The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-01 00:00:00

SOPiroa viARV OF EirqiC AND 14)triatt Optntott. " Who runs may read." The G fr om , rod FOEIGN. W este R rn arrived at Liverpool yesterday da ys 'ew half. ,York having made the passage in twelve A and a Ch o e i "rding to the latest accounts from Canada, Sir Iv ard eB „,Bagot continued dangerously ill. Mr. Ed harnois`'.lbl3oll Wakefield had been returned for Beau t lEa t a ppears by an official return that the present .has been very unpropitious for the trade of Ca ttter,l-TP to the Ist of October the number of vessels r•t• Quebec was less this year by 411 than at zett g, the corresponding period in 1841, while the p r l e 4 . of tonnage had decreased 433,743 tons. tif t1 1 , 4 ,, 1 tn„,t Tyler had published an official statement at i d t ;:•aolication of the treaty between Great Britain anthe T-Tnited States. e Bt h of of December was appointed by the State New York to be observed as a day of ic i lle f ,,anksgi v i ng for the blessings of the occurred, In a recent battle in the civil war occurred, !eh 150 were killed; brothers actually fought Ti l , l ' t each othe r . -ayoun e telegraph announces complete tran- I 1 11 the Basque provinces, and in Arragon. twill'etetter, from the north of Europe announce that the h et ter has set in with great severity, and that part of apo nd a t t ie has become unnavigable. A Riga corre th:nti 'Nov. 7, says :—" It has frozen hard these by th st days. About 180 vessels are detained here states the lee. A letter froni Rendsburg, Nov. 17, fro z ,, n uiat, from Landwehr to Holtenau, the canal is isy (E r('r • and another from Kiel, of the same date, 1 3 , b 1 hat the harbour was encumbered with ice. kh,o" W urtemburg and B:warian Governments are . gkrio" to establish a joint company for the steam navr ithinin of the Upper Danube, forming a regular com- Th e p it tion between 'Ratisbon and Ulm. the ti . " Co logne Gazette of the 26th ult. states, that (Iteinlotiations between the Zollverein andthe king 11elgium were proceeding most favourably. l' ete ' r l ace Vernei, the painter, who was lately at St. l itet r ' s ,„" ll ,rB l l, where he was received with great dis ete by the Imperial family, is now gone to Cir- Pe ri st e ii . .la search of new subjects for his hippographical Po n IVZ°NEY—TRA.DE—COMMERCE. the nl 4 . Auti-Corn-law meetings have taken place in Yar % trPolis and suburbs since Monday, viz., at lord7u°fle, Camberwell, Bethnal-green, and Cray tork:l,4l4l a fifth held in South Audley-street for the A t "oli of a new Association in that district. the meeting of the Proprietors of the Penin- Ye ste a lkl Oriental Steam Navigation Company, held 81e i , 1 1. ' 4 3' at St. Mary-axe, the Report stated that the IN us profits left available on the 30th September F. R3 ,: 4 11 19 . /. 13s. 6d. The number of passengers via divia a Increased 227 during the second year. A 'ad of 31 per cent. was declared. MAW AND POLICE. Upp re t rt elamation, offering a reward of 2001. for the 1 )4 ension o f the murderers of James Scully, Esq., Ili s ra issued by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. b e • le ellency offers a free pardon to any accomplice, c onv . lag the actual murderer, who will prosecute to tag, le , t _l°fl the persons concerned. Two other out ds. nave taken place in King's and Queen's counties, tt Bo l l seorery of the perpetrators of which two rewards 'each have been offered. 1,,,,,„Z.1T1ER.A.RY AND SCIENTIFIC. 11.10 1 Z° 111 Abbey, on which Mr. Beckford expended A r i ri 'rge sums, and which excited the envy of the fia te egent, is now in ruins. COURT-FASHIONABLE. xc for the departure of the Court to Windsor, and preps lal orders have been issued for the necessary hlerations to be made for the Queen's leaving Wal- T i Lar,V that morning. lu e . ; ,alarquis of Northampton arrived in town on 7'afrona Castle Ashby. % b re Earl and Countess of Jersey have been seeing y i , 134 , 1 , 1 1Y since their return to Middleton Park. Lady tr otl 7 , urst,,. Count Karolyi, Viscount Ipswich, and kt Captain Villiers, &c., have been among the guests "e h e4 rd Pitzroy Somerset arrived in town on Tuesda y 4 iriu. n g from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mor flr,"l at Deal Castle. Lady Fitzroy is recovering her recent accident. T'si,..;6r4d and L a dy Willoughby d'Eresby arrived on the e r z Piccadilly, on Tuesday, from Dover. Il e q r Charles Daibiac, who arrived in town last hun k "'rem a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Rox -4,17e, at Fleurs Castle, near Kelso, has since gone , str, '- :', e Earl of Belmore, with the Ccuntess and family, Vc s a , 37 ,, it * at Castlecooie for the winter. -um- s ,f, - , 111 `!t and Viscountess Dillon left town on ' is e r Brighton to pass the winter there. gle-etc-sueton Smith' has taken the Marquis of An forajt'e'rirlset, Plasncwydd, in the is'and of Anglesey, C O , Tr en an t Fahlen left Mivart's Hotel yesterday, for land any,to visit the Duke and Due he is of Sather- Yest NI XSCELLANEOT B. . 4 P'e " - ay Prince Albert visited the Beacon of Re - 11 1ill',, o i r , 1 the Goodwin Sands, accomp: nied by Captain Ili a who erected it there about two yebrs since. of th ' 33. ' 1 Highness afterwards inspected the works A e South Foreland Lighthouse. INT extensive and destructive fire occurred at hangs the ~,;b lll, near Bristol, on Tuesday evening, when Ive r ,_ a rehouses and retail shop of Messrs. Budgets f reC,‘"tally burnt. The stock consumed consisted of of cheese, coffee, and flour to the amount d otl i :"wl• The firm is insured in the Phcenix an s r office s in upwards of 8,000/. loß ii 4l ° women and seamen created an emeute at Bon tie% e f , ‘ ° ll Tuesday, f r om labouring under a misconcep had g hat a sailor, whose conduct was very irregular , be eli e en severely t r eated by his officer, he having Lad put, in irons for his conduct. It appears that he th e c hilblain s on his feet, a circumstance unknown to \‘lli e ls a P t ain, which caused great swelling and pain , and On ce ' , led to aggravated reports, causing the distur b. in question. AMERICAN NEWS Aii :XPESS FRO LIVERPOOL. I tiVA R L OF THE GREAT M WESTERN LIVEROOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. liTheno.. "tie steam-ship Great Western, Capta in I S, arri ve d f rom New York tc-day, at noon , b r i e : excellent passage of twelve days. She an twenty-six passengers, and advices two Ys late r t h an the Cale d on i a . s a 1,1 un ta Anna, it a ppears, is in bad health — so elti tt that he h ad been compe ll e d to retire to his that atry Beat , i ssu i ng a proc l ama tion to the effect 0 c Il e would resume the active duties of h is e a s soon as his health permitted. In the meantime he is determined to proceed with ti!ur against T ex as and Yucatan. An expedi th„n 19th a gainst the latter place left Vera C ruz on 1 4 " October ; and advices from Galveston beginning of November, represent the e jje Population of the infant Repub lic as bein g ti lr ,.. a rganized, and ready for the rece p tion of invaders.- The forces of the latter in Texas are RI to amount to 3,000. The Mexican Con hadl/loch to the annoyance of Santa Anna, ne gatived a second tim e a p ro p osition for th Eit e lo lt n letlt itilent of the Consti tution. The oppo etnustan is camefrom the Federal ists, and this cir adduced as showing that the power and the authority of the Mexican Dictator had already begun to totter. Ve hav e no further accounts from CanacT klPeetlng the h ealt h o f the G ov ernor-General. be urne,, who defeated, it will be rernem- Ai e t red ' the new Attorney-General for C anada, Baldwin, for York county, had been the disi. 7 'ssed f rom the situation he held as a J us tice o Peace, and Mr. Murney, in a long letter to e Governor-G enera l, resented the affront by res.,g n ing the office he held, as a Major in the Caledonia Militia. Bu s . less matters remained in the same state at" d o N ew York bs when the advices by the Cale f.lll4 l eft —every thing dull, anfl people looking inward with cons id era bl e anx i e ty to the open ng " Congress in the beginning of December. LATEST FROM TEXAS. o r l the steam-pack e t Neptune, arrived at New , pans on the 6th inst., we have full files of paper.. , the 4 t from Il ous t on t o the 2d, and Galveston to I ,T 4th i nst. retreat, lVoll and his army have continued their th :e , at, and at last advices the spies had discovered 1,17;3.42:1ean army, numbering about 3,000, at the ha rit2io del Rio Grande, fortify in g. The spy company : l a i t .i t v e en in 3,000 head of cattle, which the Alexi mpted to drive off in their retreat. f o r ne people of Texas are incited by a lively desire ton'ge and justice upon the Mexicans. At Ilo,us 4men of all classes have enrolled themselves. Even t4 l n i lnister of the Gospel (Rev. Mr. lluckins) has at ened himself to one of the companies, believing the r t eetion of his country, his home, and his family , benot itwompatible with his holy profession. In Li int,t.37.l Hams, Jasper, and other eas t ern counties, the mi litia are ready t o t urn ou t a t th e wor d. There are now 1,245 troops in the field as follows: c;an Antonio; 350 under Colonel Bennett, at Ammo. the crossing of the St. Marks ; 50 from Fort Bend, under Captain Gibson ; and 200 fro m Washington, 1 two miles above the crossing; 50 thirteen miles east of Seguin, under Lieut. Lubbock ; 50 with no com mander, about four miles from the St. Marks ; 70 from Brazoria, at reach Creek, near Mrs. M'Clure's ; and 200 from Bastrop and Travis counties, between Austin and San Antonio, under General Burleson. There are also with General Burleson 40 Tonkeway Indians ; and 50 Lipans, ten miles east of Gonzales, are waiting to join him. Many of the French emigrants arrived last spring at Matagorda, have been sick, and several have died during the summer. Four British men of war touched at Velasco few days since, and took in a supply of beef, &c. They were bound it is said for the Mexican coast. The schooner Eliza, last from Galveston, was wrecked at the mouth of the Brazos a few days ago. She had a cargo of plB,OOO worth of goods for Messrs. Smith and Adriance, which are a total loss to the owners, as they were not insured.