The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

stirENING ED/1104. MEETING AT MANCHESTER. (Abridged from the Manchester GwynMtn-) CORN, SUGAR, AND TIMBER DUTIES. A requisition, signed by no fewer than thirteen hun dred firms and individuals, merchants, bankers, traders, and other inhabitants of the borough of Manchester, was last week presented to the Mayor of Manchester, re questing hint to convene a public meeting of the inha bitants of this borough, for the purpose of expressing their opinion at the present crisis. In the course of Monday it Was generally known that the Chartists, as 'usual, had determined to muster all their force, with a view of defeating. the object of the meeting ; and that they had resolved upon attempting to place one- of their own , party in the chair. Chartist -placards were posted - 'citithe walls, and carried by.men through the streets of the . borough, headed " Beware of Whig treachery." It celled on " the'men of Manchester" to be at their posts; let.. their motto be, "The Charter and no Surrender ; down, down with the Whigs 1" ..• The • meeting was held yesterday at the appointed -hour ; but the - requisitionists were admitted by ticket, •- from a quarter past teii o'clock, for the purpose of hold ing_tfmeeting to consider the resolutions to be proposed 'at the public meeting—an admirable precaution against the violence orthe.,Chartists in taking the chair 1!y force. 1 3 1 , -eci•.;ely at eleven o'clock, by order of the Mryor, the - doors were thrown open, and the Mayor, NEILD, Esq. having taken the chair, amidst loud and continued applause, said that, in compliance with the most numerously signed requisition ever presented to the - authorities of Manchester, he had convened this meeting_ upon a subject of the greatest importance to every one of ns—a subject that perhaps could scarcely be surpassed in importance by Any that could be brought before us. He had taken th'e eliair, according to the power vested in him by law--(Hear)—he wished to allow fair and free discussion.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman KAY moved the first resolution. He said he was not thereon the present occasion to say ,that we were- obliged to the Ministry for having brought these questions before us ; because he was one of those who thought that Ministers ought to have propounded these questions much earlier—(Hear,' hear)—and that it was the people alone - who could settle this question, whenever it was to be decided ; and that if the people were wanting to themselves on occasions like the •present, when assembled for the purpose of carrying the voice of thousands, ay, of millions, to the places where those abominabli laws ought to be altered, they had only themselves to blame if they let these opportunities pass. —(Applause.) He observed, in the whole course of the legislation of this country, one course was steadily,.pur wed by the aristocracy, viz., to benefit themselves at the expense of all other classes of the community, and to. be entirely regardless or the misery, destitution, .and want they had forced on the people, provided they could get into their own pockets for their own purposes the large sums which they obtained from us, by the laws they had passed in a manner ten times more odious than any direct taxation they could impose.—(Applause.) How ever they might attempt to practise that maxim Which they had learned from ancient times, of dividing, and !he.': by governing us,—on this question at least, where bur bellies and pockets were concerned, there was no difference of opinion amongst us.—(Great applause.) He tunclnded by moving the first resolution. Sir Ticomis POTTER Was received with loud and long theering. lle agreed in every word that his friend Mr ay had uttered, and he considered this a most momen to„ gad important meeting.,- He --had just come from London having been travaling.all night in order to be , . present, • ft ,:k-avould have travelled three nights to meet • them.—(Cheers.) could assure them, .that there was 'rent anxiety in London to bear the result of this meeting. He was in the House of Lords at seven o'clock the night before, and there - heard - the Earl of Ripon enumerating the urospects of the country, and making it out that we w ,-; i tt 4, progressive state of improvement.---(Hear.) „,,,d over an account of the exports, and made it . out that the last ,-oar's exports were fur greater than in there was a great "hear, hear, city ether year ; and the.. —(A voice—" Exports / wai t." amongst their Lordsh;:q. machtt:GrY.") AY, machinery am: 'Val too. WhY, be did not ber,•,we' there were a dozen Peers in _ he House /hat understood 'anything about the subject. The pre sent was the caw,e of every class, of Tories, Whigs, 'Ha ttie:4ls, and Chartists ; and he hoped every class would unite moat zealously in carrying these resolutions and :heir memorial to the foot of the Throne.--{Hear.) The • j a w of the country was in their hands ; and if they only • -spoke put, and spoke loudly, they would have these griev ances re 'd,:essed. He knew that the great bulk of the po pulation was sutferino•,• ' and, in fact, every class was mg ' feting ; but it W..:s the duty of those in more competent • circumstances to IN..: 1 ( to the working classes.—(Hear.) Ile was told that on .I;:iday last there were 4,000 or 5,000 horses in Hyde-park, with splendid equipages ; and he did not deny that these people had a right to spend their money as they - liked . ; but he thought they should first that. their fellow-creatures and fellow-subjects were rul e j - ft a state of extreme destitution.—(Cheers.) The f act w ,.ls, the people of London were ignorant of our con dition hei ; and, unlese we spoke out loudly, our griev ances would of be . known,mgch less redressed.—(Cheers. - The Rev. SCHOLEFIZLD was received with loud hisses and groa.:!s, and crie§ of " You're a Tory Chartist," which lase for some etioutes.—The Mayor begged - that • Mr. Scholefield shouh: be heard.—Mr. Scholetield again tried to speak, but the ;`..ooting• conti nued. :He said, if-I could be of service to ,he cause - that is my reason for being' here—(Whisth::7g* and hisses.) You want cheap bread, you want cheap ttiffee, and all the necessaries of life you want cheap. -You . oant &hour, and to be rewarded for your labour.—(Renewe.. 4 hooting,. whieb preie. - 2ted the remainder of the sen ' - tenee from being heard.) The Chairman begged that Mr. St hdefield should be he: rd.—Whistles and groans.) Mr. SATI )LEFIELD—Your Cha;_rman has said; I am to be heard; but, as you will not bear me speak, I will read the amendment I have got to propose.—(" Go and read it to Nightingale.") He then read it, but the noise was so great that it was impostzible to hear a single sentence.—Mr. ELIJAH DIXON nevi' presented . himself amidst hisses and cries of " Put hint . down," " Tory tool," " JNightingale," &c. The Chairmn en deavoured to obtain. a hearing for him, but in vain. • The amendment was lost by an overwhelming majo- I rity. 'Lie original resolution was carried amidst loud Applause. • Mr. Alderman Tr,YALKER then presented himself to move the second resolution ; but the uproar was so great • that ' he could not at first be heard.—The MAYOR put it to the meeting whether Mr. Walker should be heard, and nearly every hand was held up for him.—Mr. WALKEu then said,., it had been stated . in the House of :Lords that the Corn laws were passed in order to ren der.us independent of any other nation for our corn. He confessed he , had a suspicion that the real reason for supporting these laws was to keep up rents and the • price of corn, and to render the landlords independent of the people. The landlords could fall back on their resources ; they had resources which would not only en able them to live in affluence and splendour, b u t, if fully developed, would enable them to compete with the fo reign grower. Surely we were not to be taxed to sup port an indifferent system of agriculture. He knew suf ficient of agriculture to he aware that good agriculture in almost every county in England Was the exception, and that bad agriculture was the rule.--(Hear.) He be lieved it was again in our power to repeal these laws— (Cheers)—if, at the, next election, we supported such .men only as would advocate that repeal, then, and not till then, should we obtain it ; and, if we did not thus act, we should have no right afterwards to complain of being unjustly taxed. If the Corn-laws were repealed, it would amazingly increase the constituency of Man chester, inasmuch a>s it would enable many now liming in houses to become la householders. , Mr. Alderman KERshaw cordially rose to second the resolution, which his friend, Mr. Walker, had proposed. BelieVing, as he did, in its affirmations, he hoped that the meeting would pass it unanimously, and with seek -mation. There could not be a doubt that there was great misery and . suffering in this district, produced . by these suicidal laws, which denied the right of the people to exchange the produce of their industry for the pro ductions of other countries. Was there any distress in ' this country ? Was there any misery aMongour work .; ing classes ,?--(" Yes.") Was there any misery among .our merchants and manufacturers ? Could spinners sell :their yarns at a profit ? Could manufacturers dispose of their goods at cost. price ? Were the: cali co pr i nters e myloyed ?—(`.` No. ") Was the dyer better off ? Th e re was misery and distress, such as-' •he never remembered during a comparatively long • hie which he had spent amongst them.—(Hear, hear.) For nea rly a quarter of a century had he been engaged in ass i st ing to conduct a large trade, but he never knew sines l i ke t h e present.—(Hear, hear.) What caused this . . distress ? The resolution stated that it was the conse quence of suicidal laws—laws which sapped the founda ton of our rosperity—laws which were monstrously laws unjust which prohibited our exehano'ing our call - _ noes Ni,,th the people of other countries, who would send us in reta co tton, r u r s n e: ,sugar, coffee, and every neces saryrn of life.