The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-01 00:00:00

MORNING SUN country, and that there was land in the country brought , under corn, which ought not, and would not, , be so under a free trade in corn.—( Hear.) There was land in the country which would never pay for growing corn at European prices—(Hear, hear)—and if there was a free importation of corn, that portion which was thus foolishly brought into cultivation, would go out of cultivation.—(Hear, hear, and cheerr.) His opinion was that such an impulse would be given to agricultural improvement, that more corn would be produced by the land fit for cultivation, than was at present pro duced by all, fit and unfit together.—(Cheers.) It was well known that there was the utmost difficulty in ob taining shambles meat for the supply of this country, and if it were not for the supply from Ireland, they could not get the very limited portion of food our starv ing population now required. He thought it could not be easily disproved Ithat this country was much better calculated to produce cattle in many of its districts than wheat. If they could get corn from abroad the soil would be cultivated in the manner best suited to it. He wished also to say a word as to the argument respect ing agricultural labourers. We were an increas inglpopulation, and in spite of everything to be done and said to the contrary, we should go on increasing in population. But we did not increase in land. 'Food might be obtained from abroad, only by exchanging for it the produce of this country. Labour was like other commodities, and it was a mistake to say that mas• ters beat down wages ; the fact was, that in the com petition for empioyment, one workman beat down the wages of another. But by an extension of commerce, the demand for labour would be increased, and then the labourer might make his own bargain. He did not do so now. Nothing but increased employment would en able him to do it.—( A voice " Abolition of machinery.") A gentleman said, abolition of machinery would do it. What, then, was it that reduced the wages of labour in Ireland, where there was no machinery ?—(A person in the meeting " Kingcraft, priestcraft.") Well, then, if it were kingeralt or priestcraft, it was not machinery. —(Loud, chew.) He would only make one remark. What they wanted was increased employment ; they could only obtain that increased employment by extended commerce, and they could only obtain extended com merce by breaking the shackles of commerce.—( Loud cheers.) And they could only do that by an united public opinion —(Cheers.) Then came the qaestion, how could, they obtain that united public opinion ? By one partycomiog and assailing another? Was it to be obtained by parties saying to others, " If you will not say our shibboleth, we will drown you ?"—(Loud cheers.) If you will not subscribe to every article of our political creed, we will denounce and oppose you ! *He said this was contrary to reason, to common sense, and to justice.—( Loud and repeated cheers.) if they were all convinced, and he believed nine-tenths of those pre sent were so, that the Corn-laws were an evil, why could they not unite to repeal them They might do so without compromising a single political principle. A person in the gallery said, Col. Thompson bad stated that the Corn-law Repealers and the Chartists might shake hands together. Now, to carry this out, if the Corn-law Repealeas would go for the Charter, the Chartists would go with them for a repeal of the Corn laws.—(Cheers.) Colonel THOMPSON said he did not come either to offer or to ask concessions. He could not pledge him self for either one party or the other. There were Tories and cold Whigs amongst the Corn-law Re peelers ; it was not to be expected that they would agitate for the Charter. He came to ask the Anti-Corn-law men and the Chartists, who both agreed that the Corn laws were an evil, to cease running against each other.—(Cheers.) He would have them each run against the common enemy, not one hin dering another, but wishing that each might see cause to rejoice in the other's success.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. THOMAS CAPSTACK then proposed a rote of thanks to Co'onel Thompson for the lecture delivered before them, and his frankness in answering the ques tions put to him. Mr. BAKER seconded the motion. Mr. PITKETHLEY said he had risen with the inten tion of seconding the motion. Though he differed from Colonel Thompson in many of the opinions he had ad. vanced, yet he gave him the greatest possible credit for honesty and sincerity, and he looked upon the circum stance of his being brought there as a good omen.— (Cheers.) He believed there was no man who wished better to the community.—( Loud cheers.) The motion was then put and carried unanimously, with the exception of three hands ; and Colonel THOMPSON briefly acknowledged the honour done him. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, passed una nimously, the meeting separated. EMIGRATION. A public meeting was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of adopting such measures as might seem necessary to carry into effect the intention of the persons who had signed a re quisition to the Lord Mayor, to convene a meeting on the subject of a National, or Government Scheme of Emigration. At two u'elock Mr. CRAWFORD having intimated to the meeting that the Gentleman who had been exp2cted to take the chair had not then arrived, proposed that Mr. Montgomery Martin should preside instead. The motion having passed nem con, Mr. Montgomery Martin accordingly took the chair. Mr. CRAWFORD again came forward and said—Having taken an active part in getting up the requisition to the Lord Mayor to convene a meeting of the citizens of Lon don to express their sentiments on the important sub ject of emigration, as the great means of relief for the hundreds and thousands of our unemployed fellow coun trymen in various parts of the kingdom, and at the same time as a means of relief for the distress existing in almost every one of the British colonies from the want of labour—the want of that which in this country we had in excess—having taken an active part in getting up that requisition, the duty devolved upon him of now stating the reasons which had prompted those from whom it emanated. He wished to be as full and unreserved in his statement as possible, in order that there might be no misapprehension, no misconstruction, and no misrepre sentation on the subject. The meeting was aware that six weeks ago a public meeting was held in that very room, at which Mr. Sheriff Rogers presided, and at which a deputation from his (Mr. Crawford's) native town of Paisley, attended, and stated the fearful destitu tion existing among the operative population of that town, in consequence of the want of employment. An appeal was then made to the charitable and benevo lent feelings of the wealthy citizens of London for a public subscription on behalf of his unemployed and destitute townsmen. That appeal was not made in vain. Above 4,0001. had been subscribed in London in aid of the Paisley Operative Relief Fund. Munificent, how ever, as that subscription was, it had been found quite inadequate to relieve the distress existing in Paisley. Since the deputation was in London the lumber re ceiving relief front the fund had increased from he • twixt 4,000 and 5,000 to the fearful amount of 11,000, being a fourth part of the whole population of Paisley, according to the last census. Eleven thousand of our fellow-conntrymen and fellow-Christians, not idle and dissolute persons, but honest, industrious, well-be haved, moral, and religious members of society, were reduced to such a state of destitution as to be entirely dependent upon, and kept alive by, a relief fund, doled out to them at the miserable rate •of lid. per clay.— (Hear, hear.) Was such a state of things to be allowed to continue ? Was nothing to be done for the permanent relief of these people ? Were those who were devising means for their permanent welfare less patriotic and less true than those who were directing their attention ex clusively to relieving their present wants ?—(Hear, hear.) As to a permanent plan of relief, many things had been suggested. But it appeared to him, to those who had s igned the requi s i t i on, and to thousands besides, that of all the plans which had been suggested, that which would create ample facilities to enable our unemployed fellow-coun . trymen t o o b ta i n a subsistence by mea n s o f their lawful ,go industry, h e i c ß h r i s t h i s o h u c d oclroenai tfacilities ael there NtNoas acteortainty of th e ir b e i ng topossessions enwhaehrlee m cotnfort a bl e subsistence, would employed,'and earning a be the inve , t obvious, the, easiest, t the m ost practical, and 1 here wore many tender-hearted the most effectual of all. sentimentalists who exclaimed, "O, what a hardship, what to compel p eo ,4 , t e cave a cruelty, and what a tyranny , ro tneir ho mes p , their country ! to drive t hem es NOW he s not aware that those (Hear, and a laugh.) who wished the British Legislature to , form . a national scheme of emigration for a moment contemplated either compelling people to leave their country, If or drivin a ere them from their homes !_(Hear, hear.) it w hardship for persons to leave a locality where they could not obtain a subsistence, to proceed to another where they could, that hardship had existed, did exist, and would exist, independent of any law w hi c h the British or any other Legislature might enact.