The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

Ni ANTI-CORN-LAW. CONFERENCE. The meeting of the Delegates of the Anti-Corn-law Conference was resumed yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. A. TAYLOR, Esq., took the chair shortly after eleven o'clock. The CHAIRMAN said, it might be well to announce that the Conference was open to the public, as spec tators and hearers, though not as speakers or voters. He mentioned that in order that, through the press, it might go forth to the public. He had reason to believe that many gentlemen who were absent yesterday would have attended the meeting, had they not thought that some process of ticket getting would be necessary to secure their admission.—(Hear, hear.) He wished also to announce, that they would that day be occupied ix endeavouring to convey to the public, a just though it must be a very faint idea of the sufferings which were now felt in the manufacturing districts of this country. It was doubtless tedious and fatiguing to hear hour after hour the reiteration of misery from the mouths of the various Deputies, but it was a most im portant part of their duty. Nothing would act upon the public mind and the public viympathv so strongly as the honest representation of deep and unmerited distress.— t Hear,: hear.) Many gentlemen had yesterday expressed 511 anxious desire that the meeting should proceed to the discussion of the remedy to be provided for the suffer ings et the people ; and as it was desirable that eiwy gentleman should have an opportunity of expressing his opinions on t hi s su bj ec t i t h a d be e n arranged that until. two o'clock the meeting should be engaged in hearing general statements of distress, and that atter that time they should proceed to the consideration of remedies, when any gentleman would have an opportu nity of expressing nis sentiments.—(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Dr. thrmar had received some letters from the country, which lie would read to the meeting before the regular business commenced. Before he sat down he begged to suggest to the meeting a topic of congratula tion, namely; that the Times newspaper, whose blame was praise, after being so long silent upon their proceedings, had that morning done them the honour of abusing them. The Ilev. Mr. BONNER then read the following let- tars :-- My dear Sir—l have just time before the post goes, to write you two or three lines. I am just returned from Dudley, and I find they are now getting as bad off as their neighbours ; two tradesmen (both extensive business 4), one a draper, and the other a grocer, have closed to-day, and the Sheriff's-officer told a friend he had eight writs to serve yesterday. While I have been trout home, considerable parties of the cllliers and miners have called to solicit charity ; they come in bodies of seven or eight, and will not go without relief. The consequence has been a meeting of a few gentlemen, and just now Mr. Richard Thompson end Mr. William Eowen called for my signature to a memorial to the Board of Guardians and Poor-law Commissioners to relax the In-door relilf clause, and give moie liberal out-door relief immediately ! It is signed by about 100 tradesman already. Mr. Thompson said—" We are us a most alarming state, and if something is not done, the me a will take it where they can find it !!" So many have been with Mr. Pratt, the Relieving-officer, and they are so de termined in their demands, he has to-day been obliged to have three of the constables at his door to protect him, and keep the people quiet. You may tell them in London, if this neighbourhood once rises, the food-tax will come off, and bring everything else with it. Excuse haste ; but twenty-four hours have advanced events in this neighbourhood, and another twenty-four hours may do something more. Yours very truly, ROBERT DEW. Bilston, July h, 1842, Half past eight o'clock, Dear Friend,—You will be surprised, no doubt at receiving a letter from me, you having left the town so . lately, but the distress of this town and neighbourhood is increasing so rapidly, that I thought a few lines would not be thought amiss. Since you left, Mr. Riley's three furnaces are put out of blast, so that. the unemployed have much increased, and the town is inundated with' starving people. Yesterday they surrounded the Reliev ing-officer's house for help, to such a degree, that it was thought necessary to procure the help of all the constables to keep the I;eace. lam glad, however, to be able to inform you that. nothing serious has yet occurred, except itbe the alarm which sue:. scenes are calculated to inspire. You will see by the enclosed address to the Guardians, that the town is doing all they can to meet the distress and to keep the people from actual starvation • but this can only be tempo rary. To muffle their minds, they have been informed that a deputation is gone to London to press upon the Government the necessity of repealing the Corn and Provision-laws, and to open the ports to free trade. Surely this is not too much to ask when a nation is starving from dear food and scarcity of employme.A. Hoping you and the Deputation every success, I remain, Dear Sir, jour's truly, Bilston, July (1, 1,842. G. BARRON. The following was the address to the Board of Guar- that.; : TO THE WOLVERHAMPTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS. Gentlemen, We, the undersigned inhabitants or rate payer's of the township of 13.1ston, truly aware of the very great distress produced among the working classes of the district, by the unparalleled stagnation of trade, especially the coal and iron trades, feel it our duty to urge upon the. Board of Guar iliane, in the strongest terms we can, the necessity of affording a liberal out-door relief to the unemployed and their families, ( Wring the continuance of the present depression. We cannot bit feel deeply the lamentable condition into which numberless p o crfan.ilies in the township are at this moment plunged, a cone Lion very clesely bordering upon actual starvation ; and we therei.vre sign this memorial in testimony of our willingness to bear . thes„burden of any extraordinary rates which the liberality • r ipw e.ve upon the Board may occasion. Bilston, julx b, 1842, This addi , Se was signed 4 the lending Conservatives in Coe: town, 1;214.41nen of the highest respectability, hanker', magistr,:ti , s, and other persons of weight and influence in the town. • Ali;.'CL'Br...l.cost requested to be informed whether any .ct.tninimication had ueen rt eeived from Sir R. Peel or tbi Duke of Sussex? G. Tromt.s.:oN replied that no communication had Q s i .e.. - been roc eiVed either from his loyal Highness or the l i 'zinte Minister. iV. Ft:nct7soN, of Bicester, then rose to ad- AresS'the ince:jug upon the condition of his own district. :47eotif"thC; itiouirit which he had made, as well as front his • oWtipersorial oli;,:rvation, he was convinced that the ilistrt , ss 'of die country wzs not confined to Manchester, Leeds . ; Newcastle-upon-'Pyre, or in short, to the whole ,of die manufacturing districts, Ina that it extended ,equally to the rural districts. The ncst field-labourers in his own neighbourhood received about 6:. per week ; ithat was the average wages, including lost time. The condition of the poor in general was most painful to 'witness ; the privations they endured were incredible. (In entering the house of a poor man a few days since, eta found that all that the family had to sit upon was u, stone. There were no beds in the house, and the father of fainily was without a shirt. On calling a second time; lit • fourth the poor woman, who was the mother of the to :slily, pouring cold water upon mouldy bread, and when it 4 gave them a trifle she thanked him, and said she had b en praying all day to God to put it into the heart of sr 'tile person to give them half a dozen potatoes to keep tl em from dying. It was his belief; that the distress i Well prevailed so universally was mainly to be attri bi tted to the present Corn-laws. He would thus define e onward march of the ruin to which this country tie ”rxied to be hastening :—positive, Corn-laws ; comport', tit e, starvation ; superlative, death.—(Hear,, hear.) Let thr :in reverse this present system, and they might then ipt the following motto :—positive, free-trade ; com pat Ative, commercial prosperity ; superlative, universal 'rite monopolists could not say that the distress s ras.,partial, for it extended t) every part of the country, -to ,the agricultural, no less than to the manufacturing, istriet,;. Mr. SYDNEY SMITII begged leave to interpose for a nteunent, for the purpose of reading a Report which had her ea communicated to him by a friend, and Which he ha I been particularly struck with. It was a Report wl dell had been put into his hands by the Secretary of th z. Uxbridge Anti-Corn-law Association. It had been :awn up by an individual who did not wish to give his so complete was the reign of terrJr in that neigh • eirhood ; but it was well calculated to show that deep 41i stress prevailed in an agricultural district, even in the •inity of the metropolis. Mr. Smith then proceeded to rea I the following communication :-- Uxbridge, Middlesex. speaking, the trade is exceedingly depressed, all loudly . eomplaining, more or less, of the alarming prospects, but a very „ A - id! proportion may be said to be doing even tolerably we l l. O s le grocer, on being questioned said—" Where I tised to take Ido not take 51.' Another said—" I used to be a bl e t o mak e a comfortable living for my family, but now I cannot make ends meet." The Metropolitan police not having been extender to Uxbridge above a year or two, no return can be made. 1835, britkl: tyers' wages, 11. 2s. ; 1842, 1/. 2s. In the former year . goo d mp h sy and .many at work. Where sixteen found fall *mployr, in It 35, not more than four or fivescantily in 1842 ; average earnings; 'srss by 3s. or 4s. Ik;i3s. tailors froot 11. 11. weekly, to 1/. 4s. 6d. ; fell work for ma sly hands. 18.42, wages same ; not the same employ ; not me re than one-third, f the hands employed; and those, through • having full yogis,, , have a difference in their incomes of fro •4s. 63. to 6s. or weekly. :1833, carpenters' wag es; 11. 2s. 184 same when in full we k. Average employm e cit as compared with 1831 about the wan Le as bricklayers. Numb.? of hands employed in buildings, as oarpenters, bricklayers, i s , 1836, 177 ; in 1842, 7 6 ; sho wing a falling off of 101 indoiduals. Every other kind of en q to y is proportionally diminished.. 3 835, Shoemakers and cobblers IN/al lit. to 15s. weekly ; ire 184 0 from 9s. to 15s. The latter cum is, however, rarely tuned, through lack of employ. The average may be taken at: from 7s. to 135., the nature of the employ making the differ er see. Very few have anything to do at tile beginning of the Yr , sek. Agricultural labourers from 9s. to 123. ; during hay-time as 4 harvest from 15s. to 18s., but this is only for a short time , as 4 it seldom reaches the full amount because of dids. uctanions for i ra. It y days. Some weeks they are glad to earn 4, d this has to support a wife with three or four children. This class of : people suffer extremely; no class more so in England. D 3 ing the winter, in its most extreme state, some are for days wit l out tire. Instances have been known last winter where fats ilies have , been without fire for three weeks togetlier; and 'rat . go without food for days. If it had n ot been for the y Ora atanly-disposed last winter many must have been starved as , t '.eath. The peasant seems to look at it as a matter of course, and resigns himself to it accordingly. He is freq uentl y driven to II r!"hing, p!undering hen -roosts, gardens, and orchards. ~. h: - .t ehitit is braught into the world by charity, its first _ r ) ::,:a'e. given by charity ; as it grows up, and is able to run a 0 , t he is taught to giiout and beg the remains of the tea and , -pot; ane,if a girl, is frequently driven to prostitution in 4. 