The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

- - prudent people of Eng. the name of :he peoplei endangering tlia —( Cheer..) You hare ceive that rnv brogue n".') There. does not nxiou3 than m yself 'et of every shackle up on (ehi. era ) rdefeated in ind ustr Y tt _ -beers. ) Englislaue, of what your anc.stors )iness of your charm] )um to commence that o your country.: (The 1 the most tremencioue tes. ) slid loud cheers. He cling, but he had beeri his that out of the 0 4 case ], those facts should srtance, that they nilgi4 0 soses by those , 0 hoods. He stood before to snake a statement 1, cod, for the purpose ° 1 the House of Lords re Corn. laws were for tb e the House of Lords , b h u e t •ators of corn, and rowing that this bad s to sustain the Corn' the truth of tit° icing the town of Long" seat of the Right Wl' , late of Pembroke, latee Led one of her Majes to Department.— ( and he lectured on tlss: 'ham Arms, where Strt ure to his P iticlepe °4 (Laughter)—a lecture delivered after dinner, n the table; its sit t) i e6, : red b y the Agricultur sgence, skill, and inge-i j a most interesting en. '. Thompson) held MO /11, as it bad been 01: I been speaking , and ba mercies of those 'aka' p l ea that WY , the cultivators of, 6 0 -tare say it would he 1 i Graham wrote a d to the couduct of the so entered into the Ct rgotten his book, e t. .. lot forgotttn it. Vut peech in tim Hous eo , jet of inquiry, counsel at the u.„7 ed on the GOP' le best interests of 0 ' 'eeeh on that occasie° ay, " the speech of t o se of the finest e s : er it was beyond anythll m e in its glory.— ( b °, , fe of a farmer on sing to th e call 3( 1 the chirrupping ° ,l mificent views ar oue" t wound their dlthful labour—tbe rel; odbine and hotieYs uri t,4 to napkin—the c aret" note healthful lab our'' asy children—the w t' ambe r — r i se , brealc de Sabbath rnorn ---th. sc ourse — t he tis.lef gress, w h er e t he LO U ; a te ; thus they epee with the smile of a, 7n-laws, said Sir joy, men would be sent Pt! ,bed as the sinks olio:. 'pressed by Mollsi ere ;d to this estate, and he! many of the inks nod there; he an had just done t o tl.' `Hear, and a Jangle sal Garden of Paraffiiet What happy men 1 1 under the patria rch Cheers.) They lonl'edh was one thing whe. ; ose blessings which St' the bulk to be a off II how much it cost tll6 ailed up in the morn' he freshening b reezes ese were very e lle L P so eulogised rat n, )linty to his ow n to e vall those tenants '2ottages , to the 600 : oubt get good W a g es? vas, ,6 No. The il say 123." Not `r, r " some on us a°tr' , 'card of ploughmen shi of five silver lling e ! , he answer was " M tit have nothing to 01° 4 ith food, of cou pe 'mriodical litera ture th e of your wages In our ienefit and that o f a, indeed!" Out st pay ? He then pr eeet. in that distrie: tts dsintereste,incss ° upon his pro Per se arrival of the Rig"- our. He had privat e c oned so desirous Of in the habit of giving ag and thatching, 04 ants from 5 to : 35 Per ts ; and Sir J. Grahan, f agricultural labour. an. He might be He was a scholar, of classical q uotation ! , Corn and Cur rency', the farmers and th e son) was sure he sv 3i therefore, he did Itt P. 'et ; but, as a p ub° arally known, an d he was about to Oa a could assure evert charged to James Grabio!' of augm entiog low making the° 'me of 4,0001. 340,0r' tical plea of his be r them and nothing the or consumed by could now read the ed from a farrnee• serving the attent'.oP Ifects I consider °t. f land and wag'!„ in which I res w",' n 1815, has been 3riv which, I maY a 4.-01 ate, the nroper t Y a d anced from to • Consequently t', w beginning to landlord, and 191 rge to their servant° !lasses, the 1113 11 ,.„ ied t , rer week, with a the number of ° s el f° Os. per week 1 ' 3 ,0 imily; an d althe toes, milk, an d l g' j o vn knowledge I'l,-i, once in six ra ljt , rial difference W -h C rice. yt )3 , the half-Ye 3 " e g, twico in the Y oto ,, ouse, consecu c trit e invariably c° n _ tic o , as possible, 1 ,31 o great costf t" to :yaws enileavotiVic, ly, the s uPPI O per , f from 15 to Candlemas, ° l ' ars at 60 4 1 ' ance of 1561. I ce r for that adva ti it , tout SO pe t Cel is to Candle'llsof 1g an advance ter I now let, to ea +tine,: of about now let, to e t new building' '- out •25 per cent: 1Y let to an s e; text, being Au I t specimen' o f 0, Co h e House o f en , force, so eloquhio or " itrmer, an De .se statement! s, „apal I 0 f A 0 1 as, was hires to and labourers '" " Hear, flearto. 'ye improved Ir it. It i f ; to Inch I n w to w 0 go tude is in P r !or ,me to re n th eW e pa , ;uch was )et, Jepartrnem ; de e n'“ tenan ts, h ,OO tie and ' Ol 00 1. fused a r e " , 50 d plough rne'i „e, grace thesee atlitt , P A re m " ' ' me (0 a-% e Brat" O n of the 8,1 lie c, n nity. ame thing 11, !togs in Cun'ber a ir it of the People, :lon to which it I • of the Cn t.,_. t round 1 ; als o that nes of t hose all and antne'l, ye the truths oh —(Cheer s ' ) e, le following a t the P resent ly recomsiso, the necessity o f Ifirin the ly col to pelePte' rot vote, or ran :late retttn"l') r all restricti ons _ on ' e the importation o f f oo d , and protesting against all tothe laws which tamper w ith t h e subeistance of the people; and also Meneorialise her M a j es t y, expressing au utter want of confidence n her present advisers, or in any Mi n i sters who will not propose to Parliament the entire and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provi. The resolution was sion-laws," \l!r, laauesox seconded the resolution without comment. Nlr, n put and carried unanimously. „ •ee Tnoeiseox in the absence of Mr. Rawson, proposed the f-','nwine r esolution and he would do so without a word thir•tieTenhat the Conference close its general business with lTh'eee dings, and that the Executive Committee, with power to this day's add to its numbers, continue sitting so long as it seems needful constitutine aquorum ; P. A. Taylor, Esq , being Chair_ Than ' and Dr. BlaC'k Deeuty.Cliairman ; and the Rev. J. W. 14a as'•e and W. Evans, Esie, being Secretaries. The following . Gentlemen to compose the Executive Committee. The Committee to sit at to Hotel. " Mr ~EXECUT IVE COMMITTEE. . J Nilson, ilson, Lo n d on ; Colonel Thompson, London ; .gr. • 34tr • P. A. TayloreChaii man London ; M r. Sid ney, Smith, London,,,', • S coble, L ondon ; Black, ' M.D., Dep u t y Ch a i rman , London ; Mr. Kershaw, Manchester ; Mr. Win. Rawson, 'AlancheA! , .:y ch :l e l s r - . NV. Evans, Secretary, Manchester ; Mr. E Armitege, cl'hete„, ; t l e t r t et.. . 1. Prentice, Manchester; Mr. S. Lees, da e l , , . J. W. Massie, Secretary, 'Manchester ; Mr. J. Bright, llla' Leeds ; et , 1 Mr L Ileyworth, Liverpool; Mr. Stansfield, Dixon, Mill' Car ington, Bradford ; Mr. Clayton, Bradford ; Mr. B.r.minghzm Ito_c_tri heir. Bell, Coventry ; x lisl e ; Mr. Ashworth Bolton Mr. Joseph Sturge, A dc Y r, Stroud; . A "n,reh ; Mr. W. Buchanan, Glasgow; Rev. j• Border, Akroyd, Mr. Larin, Edinburgh ; Mr. . 1 ton Edin. , i .' •2 1 . C. Symons, Stroud ; Mr. Biggs, Leices v ter villiams, Caer. etalffax ; Mr. Batley, Iludderstield ; Rev. r .! ar von ; Mr. Evans, Caernarvon ; Mr. M er. T. Bailey Sheffield ; Rev. W. Roar, Halifax;airy, She Rawlins, C. Edward W. \ Iblo „ otson, Sheffield: 1; Forfar; 3 Nl fr i . g c a \ i ‘ i ,ni , .1 1, 1 r. W. Morris, r er Pool; Rev. Benj. Renton, Kelso; Rev. ev • James Ellis, Sal coats ; Mr. Platt." Th e Rev,J W doingwhich so, said he ought to explain to the gentlemen. Coe_ . . Messie rose to second the resolution, and in leaning London, that a power was vested in the Executive number, and 13 wee to be a quorum, to add to their and this would secure the continuance of the Conference as long as w needful. lie might mention, that those gentlemen who were lea , - ing - '`'''uon, were requested to communicate the same to the Se cretary 0 , ' the Executive Committee, :old to mention any person Whom the Y Might wish to supply their places as Delegates remaining in London. They wished, that in order to perpetuate, as long as v e sil , s needf ul, the Executive Committee, because not only must they e a 'oh the proceedings, but make a report of those proceedings t ° the c ountry ; and that report must be madeform which terposulel give it an authentic character. They hoped al s o to follow hat was what was passed in this report, but to suggest v e ur was necessary to be adopted in future, with respect to any 4 1., u 0 t t tree transactions relative to the state of the country. zsolfontg,er on their attention. He had been anx li io e u w . s o that the dersali address them, s pectre d friends, who were so who were so entitled to well able, and .t l e ho, P : c l e ,a e : e i ngs should he settled, and that his re. sentiments ; and althou h l o u n t e i m o w n r Executive Com enittee, he, i te absenceg he Was a member of the Executive A DELEGATE i,--' Mr. Rawson, would second the reso. any ROM ? , OM P :t t t u ee m w Y ou o Conference N—• The whole of the members of the Meeting had s A venerable and respected friend at that door Anti C uggested whether they should not have a great out -ofe The reso-1 urrhlaw Meeting.— (G reat cheering.) Loud crie scheering. we ‘ -e then raised from every part ot the • meeting for C. It utk ; and when it was stated that he was not in the roo i m ot , neithereZ"g w a' also called for with equal vehemence, ..i lfdellporeps:iiinfgattheir he answer Me e ty. „ , • will be l:-:(1;::::.11,,Iolumnede s t Gt:), nealgtit e..? ni if at hie° I: re,ward Reree CRAWFORD being, next called for, at length . came elie e „ He eaid he felt it his duty to come forward at their call, eouid"ogon, after the eloquent ape clues which they had heard, h add red e xPeet to say any thing that could add to those arguments ,ith th e . " by previous speakers. But he obeyed their call with the intention , of expressing in a few honest wor , ates in every eiaooe_%oi his heart to co-operate with the deleg (Ch eers Could could in the just cause in which they were engaged. N en , He did not come forward as a maeufa:turer, or as a theeriereial hen'Ma but as a landed proprietor—(Loud and repeated Wa tt 4 / Zan(' was convinced that the interest of the land-owne o rs f ariyote"`ePly ineolved in the repeal of the Corn-laws as those•nte- N t °r u t, eclass of society,__(lleae, he ar .) He felt that the i ate n landlord 3 and the manufacturers could not be separated. to . 'vet served the one was beneficial to the other, and any attempt . hy y e e : r ate the interests of those portions of the community ths u t r ricrt e , 3 and protective laws, could be of no interest to any l, bedy in and ' ' 'they were applied.