should put them out of office. These were the men who had passed a rote of want of confidence against the late Ministry, because they wi-hod to interfere wi' h those laws. They had claimed the right of electing the House of Commons, thereby violating the privileges of the people. It was a matter of some surprise to him that the House of Com mons, which had telt in keenly the breach of privilege of its House with respect to the Sheriffs of London, should sub m i t to a still higher breach a their House in being elected by the HOUFC of Lords. They had seen in the manufacturing dis tricts the first evidence of the decay of a greae nation had taken place. It was lamental.le to tee that the town of Steckport. the town that bad employed upwards of 60,000 operatives, had fallen off in its population, as appeared by the late census, 8,000 within the last ten years—( hear, hear)—where they 'found that only one house in 'twenty was occupied, and where they found chat only one mill in four was working. Let them con sider these things, and how could they wonder that such dis tress should be in the manufacturing districts? He had re ferred to statistical accounts, and he found that they imviorted in 1840 for the first three months 124,965,0001b5., while in 1841 it was only 122,625,000, leaving a deficiency in the im ported quantity of not less than 2,340,0001b5. In the last four months of 184') the imported quantity of cotton co 00l was 237,540,0001b5., whilst in the same period of 1841 it was 164,000,0001b5., leaving a deficiency of 76,540,CC01b5., or abOut one-third of the whole. They had therefore to infer tom that, that fsere was only one third of the employment for the labourer there was a year ago. He would also refer to the article of silk. Sufficient evidence of the decay of that trade was found in Spitalfields and other districts. From this source he found that in the first three months of 1840 there were 931;956ib5. of silk ma nufactured in England, while in 1841, and the same space of time, there were only 719,7861b5., leaving a deficiency of 212,1701b5. In the last four months of 1840 it was 1,109, I 08Ibe. whilst in the same period of H4l it was 836.4881b5., leaving a deficiency of 272,6201b5., nearly one-fourth less hen the former year. When they considered these statements, they would not believe that the accounts they had heard of the distress in the manufacturing districts were exagge rated. The mills were standing still, and the po pulation was not employed. The giant arm of steam was motionless and doing nothing. They found that in the House of Commons the Hon. Member for Bolton had, in his place in that House, stated a fact of a man having died at his loom of starvation and want. Although this was the only case they had heard of, of death having occurred from starvation, yet this was not a soli'ary instance where death had taken place in con sequende of the Poor-laws.—(Cheers.) But there was one person in the present Ministry—one man who was known for his courage—and he would say, for his candour—there was one man who stated that he believed there was no distress—the Duke of Wellington. He ( Mr. Wilson) had not so much faith in his experienc' in these matters as in his candour and courage. He (the Duke of Wellington) had declared that he believed that there was no distress, and that this was the only country where a man could get at any time employment, and yet they heard of evidence being given in the House of Commons ofa man, dying on his loom. However, there was another Member of the Administration, who did admit the fact of the distress, but who denied the cause. He denied that the Corn-laws yerc the cause of that distress. He talked something about over-production, but he (Mr. Wilson) would ask the Premier whether it was fit for a statesman to com plain of over prcduction ?—(Cheers.) Was it the fact that heopuse a man did too much work he was to suffer privation. No, it was not over-production that was the cause of the dis tress, but over-restriction.—(Cheers.) They had over-pro. duction of cloth, and they wanted bread. Therewere other countries that had an over-production of bread, and it was little consolation for them to be told that they were well fed when they wanted cloth for clothing ; and for the people of England to be told that they had sufficiency of cloth when they wanted food. But Sir R. Peel said "show me that the Corn-laws are the cause of the evil, and I will consent to their repeal ; prove to me that this is the cause of the disaster, and I will advise my friends to re peal them." He (Mr. Wilson) had no confidence in the sin cerity of that declaration; for they had seen year after year that Mr. Villiers had brought forward his motion for inquiry into the operation of these laws, and th:s very man, Sir R. Peel, rejected the motion disdainfully, and would not lfsten even to inquiry ; therefore they had nu right to think him sin cere in his professions when he has resisted inquiry, the only means of evidence.—(Cheers.) It appeared to be the policy of eArlt. Peel to procrastinate. He had assumed the position of great state physician, having studied at the great univer sity of Tamworth, where he had taken out his diploma as State Physician.—(Laughter.) When he was under examination he promised when he was called in that he would prescribe for the patient's disease : yet now when he was called in, and called in with his fellow students and colleagues, when he had his fee, he refused to offer an opinion on the disease which he was called on to cure.—(Laughter.) He refused to express an opinion upon the disease of the country, and seemed rather to take the part of the Coroner than the physician.—(Laughter.) When the Hon. Member for Bolton told him that avian had died on his loom he then consented to send down a commission to inquire into it. This was but poor consolation to the widow and children, sending to inquire the cause of his death now that he was taken away from them. He still, however, re fused to send commissioners to inquire into the state of those that are not dead, but leaves them to die, and then perhaps he would again become Coroner, instead of the physician to apply a remedy .