'dee to get a morsel of bread. It is no uncommon thing for rant p 1 taverna to e . their daughters to be guilty of unchastity for I tire—nay, to sanetiinni;and receive the proceeds of their He t isildren's shame. d a re not complaih. The farmer and the I ay nee of the soil have him entirely in their power. Should he , e 4, there i 3 either the tread-mill or the' I. A 1835 the quarters lo a f o f 41b. 6oz . soldunion. f o yr 6d. and 7d. ; in k. 84 . 2, 9d• for the 41b. loaf. Ie 1,b'35, beef from sd. to 7d. ; mutt on, 4d. to 6id. In 1842, beef him: , Bd. to 11 d. ; mutton, 7d. t o 9 d . A n intelligent joiner, in contrasting his earnings and the pri ce of p covisiols iu 18:15 with the present year, states, that to snake up 1 . he difference it requires 14 s. or Ins•, placing everything on ass, , . equality. 2t ir. G. TnomPsoN said that he wished to read a por gtlime of a letter ke had received from Wales, which would lend to confirm'. the statements of the Rev. Mr. Fergu. Ftrn, .rid Mr. S. Smith. Mr. Thompson then read the :following communication: — Maisypandy, July 4, 1842. The state of the poor is certainly in this part getting worse -meekly. The markets are rising, particularly corn. Barley sells now for 2L 2s. per quarter; wheat, 31. 15s. ; oatmeal, 41. ; and the highest average wages now, in the harvest, amongst the agriculturists is 9s. 6d. per week, upon their own victuals. Poor-rates are increasing in a frightful manner, and the country is fast falling. On the other side I send you a statement which was laid be fore us in the Dolgelley Board of Guardians lately, concerning the parish of Dolgelley. It contains about 4,200 inhabitants. A parish vestry was lately held to hear appeals against paying poor-rates on rateable premises. Such vestry used to be held every year. The appellants all pleaded their inability, on ac.. count of poverty. So many applied this year. The books for the last four years were inspected, and the following was the result sent to the Board : In 1838 was excused to the amount 0f..... £42 0 0 1839 46 64 4 4 666644 57 0 0 1840 44 46 1841 44 46 1842 44 ‘. 44 Such statement plainly proves that this part, as well as others, is fast sinking. Wool is almost unsaleable here, and the mountain farmers are fast falling, as they almost all are obliged to buy corn, above half the quantity they consume ; and thus tithe (being commuted for) is rising, because the corn is rising; the wool and lambs are falling in price and the tithe rising ; and the corn they buy for their own consumption also rising, which you plainly see falls doubly on the poor hard-working farmer. What? Oh, what will become of us, if the present inhuman laws continue to exist. G. EVANS. W. NELSTIIORPE, Esq. Mayor of the borough of Stucliport, was then called upon by the Chairman, and addressed the meeting as follows :—ln endeavouring to lay before this meeting a statement of the distressed condition of our borough, I must say that I feel myself quite inadequate to the task. But this meeting may rest assured of one thing, that it is impossible for me or any other individual, to paint it in Loo black colours. I will endeavour, as briefly as possible, to give you a general statement of our condition, and then leave to the hands of Mr. Foster, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, a more minute account. At the latter end of last year the distress of our borough had arrived at such a pitch that the charitable, and those that had it in their power, could no longer stand still and look on without making'an effort ;at least, to mitigate the distress that sur rounded them; a public meeting was held, and a subscrip tion entered into, and we raised amongst ourselves, and from gentlemen at a distance, a sum exceeding 4,0001. I ought to state that we received a considerable sum from the Manufacturers' Relief Committee in London; a short Report of the condition we were then in will be found in the following circular : Stockport, December, 1841. The borough of Stockport, the working population of which is engaged almost exclusively in this manufacture, has suffered in common with other towns, from its general and long-conti nued depression. The distress so occasioned has been increased to an extent, it is believed, beyond that of any other town, by special and pe culiar circumstances of a local influence. We allude to the entire stoppage of some of the largest esta blishments in the town and neighbourhood, by which several thousand persons have been thrown out of employment, who still remain without any prospect of being able to return to it. Of the establishments at work, a great part are so only par tially ; and the working of short time (that is of four days per week) has been continued to a greater or less extent since May last. Upwards of one-third of the horse-power in the town and neighbourhood is unemployed, which, if at work, would give employment to more than 4,000 persons. It is believed that there are, altogether, about 5,000 operatives of various trades unable to obtain employment. Ihe consequences of this suspension of labour are extensive loss and suffering among all classes dependent upon trade, and un. exampled distress and privation among the working population. This distress, heightened as it now is by the severity of the weather, has arrived at a pitch of which it is impossible to convey any adequate idea by mere statistical information. The Poor-rates have regularly increased, and are now become a serious drain upon the diminished resources of the compara tively few who are able to pay them. Families, two or three together, are crowding into one house, or leaving their cottages for cellars; some are quitting their native land ; numbers, having exchanged all but the last ar ticles of their wearing apparel for the means of sustaining life, are on the verge of destitution ; honest men, willing to work, are compelled with their entire families to become street men dicants, or to live, day by day, on the precarious charity of their neighbours ; and besides an increase of disease arising in a great measure from a deficiency of food, many, it is to be feared, are literally starving to death. Of 15,823 individuals inhabiting 2,965 houses, lately visited under the direction of a Committee appointed for ihe purpose, 1,204 only were found to be fully employed, 2,866 partially emyloyed, and 4,148, able to work, were wholly without em ployment. The average weekly income of the above 15,823 persons was Is. 4%d. each. The average weekly wages of those fully employed were 7s. 6 1 ,,id. each. The average weekly wages of those partially employed were 4s, 7 1 4,d. each. On behalf of the Committee, we are, yours most respectfully, WILLIAM NELSTROP, Mayor, Treasurer. SAML. R. CARRINGTON}H,n. Secretaries. JOHN D. FERNLEY, And since then the distress has increased, and none of the mills then standing have been set to work ; in fact, Gentlemen, there is not the (I had almost said) least pos sibility, for our poor-rates have gone on increasing to such an extent that no man with capital and with a grain of common sense, would come to a town like mini whore the rates are likely to be tnis year, eight shillings in the pound almost on the rack rent. In April last, after being in operation thirteen weeks, and the funds were almost ex hausted, it was found that we have distributed relief as follows AVERAGE OF THE ENTIRE OPERATION OF THE 'mitre COMMITTEE. Families relieved, 3,143 ; individuals, 73,314 ; average we.•kly income per head, 9d. 2 .10ths ; relief given ►n provisions, 2031. Bs. 10d. ; average relief per family, Is. 3d. 2-3ds ; average relief per head, 3d. 2-3ds; income and relief per head, Is. 26-30ths. That Committee have ceased their operations for want of funds, and left ~on their books 13,161 individuals urgently requiring relief. Since 1836, our poor-rate has gone on increasing to an alarming amount ; and, ex cept there be a speedy alteration in things, not only will the working class be all paupers, but the middle class, whom tiny are mainly dependent upon, will be paupers also. The reduction of rents of all kinds of property is very considerable. Public-house property was once considered almost the best—if not the very best— a person could have, but what is the case now : Public-houses in the borough of Stockport, 136. Of this number nine are at present empty, and many of the tenants of those yet inhabited are offering their stocks and fixtures at • enormous losses, in order to free themselves from the rents and taxes, which all the money they draw will not enable them to pay ; and yet the rents of a great portion of inns and public houses in Stockport have been reduced iu many instances more than 30 per cent. , _ in some instances 60 per cent. ; but great as are the reductions above stated te nants cannot be procured. In 1839 there were in Stock port 233 beer-horses, and at present there are 104. Of pro vision, and other description of shops within the borough, there are, untenanted, 149, and 14 closed as shops, though still in habited. It is supposed that there are nearly 300 houses and shops empty of one description or other. In consequence of the distressed state of trade a reduction of wages is taking place almost unparalleled, and I fear must go on till the manufacturing population in the cotton districts are reduced to a condition from which they can never recover themselves. Gentle men, is this a state of things that ought to exist ? I am sure you . will all say no. I thought it my duty to come here and make these statements. I wish the country to know, I wish Sir R. Peel to know, I wish her Majesty's Ministers to know, that the inha bitants of our borough have endured their unparalleled 1 distress with unparalleled patience. Whether that 1 is 'to be attributed to a sense of the kindly feelings which their fellow-citizens have mani fested toward them and to their efforts to miti gate their distress ; or whether it is to be attributed to the interposition. of Divine Providence ; or whether it is to be attributed to the fact, that the poor are so de pressed physically that they have silently endured their • sufferings, it is not for me to say. There is, however, a' point beyond which human endurance cannot go ; and unless some means are taken to relieve the dis tress of the poor of Stockport, I wish the country to know, I wish Sir Robert Peel to know, I wish the Government to know, that I cannot, and will not, be responsible for the consequences which may follow from the present state of things.—(Cheers.) l'ho' CHAIRMAN here recommended that gentlemen who might address the meeting would point out, as far as might be in their power, the beneficial re sults which they had reason to know would follow from a repeal of the Corn-laws. He believed that im mense effect had been produced by the statement made yesterday by Mr. Ibbotson, of Sheffield, that if the Corn-laws were now repealed he would instantly take on 500 new hands, and that he would pledge , himself in fourteen days there should not be a workman in Sheffield out of employment. Such statements as these were most valuable, because they intended to show that a repeal of the Corn-laws would revive British industry. Mr. FOSTER, the chairman of the Board of Guardians of Stockport, then proceeded to address the meeting as follows :—I have been for some time the chairman of the Board of Guardians in Stockport, and I have collected certain facts in connection with the administration of 'the relief of the poor in that borough, a por tion of which I shall lay before the meeting In 1839 a rate of ls. Bd. in the pound realized upwards of 5,000/. In 1842 a rate of 2s. in the pound realised only about 3,600/. If we say that in 1839 the rate had been laid for 25., there would have been received 6,0001. We at once perceive that there has been a defalcation in one rate only of 2,400/. I have before stated that the average of the expenditure of the poor for Stockport, ending March, 1841, was 3,1241. ; the deficiency of one rate only for the!present year is equal to the whole expenditure, excepting 724/. The amount of expenditure on behalf of the poor in 1841, a t I F: e h before quarterst ated, ending was m a 3 r , c 12 h 4 2 /. 