—(Hear, ear,) Th ere e country to which . the camp, ratiee eaatsgesasl had been a good deal of discussion as to .r.; for his Part h e of a sliding.scale and a fixed duty. But i toted Wn uld not consent to enter into that discussion, because . he not 5e i remedy for the evils which afflic t the 00. n either of them any , cept iii the total et ey , e _ u s ntrY ! nor could he see any remedy ex He could not 'N en , ~..`"_iscrue Mischievous laws.—(Hear, heare —(Cheers.) He could v t adintvt°. atprornise that great question. n aY ee tte li the people should not have provisions as cheap as the dist, e tie procured• There was no other remedy for all , ess w hich .•. 4 -or kla s prevailed than the instant and absolute therepealotfrade a re e a n 3' greatw. -- extentaffect ,f e b h u e t ap a f, ! o t d a . r v i ti ( g ue p d e r o! h ear.) He thought that l ' en le , t r s e ntia who were parties to keeping up the price of tle `aev s et:•"°(.1 Were indirectly answerable for the results of those t at arva tto, the lives of the people.—(Cheers.) The results k were 1 'na tie theian'l deatll— (Cheers)—and i f lie were a party to eo e u e n p t: ' h ie fe e te la w, he would feel that he was in some degree ac He felt thar tbe ue deaths which it occasioned.—(Hear, hear.) only bv ots.,egreat relief which they were contending , for, could f see - "" e d hY th of the different classes o ierr.e...,11 e cordial co-operation now the working classes v e n e e „ id olit e \ to ear•) Neither the middle when they were united „ nee, suchanY object by themselves. But aristocracy could tietielel to power was acquired that no Those were the fee:- Ns woe tong to resist them.—(Hear, hear.) ilin s he had ' ' 'C a ore te,l % he had long entertained. With thosefc r e eol e ,le, and he 4: 4 . Derstlaeictension of the suffrage to the whole rid o ' f class legis. I ,"ori etnn'ed that the country would never get represented in ,arlia meta the Whole people were fully and fairly entertained, an t itsho 7-(Cheers). Those opinions he had long them tea 13 r. )3 0 , - ,,,, n4 ever be his most anxious endeavour to advocate , e,ddres,''taiXo, M.p., was then announced as the next speaker . A ' v e„" i tel e-mt" Meeting The Hon. and Learned Member . was re see,:hen ai1...0 enthusiastic cheers, which lasted for some minutes. hi re ar '- m ce was procured, he stated that if any encouragement -,.," the e‘tee.-if any recompense or inducement were necessary to lh . n obly;Ve to persevere in the good work which had been lee'''''side `nrnMenced that r •oin iense would be found in the en ,ra„th,, . , ec I . able meet -1,,,,aa...,chee e excnernent —of that influential and respect . to pre. f . t e the re That enthusiasm would give every motive . h I d b e great question in which they were engagea, and whic oe beep le carried ••••••-(0,4 every respect, he would say, delightfully . t had e.'ntrniterieee cheers.) When it was recollected . how -' next -;hithetetieem---first, there were statistical discussions—next e n the fist, doubts, hesitation, and opiio t s h i ,e ti pre lite , t tesoef things were remembered and compared with. aws ('n e ke(i' lup ee feelingf in this country as to the question of Corn I , t p l e c ;,' hot a , now was, not only as a moral and a political ques. e t ,•"eipl ee - a religiou ' inseparably connected with the ' L ea - ° t . that a question, insep . all bound to defer -1,,,,„ l', n od eh book to which they were fallacies of the grop e f Ta:_er,)--no longer were the frauds and public im. el, byte Ne. "Zrth to east impediments in the o f way by the e ttat g_Y, y„lne question Of Corn-laws was now taken up The pet")lis, ette"i.'n and hy others,e of England.—(Cheers.) and r he: ye al l. ter ehi ly ,es; the m and the daughters of Eng , tle,; ) " - tt iese t i n& to get rid of those iniquitous laws—(Loud the' was : ',W, which had given authority to that monopoly d 50d hb,,at°l intolerable an injustice—which had perpetuated 11 4,1 4 Pri ett e alstero of giving up to the few the t ri . g oh rie B - ,"t at th, e i g , " of the many.—(Hear, hear.) The . R t gh _ H w ' i lorte ) r qore e 4 e a d of the Ministry had referred to his (Dr. .B I t ' ll; aerie eoertL" reference to the state of feeling and trade Cont in t% oe'l oche n li e (Dr. Bowfin) had been sent to the . : er Th' i e e n e ,' h of Europe to ascertain what were the feel_ i ket '' ''a e s l s- re' e a r ,' '6vernment The feelings and wishes of that •tiereasi'n iarte'eeTiverYthing he could desire—(Cheers)—the mar had gee :,'! 41,11,-4 ler:lands for British produce were considerably Bit/ of th is ttec t of i te a als were made which would have undoubtedly eree, entry l4n ving the condition and securing clue prosper_ ‘ned e ' ' c, loe h' Wh t the answer made when he (Dr. the 4 the 44?....a (Cries was " Hear, hear.") The answer Tim 0en„.14 elyiti., of . " we cannot touch 5 here a irs-e(efee'n Government was, , touch the Laetae a '5.".., (1., 4r, hear, and groans), la e cannot ( en e e ' to the Britishnti dis approbation.) No matter what . t he ad ne see not t oe e.,People ma be the German and foreign mar sh 'foerre be "'ado ace • y ' (Hear hear.) The all th _ . an y shap not h essible to them c; f England —nor izenitth:l7 ha k e ee thy i:rncaueeiaovfe c tl e i r e io rn i a n nu acThe people of Germany h a t e r Its o n e a „ ' i t and the people of ' En Y gland might stara e, for the 4 eetm,a.4ne monopolists should d' - curbed —(Hear.) He et e . i ' 'ed the condi • not be is . • port " h that of non of the people of Prussia and the Conti tounit the People of England, and having had a good op e, ,e nf Making that ngland, Si' th at the cont comparison he had not the least he si tation in e r R oe rast was most d' •editable, most dishonourable hee etrt Peel — (Hea r , e iscr. . l'es gn(l was ' ear .) If the condition of the people of etest contrasted with th• t • • of the most im_ hed e ounte 4 of the inhabitants e gh ee _ . .ies on the Continent Sir Robert Peel should blush '..ivto3 ...e . Je ror being the cause of th ' ' rt of England, and for 4 n,itleh t,orsrevented the repeal of those laws which had caused so (p r. tivcrY through every part of it,—(Hear, ( a Hear hear, and cheers.) t , ter pewr'ne) had visited most — of the ' cities of the north trianyrnhie peke he could assure the meeting he had never ntho t:erowooclai the extreme poverty and distress which existed re ,t4.4aa4, a..r.l3tolton, with which he was connected. Therestawte of d t 4 i ti eo, :Id° pr ens of thousands of his fellow.men in a b huri to e t , o f th ee , °cl ueing that v. hich they could not sell, thoug . U -3 "• - •••-f er -anal a of persons in Germany are anxious and willing 4eabaetileth ar, hear ) Was that state of things to be endured— U sel i : encncluot of . the Right Hon. Icaronet be tolerated merely hatitry \-eliresented, as he called it, the great landed interests of the e (1 Proe,°' Bu t as the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin with eerie cautery the matter be analysed. Look at the ve te etts eons.. . ed, let • e tang M e unintion of the lower classes of this country.comp relative " nrt ed ati -- ( Hear hear)—look at their te en ;' e e e ,„ 4 -if thset"racY • ' was ' to be carried out, it must be comparison hone at j aa - ` ',ere are miseries endured in England which are not to be witi I. ) , p arlY other Part of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Yet there ~n thi s " Me who had so much moral aptitude, so much virtue, as 4,r eehheercuritry five months e rasio n Was • Was it not insulting, that after thee`'ori and consideration her Majesty's Government !ne COtioßne forward and say they a ' dmitted the extent of misery ill tsp eet tc :Y e h.ut they did not imagine that the proposition with ' t 4r, ) A t h .. 5 intn reaction of corn would affbrd any relief?—(Hear, ~'ly n) : . tar as he (Dr. B.) was able to see, he could state post_ ' r eite e te t the proposal of Sir Robert Peel wag much 14 Ili "an the law as it was at iresent.—(Hear.) the oenglit Ron. Gentlem •t, 1 d t I rfect the machinery of th at t.e t' ', l e a ws. Ile told atluiernmliTeveas n o o p t e satisfied with those who 'hat to,7.ue averages ; and Ito proposed, therefore, to introduce Ykt s . rt unpopular part of the administration, the excuse d o draw hi, .!ghter the cord by • foreign ' l le th ' fr ont l which corn was exclude. 7' l ' bre ad ept by some mismangement the People should obtain -13, „e bone shilling cheaper. He was determined that tore be ee s.; and that only on certain terms should foreign hot be"; arinlitted,_ (Hear, hear.) He was sure that this would t hat a chceiated as a solution of the question. He rejoiced to think 'Thole ee i g h er and nobler tone —a clearer understanding of the Wise 4"e_stion, now pervaded the l and. — (Cheers.) He viewed a nd ex'4at• indifference the squabble between sliding.scalea t 0 so reee e duti ''s• He should be sorry if the question were lowered hr inet ei ' and unworthy an inquiry. He would not give up the luri ee ` ,l ! that the bread of the people ought not to be taxed. That *4hl are tat th e only solution" ; , • by that he would stand, arid he !tal •h peet or i t • - .. e l) c t . of no solution which 1 ad for its object to show the e , ari l_ f a fixed duty over a sliding scale.—(Hear.) Sliding belt, _autNed duties he should alike repudiate. The HOD. Gen hee It down amidst to cheers. Nile ~,e v• Hr. WADE said they might be satisfied that nothing (II ' n ye the ea, he _ , monopolists but their overwhelming terror.— Pireey'. `'T.) Peel . had hoisted the black fla of monopoly qeaere; be would give no qua ter to them, ands hey should give no OPoe ~_ him —Meer hear T 1 hands ' of the monopolists are ge „ m e ) le throats '' . devil°Pple between of the people ;it was the death I,nli relonopnly and free. trade, it was " pull h o en. ,... neora e. e_ .. _ (Hear, hear.) The operatives were those Sele es, o"," decide the fight. Neither the middle classes, of them to_eree, , b.t41.,e ope,atives, of themselves could conquer the ark r'l,: (ler,' ey t ad r . ,) ° , . ited, the aristocracy would sink in the struggle. force Chartists wov'sl a morel force Chartist.