—( Cheers.) There was scarcely a feature in society in which they did not find that hydra-headed monster the Corn-laws staring them in the face.—(Cheers.) They found, year after year, that its voice was heard increasing throughout society. It was heard in the increase of patients to the hospitals. It was heard by an increase of prisoners in 'our prisons, numerous bankruptcies, and increased embar rassment in trade. A noble friend of his had moved in the House of Peers for a return of the number of fiats in bank ruptcy which have been issued during the last five years. It ap peared by that return that in the year 1838 there were 1,087 fiats issued. In 1839 there were 1,485; in 1840 there were 1,879. With such evidence of increasing distress, with such symptoms of national decay. was it fitting that such a man should take the reins of Gevernment ; and that, when he had got them, he should refuse to give the slightest remedy for these evils ? (Cheers. ) Let them consider, for one moment, what was all - this suffering for. Why was the country threatened with de cay? He would again refer to tt e Duke of Richmond, to be informed on this head. For in his speech, that he had before quoted, he stated for what purpose the Government was formed. He stated in a few words, that if the Corn-laws were to be in terfered with, that he would be the first to more in that House that the present tenants should be absolved from their present leases. Why did he do so, but that he assumed that they would not be able to pay their present amount of rent ? And if so, they (the farmer) were only enabled to do so by the present laws ; and, therefore, he says they were framed for the purpose of making the landholders wealthy. The Duke of Wellington said it. was in order to secure to the inhabitants food at the most equal prices. But the Duke of Richmond said that it was simply for the purpose of rent. It then was the little word rant to which they must bow and submit. — (Hear, hear.) It was tke Jugernaut before which every feel ing was to be violated, and that little word was to represent Kings, Lords, and Commons. He could not believe that the people of this country would quietly submit to such a change in the Constitution, for if they did they gave up all privilege in the choice of representatives in the House of Commons; and if they mere not willing to do so they would rise not only to pro tect their commerce, but for a higher and a nobler aim—that of their civil rights.—(Cheers.) tie believed that this was a time when they should exercise the eight of petitioning their Sovereign. He, therefore, hoped that not only there would that feeling pervade, but throughout the kingdom. The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst great cheering. Mr. THOMAS MARTIN said that he had been re quested since he arrived on that platform to second the resolution, and he should, therefore, do so with but a few words, after the very eloquent address they had just heard. He had looked to other countries, and found no sliding scale the re; an d that caus e d hi m t o reflect Ceeply on the subject. He had looked in history. and found that those nations of the earth which most excelled in manufactures, and everything that curbed the manufactures, reduced the country.. That system was now being adopted here; audit would result in England being deprived of her right-arm—her manu factures.—( Cheers.) Before the war, land was not half the price it was now : deprive the country of her manufactures, and land would fall again to the same price it was before the war. He hoped thei e was no man there but would put his shoulder to the wheel, and get rid of this incubus on com merce.—( Cheers. ) The Mr.A. p resolution sLEy pz was Lt E t h T e .r n r p o u se t a t n o d ni c o a v r e r ie th d e tn n a e n x i t m°u resolution sIY : " That, in consequen ce o f the apprehended deficiency of the present harvest, the coun ty is already threatened with de rangement of its currenc y . and monetary affairs, from necessity of importing corn under the unwise provisions of the present law." lie thought they had arrived at a time when something should be done to retrieve our present difficult position. This opinion he had found much strengthened by a recent tour he had made in the manufactur. ing districts. He had visited .Glasgow, Paisley, Liverpool, r Alanohester, and Birmingham, five of the great manufacturing towns Of the cotintry, atid thefe never was a lees demansl for ' the articles they manufactured than at present; net stteh a want of employment. Ile was a munufacturer himsef, bih as a metropolitan mentifacturer he did not feel personally, nor did hit peeole feel that dlstreill e bhceugO at present it was distant. But when distress comifieiicer at if distence? it, would soon come home. It had been said by the Ara ififialief thit the Premier had assumed to himself the right of State physiciiii ; and that he can cure all the complaints of the body politic. However true this might be, yet he says before lie can apply the remedy they must wait five months. He (Mr. Pellet) thottgitt that the *hole gentian was riot merely a political feel hag, for he believed there heier ivas a question in which there was less political feeling than that tiner He believed that a Tory and a banker of his acquaintailee ttlelold have been present that day, but that he was prevented by 111 , health, or he would have been there to:declare the great injury caused by these lawe.—(Cheers.) It was rather extraordi nary that the present State physician should on the 7th June last have preseed so strongly on the political party then in power to the immediate consideration of the Corn-lawn at order to prevent agitation, and yet as soon as he comes into power, one of his 6 st acts is to turn round upon the suffer lug community and tell them that that was not the time to give them the reined). He would appeal to a gentleroan who wrote a plea for the poor on the Corn-laws, and who had avowed himself as the Hoe. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel. Ile was a clergyman of the Church of England. If he had been one of the 1,500 Dissenting ministers that had met in Manches ter perhaps he would not be believed by the other party, but being one of the rristocraey of the country, he (Mr. P.) thought the landlords would not doubt what he said. He would take a short. extract from this plea. It was that part where the author quoted Scripture. " 4 He shall 'deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and pre sious shall their blood be in his sight!' Agreeably, there fore, both to the practice of the Legislature, and what is infi nitely more to be regarded, the will of Christ, should the weak and the poor be freed from those artific'al restraints upon their industry and that unproductive taxation of their food, which, without serving the country, inflicts suffering on them." This was the point to which their - attention ought to be led: S.nce the proposed change would have taken place, the coun try had lost something like 400,000/. out of its revenue, pro: voted it had been an Bs. duty instead of the sliding scale; that amount of duty therefore had gone into the pockets of spe culators. He would make another quotation irem the " Pica for the Poor:"—" Olyriads of the working classes, whose inte rests are especially at stake, have implored the Legislature not to vote them any public money, not to give them any unfair advantage over others, not to invade private property, but to break off the fetters which the law has laid upon their indus try, to restore them t eir national liberty—to 1)T -chase bread in return for the produce of their labour, to permit them to maintain their families by honest and laborious exertion." This he knew to be the opinion, not only of the trade, but even ef their continental friends—those who were forced to manufacture themselves cloth because we refused to take their corn. Many oft he ports are completely closed to the shipping, and although they Lad large quantities of corn in their ports, they had , !to employment for their shipping; but they IN ere manufacturing things which we could do infinitely better, if we were allowed to exchange our commodities. To show the fooltry of some of our 1, g.slative enactments, he would refer to 1634, when Sir H. Ripon was fined 4,0001. for converting. pasture land into arable.—(Great Laughter.) His per sonal experience told him that nearly all the want of employ ment that now existed arose from the operation of these had laws—( Hear, heas.)—ciippling our energies and destroying our commerce. France would be ashamed of it--( Hear, hear) —and would rebel against it; but England was an example of patience to other countries.—(Cheers.) He thought they never could be prosperous till they had a property-tax in this country, taxing she rich equally with the poor, and not as at present, where the laws that were made were merely an excuse for taxing the poor. He would conclude with another quota• tion from his favourite author :—" For no fault of theirs they are suffering the pain of hunger, with all the physical and moral evils which accompany it. God has provided fur them corn, not in their own crowded country, but in others less densely peopled. They have the ability to buy it by their labour, if the law f olods not; and the restoration of their natural right will invigorate every branch of British industry. Generously, therefore, at becomes th ; disciple of Christ, let every Christian reader overcome all party spirit, silence each ignorant prejudice, and trampling on the suggestions of a short sighted self-interest, labour with every friend of his country to effect that extension of our trade which, while it improves the condition of the working classes, will open the prospect of un bounded prosperity to the whole nation." Dr. BEDFORD seconded the resolution. The first. thing that arose in his mind was, how many Reverend Gentlemen were present there that day ? On looking round him, he could not see one.—(A laugh.) He thought those Reverend Gentlemen cared more lot the soul than the body. They followed not the example of the saviour of old, who first fed the people and then preached to them.—(Hear, hear.) They had tot; many •churches, and when he went into them he saw them empty, and he naturally inquired, is there not a congregation? It was because they had no clothes to appear'there in.—( Cheers.) He had great pleasure in seconding the resolution. Mr. R. RUSSELL rose to propose the third resolution:— " That this meeting is apprehensive that peat danger will arise, should the consideration of the Cotn-laws, recommended by the Queen to both House of Parliament, be postponed, and it therefore feels it to be an imperative duty to petition her Ma jesty not to prorogue Parliament until it shall have given full ct to her Majesty's gracious recommendation, and that for that purpose the following petition be adopted." He said a friend of his was dining in Manchester with a physician, who gave him an instance of the distress there existing. He was called in to a man who was dying. He was about to prescribe fer the man, when he said—Give me none of your physic, but give me something to eat, for me and my children. Your chil dren, said the physician, where are they ? He pointed to some steks,and three naked creatures crawled out, scarcely able to move. The physician was horrorstruck. He did all he could fur them, but in three days the man and his children were dead. This, in a country where plenty w-as to the reach of every man, yet he was prohibited from getting it even by the most. praiseworthy means, as God had commanded him, by the sweat of his brow. ( Cheers.) He thought this country was not a country of violence; if it were, they o cold not be at that time in their present peaceable condition. He thought that Sir Robert Peel must possess more of placidity than almost any human being living, for he could riot think how he could feel himself safe under existing circumstances.