—(Hear, hear.) It was the law of nature, it was the law of God, first an nounced when he gave the commandment to our first parents to increase and multiply, to repleni s h the earth and to subdue it. It was a law which had been in operation from the beginning of the world, as everyone who knew anything of the history of the humane family must be aware. It had been in operation at the time when Abraham said to Lot, " Go you to the right hand and I to the left, so that there may be no strife between thee and me, and that we, and our wives, and our children, and our servants, and our flocks and herds, may have room and forage enough, and plenty to spare, in place of our continually quarrelling when we meet together for a scanty subsistence !" The same law was in operation in our day among the High landers of Scotland, who emigrated to the lowlands, and crowded the manufacturing towns—it was in operation among the hordes of Irishmen who left their native country, that of icinu gcntium, and inundated England, lowering the standard of wages for the English labourer by their numbers and their distresed condition, and driving the inhabitants of Great Britain in their turn to seek a sub sistence elsewhere.—(Hear, hear.) That law was in operation among those crowds who flocked daily into this mighty City, leaving their homes in every part of the empire in search of the means of existence—it was in operation among the 40,000 who emi grated annually to America, among the 20,000 who emigrated to Canada, and the 90,000 who emigrated to the Australian Colonies. It was a law which, if they were to examine the subject minutely, they would find was at the bottom of the invasion of Great Britain by the Romans. But England had since that period under gone a mighty change. Her own population now over flowing—she had become the Mistress of the world, and the Queen of nations. The same law was at the bottom of the invasion of England by the Saxons and • the Normans, by whom: England was colonised, and by whom the mighty superstructions of her society , had been laid. He begged leave to add, that whatever, Englishmen might think of emigration, in his country — in Scotland—it was not looked upon as a hardship. At this moment there were in Paisley a large number of families resolved upon emigrating to Canada, to Port Philip, and Sydney . . These parties had formed a so ciety, and on learning that he (Mr. Crawford) was on his way to London, they had requested him to en deavour to raise funds among the charitable in the metropolis, for the purpose of enabling them to carry out their intentions. He had applied to Mr. P. Maxwell Stewart and Mr. Elastic to assist him in his exertions in the cause; but they declined to interfere, stating that they felt bound in the first instance to direct all their energies towards the relief of those who were suffering from immediate want. It then occurred to him that it would be advisable to open two subscription lists, one for the names of those who were ready to assist emigrants, and the other for the names of those who wished to re lieve the digressed generally. lie was advised, however, not to mention the subject of emigration at all, as it might interfere with the other object he had in view ; and that advice he had thought it advisable to follow. A number of gentlemen, however, to whom he had spoken on the subject highly approved of the deter mination of his fellow-townsmen to emigrate, and ex pressed their determination to give them every assistance in their power. A number of resolutions were after wards drawn up for the purpose of being submitted to a public meeting. But in the meantime certain gentle men in the City connected with New South Wales had convened a meeting at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, and at that meeting a Committee was appointed specially for the purpose of preparing a requisition to be presented to the Lord Mayor, with a view to call upon her Majesty's Government to promote emigration to New South Wales. Such a proceeding, however, was considered rather ex clusive upon the part of those gentlemen, and it was re solved that a meeting should be held for the purpose of promoting emigration to the British Colonies generally. —(Hear, hear.) lie (Mr. Crawford) had accordingly addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor, praying for his co-operation in carrying out their views. To that letter his Lordship had returned the following a nswer : " SIR-I am commanded by the Rig ht Hon. the Lord Mayor to acknowledge the receipt of your communica tion of the 11th inst., enclosing the copy of a proposed requisition to his Lordship to call a public Meeting, to take into consideration the necessity of Government adopting measures for promoting emigration on a large national scale, as an effectual means of relief both to the colonies and the mother country. "I have his Lordship's directions to state in reply, that as he understands the whole subject is now under the re view of her Majesty's Cabinet, he does not feel himself at liberty, by complying with any such requisition, to anticipate in any way the course which they shall think proper to adopt, but that as soon as those intentions shall be known, his Lordship will act with energy and promp titude in whatever way he shall deem advisable for the in terests of the community which he has the honour to repre sent. " I have the honour to be, &c., Mansion-house, Nor. 12. " JAS. YOUNG." Now he (Mr. Crawford) had the highest respect for the Lord Mayor. He was a Scotchman, and one who did honour to Scotland by his talents and integrity ; but with great deference to. his. Lordship, he begged leave to say, that a public meeting, such as had been pro posed, could not in any way interfere with cr embarrass the Government. In his (Mr. Crawford's) belief nothing could be so well calculated to inspire her Majesty's Govern ment with confidence in the proposed undertaking than to find that they were supported by public opinion. Notwithstanding the rather discouraging letter of the Lord Mayor, they had persevered.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted to be obliged to add that they had received no support fr,om those quarters from which they had most reason to expect it—from the bankers and mer chants of the City. Still, however, the requisition was signed by upwards of 120 gentlemen ; and in his (Mr. Crawford's) opinion, the Lord Mayor was too much impressed with the importance of the case— too much aware of the honour which a successful attempt to promote emigration would confer on his Mayoralty— to refuse even now the prayer of any requisition on the subject which might be presented to him. Already much good had been done. The requisition and the re solutions had been published in the Newspapers, and the project had received the almost unanimous support and advocacy of the public Press, not only in London but throughout the provinces. These were very gratifying circumstances, and he hoped they would encourage the friends of the undertaking to persevere in their efforts. The CHAIRMAN then said that the requisition which he held in his hand was signed by 150 gentleman, many of whom were of the highest respectability, and all of them persons of such standing in society as entitled their wishes to consideration. He regretted to find that many of those gentlemen were not then present ; but the subject was one of such deep national importance that those who were favourable to scheme of emigration should not be deterred by any circumstances from pressing their views. His opinion was, that without interfering with the efforts of individuals in favour of their respec tive colonies, the subject should be taken up by the gen tlemen in the manner best calculated to promote emigration generally.ltwas a great mistake to suppose that the question was one ofisolated or minor importance. It was merely ne cessary to state a few facts in order to point out its mag nitude. The recent census showed that the population of England had doubled since the commencement of the present century; and that every day one thousand more persons were born than died. Now, some provision should be made for these constantly augmenting numbers, They had an addition of one thousand a day to the popu lation, and they had no correspondingly increasing stir• face in their islands which they might occupy. They should, therefore, sooner or later, find room in which this increased surplus population might disseminate themselves. But where would they find that room ? Was it in Great Britain? Why, every year fifty thousand of the industrious inhabitants of this country were expatriating themselves to the United States. But the English empire itself extended over the whole earth. In every part of the globe were to be found the English flag, the English language, and English laws ; and it was the duty of Government to give a tendency to the tide of emigration to our own colo nies. The extent of the British empire was not generally ' known. It comprised 2,250,000 square miles, which were equal to 250,000,000 of acres. Now it should be remem bered that in this kingdom there were 300 mouths to the square mile, while in many of our colonies there was not one mouth to the square mile ; and it would be desirable that our