—(Cheers.) The mote I il l a w rid ey ftie _ ~. u d come in to them if they extended to them tl e Three s. Ile e " . u . o_.ip. They only required equal rights and equal e wer e differed from some of them as to the plan of action. iootiget, beca u se me who contended that the Charter should first be neer when that was obtained th Beth • ar e it in their • ' e monopolists would no Par e ar gued th power to impose burdens upon the people. t?dy e , .at before they could obtain the Charter they must hold the right arm of 'mono 1 . o el-(ilear, hear, ) Veh' this Y, and strike down its strong e o , n,e „ e nail . .en this had been done it would be time th y 1,,.:1.."1 Iby carrying the Clue:ter. The Chartists thought ht elee,e;" net the confidence of the middle Imjg was Would The If the middle pledge themse'v . __ ea h . .es that when this measure had in,fori t e operatives suld not b 4 red the e forgotten, he _ operatives would join them in the attack upon monopoly. The necessity for such a combination could not be doubted. It Win a fact ; that, in the neighbourhood of this city, a man had died of starvation, and that when the body was opened at the Coro_ ner's inquest grass, yes, grass of the field, was found in his stomach, Hundreds were dying of hunger, and hundreds more were daily at, plying to the Magistrates to commit them to prison in order to ob tain the prison allowance of food. There was another fact, which was equally startling. The husband of a poor woman had declared that his wife's milk was mixed with her blood because she had not sufficient sustenance. These were some of the results of the Corn.laws.—(Loud cries of " Down with them.")__ The aristocracy would permit the people to commit suicide, murder, or any other crime. What cared they, provided they had high rents.—(Cheers.) They would rob the working men of their breakfasts. The God of religion and mercy called on them to put an end to such a state of things, and the minister of religion, like the prophet of old, was bound to " cry aloud, and'., spare not, and to denounce oppression in the highways." Their D., ire Master, in his sermon on the Mount, told the poor and the me. k and the mourner, to be comforted, " that His Father who was in heaven, might see their good works and glorify Him."—(Cheers.) The good work of Christian ministers is net alone to preach, but to put their hands to the plough and work themselves.—(Cheers.) This he would say was the duty of the ministers of the Church of England, and a fine opportunity was now offered to the bishops of their church to exhibit their feeling for the poor.—(Cheers.) It appeared that in 1840 only three bishops had voted, and two paired off in favour of Earl Fitzwilliam's motion. Let the bishops stand forward, now the Church was: distracted internally and exter nally.— (Hear, hear.) She was standing on quiver, quiver, quiver, to consolidate the people and engage them in their belief. They boasted of its being the Church of the poor man, now lot them prove it by standing forward on that occasion —(Cheers)—and the people would believe it—(Cheers)--for of course he gave credence to it himself. He would sit down by supporting the resolution, and trusted in God that they may go on and prosper under the di rection of Divine Providence—(Cheers.) Mr. B•WSON, of Manchester, said it was not his intention to de. tain the meeting further than by stating a few statistical facts re ferring to the midland counties. The sale and proceeds of 120 dozen of cotton drawers, shipped from Great Britain to the United States, was as follows, in returns made in flour. The net returns in barrels of flour were 82 barrels, divided thus—material 41 bar rels, profit more than 6, labour more than 34. On the contrary, in America the returns for the same number of cotton drawers were of material 70 barrels, profit more than 8, labour more than 139, exhibiting a balance in favour of America of 134 barrels.—( Hear, hear.) These facts were capable of being as clearly demonstrated as any proposition in Euclid. Thirty-two barrels was the duty in America, 42i in Liverpool ; 31 the expense of selling goods in New York, 8 the expense of the commissioc, of buying flour, ..nd 20} the expense of selling flour in Liverpool, making a total of 134 barrels. All those who came there should advocate a total re peal, and sanction a fixed duty as little as a sliding scale.— (Loud cheers.) The fixed duty of Bs, had taken away from ti,e working men 134 barrels out of 216.—(Loud cheering, ) It was not desirable tl at he should enter at any greater length into the subject. But on another occasion he would make statistic., statements that would let none of them sleep quiet in their beds till the mischief was entirely removed.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. Massie called the notice of the Conference to the fact, that the Gentleman who had just addressed them (Mr. Rawson) consulting with his family how he could best serve the present cause, had resolved, together with his wife and daughters, to give up time luxury of a carriage and horses.—( Enthusiastic cheers.) Mr BARIET WADDEN next addressed the Conference. He said, that since the commencement of the present C.onferense, he had each day listened with the greatest attention and anxiety to the statements of the various gentlemen who had addressed them, and who had brought before them a mass of evidence of the appalling character of the sufferings of the people at the present time—a time which the Prime Minister had been compelled to confess was one of awful importance. There was no man, ex cept perhaps his (Mr. W.'s) friend (Mr. O'Connell) who had kept a more watchful eye on Sir R. Peel for the last twenty-nine years than he did. Ile knew him well; he knew his mode of proceeding, his public actions—nay, the very time in yr hich he performed those actions.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Was it not a little extraordinary that the Minister should introduce his Starvation Bill into the House of Commons on the first day of Lent ?—( Hear, hear.),That very fact brought him to another which he did not know was a fact, but he deduced it from a fact; it was this :—Sir Robert Peel had not been at Church on Ash-Wednesday. If he had, he would not have dared in the presence of the people nay, in the presence of his God —to have brought in such a Bill. Why did he ( Mr. Wadden) say so ? Since he had token his place among them as a delegate, he had heard various Clergymen of the Established Church call alters. tion to the denunciations in the sacred writings against the man who withheld food from the people. Hiss the people shall curse. In the Prayer-book of the Church of England what was inserted among the prayers for the first day of Lent ? Certain denun. ciations ; and those denunciations were appointed to be read aloud by the Minister. (Hear, hear.) They were as follows :—" Accursed is he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow; accursed is the unmerciful extortioner." Was it possible that if Sir It. Peel heard those denun. ciations read he would have dared to bring in his Bill on such a day ? The number of petitions to the House of Commons had increased to 17,000, which was a proof, he supposed, of the sufferings of the people under the Corn. laws. But since the petitions were now presented in bundles, DO speech being allowed to be made on them, and Sir Robert Peel had refused to receiving the deputation from the working classes; it was time to declare that the House of Com. mons did not represent the people of England, and that the Go_ vernment was no longer a paternal Government.—(Loud cheers.) The Poor-law Commissioners hail sent out 1,716 circulars to the country, to ask whether agricultural capital had increased or decreased. There came 1,710 answers, stating that agricultural capital had decreased,—decreased uncter the law of which the declared object was to promote the interest of landed proprietors, farmers, and labourers.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gen tleman then referred with great effect to the famous protest against the principle of a bread_tax recorded in the Journals of time House of Lords, and signed by the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Gloucester, Lords Granville, Wellesley, Essex, Torrington, Douglas, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the father of the present Duke—(Groans)—Montford, King, and Carlisle. Next he re ferred to the well-known and most honourable declaration of the late Sir Robert Peel, that the interests of manufactures and agriculture must go hand in hand, but that to impose a tax on what a man eats was most iniquitous—(Cheers)— so that the late Sir Robert Peel put upon the Statute-bock of the country a solemn protest against the passing of the Act which his son wishes to perpetuate.—(Cheers Sir Robert seemed to depend upon the patience of the people; but that may be strained too far. The aristocracy of the country had been laying out their gold and silver to entertain a foreign King, while the people of England we re dying of want.—(Great cheering.) The CRAIEMAN then said Gentlemen, it now devolves upon me, as your Chairman, to close the Conference. As I men tioned at the commencement, although the work of the Delegates within these walls closes to-day, yet their greatest work and most arduous duties will soon begin ors their return to their constitu. ents and their own neighbourhood.—(Hear, hear, hear.) I have to recommend to the Deputies to send up from their districts memoranda to their respective representatives in the House of Commons to be at their posts, and consent to no compromise.—(Cheers.) This is in harmony with one of the resolutions. You have passed a roso• lution which will be more effectual in frightening your opponents than any resolution you have passed—a resolution which at former meetings at Manchester and elsewhere, has been proposed again and again, but which was opposed, the representatives of the A nti- Corn -law League fearing that by passing a resolution so strong they might injure their own cause.—(Hear.) I allude to a Nobleman who was the candidate for Yorkshire, with whom they had parted—and they would part with any one—and I feel satisfied that the greatness of the sacrifice wan an argument for its being made, because it would have a strong effect on the publle mind.— (Cheers.) All who have attended this meeting, from its commencement, must have experienced great pleasure in witness ing the unanimity which has prevailed, and the acclamation which has accompanied the passing of every resolution. They were not mere speculative resolutions, wishing that something might be done; but they were resolutions so strong and substantive, that I am sure they will have a great influence on the country—they will do their work—they will have their effect ; or if they do not, wait for a short time, when stronger, more determined, and most undoubt edly more effectual resolutions will be passed, which no Govern ment, no Ministry, no House of Commons, no landed aristocracy, however powerful, can or dare resist,—(lmmense cheering.) I pronounce this Conference to be now closed.