—( Cheers.) He could not think how he could dare to maintain the present Corn law, which was a protection to the landlord. The farmer could do without protection as well as the manufacturer.—( Hear, hear.) Therefore it was not a farmer's question, butt a land lord's question, and landlord's question only.—(Cheers.) Mr. CHARLES Booroon seconded the resolution. He trusted that on every available occasion they would address the Queen until they got rid of these accursed laws.—(Cheers.) The petition to the Queen was then read to the meeting. Mr. WALTON, a Chartist, rose to move an amendment to the resolution. He w s received with considerable uproar and. confusion. He said he agreed with a good deal that was con tained in the petition, but it was because he differed with a portion of it that he wished to move an amendment. The speaker then read an amendment, which was to the effect that nothing could be done till the representation was reformed. Ile would leave it to the good sense of the meeting whether that amendment should be received.—( Laughter.) They were not to suppose that he was a supporter of the Corn-laws.— ( Uproar.) It was ncnsense to say, "Go to Germany or Poland and other countries for bread, when there was plenty at home, if the country were well cultivated.—(Confusion.) According to the present arguments, they would take all their corn from the foreigner, and none from the English farmer.— (Great uproar.) What would be the result of that.—(Up roar.) The farmer would say 'to his labourer, " I have no employment for you ; you must go to the manufacturer.— ( Here the uproar was very great, in• the midst of which the speaker sat down.) Mr. WILSON, another Chartist, rose to second the amend insoit, and was met with considerable disapprobation on the pert of the meeting. He said, if he was situated as he would wish to be, he should have a nice cottage, and a few acres to cultivate.—(Great laughter, followed by uproar and confu sion.) He should like to be independent of every man.— ( Renewed laughter.) He attributed the state of distress into which the manufacturing districts were thrown ti machinery, which did the work of 100 men, and only the labour of one man.—( Uproar.) The first remedy was, to extend the fran chise ; but, until they got that, they would never get men to re present the interests of the country. —( The uproar was increased, and continued without intermission throughout the speaker's address. ) Mr. HEARNE thought the gentleman who spoke last was like the man with the goose which laid golden eggs.— (Laughter.) He ripped up the body of the goose, and lost the eggs ; and this was the way the} would have them proceed. Talk about machinery being injurious ! It was only injurious because it was fettered by bad laws.—( Hear, hear.) He thoroughly believed that the removal of the Corn-laws would be one great step towards the reduction of the burthen of the National Debt—(Cheers)--for, if they were to take the Corn-law monopoly off, the amount saved wodld pay the Na tional Debt, and they would have something to spare. Mr. A. PELLATT, Mr. J. WitsoN, and several others addressed the meeting, in answer to the proposer and seconder of the amendment. After a great deal of uproar, the amendment was put, which having been lost, the orrginal motion was put and carried amidst loud cheers. A motion was then made that the memorial be signed by the High Bailiff on the part of the meeting, and that Messrs. Pellatt, Russell, and others be appointed a deputation to attend the High Bailiff on the presentation. Thanks were then voted to the High Eailiff, and_the meeting quietly separated soon after four o'clock. PUBLIC NUISANCE.—About three months ago the house, No. 126, Strand, next to the Globe Newspaper Office, was pulled down, and during nearly the whole of that period the passengers in the street, and more parti cularly the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses, have been grievously annoyed by the dust raised in removing the rubbish. A hoard. has been erected all that time, the street consequently is greatly obstructed, and as far as can be seen from the operations going on the nuisance may continue for six months more. Only a few old men are employed in carrying out rubbishdaily,-as if .for the purpose of annoying the inhabitants. The District Sur. veyor, atd still more the authorities who preside over • the Duchy of Lancaster, are greatly to blame in winking at the nuisance. We have always understood that when permission was granted to erect a hoard for such a pur pose, the-shortest time possible, in a great thoroughfare like the Strand, was allowed for re-constructing the building. • - ACCIDENT ON THE GnEAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.—An accident attended with serious, and to one man fatal, consequences occurred on the Great Western Railway on Friday morning last. It appears that a gang of men has been employed during the 14. - eek in the Box Tunnel in removing the ballast from under the transoms for the purpose of supplying its place with faggots. On Friday morning about thirty-five of them were so en gaged, when an up-train and a down-train met in the tunnel, and two of the men being unable to get out of the way in time, were knocked down by the carriages. The deceased, John Burns, received some extensive in juries of the head of which he died in about an hour a 1..