—N. 0. Bulletin. FROM MEXICO. The New Orleans Bulletin has dates from Mexico city to the 15th, and from Vera Cruz to the 19th ult., being 1. days later than previous intelligence. The expedition against Yucatan sailed on the last of the above dates, under the general command of Don Jose Vincent Minon. General Bravo has taken upon him self the responsibilities of the Executive office, and President Santa Anna has retired to his• plantation for the benefit of his health, which had became enfeebled. In a proclamation to the nation he promises, as soon as his health shall permit, to resume the Executive functions in accordance with the expressed public will. MOSEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. Nov. 16.—A fair amount of business was trans acted in State Stocks this morning. State Five per Cents. advanced per cent., and Kentucky a ; State Sevens sold at a decline of f. Southern Exchanges were dull, with hut little va riation in rates. Our Stock Market shows a decided improvement in the Stocks of the State and city, their rates having gradually advanced from 1 to 3 per cent. Ohio, Ken tucky, and Pennsylvania Loans have also advanced, and a better feeling may be said to pervade the market generally, though no disposition is evinced to specu late; the purchases made are altogether for invest ments. There is a total absence for all foreign demand. Money is still quite abundant, though the amount of paper caused by the renewal of business in the south gives employment to more of our banking capital. Foreign Exchanges have been in fair demand at our quotations, and the departure of two steamers has left the market rather bare at present. The supply of paper from the south has thus far been limited ; but as shipments have commenced, and exchange there on the north is becoming equalised, we think it probable the supply will soon increase considerably, which will scarcely be met •by a corresponding demand—the fall business being now pretty much over. In commerce generally, we are sorry to say the same stagnation prevails as before, and the period of its revival can only he a matter of vague conjecture. UNITED STATES SECURITIES. Offd. Asked. United States Loan Five-and-a-Hall, 1844 97 99 Do. Sixes, 1844 ....... 99 100 Do. do. 1862 - 101 STATE SECURITIES New York State Seven per Cent., 1848-49 102 sales Do. Five-and-a-Half, 1860.61-65 Do. Fives, 1845 92 9G 1)o. do. 1846-47-48.49 B5 88 Do. do. 1850-51-53 Do. do. 1859-60-61 Do. Four-and-a-Half, 1849 7 O. 75 Ohio Sixes, 1850 do. 1856-60 7l 711 Do. Fives, 1850 6O 65 Do. do. 1856 6O 65 Kentucky Sixes 761 77 Do. Fives 6l 64 Illinois Sixes, 1870 Indiana (Ster ling) Fives, 25 years l9 21 Do. (Dollar) Fives, 25 years l9 24 Do. do. do. 50 years l9 Arkansas BondS, Six per cent. 25 years... 28 34 Alabama Fives Do. Sixes ... ~ 65 80 Pennsylvania State Fives 43 sales Cotton is in fair demand-450 bales were sold this morning at yesterday's prices. Ashes are dull—ss 371 to $5 50 for Pots, and $5 871 to $5 94 for Pearls. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. London France... • 5 42 to 5 40 Amsterdam 3Bl to 381 Hamburgh 34 to 34t Bremen LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LoNDoN -I)Ec. I.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.W., light airs and hazy. DEAL, Nov. 30, A.M.—Wind S.W., P.M., W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Europa, CI arnan, Bata via; Queen, Quebec. Sld. Stratford, Mauritius; Magnet, Grenada • Wellington, New York. Almost all the outward hound have sailed. Arrd. Calcutta, M'Kennoul, St. John's, N.B. ; Priam, Monte Video. PORTSMOUTn, Nov. 30.—Wind W.N.W. to W .S.W.— Sld. Zenobia, Owen, Calcutta. OFF THE START, Nov. 28.—Pekin, Jones, for Hull, out 37 days. MILFORD, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Trident, Gourlay, Tat magouche ; Luna, Whitehead, Richebucto ; Pembroke Castle, Stanebury, Quebec. WIVENHOE.—The barge Shrimp, of Maldon, has been brought in here, having been fallen in with off the Black Deeps, abandoned. LIVERPOOL, N ov. 30.—Wind S. S.W., light.—Arrd. Meg, of Maldon, Poleasdale, Calcutta; Great Wes tern (steamer), Hoskin, New York, left 1 7th inst. Sld. Cornubia, Maranham ; Bolton Abbey, New Or leans ; Huron ,Charleston ; Margaret Ann, Newfound land ; Saucy Jack, Africa. CORK, Nov. 28.—S1d. St. Lawrence, Baltimore. Off port, Delhi, Valparaiso. KINGSTOWN, Nov. 29.--Sld. Dauntless, —. HULL, Nov. 30.—Arrd. Independent, Bombay.. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 30.—The Anna Catharina, Bleinkoward, from Lisbon to Gamla Carlby, which put in here the 22d ult. leaky, has discharged her cargo, and been placed on the slipway to repair. COWES, Nov. 30.—The Anthony, Mugge, from Shields to Marseilles, has arrived here leaky, and is coming into the harbour to discharge. The Elizabeth, Jansen, from Singapore to Hamburgh came into the harbour this morning to discharge. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 29.—The Fox, Bowen, from Portsmouth to this port; upset in a. squall and sank ; crew saved. • LITTLEHAMPTON, Nov. 29.—Two casks of cider, marked B 8, have been picked up to the eastward. , CORN AVERAGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Far the Week ended Nov. 26, 1842. made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and 'fawns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat......... 46i. 61. Oats ...... 17s. 9d,1 Beans 31s 4d. B a rley 29s. ld. I Rya ..... 325. 2d.1 Tease,.„ .....23.. 7d. AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending ; WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. BEANS. PALS 1 Oct. 22 Nov 50 9 49 5 43 '7 48 8 49 8 49 0 28 11 . 28 4 28 2 U 28 1 28 1 18 1 18 5 17 5 17 9 17 10 17 9 32 7 32 2 31 7 32 '2 29 1U I 31 11 32 9. 31 8 :i1 8 31 6 32 2l 31 4 33 3 33 7 34 4 33 2 34 2 33 7 5 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS Wheat 49s. 51. Oats „.„..„ 17s. 10d Beans 916. 10d. Marley. ..... „. 28s. 3d. 1 Rye DUTIES 'ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat ..... 20s. 041. Oats I Barley THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. — Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ 15s ; useful ditto, 4/ to 4/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 5s to 4l lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ to 5/ lOs; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s ; 'Wheat Straw, 1/ 183 to 2/ per load. Supply good, and trade dull, at the above rates. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 315 s to 4/ ; useful ditto, 41 to 414 s ; fine Upland ditto, 4l :6s 41 12s ; Clover Hay, 4l to Si 8s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2l to 2/ 2s per load. The best Hay and Straw sold at full prices ; but, otherwise, the demand was extremely heavy_ WHITECHAPEL. — Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 31 10s ; useful ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ ; fine Upland ditto, 4l 4s to 4l lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 4s to Si 15s ; Oat Straw. 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. A fair supply, and'a heavy inquiry. Prices about sta tionary. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY Traffic returns for the week ending Nov. 26, 1842 Passengers ' , £716 7 6 Merchandiie 5OB 2 6 £1,224 10 0 Corresponding week last year ...£1,321 15 4 Darlington, Nov. 30. W. O'BRIEN; Secretar: MEAT MARKETS. ' SOUTHALL, Nov. 30.—The supply of each kind of fat stock on offer, in to-day's market, king, some what on the increase, we have to report a heavy general inquiry, at, in most instances, a depression of 2d per 81bs from the prices noted in our report on this day se'nnight. Beef,from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 2d ; and Pork,3s 8d to 43 4d per Blbs. to sink the offal. Suppl 4. y—Beasts, 41 ; Sheep, 1,168 ; Calves , 29 ; Pigs,3 N early the whole of the supply was disposed9f. ROMFORD, Nov. 30.