- - . -- (APP. - „ ) They would not be content to , have the prosperity of this great country hindered for the benefit of a class ; that the trade and commerce of this country should bec ome i locked up in monopoly. He trusted that they would show that they understood their .own interests, and that they w ere now prepared to state the Legislature what they wanted. Ministers , had 1..3 duty was proposed a fixed duty of Ss.. but he said a fixed a filed injustice.—(Hear.) But he was disposed to act on the.philosophical principle, that if he could not get all he want e d, he would take all he could get ; but he would not give up his cl a im to the wh ole. He had an account relating to an examination which had been made into the condition of the w or ki ng p o pulation, of this district. It related to 10,132 families, comprising 45,591 Of these th ere were, h an d-l oom weaver s, Englipersots:. sh, 62, families, and 1,812 children ; of Irish, 924 families, and 2,4:73 children ; making a total of hand-loom weavers of families, and 4,485 children. Of English, in various trades, 5,105 families, and 12,629 children ; of Irish, 3,47 t: families, and 8,716 children—making a total o f E ng li s h fir lies of 8,581, and 21.345 children. Novi'. to show what ,vas ,;he condition of these families, he would read to them another-;able. Of children under 12 years Hof age, and dependent, thb:e were 15,856 ; children under 12 years of age, partially emp:,ived, 415 ; ditto, fully em ployed, 629 : more than 12 years o: age, dependent, 4,275; partially employed, 1,526 ;Ifully employ Ad, 3,229 ; heads of, families out ,61 employ, 2,149 ; partially employed. 4,793 ; in full employment, only I,43o.—(hear, hear.) Another invtigation was made, which re l a t e d to 2,0 00 families, hazing 5,565 children, being 8,866 . persons, whose weekly earnings were 5281. 10s. 100., giving an Warne of Is. 2 , 14 per head per week for 8,866 persons, f0r.2,000 families an average of ss. Sid. a w ee k f or filleUfausily. Another investigation was made in order td coned this, if correction were needed. It related to ':,24oolTother families, and 8.136 persons, whose weekly ificonse amounted only to 6281. 10s. 10d.. giving an average of . bnl y . 6 1s- 6 t per head per week, or 6s. 31d. per family gis:lee— some districts of the town, the people, in uence of their poverty, had been feeding upon Loose who w( 3111 G 1 give them credit, in the hope of better i days. The poor had not been able to pay their debts ; and in district No. ',there were 50 provision-dealers who ,• stated they had made bad debts to the amount of 6,250/. —(Hear)-50 others in Newtown district, 6,2451. (Hear)-50 others in Deansgate had made bad debts to the amount of 5,051/. ; and 50 others in the neighbour hood of Portland -street, had made bad debts to the amount of 6,118/. So that these 200 provision -dealers had made bad debts to the amount of 23,644/. When they saw this, and looked on the enormous tax paid to the landlords, let every one make it his business to do what he could for the repeal of these laws. His firm, conviction was, that if we had the repeal of the Corn-laws we should then have prosperity in this manufacturing district ; and that it would also benefit those who at present could not see that the agricultural and commercial interest must rise or fall together. Sir T. Porrea said, having taken , an active part in this investigation, stated by his friend Mr. Kershaw, he could vouch that it was true.—(Cries of " We know it.") He could assure them there were 2,000 families that had not a bed to lie on ; and they . might depend on this statement. The Mayon then put the resolution, which passed almost unanimously, there being only six hands held up against it. Mr. T. BAZLEY, jun., moved the third resolution. Ministers had proposed changes of a very moderate character ; but, as far as they went, we might venture to approve of them, and be thankful that at last sound principles were recognised by Ministers of State in both Houses of Parliament. He confessed that his sympa• thies and expectations were with the present Ministers, and not with that political party who had enacted the obnoxious laws we were now met to oppose.—(Ap plause.) The time of the Legislature had been con sumed in party conflicts and petty struggles, and the great class interests had been paramount, while the great body of the people had been held in slavish subjection.— (Hear, hear.) That was an astounding fact, that these class-sections taxed us to a greater extent than Govern ment did for the exigencies of the State.—(Hear, hear.) We were compelled to pay for our food and our colonial produce from 50 to 100 per cent. more than we could obtain these comforts of life for in the open markets of the world—(Hear)—while, as we were the cheapest producing manufacturers on the face of the earth, we sell to others our labour at a cheaper rate than they could obtain our produce for in any other quarter. Was it just, then, that our working classes should continue to be placed in that state of thraldom, and they and their families starve while capital was daily decreasing ? (Cries of " No, no.") He observed that in the House of Lords, Lord Ashburton had declared that protection was a kind of component part of the British Constitution and that from the time of the Norman, conquest , to the present moment, protection had been, the rule of the Legislature.—(Hear.) Now, he would tell his Lordship that the Normans robbed our Saxon forefathers of the soil—(Hear)—and that the menials of an adventurer became the lords of the land ; and then he would give his Lordship joy of such authority.—(Laughter.) But, for the Duke of Wellington to declare in his place that the taxes on corn were levied upon the people to render us independent of other countries, in the event of a war, was a policy much more to be deplored than the other. —(" True,' r " We'll not erect a monument to him." Let us buy freely of every land—(Hear, hear)—and, by our commercial intercourse with the world, make every man our friend, and then we should not need to contemplate war.—(" Hear," and cheers.) Until our commerce could be placed upon the solid foundation of exchanging one substantial comfort of life for another, we should have fluctuations and repeated intervals of distress, with perhaps an occasional gleam of prosperity, only to be succeeded by an increased depth of suffering. —(Hear.) Let us struggle then for our rights ; for our labour ought to procure for us food and every comfort; it was ordained by the Almighty that it should be so.— (Applause.) Will you not help us to open our doors, and let the tide of commercial and social prosperity flow in upon us ?—(Cries of " Yes," "We will,' and great cheering.) Mr. J. B. SMITH, President of the Manchester Cham ber of Commerce, was greeted with loud cheers. He said he had much satisfaction in seconding the resolution just proposed, because it involved an important principle, which should never be lost sight of'. He held that no -- -;slature could justly impose any taxation, except for Le, of revenues — (H ear.) All protective duties a th •e u re pu n rp o u th a ing more or less than legalised robbery.— v"eiriear"t and on cheers.) The measures proposed by Go nmen are a step the way to the abolition of mono polies, and as such he accepted them with pleasure— (Hear) —but we must never lose sight of the question till the monopo ly was altogether abolished.—(Cheers.) Monopolists had always been great prophets of evil, when their monopolies were to be touched. He remem bered its being prophesied, that if the slave trade were abolished, Liverpool would become an insignificant fish ing town.--(Laughter)—but what was Liverpool now ? Again, when it was proposed to abolish the East India Company's monopoly, Committees of the Houses of Lords and Commons were held, before whom witnesses of the first character, merchants of the first eminence, came forward to show the great evils that wogs follow from the opening of the trade to the East Indies and China to the whole of our merchants, instead of eon fining it to the Company. The East India Compeny held a special Court, at which !hey solemnly passed this extraordinary resolution :—" That no addition could be made to the trade of the East Indies and China — (Laughter)—that the Company had suffereel loss in at tempting to extend it ; and that the opening of the markets of the outports to trade would be no other than ruinous transfer of it into new channels, to the destruc tion of many costly establishments, and the beggary of many thousand industrious individuals."—(Laughter.) — Notwithstanding all these fearful forebodings, the trade Wag opened, and what were the consequences ? .At that time the trade to India and China amounted in value to 1,874,0001. Hear what dreadful ruin followed the open ing of the trade 1 In 1839 our exports thither amounted to 5,600,0001.--(Hear, hear, hear.) When they heard the Duke of Wellington telling them, that, if the Corn laws were repealed, we should all be starved—(Laughter) —they could refer him to that resolution of the East India Company. If they heard the Duke of Bucking ham bemoaning the fate of the poor agricultural labourer who got Bs. or 9s. a week now, and lamenting how much i' s e would be injured by a Company.—(Laughter.) The getting cheap bread, let them " reimensber the East In.'. had been throwing out all monopolists in Parliamen: t they had caught a great sorts of (oats ;and they thoug. l . whale arming the saints.—(Lau.: hter.) The taxa tion on corn and provisions alone am2 unted (accord ing to the evidence of a man who was patter quali fied to give evidence on that question than any other person, Mr. Deacon Hulme) to more than fifty millie." B per annum.