- terwards, and the other had his feet and hands frightfully lacerated,' and was otherwise injured. An inquest on the body was held on Saturday evening at the Three Tuns Inn, Stall-street, Bath, before the Coroner for that city, when a verdict was returned of " Accidental death, with a deodand of ls. on the Bright Star engine." On Friday afternoon, Mr. John Elwin, jun., of Wanstone, in the parish of St. Margaret's, near Dover, ob crveel a pigeon alight on one of his father's barns through ex haustion, and the poor meisenger of intelligence had not rested five minutes before two large hawks pounced upon him, w hen Mr. J. Elwin ran t o save t h e creature ' s l i fe ; however , ani mation was near'v extinct. The pigeOn proved to be a carrier cif denalches, and upon its right leg variogß parr; were found attached. Not having any direction to them, the memorandums could not be forwarded on. The bird had left Paris about five o'clock on Thursday, and - reached St. Margaret's the follow ing day about half-past two.—Kent Herald. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Sept. 20. Their Lordships -met at half-past three, when Lord Lowther was introduced by Lords Redesdale and Stuart Rothsay, and took the oaths and his seat. BRITISH SLAVE TRADING. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Britlab iind Foreign Anti-Slavery society, praying the attention of the House to the lamentable fact that Bri tish subjects were extensively engaged, and promoted the traffic, in slaves. He (Lord Brougham) had hoped that British subjects had long since retired from all participation in that trade; but the facts which he had to state would show that some of them were still engaged in, and seeking profit from, that infernal traffic. Various Mining Companies were formed in this country, which carried on their ope rations in Brazil and Cuba, working their mines by newly imported slaves from Africa, who were illicitly pur chased by the agents of these Companies, although such agents well knew that the importation of the slaves was illegal, contraband, and piratical. Whatever might be lawful to a foreigner in his own country, it would not be felony if he purchased a slave in any part of the British dominions. But if a B ritish subject so participated in slave trading, that is to say, by the purchase of a newly-imported slave, in a country where the importation was by law de dared to be Piratical—such British subjeCt could be seized in this country, tried, and convicted of felony. Three years ago he would be Puna. ed with death, but now he would be liable only to transportata;" fhr life, whether such trade in the country i n which the am ,vas done were legal or „ petitioners illegal. In the case referred to by tine pm : chase of slave the s only question would be, whether the newly imported was an act of slave-trading. 'The peti tion stated that officers in the army and navy were eng .4 ged in making such purchases, as agents of those Companies ; and. goods were manufactured in this country which were called coast goods, and it was known that they were employed only in the slave trade. He would not say that the mere sale of those goods, out and out, al though knowing the illegal use for whic. they were destined, was a felony ; but if, as was stated in the petition, British subjects in the Brazils and Cuba sold such goods, not out and out, but on condition of a price to s he paid proportionate to the profits of a slave trading adventure, then such per: were guilty of felony. The petitioners stated that it was notorious that fetters and shackles were made in this country for the purpose of being exportel to Brazil and Cuba, to be . employed in the slave trade. He had no hesitation. in saying that such a trade did not come within die provisions of the Slave-trade Abolition Act. They also represented that vessels were built in this country expressly for the slave trade, and one case of that kind was within his own knowledge. - The petitioners prayed the House to extend the provisions of the Slave Trade Consolidation Act of 1324, so as to prohibit all British subjects from dealing in slaves under any pretence what ever, or.they prayed that their.. Lordships would appoint a Committee to inquire into the . subject. 'The latter object he would support. Before sitting down he begged • to ask his Noble Friend the President of the Board of Trade whether there would .be any objection to lay en the table of the House the report of Dr. Madden who had been on the coast of Africa on a mission of inquiry ? Earl RIPON had not heard anything relating to the subject. The RepOrt alluded to would most likely be made to the Secretary of State, and not to the department over which he had the honour to preside. He had never beard of the statements con tained in the petition, and he trusted most sincerely that they were untrue. The Duke of WELLINGTON laid on the table the correspondence between the late Chancellor of the Exche quer and other parties relative to the warming and ventil lation of the new Houses of Parliament. It wasimportant that the papers should be considered as soon as possible. He would, therefore ; move that a Committe be appointed to sit on Thursday next.—Agreed to. Lord DE CLIFFORD gave notice of his intention to move, on Thursday, for copies of certain papers relating to India. Lord COTTENHAM said he had Paid on the table of the House three very important Bills. Al 'though it was necessary that they should be separate still the object of the whole of them was to establish Local Courts, so that greater facilities might be afrorded to the subject in obtaining justice. As it was now almost certain that they could not be proceeded with duricg the present Session, as they could not possibly re ceive the consideration which they imperatively demanded, he did not propose to ask their Lordships to proceed further with them before the recess. The Noble Lord concluded, by stating that he would brin , r forwsrd his Bills on an early day next Session. The House then adjourned, at a Quarter to Six, until Thursday next. HOUSE' OF COMMONS, Sept. 20. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'Clock. Sir J. Graham, for Dorchester, and Dr, Nichol, for Cardiff, took the oaths and their seat& MAYNOOTH COLLGE• Mfr. PLUMPTRE presented thirty-fiN,P petitions from Sheerness and other places in Kent, against any further grant to Maynooth College. RAJAH OF SATTARA. Dr. BO%YRING presented a petition, agreed to at a public meeting in Dublin, entreating the House to in- quire into the case of the Rajah of Sattara, and if he should be innocent to adopt means to restore him to his former authority._ _ PROPERTY-TA X ASSOCIATION. Mr. 