—( Cheers. On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Massie, Mr. Taylor then re tired from the chair, and W. J. P. Wilkinson, Esq., late Mayer of Exter, was unanimously voted to his place. The Rev. Mr. Massie then, came forward. He said there had been repeated cries for Mr. Roebuck in the room. He (Mr. Mas sie) should have been proud if Mr. Roebuck had been there, but he was not, and the call was therefore rendered useless. He (Mr. Massie) rose with the greatest pleasure to pro pose tbat the thanks of the Conference be presented most cordially to P. A. Taylor, Esq., for his patient and unwearied attention during Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and up to this hour —(Cheers.) It must have been a matter gratification to those who had come from the country as Delegates on this occasion, to know that a gentleman so well known, and of such influence in the City of London as Mr. Taylor should have consented to identify himself with their cause by presiding over their'. The Rev. Gentleman concluded by saying that he wished to take that opportunity of stating that the Executive Committee would meet again as usual at the close of the Conference. Mr. Asirwoirrn came forward to second the motion of a vote of thanks to their late Chairman. In doing so, he wished to congra tulate the meeting on the improved character they had acquired since three years ago.—(Hear.) It would be remembered, that three years ago the present movement had been commenced by certain manufacturers and merchants who saw the very great evils which the Corn-laws were entailing on the country. They saw the Dukes arrayed against the millions, but they saw at the same time, not only the manufacturing classes, but the ministers of religion and the women of England, and when they saw the women of England combining for the amelioration of the condition of the poor, how could they despair of ultimale success. In conclusion, he should congratulate the meeting on having taken up its position upon such high grounds as to render it imps. Bible that the cause which they advocated should ultimately prevail. The CHAIIMAIV said, before putting the motion from the Chair, he should make a few observations. He came from Exeter, and other places, but lie never witnessed a meeting where such una nimity and enthusiasm prevailed. He thought the Delegates were deeply indebted to their late respected Chairman for the order and propriety with which he conducted the meeting. Mr. TAYLOR sand he feared the meeting received his name with too much partiality. He could not claim that high influence in the:City which a late Speaker attributed to hint upon other grounds 'than those which arose from his untiring exertions in advocating the repeal of the Corn-laws. His friend Colonel Thompson could bear him out in the assertion, that some eleven years ago they we re a bl e t o muster b ut a few persons at th e ir meetin gs i n th e City , b u t t hi s present assem blage now presented a happy contrast to those scenes. In conclu sion, he begged leave, with all sincerity, to thank the meeting for the manner in which the vote of thanks was passed. The CIi•IRMAN then submitted to the meeting the following do cument : ADDRESS OF THE FINANCE: COMMITTEE OF ANTI CCOR N-DA W DELEGATES ASSEMBLED AT THE R OWN to the financial affairs DAYS. AND ANCHOR, FEB. 8, AND SUCCEEDING in connec The above Committee, in the faithful discharge of their dut y, have given rs th e o n; t h e deliberate l earnest Anti-Corn-law _ia League, attention cause, that a contest and thewith the present position of the question, tent, is at hand ; the League. It immediate and prospective claims npon the wilds of call for renewed be Yobvious to all friends of the great of unexampled interest importance, and ex the work of Universal the moral power of all and redoubled that there is at this moment an imperative ersariedoubled efforts to carry on and complete of dull; ties upon the foot! of the nlightenment, and of the consolidation of o stand opposed to the restrictions and ilin bexeltieenvte th is en tn ev b er e , a''cornPleildl 7 of the Kingdom, and especiallygualified byrhrihsegerernatploeynrnd employment, C to om .. un g n r l e i a tt t c c e r which there are already persons to Lecture in all parts in the Agricultural Districts, from applications for at least ten in dividuals where only one can caon held afforded. The Committee are of opini on t h at, at n conjun c t ure of events cou ld more labourers be sent into the cess, or under strongly with a bett er prospec t o f suc. eff.rt h d a e s m b a e n e d n i l in g a t d h e e i by y m t o h s e t streAnunooubsiee,xbeertnleovnosi.circumstances more benevolent, and patriotic Anti-Corn-law women of the country, that their example will be imme dia tely followed b and th e C omm i ttee trust De puties now in town, an d their y the the kingdom. They therefore r espectfully, but most Associates thr ou gh ou t earnestly, recommend that every Deputy League to the utmost extent o f h is should assi s t th e taL e steps on his return to his constituents ability, and that he should congrega tional collections and individual subscriptions obtain, by nations made in London may be handed to ;heTreasurer of the pecuniary aid. Do. Leis3ue, now in attendance ; and hereafter to Ex of the National Anti-Corn.law L eague in manchest e e c r utive Council TIT SUN, TON DOLT, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 184" z. Hitherto the burden of the national struggle has fallen upon a comparatively small number. Hereafter let it be cheerfully and honourably shared by the friends of the cause at large. If the sinews of war are supplied, the contest now waging will soon termi pate in the triumph of justice and humanity, over the cruel and selfish legislation of interested men. JAMES KERSHAW, Chairman. WILLIAM RAWSON. ELKANAH ARMITAGE. FRANCIS BOULT, Jun. SAMUEL LEES EDWARD EVANS. JAMES AYTOUN. EDWARD WATKIN. Subscriptions will be received by Mr. Hichim, Secretary to the League, or Mr. Edward Watkin in his behalf. Three cheers were given for the Queen, and three for the repeal of the Corn laws, and the meeting then dispersed. ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES. ADDITIONAL NAMES OF DELEGATES. NAMES OF DEPUTY, NAME OF ASSOCIATION OR CONGRE GATION, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND COUNTY. Bains, James, Scotch Secession Church, Pell-street, Ratcliff highway, Middlesex Bower, William, A.C.L. A., Chelsea, Middlesex Brewer, Nicholas, A.C.L A., Southwark, Surrey Cox, Edward William, A. C. L. A., Taunton and Wellington, Somerset Dyke, Mr., A. C. L. A., West Pancras, Middlesex Doran, .1. L., Esq., A.C.L. A., Christ Church, Marylebone, Middlesex Fowler, John, A.C.L A. , Oxford Harding, Jonathan, A. C.L. A., Mitcham, Surrey Hayes, Thomas, A. C. L. A., Bethnal-green, Middlesex Kevan, Peter, West. Relief Church, Paisley; Renfrew hire CORN AVERAGES. LIST OF TOWNS, and the COUNTIES in which they are situated, from which it is propose.' that Returns of the quantities 2nd prices of various descriptions of CORN sold, shall be made to the Comptroller of Corn Returns, in order to determine the general Average Prices, whereby the rates of Duty shall be governed. Note.—The Towns to the names of which an Asterisk is prefixed, are those from which Returns have not hitherto been obtained. 11'Connell, A. C. L. A., Marylebone, Middlesex Mall, Edward, Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeshire Pulling, John, Independent Congregation, Deptford, Kent Poulton, J., A. C. L. A. , Camberwell, Surrey CHESHIRE. Chester Nantwich Middlewich Fonham Ends "Congletou *Knutsford *Macclesfield *Stockport Renton, Henry, A.C.L. A., Kelso, Roxburgh Rayre, Charles, A.C.L. A., Newcastle and Gateshead, Nor. thumberland SURHEY. Guildford *Croydon *Kingston *ltyegate Sturges, Jcseph, Esq., Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeshire Scoble, John, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire ESSEX. Chelmsford Colchester Romford *Chipping Ongar *Epping *Alaldon *Saffron Walden Thomson, Adam, A.C.L.A., Hayrick, Roxburgh Turner, T., Hope Chapel, Providendo, Rochdale, Lancashire Walker, David, A.C. L. A., Linlithgow, Scotland LANCASTER. Liverpool Ulverston Lancaster Preston Wigan Warrington Manchester Bolton *Ashton under Lyne *Blaeliburn *Bury *Oldham *Ormskirk *Rochdale ADDITIONAL NAMES OF MINISTERS, NAME OF MINISTER, DEN OMINATION, PLACE 01' RESIDENCE, AND COLTNTI. Archer, Thomas, United Secession, Gray Friars, Glasgow ; . Lanarkshire KENT. Maidstone Canterbury Dartford *Bromley *Chatham or Rochester *Dovor *G ravesend *Romney *Sevenoaks *Tunbridge (Town) Beaumont, John, Relief Congregation, Ceres, Fifeshire Benson, Williams, Baptist Congregation, and British and Fe. reign Sailors' Society, Welling, Kent Cairns, Peter, United Secession, Stewarton, Ayrshire Carhie, Janie:, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire Garnsnay, Smith P., Congregational, Newport, United States, America Hinton, John H., Baptist Free Communion, Cupar, Fifeshire DERBY. Derby *Bakewell *Chesterfield Tyler, W., Independent, Hope Chapel, Spitalfields, Middlesex SUSSEX. Chichester Lewes Rye *Brighton *Horsham *Petworth Alirams, Janiee, Independent, Kennington, Surrey .NOTTTNGTIAM. Nottingham Newark *Mansfield *lietford *Worksop UNION OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES. A meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Delegates and others favourable to the Extension of the Suffrage. was held in the small room of the Crown and Anchor last evening. The meeting was called together by the following hand-bill, issued by Nlr. Sturge, and circulated during the day : " COMPLETE SUFFRAGE. BEDFORD. Bedford *Biggleswade *Dunstable LEICESTER. Leicester *Loughborough *Hinckley *Lutterworth *Market Harbro'. *Melton Mowbray "Joseph Sturge respectfully requests such of the Delegates to the Anti-Corn-law Conference as may entertain views favourable to ' Complete Suffrage,' to meet at the Refreshment rooms, Crown and Anchor Tavern, at seven o'clock this even- BERKSHIRE. Windsor Reading *Abingdon *Farringdon *Maidenhead *Newbury *Wallingford ing. Admission may be procured by presenting a Delegate's Ticket at the door. " Friday Morning, Feb 11, 1842." The room was well filled. Among those present we observed Joseph Sturge, Esq.; Sharman Crawford, M. P.; Dr. Mad den, Dublin; George