The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

! ESTING OF MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. £4,000 RAISED TO START THE GREAT £50,000 FUND. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. This morning a great public meeting of the mer cheats, spinners, manufacturers, machine-makers, and other capitalists, and employers of workmen in Lan cashire and Cheshire, was held at the Town-hall, in this place, to consider the steps to be adopted in con sequence of the ruinous effects produced on trade by the operation of the Corn-laws, and our restrictive commercial policy. The meeting was convened by a circular emanating from the Council of the Anti-Corn law League, and was most respectably attended. An idea of the spirit and determination which pervaded the meeting, as well as of the respectability of the bosons present, may be drawn from the concluding a:Ilion of our report, by w hi c h i t w ill b e seen that s snore than 3,7001. was subscribed on the spur of the ru-Knent, towards the Great League Fund. Ansoneat those present, we noticed—Richard •Cob den, Esq., M.P.; Joseph Brothcrton, Esq., M.P. ; Jas. Kershaw, Esq., (May or o f M anc h es t er ) ; Robert Hyde reg, Esq., (late M.P., for Manchester) ; ,Tolos Bright, Esq., of Rochdale ; Henry Ashworth, Esq., of Turton, near Bolton ; Benjamin Pearson, Esq. ; Thorhas Bayley, jun., Esq. ; George Wilson, Esq. ; Sir Thomas Potter ; C. J. S. Walker, Esq. ; Elkanah Armitage, Esq.; Samuel Lees, Esq.; Thos. Harbottle, E sq . ; Th omas Ashton, Esq., of Hyde ; John Herford, Esq. ; John Brooks, Esq.; William Evans' I Esq. ; William Lcckett, E sq ., (Boroughreeve of Selfors) ; Robert Munn, Esq., Bacup ; Edmund Grundy, Esq., Bury; G. Holgate, Esq., Darnley; E. Benson, Esq., Staleybridge ; Alderman Hollins, Stockport; Alfred Orrell, Esq., (Mayor of Stockport); Wm. Harvey, Esq., Salford; Edmund Ashworth, Esq. of Bolton; George Foster, Esq., of Sanden ; Abel Buckley, Esq., of Ashton ; Thomas Thomason, Esq., of Bolton ; F. Boult, Esq., Liverpool; J. Chadwick, Esq., Eccles ; and a great many other leading men in this district—in all about 500. It was one of the most wealthy and influential meetings ever held here. Rcseerer HYDE GEED , Esq., presided. The Cuasnmaer, in opening the proceedings, said he should have been happy if the worthy Mayor had taken the Chair, but there seemed to be some little objection to that; and if his services could be of any use in repealing these obnoxious laws—the Corn laws—he should always come forward with the great est pleasure.—(Applause.) The origin of the meeting was this : the Council of the National Anti- Corn law League had addressed a circular to the merchants, spinners, manufacturers, machine-makers, capitalists, and other employers of workmen in Lancashire and Cheshire, which had already appeared in the papers. (Mr. Greg then read some part of the circular.) The manufacturers and merchants to whom it had been addressed were so thoroughly convinced of the truth of its statements, and so impressed with the impending ruin therein alluded to, in the destruction of the value of their fixed capital, that they had thought it right to address to other merchants, manufacturers, and spinners, a strong recommendation, signed by between 50 and 60 of the principal firms in Manchester and the neighbourhood to attend the present meeting. •It was now about twelve months since meetings of almost all the trades in the kingdom, in their respective districts, took place—and, amongst others, a great meeting of the cc tton trade in this district—to consider the state of the trade, its prospects for the future, and the causes which had produced the very lamentable state of things witnessed during that year. Now, after a lapse of twelve months, he would ask, had their pros pects in any way mended, was their condition in any respect better than then ? On the contrary, had they not all witnessed a year of unparalleled disasters and losses in their respective trades ?—(Hear, hear.) There had lately appeared a Report from the Factory Inspectors, who had inspected this district, and the neighbouring district of Yorkshire. He was unable to detail the exact particulars of that Re port, but the substance was, that 10 per cent. of all the cotton mills in this part of Lancashire and Yeekshire were standing—(Hear, hear)—that 12 per cent. of all the woollen mills in this part of Lan cashire and Yorkshire were standing—(Hear, hear) —and that. of the 90 per cent. in one case, and of the 88 per cent. in the other of the mills that were in operation, 25 per cent., or one-fourth, were going on short time.—(lle-ar, hear.) - All knew what a dis astrous . state of trade that implied —the absolute stoppage_ of 10 per cent. of all the mills, and one fourth of the remainder working short time. To ma n u •',teturers the fact spoke for itself, and he need not say more than that such was the fact.—(Hear, hear.) Linking at their own town, they had seen the dis as!rou6 fall of the Bank of Manchester, respecting 'which he vi-ould make no other remark than this, that f.apital of about 800,0001. had been lost in the course or about two rears, principally in one year, almost entirely owing to the disastrous state of trade, and through trusting manufacturers and mill-owners who lied not he able to redeem the engagements into which they Wad entered.—(Hear, hear.) Then look at the state of the Athol:mum, that, useful institution, which wa,-, likely to be sold up to pay the debts upon it. The Zoological Gardens, also, that innocent source of amusement for the - population of this town, were al ready broken up ; and it was proposed to convert them into a cemetery. The Assembly Rooms were also closed for the season, owing to the state of spirits and funds amongst the better part of the population. At Bolton, the public news-room was closed for want of snMcient fonds to keep it open. At Oldham, our im mediate neighbours, 300 rate-payers had been sum. ro ened at the last petty sessions for non-payment of rates. At Stockport, there were more than 2,000 hon:;es; and the population was actually less than it had been too or three years ago by 5,000 persons, who had either died, or emigrated, or been home to their parishes.—(ll ear , hear, hear.) Even si nce th a t report was made, there had been g-.-eat failures, and throwing out 500 to 1,000 more of the poor population ; and a large number of those who hail been emplyed there were now subsisting on clarity, on the funds raised by the Queen's letter, col -I?eed principally in the churches of thi United King does. At Paisley there had been 13,000 additional ehlimants on the public charity in the last month ; : 1 1r.1- a public meeting of the county of Renfrew had held to call upon Gove rnmen t f or a ddi t i ona l sub- 1 pt rous. At Liverpool, GOO shipwrights were with out e:nptovment, and they were beginning to drive oot by violence those who did not belong to . the town, o r had not been brought up to the trade. He was not e e y, Upon the whole, that the distress had extended ,tier interests, and this called forth a little svmpa :, which to this time they had very scantily be (Applause.) The recent riots in this town :trni neighbourhood were the result of deep and wide spread discontent, arising out of destitution. The state of the revenue, also, marked the deep and lamentable state of distress now existing. Within the last eiel,t, months there had been a falling off, he under st,;:,d, in the Custom-house returns, of no less than -0- cent. in the value of every one of our exports. to o 23 not merely that there was too much' Cotton produced hut too much of every thing; all trades weee in same state, and all from the same cause — the :eeneral depression of the country, caused by one caininon 'mischief. Probably the quality exported v. Dahl be fully equal to that of former occasions, but there was a diminution of 10 per cent. on the value. —(Cheers.) IVe increased our exports in vain ;if we doubled the amount, we received only the same valta, fur them. We had gone on for the last six, ten, fifteen, or twenty years, but particularly for the last s' , .x years, with a constant and rapid increase of ex po-As ; but -a slow increase, or no increase at all, and. in tills .case, an actual diminution in the value of tho,:e exports. And he had no hesitation in saying, flirt if. our exports were doubled, or increased to the ' el . aeunt .of fifty or a hundred millions, the laws of the ceuntry remaining as they were now, tle;se 50 or 100 millions would still be represented by tlia same valu e as now. Th i s consideration ought nce.'er to. be lost sight of.—(Applause.) Then look at. the calamitoua effect of the French tariff; but as it ero.ae out of our political, and not our commercial pokey, he would make no further allusion to it, than ta observe that our meddling with the Syrian business was the cause of it, and that it was a very severe blow t., our trading interests. The German tariff, which by its heavy imposts upon cotton, and especially upon woollen warps, had almo s t d es t royed the only branch our woollen exports to that country that remained, be traced to our commercial policy. With re to America the case was very strong: their re tarif4 so prejudicial to their own interests, and esuealally hostile to ours, was entirely traceable to our. scale.