'WAKLEY presented a petition from Henry Jones, Honorary Secretary to a newly formed Associa tion, called the London' Property-tax Association, in stitu:ed to promote a tax on property in lieu of the taxes of Customs and Excise. The petitioners stated that property was able to take care of itself, but poverty needed the protection of the law. He - therefore proposed a tax on property, and prayed the House to take the subject into consideration during.the present Session. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from 204 persons connected with agriculture at Milton Abbot, Devon, praying for the repeal of the ex isting duties on sugar. corn, and timber. CGRN-LAWS. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Abingdon, signed by 504 bakers, butchers, and o th e r inh a bit a nts of that town, praying for the abolition of the Corn-laws. The SPEAIc.E . R . informed the House that he had re ceived a report from the Election Petition Committee, stating that the sureties fi.r the petitioners were unexcep tionable in the cases of the petitions against the returns fijr the following places :—Thetford, Nottingham, Wareham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lyme Regis, Merthyr Tydvill, Harwich, Stafford, St. Ives, the County of Rutland, and New Windsor. THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from, he said, a most respectable individual, named M'Donald, com plaining of injury done to his property by the misconduct of an official assignee under the Court of Bankruptcy, and praying for redress. TITHE RETURNS. Mr. .TANNERS SUTTON moved for a return of the number of compositicna made under the Tithe Com position Act ia England and Wales, from the Ist Janu ary to the Ist July, 1841.—Agreed to. NOTICES OF MOTION.—EDUCATION. Mr. EWART gave notice that on an early day he should renew the motion of which he had given notice last Session, for an address to her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously pleased to order a report to be laid bcfme the House annually of the state and progress of education, such report to be prepared under the su perintendence of some responsible Minister of the Crown. IMPORT DUTIES. The TION. MEMBER also gave notice, that on Tuesday week he should propose a resolution to the effect that the principles laid down in the report of the Committee of the House —which sat last Parlia ment to consider if the import duties were essential to the preservation of the trade and commerce of the coun try, and to the beneficial employment of its inhabitants— ought to be adopted by any Government which sought to enjoy the confidence of the country.—(Cheers.) WAYS AND MEANS. Mr. WILLIAMS wished, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not in his place, to ask the Hon. Baronet the Secretary to the Treasury, if he could inform the House on what night the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed going into Committee on the Ways and Means? Sir G. CLERIC said the Ways and Means could not be discussed until the Supplies had been voted, and he apprehended it would be impossible to bring the ques tion before the House before FridaY, or perhaps Monday. POOR-LAW - S. Captain PECHELL, seeing the Secretary of State for the Home Department in his place, wished .to ask him on what day he proposed bringing in a Bill for the renewal of the Poor-law Commission ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that in the course of the even , ing notice would be given of the day on which the mea sure-was to be brought forward. CHURCH EXTENSION. On Sir G. CLERK moving the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Commit tee of Supply, M r . HAWES said he wished t o a s k t h e H on. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford if it was his intention to renew 'during the present Session the motion of which he had given notice last session on the subject of Church Extension, and if not whether he inten ded to bring forward the Parliament? question duringthe ensuing Se ssion of Sir R. INGLIS said it was not his intention, during the preset - it Session to renew the m otion on the sub ject of ChurCh Extension, of which he had only given notice last Session—(Hear, hear) —not having brought the subje c t bef ore t h e H ous e since June, 18,10. With re gard to next Session he thought it better to postpone any announcement on the subject until that Session should arrive. —(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) LORD CHA NCELLOit OF IRELAND. Mr. TILIFNELL, seeing the Honourable and Learned Member for Ripon in his place, wished to 110( the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth if there were any truth in the report that it had been intended to ap point that Right Hon. Gentleman Lord Chaneedor of Ireland. and if that intention had been abandoned ? Sir E. SUGDEN said, that perhaps he had betn - T answer that question. The statements which stated that he had been appointed to that office were, in a general sense correct, but the measures were not yet completed for the displacement of the former officer and the ap pointment Of his successor. Sir IZ. PEEL said there could be no doubt as to the intention of conferring the appointment in question on hi s Right Hon. and Learned Friend ; - and the ceremony of kissing hands , which had not yet taken place, was all that was wanting to complete the arrangement. *POOR -LAWS. Capt. PECIIFLI, said. v.,,1;!