Thompson ; John Bright, Rochdale ; A. Prentice, Manchester; Wm. Ibbotson, Sheffield; Rev. Mr. 13aily, Sheffield ; Rev. Mr. Renton, Kelso ; Rev. Mr. Owen, Staffordshire; Rev. Mr. Thomas Spencer, Bath ; Rev. Mr. Cairns, Paisley ; Rev. Mr. Lowe, Forfar; Mr. Hicken, Man chester ; John Childs, Bungay ; John Bright, Rochdale ; Jose; h Corbett, Birmingham ; Hamer Stansfeld, Leeds ; Ed- ward Baxter, Dundee ; Josiah Conder, London ; Nathaniel Griffin, Esq. ; Wm. Boultbee, Birmingham ; Mr. C ur ti s , Ohio ; Stafford Alen, Esq. ; Dr. Perry, Boston ; Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool; John Dunlop, Esq., Eninburgh; Edward Lankester, M.D. ; C. E., Rawlins, Esq., Liverpool ; Mr. Henry Hetherington ; Mr. Watkins, Manchester ; Mr. Wm. Lovett. NORTH A Al PTON. Northampton *Peterborough I)aven try *Oundle BUCKS. Aylesbury *Beaconsfield *Buckingham *High Wycombe *Stoney Stratford WAR WICKSHIRE. Coventry Birmingham *Coleshill *Dunchurch *Stratford on Avon * Warwick OXFORDSHIRE. Oxford *Banbury *Burford *Henley *Witney WORCESTER. Worcester *Bra ;nsgrove *Droitwich *Dudley *Kidderminster *Stourbridge *Stourport Mr. G. THOMPSON stated that the meeting was extra.official, and in no way connected with the business of the Conference. It was convened for the frank and free comparison of opinion as to the great question of suffrage which now agitated so large a portion of the population of this country. It partook of the nature of the general conversation on the merits of the question, every gentleman express ing his opinions in a private and individual capacity. Jos. STURGE, Esq.,was unanimously called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN observed that he had invited his friends present to a conversation in the best spirit of the merits of a declaration on the subject of the Suffrage, which he had already put forth. He hoped his Honourable Friend Mr. Crawford, who, but for illness would have put forth the declaration in conjunction with himself. would in the course of the meeting be present. (Mr. Crawford soon after entered the room and ascended the platform amidst loud applause.) It had also been proposed bj the Birmingham " Corn_ plete Suffrage Association," to recommend for general signature, a memorial to the Queen of which the following was the outline, the object of which was to beseech her Majesty not to take to her councils, nor to retain in them, any persons who were not prepared to grant Complete Suffrage to the people HUNTINGDON. Huntingdon St. Neot's GLOUCESTER. Gloucester Cirencester Tetbury Stow on the Wold Tewkesbury *Cheltenham *Dursley *North Leach *Stroud CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge Ely Wisbeach *Newmarket SUFFOLK. Ipswich Woodbridge Sudbury. Hadleigh Stow Market Beeeles Bungay Lowestoft Bury St. Edmund's The Rev. T. SPENCER addressed the meeting at somelength in advocacy of an extension of the Suffrage. He thought that the higher and middle classes did not repose sufficient confidence in the working classes. For himself he could say no one could have been better received than he at a meeting of the working classes at Bath ; and yet he had done much to provoke them; but they knew he had done it honestly, and therefore they forgave him. The working classes would think and let think. He had great confidence in the working men, and the chief mischief of the country was the want of it. In the higher classes there was an unneces saty suspicion of them, and that was because people were apt to judge others by themselves. Those who had sinecures and pen sions, and brought up their families to the army and navy, and by the law of primogeniture fattened on the spoils of others, think that other classes, if they had the same power as themselves, would use it in the same manner. But before they put the working men in the possession of power, they would be sure that they should not have the same power of abusing it. They would not have the law of primogeniture, and he was sure that Mr. Sturge would agree to this, that they would have less war and less army and navy, These evils had been ascribed to over production ; he was disposed to think there had been an over-pro duction of one commodity—there had been an over.production of laws !—(Loud cheers.) He should like to see a Parliament that fur two or thr ee sessions, would do nothing but destroy laws, in stead of snaking them. They had laws which meddled with every thing, with their money, their religion—(Hear, hear, and cheers) —and with their trade ; with every thing they could mention. If the working men were admitted to power, he hoped they would guard against meddling with too many things ; the grand thing was to protect person and property, and leave everyth,ng else alone. There were no more important words than " let alone"—the laissels faire, of the French. Above all, let them leave trade alone. The grand question was, whether, if the working men obtained a general Suffrage, would they judge wisely of their candidates ? When at Southampton, with his friend Mr. George Thompson, he saw that drunken ruf. flans were hired to disturb their meetings as long as they staid, by the County Members! Would the working mien h the dared to d o this ? The Parliament he considered so ill chosen, that he did not think the working men could choose a worse. When the best and holiest who ever wore the garb of human nature, Jesus Christ, the son of a carpenter, who even worked as a carpenter, was seen to possess everythi,,g that is admirable, aad deserved respect, yet the rich despised him ; the Scribes and the Pharisees hated him ; Herod and Pontius Pilate set him at nought, but the common people heard him gladly. Had the Suffrage, then, been with the rich, would they have chosen him as their leader ? Would they have chosen the very best of the eat th P No ; but the common people heard him gladly, and would gladly have done it. It appeared to be the will of God that the common people should be always ready to hear gladly the grand truths of re ligion and politics. But how were they to obtain the Suffrage? Why, they had the power of passive resistance and of self_denial. He should be willing to deny himself every excisable article—in deed, he had done so for other reasons, and so might all—and would the Government do without the money ? If necessary, he should be prepared to refuse the payment of the assessed taxes. He ap proved of the Memorial to the Queen, and said he could state some circumstances which led him to believe that their Queen was with the working•elasses.—(Cheers.) SOMERSETSIIIRE. Bristol Taunton IVells Bridgewater Frorne Chard *Bath *Yeovil NORFOLK. Norwich Yarmouth Lynn Thetford Watton Diss East Dereham Harleston Holt Aylsham Fakenhank North Walsham *Swaffharn MONMOUTHSHIRE. Monmouth Abergavenny Chepstow Pontypool *Newport DEVONSHIRE. Exeter Barnstaple Plymouth Totness Tavistock Kingsbridge *Ashburton *Axminster *South Molton *Oakhampton *Tiverton LINCOLN. Lincoln Gainsborough Glanford Bridge Louth Boston Sleaford Stamford Spalding *Barton on Humber *New Bolingbroke *Bourne *Grantham *Grimsby *llorucastle * Market Deeping *Spilsby CORNWALL. Truro Bodmin Launceston Redruth Helston St. Austell *Falmouth *Penzance YORK. DORSETSHIRE. Blandford Bridport Dorchester Sherborne Shaftesbury Wareham *Poole *Weymouth York Leeds Wakefield Bridlington Beverley Hawden Sheffield Hull Whitby New Malton *Barnsley *Bedale *Bradford *Doncaster *Guisborodgh *Halifax *Huddersfield *Keighley *Knaresborough *Northallerton *.Pickering *Pontefract *Richmoad *Ripon *Selby *Skipton *Thirsk *Wetherby *Yarm HAMPSHIRE. Winchester Andover Basingstoke Fareham Havant Newport Ringwood Southampton Portsmouth *Christchurch The Rev. Mr. YOWNO, of Andover, urged the necessity of union between the working and the middle classes. The union was a natural one. The working "'en stood in need of the capitalist, and it was the energy of the working men that made capital valuable. How was it then they had become separated ? Each party had committed faults, and in order to become re-united they should look each other boldly in the face, and see what were the faults they had committed. As a middle class man, he would at once admit that too many of the middle classes had looked too much to their own interest. But while he admitted this, he must say, that the working classes had also committed faults.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He went fully with them into the Suffrage question, but he thought they were in fault in seeking t• postpone the Corn-law question to the Suffrage question. If ever there was a practical question which came home to the working man, it was that of Corn-law repeal. Let them go on with the practical ques_ tion, and having gained that, let them go on to the theoretical question. He urged upon the meeting the necessity of union be tween the middle classes and the working classes to carry the Corn-law question, which by union they might do in a few fresh°''d agitation for the months, for the Ministers would give way before thorn, and he Pledged himself to the men of the working classes t s h a a y t l t a ll y ey as would take take the Suffrage question into their most anxious consideration; and agitate with them for it, until it would be gained. He was con vinced that without union they cou ld g ain neither ; with union they could gain both. He would say tr y the Corn.law fir st; and if they fail Suffrage, nu ef;r t aotgice, , the r ac r n y odr t hn h e. e i a, , , .repeal wo u agitation,ld urge o r f g the e th e C am o n Corn-law, b l g a eog w io , nn until h e the nation possesseda w every right which it ought to possess. Mr. A. PItENTIS would not have addressed the meeting, had it not been for the conclusion o f the address of the last s peaker. The m mattereetin than for c om i ng to any g was one r a th er for mu. agitation for the Suffrage wa s not now to be beg " ; it had begun long since, and he proteste d a g ainst postpoinn g it for Corn.l aw agitation, as he did against p ost p oning Corn.law a g i tation to Suf. frage agitation. His desire was n ot to see one agitation di sp l acing the other, but to see the two g oing on collaterally. A Gentleman in the body o f the meeting requeste d to know what was the resolution they were d iscussing ? M I T , , k a u tn in explainedconversational teal resolution—there was no reso lution before the meeting. The explanation question before the meeting w as, the propriety of presenting a me. morial to the Queen, praying he r Majesty not to t ake to her coun. cilF, nor to retain in them, any that persons who were riot prepared to gfant complete Suffrage to the people. Mr. PALLISER load begun life as a working man, and now he was one of the middle classes, possessing a voice in returning eight Members to Parliament, in different places, a right w hi ch no man ought to possess. He thought working men had shown their wisdom in standing still as they had done in regard to the Corn-law agita tion. He had formerly been of a different opinion, but he now saw that they were right, and the event had shown it. Once bit twice shy; and as they had been deceived on the occasion of the Reform Bill, they were not again to be caught.