—(Hear, hear.) This taxation was levied in a manner which we did not see. When a fixed duty was levied upon corn, we could see the operation, and the ex tent of it ; but, as had been said, a fixed duty was a fixed i ijustice, and he hoped this was only a step, and it would depend upon the people whether it were only a step, to the total abolition of the fixed duty.—(Cheers.) But look at the tax on sugar. According to the present law, we could have none but British colonial sugar, as the duty of 7d. per pound on foreign sugar was quite prohi titory.—(Shame.) The consequence of this was, that our colonies not growing enough sugar for us, the price rises ; and last year it was so high as to put it out of the cower of the mass of the country to buy it. He had in his pocket a memorial sent to him per Great Western steamer, from some unknown hand, and which he had received only on Saturday last. It was the memorial of Joshua Leavitt to Congress, praying for the adoption of measures to secure an adequate market for American wheat. This memorial was presented to the American Congress, and by them ordered to be printed. He stated in this memorial the astounding fact, that a large tract of country, comprising about half a dozen States, forty years ago had only a population of 50,000 persons, and now the population was 2,970,000 people.—(Hear, hear.) There was an increase in forty years ! These people grew nothing but agricultural produce ; they were all in want of our manufactures ; but they had nothing to give in exchange for them hut their corn and timber ; and Mr. Leavitt complained, that, for want of markets for their produce, they were unable to consume various comforts supplied by manufactures, &c. He said, " The best authorities agree, that a very large pro portion of the misery which we hear of among the the tory children is the result of the Cornslaws—(Hear)— first diminishing the employment and the wages of the parent, and then raising the price of his provisions, until sheer want drives him to sacrifice his children for bread. Thus, while we (Americans) are'' wanting goods (not, indeed, the necessaries of life, but the comforts of civilized and refined life), our national revenue falling short, and our granaries bursting with m poor on i p: s r t i i s n h o i t n s g of with our hunge r. —(Hear.) nature, the enlig htened abundance, En g l an d' s m ill s are standing still, and her —(Hear : Su rely, )thecom and philo sophic be nevo l ence w hi ch reeards human happi ness as the great obj ec t o f human socie ty and government, re quires a faithful examination of na tions." These wer e most enlarged this system by all and philanthropic views, and he rejoiced to see them taken b the other side the Atlantic. Wheny our brethren on he saw our ships leaving our ports, not laden wi • th our manuf actures, with freights far more p rec ious—w ith but our tools, with, our machinery, and with our indus t rious artisans,—he within confessed that his hea r t sank him.—(Hear.) When they called to mind the atrocities of Louis the Fourteenth in the revocation of the edi ct and the banishment from France o f e industriousof Nantes, Protestant manufacturers, wh o were drive n to asylums in England, where th e y l a i d the t)'seek founda tion of our manufactures ; wh en we reflected u pon the atrocities of the Duke of Alv a , w h o d rove the vers from Flanders also to seek an asyl um here • wea se views these acts with disgust and horror. i3ut e I n e r t should we say to the laws of our ow n country whic h t banish our industrious artisans, to seek in foreign land s that which they were denied in their own ? It was true they were not driven out by the sword, or the strong hand of persecution • but they were effectually d r i ven away by laws which pro hibit them from exchanging the products of their industry . in their own land, for the produce and the food grown in other countries.—( Hear.) He believed that, at present, we only knew one portion of the pro= posed financial measures ; the Custo.ns' Bill was not yet brought in—(Hear)—and he was happy to hear that tfie Customs' Bill would contain provisions for doing away with all prohibitions.--(Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) He knew that by the law at present acid an atrocious law it was—beet; mutton, veal, pork, cows, oxen, sheep,. and lambs, were altogether prohibited from coming into this country. This prohibition, he understood, was no longer to continue ; the Government were determined to abolish it—(Great cheering)—and, therefore, he hoped, when their whole measure of commercial reform was known, it would be something well worth contending for. —(Loud and long cheering.) Mr. Alderman COBDEN was loudly cheered. He con sidered that we had made, since we last met, an immense advance in the great question of free trade. We were doomed, in this world, to move forward step by step ; there was no other way of getting on.; there was a be ginnings a middle, and an end, in all things ; and he hoped that we were getting into the middle of this, ques tion now. But we must not pause there we must not give up our principles, because other men had agreed wrK !. - 11 iota i 4.4 THE SUN, LONDON, , TRUBSD AiY. MA V 20; It. to do some part of our business for us ; we must stick to principle, and do our business also for ourselves. And times were coming which he believed would be very favourable to those who would stick to their principles, and who depended upon the people to support them. The Whig Ministry had not the power to offer us the instalments they spoke of ; nor was he•one of those who would sanction the calling out for instalments, when he had a just debt to claim. The Whig Ministers had not the power to offer it ; but they say, ." We'll fight alongside to enable you to get it ?" Were the lapilowners likely to give it us ? Had the Duke of Buckingham or the . Duke of Richmond said, " We'll give you an Bs. fixed duty ?" No ; and on the very day that this was..pro posed by Ministers; corn was payini , 235. Bd. a quarter duty at the Custonis at Liverpool.—(Hear.) That was the - law that the Duke of Blickingham and Sir James Graham would stand by, and they and their order were stronger than the Whig Government ; therefore. we were not in a situation to accept this instalment ; but we say to our debtors who dispute the debt, " We will go on proving our debt before the .people of Eng land ; and, if we work as we ought, we shall not only get an Bs. fixed duty, but 20s. in the pound."—(Cheers.) We were as much entitled to immediate repeal as to an Bs. fixed duty. They talked of " protection ;" but he wanted to ask what protection that labouring man had got whom he saw before him ?—(The Man—" None at all, Sir.")—What protection have twenty millions of the people of this country, who depend, and whose families depend, upon their daily labour for subsistence ? He would subscribe 1,0001. to the Manchester Infirmary, if any one of those noble bread-taxers could prove be fore an impartial jury that the labourer of this country had, or could have, the slightest legislative protection.— (Hear, and cheers) " Protection !" whenever they heard that word again, let them remember what was said by Col. Thompson, who found out those things years before us,—" Protection always means the robbing of somebody else."—(Laughter.) Ay, and in our case in England, it meant the robbing of the labouring classes for the benefit of the landowner—(Hear)—the taking out of the pockets of the poorest of the poor, to put into the already gorged pockets of the richest of our landed aristocracy—(Hear) the slicing off one-third of the bread-loaf of the poorest widow and poorest orphans in this town—that was the meaning of " protection." (Cheers.) The man who had already his estates, which never could be stolen from him, was not content with his acres, but must dip his finger into the cupboard of the poor hand-loom weaver.—(Applause.) They would tell the people that the object of those who wanted to repeal the Corn-laws, to put downthis bread -tax, was to reduce wages. He would, jnst ask . the working men present—had the bread-tax kept up their wages ? —(" No, no," and great cheering.) If it had not kept up their wages, then how had it protected the workmen and labourers? No—they had no protection for their labour; they sometimes had been foolish enough to ask for it ; thinkinc , that, because the landowners had protected themselves, they would protect the working men. He remembered petitions being presented to the House of Commons from the hand-loom weavers, praying the Legislature to regulate their wages, to give them a higher rate of wages, or to prevent them going further down. And what was the answer they received ? The Noble bread-taxers treated their petitions with scorn ; they laughed at them ; they said, " These poor igno rant people know nothing of political economy— (Laughter)—we cannot keep up the rate of wages ; we have no power over the rate of wages ; that is re gulated upon totally independent principles, by the laws of supply and demand." And yet these were the very men who had passed a law to keep up the price of bread, to protect themselves, at the expense of those very labourers, when they confessed they had not the power, at the same time, to keep up the rate of wages.— (Hear.) Was there ever so mighty an injustice as that ? —(Great cheering.) His friend Mr. Smith had truly said that the monopolists were hanging together—mo nopolists in sugar and timber, and coffee and corn, would all hang, and, he hoped, would all be hung together.— • (Laughter.) But the most wonderftit thing - was - , that the bread-taxers had all at once been seized with qualms of conscience, and had become the most religious men on the face of the earth.