surplus population should migrate to regions so thinly peopled. In Australia there was but one and a-half mouth to each square mile, and but three mouths to the square mile in Canada. Unger these cir cumstances common sense indicated that they ought to bridge over the Atlantic, that their overflokying popula tion might there find independence and a home. It was contended that the colonies were an expense to the mo ther country, but many gentlemen would perhaps feel surprised when he stated that the whole expense of the British Government for its colonies amounted to no more than 226,000/. a year. What did the colonies contribute in return ? The revenue derived from the British possessions abroad amounted to 23,000,0001. per annum. Besides the commerce of their colonies was 55,000,0001. per annum, and of that sum 25,000,0001. was directly exchanged with the mother country. Ile need not remind mercantile men that the commerce thus carried on was so much profit to the whole empire ; while the commerce carried on between England and New York went one-half to this country, and the other half to the United States. Those colonies added materially more to our physical strength. The regular troops they employed amounted to 156,000 men, and their militia to 240,000 men-at arms. People were accustomed to talk of the colonies as if they were a drain upon the mother country, or an offshoot, or a scion unworthy of consideration ; but such an idea was a gross misapprehension. The tonnage of the ships entered inwards and outwards to the British colonies amounted to 7,500,000 ; and the property created in those colonies amounted to 387,000 L a-year. But whatever was the present value of those Colonies to the mother country, that value might be still further increased by a well-con sidered scheme of emigration, while a relief would be af forded to thousands who could not obtain a subsistence at home. The people of this country had markets beyond the control of the foreigner, and they had an increasing supply of the raw materials for manufactures continually re• turning to this country. In Australia alone they had the woollen farm of the world. A few years ago that country exported but a half dozen bales of wool. The present amount of its woollen exports was 12,000,0001155. annually.' In Australia, in Canada, in South America, in Africa, and in almost every country in the world we had colonies capable of being made available to relieve the pressing wants of the surplus population of the mother country; and he (Mr. Martin) trusted, therefore, that the Lord Mayor would comply with the wishes of the Present meeting, and convene a public meeting, in order that an impulse might be given to her Majesty's Go vernment which should be beneficial to the great cause that they now advocated. It was no matter what the it torc Go vernment cofvutli m e i o g p h i n t o o n r . m cg t. h: a n s ot n , o intend on the subjeet y ; Was the duty of all good citizens to urge upon it the strife or politics. As far as it was co t ric a ern cl e u d e , s t t to care whether it Lord J. Russell or Sir conducted the h i R o e n . y ; o e, f eer p l el a yn r h t oot duty, of the. country ; but it was knownt hei r to boundenAlinisteray;oaiemnptortant a grievance of the citizens of a free State, to make coun try as this was, and to there fullest consideration. Withreat them to take it into their not connected with any rgard to himself, he was particularon n colony. lie felt it pr ld esent occasion, his duty to attend and he did so accordingly. He the influential that some one of the several desire to do so have wished and the meeting OM to accede to 6 gen tlemen whom he saw present had n had he hbaedenhpereenpodseesdi,r a induced to take the chair. He had no their wishes. He trusted, however, t h at some of those gentlemen would come forward to form a Committee, seethedhimself, with the view of waiting on the Lord Mayor to request vene a public meeting for his Lord - ship to con . . . the pur t_e question irrespective f pose of considering h 0 - party prejudices. wished to hear the Lord Mr. NATHANIEL CLARK Mayor's letter again r ead, as he was apprehensive of hi s not having caught its purport accurately. r The CHAIRMAN having read the lette r , e ed to him that .Mr. CLARK observed , that it app in a dilemma, which he they were placed by that letter get out of. They could not explain how they could seemed to him to be precluded by it from if the a ddressin ghis Lordship on the subject. Ho wever, meeting thought otherwise, he would not offer any dissent. With the opinion expressed by the Lord Mayor, be dissented. He concurred with the Chairman that the respec tability of such a meeting as the present ought to be brought ,to bear upon the matter. He was sure that if they unanimously agreed to ask an interview with his Lordship the latter would forego so much of his opinion as should induce him to grant to the citizens of this great metropolis an opportunity of expressing, without bias against Ministers or otherwise, their opinions on a ques tion which involved the best interests of the country. He (Mr. Clark) had read certain resolutions which had been generally circulated, and which it was intended to propose at a public meeting to be convened on the subject by the Lord Mayor, should his Lordship consent so to do. With the general scope of those resolutions he concurred, but there was one, from a part of which he dissented, (Mr. Clark then read the portion of the resolu tion to which he referred, and which called on the public to contribute to a general fund for the assistance of emi grants; instead of which, he meant to propose that a national or parochial rate should be levied fur that pur pose.) In case the Lord Mayor should convene a meeting on the subject, he meant to urge that point on its con sideration, unless he found that it was not generally concurred in. He deprecated their calling in eleemosynary aid to the carrying out of any great na tional work, such as the question which had brought them together to-day. Mr. CRAWFORD concurred in the opinions expressed by Mr. Clark. Mr. MANBERS bore testimony, as far as his experience went, to the benefits derivable from a well-conducted scheme of emigration being s et on foot, and instanced the Childrens' Friend Society, which the press had knocked on the head, but which had had its efforts in behalf of poor children, which they had sent out to the colonies, attended with the most happy . results. Mr. J. RocEas said he had had an opportunity, with in the present year, of witnessing the distress existing both in Paisley and in several parts of Ireland. He re gretted that the Gentleman who made the opening speech of the meeting, had suffered a selfish feeling to con fine his charitable views to his own native place, and had not extended them to Ireland and Eng land. The Spanish refugee, and the Polish exile, found sympathy in this country ; but the unfortunate English operative and the Irish labourer looked in vain for a share in that sympathy. He (Mr. Rogers) par ticularly regretted that the gentleman to whom he had before alluded, should have made any national reflection on certain classes of emigrants who were under the necessity of leaving their native land to seek a livelihood in England and Scotland. He (Mr. Crawford) seemed to forget that these very men were the countrymen of the hero of Waterloo. Mr. Rogers then entered into statements of the distress he witnessed in the west of Ireland and in Paisley, and expressed his approbation of the plan of a great national scheme of emigration being established. He believed that if the Lord Mayor of London were to lead the way, all the corporations in the United King dom would come forward to assist, and their united force on the House of Commons would be irresistible.— (Hear, hear.) The Lord Mayor of London was always a man of great importance and extensive influence, but the present one had such an intimate acquaintance with ' shipping and commerce in general, and such a character for philanthropy, that whatever came from him must have a great influence upon the country at large. He entirely agreed that anything like a public subscription would fail, or would be inadequate to the demand.— (Hear, hear.) Her Majesty's provinces of Upper and Lower Canada would be much improved by the addition of two millions of inhabitants, and to emigrants them selves the advantage would be great and lasting. Mr. BROOKES said the gentleman who had just spoken had adverted to the fact that ten persons had been found living in a room eighteen feet square. He could state from his own knowledge, that in a parish within a short distance six or eight persons had occupied a room ten or twelve feet square within the last month. He had him self seen persons inhabiting places which he would have thought it impossible to use as a residence. Knowing that large masses of the population were placed in this degraded state, he who did not endeavour to remedy the evil was answerable for the death of every per son who died in consequence.