—We had a very dull inquiry for stock to-day at the following quotations. Beef, from 35 2d to 43 4d; Mutton, 3s 4d to.4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 4 d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 27s ; quarter - old store-Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Mulch Cows, with their small calf, 14/ to 181 15s each. LEwis, Nov. 29.—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 45 ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s per 81bs. Supply limited, and trade heavy. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY; ErVNWG,_ DECEMBPII, 1, isa. GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW SOIREE AT SHEFFIELD. On Wednesday evening we saw realised what we have long desired in Sheffield, a meeting in which our fair townswomen should be fairly enlisted in the war against monopoly. The meeting was of the most cheering character. The Music Hall (orchestra, saloon, and gallery) was filled ; and had the capacity of the hall been twice as great the result would have been still a full meeting. The meeting was enthu siastic, and the readiness to engage in collections for the League was unexampled, and the proceedings were of the most gratifying and satisfactory kind. The room was tastefully decorated with evergreens and artificial flowers. On one side was a large banner, with the motto, " Free Trade and Cheap Bread ;" on the other, the British flag, with the words, " United we conquer." Edward Smith, Esq., occupied the chair, having on his right Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., and on his left Henry Ashworth, Esq., and John Bright. Esq. The principal Sheffield manufacturers and many ladies were present. Tea being concluded, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to open the business of the evening by dwelling upon the fruits of the pre sent " protective" system, whereby he observed, our workshops are empty, our workpeople are half clad, hungry, and desponding ; and their would-be em ployers see only ruin and want approaching with rapid strides. .Mr. Smith proceeded to say—l do not know that I should from choice become a politician. I do not call these meetings political. I call this a meeting for commercial and philanthropic purposes. I call it a philanthropic meeting, because, apart from the justice of the cause, of which you will hear more hereafter, leaving that at present out of the question, it is the only course we can pursue calculated to re lieve the grievous sufferings we see about us. Per haps I may be accused of weakness, but I speak the truth when:lsay, that I have, within these few months, met with cases which I know to be true,—cases told to me by the lips of the parties themselves,—which have brought tears into my eyes. A little time ago I requested the visitors of the Bettering Society to take the pains to collect some information, for I thought the public mind wanted informing on the subject of the destitution and want that, prevail among the poor. A few of them began to visit with this view, but they were soon disheartened with the undertaking. I have a few notes of the cases they have reported, which I will briefly refer to ; for it is necessary to know the evil, because we must be made to feel before'we can be made to move.—(Cheers.) Delicacy forbids the mention of names, but I have the names and every thing necessary to prove the facts I shall state. I take them by house-row :- 1. Very destitute, on the parish. 2. Only bread and water to work upon. 3. Scale-cutter ; six chil dren, out of employment five months, have sold their clock, and their bedding as far as they could. 4. A grinder ; pawned nearly everything, the bedding en tirely gone. 5. A grinder; his grinding rent is 6s. 6d. a week, his whole earnings 5s : ls. 6d. worse than if he had not worked at all. 6. A tableknife cutler ; no furniture left, all gone for rent. 7. A file cutter; no work, four in family. We know what no work means—no food, no clothing, no furniture, no fire. 8. Scissors maker four children, on the parish. We know what on the parish means : 35., 45., 55., or 6s. a week, half in bread, and that not sufficient to keep off the pangs of hunger, and the remainder of their allowance paid to the landlord for rent, or spent in the purchase of a few coals. 9. Edge-tool striker; two children, no work. 10. Spoon caster ; two chil dren, on the parish. 11. A working silversmith ; on the parish, though a very steady, sober family, wretchedly off. 12. A spring-knife cutler ; 'on the parish, living on bread and water; no covering for their bed; the children have no shoes, no jackets. The remarks of the visitors are of this character : "No new clothing for two years ;" " Clothing patched as long as it will hold together." I will occupy your time with but a few more details. 13. A razor grinder ; has a wife and one child ; no regular em ployment for a year and a half, has never had parish pay ; they are sometimes reduced to such extremity, as to be two days without food ; at other times, a little bread, or a few nettles boiled with a little oatmeal and salt ; no blanket in the house ; very destitute, but striving to do without parish pay.—How honour able, to be striving to do without parish pay, under such circumstances of suffering !—(Cheers.) But it is not what I would recommend them to do. I say, go to the parish, and get supplied liberally. Demand it as a right ; you ought to have it ; and the sooner you do this, the more completely will you open the eyes of those who stand above. you.—(Cheers.) You will give me credit for disinterestedness in this. It will lay prettily heavily upon me, but I do not care for that. 14. A cutler ; has a wife and four children : the eldest boy, about 1 7 years of age, who is very . delicate, along with his father, works on the roads.— " Have six shillings a week from the parish; very little work for a long time, none for eight months ; his master gives him a good character, and the family are respectable ; altogether, they have not sufficient food, but are frequently starving. The wife has had no under flannel for more than two years." This is a very common occurrence. The possession of neces sary under clothing for the women is rather the ex ception than the rule. 15. A file cutter and a hailer ; four in family, on the parish roads, 6s. a week, half in bread; very much starved. 16. Arundel-lane; No covering for his children ; they were very cold, so he took the matrass, which was all they had to lie upon, from under them, and shook out the chaff, and laid the cover over them. 17. Rockingham-street : Came to his parish work, and his fellow-labourers saw that something was the matter with him, they found the family had eaten all the parish bread the day before; he had had nothing to eat since, and would get no more till Thursday ; must beg, or do as they could. They "do not complain, because its of no use ; all are pretty much alike." 18. Top of St, Philip's-rOad : nine of them in family, and only one bed. What must be the moral effects of a state like this ! 19. Husband gone away to seek work, six in family, no bed, only a small quantity of old straw to lie upon in one corner of the room, no covering what ever for it; the children, though very ragged and with little to cover them, were yet clean. This is a picture of the state of a large portion of the work ing classes in Sheffield, and an awful picture it is ! How a Christian an know these facts, and think of sitting still—saying they do not concern us, we will not inquire into them ; if we give a man a half penny when he comes to our door, it is sufficient — I cannot explain. I conceive our understandings are given us for the wisest purposes, to be em ployed for the good of ourselves and those about us; and of that good, I would place foremost the investi gation of cases of distress, with a view to a remedy. We ought to get facts in the first instance ; and when on every hand we receive the answer to our in quiries, "No work, no work, no work," it must satisfy our minds that the trade of the town is leaving it, and we have reason to fear is permanently leaving it. The farmers, whose arguments are listened to with more complacency than the facts of manufacturers, are speaking loudly . and plainly. I have had a note put into my hands since I came into this room, a speci men of the kind of argument likely to be effective in breaking up monopoly. The writer says, " Last week I was conversing with otie of our overseers, who in formed me that Several of the principal rate-payers, who were farmers, had been to him, complaining that they could not pay their heavy rates and their rents besides. They begged he would make no more poor books at present, for they had no pm spent of paying their spring rates but out of their stock. They had reaped a good crop, but all was selling low.' In spite of all the attempts of the Government, and the miserable meddling with commerce by men who know nothing about it ; in spite of the wicked and fruitless attempts to frustrate the bounties of Providence by preventing the plentiful harvests of other lands from entering our ports—there is one argument they can understand, notices to quit from their tenants, who can no longer live on their farms. The farmers arc beginning to see that these laws have done them harm, and no good.