5, ' l l B l 4 e 2, amount was expended et37Los in . 5d .; this will, if that scale of expenditure continues, make an expenditure equal to 9,7481. ls. Bd. ; being an increase in one year of 6,6241. Is. Bd., besides the amount raised by private subscription. In the year 1839 a rate of I s. Bd. in the pound was sufficient to meet all the demands on the overseers as regards the poor and other rates. The expenditure of the present y ear will, if the present lamentable circumstances continue to prevail, re quire rates of Bs. in the pound, being nearly fivefold. It has been pretty accurately ascertained that the amount of reduction in wages has amounted to 6,0001. a week, saywith drawn circulation.shopkeepers three four, for 2,400/., was resold a few weeks since for 1,0 05 / . Three shops, whose rents amounted together to 1451. with an incumbrance of about 351., leaving nett rent 1151. per ann. Was sold for 1,305/. 'could multiply proofs of this de preciation. I have before stated that destitution and distress lis extending in Stockport at the present time. It has also much increased in other parts of our Union. In Hyde district it has extended; in Hazelgrove district, where \ the cases to the Board averaged about six or eight a week, in the present week'it amounted to seventy cases, owing to the depression - of the silk trade. The senti- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1842. ments of the Board of Guardians may be gathered from the followin t r document—it is of a recent date:— Ordered—That this Board has made provision to the utmost of its power to meet the extraordinary pressure resulting from the distressed state of the trade in this district. _ That the Board can meet the exigencies of the next quarter, but, unless some early and efficient reiief be afforded, either by the revival of trade, or the finding employment for able-bodied paupers, or the removal of the surplus population from this district, or by some other means, this Board will not and cannot be answerable for the future raisieg of the rates necessary to meet the demands on the union. Every rate reduces the number of rate-payers able to pay, and the pres sure on the employers of labour in the cotton trade continually increasing, has a constant tendency, by breaking such em ployers, to lessen the employment in the market, and increase the number of paupers. What the result may be this Board cannot tell, but its anticipations of the future, should no early relief be afforded, are anything but favourable.: The sentiments of our Board as to the cause of distress have been submitted to the Poor-law Commissioners. They are attributed to the high price of food and the growing decline in our manufactures. In that opinion I entirely coincide ; and I believe that the only remedy that can be suggested is a total repeal of all laws of monopoly—of all class legislation.—(Cheers.) lle had heard it asked how lung it would be, supposing the Corn-laws to be repealed, before any relief would be produced ? An intelligent individual of the borough to which he belonged had said to him, " Repeal the Corn laws, and the town will be prosperous in a month." faMr. L. HEY WORTH (of Liverpool) said they had heard many important statements of the distress prevailing in the manufacturing districts, and of the poverty, wretchedness, and destitution which might be found there, arising from the Corn-laws. They had also heard accounts of similar distress from the agricultural districts ; but he had to tell them that the same evils pervaded the largest and most affluent commercial districts of the country. Liverpool itself, wherever they might go, was full of evils, which were identically the same. Mr. H. then read extracts from letters on the subject, the first being from a Mr. Benjamin Parry, residing in Liverpool, describing the dreadful want of employment that prevailed in that town. Some had been out of work ever since Christmas last, and had been compelled to pawn and sell every thing, being now in a state of com plete destitution, hoping for and expecting a remedy. This letter (continued Mr. H.) conveyed a correct idea of the distress that prevailed—it was terrific. He had felt it is his own bosom, and his own daughter had sympa thised and visited those who were in this state of suffer ing. She had visited one of the wards of Liverpool, con taining 20,000 inhabitants, and had seen greater misery and destitution than had been here described. Another letter was from a shopkeeper in the Vauxhall road, dated July Ist, and it stated that his receipts were only one-third of what they were, while the poor-rates were fast increasing. The effect of this distress among the people was, that as they could not buy food it was impossible they could purchase much clothing ; and he only wished that they would re flect on the importance of this fact. How much must the sum thus withdrawn amount to ?—(hear.) Why, if each individual family among the poor — and they amounted to five mildons—if each family only expended 2s. a-week less in manufactured articles than they usually did (and they must have withdrawn more than this) it would amount to 25,000,000/. per annum. — (Hear, hear.) That was the amount withdrawn from the consumption of manufactured goods in England ; And just let them reflect on this, for it refuted a fal lacy that had frequently been put forward by no less a person thee the Premier of England—the head of the Government. He bad told them that the repeal of the Corn-laws would not remedy the evil—that the Corn laws were not the cause of the evil. But if those laws caused a decrease in the consumption of manufactures to the amount of 25,000,0001. a year, let him ask them if they were not a sufficient and adequate cause of the distress.— (Cheers.) He wanted these plain facts to go forth to the public. Some might say that he had assumed the sum of 2s. for each family as the amount they had ceased to expend, but he would ask their common sense, whether it was not clear as the snn at noon-day, that they could not have withdrawn a less sum than that for consumption. lie would appeal to the shop keepers throughout England, whether in the agricultu ral or manufacturing districts, and the reports they would give in, all over the kingdom, would he that their business had fallen off in seine cases one-third, in many one-half, and in some two-thirds.(Hear, hear.) Was not this a sufficient proof that the consumption that went on when they were in a flourishing condition, no longer con tinued. Surely it was. He would now allude to another fallacy which had been put forth by Sir R. Peel—he might almost call it the base assertion—that the Corn-laws were Rot the cause of the distress and depression. He says that there are other causes at work, and that machinery was among them. In asserting this, he believed Sir R. Peel was stating what he knew to be false.—(Cheers.) He knew it to be a perfect fallacy which the public at large had given in to ; if the facts of the case were pro perly stated, it was impossible to say that machi nery was the cause of the evils. Let them fairly grapple with this fallacy, for it was time to dissi pate it. Lancashire in 1801, contained only 600,000 inhabitants ; by the ordinary increase of 14 per cent. it would now have been 1,100.000, but it was actually 1,600,000. To what could be ascribed this accession of 500,000 'inhabitants, but to the fact that wages had been higher in Lancashire than in any other part of the kingdom. They found in Lancashire, inhabitants from Scotland, Ireland, and the most fruitful counties of England. Why have they come from distant parts of the kingdom to sojourn in Lanca shire—was it not the greater amount of wanes that were given there?—(Hear, hear.) And how had they been enabled to give these higher wages, simply from the amount of employment afforded, for that was the question.—(Hear, hear.) The increase of the inhabitants could only be ascribed to their having the best machinery in the world. To Lay that ma chinery was the cause of distress was a libel on the benevolence of Providence, Mee had given man the power to clothe the people at the cheapest rate. Machinery nut only increased em ployment in the immediate locality where it was si tuated, it gave every man something to spare to expend in something else ; and, if he could state the amount of this indirect increase of employ ment arising from this cause, he believed it would be greater than the direct amount he had alluded to. No longer, then, let this fallacy, which Sir R. Peel, in his abominable wickedness, had set forth, deceive mankind. Let us assert, and let it go forth, that machinery is one of the greatest blessings that God Almighty ever vouchsafed to the world.—(Loud cheers.) He wished particularly to impress these views on their minds, because he knew that the aristocracy had sent out emissaries from one part of the kingdom to the other to denounce machinery. He knew they had not spared their purses in this respect ; they said, " let us divide the workmen from their employers, and then we shall come off victorious." But as it had been said, even " the wrath of God shill praise him," so would the wicked dealings of these malignant men bring destruction upon their own heads. —(Beer, hear.) They had sent out their emissaries to denounce machinery, to speak against capital, to endeavour to encourage the labourer against the employer ; but, in doing so, they had also countenanced them in promulgating the principle that every man had a right to the suffrage, and that was a truth which would never die.—(Loud cheers.) They would find this, that it would strike at the very root of class legislation, which was the misery of the country. The Rev. Mr. IV.oaGart (of Stourbridge) next addressed the meeting. He said that Stourbridge, connected as it was with the iron trade, was less affected by the present distress than other places, yet even there distress did prevail to a great ex tent,-indeed to an extent never experienced in the memory of the oldest inhabitant of the town. He could adduce some indirect proofs of this statement, which were not the less conclusive because they were indirect. In the year 1838 the market -tolls of the town amounted to 7061., in 18410 they fell to 622/. Between Stourbridge. and Birmingham there were three turnpike-gates, which had been let for 1,00-11 but the person who had taken them had incurred a loss of 300/ , in consequence of the falling off of the traffic between those towns, which resulted from the decrease of manufactures. In the poor-house the usual number of inmates was under 100 ; on Thursday last the number was 198. The scale of wages fixed by the Work Committee of the Board of Guardians was, for a married man with three children, from six shillings to seven shillings a week ; for a man with a greater number of children, eight shillings ; for a single man, four shillings ; for a boy, three shillings per week.