—(Laughter.) Oh, no ! they could not hear of our eating slave-grown sugar. Why, he (Mr.Cob den) was standing in slave-grown produce; his hat was lined with slave-grown produce ; his pockets contained slave grown produce, in the shape of gold and silver ; and he had a snuff-box in his pocket, filled with slave-grown produce. He was literally crowned, clothed, and his pockets lined with slave grown produce ; and so were these noble monopolists; yet they said, " We can't think of the poor people of this country getting their sugar 2d. per pound cheaper, for fear they should promote slavery." —(Hear, hear.) This sudden conversion of these bread taxing monopolists to the cause of religion and humanity reminded him of the distich— " When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; When the devil grew well, the devil a saint was he." —(Laughter.) And so with these bread-taxing monopo lists—when they found a heavy battering-ram dealt right into their middle, by little Lord John Russell, they turned sick, and were seized with a sudden fit of sancti fied morality—(Laughter)—but if they should ever be gin to feel themselves safe as to their bread-tax, we should hear no more of their religion or their morality, he would be bound.—(Laughter.) We must set up for ourselves the standard of free trade, and we should have the Whigs flocking to our standard, if we remained true to our principle ; for they knew that they could not fight with out the people, without whom the Whigs could not carry even their Bs. fixed duty. lie believed, if we were to lay down our righteous principle of total and immediate re peal, we should be as powerless as the Whigs ; there fore, let us be true to our principles, but never let us commit the folly which some would fall into. of kicking those who are advancing towards us. He was not dis posed to quarrel with those who would help him over the -st impediment in his way ; he saw a distant summit w hi c h he wished to crown ; and he should be all the better able climb it if he could get some stout, sturdy fellows in the meOtime to help him along the road. Let Manchester make a demonstration ; the people in London did not really understand our feelings or wishes; they knew nothing of the suffering here. Why, let a man walk the streets of London, and see it thronged with the equipages of these bread-taxing nobles and commons in this gay sea son of May—how could these people know any thing of the distress here while living in that state of splendour, and when the only persons they , came in contact with below their own rank were the rich, fat, and pampered menials waiting upon them ? Let Manchester make a demonstration that would show to the people of Eng land at large, and to the Government, and the aristo cracy in particular, that they were in the deepest state -4 . suffering ; that they knew the cause of their stiffer in.., : s a d that they were determined that that cause should be immediately removed, Let us hoist the eiand immediate repeal of all mono 'll of " robber and let us tape care ; nn but the bread-taxing and must hold no terms, • by favour from • -iigh wil- polies," which were we give offence to no m. other monopolists. With them and never think of getting anything them ; but, if others, more in error than thr, fulness, had obstructed us before, let no taunts lie use. to them, but let us ask them to hell) us. With hypocrites and monopolists we would keep no terms ; but war to the knife with monopoly, which meant robbery. He could not have conceived that the bread-taxers could sink themselves lower in his estimation than they had done, by seeking to profit from robbing the poor by means of the Corn laws for the last twenty-five years ; but they had sunk themselves lower still by their last ten days exhibition. The Mahommedans had seven hells, and gradations of torment for each particular crime ; but the very lowest and hottest of all these hells was for hypo crites.—(Laughter and cheers.) He did not know where the bread-taxers might go ; but the deepest of all places of torment w as assigned to hypocrites. But they had in fact no bread-taxers in Mahommedan countries. The Grand Seignior did not dare to impose a bread-tax in Turkey ; and even Mehemet Ali, the tyrant of Egypt, had not got a bread-tax. In fact, no country was blessed with a bread-tax hut England ; and the men who passed and who now support it were as vile hypocrites as they were bread-taxers. We wanted but union, and let us give a cheer for nniversal suffrage for the bread-tax. —(Three cheers were given, and Mr. Cobden resumed his seat.) Mr. throws said it had been stated, that, if the Corn laws were repealed, it. would destroy Ireland, and sink it into misery. Now, he would ask any Irishman there, could Ireland be in greater misery than it was ? Go to Liverpool, and ask the 120,000 Irish slaves who came over here to seek a living; did the Corn-laws benefit them ?—(" No.") In the county of Galway, bordering on the sea, the rent of land had increased from 1/. to 3/. an acre within the last three years.. Until within these three years, the people were allowed to gather sea-weed from the shore to manure the ground for their potato cftps ; but now they had to pay 71. an acre for it. They then thought they might go into the sea and take the slime and mud ';. but for this they had to pay 3/. 10s. an acre. Now they were going to try the effect of saline water, and he supposed that even this they would be charged so much a gallon for. An Irish landlord, the other day, went to one , of his tenants and said, "I am very glad you are a teetotaller, and you must now pay me 10s. more for my land."— (Shame.) Why, there was not the smoke of a factory in the whole land ; it was all agriculture ; but their sufferings would cause them to join hand in hand with us for the repeal of these laws. As to the proposition of Ministers, he would take ss. in the pound, and look for the rest afterwards. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which passed unanimously. Mr. WM. RATHBONE GREG, in moving the fourth resolution, said, he was a West India Proprietor, and the proposition of Government would cut off a larger p w o i r th ti o o u n t, of bu l t ii h s e income Nvasais tn o ahamanhuefaccotuulrdern:l but ff t a so ord to do strongly did he feel that the repeal of the Corn-laws would benefit him ten times more than the repeal of the Sugar duties would injure him, that he was come there to sup port it. They had now an opportunity of getting the Corn-laws repealed ; but if, from any prejudice or re mis in the Corn-lows, another. They were all aware, that the other day ,the D ne u s k s e they let this opportunity slip, they might never INailrvesll.inftleo(nmdr.ecGlarte•egd) hailedg ns against h a a n t y as al a te h ra ap ti p o 3 n , snnen ; for they well remembered, that ten years ago the Duke of Wellington declared solemnly a nd empha- • tie a lly aga i nst another great measure, 'which the next year became the law of the land, and he had no doubt the same result would follow this. Mr. THOMAS HOPKINS seconded the resolution. He hailed the meeting of this day as the commencement of another system, when they could call for those measures which were calculated to relieve, and would, if carried, give them relief, and enable them to command the Legis latnre. He did not wish to use the word command in an improper sense. But there were two millions en agea in manufactures in the north; and had the as- ' ;embly sitting in London listened to their complaints. and were they disposed to grant them what they wanted? He trusted that there was a sufficient amount of good sense to induce them to go. on in a constitutional way; but, if monopolies were persevered in, particularly in food, was it to be supposed that this enormous P"Pu lation would go on submitting to it ? When justice was refused to them there was danger, and great danger, that it would give. rise to the thought, whe ther they could not provide for themselves. . They might say, if the south, the east, and the west, the agricultural parts of the country, were determined to persevere, let us try what we can do for ourselves. They might talk of having a legislature in Manchester, as Mr. O'Connell taked of one in Dublin. He did not mean to say this would be a good thing,, far from it; hut.he wished to sound the,voice of alarin.at'an early pe riod,.to prevent the people being driven to such a course. Now these protective laws did not give this abundance, .but obliged many to go without a sufficiency. This was the fruit of the experience they had had. It was said that experience made fools wise ; but it had not made monopolists wise in • a national sense. Did these protective laws give them full employment ? Did they give general employment even in agricultural districts ? and in the manufac turing districts had • they not thrown an immense num ber out of employment ? That being the case, it did appear to him somewhat strange that no one thought of making a proposal like this :—A great number now were working only four days a week ; and suppose that they could apply the remainder of their time to manu factures, to send it abroad, they might take two millions' worth abroad, and bring back two millions in grain. Here would be employment for these people. They would take cloth, and bring back the very article we were in need of. What prevented this ? These monopoly laws, and nothing else. If these laws did not exist, there would be plenty of individuals who would undertake to bring the grain, and would not stop till the manufactures were made. And what could be more reasonable on the part of a number of people who were willing to work, and could not get it, than to say—Let us seek work, that we may get our food ? He read, in a Tory newspaper, an account of the rate of wages in Odessa, which was written for the purposes of showing that, if the duty on wheat were repealed, there would be a low rate of wages. But when they said that wages were low, which was a fact, it showed that, where there were no manufactures, but agriculture flourished in a high degree, wages were low. The wages there were lower than in our country, notwith standing the monopoly. The argument went against the agribulturists, because agriculture there did nothing for the labourer. He hoped we should have many such meetings as this ; for all the influence arising ~out of union should be brought to bear against our powerful opponents, who, taking forty or fifty millions a year out of the pockets of the people,' would fight desperatel for it. It is worth their while td spend money on elections; as, for every pound they si)e - lici, they could get 101. or 201. from the pockets•ef the people. Lord John Rus sell's announcement was like a shell thrown amongst the Members, and the Tories saw that it was the beginning of a new system. He hoped, ere long, we should have to throw up our caps in this hall, and huzza for " Free trade."