--(Great applause.) Had even the Bs. fixed datv of the late Government been passed, it woulil. not only have saved us from the late tarid* in America, by securing the interests of the wo.,tern and southera States, and causing them to oetvote the measure in the House of Representatives; hat it v.-oald have saved infinite trouble here and in- C;`'te mischief in America. At that period, when the °f .America to this country were enormous, and tie-y lex', an overwhelming. amount of agricultural produce to pay those debts with,oll 111% had we taken what they were wil;in g t o gi ve, t h e I debt's, we should have saved themy w e paid those from a host of pee cimiary difficulties, and f rom repudiating those debts which they were anxious, had they had the ability, to p a y ; arid th e t ra d e which we should have had, in consequence, in this country, might have kept off that manufacturing depression, which had sent so many into the Gazette, and been the original cause of the melancholy and disgraceful riots in this part of the thuatry.—(Applause.) He disti nc tl y charged all SCOW' evils on that part of the Corn-laws —the sliding coale.--(Great applause.) He had no hesita- ce;;I: tion in saying that a -fixed duty would have saved us from all the trouble here and depression there, which had tended to our mutual mischief and destruction. The house of Messrs. Lizardi and Co., of New Orleans, in their circular, expressed a strong opinion that the passing of the new American tariff and the new Corn Bill of England would operate in juriously to the interests of their respective countries. —(Hear, hear.) He had no hesitation in saying to the farmers and landlords, that the prevailing depres sioh in the grain market was owing to the sliding scale; for if corn were admitted free, or at a moderate, or even a high fixed duty, they would not suffer the evil now arising from an enormous quantity of agri cultural produce being poured into th© market just at the time of harvest—an evil, monstrous in itself, which necessarily accompanied the sliding scale, and which no modification of the sliding scale could pre vent.—(Hear, hear.) The permanent settlement of this corn question was essentially necessary for the agricultural interest ; for there could be no leasing of farms, no outlay of capital, no transac tions whatever connected with the value of land, until it was permanently settled.—(Applause.) He was satified that as the matter now stood—and he believed that everyone in the kingdom, manufacturer, mer chant, and farmer, was coming gradually to that con viction—there would be no permanent settlement of this question except on the basis of justice and free trade.—(Applause.) A free importation of the agri cultural produce of foreign countries would not only benefit the manufacturer and merchant, and enable them the better to purchase the agricultural produce of this country, but it would form the only stimulus which could enable them to compete with foreign countries.—(Applause.) He was most happy to hear that peace had been concluded with China.—(Ap plause.) The word peace must sound sweetly in every ear, and doubly so in the ears of those who believed it would give them an improving trade, and relieve them in any degree from their present difficul ties. But le t them not be led away by the delusion that opening the empire of China to our manufac tures and produce would give the relief we required. It would give no effectual relief connected with our present system of Corn-laws.—(Applause.) We might import ten times the quantity of silk that we did, and silk gowns might become as cheap as cotton ones, but in what respect would that benefit us ? The possession of a silk gown would not make a cottager a bit happier or better fed. It would be an amazing benefit to us if we could exchange the surplus of the silk, china, or tea, which we brought from China, and which we could not consume our selves, for the food of other countries. That would be an amazing boon to this country; the population would be fed, and then the cottager's wife would be able to buy her silk gown and enjoy it, and their tea, sugar, and other luxuries would be a blessing to them.— (Cheers.) But, so long as they had not food enough, no accumulation of luxuries in this coun try would benefit the great mass of the people.— (Hear.) That was a most important point, and formed the very basis of the question of the restrictive laws on food. You could not benefit the mass of the people without increasing the quantity of their food. China was to pay us 21,000,000 of dollars for the ex penses of the war. Suppose that sum put into the pockets of the labouring classes, they would go and buy food with it. The higher and middle classes, and their numerous servants and dependents, would want the same quantity of food, and would get it. Thus the two parties would merely bid against one an other, and raise the price of food ; but not a single man in the kingdom would have a loaf more to put into his belly.—(Hear, hear.) If all the wealth of China were imported into this country, the quantity of food being still limited, it would not benefit the commu nity, but the price of food would rise, and go into the pockets of the landlords.—(Hear, hear.) You cannot benefit the people but by increasing the quan tity of food. Even charity itself in giving a loaf to a starving man, took that food from some other man unless it came from abroad.—(Cheers.) The poor rates themselves could not benefit the condition of the poor; it was merely taking out of the general stock to feed a certain class of the poor ; and in doing so, making those who were poor before poorer still, and making them paupers.—(Cheers.) To increase the quantity of the necessaries of life was the first step to benefit the country, and above all the manufacturing interest ; therefore let no one suppose that the opening of the trade with China warranted them in slackening their efforts for procuring 'an alteration in the Corn laws. The sliding scale was the juggling fiend which robbed them of the reward of their industry. Having struck one blow, let them strike another which should be effectual. Let them direct their concentrated ef forts, with increased means, to the destruction of that juggling fiend, the sliding-scale.—(Loud cheering.) Mr. B. PEARSON moved the first resolution : " That in order to furnish employment for the large number of operatives now unemployed, to provide subsistence for our increasing population, to prevent a still further reduction in the wages of labourers, to put a stop to the ruinous depreciation in the value of all invested manufacturing property, and to restore prosperity to all branches of industry in the country —this rnedting affirms that it is absolutely necessary to repeal the Corn and Provision-laws—(Applause)— and to abolish all restrictions which prevent the per fect freedom of commerce."—(Loud applause.) Mr. James Deacon Hume had said, "If ever the day shall arrive when we shall be put to a severe trial as to our manufacturing power, I can hardly doubt that the prosperty of this country will recede much faster than it has gone forward."—(Hear, hear.) What they now saw approached to a realisation of these fore bodings. There could be no wonder at the want of em ployment; though our exports had increased, our home trade had been much depressed ; and with an in creasing population we wanted not a stationary, but an increasing, trade-.and surely the world was large enough to furnish it.—(Applause.) It seemed the most strange thing in the history of the world, that the most powerful nation, both in agriculture and manufactures—the most wealthy nation in the world .-- . -should be crying out, "We are on the verge of ruin."—(Hear, hear.) Was this the result of some dispensation —some calamity worse than those of Ivry pt—some direful visitation of the hand of God on account of our peculiar offences as a nation ? Had all possible efforts been made by the Government to relieve the Wants of the people ? No. The people were denied, by the most unjust, iniquitous, and ab surd law ever passed—the right of supplying them selves with what their gracious heavenly Father had provided.—(Loud cheers.) No one would doubt that an alteration in our tariff, and the repeal of the Corn-laws, would bring increased pros perity to the manufacturing districts. The artisans would obtain employment. All they asked was to i he let alone—" Give us no protection, but don't 'deny 113 the right of purchasing food with the labour of our hands." While no one doubted the immediate effect which the removal of restrictions would have on our commerce, many entertained serious fears as to its effect on the home market. It had been asked, " Had the manufacturing interest been most prosperous when we have imported the least or the greatest quantity of foreign food r The obvious answer was, when we imported the least quantity ; but could any one be so blind as not to see that we imported little foreign fend because it was cheap at 'lame, and a larger quantity when it was dearer at home. So that the most decided supporters of the Corn-laws came to the same conclusion as them, that the manufacturing interest had been most prosperous when food was lowest.