—(Hear, hear.) The question then came, what was to be done?—(Hear, hear.) He wished they could obtain an audience of her Majesty. However her Majesty was unable to do anything in the matter. They must only then not do anything precipitate, but wait till the Execu tive Committee had made its report, and propounded some re measures. He concurred with Mr. Heyworth that the As3bciation ought to direct its attention to the suffrage move ment.—(Cheering. ) Mr. RAWSON (of Manchester) wished to call the attention of the meeting to a fact which had been communicated to him by a very excellent man, a Conservative, Mr. Smith, wine and spirit merchant, of Manchester, who informed him that out of 1,200/. worth of goods which he had lately sent to Stockport, with which place he carried on a good trade, he did nut expect to receive 200/., in consequence of the distress prevalent there; and yet, strange to say, that gentleman wished to " conserve," among other things, the Corn-laws. . _ _ Mr: . Cita erdsri (of Loughborough) wished to make a few observations. The state of that district was most deplorable. The workmen were in a condition as bad as the peasantry of Ireland, or of the impoverished States of Italy. The staple trade of the place was hosiery, at which men who used to earn from 16s. to 20s. per week now received only from 7s. 6d. to lOs. per week. Other trades were in an equally declining state. Chartism, too, was extending every day ; and property, which had been hitherto sacred, was be coming more, and more insecure every day. The people were beginning to think that they ought not to starve, while there was any means of obtaining support in the country. In the hosiery trade no improvement had been introduced by am _ claniery, and yet the operatives engaged in that trade were as much distressed as those of any other branch of manufactures. In agriculture, too, machinery had not been introduced so as to throw the labourer out of employment, and )et distress among that class had never been so severe as at the present time. It was idle, then, to say that the introduction of machinery in manufactures had injured the condition of the operative, since here were two instances of the absence of machinery being followed up by the existence of distress. The spread of Chartism among the Dissenters. and the pre valence of the feelings among them which would render pro perty insecure, was an alarming feature in the appearance of the times. If the tide of distress had reached a mark so high as that to which he alluded, there was reason to apprehend that there would be very little left which would not be sub merged. There was one thing which he did not understand, and that was the interference of Government w4h trade. Such an interference on the part of the Government of a country was an usurpation, and could not be justified. He would con clude by throwing out a suggestion of the nec•rssity of their endeavouring to form a British and Foreign Free-trade So ciety, which would have for its object the establishment of free trade with all countries. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON announced to the meeting that the debate on Mr. Wallace's resolutions, which had been ad journed last night, would, in all probability, be resumed to morrow evening. Mr. Bannerman, who had a motion fixed for this evening with reference to the opening of the ports by an Order in Council, had been requested by Sir Robert Peel to postpone his motion, in order to allow the Government to go on with their own more immediate buiirieis; but Mr. B. had refused to accede to that request. and a deputaiiiin from the Executive Committee had gone to Mr. B , for the purpose of strengthening him, if necessary, in his purpose, as no business would be of more importance than that which Mr. B.'s mo tion involved. The CHAIRMAN announced that the Delegates would as semble this evening at half-past six, at Brown's Hotel, Palau.- yard. Mr. GRoerne, of Bury, came forward for the purpose of laying before the meeting a statement of the distress at pre sent existing in the town of Bury ; the distress existing was ' unparatlelee. The state of the country was most appalling, and he saw no chance of their obtaining re dress from that Legislature which pretended to regulate the destinies of this great nation.—(Cheers.) He wished that gentlemen who nude speeches would dwell mote upon the means likely to alleviate the distress, than upon the details of that distress.—( Cheers.) No impression, he was convinced, was likely to be made upon Sir R. Peel or his party. They acknowledged the distress, and pretended to sympathise with it. He (Mr. Grundy) judged of men by their actions, not by their words, and he was satisfied that Sir Robert Peel and his party cared not for the starvation of the people, so long as they could drain them of the resources.—(Cheets.) It was high time for the people of this country to coalesce and demand by firm re monstrance and with uplifted hands, the restoration of their rights.—( Loud cheers.) The country was dissatisfied with the milk-ane- water system that had been so long pursued.—(Loud cheers.) There were now many persons who were Corn-law repealcrs. What had made them so ? Why, the prese sure upon their pockets, upon their bodies, and upon their circumstances.—(Loud cheers.) He had foreseen, in IEIS, what would be the consequences of this law ; for a long series of years he had stood almost alone in his opposition to it, and when he now saw the numbers who, since that period, had joined in the opposition to it, he felt sure that there was sufficient energy and independence in the country to reno vate all that reqsired renovating.—(Cheers.) Let them, therefore, join heart and hand in the struggle. Let them have a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether—(Loud cheers)—but in order to do that, they must be with the people. Why did they object to join the people on account of any mere small differences of opinion—because they did not like this leader, or because that demagogue had too much influence ? If the general views and feelings of men were right, they should join them without looking out for little foibles. They should forget and forgive. and all join together in the cause of the country.—(Loud cheers.) If they went on as they were going on at present, something serious must eventually happen, unless it were averted by the good sense of the people forcing the Government to adopt the measures necessary for their re lief.--( Cheers.) The township of Bury was in a state of the deepest distress. The number of houses unoccupied amounted to 469, the rateable value of which was 3,661/. Bs. 6d. There were unoccupied of houses of the annual rent of 5/. and under, 331 ; from 5/. to 10/., 75 ; from 10/. to 20/., 37 ; from 201. to 30/., 12 ; from 30/. to 40/., 3 ; from 501. to 60/., 1. There were besides, 8 unoccupied warehouses. 1 timber yard, and I print work. The rate payable upon the rental of the unoc cupied property at the present time would amount to :3811. 7s. The number of empty houses was increasing every week, and three or four families frequently inhabited one cottage, for the sake of economy. Rents were from 20 to 30 per cent. lower than they were in 1838 and•lB39. In 1839 there was a poor rate of 10d, in the pound; an 1840 it was 2s. ld.; in 1841, 2s. ld., leaving the parish in debt nearly 3,000/., which it would require a further rate of Is. 3d. to liquidate, and in 1842 it would require a rate of 3s. 4d. in the pound to get the parish out of debt. The total amount of the poor-rates in 1839 was 1,8471. Bs. 7d. ; in 1840, 4,709/. 7s. sd. ; in 1841, 4,884/. 7s. I Id. The number of persons - relieved as vagrants were, from June 30 to Decem ber 31, 1840, 481; from January 2, 1841, to March 25, 1842, 2,525; and from March 28 to June 27, 1842, only three months, 777. One of the great foundries in Bury was the property of Messrs. Walker. The amount of wages paid at the i foundry n 1835 was 24,414/. ; in 1837, 19,914 ; 1838, 27,200/. ; 1839, 25,784; 1840, 17,709; 1841, 13,083. A corresponding diminution had t aken place in the amount of wages paid by the machine-shop of Walker, Smith. and Co. In 1836 they had paid 22,039/. wages, and in 1841 only 10,5461. There were nine mills and works unoccupied, which when employed found work for 2,000 hands. Not more than one-half the meat was slaughtered in Bury now that there was two years ago. Per sons with small capital, who were a most important class, were daily emigrating, and 5,000/. had been taken out of Bury by persons emigrating to America within the last six months. I'he depreciation of property was dreadful. A mill which, five years ago had cost 23,000/., had been offered for sale, and only 6,0001. offered for it. Another manufactory, which in 1841) cost 15,000/., had since been purchased for 6,0001. A large spinning establishment, which had cost 40,000/., had been offered for sale a few months since, and the highest bona fide bidding offered had been 4,000/. The distress and embarrassment of the shopkeepers and tradespeople was dreadful, in conse quence of the distress existing among the working people, and general ruin would be the consequence, unless some alteration took place. He wished he knew how to bring about the alteration. Mr. G. TimeiesoN—Will you pay the Income-tax? Mr. Gunner—No, I will not. —(Loud cheers.) I will go to any peaceable length with any person.—(Cheers.) He had received a letter from a block-maker, who had served his time with the father of the Premier, Sir R. Peel.—( Cheers. ) The writer stated that in 1835-36 and 37, when food was cheap their calico printers were in full employ meat, and earned from 1/, to 1/. ss. a week, but now the average was not above 3s. 6d. or 4s. a week, and that not above one-third of the time was employed, and this was a trade in which no machinery had been introduced. The writer attributed all this misery to the accursed Corn-laws and other monopoly laws of the country.— ( Loud cheering.) In the township of Hassorlh, which was not in so desperate a state as some of the districts, there had been, within the last two years, eight cotton factories totally stopped and six working short time. The poor-rates had increased frcm 1,601/. in 1835 to 3,767/. in 1842. They attributed all the misery and wretchedness they were suffer ing to the atrocious, unjust, and cruel Corn•laws.—(Cheers.) Something must be done, either rough or smooth, to reaiedy this state of things, or something dreadful would follow. They should demand of the Legislature to do them right. He was not a petitioner ; he was . a remonstrant.— (Loud cheers.) He was not a beggar—(Cheers)—he only wanted his own— ( Cheers) -and not that which belonged to any one else—(Con tinued cheering)—and he never would rest satisfied while laws were made for the protection of one class only to the detriment and robbery of the remaining part of the country.—(Loud cheers.) He had no objection to tell Sir Robert Peel that he would submit no longer to have his property ground under foot, and that what he had gained by industry he would not hare taken from him by robbery.—( Loud cheers. ) Sir. THOMPSON said that Mr. R. R. Moore, of Manchester, was charged to present to the meeting a report from Bolton. The Rev. Mr. FERGUSON said that one thing had fallen from Mr. Bury which he would not like to go forth to the public. He (Mr. Ferguson) was a man of peace and a Christian minister, and Mr. Bury had said they must lift their hands. Now this could mean nothing but physical force. He hoped this was not meant. he (Mr. Bury) had no objection Mr. Buhr ro se amidst loud cheers and said the last speaker ; one too. He was as much a n.an t w o & t s e a l p t r h e e a m c h t e h r a to he the e im G d t b /s e p e e n l of 'sew as any man living. What he meant was that they must s h o w a st attitude of determination. He did not mean lifting his hand in the se nse that Mr. F e r guso n s uppo s ed. What he meant-by lifting their hand was to show that have their rights they would.