—(Cheers.) Mr. J. C. DYER moved the next resolution, and said this was the continuation of that movement which began in the Chamber of Commerce, and which gave rise to the Anti-Corn-luw League. When the people of England are united, and determined .to carry any measure for the general benefit, it was not in the power of the aristocracy to resist their will. He now heard an ominous voice from a high quarter—a Minister of the Crown—at the eleventh hour, avowed himself an advocate for the weakest and least protected party—the great mass of her Majesty's subjects. The stricken consciences of the monopolists told them that this was true, and they did not dare to gainsay it. All he would say was, that this Parliament should be made to do its duty, or another called in its stead.—(Hear.) He would read and move a memorial ' to the Queen ; and he believed from his soul, that the Sovereign of these realms had the welfare of the country at heart.—(Applause.) Hitherto, the aristocracy had been too strong for both the Sovereign and the people ; but he hoped a better time was coming. In conclusion, he spoke of an extension of the suffrage and vote by bal lot ; and moved that a memorial to her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen, be adopted, and signed by the chair man, on behalf of this meeting. Mr, SAMUEL STOCKS, in seconding the resolution, said, that being one of the Anti-Corn-law League, he should much prefer the total and immediate repeal ; but he would take the proposition of Ministers as an instalment. As to the agricultural labourers, what was the average of their wages ? Scarcely 9s. a week. Of that scanty pittance, 3s. !went for duties on food, &c. It was desirable to take some steps to deny the grand calumny , issued from both Houses of Parliament, and echoed in some London prints, that we, of the manufacturing districts, want to ruin and oppress the labouring classes of the agricultural districts ; than which Satan himself never told a greater lie. What would be the condition of the farmer, farm-labourer, and tho manufacturing districts if we had no foreign trade at all ? We are bad enough, exporting to the value of fifty millions sterling • then what should we be without it ? We must deal with the rest of the world and what could we give better than the produce of our labour employed on the various raw materials ? England got more from the labour employed on the raw materials than the countries which produced the materials themselves. Mr. Alderman BROOKS said, this being market day, there would be very little to do on 'Change to-day (as for a very long time past), for most of the merchants and manufacturers were here. He would engage to find all present with salt beef for three months at lid. a lb. if they would get off the Corn-laws. He had traded to Monte Video 25 year, and had never brought any beef thence because of the prohibition. !The monopolists hail been riding over us the last 25 years,and he wondered we could sleep so quietly in our beds.; but John Bull was now upon his haunches, and . depend upon it he would " straighten up" with them.—(Applause.) Mr.M‘GowAs, an Irish operative, next addressed the meeting. He said, when the working classes were told that cheap proviSions meant low wages, it was time fir them to speak out. They would tell those men, under whose directions many of the working classes were guided, that they would no longer be led by the Will-o'- Wisp of the North.(Cheers.) They might be told, that having little to do, and nothing to eat, was better than having plenty to do and plenty to eat, but it would be difficult to make them believe that three loaves were not better than two. Mr. GEORGE HADFIELD referred to the rirclue l eae e rrte t :ti t ssl e r of D. Robertson, on the condition of the poor in this district, in which it is stated that the average amount of the fever Ministers splendid the c 4. 0 spel kept . aloofNvhe Where from was this the question,liti:izielf fniel-mallieynas,sil,Oe.tiei%nnb.ittsri,thi:ef:s were annum,upwar upwards while, o f i l n , 2 1 0 8 0 3 . 9 , There when cases in 1834-5, when there was plenty of food, was tfhwltfh b ti,l .1:. Manchester.url , halee)e, t nsi 0. m l and v do e r n e t;el ,ivi n ,lai,eea sncr 4 s tdel eoahOsdloasbieuaifarlson bringing dnh. dear, there Helg imeadt hn s oence o diongir. O f peru who, he was sorry to say, with a sm d ufhero h iersf i lwo s ynpa a i vlra p edar p ri oosdhui forward, ought theseolt ih m ielte e wtr n oso t lusu t ylw o edma se t pp i l o g,e. r f t t oeel MAYOR 1 tAthi b iri e y roete everycbhr:ee meetingtri cheers werele f n aoe o rk m gnt i hti n :j a ve t rlu i ec o dpt n goe aetidlhn of ft theh.tthe Chairman. the compliment, o o c niN Corn-laws, n pr i . li The thankssupported a '-leers for the Queen, the meeting separated, an u d " three c,._ - - three o'clock. about a quarter to \Te have no hesitation' In declaring the meeting to have been one of the largest ecsr assembled within the Town-hall, There were n et fewer than 2,400 or 2,500 persons present. The Chartl4o, egvugh at the com mencement of the proceedings, OCOP4tfigly vociferous and noisy, were scarcely worthy of the nanw 0 4 decent minority, so small a fraction did th e y in reality gOnSti tute of the numbers present. Judging from as careful an observation (with the advantage of an elovatOd station on the hustings), as we could make, we should say that s, a the unim the middle and the working glasse the meeting was composed of about equal propor a ntions ity of which prevailed from the moment th= chartists dis covered their own weakness, was one Of the no l it, grii, 7 ing and gratifying feelings of the meeting, Q expres7 sion of public opinion could have been moro Iflg(l4iY o eal, unanimous, or decided, than that which we hAig BOY , ' recorded, of the first great collective meting of the iii, habitants of the municipal borough of Manchester. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 20.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., firm weather. DEAL, MA Y . 19. —Wind S. S. W., fresh breeze. --.4triyel the Lascar, Mackie, from Singapore; Emma, Buenos f yres; Highbury, Falconer, Berbice Annandale, Burgess. JAI ale ; Governor Read, Bermuda. 4Frived from the River, C'iftion, for Sydoi, New South Wales; Fair Acadian, River St. Law n.nee, with loss of maintopliil-yard ; Theodore, for Qu, bloc ;• her Majesty's ship Reindeer, westward. MILFORD, MAY 18.—The Isabela, Reed, from tiveipool to Algiers, must discharge to repair. YOUGHAL, MAY 17.--lhe John Loyd, bound to Newport, in proceeding to sea, got on shore at the enti ance of the har bour, and is in a bad position. PORTSMOUTH, May 19.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes and squally.—Westminster, from New York. Cosecs, MAY 19.—Arrived the %Volga, Turner, Havannah, DARTMOUTH, MAY P.—Arrived off, the Baros, 13orche•s, from Batavia fur AmsterclaM ; Zeernanshoop, Dekker, Java ; Anna, Goutter, Rio Janeiro, for Bremen; Caledonia, New Orleans, for Havre. PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind S.W —lt has blown a gale all night from S.W. and continues. FALMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind W. to N. W., fresh breeze.— Arrived off, the Lavinia, Downing, from Sierra Leone for Clyde, sailed March 18. SCILLY, MAY 12.—Arrived the John Barry, Carter, from Newcastle, leaky, and sailed lbth for Bordeaux. Sailed the Argus, Vantier, for Portsmouth. Duntis, MAT 18.—Arrived the Siren, Foster, from Leg horn. Sailed the Perseverance. Scott, Quebec. CORK, MAY 17.—Arrived the Chamois, Comdr.', Buenos Ayres ; Margaret, Bath, from Porto Rico. Sailed the Ann and Mary, Cunningham, for Quebec. SHIELDS, MAY /B.—Sailed the Oberon, Hiorth, for Rio Janeiro. Su NDERLAND,MAY 18.—Arrived the Francis, Lawson, from Ceylon ; William Rotterdam ; Josephine, Dunkirk. HULL, MAY 19.—Wind S.W. fresh breeze. Arrived the Guid e , B ar fl ett , f rom Uddenvalia. Sai'ed the Carnation, Richardson, for 'Quebec ; Harper, Oporto. LOWESTOFFE, MAY 10.—The Alary Atkinson, Roape, in running for the harbour this morning, S ot on shore at the hack of the pn r; cargo discharging. Wind S.W„ a gale. ALOBOROUGH, MAY 19.—The Primer, Ellegis, parted her anchor off this bay 17th inst. Several others shared the same. fate to-day. RAMSGATE, MAY 19.—Arrived the Cog, Edet, London, for Cherbou rg , w i t h l oss o f anchor and chain ; Clytha , Smith , ditto, for B r i s t o l, w i t h ru dder damaged. LtvEßrooL, M AY 19.