(1 : i great 7 nicnce to many Eon. Members to know abut da it. would be proposed to renew th e Poor-law Bill, the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir It. P ee l) , whom he hoped the his place, would affbrd them th at information saw ~.,,, Sir R. PEEL said he meant to • give notice that ~, should bring in the Bill to-morrow. A s he had before said, he intended to.resspose sic alterat.on whatever in the provisions of the Bill, and as he •lieved that no advantage would be derived from disetiSsi,•m under pre - _ sent circumstances, he intended to include Bill in the general yearly Bills. CORN-LAWS. Mr. OTWAY CAVE said he would take' the °pi portunity of entering his humble protest" ag sin : the Poor law the course which the majority ot the 1-1 -` )° l under the guidance of the lion. Baronet at the broil o the present Administration, had thought proper to i 'air,s u s e t with regard to the Corn laws. He protested aglnil, that course, because he hewed it would be considereo the working classes at the present crisis as mar" alike by inhumanity, by impolicy, and by inconsistency, and when he coupled the course pursued, with the el -- pressions used by a Noble Duke in another place , ' t° the effect that their misery was in a great in' sure their own fault ; that in this country such a state of things prevailed that any working re .. t h ' with common honesty and common prade"lo might secuso to himself a ceiveteney—althou oh would not say with the Honotirat:e Member bury that such conduct and langtOge was enotsgital for Fins. to drive the working classes mad, • vet he would say that he •feared they would drive them to h a' er spair. He coupled the expression -With at" utteredon a different occasion by his Noble Friend the Member for Liverpool; who stated that he th‘lllot ono present Corn-laws in no way connected with•the P si r o s bi o distress. Such a statement, he thought, hig sett Friend would find very difficult to - make • the people of Liverpool believe, although proceetll4 from so high an authority. He also thought that people would be exceedingly grieved when they Te?•tr the assertion of tho Right Hon. Baronet the *O c t , for Dorchester ; namely, that high prices w e re' ss b e maintained at a ll -. times, • and' at • all ba zar When the working classes s . ead such expressions', allf coupled wi:th it the fact that I..`eY had shut the d o e f o e the House of Commons against a starving poop l . e it five months, it needed no prophe't to predict • s o - uo . results Would ensue, or what ti:isende nt' I fe prevail throughout the approachine• winter. .rot thought he might' say, moreover, that it was itt e°ll „ s „ i d c ia in the Right Hon. Baronet to ask for this dela;.' 7 an the month of April last, when the Noble Is°l - ger nounced his measure respecting the Budget, the ti i r nourable Baronet said that even one Months de', , d would, in reference to the Corn-laws, be an intolerat n evil, and yet, when three or four months had been atba to that period, he still asked for fdur or five I ne' ;,ly. longer. He could not but lament the inferences w h i ce s he was afraid might be drawn by the starving and s„, 11 for ing manufacturing classes throughout the kinga ° ' - s sor such conduct.—(Hear.) He thought he alreanY been the totteriog of that Holy Alliance which had • cemented between the Chartists and the Conseil's!) tives.—(A laugil from the Ministerial ben eb , c Did Hon. Gentlemen never hear of Nottlrbtl diss Ile thought the working classes would very so ar ' r ol cover that it would Lave been better to have surr sof lukewarm friends than bitter opponents—that t'co would curse the triumphs which in many i,t soynsall t '' they had been enabled to achieve, and It tt o e r i t . repent changing King Log fur the that Many persons supposed before he came into office w e the Right Hon. Baronet was in possession of s°lost panacea by which to cure the public distress' .e this idea had been conferred by the lat:!;g ti is of the Right Honourable Baronet himself. I n r i l famous Tamworth speech he asked if a rtO phySician would give his advice unless he w,lre called in. The sentiment of the Right ll" 1-4— bitt' was the opposite of generous and disintersested, had even such as it was he had not acted up to it. l ic id ed been regularly . called ; in, he had regularly 1 3 t .e -. his - fee—(" No," from the Conservative bencW and in proportion to the hopes and expectation `the: he had excited in the.minds of the people would be t; tic ,. anger and . disappointment at his present eon", ioss There was another question on which he was par` ot , larly anxious to be informed by the Right Hon. lia r° „ c at He begged to know whether the present GoVernl-re would persevere in bringing in the Bill relating t ° t ba gistration in Ireland, which had been introduced h.c.45. . Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire last os sion? He (Mr. 'Cave) wished that it fell to s b ,e Honourable Gentlemen abler than he was to put t be question, but in the absence of one more competent, fie conceived himself bound to do so.—(Hear, hear.) that regretted to say that he could not partake confidence which a Noble Lord (Lord John sell) who sat near him, said he had in the lib eralv a , of the sentiments which the present Cabinet catertailleii, with respect' to Ireland. He could not participate such confidence when he saw holding the office of 1 Chancellor, the Noble Lord who declared that the 6;0 were " aliens in blood, 'aliens in language, and alieDsl;, religion." lie could not share in that confidence when ' knew that the Noble Lord, who had brought in a disfrs ll o f chising Bill for Ireland, held high place sit the coulle tis ia the enief of the present Administration. He ee " s ,s not have perfect reliance on the stastements of 01 %1 Noble Lords with regard to Ireland, lid their lib feelings towards it. He believed they hate, -I I re land 'l a , a holy, a pure, and a perfect hatred.