—(Cheer s. ) Mr. R. R. 5100'E, of Manchester, then addressed the meeting. H e sa id, they had heard a great deal of over-pro duction in this country. They were told that the great mis chief which they were suffering under was caused by this— too much clothes for the people to wear—too much manufac tures. Now he had in his hand a very extraordinary reply to this cry of over production. He had a shirt which had been worn by . a man in Bolton for five years. It was patched and mended in all directions. Now, if there was over-production in the country, it was very extraordinary that a man should be obliged to wear a coarse cotton shirt for five years. He would read a letter, giving an account of the condition of the man, and the state of his family generally : —The history of this shirt is as follows :—" Last week, June 29, 1842, Dr. Hodgkin, of London, was desirous to see the state of some of the poor families in Bolton. The first house he en tered was that of John Mayoh, of Hulme- street, bed-quilt weaver, hut now out of employment; his wife was repairing the collar of this shirt. She was a person of delicate and rather interesting exterior. The house appeared cleanly ; on her knee was a baby of fifteen months' old, which she was suckling, alleging, that though it was time it should be weaned, she did not like that it. should begin to partake any.of that scanty por• tion of food which the rest of the family required." He feel known such instances himself. He had visited within the last six weeks twenty families, and in many instances he found the mother suckling her baby, and the child aettully starving at its mother's breast. " The husband being absent, she said that their family consisted of her husband and self, with four children; that only one of the family, one of the daughters, was in work; that she was a power-loom weaver and earned 3s. 6d. per week, and this sum, together with Is. 6d. which her husband had earned with jobbing, making 55., was all they had to live upon. Her bosom becoming exposed whilst suck ling the child, it was obvious that she had no linen upon herself, and on the inquiry being put, she stated that she had not now for several weeks possessed a chemise that she could put on. Inquiries have since been made by a neighbour, touching the circumstances of this family, and the case is fully borne out—the person who undertook the inquiry observing, that there are people worse off than these.' It is deserving of observation that the shirt sent herewith has been in wear these five years by the father of a family ; that the mother is without linen ; that their principal subsistence comes from the earnings of a daughter, who is working at power-looms for a manufacturer of shirting,s ; that that manu facturer has frequently had, and probably now has, his ware house crammed full of skirtings and other goods, for as hich he has no sale. And yet there are persons found, even within ti.e observation of these melancholy circumstances, who audaciously allege that the sufferings of these people arise from over-production.' "—(Cries of " Hear, hear. ') Over production I Was the only over-production that of goods? —(Cheers.) There was an over production of meddling with the trade and commerce of the country.--(Cheers.) No warehouse in the country would be full, nor gloom unworked in the kingdom, if they were not bound by the laws which kept the food of the world from the starving people of England. (Cheers.) Was it to be wondered at that the wa rehouses were full in this country. How could the people buy shirts ; how could this poor man do it? All his earnings went to buy bread. America was not allowed to give the people food for the shirt ings they made. The law-makers were not obliged to go ragged. They sold bread, andwould as long as there were peopleto buy. They rolled in purple and fine linen, while the people were star ving. He(Mr. Al.) was glad the question had been asked with re spect to physical force. They wanted no physical foree—they wanted no such thing. Of all weaknesses dreamt of, physical force was the: most absurd. What they must do must be to withdraw their support from an unjust Government. The strength of the Government lies in their physical force. They (the delegates) had been charged with exciting the people. They had said that Sir Robert Peel had had the power to give the people food, and he had broug ht forth nothin g . If that was exciting the people, then it was the duty of every Chris tian and human- being to do so. It would be criminal not to do so. The physical force of the Government lay in the y Horse-Guards and the police; bu t the p eo p le were becomin g eulightened on the subject, and th e y would be no lon g er led by the G overnmen t. Sir. Thompson had submitted a plan to the meeting. H e ( Mr. Moore) wi shed to see the burden of carrying the corn-law thrown u p on the peg (Cheers. ) They must not say, " Why did riot the Parliament do it ?" They must no t say, " Whv did no t the Corn-law League do it?" Th e p eop l e themselves roust do it. They must with • e.— draw their support from the Government. They could not go on if the people refused to use taxed a rtieles,—(Cheers.) For himself, foe the last five months, he had drank ;imbue; but trilk and spri ng water; an d at his breakfas t he took his cu p of the First Lo r d o f an e mpty Treas ui y . If he were so, he would g i ve up water with pl easure, i n t h e hope of so me day seeing t eel hie post dire ctl y . The y were bound to obey th e l aw , but they cou ld obe y it in their own way; they were bound to pay the taxes ; there were two ways of paying a letter, either by stamping it or paying the postage. Let the law take its course, arid let the goods be seized- Let them do the same thing with respect to the In come-tax, that rev en ue introduced to p ro p u p mono p ol y . It was said that th ere wou ld have been an e q uivalent on tho re duction of the d u t y on thealtry articles in the tariff ; but this was a mere pretence. The Government intended to do p nothing—they had done nothing—and now added to the other taxes they had an lucome-tax, which was to support laws ape were injuring the trade of the country, and disgracing the coun try abroad. They 'must Pay, the Income-tax in the least agree • abie way . to the , Government- possible.—(Loud cheers, ) He liked keepiiig within the law, and it was per fectly legal to say let your goods be seized.—(Cheers.) In Ireland, when cattle were seized for tithes, it was common for several thousai.d people to assemble for the purpose of watching the sale, and frequently no person could be found to bid. He knew that the people of this country were not suffi ciently unanimous to allow of a similar plan being pursued, but there were other plans which might be successfully adopted. The meeting had probably heard of John Hoskins, the Birmingham blacksmith and the great teetotaller.—( Hear, hear.) John having had smile chairs seized for Church rates, got five or six of his shopmates to attend the sale. When the chairs were put up to auction, some one bid three-pence for them." Oh," said John, " they are worth more than that; I will give five shillings for them." Some one then offered ten pounds, and this was followed up by successive biduings- of 201., 301., 40/., and 50., and this went on till at last the bidding stood at 1,000/. John told the auctioneer that if he knocked them down at that price, he should insist upon the difference, and the result was that the chairs were restored to him, and the Church-rate people had to pay the auctioneer 20/. or 301. for his work.—( Great laughter. ) Now, the very same thing might be done with respect to the income-tax and the assessed taxes, and if they did not stop the supplies by such means, the fault would rest with those who refused to adopt that course. These were measures which would ac complish their purpose, if they had only courage, perseverance, and fearlessness enough so to act. He would not occupy the time of the meeting at much greater length, but he wished to state one or two facts. He had in one day visited twenty.five families in Salford, and of that number of families the great majority had been four-and twenty hours without food of any kind. On that day they were relieved from the workhouse. In one instance he, on going into a cellar, found a man lying on shavings, with not a morsel of covering. He had been lying on those shavings fur two months, afflicted with dropsy and disease of the chest. Shortly after he died in the workhouse, and on his deathbed he told him (Mr. Moore) that on one occasion he had been thirty-six hours without a morsel of food passing his lips.—( Hear. ) If the Go vernment could be brought into the cellars and garrets of the back lanes of Manchester; it they could see men week after week growing paler, and thinner, and weaker from starva; ion ; if they cou!d see children with marks of disease brought on by slow starvation, they would not dare to hurry on a motion of supply. The first question would be how were the starving and dying people to be supplied with food?—(Hear, hear. ) The land was full of abundance. All that stood between the perishing people and plenty was the inhuman and tyrannical laws of the country, supported by a few for their cwn profit. It was their duty to take from the dominant party the power to support those unjust laws, and to inquire each one of himself what could be done to withdraw from that inhuman pyty the power to starve their fellow-men and to trample upon"the law of God. Mr. G. THOMPSON said an Hon. Member of the House of Commons had very often referred to the use of what he was pleased to call devil's dust in the manufacture of cotton. There (pointing to the shirt lying upon the table, and referred to by the preceding speaker), there they had a satis factory and ocular refutation of the Hon. Member's charge against the manufacturers. He confessed that he believed that the only devil's dust was that which Mr. --- and others were in the habit of throwing into the eyes of the community, in order that they might not see clearly the cause of the people's distress, but imagine that to be a remedy which they proposed, but which was in fact no remedy at all. The mere circumstance of that shirt having been worn for five years was proof positive that all the cotton made in Lancashire was not so plentifully supplied as had been stated.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. WINKS, of Leicester, wished to call the attention of the meeting to the present circumstances of the town of Leicester. That county was partly a manufacturing and partly an agricul tural county. The staple produce in manufactures was gloves and hosiery. The people had suffered greatly during the last winter. They had met by groups in the streets, and some slight disturbances occurred in consequence. Parties of half a-dozen men went from house to house, for the purpose of pro curing assistance. They came to his own shop, and when he told them that it was impossible that he could relieve all who adopted that method of applying Its assistance, they said " We cannot help it, we have nothing to eat, our wives and children are in the same condition, and we must beg ;" and though a notice was issued by the Magistrates, stating that the practice was illegal, it was still continued. When the Queen's letter ar. rived in Leicester it was not favourably received ; but a public meeting was held in the Town-hall, and a sum was raised which was sufficient to afford relief for tour or five weeks. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S ANSWER.. The CIIAIRMAN (interrupting the speaker)—l have just received the following answer from Downing-street to the ap plication made, that Sir Robert Peel would receive the De puties to hear what they had to state : " Sir,—l am desired by Sir Robert Peel to inform you, that he will see the parties to whom your letter of the 6th of July refers in Downing-street, ou Saturday next, at half-past eleven o'clock." Mr. WlNgs then proceeded with his address. The working classes of Leicester were becoming reckless of consequences ; they were in the habit of saying that they were worse off than the inmates of gaols, or of union work-houses. He was per suaded that if he could produce to the meeting a number of the ill -clad, half-starved stocking knitters, or frame-work knitters of Leicester, they would pres, nt such a s F ectacle as could hardly be gathered from any otl.er place. The operations of the town ship of Hinckley especially were reduced to a state of wretched ness for which it would perhaps be impossible to find a parallel. He would only say a few words in addition with respect to the remedy for the evils under which the country suffered. They had just heard the announcement that the PI envier would grant them an interview. That was very kind of him no doubt ; but he (Mr. Winks) for his part, expected nothing from the Right Hon. Baronet. It was his belief that they should not trust to Premiers, nor to Parliaments, but to themselves.- -(Cheers.) Whatever might be the determination to which the Executive Committee might arrive, he was sure they would proceed with prudence, and that they would adhere to the resolution to which they might come. He would remind them, too, that they should hasten as much as possible the period at which they would arrive at their determination. The people were starving—nay, they were dying; and they could not wait for a remedy for the evils under which they suffered. They should have relief sent to them as promptly and as efficiently as posiilale.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN informed the meeting that the Executive Committee had come to a resolution to invite those Mem bers of Parliament who had voted, or paired off in favour of Mr. Villiers' motion, to a Conference with the Deputies, at Brown's Hotel, Palace-yard, at two o'clock on Friday. The meeting at the Crown and Ai;chor would take place as usual en that day from eleven o'clock till two Mr. DICK, a deputy from Paisley. then proceeded to address the meeting. He believed it was very important that gentle man should point out, as sugge-ted by the Chairman at the commencement of their meetit g, tie advantages which would be likely to result from a repeal of the Corn-laws. He believed that, if the Corn-laws were repealed to-morrow a great increase of employment would immediately take place in the borough of Paisley. He had just received a communication from a friend in Dundee, stating that it a repeal of the Corn-laws were to take place to morrow, the whole of the establishments in that town would he put immediately into operation —( Hear, hear.) They knew that they could at once obtain flour from America, and flour was the very article which they stood in need of. The aristo cracy were said to be the authors of the evils under which the country laboured; but surely those evils should in some mea sure be also traced to the middle classes, who allowed themielves to be bribed and bought, and to become the slaves of power. It was understood that they were now speaking of remedies; and however feeble might be those he should suggest, he would leave them in the hands of the Committee to itispo,e of them as they might see good. The evil they complained of was mo nopoly ; but that was a very wide word. '1 here were various kinds of monopoly ; but the giant one was the monopoly of legislation. A practical scheme for destroying that would be the thing to relieve them. 'I here were three con ventional crimes on the statute-book, which seemed to be over looked ; these were the crimes of treason, sedition, and blas phemy. He would tell them what his practice for twenty years had been with respect to them. He had for twenty years come to the determination, that no man charged before him, as a juryman, with treason, or sedition, or blasphemy, should be convicted. So long as the middle classes were put forward by the higher classes to do their dirty wol k and convict men of these crimes, so lung would the power of the aristocracy con tinue. When any one was charged with these crimes let the middle classes inquire into the nature of the case, and oot con vict for them ; they would theti inspire the aristocracy with terror. Though the middle classes complained of mono poly, they were themselves the monopolists of legisla tion. Let them declare openly for the Charter—let them put down selfishness among - themselves, and by this means a union would be established between the middle and working classes, which would obtain for them that moral force which would alone have influence on the at istocracy. The petitions of the middle classes might be well written,beautifully recorded on paper, but what was the result of them when they were presented? When they should also be signed by the stiff fingers, which !poke of men with string arms, accustomed to hard blows, then they should have a mural force which would tell on the aristocracy. Thomas CLEW (Deputy from Hinckley) said he was a stocking-maker, and his constituents wished him, if he had th e opportunity, to offer a few words on the state of Hinckley. He had been connected with it for forty-two Sears. They went on in prosperity till 1814, when the Corn Bill was introduced, and he was one of those walked from Liverpool to Nottingham, when the roads were placarded with " No Corn Bill;" in fact. he might say that he was a Corn-law Repealer, before there was any Corn-law at all. It had been prophesied by a large Tory ma nufacturer, that the moa,ent the Corn-Bill was a law, the sun of commercial prosperity in Hinckley would set ; and as it was prophesied, so it proved. Trade 11:.d been falling off for five and twenty years, and for the last three or four years the state of things had been awful beyond description. With respect to the means of alleviating the present distress, he thought that unanimity of effort and perseverance ought to mark all their exertions. They should never flag in their agi tation against the system of oppression which clogged the pro gress of free trade. Agitation had annihilated the Corporation and Test Act—had given Emancipation to the blacks. Agita tion had enabled that great and good man Daniel O'Connell to emancipate his Catholic countrymen. He hoped that the Lord would take the heart of Sir R. Peel into his hand, and remould and fashion it. He could show him, if he came to Hinckley, such scenes as he never witnessed in his life, and he believed that, unless he had the heart of a Janissary, or was as stupid as a Bishop—(Tre mendous cheering)—that his heart would be touched. He had visited houses in Hinckley, and the poor children had come round him crying, and hoping he had brought salvation. He had been sent to the Conference by his employers to show the Conference the state of the country. There was not one in Hinckley but was under distraint. All were in the deepest dis tress. He hojied soon to see these laws abolished, when the rich and poor could live together in peace.—(Cheers. ). Mr. BreiDWORTII, of I.eicester, had been working with the last speaker for the last twenty-six bears, fighting the battles of the poor, and had once nearly been transported, and twice in prison. A working man had said to him, " You know that the middle classes are not prepared to meet us." Was that the case then ?—(Cries of " No, no.") The working men said, if the Corn-laws were repealed, what security had they, as the middle classes only wanted those laws abolished, that then they would not desert the poor.—(No, no. ) He thanked them for that ‘• No" in the name of the working people of Leicester. He had asked the manufacturers in his neighbourhood if the were prepared t o g i ve up t h e i r luxuries , and they said " No." He asked th em if they would refuse to pay the Income-tax, and th e y sa id " N o " y He (Mr. Blud worth) had never paid a Church -rate, and he never a ould.— (Cheers. ) l'ilere were 100 persons in Leicester living upon Is. 6d. a-week. They only worked two days in the week. A man had met him in the street, and asked for charity; he refused, for he conceived that charity was only enslaving the minds of the poor. He ad vised the unemployed to go to the unions in a body, and demand their rights rather than ask for charity. He did not believe a repeal of the Corn-laws would give them all they wanted. He was not only an Anti-Core-law man, not only a Universal Sliffr,ige man, but a Universal Rights man.—( Cheers.) If they wished the assistanee of the working classes, they must let them see that they eared for their rights—that the mii . dle classes wished to give them their rights.--(Cheers.) At, a meeting the other day in Leicester not three middle class gentlemen had attended. If Mr. Vincent were to go down and call a meeting he would have 3,000 people assembled round him. Why? Because the people believed that he was desirous of gaining for thern their rights.--(Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN ro,e to nrilgr. Ile fully agreed with the speaker in his views on the Suffrage question, but they were not met there to discuss that question, and therefore, as a point of order, he must request the speaker to confine his observations to the question before the m •etirg. BLUDWORTM would bow to the decision of the Chair man. In Leicester there had been upwards of 5,000 unem ployed persons appl)ing for relief. The class immediately above the working class was nearly exhausted, and unless something was soon done, they would also be in a state of des titution. Mr. BARTON, of Leicester, thought his worthy colleague mu:t have made a slip of the tongue when he said the middle classes in Leicester were wanting in symi athy to the working classes. He (Mr. Barton) at once repudiated the statement. Mr. BLuDWORTH had said that such was the feeling of the working classes. Mr. BARTON considered such a feeling a most groundless one. He hoped the middle and w rking classes woul., -henceforth unite in an effective opposition to the aristocracy of this country. —( Hear, hear. The meeting then adjourned. COMPROMISE _ OMMITTEE. SOUTHAMPTON. The Committee met at one o'clock; the Hon. J. 8: WORT. LEY in the Chair. Richard Andrews was called and examined—ls a coach maker, living in Southampton. Voted at the last election for Messrs. Hutchins and Mangles. Is an active part:saii of theirs. Was not a member of any of the Whig committees. Had com munications with them. Had no communications respecting money with the committees. Knows nothing of colourmen and messengers. On one occasion he got 101. to pay 20 men. He gave the money to Zimmerman. He ( Zimmerman) was not a voter. Cannot recollect who gave him the nione‘. 