—Wind S. W., fresh—Arrived the Whitehave n , f rom Jamaica; Protecto r, Bowman, Barbadoes ; Helen, Ha m ilt on, M araca ib o ; Condor, Finney, Natchez ; Li verpool, Devon, New Orleans ; Harkaway, ditto • Olive Branch, S avanna h ; Ostsee , Stettin ; Sir Cohn Campbell, New Orleans. Sailed the Acadia (steamer), for Halifax arid Bos ton. Arrived off the Isabel, from Antigua ; Medora, Barba does ; Diadem, New Orleans ; W o hington, Mobile ; Ford tattle, ditto ; Charlotte, Charleston ; New York, New York. John C. w e i r , E sq ., Atvqnt of the Roval Naval nospi'al at ilaslar, been allowed by the Lords Commis sioners of th e Admiralty to retire , after long public service ; and Mr. Hallilay, the agent for the Victualling at Hanlbow line, has obtained the appointment. GERMAN 0 PERA.LJARY--A.NE. Last night's performance of Figaro's Hoclizett affordit.! an other protif, if proof were wanting, that an English - audien , e will enjoy, and do justice to Mozart's music. A more than ustsa ly crowded house received this beautiful opera with en thusiastic applause, and we cannot give the performers a higher meed of praise than by saying that they did justice to the c , mposer. This was evi,leritly the opinion of the audience generally. The overture, Figaro's great aria in the first act : " Dort vergiss leises Wehn, susses Wirnmern,'°the duet Le tween the Ceuntess and Susanna "Wens die st4n4en Ahen dlufte " and the . concluding - aorus, were all encored. There were, in fact. too many repetitions for an opera, which at all events draws largely on the powers of the singers; the more so as the promise given in the bills, that all the music written for this opera was to be performed, was fiithfully kept. Cherubino's air in the first act, " Tha, di? ihr die Triebe des Herzes Kt nnt," Figaro's recitative and air. as also Susanna's, both in the third act, have been generally left out when the opera was rerformed in this country. most likely for the best of all possible reaserts, that the singers were not sufficiently vigorous or skilful to unde.rtake these additional exertions. Last night justice was done, mere or less, to all the music. Heinefetter and St au di g l s t oo d out boldly in their now acknowledged excellence, as Susanna and Figaro. Mad. Schodel and Herr Mellm,ger, as the Count and Countess, were neither of them very well fitted for their parts; the former, if she be intended as a substitute for Madame Von Hasselt, who was promised us in the beginning of the season, and whose reputation as a good singer stands deservedly high in Germany, is by no means a sufficiently good one. She is, we believe, an excellent musician, and has good taste, bet nature has denied her the one great requisite for a prima donna at a theatre like Drury-lane; the volume of sound which issues from her throat is. notwithstanding her most• painfully evident exertions, insufficient to fill the house. She is exceedingly well calculated for a singer at chamber concerts, but can never satisfy the audience at Drury-lans. We were pleased, nevertheless, to perceive that she was received with great kindness, and had the advantage of the most perfect quiet during her great airs. To any lady, the singing and ' acting with Heinefetter must be a severe test, and, accordingly, the inferiority of Madame Schodel was most perceptible in the duet which we mentioned above. Mellinger, as Count Almaviva, rung as well as usual; but he has no idea of the character which he under took to represent. His German straigtforward honesty totally unfits him for the representative of the wily, dissolute, gay. se ductive Italian, and, therefore, he wanted that vraisemblance which is irrdispensible to good acting. Madame Schamann, ever the favourite of the public, sang beautifully, but her acting wanted that seductiveness which ought to characterise the scapegrace Cherubina, and she was not well dressed. No one could ever for a moment have taken her for a boy, arid yet some attempt there ought to be to create an illusion. All the subordinate parts were well performed, and the whole went off with eclat. The Royal box. was empty. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the garden of Buckingham Palace yesterday forenoon. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The 'Princess of Leiningeri, attended by Baroness Spaeth, visited the British Museum yesterday. The Prince of Leiningen, attended by Captain Francis Seymour, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon. The Royal Dinner party at -Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Baroness Spaeth, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord mid Lady Robert Grosvenor. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards were in attendance at the Palace during the evening. By command of her Majesty, Mr. Hayter had the honour of conveying his picture of her Majesty's mar riage to Buckingham Palace, where he was most gra ciously honoured by her Majesty, and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, expressing their high approbation of his progress. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess Brown low, lion, Sophia Wheatley, Hon. Charlotte Hud so n, Earl Howe, Earl Denbigh, and the Hon. W. Ashley, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence, on Tues day evening. The Duke of Cambridge returned to town yesterday afternoon from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. 'rue Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gave a grand dinner last evening at Cambridge-house to the Noble Di rectors of the Concerts of Ancient Music. The Royal Duke, accompanied by.his guests, afterwards went to the performance of the Concert A,t the Hanover-square-rooms. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne in Berkeley-square, the Noble Marquis being indisposed with an attack of gout. All the Members of the Cabinet were present. The Council broke up soon after three o'clock. Vis count Melbourne went from Lansdowne-house, after the Council, to Buckingham Palace to have an audience of the Queen. His Excellency the American Minister, and Mrs. Ste venson, and Mr. Rush, Secretary of Legation, were pre vented from attending her Majesty's Ball at Buckingham Palace, on the 14th inst., in consequence of that day having been set apart, in the United States, for so lemnizing, by religious observance, the death of their late Chief Magistrate. Despatches from the Governor of West Australia .were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday. The Attorney- General occupied the Court during the whole of the sitting on the appeal, Sir Matthew Wood and others v. Geodlake and another, from the Prerogative Court. ' el! , „. • •.• , gairti - aar lARYLEBofi t ELECTION. A PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS 'of this BOROUGH w ill" be held at the York.hire Sting° Tavern, New road, Tuts DAY, THURSDAY, the 20th inst., at Two o'Clock precisely, when COMAIODOtt.E Slit CHARLES NAPIER will address the Electors as a Canclitiate for the Representation of this Borough on the Reform interest at the next Election. RAIKES CURRIE, Esq., M.P. in the Chair. May 20, 1,84 1 . • _ • I`tow -ready at 't.ll , the Litirariel, • R:•PLUMER WARD'S NEW ..1.7 NOVEL, ‘• DE CLIFFORD ; 'or, the CONSTANT MAN." OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " A sterling work—a work not to be perused and dismissed in a breath, but to be read and studied again and again."—Lite •ary Gazette.. 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DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS', which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) oTer many possibilities of obtaming____._,_ LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTMISU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Nest Distributions may re •eive, PREVIOUS t o g i v i ng an y or d ers , th e PROS PErCTUS and PAR mu LA RS, upon addressing, WITH. OUT DELA Y, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of 425,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 800 100, The largest Dividend of the Distribution of lat March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to London and vicinity by . HEINE BROTHERS, who remitted, during a few yeaili, 21 large Money Dividends, from 6001. and upwards onto 25,0001., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, MAY 20, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. COOPER. Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; S:r Oliver Surface, Mr. Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley ' • Joseph Sur face, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Crabtree, Mr. Meadows; Moses, Mr. Keeley ; Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Candour. Mrs. Nisbett; Maria, Miss Cooper. After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-merrew,' The School for Scandal, with Beauty and the Beast. Doors to to opened at half-past Sit—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 71. •, Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second • ircles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, s. ; Second Price. 2,.; Gallery Is. Tictets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets mAy oe had upon application. Private Boxer to be had so'ely of Mr. Andress, bookseller, New Bond-street. 6(l/YAL SURREY THBATRE. UNDER THE MANA6EMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Triumphant ( areer of " Claude Du Val, the Ladies' High wayman," no drama since the production of " Jack Shep pard" has made so decided a hit. Revival of • Rafael the Libertine, and first appe arance o f M r. J. S. B a ll s i n t h e cha racter of Rafael. THIS EVENING, MAY 20, Will be acted a Grand Romantic Drama, entitled LOVE, HATRED, AND REVENGE; OR, THE CON QUEST OF TARANT/E. Characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Haines, Hislop, Buckingham, Mrs. H. Hughes, &c. After which, an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled :LAUDE DU VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN. ;Vida entirely new local and beautiful Scenery, extensive Ma cliinery, real horses and carriages, &c. Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls. Supported by the most powerful Company in London. To conclude with RAFAEL THE LIBERTINE. Rafael, Mr. J. S. Balls • Pedro, Mr. W. Smith ; Ma r ia, 41 I'. Vining ; Iniseils, 'Miss Martin. HALF-PAY, &c. On the motion of Mr. Hume, an account of the several amounts paid in the year 1840, fin- half-pay and retired allowances, civil and military, distinguishing the amount • under separate heads and departments, has been laid before the House of Commons. The total amount for the. milita►;y, naval, and civil departments, is 4,646,746/. Of this 2,512,679/. is paid to the army, 1,444,8451. to the Navy, 156,4351. to the Ordnance, and 532,786/. to the civil department. The principle items are as follow : Army pay of general officers, 95,7611. ; retired full-pay, half-pay, and military allowances, 563,197/. ; out-pen sioners of Chelsea and Kihnainham, 1,315,604/. ; widows' pensions, 142,418/. ; pensions for wounds, 77,802/. Navy—Flag-officers, Captains, &c., 755,800/. ; Commis sioners, &c., in the Civil and the Victualling depart ments, 111,5751.; pensions to widows, 177,456 f.; Green wich Hospital out-pensioners. 221,102/. ; superannuated and half-pay officers of . the Ordnance, 59,3241. ; pen sinus, widows, and children of officers, 23,562/. Cus toms, 199,2381. Excise, 123,897/. Treasury, 12,948/. Police Magistrates and Constables, 11,391/. ROME ! NOVEL AND EXTRAORDINARY EXHI BITION AT THE ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. OPEN DAILY—The New PICTORIAL MODEL, of AN CIENT and MODERN ROME! exemplifying on a scale of enormous magnitude never before attempted, the former glories and present aspect of the once-proud" Mistress'of the World ;" and - comprising amongst. its most striking features the ancient Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, the Vatican and Pontifical I'a lace, the Toridinona Theatre, the Ospitale di S. Spirit°, and the vast and marvellous Basilica of St. Peter's. This magnificent re presentation has been entirely constructed from the designs, and under the superintendence of Mr. Damon, assisted ty nu merous eminent artists. The delineation is so strictly accurate, and the proportions so stupendous, as to offer a rerfect !veils I tion of those wonders of architecture which still render the " eternal city" the most interesting spot on the face of the globe. It will be exhibited . Daily from Ten till Dusk, together with the splendid ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION, which inc'udes several recently-acquired rarities, and specimens of unequaled size and beauty. Admission, One Shilling. —Feeding hour, Five o'clock. NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) MAY 18, 1841.—Will it suit your purpose to introduce se perately or in your usual illustrations, the following anecdote of the good but unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth, which 1 lately met with in a work entitled " Aneedotes of the French Nation," p. 417. It illustrates the importance of the present movement for cheap bread in averting national calamity and inspiring sentiments 0. loalty to the S , :vereign. Wh-n Guimard, a domestic officer under the old king, and a favou. ite with Louis the Sixteenth f m his age ana honesty, saw him reading a pamphlet which ha 1 for its title " The King beloved by his People," he said roundly, " Sire; do not these ramphlets, you never will be beloved while bread is dear." Whist I am writing. I may mention the surprise with which I (and I may 84y all the readers of your Paper in the bland), saw an article in your columns some time since, advere to the projected improvements in the River Medina, a mao, , ure so admirably calculated to promote the prosperity of ali the industrious classes in this town, that it is opposed by none but a very few of the most determined monopolists of the neighbourhood. It had long been desirable, but became absolutely essential to the welfare of the town, when the Southample and London Railway was completed, and I feel satised f om your liberal fmlings towards the welfare of the mlisco z thp,t you would not allow your Paper to be the vehicle o suppfirting mopppoly end the interests of the few, against I. l p Mapy, if yolt werracquainted with the bite eircumltances Rf the vp,se, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORROW I mine 33 minutes aftztr I I Evening 53 minutes after I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, MAY I9.—The destination of the new brig HitteN, IN, offered for commission by Commander the Hon. B. Cart, said tg PR the North American and West Indian station. ThP Dublin, 50, has been commissioned at this port by Captain John Tuekty, for the,flag of Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas, appointed to the command in the Pacific, and to re lieve the President, 50. The schooner Fair Rosamond, destined for the Cape and African station, will be ready to proceed thither about the 28th instant, being quite manned. The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, has arrived from Sheerness, and remains at Spithead with the Indus, 84, Ver non, LO, and brigs Pelican, 18, and Nautilus, 10. The Edin burgh, 72 ' and Bellerophon, 78, are daily expected from Ply mouth to be paid off. Lieutenant Lord Henry Russell is promoted to the rank of Commander. This officer, it will be remembered, nearly lost his life on hoard the Melville, 78, in this harbour, by the fall of a block on his head, The brig Trint-ulo, 16, Commander Coffin, has arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon, in order to await a courtmartial, the particulars of which have not transpired. The new steam-ship Driver will be put into commission at this port, it is reported for the Meditet ranean. The schooner Cockatrice, Lieut. Oxenham, has left Ply mouth for Rio de Ja.neire, anti the #eamers Albert and Wilber force, for the Niger Expedition, The Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, will be ready to return to the coast of Africa about the 25th instant. The frigate Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, is daily expected from Chatham to await orders. Captain Henry Codrington, late commanding the Talbot, 28, has arrived from Malta, And in a few days will join the Queen, 110, as Flag-Captain to his father, the Port Admiral. Lieutenants Clanwell and Tennant are appointed Flag- Lieutenants, the former to Richard Thomas, Rear- Adrairal for the Pacific command, and the latter to Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker, for the East India command. In Harbour—Queun, Victory, Excellent, Royal George yacht, Dublin, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, and teudurs, LICENSE!) VI UT UALLERS' ASYLUM. Ye;terday a special general meeting of the donors at large, summoned by the Board of Management, was holden in the Board-room of this Institution, for the purpose of electing occupants for fonr vacancies, o,easioned by death, Twenty, three candidates stood in n omination, varying in axe ,flom fifty-three to sixty-f our , fourteen of whom were males. The following is the list of names, and number of votes ob tained by eaph tpdividualt"—• Cushway, William..„.„ 407 Hamer, Elsanor2s Sotherden, Sarah 5,666 Jewell, 5te14en....,,..„. Dyer, Richard . .... 4,044 Mitchell, John Thonvis. 14s Smith, Thomas 4,218 Ottley, Edward .......... 3,137 Cart r, Hannah. ..... 62 Seeker, Caroline Soph.. 272 Field Ri c h ar d 3,757 swain, Caroline ......... . 32 Needham, William 54 Wright, Jame 5.......... 9s sweet, Richard Bass l2B Howard, George 216 flooding, George 2,9 74 Morris, Sophia... ...... . 256 Jones Ann 5B Waterman, Sus. Mary.. 936 Neate, Jane 35 Watkins, Will,am . 28 S tew, Richard . 2,1 00 The Chairman, consequently, Smith, and Dyer, dilly -elected,' declared Sot4er4o, Cu!hway, LONDON: THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1841. It is to be inferred from no eminent person having been sent for by her MAJESTY to-day, and from no reports being in circulation that the Ministers have resigned, that they mean to carry forward the, public business to a point at which will be convenient for them to dissolve • the Parliament. , ,If that be the case, Lo - rd 'JOHN RUSSELL will most probably to-night give notice in the House of Commons of the day on which he means to introduce the annual Sugar Bill, and, should that. be. the case, the public may infer, with unerring certainty, that the Ministers have made up their mind to dissolve the Parliament, and appeal to the country against themonopollsts. We confidently antici pate that this is the course which will be an nounced to-night in the House of Commons. It will then be for the people to decide whether it will have an honest or dis honest Government whether it will look forward with peace to improvement, or go through trouble and disturbance to a revolution. A Government founded on a union of the sinister interests, openly and avowedly to oppress and plunder the people, would .be a scoundrel Government, and could not but arouse against it • as an enemy the bulk of the population. It will scarely escape the notice of the readers of the debates, that Sir R. PEEL on Tuesday evening., deprecated the introduction of details of the misery of our people, "to influence the reason and judgment of the Commons by liar rowinv, tip their feeling's." The Right Hon. Baronet alluded especially to the misery brought under the notice of the House by Mr. VILLIERS, and Mr. THomAs DUNCoMUE, of Which this is a specimen : The Hon. Member also read statements from Oldham, Nottingham, Leicester, and other places, of the existence of. similar distress at those places, one of which stated that a cow having died and been buried, the owner a day and a half afterwards was besought by a number of womon to allow them to have the carcass for their fami- lies ; and that upon his yielding to their importunity, they disinterred the carcass, and divided it among them, and afterwards declared that it was the only meat they had tasted for many years. - 'Sir R. PEEL takes precisely the same view as the Tory Journals; they do WA like td. ; hear of f ErrAN T ING EnT.TION! . the sufforinp eausitql ity (b.:<ii,or.ibli.. , l4 l o of the Tories , they will not allow the low.iY.ciO ° to influence the choice of the,: ilepreselitativ es ' they deny and oppose every 6:tension.