(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The question was not to be discussed as one of commercial greatness, or of partizanship. With regard, however, to the present meeting, he thought that when they had the letter of the Lord Mayor, stating that the object was under the consideration of the Go vernment, they ought to be satisfied. He could not hold up his hand for anything which would seem like dictating to the Government. He was surprised, that after the Lord Mayor's communication, propositions would be put forward im plying that the Government were not inclined to take up the subject in all its length and breadth. Without at all detracting from what had been said by the Chairman, and by the Gentleman who had first addressed the meet ing, he must say he had heard nothing which entitled them to dictate to the Government, or to say that the question would not be taken up by them in a fair and manly way. He said this, although as an individual, he was opposed to the existing Government. He believed that their scheme of emigration would, like most of their measures, be a scheme of mere palliatives. As a politican he was an enemy to Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear.) He had never had the slightest confidence in him, and had never seen any greatness in him as a statesman. If, however, the Government had been strong enough to say, with regard to measures of relief, and to the Corn-laws, that they should be postponed for three months, they might expect that in all rationality they would meet such questions like men. He thought, therefore that they should not interfere with the Government on this ques tion. He believed that the subject was one which could net be treated with too much solemnity. To provide means of employment somewhere—whether in our own land or in the colonies, was a question of profound mo ment—seemed to be the only remedy for the distress of the people. He looked upon all the affliction which had come upon the country as the result of their disre gard of the religion which they professed, and as in tended to teach them that there was no redemption for nations but in simple obedience to the revealed will of Heaven. The CHAIRMAN said he must remind the Gentleman who had just spoken that the meeting was not assembled for any party or political object, and it had no reference either to Sir Robert Peel or to Lord John Russell.— (Hear, hear.) As to the charge of dictating to the Go vernment it was not their province as Englishmen to dictate ; they came there only to express their opinions, and he hoped the Gentleman would withdraw that ex pression. Mr. BROOKES said a few words in explanation. Mr. WATSON said he distinctly disclaimed, both for himself and the requisitionists in general, any intention to dictate to the Government.—(Hear, hear.) But they thought that the time had arrived when the question should be taken up by the Government of this country, and when they, as members of society who felt for the people in their distress, should respectfully lay before the public their feelings on the subject: and the remedy which they thought it most desirable to apply. Such conduct amounted to nothing like dictation.—(Hear.) He quite concurred in the observation which had been made, that the subject could only be taken up effectually by the Government. It was exceedingly important, he thought, thrt it should be taken up as a Government question, that where a party was compelled to emigrate facilities might be afforded them for choosing east, west, north, or south. It was exceedingly important to this country that the able-bodied labourer should not be in duced to go to a foreign country.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Let them open the door to our beautiful colonies, and invite the people to go where they would have the benefits and protection of British commerce and British laws. He had reason to believe from letters which he had seen on the subject that numbers who had emigrated to the United States of America, were unable there to obtain that full employment which was so easily pro cured in Canada, and other colonies of England. He hoped that this fact would be made known to the work ing.classes generally.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. CLARK wished to observe, that he entirely ap proved of the objects of the meeting. He had formerly been a party to sending many thousands to our colonies; and he believed that, with few exceptions, they had all benefited by the change. That was a reason why he was anxious to join in the present movement in favour of emigration. We had now arrived at a state of mendicity in our rural and manufacturing districts, and it was of the utmost importance that emi gration should be taken up as a national measure. We would by this means benefit ourselves, and create new markets for our manufactured productions. He hoped that, considering the importance of the subject, the Lord Mayor would be induced to re-consider his reso lution. Mr. HINTON then proposed the following resolution : " That a Committee be now appointed to wait upon the Lord Mayor, and to solicit his Lordship to convene a public meeting, to take into consideration the necessity of emigration to the British Colonies as a relief for the distress now afflicting a large portion of the inhabitants of the United Kingdon ; or, in the event of the Lord Mayor declining, that the Committee may take such other measures as they may deem advisable for promot ing the objects of this meeting." He (Mr. Hinton) felt that this was the best to give practical effect to their wishes. Mr. BURT seconded the resolution, which was put and agreed to. In reply to a question from a Mr. Carpenter, the CHAIRMAN stated that it was intended to submit the re solutions which had been circulated, and which had been alluded to during the meeting, to any meeting which the Lord Mayor might convene on the subject of emigration. Mr. CARPENTER stated, that his object in asking the question, was to state, that if it went forth from that meeting that it was intended at any public meeting to be held on the question by the citizens of London, it should be recommended to have a parliamentary or paro chial rate levied for the purpose of carrying out this great scheme of emigration, such would go far towards defeating those beneficial objects which the originators of the present meeting had in view. He was sure, at all events, they would agree with him, that any recommendation to have a parliamentary or parochial tax levied in the present state of things in this country, for the purpose of carrying out even a be nevolent scheme would raise up enemies on all sides, who would, under other circumstances, ' be ready to carry out the objects now sought to be attained. It would be far better merely to press upon the Go vernment the necessity of adopting some scheme for promoting the permanent welfare of our surplus population. After some few further remarks, Mr. Car penter concluded his observations. Several gentlemen present then gave in their names for the purpose of forming a Committee with the object in view already mentioned, and the meeting separated. .DVERTISEMENT.] To THE LAD IES..—The results of inclement weather are frequently subversive of comfort and attrac tion to Ladies, by causing a naturally delicate skin to become rough and red, and frequently accompanied by chaps and chilblains. These innovations are success fully opposed in their progress, and thoroughly eradi cated on their completion , by the use of that inestimable production " Rowland's Kalydor," which possesses the most radical and purifying qualities for effectually .ex eluding and resistinc , with a rap id energy tru l y astonish ing, all disorders which disorganise the beauty of the countenance, and as increasing the fairness and transpa rency of the skin exceeds all competition. TH \ E SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1841. ARMY AND NAVY. THE DECEMBER NUMBER OF THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, and NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE, Contains, among other important Papers : Anson's Expedition Journal of the Operations in The British Colonies considered China by Sea as Military Posts, by Lieut.-Land Operations before Canton Col. Wilkie in May, by an Officer of the Historical Details relative to Force the Military Force of Great Move to Maroon Town Britain. 'Statistics of Reel citing Syria, during the Campaign Sir Gordon Bremer and Cap against Mehemet Ali tain Elliot Confessions of a Spy Examinations at Sandhurst Anecdotes of Camperdown The Brevet and all its details A March and Detachment in Presentation of Colours to the Ireland I 99th Regiment Nights on the Fo'castle, by the Distribution of the Army and Author of " Rattlin the t Navy, with all the Naval and Reefer" Military Intelligence of the Month. 3, Great Marlborough-street. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1 NEW SERIES OF HOWITT'S VISITS. This day is published, in medium Svo., with upwards of Forty highly-finished Woodcuts, 215., cloth lettered, VISITS to REMARKABLE PLACES — Old Halls, Battle-fields, and Scenes illustrative of striking Passages in History arid Poetry. By W. HOWITT, Author of " The Rural Life of England, " " The Boy's Coun try Book," &c. Second Series, chiefly in the Counties of Dur ham and Northumberland : with a Stroll along the Borders. London: Longman, Brown, and Co. CARLETON'S FAWN OF SPRING VALE, &c. This day is published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. JANE SINCLAIR ; or, The Fawn of Spring Vale—Lha Dhu ; or, The Dark Day—The Clarionet— The Dead Boxer—The Misfortunes of Barney Branagan— The Resurrections of Barney Bradley. By WILLIAM CARLETON. " Entitle Mr. Carleton to take rank among the most gifted literary men that his country has ever produced."