—(Hear.) Now Mr. J. D. Hume, who was admitted by Sir Robert Peel to be a very competitio n high authority, had said—" Th e tradec of p farm ing, as a trade, is invulnerable by om e in an importing . country." The average quantity of land in England, and of agriculture, being equal to that of other countries, it was perfectly clear the farmer had all the advantage of the expense of importing foreign food; and if there were not a farthing p a id on the importation, farming as a trade in this country would be invulnerable by competition, because the country did not furnish a sufficient quantity of food for the inhabitants. No. They very shrewdly observed—" If it is not a trade, what is it ? Is it an office ?" That was solely the point between them and the landowners, who had used farming, not merely as an office for the collection of their rents, but for the increase of their political power, as witness the Chandos clause in the Reform Bill.—(Applause.) Farming was a trade ; and as rent was not a necessary ingredient in the cultivation of the soil, no foreign imports could ever prevent the land from being cul tivated. And if the land was cultivated, the people would he employed, and if the people were employed, we should • not lose the home market—no foreign importation could ever deprive us of it, be cause we could always raise food more advantage ously than they could in other countries.—(Applause.) Nothing could deprive us of the home market but the folly of the landowners ; they could reduce the popu lation to such a point of poverty that it would be im possible for them to pay anything like a remunerating price. Supposing the people of Manchester were well employed, at such wages as they had had, and the population of the kingdom was increasing at the rate of a thousand a day, how great would be their consumption (if food ! Could they not consume twice the quantity of milk they now used ? and we could not import milk. Potatoes, also, could not be im ported at their present price of V. per load. Suppose that we were permitted to import without restriction, and that we hnported ten millions worth of corn, we should have to raise exports to the amount often millions more,than we had yet done. Ten millions was but 1-24th part of the total value cf the produce of Great Britain and Ireland, taking wheat at 40s. per quarter; and if the people could consume a twenty-fourth part more than they now did, not one acre would be thrown out of cultivation.—(Hear.) It was plain that with suffi cient employment, the condition of the people would be so much improved, that the farmers would have customers such as they had never had before ; and the payment of taxes and th e purchase of less that the people had to give for f oo d , the more they the could give in clothing ; and these benefits would act reciprocally. —(Applause.) Sir R. Peel had said he was not pre pared to adopt all the views of Mr. J. D. Hani - e—let him be asked wherein'Mr. Hume was wrong.—(Hear, hear.) It was lamenable that the Prime Minister of England could not :give a candid statement of what his views really were ; it appeared inconsistent with sound morality. Sir Robert Peel was very measured in - his language, and he did not say he was not prepared to approve, but was not prepared to adopt all the views of Mr. Hume. Sir Robert had made some progress, and his further progress depended on the voice of the people. He had done much, more than might have have been in the power of any other man at this moment; and the fault lay at their own doors, if he did not adopt all the views of Mr. J. D. Hume —(Applause.) It was most mysterious that such blindness had been permitted to fall on the rulers of the nation, and such apathy on th e p eo pl e . Th e eclipse that had been long foretold, had begun to come over the prosperity of this country. Unin structed people had imagined, on seeing the moon eclipsed, that a monster had run away with the lumi nary, and what was a fallacy in their case was a fearful reality in ours—for the monster monopoly threatened to destroy the very vitals of the country. Let them be encouraged by what had passed ; their shouts had broken the gloom ; he hoped they would continue to raise them till the obscurity entirely vanished, and the prosperity of Britain shone forth in all its former splendour; and they should never for get that it remained with themselves to do that.— (Cheers.) The axiom " knowledge is power," was never proved more sound than on this occasion. It was impossible for the community to be acquainted with the real state of the case, and not provide a remedy ; arid the object of the League and of that meeting was to make them so acquainted. This could not be accomplished without means they could not instruct a whole nation, but at considerable ex pense, but the result would be worth any labour or expense they could be called upon to bestow.—(Loud cheering.) In the confident expectation that these evils would be removed, and that it was the design of God to make this nation the instrument in his hand for spreading the knowledge of truth throughout all the globe—our merchants being the handmaids of religion—(Applause)—let them he most unremitting in their exertions until the object was accomplished. —(Loud cheers.) Mr. T. ASHTON, of Hyde, seconded the motion, which was carried with applause. Mr. E. GRUNDY, of Bury, moved " That this meet ing hereby expresses its sense of the invalable services which the National Anti-Corn-law League has ren dered to the cause of free trade, and is anxious to give to the League its best co-operation, until the great object it has in view be achieved ; and in order to enable the League to make renewed and increased exertions, a subscription in aid of the League Fund be now commenced, and that the following gentlemen be appointed a Committee to canvas Manchester and the surrounding districts."—(Here followed a list of about 50 names.) Mr. R. MUNN, of Bacup, seconded the resolution, and said, as he wanted to encourage the League, he would tell them what he meant to give. He would give 2501. for himself; andahe would state that his reason for doing it was a fear lest he should lose all the rest of his property if trade were not relieved. Sir T. POTTER addressed the meeting, and an nounced his intention to contribute to the fund, though he should he unable, from age, to canvas for subscriptions.—(The resolution was carried with ap plause.) The CHAIRMAN said those were all the resolutions. He thought some gentlemen of the League ought to return thanks for the very handsome manner in which the gentlemen around him had come forward.— (Cries of "Cobden, Cobden.") Mr. COBDEN, who was received with loud acclama tions, said he felt very happy in having deputed to him the honour of returning thanks to the meeting, and to Mr. Munn in particular, for their vote of thanks to the Anti-Corn-law League, and for the munificent donation which the seconder of the reso lution had given. Nothing could be a greater tri bute to the body of men composing the Anti-Corn law League, and its council, than to find their con duct approved by such a meeting as that, comprising, as it did, more of the wealth and intelligence of the district than any he had seen assembled on such an occasion before.—(Applause.) He saw before him in that room the sinews of Lancashire, and the very hope and mainstay of the country.—(Cheers.) The Anti- Corn-law- League was eminently their league—it was grounded four years ago, at a meeting similar to that held at the York Hotel, when subscriptions were en tered into amounting to about 6,0001., for the purpose of carrying on the agitation to effect the repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) He con gratulated them upon the good return they had re ceived for that investment.—(Applause.) Everybody would agree that, tested by the progress of public opinion—and that was the only way in which they would look for success in their efforts—this great question of the Corn-laws an& free trade in general, had made greater progress during the last four years since they had embarked their capital and exertions in the cause, than it had done in any twenty years previously.—(Applause.) That agitation had spread ; it had become not merely Manchester or Lancashire, but a national agitation; it had not be come merely the agitation of the day ; it had become embedded as it were in the national proceedings of our country • it had become historical.—(Applause.) It was now before the world, and the sound of its voice was ringing through the Press, from one end of the civilised world to the other.—(Applause.) They stood committed, therefore, by their power, efforts, and their present pledges, to the good fight, with the world's eye upon them, and his tory waiting to record the efforts they might make, and the result of their exertions ; and he thought he knew enough of his fellow -countrymen, and Lan cashire men in particular, to be assured that having once embarked in such a strife, knowing the object to be good, and feeling that they had the approbation of the wise and good in all parts of the world, they would not turn back, but would go on to victory.