—(Cheers.) What could they expect from a House of Commons constituted like the present? What they wanted was a Rouse of Commons re presenting the ma_ jority of the people, and not the few--(Hear, hear, and loud cheers)—not one which legislated to take money out of the pockets of the people to put it into their own. Since 1815 the landowners who composed the Parliament had trebled their rents. What was the remedy for this class legislation ? Why, an exten sion of Suffrage— (Cheers)—with Vote by Ballot—(Loud cheers) and equal electoral districts.—(Cheers.) That was what himself and his friends in the parish of St. Luke had petitioned for in addition to a total repeal of the Corn laws.—(Cheen.) The Chartists in his district had joined with them, and he had always found them men of good sound common sense. He called upon the middle and working classes to follow their example, and to unite to ob tain the complete Suffrage, and to put an end to class legislation. (Cheers.) He had read with indignation and disgust Peel's state. merits as to the amount of meat and bread consumed by the working classes in foreign countries. Now, what was the mighty discovery Peel had made ? Wby, that John Bull loved roast beef better than the foreigner did, and that when he could pay for it . ) o , e would have it. But since Peel had compared the mode of living of the English working men with that of the foreigner, he (Mr. Palliser) should RUTLAND. *Okeham *Uppingham HEREFORD. *Hereford *Leominster *Ross DURHAM. Durham Stockton Darling-ton Sunderland Barnard Castle SHROPSHIRE. *Shrewsbury *Bridgenorth *Elmsinere *Ludlow *Newport *Oswestry *Wellington *Wenlock *Whitchurch NORTHUMBERLAND. Walsingnam Belford Hexham Newcastle-upon-Tyne Morpeth Alnwick Berwick *Wooller WILTSUIRE. *Bradford *Swindon *Chippenham *Devizes *Salisbury *Marlborough *Trowbridge Warminster CUMBERLAND. Carlisle Whitehaven Cockermouth Penrith Egremont *Wigton STAFFORDSHIRE. *Stafford *Burton on Trent *Newcastle under Lyme *Stowe *Tamworth *tittoxeter *Walsall * Wolverhampton WESTMORELAND. Appleby Kendal "Kirby Lonsdale WALES. Carmarthen Carnarvon Ilaverfordwest Cardiff Denbigh Wrexham *Brecon *Mold *Bangor * Cowbridge * Newbridge *Newtown 'New Radnor MIDDLESEX. London Uxbridge HERTFORDSHIRE. Hertford Royston *Bishop Stortford *St. Alban's *Ware *Tring *Watford SUNDAY SCHOOL TE ACHEII3 AND THE CORN-LAlVs.—Petitioni for the to tal and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws were adopted last night at a meeting of the Committee of the South London Auxiliary Sunday School Union, which represents nearly 2, ' 00 gratuitous teachers of the young—the petition to the Lot ds to be presented by Earl Fitawilliam, and that to the Ccn mons by the Members for Southwark. like to make a comparison between the aristocracy of England and that of foreign countries—(Cheers)—and they would find that the luxury, voluptuousness, and profligacy in which the English anis. tocracy indulged, at the expense of the poor men, was what any other nation would blush at.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And this could not be remedied until class legislation should be done away with. II- would remind Sir Robert Peel of what happened to Rehoboan, when he despised the outcries of the people. The cry then raised was—" Every man to his te nt." — (Cheers.) They all knew what was the result. Let the aristocracy beware in time.—(Cheers.) John Bull would not submit much longer to be oppressed and plun dered as he had been. They slid not want to oppress and plunder others, but they wanted to prevent others from oppressing and plundering them.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. Mum., who was announced as the editor of The Nonconformist, then stepped forward, and was received with loud cheering. He said he should not have presented himself to the notice of the meeting, but for the remarks at the conclusion of Mr. Young's speech. He could hardly express the gratification which he felt at the manner in which lie had been received, and he only rejoiced to find that the principles which he had advocated had taken such a hold upon tmlnds of the middle classes. (Loud cheers.) He felt convinced that those principles which were now set afloat would not only spread, but spread rapidly.—(Cheers.) Some persons had urged the necessity of superseding the Corn. law movement by the Suffrage movement, add others had argued for superseding the Suffrage movement by the the Corn-law agita tion. Let them look at the House of Commons as it had been re cently elected, through intimidation and bribery he would allow, but elected by the middle classes--(Cheers)--why, it was one Which would establish every principle 01 monopoly to its fullest extent. Now, the only way of remedying this slate Qt . things was by giving a prominent place to the Suffrage movement.—(Hear.) At the same time he would not desist from agitating the Corn-law question. The Corn-law League, by their agitation, did good to the Suffrage movement. They opened the eyes of the people, and he believed verily that that agitation had done more to forward the Suffrage movement among the middle classes than anything else. That agitation had now been going on for three years ; they had had their meetings, their conferences, their ba zaars, and what effect had they produced upon the aristocracy ? Before they did that they must have a broader base to rest upon. They required some stronger lever to move the aristocracy than any they had yet worked, and they could only find that lever by extending the suffrage. He would be no party to any such delu. sion as that of asking the working classes to postpone the agitation for the suffrage to the Anti-Corn-law agitation, on an understand ing that the middle classes would assist them afterwards in obtain ing the suffrage.—(Cheers.) He was for the extension of the suf frage to every man entitled to it. Every man had a right to it.— (Cheers.) He demanded it for every man as a right.—(Cheers.) Now if that right were fully, fairly, and honestly recognised, he could see no pretence—he could see neither the wisdom nor the ne cessity, fur postponing the agitation to obtain that right for anything else.—(Cheers.) There were other parts of the Charter with which he could not agree, but he agreed in the principal question. Let them settle the question of right, and then let them, having settled it, go for the complete suffrage in its most extensive and honest sense. He would urge the question upon the middle classes simply as one of right. One great argument to be used to the middle class to convert them to the cause of the extension of the suM age was their attention to the fact of the evils of existing monopolies. The utter impossibility of remedying those evils, or preventing their recur. rence, without enlarging the basis of the representation, by ex. tending the suffrage to every man who had a right to it. Let them go on with the Anti-Corn-laes movement, but they would never suc ceed unless they joined the Suffrage movement with it. Neither the middle nor the working classes were sufficiently powerful alone to carry their point, but by uniting they would break the yoke be. Death which they now groaned.—(Loud cheers.) Rev. Mr. YOUNG explained. He had not wished to sat aside the Suffrage agitation fur the Corn-law agitation, but as of two things one must be first, he had thought it, under present circumstances, more desirable to commence with the Corn-law question, because it would more immediately tend to relieve the wants of the famish. ing multitude—(Cheers;—and he also thought it was more imme diately attainable. If he thought they could obtain the suffrage with equal facility. he would prefer having the Suffrage to the repeal of the Corn.laws.—(Cheers.) WILLIAM Los Err, who was very warmly greeted, then ad dressed the meeting. He said he had intended to be a listener, and had not any idea of declaring his sentiments to the meeting. With regard to the People's Charter, if it could be shown that it contained any one principle, or any matter of detail not necessary to just legislation, he, for one, should be most willing to give up that part of it.—(Hear, hear ) Of all the objections that had been urged against the Charter, he had never heard any satisfactory reason given against any of the de tails it included. In the first place, nothing was said in the Char ter of Universal Suffrage—(Heer, hear) —it contained not a word about it. We say that every man twenty-one years of age ought to have a vote who was untainted with crime. —(Hear, hear.) We then declare that there must be a qualification of three months residence; having so far conceded the right to the suffrage, we say that he ought to be protected in exercising that right, and for this purpose we assert the necessity of the Vote by Ballot. We say in the next place that they ought to be at liberty to choose whosoever they please, and, therefore, all property qualification is abolished. They considered that if these points were not conceded, all other measures would be a mockery ; it would be like giving the right of the suffrage to sparrows; and al lowing them to elect only hawks.— ( Hear, hear.) Having this power of electing whoever they pleased, they thought they should have the power of paying those individuals for their services. They said that the present electoral system is unjust, and therefore they declare electoral districts to be necessary. All these principles were embodied in and carried out in the Charter for this special reason—they had often been taunted with being visionary—with not being practical. That was the reason the people's Charter stated how all these points were to be worked out. Details were important and necessary. The Reform Bill, when carried in the House of Commons was entirely marred in the details. He should like to see a cordial union among the people ; he should like to sec the middle and the working-classes combined; they would never sec, or be able to bring about, any change worth mentioning but by this means. But the working-classes must ask, you concede to us the right of the suffrage as a prin. ciple, why then, thus conceding the principle, should you stand aloof from prejudice ?