—Britannia. By the same Author, THE MISER; or, The Convicts of Lisnamona. Second Edition, fcp. Bvo., 6s. cloth. FATHER BUTLEIi, the LOUGH DERG PILGRIM. Second Edition, fcp. Bvo., 3s. 6d. cloth. " Mr. Carleton's tales are full of vigour, picturesque descrip tion, and genuine pathos."—Quarterly Review, October. London : Longman and Co. Dublin : Curry and Co. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., illustrated with Twenty large Designs on Steel, by Franklin, OLD SAINT PAUL'S: A TALE of the PLAQUE and the FIRE. By W. HARRISON ii,NSWORTH, Esq., Author of " The Tower of London," &c. Hugh Cunningham, St. Aiartin's-place, Trafalgar-square. BERLIN WOOL andfANCY STATION ERY BUSINESS TO BE DISPOSED OF. The above is situated in one of the most leading Thorough fares out of London. Has been establ►shed some years, and supported a large family. Coming in moderate. Rent low, greatest part of which may be made by lodgers. Satisfactory reasons for leaving the same. Letters addressed (post paid) P. P. P., Sun Newspaper office, Strand. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.: UIDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. •-- THIS EVENING, DEC. 1, Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURN AND ClTY.—Captain Dangerfield, Mr. W. Lacy ; Sir Paladin Scruple, Mr. W. Farreu ; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Sir Hector Rumbush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning ton, Mr. Cooper ; Humphrey Rumbush, Mr. Harley ; Lady Whiffle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett; Lady Dangerfield, Mrs. W. West ; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs. W. Lacy. The Comedy will conclude with a Dance by the Characters. After which (First Time), A Ballet Divertissement, entitled the WOODEN LEG. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS. Doors to — be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Pour, where Season Tickets may be had el en application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, and The Wroag Man. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. MR. OSBALDISTON'S BENEFIT. Mr. OSBALDISTON cannot omit the present pleasing opportunity of thus publicly and energetically RETURNING HIS WARM THANKS for the splendid support which he had the honour to experience on the occasion of his BENEFIT on TUESDAY, November 23d, another gratifying and most convincing proof that his strenuous and never-tiring exertions to render the Royal Victoria Theatre the first minor establish ment of the metropolis, has been crowned with that trium phant success which his best friends and numerous supporters could never have anticipated to have been so fully and sub stantially realized, as every night's success must make palpable to the most common observer. Mr. OSBALDISTON also begs to announce, that all parties having tickets or checks, who were unable, in consequence of the immense pressure, to obtain entrance into the theatre on TUESDAY, November 23d, will be admitted on THURSDAY, December 2d, when the entertainments will consist of THE TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS. After which THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. OSBALDISTON ; Mrs. Haller, MISS VIN CENT. To conclude with CASPER, THE - DOOMED ; or, The Victim of the Vault: THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.--A New Edition of the PAILWAY SUN is NOW PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 1, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NooN, NOVEMBER 30. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 51) Highest 52 i Lowest . 39 Barometer 29.23.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 11 minutes after 3 I Evening 31 minutes after 3. Cbg tux, LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1841. The Morning Post yesterday, in defence of the Corn-laws, admitted that a law to make one class pay more than they need in order to enrich another class was wrong and without a just foundation', but it defended such a supposed pro perty in the Corn-laws by an assertion that the law gave to the class whom it made pay more additional means of payment. A prettier mode of conjuring is not to be met with in the booths on Epsom race-course or at Bartholomew Fair. Only pay one sixpence each, say the quacks, only one little sixpence, to learn the whole art of getting . rich. Plain men distrust all such quacks, and keep their little sixpences in their pockets as the surest means of having something. The Post admits that the Corn-law takes away the little sixpences from the people, and its skill in conjuration fails to show how the people are made wealthy by legislative plunder. When men assert (says our Contemporary) that the Corn-law makes them pay more than they would have to pay if there were no Corn-law, they must mean that in case of the law being abolished, they would not only have less to pay, but they would have the same means of payment. If by the abolition of the law both the price of corn and the means - of paying for it were equally di minished, then the fact of having to pay a less amount of money for corn would be no benefit. Those who make the assertion mentioned by the Post, mean that if they had to pay less for corn, they would have more means of payment. The co-relative of price is means of payment; and to assert that price falls, is to assert that means of pay men t increase. The Corn-law avowedly compels the whole body of the con sumers to give more labour for their corn than they would have to give if there were no Corn law. The abolition of the law, therefore, would lessen the quantity of labour, or lower the na tural price of corn, and, at the same time, by feeding more ,persons, increase the sum of la bour, or means of paying for corn and all other things. The money that is, to be exchanged for corn will not be lessened by the abolition of the Corn laws. The same quantity will be in existence afterwards as before. In fact, as most exchanges are now made by credit, and as credit would be increased by the abolition of the Corn-laws, the means of payment would be increased in the same ratio as price was lowered. The manufacturer, after a large fall in the price of grain from the abolition of the law, might be obliged to take a penny a yard less for his cloth,but all that he sold after the abolition more than he now sellS, would be for him a means of paying for corn ; and the abolition of the law, which made corn cheap, would very much increase his means of payment. The same reasoning applies to other classes, such as labourers or professional men. There would be more food obtained, more wealth com manded by less labour, and all would have their means of payment increased as corn became cheaper by the abolition of a restrictive law. We except only the landowners, not the farmers, nor their labourers; and the landlords have no more right to that portion of their incomes which arises from the Corn-laws, than. a highwayman has a right to keep the property of the traveller he has, by dint of threatening to take his li►fe,, forced him to resign. We conclude by saying that the learned Post has raised a great dust by representing as contradictory two sets of phrases which mean, under different relations, the same fact. Lowering price by the seller is to increase the means of payment by the buyer, and a reduc tion of price consequent on obtaining a commo dity in general use, like food, at a less cost of production, is to increase the means of payment in the whole community. The meeting in the City yesterday, on the subject of emigration, was a failure. No more distinguished a person than Mr. MONTGOMER Y MARTIN could be found for the chair, while the principal speaker was a gentleman from Paisley. Cold water was thrown on the whole proceed ings by the LORD MAYOR refusing all co-opera•- tion, because, " as he understands, the whole subject is now under the review of her MA JESTY'S Cabinet." All that the public has gained by the demonstration is this almost official an nouncement concerning the intentions of the Government. Dr. LUSHINGTON has pronounced for the va lidity of a Church-rate which had been resisted in the parish of Hackney. We see no reason to impugn the Learned Civilian's judgment, which turned chiefly on some technical points, as whe ther the church in question was to be considered a parish church, and whether the persons who had levied the rates were the proper authorities to levy them. These were some of the points in dispute, subordinate to the great principle of the parish being obliged to keep the church in re pair, which Dr. LUSHINGTON, in common with other Judges, laid down as follows : The parishioners of the whole parish were bound to re pair the ancient parish church ; that is, the body of it ; and this obligation was imposed, not by ecclesiastical law, but by custom—by the common law of England, re cognised by various statutes. It is not the ecclesiastical law which imposes such burdens ; for, by the ancient ecclesiastical law, it was to be defrayed out of the eccle siastical profits. Neither could the ecclesiastical law have produced any such effect here. Unless recognised by common law, or enacted as law by statute, it was and is wholly inoperative in this country. This obligation to repair, as imposed by common law, is recognised by all the common law authorities, by