—(Hear.) Their agitation had enlarged the basis on which they had founded their arguments, and their appeals had I enlarged still more. They had commenced on a nar row ground; they began the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws, because they saw rivals springing up in neighbouring countries, threatening to injure them in their own immediate pursuits. They had enlarged the object of their agitation greatly since then. Every succeeding discussion had opened out new fields to encourage them to proceed, not merely as manufacturers, but as citizens of the world, and as philanthropists.—(Applause.) The question of the Corn-laws had grown to be, not only a manufactur er's, trader's, or merchant's question, but one affecting the welfare and interest of every industrious class in the community. It was recognised as not merely affecting the material or physical wants of the peoule, but was bound up with their religious and moral well being.—(Applause.) Fortunately they had outgrown the charge made against them, that they were com bating for their own special interests against other greaeinterests. They were now recognised by those who had stsdied the question the best, and as being opposed to no just interests.—(Loud cheers.) They advocated not merely their own rights and interests, but those of the agriculturists as well.—(Applause.) Members of the agricultural community were chain pions of their cause, and took as deep an interest in the question as any one in that room. He would men- tion such men - as Lord Radnor, Lord Kildare, Lord Ducie, Lord Clanricarde, Earl Fitzwilliam, and their worthy Chairman, who was also a landlord. --(Loud cheers.) On the ground, therefore, of the agricultural, as well as the manufacturing interest, they claimed support. They were now, as it were, beginning the agricultural view of the question, as there had hitherto been but little discussion on the bearing of free trade on arrriculture ; and hwen tured to predict, that before' another twelvemonth Massed over, the very strongest ground for advocating e r s e p l oc e v s e . r_i n ( g t, obenefits a to u th . e free e t t r i : l l t d u e r ol i i r l t l e i rest it t s bt Such being their position, he asked the assembly to renew their pecuniary contributions in the cause of free trade. They had given the League their confi dence, he hoped they had deserved it.—(Applause.) They did not ask for approbation of every individual step that had been taken by the Council of the League. He could not ask them to approve every indi vidual act of his persoilal existence, much less the individual act of an aggregate body such as the Anti-Corn-law League. In all agitations of that kind mistakes would be made ; and every candid person must make up his mind to set aside a certain quantity of errors and mistakes of judgment that might occur; but he hoped sincerely that the general scope of their efforts and means by which the Anti-Corn-law League sought to accom- plish their object was such that they might fairly lay claim to the approbation of every candid and generous mind.—(Cheers.) The means they had pursued, improved by experience, chastened, he would admit, by the admonitions and censures of their enemies, were the means they should still pursue.—(Cheers.) They hoped to carry the repeal of the Corn -laws by enlightening the great body of the people, by appeal ing to that portion of the community which held the destinies of the empire in its hand—the electoral body of the kingdom. If they had had means they should have done this long 2.0*(); but they now proposed to pay a direct and personal visit to every elector in the 13ri fish empire. to place in his hands the truths and evi dences which all had at their disposal in Manchester, showing the injurious effects of the Corn -laws upon every interest in the community. The munitions were ready ; they lay imbedded in our Magazine and Par liamentary reports, and other sources; and they only wanted the money to give condensations and abstracts of them to every elector in the kingdom ; and with their aid, and the nation's aid, that should he done within the next six months.—(Applause.) Let no one suppose that this was a remote and tedious process ofi arriving at their end, and that it would require years in order to effect a change in their and carry the repeal of the Corn-laws. No Prime Minister in this country dared hold the reins of power a moment longer than the electoral body were known to entertain decided views on any question, no matter what their views m i g ht have been three years ago, the same as he professed.—(Loud cheers.) With our complex and somewhat unmanageable system of representation in this country, we had always this adage at heart, that we must have a Prime Minister who has a character at stake in the history of his country, and whose talents and moral weight are essential to enable him to fill such an office ; and we had this guarantee, that from the moment the public opinion had decided in favour of any measure, it was not the mere numerical strength he might court in votes in the House, not by having a majority of supporters sent up from small boroughs or packed counties, that would induce him to risk his character and honour with posterity by maintaining such a position. From the moment Sir Robert Peel knew that the Government con stituencies, the influential classes, were with them for the repeal of the Corn-laws and the establishment of free trade he would be with them also. (Cheers.) He would only add, without wishing to disparage the efforts of other districts, that to Manchester and to Lancashire generally, would be due the honour of primarily carrying on the agitation which should lead them to victory; and now, when the nation at large were sending in their contributions, and crowding to enrol themselves in the muster-roll of the League, ha called on those present to maintain the position which their former exertions had acquired for them, and to give that aid which would enable them, he sincerely hoped, to strike a death -bl ow a t monopoly within the next twelve inonths.—(Hear, hear.) And then, with out wishing to disparage other portions of the coun try, he should say that the honour of this victory would primarily rest with Manchester and its imme diate neighbourhood.—(L ou d applause.) The CHAIRMAN said he believed there was no other resolution to be proposed, hut if any gentleman wished to say a few words no doubt the meeting would be glad to hear him.—(Loud calls of " Bright.") - Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, of Rochdale, came forward amidst great cheering, and gave an animated descrip tion of the spirit with which this great movement, under the auspices of the League, was' now going for ward. He said meetings were getting up in every town in the kingdom to raise subscriptions in aid of the Great League Fund. On the books of the Council there were at this time meetings down for every day in the month, and nearly every day brought in state ments that others were being appointed, that tea parties were being got up, or requesting that lecturers might be sent. Their letters gave an account of the spirit of enthusiasm which was manifesting itself in every direction—exceeding everything of the the kind they had heard of in Manchester before.—(Applause.) If the Corn-laws were not repealed it was their own faults. He wrote a letter to the Manchester papers three years ago stating so, and telling the merchants and manufacturers that the gentlemen 'meeting on the Manchester Exchange, whose trade and property were at stake, that if they chose they could carry a repeal of these laws against all the powers in the kingdom which could be arrayed against them.—(Ap plause.) It had been justly said that "it was a money question," and if money were wanting, if it could not be raised on that Exchange, where might they look for it.—(Hear, hear.) It was folly then to go on 'Change and pull long faces, and complain that trade was bad. He repeated that it was in their own power to remove at once every shackle that bound their trade, and one of the best ways to do that was to subscribe to the League Fund. The League did not ask to lead them ; it only wanted their co-opera tion and aid in the exertions they were making, and if they cared one farthing for the prosperity and welfare of the district in which they resided, or for the trade on which it depended, to come forward and give their assistance.—(Applause.) As to the distribution of the fund, and the application of it, he would have them to bear in mind that every contributor of 501. was, by its rules, a member of the Council, and this he thought was a sufficient guarantee of the disin terestedness of the League as to the expenditure of the money, and of their wish to apply it in the best possible manner.—(Applause.) As to the subscrip• tion now going forward, he might mention that it was the intention of the Committee to canvass every ware house and works in the neighbourhood during the week, for subscriptions. They would probably be aware that all throughout the country parties were out, or would soon be out canvassing. He was at Accrington on the preceding night (Monday), and lie found that arrangements had been- made by which not a single house would be omitted.—(H ear' , hear, and applause.) Si m il ar a rrangements were makingat. Rochdale, the same at Coventry. Ceventry was blessed with a protective trade — (Laughter) —yet . they found that " protection" had .been 'the source of ruin to them, and sensible that it would bring the same ruin gpon others they were willing to ex tend their hen & and help them from the danger.