- of the suffrage, and they would fain prevent the advo' cites of the people from inentionin;.; their miser in Parliament. The Tories kno - T Dully succeed by stifling the. .iialiile,iii!scl l4lo therefore,-in the 1 5 r - e,.i . i" and. in Parliament they are prone to deride the useful facts which al if stated by such men as Mr. T. DU/NCO:118E Mr. VILLIERS. .:,ara We know . from past times that Sir 11.0 PEEL has no objection whatever to influence th 6 ' reason and judgment of the House o f C o fff moils by harrolking,up their, feelings, wh en that 0 45 own purpose.- • In the mem ora bl e d e h a tes.oll Coercion Bill he did not disd a i n t o h arro w up 0 1° feelings of the Hous e of C ommons , an d e voke $ coercive and malignant spirit ag,ainst:lreland narrating, in a most dramatic manner, the det ai l g of a murder which had be en comm itt e d. se ule years before. Even on Tuesday n i g ht he q uote ..., the evidence of Mr. EL L I OT , th e Member f ' Roxburgh, on the great m is er y o f th e p e ople ° ff India, to influence th e f ee li ngs o f- t h e House °f Commons in favour of conti nu i ng th e bounty 0 the production of sugar k the East In the same:speech, in which the Right P t; nourable Baronet objected to the statetee° tis of Mr. VILLIEns and .Mr. DUNCOMBE, in Or de r to enlist the feelings of the House in favour ° the sufferingßindoos, to provid e f o r 1 010 1 ' 11e continues to tax the English women who dig aY a rotten:carcase .:to sustain life, he quoted ti l following remarks I recollect in the debate respecting the Hill C°°l the speech o f t h e H on. M em b er for Roxburgh, who personal experience of the condition of the J a bal classes, a nd I re f res h . t h e Hon. Gentleman's. .010-I°ie for the pu r p os e o f calming his alarm as t o t he extr e,t r i dangei of diverti ng the 'resources of India. The 0,67 Gentlemah;said he was -appointed to inquire int° /le condition of the agricultural labourers . of Bengal' ' , .or found that they were paid about is. fid. per ive" , c e 23d. per day, that they "'Subsist on rice, a-d When r i le fails they starve." He says, " I 'have Seen the Il e :, 1 0 by hundreds and th ousan d s h urry towar d s - t h e poin"4,^ which relief was distributed by the Governor of PoT ec ii And then he g i ves a pi cture o f h orror which, eonic. anything that the M os t r oma nti c iniagination everrrte tured. I know of no thi ng more str iki ng t h an that Sts ment.—(Hear.) . It is not therefore that the Right Honour`'' Baronet has any repugnance to details w -1 harrow up the feelings ; he only o l j ec le to them when they apply to the P et ti of England, whom he p ers i s t s in oplirest:t in behoof of the negroes. Those details eon vi ot him of injustice ; they br an d hi m . as an ignelj, law-maker; and therefbr e h e wou ld , if he ee u , shut them out from th e cons id erat i on o f Peri l , ment. He was eloqu en t a b ou t b a l anc i ng the ad e o vantages of different courses.of policy, b ut mistaken, or so one-sided, that he excluded ti l d, his view . the sufferings of the people of Engl e , and thought.only,or the probabl e or possible i structjon of the capital of a f ew plaete r„, 0e :Vet this man ai ms a t b e i ng .t h e . v , for Minister, and at governin g th e m illi ons here' whom he shows so much disregard, while l' e be so tender of the African. S uc h con d uc t eleY the statesmanship—but will it recommend itself to people of England ? We hope that in the O re , test which is now be gun th ey w ill a lweY' der , member that the Tory . l ea d er quote d t he se' le ings of the Hindoos as a reason why the P e4 b , of England should be .plundered; but lie jetted to other Members quoting the suffe r ; ° e `i of the people of E ng l an d as a reason w l l Y should be relieved. . A; 5 The ingratitude, of the Tories is Pruu' 6l;o' Out of deference to them and their system , a il in opposition to the - Liberals, the Ministers l i ! itt postponed, to the eleventh. hour, a reform of ' 0 commercial. code, • - including' the Corn - l ac e, : Now that they h ave ,. as - we have before sai d, luctantly and unwillingly 'proposed the revenue was falling off, the Tories mently abuse. them for not havinc, done it bef o r e, i " They resisted Mr: ViLtiutesttnOtion," sit:Y s er "when corn was nearly 80s.'pei. quarterrand no %O . i; len it is • down 'tin' 663., and t 1 de 3rt, is ever, they propose .toi alter the Corn-la's, " They oppos e d Mr. ' ' WART'S plan -to lower- P ot sugar duties," . says another, "when sugar wa , 0 605., and now wh en it i s d own t o 375. r and t o ,P e supply plentiful, they recomme nd a c hall i e e s in the sugar duties." So the ungrateful Tl eo abuse the Whi gs , f or d e f err i ng to their svi'tltie and their policy as long as possible. L et ,„re Ministers take a l e ss on f rom t h at, an d- in fa" ( l4 do what is right, and what their ONVII fr lei l o l wish them, not what will please ..the , ungrL ite Tories. . • qinrie 4 But if;theMinisters had do ne what .the now reproach them. for not having done, 1 ' 3 ., would hav e b een t h e d enunc i at i ons of t h e Vr 64 ~b To have t a k en a d vantage of a momentary' l ' l 'A price of corn to denounce the Corn-law , 10 ally themselves with the r e p ea l ers, wo uld 1) ,, it been stigmatized as a great crime. " Wa it ' t ill would have been said, " till calmer times 00 the passions are abated ; do not make a latest the momentary hunger of the people. ' O 4 year the - crops•may be abundant, both eer ° to sugar will be cheap, and if it is neeess il. " Ei et alter the law, do it the n , w h en reaso n, ° m it than famine, shall dictat e y our enact t -hent": l o when cor n an d sugar are c h eap. " Reproaeheveo these, but tenfold more bit ter , would''hive, the hurled against the Mi n i s t ers . A t presen't e objectors; wise men ' as t he y are, forget I'3 consequences of successive short crops 0f c o' and sugar have. first revealed to .Minist'-' r l eof willing to believe, th e i n j ury C orn- l aws a nd Duties are inflicting on the country, andtl ie grateful Tories really reprove them for not Pi ti o acted last year on a knowledge . which 'lva. hi' then in existence. The Tories are sagacious losophers after the event, and wonderful rot ticians when they Lave to talk or write nevertheless they are always, and in this Cr e t b e in others, like the bandy-legged drummer , la rear of society.. _ , • . - a.- • . eP The modest request of the landlords, a ' 0 0 pressed in a petition agreed to at ColCliesterbil Saturday last, .and signed.",W EST E RI 4;"4" b , / de, of the sheeting, is,. 'that Parliament:lilt' e l ,termine to put down . agitation on:l 6 e sili c ti ct l the .Corn - laws , , and: the, azricuitatists - w il ` ' I undertake, ' " by - 4)l' additional: application o p skill and capital, .to raise' 'ft..s uticinntst WO pi an average of seasons for the -wants of 011 i ereasing,population." In the meantime/ V t I ever, till the skill of the agriculturist--- if P l3/1 ., - 09 very slow growth—and till hi s . capital, iner ell ; 0 1 which the landlords t a k e care shall also 09111 , tit pass very slowly, if at all, the populatjoli ~r e e hunger and starve. Th e y h ave f or t h e last t' oo o years been, year after year, slowly starved cl ,,ivil to the supply produced by th e s kill, and °r o d of the agriculturists, and Lord WEsT-Eu s i 00 0 his co-mates modestly request that they s ' i ne s.4; continue patieptly to . submit t o this . , P r°- ite that if the skill and capit a l o f th e agri c- o pe lists cannot overtake the principle, ,9f P o itig lation, population may b e k ept . froP g ari / a-head of the skill and capital of P e i i i d culturists. In order, t oo , t h at population Di 4 not run too fast, L or d WESTERN . and n ol f friends, however stupid an d waste f u l they t if be, modestly hint to the Parliament t ba o pel should put down further agiution, a nd c i t lif the people —at th e p o i nt o f t h e b ayone t, fordo t pe or the gallant y eoman ' s swor d— to s3bllllrd tiently to sta rvat i on. O ne i n i qu i ty reces s t rot grows from another, and it is as „ L aura re to Lord WESTERN and his friends' ili - duld, de' 0 - -,, -,- .;., i a v, , ~ compel th e peop l e to su b m i t to the - (c'ir - ot' it is that a highway, robber should bO''drivetr4 murder the victim he haS plund eredi i i 4P i 3 11 1)6 all the evidence of his theft. the i4:atiq 11 be e o slow to believe that this modest.deMituall° .se' , i .- Adir erti 60 , made, but here are the wor d s CI:. !,---.. -- As p - • meat of a Colchester meetingi - on *Sitto I. `" given in the .Esse: .Herald: --- • 7.-.:--; - ~, 0 0 - , - -..__.4.- 0 ..t. e t b That your petititiouers are confident= fu 0 Honourable House will determine:to: rit coll 4 , 1" agitation by the sameinnequh - Ocal deFiti_ll . s, , '""" . , i i ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Miss Vincent as the Heroine of Domestic Drama, and the New Legendary Romance of " Rookwood!" with a NeW • Pit, a New Gallery, and New Splendid Decorations ! THIS EVENING. MAY 20. AND TO-MORROW, A New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, cnatled SIMON LEE; OR, THE MURDER OF FIVE-FIELDS' COPSE. Simon Ler, Mr. E. F. ; and Grace Hatherleigh, Mss Vincent. After which, the Romance of ROOKWOOD; OR, THE LEGEND Or THE OLD LIME TREE. Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Songs of " Hurrah for the Game of High Toby !" " Nix Try Dolly, Pals, Fake away !" and " My Bonny Black Bess." To conclude with a New Drama, called THE BOOK OF FATE. Krantz Tidlitz, Mr. Gardner; Gabello, Mr. Howard; Rosa, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Half•past Eight. l'he Publication of the Evening Edition of Tim Stm corn menced at 5 minutes after Four. t y 4 fake • , Zite AAtn. ii(li., 4 3n,.. ' )1 1 / 4 4 1; 41 El 1"13 9 1 1 i I ' !tej *n. ". 411 0 'llol '~'a~A~~ 0? 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