Lord Coke, and indeed, before his time, in other Courts ; but by Lord Ceke, and by all authorities who followed him, down to and in cluding Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and the Judges of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, as expressed in their judgment in " Veley against Burder." The obligation is further recognised by various statutes, from the time of Edward the First down to the present day. It is again recognised in all the Acta of Parliament of modern times. We cannot dispute or doubt such authority, but we can point out on what it rests, and the readers will judge of the justice, not of Dr. LUSHINGTON'S decision, which we do not call in question, but of the law itself. It is so decreed by the common law, the expounder of which was Lord COKE, and persons antecedent to him. The common law, that which Dr. LUSHINGTON ad hered to, because he can only act by precedent or statute, is the declaration of an opinion, or a decree of a man, or some men, who lived between two and three centuries ago. Lord COKE died in 1634. The common law has no other or higher authority than this, together with the sanction it has since received from usage. Is it rational that a declaration of opinion at that time by one man, should be binding on society now under very different circumstances ? Lord COKE, and the able lawyers who went before him, possessed a sort of equity jurisdic tion, and decided according to circumstances. In his time there was comparatively little per sonal property, and that was scarcely assessed. At that period the middle classes were just gathering power, and becoming known, and at that period the bulk of the land was in the hands of a few great proprietors. Prior to that it had been in the possession of still fewer, and the middle classes were of still less importance. The words parish and parishioners probably meant rather the land than the people. The old law yers took a rational view when they declared that the parish, meaning the great landowners, must provide for the repairs of the churches in which their vassals and the persons who dwelt in the pirish worshipped. Circum stances are now altogether different. The pro perty of the people is more personal than landed, and personal property is assessed to Church and Poor-rates. Now also there are numbers of Dis senters, who are made, by such decisions as that of Lord COKE and Dr. LUSHINGTON, to pay for the support of a Church they never use. To continue blindly to apply the old law may be very legal, very proper, strictly according to pre cedent, but it is calculated to make all reflecting men despise the law as a parcel of rubbish, if it be not a nuisance. If Judges wish that the law should remain respected, they should sometimes throw precedents aside, and allow common sense to have more sway than the decisions of pre vious Judges. General WINFIELD SCOTT, Commander-in- Chief of the United States' army, is among the candidates for the Presidency ,of the Republic. In this capacity he haS addressed a letter to the people of the United States, explanatory of his opinions on the important questions of party politics, the judiciary, the executive veto, rotation in office, Presidential term of office, agency of the President in legis lation, and secret societies. The Gallant General sets out by stating that, when a mere youth, he felt the liveliest joy in the ex piration of the Alien and Sedition laws, and the triumph of Mr. JEFFERSON. That from 1806 he was old enough to oppose, by speech and pen, the British Order in Council, the attack on the Chesapeake, the impressment by British ships of American seamen, the insults of the French Directory, and NAPOLEON'S Berlin and Milan decrees ; that he supported the MADISON and MUNROE Administrations in everything but the dismasting of a part of the navy and the gun-boat system of defence ; that, moreover he is an old-fashioned, republican-democratic Whig, as all his family have been. So much for the General's politics. As respects the J udiciary he has the deepest reverence for the Bench State and Federal—and altogether con demns any appeal to Congress or elsewhere against , the decision of•the Supreme Court, which ought, in all cases to be final; op position to the decisions of that Court he re gards as revolutionary. With regard to the PRESIDENT'S veto General SCOTT thinks it might be set aside by the vote of a simple majority Of Congress, ten days being allowed for reflection after its exercise. Connected with the veto power is that of patronage, and here we shall quote the Gallant Candidate's own words. We regret that it is impossible to question their truth, coming as they do from so respectable a quarter : The President is, under the checks of the Constitution and law, rightfully invested with the power of the sword, and he has again and again had that of the purse also. The House of Congress it is true, lay taxes for imports, and regu late the sales of the public domain ; but it is he (through his agents) who handles the proceeds. From 1833 to 1836 (to say nothing of the present) he alone nominated and dismissed all the agents who kept, as well as those who collected, distributed, and disbursed the public reve nue. The apothegm —make us your executor, we care not who are your legislators—has a frightful application to such small agents, and the immense treasure that an nually passes through their hands! The rapid increase and spread of population ; the growth of national wealth; the amount of revenue col lected and disbursed; the new relations (by the extension of commerce) with foreign countries ; the additional ap pointments at home and abroad ; the number and va lue of contracts—all constantly and necessarily on the increase ; a general decay in morals, perhaps as great in Congress as elsewhere ; the habit that we have seen prevail during the several Presidential terms— of filling public offices with but 'little or no regard to moral standing—have, taken together, already opened to government elements of power and corruption which it was impossible for the framers and adopters of the Con stitution to foresee or to conceive. Who, at that distant day, for example, ever dreamed of the spectacles which have recently disgusted every honest citizen : of post.. masters, mail-contractors, mail-agents, and census takers covering the land with government pamphlets, hand-bills, and extra-gazettes, sufficient (if read) to sap the morals, public and private, of an entire generation ? Of the Custom-house mercenarieslin the large cities, liv ing on the public.neglecting every duty for party meetings and the polls, and rendering to power the most bribe worthy services ? Of District Attorneys and Collec tors, rambling missionaries, defending every abuse of office—their own the most indecent—or in order to maintain power in the hands of their patron ? All who have reflected on the foregoing facts must be ready to affirm—that Executive patronage " has increased, is in creasing, and ought to diminished." I hope, then, by an early amendment of the Con stitution, to see a reduction of the President's veto The regulation of patronage would naturally follow. Removal from subordinate offices General SCOTT would confine to proven dishonesty or in capacity. He considers that to perform the duties of subordinate offices well, long training is required, and that continuance in office is but the proper reward of merit. In the number of officials not removable he includes Ambassadors, Secretaries of Legation, Consuls, and Postmas ters, whose commissions do not exceed one thou sand dollars a-year. He is opposed to the re election of the President, and would support a change in the Constitution to that effect. Re specting the leading measures of the late extra session he says:— If I had had the honour of a vote on the occasion, it would have been given in favour of the Land Distribu tion Bill ; the Bankrupt Bill and the second Bill for a creating of a fiscal corporation—having long been under a conviction that, in peace, as in war, something efficient, in the nature of a Bank of the United States, is not only " necessary and proper," but indispensable to the success ful operations of the Treasury, as well as to many of the wants of our commerce and currency. General SCOTT has not been in a Masonic Lodge but once in the course of thirty years, and belongs to no other secret society whatever; that once was more than sixteen years ago. His principles, he says, are convictions which he could not abandon for the Presidency; but, if elected to carry them out, he will accept that office. Such is the substance of General SCOTT'S ad dress, which is dated " Washington, October 25th." It is curious that in such a document he should say no more about the widely-agitated question of a National Bank than what we have given in the short paragraph immediately pre ceding. For our own part we should gladly see General SCOTT President of the United States. His conduct during the rebellion in Ca nada was upright and impartial, and no effort of his was wanting to maintain the most friendly relations between England and the United States. The Sympathisers met with neither sympathy nor encouragement at his hands. He is also well acquainted with the merits of the Boundary question, and remarkably well dis posed to promote its speedy and pacific ad justment. In private life we have always beard General WINFIELD SCOTT spoken of as an intelligent, amiable, good man whom no traveller encountered without increased respect for the American character. The world knows him to be a chivalrous, high• minded soldier, and fame, even in Europe, proclaims him a patriot, a gentleman, and a Christian, in the true and exalted sense of that much-abused word. We have published in The Sun this day a short account of the entertainment given by a numerous body of electors of Maryle bone to Mr. Kensett, who has long taken an active part in the affairs of that extensive borough, and has been of some service to the cause of Reform. He was presented at the same tune with a splendid ser vice of plate, a return fur his valuable labours alike honourable to him and the inhabitants who conferred it. • 'if' . r ••• ' yr II Li . 