—(" C . h, oh ! fr u a e l the Ministerial benches.) They thought t: at Isel in a !Ind the Irish were what they were described t° l39 d ss eertaJl class of newspapers. Not knowing Irs",," to we ll a s Le (Mr. C.) did, they • gave cred en, ' e trY every idle ilimour circulated about that and, above all, thoe rumours respecting elections' t ot they thought it right 0 take the power of election Is of their hands. Of the p:ivate and personal cri of the two Noblemen who filh:i the stations of Secret2haract y, 53 - and Lord Lieutenant of irelanO, the -tight Iron'olo ronet could not entertain a higher opinion than h e ha t ' C.) did • but, at the same time. 2. , e must say t add no Gentleman on either side of thy' House ''d ° or venture to assert that they were either e.'crleri e° fro practised politicians. The inference the people 11' ° l ' d be, land would draw from those two appointments W° that two politicians unaccustomed to managing l ju d i cir affairs had been sent over to that country to " trY . 'prentice hands"—to. make an caperimentum 1 .0 pore v il i.—(Hear, hear, hear.) However we ll ~ a r f,- tentioned those Noblemen might be towards Ire add still an impression would and did exist, that they n'tt,be be controlled, and their best efforts frustrated, by f o g Lord Chancellor and the Noble Lord the S ec retarV ioa , the Colonies. Therefore he entreated the Pight I trig Baronet to give him a clear and unequivocal a nswer W oo , question. For let him tell the Right Hon. Gentleiliesf if the people .of Ireland did not receive a c h 'i a lc and unequivocal answer on that head, they would t themselves justified in having immediate recourseola political agitation as the least of two evils. If the of that country remained perfectly quiet, they theirs told told that they had no grievances—that it was s ' of agitating demagogues . who put the existenc'the grievances into their hem's. If, on the contrarP „old got up an agitation against their grievances, they ° s ot be told by English Minister.; that they would not g' o s• to clamour what they denied to justice. So levies Ministers continued that policy abroad, which bad isf acted on by the late Noble Seefstary for Foreign tio a fairs, and which had wrung a reluctant. adisa i l ow e even from that Noble Lord's political opponents, at h t , and abroad''-Lo long as they continue t h a t eour se ' s ith long would: Ireland be proud of her connection teal England.—(Hear.) . If, on the contrary - , they 3 10 1: the evils of slaVery—if they attempted to isipnse • a i sti' degradation on Ireland—the Irish people we `lid b e • o l f se fled before God and man in raising the statka rd peal.—(Hear.) 10 4 Sir IL PEEL was understood to , say he shOti r tlO leave to confine his answer to the questions , 4 obe r Hon. Gentleman to one subject. He (Sir s' the Peel) certainly did not identify' himself with Lo rd Bill brought forward by his Noble Friend ( . 0 - 0 sic Stanley). With his Noble - Friend and the I ! If he should leave it. He should be eiceccll;4,l glad to see the admitted errors connected the the system of Irish registration corrected ; but, O r ect other hand, he should be unwilling to attempt tdenrated those errors by any limitation of the franchise gil d be to the people.—(Hear, hear.) His endeavour we ll ai re: to reconcile these two objects, and such, he was ;40 `r was the intention of his Noble Friend. He i ,"" a ies, to reconcile the correction of admitted in the registration, with the preservation eithee existing franchises or others of a similar e xtent. 11 bjen no intention to bring forward any measure on th e s- t s‘e at present, but he meant, with his Noble Friend , If it into consideration, and the House would find , 00 0 " measure was brought forward, that they had attempted to reconcile these two objeci.s.—(He BOARD OF ORDNANCE A.ND TOP MIRALTY. . f th' / Sir C. NAPIER begged to call 'the 'attention to Right Hon. Baronet to the administration of Board of Ordnance. Hitherto it 'had 'been " 0 customed to permit naval officers -to sit _0 possible to carry on business without them. st.le •co rd, and lie could not conceive how it , ; 0 present practice would be attended - injury, and he thought it was paying averi. i o.4 at s h e fra riv i d u l s 3tlle • c ompliment to the navy, that, oat of 600 CaP t t i, - 0 P and 200 Admirals, many of them having seats 1 1 House, not one could be found capable of e~" intrusted with that duty. Ile must his the h r ead et t of t ii lt e t a ISO Board been a coivfilialikidinihraadltys pptrietssat thought it would not be more absurd to mak e had l LordChancellor or A rc hbi s h op of CanterburY-V,---t)be h , er)—than to place a gentleman at the 1)0 0 °„e` Admiralty who prob a bl y cou l d not dist i ngu i s h bt . : 00 i a Ine -of-battle-ship an d a frigate.—(Laughter.) "7, yin complain e d o f t h at Adm i ra l s and 3 officers. p 1, should h ave to go u stairs, hat in '' .l:l 'er° to solicit th e rewards of service of those who quite r incapable of appreciating what their services We r ROBERT PEEL said that the Gallant se taro was the' t not quite correct . ins , stating have a Board 0 naval officer at the Admiralty the invariable practice. He did not intendt ho i c ) nter into the discussion of the general question. buos elieved the Board, as constituted, rencral .5 " gave t, faction,—(" No, no, no," very em tic^ll.- from Napier, •I • P. 4 " which occasioned much laeghter.) „ No .c 611 1 „ .. Ca • P • Captain ...F.cnw, and Captain PLumitionV.,-,," piaintsl that the Board should he constituted Wu • naval officer. r''' s cur 11. lIATIDINGE said he had sat live or si% : , „so at the Board without a naval officer. As to the Ori' !u- )0' he c ou ld on ly sa y that lie believed it wo uld be ve r : l o .4 d jurious . not to have a military person P lace- 40 ' it.—(Hear, hear.) He could not see how a could know anything whatever of that departntenco In answ'er to a question NIA() Lord PALME I ',, - s sel' i by Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, respecting the employed upon the coast of Africa, the Nn i ! e v said he had every reason to- b e lieve taa vessels were tLe cs .iiloved t h ut ~.0214 niff o as !F ztiwmation cc) " Iv; Ho had, ii ever, .sunt to make toe inquiry lams Board of Admiralty. v ssht Mr. FIELD EN wished •to know from ay - 40 Honourable - Baronet the Member f • TanlW" t " 01 r. h~ le MORNING i.3UN : %t `/".!