— (Applause) In conclusion, Mr. Bright pointed the attention of the manufacturers to the distressed con ! dition of the people around them, and of their own workmen, threatened with the same fate, and im plored them, as the only men who had the power, to step between them and the ruin which must soon inevitably crush them to the earth. His own opinion of the necessity of the repeal of the Corn-laws was so strong that he would say candidly, if he thought it could not be brought about without it, he would freely give half of all the property he possessed to wards the object.—(Applause.) But there was no necessity for a man to give half, or for one man to give even a considerable portion if all would sub scribe. He was happy to state that for himself, and. father, and brothers that they were willing to contri bute their quota, and he begged to say that they would now give 3001.—(Loud applause.) And they would give a further subscription if it was wanted. ' The MAYOR of Manchester next came forward amidst considerable applause, and said—Nothing he was sure but a sense of deep seated wrong could have called and kept them there so long on Tuesday morn ing. —(Hear, hear.) Their worthy Chairman had in troduced him as the Mayor of this borough ; but it was not in that capacity, let it be understood, he ap peared before them on this occasion. He came here as an old inhabitant of the town—as a merchant of Manchester—as an individual who had spent his whole life, and earned whet prosperity he possessed amongst them ' • and he ca me h ere as h e h a d d one before to enter his protest against those laws which in his opinion were inflicting wrong and ruin upon their common country.— (Cheers.) 'He might be blamed for appearing there to-day.—(No, no, no.) It might be said that he at least, o n account of office, ought to be silent; but he had yet to learn why the occupa tion of any municipal office should prevent a man from expressing his sincere and honest convictions. —(Hear, hear, hear.) In favour of those convictions, which he believed both humanity and justice sane tioned, to shrink from expressing his opinions either now or at any other tune would be cowardice— to abandon them would he baseness.—(Hear, hear.) He did not appear before them for the first time ; he had always lent what feeble efforts he could to pro mote the abolition of these laws and the establish ment of entire freedom of commerce all over tho world. It was because he was deeply concerned for the maintenance of peace and order, because he could not butedeprecate the annihilation of the capital and trade of this district,—because lie could not see our honest and industrious shopkeepers ruined,—and that he could not listen in apathy ti the cry of the fatherless, the widow and the poor, who were either. actually starving or sinking into a state of destitution and who had no helper save such as himself and those around him, that he appeared before this meeting to express his decided disapprobation of these laws which lay at the foundation of the present distress.—(Ap plause.) He had always endeavoured to express his opinion upon all subjects with temperance; he trusted he should ever continue to do so ; because intemper ance and violence were not necessary to the advocacy of justice and humanity, and he never would be the man to join in any declaration of sentiment which need to inflict pain upon the minds 'of his fellow countrymen.s, He sincerely believed that not only the commercialist but the agriculturist was deeply concerned in this question, and it was as a well wisher to' both that he trusted Government would soon see the necessity of repealing these laws. His friend Mr. Elk ana h Armitage hadhanded him a slf andfi i• firm-,(Renewed p sub scription which h e would now hand to their Chair man—(Applause)—along( w ith a sub s cription for him esay, like a certain etsaepaptlaiNiNs,oe)u—ldadnod allhe trusted his that every gentleman a power. to pr omote this .great cause in the same way. Mr. Tifo s . Asirrox - of Hyde, said he would not must Ahi s e p r e m ml their anin ri l o a li s d t o g n u ' il d ie u a ri t n o g sa ti s i •e e war, that they the remainder—(Laughter)—lait believing that the time had come for the expenditure of a part of their property to save the rest, he should be very happy to put down his name for 2001.—(Cheers.) Aid. BROOKS said it was not now a time to make long speeches—it was the money that was wanting.— (Cheers and laughter.) He came with a hundred • pounds in his mind, hut he had heard of one gentle man putting down his 2001, and another gentleman NU, and he would put down his 3001. too.—(Loud cheers.) He had heard Mr. Bright talking of the necessity of diving his 3001. towards saving his trade, and if Mr. Bright thought his business was worth 3001. to save it, he (Mr. Brooks) thought his own was worth an equal sum..--(Hear, hear, and applause.) When any of th em were ill , t h ey a t once s en t f or the doctor to cure them. Our trade was ill—why not send the doctor to that ?—(Hear, hear.) lie did not care what doctor they employed—whether the Tamworth doctor or any other—(Hear, hear)—and if fees were wanting, he would sooner give his 3,000/. or .5,000/. rather than the cure should be withheld.. (Applause.) RA found his trade sinking under him, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1842 but he was determined that if he must die he would; . iwu` ...truBgl2.---(Cheer.) TnoS.THONIASSON, ofßolton, said it was pro posed to raise 50,000/. to repeal the Corn-laws. They were all asked to contribute; let them not say they could not afford ; could they afford to undergo a repe tition of the last four years' trade ?—(Hear, hear.) Could they afford to go into the Gazette? For him self, though he could not afford the sum, yet he would spare 1001. to the Fund.—(Loud cheers.) Since the formation of the League he had given 50/., and he was now willing to double it, for he had made up his mind he would reduce his establishment to the most repub lican simplicity, and almost live on bread and water, rather than fail in his subscription to the League. Alderman BROOKS said when he got up before he forgot the hest part of the communication - he was to have made. He was out the day previous (Monday) with the little red book he held in his hand, with the little word " Leagu2" on it, and he did not ask for more than 1001. from each subscriber, yet he found parties willing to put. down subscriptions to the amount of 1,000/.—(Loud cheers.) He would not give them the names, because he was in hopes that - he should be able to get the amount doubled yet. Mr. JOHN BRIGHT said he might as well state perhaps that a gentleman had called on the Council of the League from Todthorden ' saying that though it was a small place they had had a meeting last night, and raised about 1001. for a beginning.—(Applause.) In Accrington he had reason to believe that 2001. or 3001. would be raised.--(Applause.) Mr. 81CK1113,1 said he was commissioned to hand in several subscriptions ' • and first he had th e pleasure of handin g i n 100/. from Mr. James Proctor— (Cheers)—also 1001. from his (Mr. Bickham's) brother—(Renewed cheering)—thirdly, he begged to hand in the same for himself—(Continued cheering) —and in the fourth place he had to hand in a sub scription of 25/. from Mr. Daniel Proctor. 7, - hich. it was enntemlecl woill,l have been snrrioient to some persons woze fon,ier of protracting ittigation than of bringing matters of this nature to a close. If any sane and honest person had pointed out this to the Railway Company at the time, this litigation would have been brought to a conclusion long ago. Lord DENMAN suggested the matter should be left to the decision of General Pasley. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Could not consent to anything which would have the effect of disturbing the verdict and re-trying the question. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Assuming the verdict to be correct, and that the Company have not done all that is necessary, would you object to leave it to.G-e -neral Pasley to decide what should be done, assuming that something must be done--judgment to be re spited until General Pasley shall have reported, and the defendants to pay costs ? The Solicitor-General drew up the terms io which he proposed the reference . should be made, to which, however, the Attorney -General objected, on the ground that it would be giving General Pasley the power of re-trying the question—of tinkering the nuisance instead of abating it. The SOLICITOR - GENERAL was perfectly willing that anything should be done that General Pasley should direct. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—But suppose, he should direct nothing to be done, do you mean to say that you are to do nothing ? The S OL ICITOR - GENERAL--Certainly, my Lord. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—ThaI would be giving him the power of re-trying the case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not consent to anything that would lead to a mere tinkering the nuisance. It must be assumed that all had not been done, and no mere alteration of the diversion would be sufficient. Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLY and Mr. ADDISON fol lowed on the same side. Lord DENMAN said that it was important that the Court should consider the question, and the judgment had better be p os tp one d f or a few Clays. There was another indictment for a nuisance in obstructing the same public highway; about fifty yards further, to which the defendants pleaded guilty. In this case, Mr. ADDISON proposed to respite the judgment, and leave the matter entirely to the decision of General -Pasley, on payment of the costs. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL assented to the proposi tion, on the understanding that the question of costs should be left to the discretion of the Master. lIAZELDINE V. GROVE. The defendant in this caw was Mr. Grove, the Greenwich Police M ag i s t ra t e , w h o h a d h e ld the plain tiff to bail for perjury, alleged to have been committed by him in giving evidence before defendant in a case of complaint against a pawnbroker. The Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court threw out the bill, and the plaintiff brought an action against defendant for false imprisonment, which was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson at the Assizes for the county of Kent, when the plaintiff had been nonsuited, on the ground that the plaintiff had not given the notice of action required by the 53d section of the 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 51, and that the venue had been laid in Kent instead of in Middlesex, as required by the Act. A rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit had been granted, on the ground, that as the Magistrate had no juris diction in cases of perjury, he was not entitled to any notice at all ; and that, as he was not acting under the Metropolitan Police Act in committing plaintiff, he had received all the notice required by the Act of 20 George 11. and 10 George IV. Mr. MESMER now appeared to show cause against the rule, and contended that Magistrates had juris diction in cases of perjury, and quoted several autho rities in support of his argument. If that was the case, then the defendant was acting under the provi sions of the Metropolitan Police Act, was entitled to the notice required, and the non-suit was perfectly right. The CHAIRMAN said he begged. i to iiiii that be sides the 1,0001. in Mr. Brook's red book (which was to be doubled) he had to announce several other sub scriptions : Richard Cobden, and Co. 2001. (Cheers) ; James Proctor, 1001. ; D an iel Proctor, 25/. ; Mr. Wm. Bickham, 1001.; the Mayor, 2001.; Elkanah Armitage and Son, 1001.: H. and E. Ash worth, 2001. ; E. Shorrocks and Co., 1001.; Messrs. Leese, Kershaw, and Co., 1001.; Benjamin S m ith an d Co., 100/. ; Mr. Hibbert, 100/. ; Jacob Bright and Son, 300/. ; Robert Maun, 2501. The announcements were received with great applause. Mr. FOSTER, from Sabden, rose to say his principal object - in coming there Was to have his name put down foe a subscription of 1001.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. CHADWICK, of Eccles, said he should be happy to give 100/.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he had just received the names of Evans and Nicholson for 50/., and of Mr. George Howarth (Rochdale) for 251.--(Cheers.) After a short pause, it was announced that Mr. Jos. Scholefield (Rochdale) had given 50/. ; Mr. James Wrigley (Bury) 251.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he had not thought to con sult his partners before he came, but he would put down 1001. for himself in addition to his yearly sub scription of 1001.—(Cheers.) Another pause ensued, after which the name of Mr. Henry Leese was announced for 10/., and of Mr. John Lord, of Bacup, for 150/.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Thomas Potter, then took the chair, and a vote of thanks having been voted to Mr. Greg, the meeting separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 23. LANCASTER V. EVORS. This case stood on the papeiio:d;; , for the purpose of enabling the Court to hear Sir Charles Wetherell's reply, but upon the Lord Chancellor taking his seat, he requested the Learned Gentleman to allow a part heard tithe case to proceed, and the further considera tion of the case was postponed. OLIVER V. LATHAM. The arguments in this part-heard tithe case were resumed and occupied the Court the whole day. - Mr. BODKIN followed on the same side. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in support of the rule said that the action had been brought for a false im prisonment on two occasions, one when he was first committed, until he should give bail to come up before the Magistrate on the 6th August, and the second for a false imprisonment on the 6th August. On the first occasion, there had been no charge made against the plaintiff, no witnesses had been called, andthe Magis trate had taken upon himself to remand the plaintiff without any charge having been made against him. If, under those circumstances, the plaintiff had applied for a habeas corpus, there could have been no doubt but that the Court would have discharged him. There was nothing in the Metropolitan Police Act' giving the Magistrate jurisdiction ; he had none; he could not have been acting under the provisions of the Act, and, therefore, he was not entitled to notice. No Metropolitan Magistrate who was fit for his office could have imagined that he was acting under the Metropolitan Police Act in committing a person 'against whom no charge was made for further exami nation. This was a most extraordinary power for a Magistrate to assume. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 23. THE QUEEN V. BINGHAM.—MANDAMUS. In this case a rule nisi had been obtained, calling on P. Bingham, Esq., one of the Magistrates for th e county of Middlesex, to show cause why a man damus should not go, ordering him to issue a fresh summons against the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway, and to assess the amount of compensation due from the Railway Com pany to one Samuel Elsley, for the occupation by the Company of certain lands belonging to Elsley from the month of February, 1839, to the November fol lowing. It appeared that the Company, in the progress of their works, had found it ne cessary to occupy this land belonging to Elsley for a temporary purpose, and, according to the provisions of the amended Act of the Company, whenever the Company should temporarily occupy any land two Magistrates were empowered to assess the amount of compensation due for such occupation, provided such claim should have been made within reasonable time, from the time of the occu pation. •In the old Act of the Company, in which a Jury was empowered to assess compensa tion, ten days' notice was necessary to be given to the Company of the intention to assemble the Jury to as sess compensation. In the month of July, 1841, Mr. Elsley applied to the defendant, who issued his sum mons against the Company. On the hearing of the summons Ms Bingham called upon Elsley to prove his notice of claim, and on his failing to prove his notice the Magistrate told him he came too late, and dismissed the summons. In the month of October following, Elsley applied to Mr. Bingham to issue a fresh summons, and stated that since the last hearing a notice of claim which had been served on the Company in December, 1839, within the time re quired by the Act, had been discovered. The Magistrate refused to issue a fresh summons, and thereupon application was made to this Court for a mandamus, calling on Mr. Bingham to rehear the case, on the ground—first, that no notice was requisite, according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament ; and, secondly, that if such notice was requisite, fresh evidence on that point had been discovered. The case turned entirely on the construction of the various clauses of the Acts of the Company. The COURT, having heard the Solicitor-General and Mr. James against the rule, and the . At torney-General in support of it, ordered the rule to be made absolute, on the ground that the first summons had been improperly dismissed, inas much as by the provision of the Act bo notice to the Company of the intention to apply for -a summons was required.--Rule for a mandamus absolute. THE QUEEN V. THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAIL WAY COMPANY. The defendants in this case had been inflicted for a nuisance in blocking up the public highway from Huddersfield to Bradford by the erection of their railway. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Application had been made for a new trial, which had been refused. Various unsuccessful attempts had been made to compromise the case, which had proved abortive, and the judgment of the Court was applied for this morning. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, for the Company, stated that they were willing to adopt any suggestion the Court would throw out that they could adopt in con formity with the provisions of the law. It had been suggested that a bridge !night be thrown across, but no bridge could be thrown across without a greater ascent than allowed by law. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—CouId not the railway cross the road at a level ? The SOLICITCR-GENERAL said that in such case they would have to pull down the railway, and re build it; besides, they could not do that without the POLICE INTELLIGENCE. interference interference of the Lords of Council to empower (YESTERDAY.) them so to do, and the Lords of the Council were not MANSIO.A'-HOUSE. authorised to interfere, except where the public safety A young man named Henry Stanbridge, who has was concerned, which was not the • case in the pre- been several times examined, was brought up to be sent instance. No injury had been done to any one; committed under the charge contained in the follow the Company had merely diverted the highway. They ing evidence. Mr. I3ozon appeared as solicitor for must submit to the judgment of the Court, but he the prosecutor, and Mr. Wontner attended on the hardly thought the Court would give judgment for part of the prisoner. the prostration of the railway. In the first place, he Mr. W. G. Dodds, an ale and porter merchant, at doubted their power to do so, as it was a publi c hi g h- H ow f or d-b u ildi ngs, Fenchurch-street, stated that' he wa y ; and, in the next place, he submitted the great was not the owner of three butts of sherry which were public inconvenience which must ensue from the mentioned in a delivery order handed to him, but he blocking up . of a railway which was now open, and was in treaty for the purchase of them with Messrs. used daily for the conveyance of letters and passengers. Long and Edwards, wine brokers, and, from what Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—It is you who force us to they said, he expected to have had possession of the give judgment, because you refuse to do anything. warrants for the wines in two days. He gave the de- The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the Company had fendant the delivery order, for which he received from always been willing to adopt any course that the defendant the sum of 1.21., leaving a balance due might be su gges t e d, if it were no t contrary to the to witness, in the transaction, of ten shillings. Wit• provisions of the Act of Parliament. ness at the same time told the defendant that he had Several affidavits were then put in and read. not possession of the warrants, and that he was not The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the Company sure the numbers he had put down in the delivery were perfectly willing to abide by the decision of the order were correct. Surveyor of Railways appointed by the Crown. Ile Mr. A. Rayner, of 29, Park-place, Liverpool-road, had before made that proposition, and he now re - Islington, the prosecutor in this case, stated that lie newel it. Gener a l Pastes', who had, on th e a p p li ca - had known the defendant for some time. On the tion of the Company, gone down to survey the road, 31st of August the defendant called on him at 69, had given it as hi s op i n i on that it would be highly Old Broad-street, and showed him the delivery order dangerous to c ross th e roa d at a level. Whatever the in question, which purported to be an order on . the Company could do they would do. Any course the St. Katherine Docks, signed W. G. Dodds, to deliver Court should say they ought to ado they would to the defendant three butts of sherry, and adopt. If the Court suggested that a p bridgeshould requested him to advance the sum of 601. The de be thrown across the railway, as suggested by Gene- fendant also produced a sample bottle of sherry as an ral Pasley, the Company would do so, although they average sample of the wine he had pu r c h ased of Mr. could not ma k e i t of the inclination required by the Dodds, and said he should want the money for a Act of P ar li ament, and would trust to the Court to I month. Witness offered to let him have 641. for a protect them from any indictment which might be month for the payment of 701. at the end of that preferred against them for acting in accordance with time, a proposal which was accepted, and the most the sug ges ti ons o f the Court. positive prom i se o f punctuality wa s ma d e, t h e d e - Mr. BaiNEs followed on the same side. fendant declaring that as he had purchased the wines The Arroasiar-GENERAL on the part of the prose- for his brother, and should reap considerable profit cution said that the Railway Company had endea- from them, he should be well able to pay the debt. voured to t a k e as muc h and to give as little as, under 1 Witness believed, from these representations, that the the pr ov i s i ons o f t h e i r A c t o f P ar li amen t , they defendant had bought and paid for these wines, and thought they could do. They had actually spent that they were then at the St. Katherine's Dock, in more i n th e course o f thi s expensive litigation than consequence of which belief he was induced to part would have built all three of the bridges, any on e of 1 with his money to the defendant, who indorsed the Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—The entry of the pro ceedings in the books of the Police Court is, that there was a holding of Hazeldine to bail on complaint that he had been guilty of perjury. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL apprehended that the Magistrate could not legalise his acts by making such an entry in his books. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—DO you assume that in every case it is necessary a formal complaint should be made before a Magistrate. The Soucrion-GENnitaLapprehended it was neces sary. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Suppose a Magistrate sees a person picking a pocket in Court, he may surely order that person into custody ? Lord DENMAN—The Magistrate may make the complaint himself. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said that in this case no charge had been made, no witnesses had been exa mined in the presence of the prisoner; but, because the Magistrate thought he had been guilty of perjury, the Magistrate had committed him. He denied that Jus tices of the Peace had jurisdiction in cases of perjury, and that therefore the notice required by 2 and 3 Vic toria was not essential in the present case. The point was whether the action ought to have been brought under the statute 2d and 3d Victoria, or under the statutes of Geo. 11. He contended that the plaintiff was right in bringing this action under the statutes of Geo. 11., that the nonsuit was wrong, and that the rule for a new trial must be made absolute. Mr. PLATT, followed on the same side. The Court took time to consider its judgment. DUNN V. COMBE. This was an action brought by Mr. Dunn, whose name has been recently so . much before • the public, as the suitor of Miss Burdett, against Mr. Boyce Combe, the poli ce Magistrate, before whom he had been brought, on a bench warrant issued by the Court of Middlesex Quarter Sessions, ordering him to enter into recognisance3 to keep the peace, and who on that warrant had committed him to prison in default of his entering into such sureties. He had subsequently been brought up to this Court by habeas corpus, and discharged on the ground of the insuffi ciency of the articles of the peace exhibited against him. The case had been tried at Hertford before Mr. Baron Alderson, and the Jury had returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages. Mr. Dunn had subsequently obtained a rule nisi for a new trial on the ground of insufficiency of damages. Mr. 'THESIGER this day showed cause against the rule, and The COURT having heard Mr. Dunn at great length in the support of it, ordered the rule to be discharged. delivery order with his name. Two or Ill"' (117 , intrusted to him, told the defendant he had heard it was not a proper way of doing business to take delivery orders instead of warrants, and he should therefore prefer the possession of the warrants themselves to which the delivery orders re ferred. He replied that there was not the least cause for alarm, that he would go to the Docks in a clay or two and get the warrants, and that the mere "act of lodging the delivery orders would be sufficient autho rity for the giving up of the warrants whenever wit ness thought proper. That assurance gave co m p lete. satisfaction to witness. A day or two afterwa rds the defendant called upon witness, and said lie could not get the warrants until the return of Messrs. Long and Edwards' traveller, who had them, from the country, that evening or next morning. The defendant in ag a a called, and said the traveller had not returned, and the warrants could not, therefore, he had. Wit"e' s ' suspicious of unfair play, and after expostulating with the defendant, accompanied him to the office of Yr. Dodds, who said, upon being asked whether witness could have the warrants in exchange for the deliver): order, " No, he was sorry that he had not received them from Long and Edwards, but that witness Should have them a s s o on as he received them." Wit ness and the defendant then came away, the former. threatening to proceed in a different way if he did not receive the warrants. On the same a fte r noon, th i e i defendant and an o th er person called upon witness, 31 i, the latter deliver e d him a letter, signed W. Dodds, .with t wo w i ne warr ants, which both teasea they believed were o f grea t e r value than h... t belonging to the d e li ver y- or d e r first deposited `vote him. Pre v i ous ly to that, the defendant h ad brougnot, to him a wine warrant, which he stated W one those mentioned in the delivery order, at