—(Cheers.) Joirs: Balmer, Esq., in the course of an eloquent speech, after dilating on the distress and want of the people, observed, this scarcity is one of the most hor rible character. It does not affect the Queen ; the aristocracy have not felt it; no Member of either Muse of Parliament can tell of such a thing as having gone short of food ; and perhaps few of them can bokst of having for years known the luxury of beirg hungry. The large class of bankers, merchants, clergy, large manufacturers, the rich shopkeepers— these numerous classes know nothing of the want of food. But if there would be a scarcity, if the food were divided ,amongst all, how heavily must it press on the poorest, when so many have as much as t if hey found bei leitagon becalmedr run I an. short, h o r f t f ao ship rc at woueneek be the il s breadcalled, of provisions, if short t d allowance IAI oa wte arnbe is vv.o o o r l d d e r s ed nb , m a i n though td manfully lly a to n the justice Admiral be o of board,he taking no m ‘aolvfo o faatn i Ini e lridsss t oahs h btra a itrvs n tfino fefn h odsr i s mwa fe famine,ei monthr i share; and the poor cabin-boy in h aytn e o e ldo r . sn— tr yg) e( arc ht This oer sd famineei. )s. o aa u ns odd': he.—(Loud :osvi should alodvEueldni cheers . ) a be fr t e h e e trade most i o n iam fo o o n d r . on T s The I s i w o ee us p e t o h f es L e o r d would s and ob noxious laws away—and I believe that, of all others, the .Bishops would find them particularly in convenient.—(Cheers.) Mr. Bright continued to observe, that owing to the enactments of Government food has been 3%40, or 50 per cent. above, and pro bably, in some cases, double, the price it would have been had there been no law to interfere. While this scramble for food has been going on, what has been the effect on wages ? Ido not consider wages as the 10s., 205., or 30s. a week, which a man may receive for his work; wages mean the quantity of the com forts and necessaries of life which a mans labour will bring him.—(Hear, hear.) The principal part of what the body of labouring men consume is food. If, then, the quantity of food be smaller than is necessary to supply the whole population, it follows that, how 3ver much a man may work, he can get only a por tion of such food as there is to divide, and that some must go short. The man who works the hardest, who gives the most valuable, labour, will get the highest wages in such circumstances as this. Skilled artisans have got more wages the last five years than the unskilled, and they always do. Take a man with a spade, the lowest sort of labour, in which a man becomes proficient in a few weeks, for, in fact, it re quires little more than muscle to dig—and he will get the lowest wages. Take, next, the hand-loom weaver, who can learn the trade in three or four months, and whose children, at twelve or fourteen, can weave as well as himself— , he gets low wages also. Take the Sheffield artisan, or a first-rate mechanic la Manchester, or a person in a business that requires a long time to perfect himself, and who gives valuable labour—that man will get more, in the time of scarcity, ,han the great body of those whose labour is not skilled. Thus, when there is a state of scarcity, look ing from the top to the bottom of the scale of society, you find the large mass at the bottom pressed almost into the' earth by the present, state of things, from which no power can redeem them unless you take off the restrictions on the importation of food, and increase the whole amount, so that the un skilled labourer shall purchase it at what would be the natural price in the world's market if inhuman laws did not restrict the supply.—(Cheers.) What extension of trade can be expected from the peace with China, for which, perhaps, your church bells were yesterday ringing ? I trust that the news of peace is true, for nothing can be more horrible than this butchering of men either in the name of commerce or on any other pretence.—(Cheers.) But , where will be the immediate benefit to our trade of the peace with China? We have sent as many goods to China during the war as before. And if we now send ten bales of cloth, or bundles of yarn, or casks of hardware, where we sent one before, what are we to bring back ? Tea or silk, probably. These are, their principal articles ; and if we bring ten chests of tea instead of one, what will it benefit my workmen ? They cannot live on tea, though they like it; and, unless we can change the tea elsewhere for necessary food, they can have no great benefit. Mr. Bright further pursued the subject, and the conclusion of his speech was marked by loud and continued cheering. HENRY ASHWORTH ' Esq., in comparing the present position of Britishtrade in connection with that of America, remarked—Look at the position of your export trade with America. You find that the Ame ricans, finding the effect of our Corn-laws, have esta blished their tariff, which has acted perniciously on you and us. It has fostered the manufactures of America and injured this country. We are the authors of that regulation, which has ruined our trade ; at the same time I would remark, that in the late American tariff extravagant duties have been imposed. There are people who say, that now we are relaxing our Corn-laws, other people are tightening their tariffs. How is that? I will tell you as far as I can judge. The Corn-law imposes, at this moment, 20s. a quarter duty on the wheat of America, which, in the interior of that country is not worth 20s. Yet, while we are imposing a duty of 100 per cent. on their food, we murmur when they impose only 30 or 40 per cent. on our goods. The people of America are now in a fair po- 1 sition to give us a large portion of corn, beef, pork, and other commodities, if we will receive them. I am aware, that in the interior of America there are par ties who have produced more than they can consume, and have no market for it. They know not what to do with their produce, or how to purchase our com modities. A workman, in my own service, went to settle in the United States in March last. He chose to return ; and after beating about for some time, he began to dispose of his furniture, spare clothing, and other articles he had taken out with him. He sold them for double, treble, and some five times as much as they cost him. This proves that they want our manufactures. When he arrived in this country, he found that a barrel of flour, which he could have bought there for 12s. 6d., cost here 285., having a duty of 12s. 6d. Thus the cost of American corn is doubled to us, and the prices of our goods are much more than doubled to them. How long twenty mil lions in England, and sixteen millions in America, will look on as idle spectators of a system like this, remains to be seen. Mr. CODDEN—(Loud and enthusiastic cheering)— My friends on my left have placed me in an embar rassing predicament, which your kindness in thus receiving me has rather increased. The three speakers who have preceded me have so exhausted the subject, that it is not in the power of any human being to do more than repeat the good things they have already told you. I rather think that, in future, I shall re frain from visits of this kind with my friends on the left, unless by previous engagement I am allowed to have my turn first.—(Laughter.) Of all the range of topics on which they have treated, my friend Mr. Bright said he had left something for me to say on the question of foreign trade. That question in terests the town of Sheffield as much as any town in the kingdom. I have heard, to my astonishment, that you have exported one-half of your manufactures to the United States alone, so that with your exports to other countries, you alm os t entirely depend upon foreign trade. 