34 •N5i , 40.100, ;„ , • ' 431 0. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public 143 putt() " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, ar rived on Monday at Liverpool. She sailed from New York on the 9th ult., and has thus made the passage in 19 days. For the news brought by her we refer to another part of The Sun. General IN infield Scott, Com mander-in-Chief of the United States army, is a candi date fir the Presidency—we trust a successful one. The Great Western. steam -ship, which left Bristol on the 23d ult., arrived at, ;Srew York on the night of the Bth inst., after a passage of 15 days. The lloy-al Mail steamer, the Britannia, which sailed from LiverpOol on the 21st ult., arrived at BostOn on the 7th ult., after a run of 15 days. His Royal... High t -lass the Prince de Joinville was in Buffalo on the 29th, oct. He was to go, on the next day, up the Prairie du Chien, and afterwards go down the Mississipi and Ohio as far as Louisville. Accounts from Jamaica to the Bth Oct. had been receive) at New York. Several shocks of earth quake had been felt in various parts of the island. In Spanish-town the scarlet fever was raging, and it is stated, in one of the papers, that out of a population of about 7,000, there have been not less than 1,500 cases of that fever within three months. The Robert Finnie, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday from Arica and Valparaiso, has brought upwards of 1200,000 on freight. A Hanover paper of the 20th November, says:—" On the 16th the Countess Von Platin Hallermund (a Baroness of Munster) died here in the 85th year of her active life. The deceased, who was endowed with the rarest gifts of the mind and heart, is deeply regretted by her children, and a very numerous family. Her death is most sincerely and generally deplored, and the memory of a life devoted for almost seventy years to the happi ness of her fellow-creatures and works of charity will long survive." A letter from Cologne, of the 15th of November, has the following .—" We hear that his Majesty the King of Prussia has given the province a new proof of his fa vour, by granting, for the year, the sum of 50,000 dol lars for the:completion of the cathedral, and 30,000 dollars for every succeeding year, besides a sum for removing the small houses standing before the cathedral." In a letter from Warsaw of the 19th of November, it is stated " that Bank assignats to the amount of 10,500,000 florins, and first and second series of the Treasury bonds, with the coupons belonging to them, to the amount of 4,688,625 florins ' which have been with drawn from circulation, are to be burnt on the 22d." r f other complete, it should especially address itself to the Duke of Hamilton, for example. But if his triple Grace of Hamilton, Brandon, and Chatel-Herault should I choose, in such a case, to relieve himself from aPPli cations which were not welcome to him,' (we use the: words of the Gybe), we protest that we should not feel ourselves warranted, for a single moment, in com p ing of any brusquerie in such an answer from that Noble man as the Duke of Wellington gave to this Dep utation. —Considering the immense annual revenue that the Duke draws, and has drawn for years, f ro m the count r y , we think it might reasonably have been expected of h is Grace, that he would have contributed to relieve e sufferings of his distressed fellow -countrymen. the question is not one of principle, but of charity. On the subject of Sunday railway travelling, Chronicle makes the following remarks We hoe copied from the Glasgow Argus a spirited articlo on the tyrannical attempt of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to prevent all railway travelling on the Sunday. In the case of Edinburgh and Glascrow, prohibiting railway trains from running on a b St lO45 Y would really be passing a non-intercourse act betwe these cities for twenty-four hours ; for the railway win necessarily put down all other means of communication. We confess, however, we have a reluctance to interfere e with the Scotch in their ecclesiastical matters, for if ; 4l the people require prompting from this side of the TweenL ° „ o „l l resist an ecclesiastical usurpation which would not "I T il o o submitted to in the most priest-ridden countries Europe, they are indeed in a hopeless condition. affords us much gratification to observe, that some of tn* highest names in the Church of England adop t a vfrd different course from that of the Kirk."--We had 11°1 1; that this intolerant spirit of Andrew Agnewis m siding in Scotland as elsewheee ; but bigotry—elerico-f bigotry especially—has, it seems, stronger powers vitality than we gave it credit for. If railway train , s 3 _ 1 ( 1 to be prevented running on the Sundays, let Lords and Bishops' cooks and coachmen be prevented worlsingf:ir the Sunday, and then there will be something' lik c play in the matter. MONEY—TRADE—COMMERC E ' n 000 The New Zealanders are estimated at betw ca 6" uteri and 70,000, but are widely dispersed. It is calcatas that they consume annually a hundred thousand PT the worth of English manufactured goods, exclusive 0 ' d money they lay out in fowling-pieces, powder, 6 11 ° 1 ' an tobacco. l a s t , to A meeting was held at Dublin on 'Thursday yo f forward the proposed railroad from that city, by Limerick, to Cork. A memorial to Earl De Grey adopted. ks, Among other improvements at the London P°(' en. large piece of ground of about two acres has b e en eta. closed on the east side of Gravel-lane, and 200 ru e % for ployed by Mr. Cubitt, the contractor, are preparing ' a t the erection of sugar warehouses, vaults for wine , an expense of nearly 100,0001. In Glasgow and other parts of Scotland, the citY.etiniel9s, i onaries, secretaries of the different charity ore and clergymen in populous districts of the suburb;dis all soliciting aid of every description to reli eve t tress they daily come in contact with. COMMERCIAL nEronnt. fl ing ° The inhabitants of Lambeth met on Monday el'e4pose the York Hotel, Waterloo Bridge-road, for th „: ofa of forming an Auxiliary Anti-Corn-law Assoel,,s,lovitli the district. A provisional committee was ty" appointed for its formation. AGRICULTURAL. ___„„oie Among other presents lately made to the Dri l l tie' . ciety, Regent's Park, are two handsome Anie rn ''" of extraordinary size. f t be In Australia the vine-culture produces Nvol' o i te P e i ," finest flavour. The Champagne-grape, and neatis" species of vines from the districts of France , luxuriantly. of ELECTIONEERrNG. tion A vacancy has occurred in the representa'th ply Southampton, by the death of Lord Elgin. 13 :„'ra d' e ties are bestirring themselves for a contest. ._„A -I— bor es ; state of the registration the Liberals are in ati r ' The Hon. J. Bruce, it is said, will be the C° llry candidate. NAVAL AND MILITAB 4. aacO g Colonel Colby, of the Royal Engineers, Or.:s the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, h as a ll Piio surveyors, draftsmen, and clerks under orders, 00! ensuing spring will witness the completi on of t ao) magnificent topographical work ever witnessed country. LAW AND POLICE. 11 J e°e After a lengthened investigation at Union -ha ,' for, Graham was ordered to find bail to keep the Pee c : lo e °` the last fortnight she had annoyed a man o f the % g bh° Beeror, by following him and his wife and elai lta dorll, as her husband. It was distinctly proved on 3 1 °, 11 0 he several witnesses that the claimant was 'nista, se ,;aiai i being " convinced against her will," and stilt l' ha her point, the Magistrate cut short the threw' - discourse by demanding bail.Scotian'' A young girl of the name of Lovelace, froth 0 ' was charged before the Sitting Magistrate at Grl e p° t with breaking a window. It appeared that tl ye a le creature was in bad health, not half clad, and dr he h el ; commit the offence from hunger. She said „s to ve?' broken the pane to be committed to prison T he e, s. her from dying of starvation in the streets. l ie ab trate offered to send her to the workhouse, but 5 4 - 0 0 5 1 lutely refused to go, preferring a prison- "boal lb i t committed for fourteen days. Two young' lee? to ifi r ei up for begging were discharged, and orders a ; ‘ ,l saw: the neighbourhood, when they turned round 5 ,,, - a irs , 5 as soon as they were outside they would beg. 4 P - ior ie, they were starving, and would be better otf 10 n ' t i, The distress of the poor in that district is beY ° ' ' ception. ' At the Mansion-houseonday a young raw' of ill': name of Farrell, said to be very respectably coileeolsi was committed to take his trial for stealing, On tit" last, from the counter of the London and Wes t " - _.,, Bank, two 30L notes. „oa o w ' In the police report from Guildhall will be 1. 