—(Hear, hear.) There had doubtless been a great deal of violence and folly among the party who preferred the principles of Chartism, but it was no reason for giving up a good and just cause becatse bad men were among its advocates.—(Hear, hear.) There were bad men to be found among Christians, but was that any reason for rejecting the princi. pies of Christianity?—(Hear, hear, hear.) How much better would it be far the middle class to dispel the bigotry that prevailed among them, and try to bring over the working men, and disprove the violence and folly that might be found among them.—(dear, hear.) This point was clear, that they must come out for the Charter as a whole ; let them discuss it ; let them show that its principles were erroneous; let them discuss it fairly, and he had no hesitation in saying that if they adopted it honestlytheywould find that the middle and working classes would be iu combination in less than twelve months. With regard to the Corn-laws, he was an advocate for free trade; and the only reason why he had stood apart from the advocates of the repeal of those laws, was a conviction that they would never be able to carry it in the House of Commons as at present constituted.— ( Hear, hear.) It had also been supposed by the working classes that the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws had been got up as a counter agitation to the Charter. —(No, no.) It was certain that at the time the first meeting called in London, for the Charter, in Palace-yard, just at that time an article ap. peared in the True Sun, calling on the middle classes to commence the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws. The working men were led to believe it was meant as a counter movement. He did not mran to say this opinion was correct, but such was the conclusion they were led to adopt. He did not justify all the proceedings of the Chartists; he was opposed to the intolerance of those who in terfered with and interrupted the proceedings of public meetings called on other subjects. But let Mr. Sturge and his friends inquire into the Charter as a whole ; he should be prepared to give up points that were proved to be non-essential, and by these means there would be a chance of a cordial union between the middle and working classes.--(Cheers.) Mr. Must. said they did not deny the justice of the principles of the Charter, but thought they should do more good by adopting the line of policy they had marked out, than by simply resting on the principles of the Chartists, who would not take one point without the others. Mr. MILLS advocated the extension of the Suffrage to the working classes, on the grounds that they were fully qualified by their intelligence. Who composed the bulk of the army and navy 2 The working classes; they were, therefore, quite in. telligent enough to fight ; they were quite intelligent enough to produce almost every article of necessity or luxury, that made life agreeable, and they were quite willing to enjoy the right. They had been led sometimes by designing men, who were not what they ought to have been, and these had brought discredit on the cause of the working men. They had their faults, but there were faults in all classes, and all blame was not confined to bhe working men. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, M.P., having been loudly called for, said he should be wanting in respect to the meeting, if he did not accede to the call it had made on him, by addressing to them a few observations. He had obtained both instruction end pleasure from the proceedings of that evening, for he rejoiced to think that there was a probability of obtaining what was so essential to the interests of the whole community —a complete union between the employing and the working classes of this coup. try. It was essential to the prosperity of the country, that there should be unity and kindly feeling between them; and it was to be regretted that it had ever been interrupted. He hoped the time was coming when ill feeling would no longer exist. He considered that all their evils arose from class legislation—(Hear, hear)—and that they never would be obviated till the whole people were fully and fairly represented in the House of Commons.— (Cheers.) He considered that the Corn-law agitation and the agi. tation for an extended suffrage ought to go hand in hand together. and aid one another. Without that degree of union they could not expect to carry a repeal of the Corn-laws, nor could they ex pect any good legislation of any description. From the House of Commons, constituted as it now is, they could expect no good mea sure, not till the people had the full power of electing their repre sentatives.—(Hear.) He therefore thought the working classes were right in pressing forward that question-- (Hear, hear)—because he was perfectly persuaded that it was only by an organic reform of the House of Commons, that any good measure could be expected to be obtained.—(Cheers.) He had himself given notice of a mo. tion for an extension of the suffrage to the working classes. That motion was given for the earliest convenient day after the Easter recess. The discussion of the Corn.laws would, he expected, take up roost of the time of the House till that recess. His health, also, though re-established, would hardly permit him to do justice to the question till that time. He wished them to understand that thepost. ponement did not arise from any lukewarmness He did not see any reason for a distrust of the working-classes, inasmuch as their interest, and the interest of the men of property, were identical. He had always thought that the people were entitled to the right r4f the suffrage, and had always endeavkured to contend for it—(Cheers) —and every exertion of mind and body should be given to obtain it, in the position he now had the honour to occupy.—(Cheers.) Mr. Baoois addressed the meeting on the moral influence of such assemblies as the present, amid loud calls for Mr. Thompson. Mr. Gaoling THOMPSON was loudly cheered on rising. He said he was delighted to be here, it was always refreshing to get upon a discussion embracing some entire principle. He confessed that times without number, and at meetings of another kind, they were obliged to discuss only the branches of a great question, and had no opportunities of coming at once to the seat of the disease. One great principle was embraced in their discussion to-night; they not only recognised the right of the great body of the people to the suffrage, but their fitness to excrcise it. The only security from a constant in. vasion of their rights and the abuse of political power was, ad• mitting the people within the pale of the Constitution, by giving them the right of the Suffrage.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. proceeded to advocate the extension of the Suffrage, in a very eloquent ad dress, in which lie conceded the extension of the Suffrage as a grand and distinct principle; but enforcing the policy of leaving other points of detail to be settled by the first Chartist Parliament.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Even without the franchise, they could do much in the world in which they lived, and leave it better than they found it. They might do this, though they had not the ballot box, and could not go openly to the poll. After a few observations from the Chairman and Mr. Lovett in explanation, the Rev. T. Spencer took the Chair, and thanks were voted by acclamation to Mr. Sturge for having called the meet. ing, and for the able manner in v, Inch he had presided over the discussion. The late Duke of Cleveland's eldest son, the pre sent Duke, succeeds to 80,000/. a-year. Lord William Pou lett has a legacy of 560,0001., and Lord Harry an other of 440,000/. There is a legacy of 200,0001. to a grand son ; to the Duchess Dowager the Yorkshire estates, the house in Grosvenor-square, and an immense amount of plate, jewel lery, and furniture. A large portion of the unentailed estates in Durham goes to one of his daughters. His Grace, it is said, had 1.2.50,00 W. in the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Consols, besides plate and jewellery to the value of a million sterling. PEEL'S SLIDING SCALE. GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN DERBY. By breakfast time on Thursday morning, the people of Derby were put in possession of Sir Robert Peel's speech through the medium of the Derby Reporter, which acknowledged itself indebted to the Proprietor of The Sun, for the extraordinary early intel ligence. One general feeling of disappointment prevailed; and the cry might be heard from the working classes, " No Sliding Scales," "No accursed Corn.laws." At eleven o'clock the Council as sembled to discuss some business left over at a firmer meeting, and a petition couched in strong terms against Peel's humbug, was passed by acclamation, and immediately transmitted to the lion. Members for the borough, for presentation in the House of Commons the next night. During the sitting of the Council, a written paper was handed to the Mayor, stating that it was the intention of the people to burn Peel in effigy. The matter died away, and nothing further was heard of it until about seven o'clock, a tremendous procession of people was seen advancing down St. Peter's.street, with the effigy suspeeded from two upright poles and a cross pale, forming a gallows, a number of men heading the procession with torches. The shouting was tremendous, and as the immense mass passed the residences of con. spicuous Tories three groans were given (especially whilst passing the Tory newspaper-office, and here the groaning and hooting was deafening). With the exception of this the greatest order pre vailed, and after perambulating the principal streets the procession entered the market-place, where the Magistrates and police were assembled; but as there appeared no menacing intention on the part of the populace, it was thought the wisest course to let them alone, for a handful of police against 10,000 people armed could be but of slight avail; and in nine cases out of ten violence on th e part of the ruling powers is returned by violence. This wise de termination prevented any mischief The effigy was decorated with blue ribbons, and in one of the hands was a cody of the Times paper, containing a report of the