'Und er th ese circumstances, I must say, not wishin g t o sa y anything um. courteous or affronting, th a t y ou have shown a great degree of Christian mee kness and long suffering, or we should have hea r d s omething of you in Manchester, rather than we should have come to tell you how our foreign trade is affected. One would think that when our Legislature set itself to make laws to prevent you from trading abroad, as well as the rest of the industrious community, that your first response would be an indignant repudiation of their right to interfere with your industry, and that it would have been repeated in loud an d forcible terms, till the Legislature took its unholy grasp off your in dustry. How would it be if Parliament passed a law to prohibit any Sheffield goods from passing into Northumberland, that Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields should be cut off from the trade of Sheffield ? Not the smallest manufacturer who sends out a tra veller, who takes an order or two in the course of the year in one of those towns, who would not be in arms against such an enactment !, Letters would appear in the newspapers ; public meetings would be called ; and one unanimous burst of indignation would be manifested at this invasion of your right. But what have you been allowing to go on ? The Legislature has cut off your trade with the continent of Europe and the whole New World, and von have never raised your voice against it. They have as just a right to interfere with your trade to Northumberland as to interfere with it to the United States. It is no part of the province of the Legislature to tell you, manufacturers of Sheffield, where to buy and where to sell. The Government passes the bounds of just legislation when it attempts to interfere with the rights of industry in any such way. But this has been done, and I need not say that it has injured you to an enormous extent. I shall not go over again the proofs you have had of the injury it has inflicted. It has been done on the pretence that it has been done for your benefit. They dared not have done it with out. You have allowed them to injure you and mock you into the bargain, without raising your voice to show that you were not duped. You have some wise men among you, calling themselves by some political nickname, who tell you with a grave face that no harm is done—that if you were allowed to trade with if America, yu America send out would goods, not trade with you ; and you will not be able to find customers. Then what are we contending a b ou t ? that What is the reason of the great clamour made by t he aristocracy, if no harm can be done by a free trade in corn? Are these men so short-sighted in matters affecting their pecuniary interests, that they have been mistaken as to this matter, and have passed a law which has exposed them to obloquy, and placed the institutions of the country in danger, and all this under a mistake, and in pursuit of a mere chimera ? Do you think it was a blunder, made by ) the keen eyed and far-seeing monopolists? At least I may contend that you might have the option of sending out your goods, or not, without having it settled for you by the Government. Take the option : require the freedom to go where you please, and that it shall be left to you to make goods to suit your customers, and to promote your own prosperity.—(Cheers.) do not care what the tariff of this or that part of the world may be • if it interferes with the direct trade, trade is not to be repressed by such interference. We may have a circuitous trade, if we cannot have a direct one. If you cannot trade with America directly, you may carry cutlery to China, and, ex changing that for tea, exchange that tea again with the Americans for corn. You may carry cutlery to Brazil, and purchase sugar, and carry that sugar to Russia, and purchase wheat. That would' be a good transaction, and what worse would the corn be for having been purchased with sugar and tea, instead of cutlery ? This is the sort of trade we are now carry ing on with Russia. The tallow and the hemp of Russia are not exchanged for our manufactures ; but we purchase the sugar of Brazil, and the indigo of the East Indies, and send them to Russia, to the profit of all parties. Let us carry out the principle, in regard to corn, as we do with tallow and hemp, and, directly or indirectly, you will find customers for your cutlery in every part of the world. What are the requisites for trade between two countries, but mutual wants ? What are the countries which, of all others, we should prefer as customers of England ? They are the newly-settled States, whose population is rapidly increasing; and of all parts of England, what portion ought to find customers more readily than those who make commodities required by new communi ties, who especially require iron imp'ements, which; are the pioneers of civilization ? The very instru ments which cut down the forests, and till the fields, and with which growing manhood must cut hip beard, will come from Sheffield.—(Laughter.) Those are the countries with which England must find hei chief foreign trade, and they, are the countries) iii g which Sheffield must expect to find continually in- creasing customers for her commodities. If there be any place on the face of the earth, where, instead of the pauperism we have heard described—if there be any part of the country where we should be sure of finding the people well employed and comfortable, it should be such a ,place as Sheffield. You have around you the endowments of nature, for con structing implements equally necessary to rude and civilised society. if this town manufactured luxuries—if it depended on the trade in silks or jewellery, or the more finished fabrics of cotton goods —then the' same conclusive arguments would not be applicable to you. It might then be said, these rude commodities cannot always buy our silks, or our highly finished cottons, or adorn themselves with jewellery ; but there is no country that does not want primarily the articles you construct.—(Cheers.) For what reasons are you cut off' from trade ? We are told that farming cannot be carried on without an Act of Parliament to protect it. This is assumed as if there were no controversy on the subject. We are told with all the confidence in the world, and it has been foolishly taken for granted, that unless we had this Corn-law, the land would go out of cultivation, and that agricultural labourers would be thrown out of employment, and the country become dependent upon foreigners for food. You have men in your town, calling themselves by some political nickname which 1 will not here mention, for I never mention party names on these occasions, who will swallow these things with open mouth, asking no questions, but believing all that, is told them. Why, the fact is, that we have better men than the monopo lists among the landlords, who tell a different story. We have evidence from the best men among the agriculturists, who tell us that they need no pro tection, and that they are as ready for tree trade in food, as you are for free trade in razors and knives.— . (Cheers.) To (hear the language of the monopolist newspapers, and the ravings of frantic monopolist landlords, one would fancy that such a person as a great landowner, or a man depending chiefly upon land, could never be found among those who supported by their votes Mr. Villiers, in his motion for total and immediate repeal ; yet I find the name of Mr. Gore Langton, a large proprietor in Somersetshire, who has represented that county for fifty years; Mr. Vil liers Stuart, the representative for the county of Wa terford, and brother of the largest landed proprietor in that neighbourhood, deriving 4Q,000/. a year from land ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, son of the Duke of , Grafton, a large landlord in "Suffolk and Nottingham shire (his Grace, too, is understood to be a well wisher to our cause) ; Lord J. Stuart, brother to the Mar quis , of Bute, a large proprietor in Scotland and Wales • Sir R. Heron and Col. Ferguson: Mr. Orde, of Nothumberland, a man of large landed property, having nothing but land ; the two Berkeleys, brothers of Lord Fitz- llardinge, whose family property in Glou cestershire is enormous; and Mr. Sharman Crawford, one of the largest proprietors in the north of Ireland, an enthusiastic advocate for total and immediate re. peal.—(Cheers.) I will now give the names of some of those who paired off in favour of the same princi ple—Lord Seymour, Lord Shelburn, Lord Levison, Lord Clements, and Earl ListoWell. These names extend throughout all parts of England, Wales, Scot land, and Ireland, representing some of the largest landed proprietors, and containing some of the most intelligent and best agriculturists.--(" Lord Radnor.") Lord Radnor I do net mention, because he is in the House of Peers, and my object now is to name the representatives of counties and agricultural constitu encies. Tell me the name of any landowner, in any part of the kingdom, who is rampant against us, and furious for monopoly, and I will undertake to show you, in his own vicinity, a better man, a better agri culturist, and as large an unencumbered landowner as he—(Cheers)—in favour of our principle of the re peal of the Corn-law. Sir James Graham is the ad vocate of monopoly; but his brother-in-law Sir Wilfred Lawson, of Cumberland, is a subscriber to the League, and one of the richest proprietors in that part of the country. If there be a party in this town who speak of the Anti-Corn-law League as a low and vulgar party, and if my good friends, the ladies, wish to have a sanction when they walk through the streets, that they may not be snubbed by the aristocracy of Sheffield—(Laughter and cheers)—let them carry these names with them, and show how many of the sons and nephews of Dukes and Lords are for total and immediate repeal, and I will undertake to say that the cause will be fashionable with the aristo cracy of Sheffield from that time -forward. I will just tell you how the case stands between the League and its opponents, and who its opponents are. We are not opposed to the Executive Government, Our conflict is not with the Government. My firm belief is, that Sir R. Peel, Mr. Gladstone, and Lord Ripon, the three most efficient members of the Admi nistration, that these three men would rather wish suceesslo the League, than the Duke of Buckingham. --(Cheers.) Our battle is not with the whole body of the 'landed aristocracy. I could give you a long list of Peers of the realm, but I need not go far from Sheffield for an honoured instance—(Cheers) — who are not only favourable, but earnestly anxious for the repeal of the Corn .law. We are not against the whole aristocracy of England, for we have never found in the history of this country, whenever any great principle was being advocated bj , the people which had justice on its side, that we have wanted some honoured and distinguished members of the aristocracy to come out from their ranks, and head the People even against their order or supposed in terest, for the purpose of obtaining for the Iseople of this country justice.