'I here were entertainments given during the election; they were given freely on both sides during the canvass. lie attended some of them. There was an entertainment given at.the Royal Yacht Hotel on the Queen's birthday, or some other joyful occasion. That was the first time an entertainment was given. Messrs. Hutchins and Mangles were present. Those who were present paid for their tickets. They were generally voters. Does not believe that on former occasions they paid for their tickets. Has no doubt but extensive corruption prevailed at the last election; it is his belief. A person of the name of Woodward, a tenant of the town-crier, told him that he was sued for rent for voting for the Liberal candidates. Wit ne?,s paid '2ll. for him. Believes that if the Legislature dues not take means the same practices will prevail at the nslit election. Thinks that eighty or ninety voters might have received direct bribes. Between 200 and 300 might have re ceived direct and indirect bribes. His party had more than 600 promises. Does not think persons break their promises un less they have sovereign reasons. —(Laughter.) To Lord BARRINGTON—Thinks that if chairmen and eo lourmen were put down it would tend to do away with corrup tion. Thinks that 250/. would be sufficient to cover the legal expenses of each candidate. No person at present had any business to come to Southampton without having plenty of money. _ _ . To - the COMMITTEE—Saw Mr. Abrahams on. Friday or Saturday last at Southampton. Is ready to swear he never told Mr. Abrahams he was asked by Mr. Baker to state what was false. Saw Wren's book in Southampton after the late Election Committee. He told Mr. Abrahams that he had seen his sig nature to a bribe. Ab:ahams answered and said—" Oh, I know what you mean, that pencil mark in Wren's book." Abrahams- did not deny the mark was his. When he saw Abrahams on Saturday last, he told him that he should mention the conversation he had with him re. specting the signature, and then Abrahams said " Very well, 1 will go up and declare it is not my signature." Mr. Joseph Lankester was next called—Was one of the per sons who drew cheques on the Liberal side. Does not know of bribes being given on the Liberal side. Messengers were paid on the Liberal side. There were no colourmen on that side. They had no procession. Chairmen and colourmen were appointed, but as they were not the winning party they were not paid; their names are in the committee books. These books are in the possession of the agents, Messrs. Sharpe and Harrison. Many of the messengers and clerks were voters. There were from 25 to 30 houses open on their side. They were open for the purpose of refreshment from tae beginning of the canvass to the issuing of the writ. Many persons in his ward, that of St. Mary's, said to him, " We are anxious to vote for your party, but we are offered so much by the opposite party that we cannot refus, it." In cons quence of that he engaged the houses. Many persons notwithstanding voted against them. Had a knowled ze of the previous election in Southampton. In 1830 there were two candi.iates Pen lees, Liberal ; and Hay, Tory. • The expenses of Sir. Penlees were between 4,0001. and 5,000/, those of Mr. Hay, as ad 'flitted by him to Mr Hearn himself, were 1,000/.—(Laughter. ) In 1831 there were three candidates, Sir C. Williams, Liberal; and :Messrs. Dutton and Hay. Tories. The excesses of Sir ( Williams were only 400/. The Tories were sucessful." In 1832 Adderley and Penlees were the Liberal Hay and Mackilly were the Tories. The expenses of Mr. Adderley xere 4331. of Mr. Penlees between 5001. and 600/. The Liberals engaged 180 colourmen at that election. Mr. Adderley was successful, and Mr. Penlees was seated on petition ; does not know what the expenses of the Conservatives were ; the colourmen were paid 1!. ; the price was since raised. In 1835, Sir J. Easthope and Mr. Bingham were the Liberal candidates, Messrs. Dalton and Hay were the Conservative candidates. Sir J. Easthope on that occasion paid 1,000/. into Adderley's bank ; he (Sir John Easthope) received back a cheque amount ing to 1801. ; he told wi , ness it was an unexpected thing, and he thought he should have to pay 500/. more. Sir. Bingham 'nod nothing. There were no colourmen employed on that occasion. 'the Conservatives were successful. In 1837 Lord Duncan and Lord C. Paget were the Liberal can didates. The system of treating began to ba revived at this election on the Liberal side. It was never extinct on the Con servative side.—(Laughter.) Public-houses were opened. The expenses of the candidates were 2,0004 Heard that the expenses on the Conservative side were 3,000/. Mr. Dutton an t Sir. Martyn were the Conservatives. Lord Duncan and Mr. Hutton were elected. In 1841 the Liberal candidates were Messrs. Hutchins and Mangles ; Lord Bruce and Mr. Marten the Conservative candidates The whole expenses on the Liberal side were 3,0001. or thereabouts. The most of it was spent in treating. The books would tell what • the exact amount was. There was a further sum of 2,508/. paid into the Hampshire Bank by Sir J. Guest. The rea son of that was as follows : —When Mr. Hutchins was canvassing, persons said to hire ".You will never succeed, you have got no money ;" upon which Mr. Hutchins said to him ( witness) " What do ycu think of nay paying iu 2,500/. into the Hampshire Bank ; it will be sure to get abroad ; and then th, y can't say that we have got no mon•-y."—( Great laughter. ) Witness advised him tif do so. Not a farthing of it was spent on the election ; it was all paid back in cheques to Sir J. Guest. To Sir. SHEIL—The greater part of the money was spent in treating. Considers that another form of bribery with regard to the publicans and voters who go there ; believes there was some direct bribery on the Whig side; it was not moth. To Mr. VESEY—Those who received bribes, he believed to be the lower classes of voters; the artisans were the most in dependent voters ; he knows one who refused so much as 30/. does not like to tell his name; he voted for the Liberals. SitlEL—You ought to have no objection to give his name in connection Kith such honourable conduct. Witness— His name is James Lawrence, a working jeweller, living in College-street; knows who offered him the bribe; does net like to tell his name. ( The person's name was handed in to the Committee.) To Mr. VESEY-It is difficult to say whether it would be wise to extend the franchise to a still lower class of voters than those who took bribes. Knows many poor voters who would nut take bribes. To Alr. SHlEL—Thinks that if treating and chairing were put a stop to it wouli tend to put down those corrupt practices which prevailed in Southampton. Thinks if they are not put a stop to the same scenes would occur again. The -- fiiiiectable persons on both sides were desirous they should he put a stop to. Thinks the feeling in Southampton is decidedly Liberal. SHIEL— l'hen the candidates on one side must be decidedly liberal.—( Laughter.) To Lard ßA IMINGTO N.—Th e Liberal side had a-majority of promises. Abrahams told him that he did not consider his party secure till Saturday morning. The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock to-day COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held to choose eight persons, four of whom to be Aldermen, to be returned to the Mayor and Alder man, for Commissioners under the Act of rarhament for grant ing to her Majesty duties on profits arising from property, pro fessions, trades and offices, and other business. THE CITY ADDRESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA. The Address voted to his Majesty the King of Prussia, written upon vellum by Air. Paton, the celebrated ornamental writer, was exhibited in the upper part of the Court, in a mag nificent frame, and high praise was bestowed upon the penman. ship and the splendidly emblazoned border. In answer to a question from Alderman COPELAND, The Loan MAYOR said he would himself take especial care that the Address'should be safely delivered to his Majesty. THE ELECTION OF THE INCOME-TAX COM- MISSION ERS. The Court then proceeded to the election of the Commis sioners under the new Act. The following Aldermen were chosen, viz., Aldermen Sir James Duke, Farebrother, Gibbs, and Magnay. Before the Commoners were elected the following section was, upon the motion of a member, read by the Town Clerk: —" That the qualification of a Commissioner for general pur poses, for London and other places, shall be th. - , possession of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Great Britain, of the value of 2001. per annum, or more, of his own estate, being freehold, or copyhold, or leasehold, for a term whereof not less than seven years are unexpired, over and above all ground rents and incumbrances or the possession of person - 1 estate of the value of 3,000/., or a personal estate, or an interest therein, being together of the value of 2001., estimating in every such case 1001. personal estate as equivalent to 41. per annum, and an interest from personal estate of . 4/. per annum as equivalent to 1001. personal estate. The following Commoners were then elected Commissioners, viz., Mr John Dixon, Mr. Cope, Mr. Knott, and Mr. Eyton. The Towsr CLERK informed the Court that they were immediately to proceed to elect under the 32d section, by which it was enacted " that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mon Colwell of every Corporate City throughout : Great Britain, or any three or more of them, net in any case exceed. ing seven, should be Commissioners for executing the Act, and the powers therein cont%ine , i, in relation to the public offices or employ ments of profit in such City, and in every guild, fraternity, compass:, or society, whether Corperate or not Corporate, within such City." Upon the motion of Alderman Coretssm, it was resolved, that five persons should be appointed Commissienert to per form the duly specified in the section just read. The following gentlemen were then appointed to art as Com missioners, under the 32d section of the Act, sit , Mr. Brown, Mr. Bridge, Mr. ' , lnnis, Mr. Lart, and Mr. Westwood. All the Commissioners appointed by the Court, were, it was stated, as well as possibly could be adapted to the office, being, according to the definition of an Income-tax Commissioner, given by Sir Matthew Wood, every man of them able to keep their own secrets, as well as the secrets of others. THE MASSACRE IN A FFGHANISTAN. The motion of Mr. King, for the grant of 500/. in aid of the fund for the relief of the families of those who have suffered by the massacre in Affghanistan, was adjourned until the arrival of more information by the overland snail CAMBRIDGE INST LLATION.— CAMBRIDGE, JULY 6. —The Chancellor being a member of St. John's College, a splendid fete chanzpeire was given by the Masters and Fellows of that Society in honour of the occasion. The preparations were of the most magnificent de,cription, and had long Wen in progress. Professor \Valmsly's concert at the Senate Huse followed, and we regret to say was very thinly attended. In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks in the grounds of JCSUF College, whew thousands of the townspeople congregated and remained till eleven o'clock. This evening the grand ball In the Fitzwilliam Museum takes place, which will, no doubt, be thronged, as the place of sale. of tickets is actually crowded with applicants. This morning he sacred oratorio of the Messiah was performed at St Mary's Church to a most numerous and brilliant audience. -1 he throne, the pit an d ga ll er i es were qu i te fill e d, b u t there was plenty of room in the side idles. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Cuke of Cleveland, and many of the nobility occupied places on the throne. The music of the Messiah is so well known that any description is unnecessary. Miss Birch sustained her high reputation, and in the air, " Come unto him all ye that labour and are hea v y lade Tl-and he shall giv e you rest." she was more brilliant_ ' tirm - -- - at any former periol during these concert ,, cnoru,es. tA,m, were executed with great manlier:, The coacert did not end until three o'clock ; l alis evening the Master of fruity gives a grand banquet in the fine hall of that College. ..