the e time stating that he should have the other two r , ll rants mentioned in the delivery order next day. ` - , (1 receiving the three wine warrants witness foil% they were for two butts and a half, and, intherefore, rt hogshead short of the quan tity ag reed on, aild : 1 1 ) :r. complaining, recei ve d th e warran t for the re ma to At the end of the month, when the defendant 13.115 ,. have repaid the money , no money w as to be had from have him, and witneSs, upon sayinc , that he s heal f d m aPP i v d ) o to Long and Ed war d s , th e d e f en d an t said, g and '` you know that th e w i nes were b ou ght °I . I ` °ri ld me Edwards ?" and wh en w it ness rep li e d, ,e so," the defendant o b serve d , "T ha t only siwwas whit told to an then a flat you must have been to believe me, walked off. i ,d- Mr. H. J. V. L ong , o f th e fi rm of Long anc. ,- mark- a m e r : wards, wine and s pi r it b ro k ers , of 65, stated, that about the beginning of September war- Dodds applied to him to purchase certain wine ked 0 rants relating to thre e h ogs h ea ds of sherry mar f the by the ship Mona. Witness had had possession ° sale, warrants which had been placed in his hands for rice but not being able to e ff ect a sale at the Pto theni, em . put on them, he had returned the party from whom he had received t" 0 1, Witness informed Dodds of the fact, but t o b.. fered to get them for him and subsequentlYred it tamed one of the warrants referred to, and deli° t i l er to him. A delay occurred with respect to th e two, and they were no t d e li vere d, as Mr. D odd' s a id sefluently declined having them. Mr. Dodds P, v , witnessfo.rthtle-ie expenses, warrant and 3/. thelOs.v,aluthee w arrant b liable to : of the s uie "00 which the warrant referred being from 71. to St two other warrants were each about the same '4ll"coe Mr. Il r ontner contended that there Wes, dur ing against his client, who h a d b een out upon 1) 13 the whole of the proceedings. The defendant was committed for trial. BO IV-STREET. nam ed A respectable-looking, we ll-dressed persoil , scarf , Mary Kirby, was c h arge d w ith stealing veil, and otherarti c l es , h er own proper ty, in the of Mr. William Henker. Mr. Henk er s t a t e d th a t th e p r i son er lodged i ' l hoo y e , house about t w o years ago. When she left the t h e she left behind her an iron chest, as security for rite money she owed him for rent. She catne time afterwards, and said she wanted some t h e re ih out of the chest. As he knew i h e r were some valuable things in the chest, he all° w r - i i . no t to take some out. a l e came again, but he won 1 -. f ew allow her to take more, and she went away la days ago she called with a man, and said she sb 9 g _ e be much obliged if prosecutor would allow her to a security that was in the chest upon which she to , raise money to pay her debts.. He allowed heyzed have the chest opened, and she immech tel Y:, e d ' he a scarf, a will, and several other arti cle r „ sl „ - gave •could not get them back ; he therreo=s-s-e-ssioere her into custody, with the things in her The prisoner, in her defence, said the her own property. The will was the will of hersbed ther, and it left her a freehold house ; and. she Wi a e could di s. P ° to have the will to see in what way she co of the property. Mr. TWYFORD said he could not commit the ', l d • soner, as she had taken the things under the n(,).s the prosecutor. He should, however, order the tn l 2',;, to be restored to the prosecutor until the debt vi should be paid, and discharge the prisoner, le, ilv. " the prosecutor to take his remedy by a civil neti °ll. WELL.CLERKENthing's N% Three famished looking operatives, named shad' iv Junes, and Dickson, were charged with begg in 7 °. the streets. Mary Wilson, a - female equally wr etch-- looking, was charged with the same offence. erg Police Constable With ers sa id h e saw the pris ° " n - t fe begging this morning ; they were standing in - to t l; middle of Charterton-cres cen t, L ower -road, isiin declaring that they h a d t rave ll e d 2 0 0 m iles in,,3 Stage declaring h of starvation. All the wi n d ows were thronged people looking at th em ; h e did no t see them re c—‘ anything. The prisoners, in defence, said that the rua nli n . f4c ; . tory in which they worked in Stockport, belongined,,, the Messrs. Brown had discharged half of i ts 13 74 and they among the rest; the workhouses vierefbey" there, and to save themselves from starvation, they were obliged to leave the town. They hadt_iheghe-oti their way from Stockport to London, and D'" co c e walking about the streets here night and day their arrival. They were alMost exhausted,od co to c 10 hold out no l onger; th ey b egge d o f hi s Worsh i p something for them. t I vii th Mr. GREENWOOD said, London was inunda- e , i ` t hey Stockport men, it was against his wish to seri' 'on to prison, though the law made what they offence. Let some of the officers go with thr e to Islington workhouse, and if the officials then re ili b ' Et ek receive and relieve them at once let them co nic and tell me sp.—Theywere then removed. -17 had don to THE MA lIKETS,—(yEsTER P ' S ' CORN EXCHANGE. at o 0 We had a very limit e d s h ow o f English 1 " 1- ,.; eS sale in to-day's mark e t, y et we h ave to report 3 55 i 0 0 trrnely heavy inquiry f or it, an d Mom-lay's dePre rtetl. o Is. to 2s. per qu ar t er was w i t h difficulty suri )( „ l , e ck. Very little Foreign Wheat has come to hand ai ls i r c l eo So inanimate was th e d eman d , that tke p r ices were 3 late` nominal. Barley and Malt moved off hedvilY.a.iti sa le, rates. Oats were in moderate supply, and sluggi and the same may be said of other articles. English Wheat. 1,940 ; Barley, 6,920 ; Malt, 24,000 quarters ; Flour, 3,480 sacks. I ris " 2,780 quarters. Foreign Wheat, 2,000 quarters. WHITECHAPEL. ; each Our market was but moderately supplied ss.',‘tilio.,cing kind of meat to-day, which sold slowly . Lb the 11 " - 4 ( 1. to prices :—Beef from 3s. 2d. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton. • per 4s. ; Veal, 3s 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; Pork , 4s. to 8 lbs. by the carcase. Oalj-t57.1:1,0°90°0: COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last marKet4a99: lsl 5. d. Adalr's Bell, Robson & Co. Hartley Id 0 huddle's Weit Hartley l6 (1 Car's Hartley Holywell Main l7 6 Hebburn Main l7 6 Nelson's West Hartley l6 :3 New Tantield Moor l6 6 Ord's Red heugh l5 6 Pontop Windsor ......... West Wylam l6 3 Walls End Heaton l9 0 Walls End Hilda l7 6 W. E. Braddyll'sliettun ... 21 3 s. . 1 91 °- Walls End Hetton ..... .. ..... n 0 Walk End I...airi bton ........ . Ir, 4 I Walls End Morns° , a ...... .• .. 0 Walls s s E E n n d d s li e t y is m ie o ll; rWalls End Steivatt ••"*"" )9 Walls End Whitwell... .... 9 fi 4 Walls End Adelaide ......'" is g Walls End Ba rett. .... .. : 9 ; Walls End South Durban' , 0 9 . Walls Et, d 3 es. .. .......... 0 8 ' CO'N pen .... .. . .... ._............... ii 6 r Howard's West Netherton ' l ; 6 0 Hartley —... .................. ••,.....!,..,' __--....--- 1.1-lett.o.n isli a_ --- BIRTHS. dl of On the 17th inst.. at Wol v ert o n House , Bucks, the I Richard Harrison, Esq., of a daughter. tkot On the 20th inst. , at St. Germans - place , Blackhea lady of William Carr, Esq., of a daughter.po On the 20th inst., at Trinity-wharf, Blackmail, Mrs- • ter, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., in Portland-place, the lady of 11 :--e Tritton, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the I7th inst., at Exeter, Thomas C. Land, Egg ., E r s W. of Demerara, to Margarutta Mary Ann, only daughter 01 Land, Esq., of St. Sidwell's Exeter. G. On the 19th inst., at St. ' Luke's Church, Chelsea , A ' r : Christie, of Bouverie-street, to Frances Mary Mtirga re " and daughtlier of the late Rev. Weeden Butler, of Chelsea. ,4 DIED. On the 19th inst., in M o ntagu-street, Russell-square ICat,!‘ ' rifle Hunt Mickelfield, wid o w of the late William Huntlßicsel''' field, of West Tilbury, Essex. On the 29th ult., IVIr. Thomas Sherlock, of John-str eet, Fit troy- square. On the Igth inst., at Highfield House , Exmouth, De/014 Jane Hannah, widow of the late J. R. Wise, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Norbiton House, Kingston, Mary, re-- lict of the late Thomas Knowlys, Esq. On the 19th inst., at St. Servan, Caroline Henrietta, to second (laughter of George Pearse, Esq., surgeon, of !Warshaw, street, Westminster, age'd 25. On the 19th inst., at Clapham. the Rev. Francis Goode,. Lecturer of Clapham, and at the Fem ale Or p han Asylum, Lambeth, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. On the 20th inst., at Cl arendon- p lace, Maidstone, IVIr. W. Alexander Swaine, of St. Swithin's-lane, London. On the 20th inst. , a t Canonbur y -s q uare, Islington, Mrs. Eleanor Deane, aged 91. On the 21st inst., in Pask-place, St. James's, Lieutenant- General Sir John Vatrs, K. C. 8., &c., Colonel of the 81st Regiment of Foot , aged 69. On the 17 th inst ., at Tours, Mrs. I3iley, of Sloane street.aa On the 21 st ins t., at Cand y s, ne ar Southampton, .Willis Hallett, Esq., aged 79. NO, ni London: Printed and Published by 11.1URDO N YOV la - N• 112 Strand, at Th Sun Office, o.• 112. Strand, the o. Cowl , ,' of Middlesex, e Thursday, November 24, 184- ( 1 rt , 0 I