1 7 - Citi o ,, account of the blessings of the new police ie t "hell ° ) The young girl charged with setting fire a t (P eer town School of Industry was fully commit on. square on Monday to take her trial for 1 01 " a' at I le 1 • SPORTING. „ 0 1;e' 3, i l bole A sporting party at the Earl of Stradv„ . or -ef , : 13 1'0; ham, Suffolk, consisting of Mr. de P A A",'lrletoad of Churchill, Captain nous, and Lord l':," 0 - 00 e dormice, killed, in three days' shooting, 2, game. it ir,%. S yr, i' COURT--PASHIONA.. -- it i 3 ,:eat His Royal Highness the Duke of Suss c l.' t he A t , l : -I bis about to resign the Grand Mastership e '„,. d t" - „ t dis' Order of Freemasons, and it is also rille e ","„a e tha t Royal Highness Prince Albert will be Al" 1 ,, abl e tinguished honorary appointment. to v - the The Queen Dowager is so much bett er as ',he itlitocl to walk about her chamber, which face s the „ ho / 65 southern front of the house. No bullet in 0i" o t ii again till to-morrow. Alt 'l ecid The Duke of Beaufort met with a s' - b ofl whilst hunting last Wednesday. ' f Lord and Lady Dinorben arrived at gate iou sv • l e Saturday from Flintshire. ,„, at,, i• in a f e w ~a. The Earl ,and Countess of Wilton go , , --- ,,,iiio,t„ co Strathfieldsaye; on a visit to the Duke 01 ":- fie. - The l3 Earl of Inniskillen kits left town for cif' I to Court, Ireland. . few Viscountess Viscountess Burghersh leaves town in s ' ~ visit the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsa) °so d. t i e , The Duke of Cleveland still continu es indless) Cas Lord Saltoun has arrived in town from N e D oi Inve The-e Dowager rnss-shire. o W et 0$ Lady Holland left Southots week, on a visit to the Marchioness of fia ll-ss b• , l'i'L Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord Melbourne has returned to South -s d ays ti t lane. His Lordship intends to pass a few wood, previous to his visit to Castle Howard' th e 00 i MISCELLANEOUS. f here ' iI) ° A few days since a dish of green peas, ga,..- 0,5 00 ; farm of Mr. M. Trood, Combrew, in th e Y o de et , h of Broadclist, was presented at the table of that g' lo oo' an instance of rather rare occurrence in th e November. 'llO r ti e ,i t , iiii; ~ On Wednesday last, the wife of Mr. R ob de li ' s ' ic ieb e ,er , son, millwright, Falls, near Belfast, was s 3 ', e i v h tee; the of three fine daughters, all of whom, wit"' ; - „ e °,'"#' arc doing well. The mother is herself a tw;:ife 0; 14th inst., at Eaton, near Tarmotley, Fail' . _ A ter, R. Shaw, brickmaker, of twin daughters. ~ o f "Oa The late heavy rains have caused a rils",. e it s o lo o , from the Surrey hills, which has flooded the v re olth o r, footpaths of Camberwell, Sydenham, and ja ` l5 The Brixton road has been two feet deep to te6''' e Battersea fields have also been flooded. rre 01l lii digging for the foufldation of the new or , o of French church, in St. Martin's-le-Grandt P 0 .00_ 1 :60 , old city wall has been discovered, and is beil et , e'e ~ removed. In thickness it was originally b etty and nine feet. .........................................._ t COURT CIRCULAIL* lea ll f . list Her Royal Highness the Duc h e ss of lient or,,i Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Pala ce ' to ss 03 0 0 0, il • The Countess of Jersey and the Visottn , ti ftelle den attended at Buckingham Palace yesteroaY he s ig and had the honor of being gratified with t bee°. his Royal Highness the Infant Prince. a gig hito The Duke of Cambridge visited his itt'). n `" oo hiel; 1 Prince Albert yesterday afternoon at '-- roved Palace. , 0 arr i o d His Royal Highness the Duke of Canlbriteiv,,, in town . yesterday, from his residenceatblo : t el. l o o f ne :0, 41 I v l i h s ig i i t ih e ipn d pess l st i h is tahie, Serene Highness Prince Er n lien r S e ' Duchess c hi Marlborough d h e IV ° The Duke of Cambridge,attended by Colone 0 ft ,. Sie w turned to Kew in the evening. • with tic e, The Attorney-General had an interview' . 0 „..s 0 - relbfoGroleuugehesltleor,use an ster re, Peel yesterday at his official residence in W a w its nl reel litl if Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, tr 0 ; et 4 I ' ness yesterday at the Foreoffice. Despatches for the Governor of Ceylon were 5 last evening from the Colonial-oflice. .._,..,. ,If THE QUEEN DOWAG-bit o' The The Bulletin of her Majesty's health e . , ,,__., h0 r0 ! terra y to the Nobility and Gentry at Ala" . 4 0,Fi,0, house, was as follows : isfactor Y r 0 1`;, " The Queen Dowager has made sat 1 , the re , ei a since the issuing of the two Bulletins, .a i i i _.. pi morning a continued improvement i , 1 1 . 11 1 T hat; ). AA D. DA 11 next. 841." " Sudbury Hall, l'T'L-I_---------", ...... 0 To f f symptoms. No Bulletin will be issue.d.,ris, )1' SINGE °. oil ie r# RUSSIAN LADY CHORUS is. ~ ,,t _, o , w, g , thetaladiesie n teach rsa i t s h sup` ere s e i l d d' e ' left their parts behind them, and othet?cu,. to s co eato t/ , rate)) , in good humour, that it Was dab " pretty r 5 : d l e v e e i r n e e deemed worse to for being so much out of tune. One _,, it , her 4 0:! with more animation in her face than Mti f O i rbid derl V e'l a ll a tte e r il l a y ritY-glrfiritl°W''oer, whose voice in the Creation wandered to chants d5,,,,p1‘, a Russian humourist observed, " Ell e . ca tion • qui n'ont janiais existe, meme dans la creat ion ter from the Baltic. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times still continues to harp on its favourite theme, Mr. O'Connell's political delinquencies, ob serving : " One word upon O'Connell's conduct towards Lord De Grey's Government, and we are done. The Right Hon. firebrand has, by his announced motion for the dismissal of that nobleman, brought himself into serious difficulties. Had the maker of the motion been merely a private person, such as the Member for Kerry, the projected movement would necessarily have deserved immediate inquiry. But Mr. O'Connell, who gravely and deliberately makes this motion, is the Lord Mayor of the Irish metropolis. Substantially it amounts to an impeachment of Earl De Grey's Administration. Let him be compelled then either to Mow up his villanous motion in the usual formal way, or to skulk back from it as a malignant and unsupported slan derer. Let us have his articles of indictment so lemnly set forth, sworn to, and established. His municipal Lordship is, by office, a highly influential personage. His declared opinion of Earl, De Grey, as far as it carries any weight, is virtually an incitement, ex cathedra , to every sort of insubordination, as long as the present Viceroy is unsuperseded. O'Connell, there fore, ought to be compelled to make good his case."— It by no means follows—as the Times would imply—that Mr. O'Connell's opposition to the Irish Government is an incitement to every species of insubordination. He has as much right, on every principle of justice, to express his opinion boldly and unreservedly on Earl De Grey's policy, now that he is Lord Mayor of Dublin, as he had when he was simply Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P. His acceptance of the civic chair, which he owes to no Government pa tronage, does not necessarily compel him to hold • his tongue on political matters. He is as unshackled a man as ever he was, and we respect him for stating boldly what he feels warmly. The Post says—" Among the hasty crowd who vehe mently oppose the law which guards British agriculture from foreign competition, it is a common thing to assert that this is a law to make one class pay snore than they need pay in order to enrich another class. If it were possible to induce the persons who make this assertion to lay aside inveterate prejudice, there would not be much difficulty in showing them with what little reason this assertion is made. In the first place such an assertion is unfair as a matter of argument, because it begs the whole question in dispute between the friends and the enemies of the Corn-law. It assumes that the enemies of the law are right, and they who uphold the law wrong, fur, undoubtedly, if the effect of the Corn-law be merely to make one class pay with no other or better reason than to give an advantage to another class, then the Corn-law would be without a just foundation."—The Post has here bit the right nail on the head. The Corn law does make one class pay in order to give an advan tage to another class, and this is foremost among the reasons why the country at large is so anxious for its repeal. We quote the following from the Herald :—"lt is not necessary to notice the cutting reflections of the Glasgow Saturday Post on the • economy of the Duke of Wel lington in refusing to subscribe to the find solicited by the Paisley Deputation. If the subject were one of less grave and mournful interest, or if the opinions of the Journal in question could be identified/with that of the city in which it is published, we would suggest a reason able test of the practical equity and efficiency of the ex periment which the Paisley deputation has come upwards of 400 miles south to try—by recommending the Spital fields' weavers to launch a deputation to go in quest of funds for the alleviation of their distress 400 miles north. To make the analogy of the one deputation to the. MORNING SUN N I 71 by ( the e Oti 4 the c 14