—(Loud cheers.) This it is which has preserved the aristocracy beyond the period of the feudal system in other countries. Had it not been for these exceptions, for the Ra.dnors and Fitz williams, to set against the Buckinghams and Rich monds, the aristocracy of this country would have been macadamised 50 years ago.-- I (Loud and con tinued cheering.) Who, then, arc the opponents with whom the League is engaged in contest ? It is with a Pro-Corn-law League, of which the Dukes of Buckingham and Richmond- are the head, and I will put down Sir James Graham aid Lord Wharncliffe as nearly on a level with them.—(Cheers.) Well, but you say there must be a reason why some portion of the aristocracy are so bitterly oposed to the League. There is a reason, and I will tell you the reason. We are principally opposed by the more impoverished sec tion of the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) It may probably recommend this cause to the aristocracy of Sheffield, if they know that that portion of the aristocracy which is opposed to the League is not the richest portion of it.—(Hear,'hear.) I need not tell you how it is that a section of the aristocracy, which had vast advantages during the war, and received wealth untold into their coffers, I need not tell you why they are now em barrassed. When merchants are embarrassed, it is generally considered that they have been improvides or imprudent, but that is not always the case ; , when a noble family, holding large possessions landed property, and having held them for the las sixty years, during which they have increased fourfoli in value, without the slightest effort or risk on the part of the owners, when such a family is embarrassed, we need not go far to find out the cause of it. It is accounted for by their extravagance and wasteful im providence.—(Cheers.) ;That is the section of the aris tocracy which is opposed to us ; and why ? Because they have their fixed money incumbrances on their estates. In some instances, four out of five parts of their rents only pass through their hands into those of the mortgagees. They fear, therefore, lest by the repeal of the Corn-laws, the rents of the land may so fall, that the one-fifth might pass away from them, and that the remainder should become the property of the mortgagees. Thai is the whole secret of the opposi tion on the part of the aristocracy I am speaking of. I do not say that there are not some individuals leagued with that party who may themselves be rich. ,There are unworthy members of the aristocracy, who, though rich themselves, have leagued themselves with this band of men of desperate fortunes, because they wish to• maintain an undue supremacy over the rest of the community. I have described, and none dare dispute it, the character and nature of the opposition we have to encounter, and the class of men who are more especially opposed to us. Well, now, Gentle men, as we have dealt with this question on the ground of justice and its merits, let us look a little at the case of the landowners, and inquire whether the repeal of the Corn-laws would necessarily confiscate their small remaining properties. It is the opinion of the best agriculturists, that if all the land were culti vated like that of Northumberland and some parts of Scotland, particularly that of the Lothians, it would still maintain the same rental as now, but that is not to be done without an outlay of capital, and consider able improvement in the mode of cultivation. If we repeal the Corn-law, and the landowner has not capi tal, he must let his land for at least 19 years to men with capital; but they will not take it to set out at once with improvements in draining, and many other ameliorations, unless they have a consideration for it ; therefore they will be compelled to let the land at a moderate rent. I will not attempt to put salt on the bird's tail, by saying that it will not ruin the men who have been desperately mismanaging their pro perty. In the transition state, there must of neces sity be a number of the more embarrassed whose property must pass from them. I do not deny it. On the contrary, I ask, are the manufacturing in terests of this country, the mighty interests of the great body of the people, to be sacrificed for ever, be cause, in the transition from wrong to right—from in justice to justice, from bad to good, these men, who have been prodigal of their property, and embarrassed themselves, may be ruined in the process ? What is the course when any one of us falls into embarrass ment ? Does the law step in to shield him from the Gazette ? Is there any Act of Parliament to stand between you and the creditor, if you happen to be ruined by an unsuccessful speculation ? If not, why should there be an Act of Parliament to ruin the ho nest and industrious, and shield these desperate men, who never ought to have been in their present posi tion ?—(Cheers.) So far as speculation may carry me, I have stated my belief, and I repeat it, that un- yet, der a free trade, the landlord who has capital to lay out on his land, or who could wait the transition state, and could afford to let his land to a skilful capitalist for nineteen or twenty years, to improveit, would be no loser. Under a free trade, the value of such land would increase rather than diminish. But how ? Not merely by leaving the land, and going to Paris or Italy, or remaining in London, haunting the scenes which the aristocracy have been exhibited as frequent ing, and leaving his lands in the hands of voracious agents. The process would be by acting like a man of business, improving his property, and adapting all the ameliorations that modern science can af ford, to produce the greatest quantity at the least expense. It has been demonstrably proved that the land of England is capable of producing double its present quantity, if it was cultivated as some parts of Scotland are now; and where then would be the loss to the landowner ? Do you think it would be more unworthy in him if, instead of being known at Crock ford's, Newmarket, and Doncaster, or in the saloons of the London Opera, he took his estates into his own management, and assisted his farmers by adding his superior intelligence to their less mental cultivation, to aid them in the breeding of cattle, to look abroad for stock to improve the English breeds, to go to the sea-ports, and see if he cannot purchase a cargo of fo- • reign manure to divide among his farmers, instead of leaving them to purchase it at a dear rate, by retail, or by purchasing cargoes of seeds to enable theta to sow their land at a less cost ? Are these occupations that would be less worthy in the landlord than riding with a harlequin's jacket at the races, or exposing him self to the censures of the press for still more shame less proceedings in the vicious haunts of the metropo lis ? Is there no economy that the landlord might ap ply in the management of his property—no lawyers, with red tape, that might be dispensed with? Why should the owner of acres be above letting them to tenants himself, and being a party to an honourable transac tion between himself and his tenants ? Why should he be above being a. party to the receipt of his money rents, the man who can soil his palm by receiving the gains of the gaming-table or the winnings of the turf? Why should not the landlord, like the manu facturer, be acquainted with every man on his estate, and know whether they were proper characters and worthy of his patronage ? See how the manufac turers in the neighbourhood of Manchester, the much maligned cotton-lords, do their business—men worth' 150,0001., invested in bricks, mortar, and machinery. The Manchester man is on 'Change every Tuesday, from twelve to one, when business to the amount of five or ten thousand pounds is transacted with a nod of the head, or a monosyllable. He goes to Liverpool the next day, to buy cotton. lie examines the staple, and looks to the quality ; he brings away the invoice in his pocket, and pays the money himself.