~. ~ .Y IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. KOUSE OF LORDS, July 7. • ,3 Their Lordships met at the usual ;lour. f ;.6 A messenger from the H ouse o f Commons brought the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, the Mines and Col lieries Bill, and several other Bill;, which were osicliA read a first time. Lord WIIARNCLIITE laid upon the table the Reit , port of the Commissioners of :National Education - in -, : , , Ireland. The Tithe Commutation Bill passed through CoM% mittee. LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENT BILL. The Order of the Day for the third reading of they: ii '" Liverpool Improvement Bill having been moved, Thy Duke of RICHMOND moved that the clauses which proposed that the public-houses in Liverl o4 i .shoulti be closed at certain hours on Sunday, in the sone way as in London, should be expunged from the Bill. He did not think that clauses of such a nature should be' introduced into a private Bill like the present. The Bishop of SALISBURY supported the clause& He believed they had the approval of the whole of tbo',, respectable inhabitants of Liverpool. He believed that the Bill would be an ell:ient remedy for those complained of by the promoters of the Bill, and he 1 10 1 ) . 4 their Lordships would not, therefore, assent to the amend ment of the Noble Duke. The Bishop of NORWICH expressed his decided ars ; probation of the Bill as it then stood, for the reasons ably assigned by the Rev. Prelate. He hoped the Nob10::'• Duke would withdraw his opposition. Lord SKELMERSDALE said, that connected as was with the neighbourhood of Liverpool, he could 0° remain silent in the matter underdiscussion. He sh° l4 ;,,i certainly feel it his duty to support the Bill in its pre y form. He could not concur in what had fallen fronl t i ! 0 ; Noble Duke. This Bill concerned the peace and yor i f i ff fort of upwards of 300,000 inhabitants. He should cee''',s tainly support the third reading of the Bill. • The House then divided on the amendment— Y". td Contents l5. ' s ; 11 :0 Non-Contents 4B '• " ,4 19 7 - 10 Majority against the amendment —3 3: -. 1 71 0 .0 On our return to the gallery, we found 0" . The Duke of RICHMOND addressing the Housegl io hoped that the Magistrates who were for shutting o .r 3 f ij 11, 13 , i f the public- hbuses on Sunday would not pay 0 labourers at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, 1 0 4 ;:ao a public'house.—(Hear, hear.) He should now 11 30 7 1 1) that the clause which prevented publicans serving- 1 47;f under the age of sixteen years, should be rejected. ', l lO Lord CAMPBELL said the clause ran—" boys. r';, 1 11 rently under sixteen years of age."—(Laughter.) Sfri, Noble Duke did not divide the House he (Lord Csa l r - 4 bell) should do so. The Earl of WICKLOW considered that the 0 1 1 ,0' was the best in the Bill. A Bill had been intro 4 iato the House of Commons, when the Noble and Lea ' Lord was a Member of that House, in which was a elsn' precisely of a similar nature, and which the Noble Learned Lord must have been aware of. Lord CAMPBELL—I was not aware of it then. t;?, The Earl of WICKLOW—If the Noble Lord NvOt tifi b the framer of the Bill, it must certainly have come Wl', his notice. Lord SK ; ELMERSDALE supported the clause. •• • Lord CAMPBELL replied. The House then divided, when there appeared—. For the clause (Contents) 3B Against it (Non-contents) 32 • 1 „ ,o Majority against the clause —6 The Bill was then read a third time and passed. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from 7, 1 1 • fordshire (as we understood) against the Mines and v lieries Bill. _ ' Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition with a gil l " 7 prayer. 4,,- . ~ . BANKRUPTCY BILL. '.: The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that,. would move the second reading of the BankrupteY on Tuesday. ee` Lord COTTENHAM said that he should also 1 11°7 • 1 the second reading of a Bill of his nlating to Baeihryn ,i also the second reeding of two Bills relative to the 1 ,0 7, , , Courts, and Lunatics and Insolvents. ~ . e EDUCATION. „.•0, 1 Lord LANSI)OWNE wished to know from the i‘ o ofie Lord the President of the Council whether it wealla 4 1 ,0 be expedient to lay on the table of the House on Tue..iog day, on which day he had to present a petition on ed,%•0 1 Lion, an account of the grants made by the Comisil , [, 1 4 of the Privy Council up to the present time. el 4 1, Lord WHARNCLIFFE said he would endearOr r e have the account ready by T ues d a y. . f'el., , e,,0 e ,b4 CUSTOMS BILL. :-- i eblb On the motion that the House resolve itself Or i B O . ' Committee upon the Customs Bill, ' Earl STANHOPE said he had no desire to offer_i o ig unnecessary obstruction to the Bill, but he wielr'', take that opportunity of making a few obserame!'. The first objection he had to the Bill was on the :,-‘ ej l that the duties on articles of luxury consumed hY . .„40 rich were reduced. He objected to this, unless, itee e tell be shown that it was followed by an increase of reveline" 4 also objected to a reduction of duty in those cases telant:OP benefit would accrue to the retailer and not to 0 1, ~l'l sumer. Opposing as he did the principle and pract,.., free trade, he objected to the reduction of the duty 01400 Iles of home growth or British manufactureeu e n 114 could be clearly shown that the present proteetivq . ( . 1 , 1 1 . 4 9 10 were larger in amount than was necessary. _ge ptiM", 4til i to the alteration in the timber duties as most ,, - ininft• ill; to the prosperity of our North American coAepi j ere • fl objected to the reduction of the duty on ore's 144)11 0 . , _ 1 „g The Noble Lord behind him had opened R, 0 ':" ' ell the torrent from which would carry him e.nd, )p.f&V, leagues away. The Noble Lord sa id th a t, t ' llgige . d caused by the tariff had passed away, but such , ,css• el I the case, for he had received a communication that=' el l from North Devon, stating that there was noel ~, cattle and corn. He had seen a hatter, and he n u e . '0 that under the new tariff, he . should either s'ete: 4 loe . business abroad, or import foreign hats. He askeue!eiki' would leecome of his labourers, and he said that the! neel starve. But they would not starve, they would not?, the new prisons called unions. They would have their rl - o f :„: The Earl of RADNOR said that the want of . Ike' . cattle and corn was not caused by the tariff but the •Ate tress of the country. There was great distress ,ie,e,4;• manufacturing districts, but it was not caused by the,.wijie„ • The Earl of WICKLOW would protest againstly.,..' course taken by the Noble Earl at the table,ef s d 4,` Noble Earl, unable to make the arguments he use A! a former night effectual, had now attempted to e dir',:.. the people. But the people believed that whateVe r yA4 ference of opinion there was between the Noble whatever ference and those who supported the Bill, they had bat ofif pot ject in view, the benefit of the country. He din i.ll believe that this was a final measure, he believed °lo t was but a step towards a more liberal sg„ o .) and as such he supported it.—(Hear and cr us to He believed that foreign Governments were an 2 " ° ,to promote commerce and enterprise amongst thef . dee4 .4 people. He was afraid that no arguments would In fon, France, Germany, and other continental nations °lle in with the plan proposed by the Government. ii ied rather thought that in proportion as England q o ,p ht eti her commercial system, foreign nations would tie theirs.—(Hear, hear.). The Earl of FORTESCUE said as the Nobl e ,. slll.l. t hit who opened the debate had referred to that part ° e ` fen country with which he was himself connected , hoe bound to state, as he did from his own know i nr y that although the tariff when first proposed ha d Ted duced a general panic, that panic had since subsid eu yti' iti l the markets had returned to their previous state. . ii , 01 respect to the principle of the tariff, he agreed ul.' g refn, Noble Lord, who stated that in his opinion the tarn', .. not go far enough. . 1/ ' 0, The House then went into Committee on the viii .:t The clause regulating the duty upon foreign •' e having been proHOposePEd, (141:': Earl STANHOPE' proposed that the duty °Pei reign oxen, sheep, and other animals, should be. - 4e''' by weight. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM supported the ef/ io. oo i ment. He thought the proposal as it stood in th e. -- • a very dangerous ore. e .e. The Committee divided, and the numbers wer - Contents ' Non-Contents •• I ' 3- '4t - .: a Majority against the amendment ', iti. ',. Earl STANHOPE next moved, that thosel ) ; ' '''i of the Bill which related to the importation ,Pc , :j 0#:, ) seeds and foreign woods, should be omitted. . eeqjg v , i These propositions were negatived withoutt . Pi The other clauses in the schedule were then P" ) ,, , ~,,. ,!:, 4 The House then resumed, and the Chairman I l e rt, the Bill, which was ordered to be read a thirclY:Tj s47 morrow (this day). , . at e ll ;, t, The House adjourned at a Quarte r t o Nine. , * . 19i„, P i .` , .0.- ' .;,,f/ 'j,'. The OF COMMONS, July ',,,,' r '`,,,i," 01'' The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual•hy - -„,e..., 4 7 Mr. CORBALLY took the oaths and his 5e*"...71w.01 county of Meath. % 0 11' ''''' SO I J r -; BREWOOl) GRAMMAR SCHOOL E-,„ - I , a' .1 4- ',, This Bill was read a third time and passe' . ''' er THE SUFFRAGE. i l etii i fil Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from ' 11 .)5 1 10 praying for an enlargement of the Suffrage.' ' - , f,51 1 ., BRIBERY. 00 _0 The Hos. MEMBER presented two petitie n !b e e:Ce i dividuals at Brighton, stating that much b ri o r ightLi? corruption prevailed at the last election for .bo , ;;14$ and praying that the matter migh t ce enlel quired into before the Election Proceeding lio n-„40 The Hon. Member then moved that the til ec rt 0;10 ceedings Committee should have power to reP ° -- - 10 0 House from time to time, which was agreed t( i 4 ,00! POOR-LAW AMENDMENT AC T '.OOI Aiej t Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition the r..;0 1. , 4 1 Guardians of the Easingwold Union a gainst e be e: law Amendment Act. RO O RURAL POLICE. e, 13° of L, 0 ,. . 0 - '_ Mr. GRIMSDITCH presented a petition te Auct e P signed by 4,800 rate-payers, against the in"' • bi o, police into that town. e P ° fa its fromr tit" Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition o f ee,,, ir meeting, held at Cheltenham, complaining_ ton • 'We proceedings before the magistrates of tha b ' uo u) sh° l , - ,..: 2 4 fleeted with a Mr. Hollyoak. He (Mr l'ln e fo t he se S it io take an opportuoity of putting a q uestion,: at of ._ 7 1, tary For the Home Department on the suu. l , ee . proceedings. TSP. . .the' MERCHANT SEAMEN'S 1 , f r oi!l r . pf Mr. AGLIONBY presen ed a petit,l 1, 1 0443 masters and seamen of merchant -Vesse l' 1 1 T - be 11 003 the port of London, praying that me.:ets 1 d thi'l ~, r " to reinedy the manner in whi'..':o the fun ~1 ' s td ~ , ,L a d 6titutiou had been diepose:, of. a IRIS:i FISHERIES BILL' et itiOn''•ctifill Mr. ;10 1 .1N O'CONNELL presented a P i , o of 774 1 : : :i : :o ;1 1, e ld nil lo; CAPTAIN 'l' (rave votice no, . Sir F..seeNCIS 13121te:E'l , ~,. 0 ... 01 ltapTainpgrovtihsia,tm itthgaeinnsetwseljtahvw;airojoii.,::::, t , ei tr ;:. 7i‘Ql, on (,ing into Committee et SuPP , :f. s iny eatUn 4 Jomutuittee to inquire into Mr. W!Arti 'l the circumstances connected with it. . lion for Jul) dict a Paid ;"' v a t s 74104 1 4 4 , Act