—(Hear.) He goes home, and do you think he goes a fox-hunting ? lie daily superintends the process of cotton spinning and weaving. He has no lawyer with red tape to tell him when a spindle is out of place, or he wants a new loom. He knows where every strap and wheel about his premises should be ; and if they are out of order, he himself directs them to be properly adjusted. And what does he do with his son? Do you think his son is sent to the Continent, to come back preco cious in the worst vices to be picked up there ? No ; his son rises at the ring of the factory-bell ; is in the factory at six in the morning; sees every man at his post; and knows every one by sight and name. This is the discipline of the factory-lord. How does the land lord, who has 150,0001. vested in his estate which consists of green fields—how does he manage his busi ness ? I should rather say, how does he mismanage it ? He places his affairs in the hands, first of a land steward, and then of a law-steward ; and if the one does not fleece him enough, then the other will finish him off.—(Laughter and cheers.) if a new barn be wanted on my Lord's estate, or a gate be off its hinges, or a fence be broken down, or a homestead out of repair, or a fold-yard want a well or a pump, the land-steward must be applied to, for my Lord must not be troubled ; he is off to the opera with my Lady, and his thoughts are filled with the last skip of Taglioni.—(Laughter and cheers.) Does my Lord let his farm as the cotton lord buys his cotton ? Not he. He will not even condescend to know the names of his tenants. The law-steward must travel probably 50 miles, carrying a clerk with him, to carry his papers and red tapes. He takes up his quarters at the nearest town, where there is a good inn, and the quality of the wine is very good. There he waits a day or two, to see the applicants for the farm. He receives the bidders, and may please himself whether he lets it to the best man or the worst. his Lordship is above inquir ing into such matters. The farms are let, and the rent day comes again. The law-steward attends at the hotel, and notice is given to the tenantry, that dinner and punch will be prepared for such as are punctual. We have heard grave censure on the smaller maim facturers, who pay their workmen at public-houses. You have no idea with what holy horror the land lords—sweet innocents ! in the House of Commons talk of the payment of workpeople at public-houses. The real cotton-lord, a man of wealth and capital, would feel disgraced by allowing his wages to be paid at a public-house. Yet the landlord's rents are com monly paid there. This is the rule—l do not say there are no exceptions. The rents of the landlords are paid in taverns,- and it ends generally in a scene of debauchery. Here you have the contrast between a man of property, subjected to the wholesome breeze of competition ; and the other, who has property, but under the narcotic influence of protection. Is there no good margin to turn in ? By getting free trade in grain, landowners will be most strongly incited to attend to their own affairs. They will take their business into their own hands. (I cannot expect that the lawyers will be in love with the League after this.) Thus the landlords will be enabled to compete with foreigners, as the manufacturers now do. Not only will he compete successfully, but we intend him great benefit by the process. We will make him what every man must become, a man of business. By giving him occupation, we shall render him a 'more useful member of society, and entitle him to self-respect, and the respect of his fellow-country men. I have now stated the case of that portion of the aristocracy who are opposed to us. It is neces sary to understand this. We have heard talk of such absurdities as that the Government intend to prose cute the Leaguers. After what I have told you of the nature of our •situation, you will see how absurd is the report. All that I have told yowls well-known to Sir Robert Peel and the influential heads of Go vernment. They know that the Executive is placed between two fires—the fire of the League, and the fire of the mortgaged landowners. Do you not think that, in this country, where there is some rem nant of freedom, that we have as good a right to exist as an Anti-Corn-law League, as our opponents have to exist as a Pro-Corn-law League ? This is not for Attorney-Generals, but for public opinion to decide. Therefore am I come here to-night, to ask you to say, in this most influential town of Sheffield, where, I may add , without flattery, that all classes have a reputation for intelligence and order which has been justified of late ; and I ask you to throw your moral influence into the scale of free trade against monopoly.—(Loud cheers.) I want the moral weight of your intelligence to support us in the House of Commons, in the coming session. We can meet no opponent out of the House— we can get up no con troversy. All we can say falls flat, because we want opponents. In the House of Commons alone we now find men who dare, in the face of the world, to get up and defend the bread-tax. If you want to know how you can enable the humblest individual in that House most effectually to put down the defenders of that system, you have only to let it be seen out of doors that the question is thoroughly understood.—(Cheers.) Let it be understood, when one of Mr. Villiers' party gets up to denounce this system, that he is armed with the convictions, and, I may say, the holier pas sions of our countrymen. Let him who dare uphold the system, speak under the withering consciousness that he is frowned upon by the intelligence and moral feeling of his countrymen and women. With this view, let it be seen that you will no longer be content with the passive endurance of this enormity. Look at the state of your borough. I have heard that the oldest inhabitant never knew it in such a state as it is at' present. lam told your prospects are worse than ever before. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, is there no duty incumbent upon you under such circum stances ? If I may be allowed to leave one word of exhortation with you before I go, I would say — Throw away all party differences, and come to the rescue of your poorer countrymen.—(Cheers.) ROBERT R. R. MOORE, Esq., said,—The landlords were leagued together to keep up the price of bread, to keep down trade, and literally to root out the maim facturing towns. Their league was permanently sitting in London ; it was a powerful league ; it could spend five or ten thousand pounds to secure a single election, knowing that every vote gained helps to keep down your town of Sheffield. It came not before the public, for it had no public truth to teach.—(Cheers.) It held no tea-parties, knowing that the public could, not 'bear its falsehoods and its trash.—(Cheers.) Now and then, at some meagre agricultural dinner to some special tenantry, or some degraded cou n ty constitu ency, it put out its sophistries to perpetuate delusion. The farmers were nominally independent, but, in reality, the poor dumb drudges of their landlords,- _ (Loud cheers.) This leag ue of landlords n umbered d at most thirty thousan d p ersons, and w as con - ;pined against the vital inte rests of this town.— ( The Anti-Corn - law Lea g ue stro ve for Oa e eP preserva vation:rhear.) of the town ; it would res tore to r irosperity the , cold forges; littl e m asters, and light the fires again , in it would restore the scissor trade, tii ie edge-tool trade, th e cross-saw and the machine-raw t ra d e ;i n s h or t, it wou ld restore Sheffield to prosperity.—(Cheers.) All r.,en one great League, not to he w S arag ffie a l i d s nst hld have a o n u yinter,.., b st of the country, but' to de fend their own, and defeat the efforts that were made forsethceuirrertuhie powern.The Pro-Corn-law League taxed itself toof maki n g the laws, by which it taxed the people t o support its own idle scions. Lec turers would be sent throughout the country to talk especially to farmers. The duties on butter and cheese were not altered, and there were 300,000 people to be fed, and yet the price was down. This disposed the farmers to read and inquire, and they would soon come to the conclusion that it could not be for their interest that the landlords should have the power perpetually to raise rents, and that the sliding-scale, letting in the foreign corn in the mass just at harvest time, could not serve them. The labourers, too, with 7s. or Bs. a week in England, and half-a-crown in his own un fortunate country, might think it was hardly worth while to have a law to keep wages at that price. In Cheshire, Somersetshire, and Herefordshire, the farm ers had been addressed with great effect. In Cheshiw, the farmers found that 5,000 people had left Stock port, and they would begin to ask why the people were gone, why the mills were standing, and why no work was to be had ? It was important that these lessons should be taught at once, before Parliament met again, that the wants of the people might be en forced. The increased distress of the people, the heavy poor rates, the number of paupers, and the increased des titution of both agricultural and manufacturing classes, would compel a settleMent of, the question. Constitu ents would compel their members to grant their demand for a repeal of the Corn-laws, or to give up their trust. The League had been four years in operation, and had done more than had ever been done by any similar body. It had Changed the opinion of the country. It was the great topic of the last session, particularly at the close, as it would be of the next from the begin 'ling to the close. There must be another great Con ference in London, to sit while Parliament sat, and urge the question - incessantly upon it. The League owed to the Manchester ladies 10,0001. from the Bazaar, and it would owe much of the 50,0001. to the efforts of the ladies of England. There was great advantage in the assistance of the women ; and surely it was right, that where unparalleled misery was to be . removed, the women should be active.. Ile was sorry they had not the women engaged long before, and he disowned all,sympathy with those who objected to their interference. .lf it were a cruel, a heartless, or a mercenary cause, then they need look for no aid from the women.—(Cheers.) Their co-operation was a guarantee for the nobleness and justice of the cause, and he was delighted to have their aid. They had no right to be idle while their fellow-creatures were starving, or indifferent while their country was sink ing into ruin. —(Cheers.) Early in January, the League would have its 50,0001., ready and determineo, to fight the battle out.—(Cheers.) Wm. Fisnim, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., and the other gentlem en who had visited them. Dr. CORDES TnomrsoN secwded the motion, which was put by the Chairman, and carried by acCiamation. Mr. COBDEN returned thanks, and made some ob servations, which were followed by loud cheers. Mr. BRIGHT moved, and Mr. ASHWORTH seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and this gratifying meeting closed soon after half-past ten. CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS DAY.) OLD COUR7. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.) RAPE.—Robert Floret, a youth 18 years of age, was indicted for a rape on the person of 12izabeth Brown, an ill-looking girl aged 16, at Colnbrook, in the parish of Stanwell, on the 14th of Nov. last. Mr. Payne conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner. The facts of the case are unfit for publication. The Jury, without hearing the defence, acquitted the prisoner. Peter Barrett, 30, a paviour, was indicted with feloniously and maliciously wounding his 'wife, Brid get Barrett, on the 28th of October last, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. From the statements of the prosecutrix, who was in an advanced stage of pregnancy, it appeared that the prisoner came home on the night in ques tion rather intoxicated ; at this time the pro secutrix was in bed ; he desired her to get up, and on her refusing to do so he pulled her out, and she fell on the floor. She got up and struck him with a chair, when he instantly kicked her on the lower part of her person, and injured her violently. The prisoner had generally acted very kindly to her. She trusted the Court would deal as leniently with the prisoner as it could, as any severe punishment that might be in flicted upon him would have the effect of depriving her and her child of subsistence. A surgeon was called, who stated that the prose. cutrix was so severely injured when he was called in that he considered it necessary to send her to Middle sex Hospital. The house-surgeon of Middlesex Hospital corrobo rated the evidence of the last witness as to the seve• rity of the injuries he had received. Several other witnesses were called, who said that the prisoner and his wife frequently quarrelled. The prisoner, in his defence said, he did not intend to hurt his wife, but he was exasperated on coming home to find her in bed, and nothing ready fur him. Mr. Baron PARKE summed up. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault, and The Learned JUDGE sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. • BURGLARY.—John Sutherland, 18, and Peter Free grove, 2.1, were indicted for a burglary in the dwell ing-house of John Cowderoy, on the 19th of Nov. last, and stealing therefrom money to the value of 13s. Gd.—The Jury convicted both prisoners, and Mr. Baron PARKE sentenced them to ten years' transportation. GU ILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) A respectable looking man, named William Hawkins, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Fare brother on the charge of attempting burglarously to enter the house No. 70, Ludgate-hill. Police constable 312, stated that he saw the pri soner first attempt to enter the house by the door about dusk yesterday evening, and having failed, he broke a pane of glass, through which he tried to force himself, when he was taken into custody. Mr. Alderman PAREBROTHER, finding that the pri soner could not call any one to speak as to his cha racter, sent him for two months to Bridewell. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) FORGERY.—The Rev. R. Bailey, LL.D. was brought up this morning, having been remanded, on a charge of forging an 1 0 U for 2,0001. Mr. C. Jones appeared for the prisoner. The facts were These—About ayear ago an action was brought against the executors of a person of the name of Smith, to recover the amount of 1,0001., which was alleged to have been d e p os it e d i n S m i t h' s hands by the sister of Bailey. Thi s c l a i m was upon an 101 , and this I 0 U turned out to be a for gery, and for this Dr. Bailey was 'placed at the bar. The first witness ca ll e d this morning was John Sinnie, who stated that he had copied instructions to witnesses how to prepare affidavits, and that the in structions were in the handwriting of Dr. Bailey. Catherine Glanville was called, , and stated that she had lived with Dr. Bailey as servant ; she had never been called upon to make any affidavit by Dr. Bailey. Mr. 11111, an attorney, was then called, who had been summoned to produce an affidavit made by the 'last witness. lie was called to prove that she had committed perjury. A discussion ensued as to whether Mr. 11111 was bound to produce the affidavit, he being the attorney for Miss Bailey, consequently a confidential agent. Mr. Flower thought the witness ought to be com pelled to produce it. Mr. lIALL said he should not commit the witness, but he would note the objection for the consideration of the Judges, and Mr. Bill must be subpoenaed before them. The witness then retired. 1 Mr. Flower then applied for another remand, and the prisoner was remanded till next Thursday. Mr. C. Jones applied for :the prisoner to be ad mitted to bail, but the application was reused. METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION. —By an advertisement in our paper of this day, we perceive that. the Committ ee o f the above Association are once m ore m aking an app ea l t o the sympathy and active co-operation of the young men of London, and we cannot believe that the appeal will be in Vain. There is no class whose interests are more interwoven with the commercial prosperity of the country than the young men of this great city. SHOCKING ACCLIHiNT.—This morning, at twelve o'clock, two privates of the IstlLife Guards, now sta tioned at llyde-park barracks, Knightsbridge, were taken to the strong room for being drunk. One of the prisoners wrenched several strong iron bars from the window of the room where they were confined, opened the casement, and, with one hand, laid hold of the sill of the next window, to endeavour to drop to the ground, but he missed his' hold, and fell on the stone pavement, lie was carried to the hospital of his regiment with, both his thighs broken, and otherwise dreadfully 3 r uised. SUGAII MARKET, Nov. 30.—We have ex- Pe 11elvced a better demand for sugars this week, espe ciaP.y for good and fine descriptions, which continue '.ery scarce, and have brought rather higher prices. I Low brown kinds continue neglected.—Bristol Ga zette. Lord Wynford has arrived in this city (Bath) from Weymouth. The venerable and learned Lord purposes to reside here during the winter, for the advantage of his health.—Bath Paper of Monday. Tuesday, the Archduke Frederick of Austria was occupied nearly two hours in going over the House of Correction, Tothill-fields. His Imperial Highness, at tended by Captain Fitzroy, R.N., and party, afterwards visited Newgate, and the Post-office, in St. Martin's.le- Grand. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. —The first representation of the Ad e lphi, of Terence, will take place at St. Peter's College, on Monday, Dec. 12. The second and third representations, with the addition of a_ pro logue and epilogue, on Thursday, the I . 6 th , days Vae 19th of December. and i% on day, • 1 e