speech and sliding-scale. Order having been claimed, a working man was appointed to act in the capacity of Judge, and the trial of Peel then commenced. In a loud and emphatic voice the Judge pronounced sentence from a written paper, as follows "In the first place, you, Sir, the great Quack Doctor, stand charged with having wickedly, selfishly, and cruelly lent your as sistance to plunder the working millions of this country of their property, which is their labour, and by which means you have sapped the very foundations of their industry, by the laying on of wicked, cruel, and unchristian Corn.laws, and that at a time when the people expected very different treatment; for be it known unto the Jury that it was at a time when the people were returning from victoriously fighting the battle of the landowners, that you acted thus cruelly towards them. In the second place you are charged with having wickedly and cruelly prevented relief, when the late Administration would have granted it, by destroying that Ministry, and building upon its ruins one of the most base, selfish, and tyran nical Administrations that ever disgraced the British nation ; and that you also stand further charged with having wilfully starved many thousands of her Majesty's virtuous and loyal subjects during the last four or five months, by refusing to administer relief, and have been adding insult to cruelty in leaving them to perish of hunger. And now—even so late as last night—you have crowned an your iniquitous proceedings by rejecting their last prayer for bread, and giving them instead an insulting mockery in the shape of a new sliding-scale. How say you,prisoner at the bar —llo you plead guilty or not guilty I" A tremendous shout of " Guilty," from the multitude. The Judge then added—" It now becomes my painful duty to pass the awful sentence of the law upon you, that your body be committed to the flames, and so perish all the enemies of the people!"— (Vehement shouting.) The effigy was then slided to and fro amidst derisive shouts ; and some turpentine having been put on it, it was speedily in flames (and the Times too). The shouting was deafening. The windows were all lined with people, and as the blaze ex. tended, it exhibited a large mass of beings congregated on the spot. It is admitted by the Tories that there could not be less than 8,000 people, but the general calculation is from 10,000 to 12,000. After the effigy was destroyed, the people quietly dispersed; not the least disturbance took place. It was one of the most solemn pieces of mockery, perhaps, ever seen. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. MR. SPEAKER'S WARRANT FOR THE APPOINT MENT OF MEMBERS TO SERVE ON THE GENE RAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS for 1842. Pursuant to an Act passed in the 4th and sth year •f the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend the Law for the Trial of Controverted Elections," I do hereby appoint the Right Hon. Granville Charles Henry Somerset, commonly called Lord Granville Somerset, Member for Mon mouthshire; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Member tor Devonport ; the Right Hon. Dudley 11‘ der, commonly called Viscount Sandon, Member for Liverpool ; James Loch, Esq., Member for the Wick District of Burghs ; John Wilson Patten, Esq., Member for the Northern Division of the County Palatine of Lancaster ; and Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Member for the Borough of Drogheda ; to be Members of the General Committee of Elections for the present Session. Given under my hand this 9th day of February, 1842, CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.—:-Mr. Wm. Stokes, delegate from West Bromwich and Oldbury, requests us to correct some errors which appeared in the report of his speech in The Sun. The following are the correct statements— " West Bromwich contained a population of about 28,000, and Oldburg about 15,000." "As we go on we should soon have four double rates a year." " Hundreds were de sirous of following them (to America) did they but possess the means of doing so;" and with regard to the hol low-ware factory in Spain, he said "an agent was anthorit.ed to hire fifty of the best workmen by a , capitalist, and th a t th e establishment wo u ld b e i n Spain ."— We are requested, also, to make the following statement :—Among the Deputi es reporte d as having arr i ve d y es t e rday, but who , in fact, arrived on Wed neschy, are the Rev. John M. Thomson, Maybole, Ayrshire, and the Rev. P. Cairns, Stewarton, Ayrshire. The Stockholm papers state that a dreadful confla gration occurred at Drontheim, in Norway, at the beginning of last month, by which 500 houses were destroyed. The town is principally built of wood. 4.mi, ......... BRAZIL. LEEDS MEETING TO PROTE From a party th oroug hly verse d i n B raz ili an a ff a i rs , an d pro- I MST AGAINST SIR ROBERT PEEL'S NEW CORN vided with authentic information on most occurrences, financial , LAWr or political, that take place in any part of that extensive empire, we have bee n p rov id e d w ith th e f o ll ow i ng i n f ormat i on on mat- (We are indebted t o a second edition of the Leeds Mercury ter s said to b e p ur p ose l y m i srepresente d for the following R e p ort. ) i , eat number of th e inha the political t ranqui lli ty o f t h e emp i re. Our informant ob- 'by some planning cor- i habitants of this borough w as held on the sum mons o f t h e '1 his day a very nume rous and respectable meeting of the in respondent at Rio, whose lucubrations, were they not insignifi- ; cant in them se l ves , m i g ht a ff ect the financial credit or disturb ' l‘fayor, and at the requisition of a gr bitants, to take into consideration th e measure brought forward ' serves— The proceedings were such as to evince i n t h e most decided by her Majeste's Ministers on the Corn -l aw . That, in the fi rs t pl ace, t h ere i s no i dea entertained in 1 Brazil, except in the head of the concoctor of that corres pondence, ' manner, the strong feeling of indignation excited in this great of making three different monarchies of the em pire. Brazil consists of nineteen provinces, each governed by manufacturine and mercantile community by the propositio n of Sir Robert Peel. The resolutions proposed by the gentlemen a President named by the Emperor. Some of these are at times badly governed, when the choice is made under perni2 who originated the meeting were carried unanimously; whilst cious influence. Para, on th e A mazon, i n t h e north, and Rio amendments moved by the Chaztists, not in opposition to the Grande, in the south, are the mos t di stant, and have always resolutions, but as additions to them, were rejected by very major hcen the worst governed provi nces , t h erefore rebellious and large At twelveities. o'clock the Court-house was crowded. Th e auinously expensive to the country ; th oug h P ara, of late, has redeemed its reputation through the exact Government of I shall, ) Esq. was called to the chair, after some opposition on Ma 'or being called by business to London, James Garth Mar.. Senor Franco. The country desire s t o see married the two Princesses, Dona Januaria and Dona Francisca, both accom the art of the Chartists, who proposed a Mr. Brook. plished and beautiful young ladle's of twenty and eighteen motion of Mr. H. H. Stanley, it was resolved to adjourn to - Tte Chairman had scarcely taken the chair, when, on the respectively, arid has voted about 20,000/. per annum for the Cloth Hall-yard. Here about five thousand persons were each, in case of their hopes being re a li ze d ; i n order to render Brazil the more attractive to Prince s o f i n fl uential families, assembled, including great numbers of anxious clothiers whose some Brazilians, without an idea of separation of the empire, c countenances bespoke the earnest interest they had taken in wish to see such Princes, and their son s by t h e sa id P rincesses, the subject. The attendance of the merchants and manufae named hereditary Presidents of the said provinces. The plan tuners of the town was also highly respectable. The CHAIR MA N opened the proceedings, by observing that is a good one to develops the resources of the provinces, and they had met toteether on an occa ion, the importance of which even to pacify Rio Grande, and will probably be adopted by the Ckambers this year ; and little doubt is had that the deficit in had seldom or ever been equalled, whether they regarded the the revenues of these province s wo u ld soon b e a l tered into a question to b e di scusse d, or t h e cr i s i s to w hi c h t h e country h a d arrived. —( H ear , L ear .) F or a l ong per i o d , t h e w h o l e o f t hi s very large surplus, administered by P r i nces suc h as can be found in Europe, if Brazil employs the right persons, and looks great country had been left in a state of complete darkness and for them in the right places : the s e P r i nces, t h ere f ore, will be suspense as to th e measures w hi c h t h e present G overnment subjects, or, at may rate, vassals to th e E mperor, an d t h e in. would propose f or th e re li e f o f t h e a l most unparalleled d istress tegrity of the empire be pre serve d, and siefferiL ee that had ov er t a k en a ll c l asses. Th at sue- e " As to Rio Grande, the i m p er i a l arms h ave l ate l y h ad de- Tense was at l eng th remove d . Th e people saw clearly eidedly great advantage ov er th e re b e l s ; a ll t h e ports and the what they h a d t o ex p ec t at t h e h and of Sir Robert Peel, fond unless Englishmen had:greatly degenerated from their capital, 400 niiles inland, and all the intermediate country, is ormer spirit, it appeared to him that on the proposal of such a again freed from them, the greatest obstacle to the putting down measure as that now before the country, they would assemble that rebellion being the smuggling interests, which, by the above in large numbers in every t own an d di str i ct to express their arrangements, would be so on re p resse d . " No treaty, offensive a n d d e f ens i ve, h as b een ma d e b etween deep disappointment at, and di sa ff ect i on w i t h , that measure.— ( Cheers. ) No law could exist which in its nature violated Brazil and Buenos Ayres, nor ever will be ; and certainly the principles of justice to such an extent as to cause the never for the purpose of calling in Republicans to act against people to be in their hearts against it.—(Cheers.) The people their own countrymen. None but a mad lawyer, out of his had the means within the constitution, if they used them mind from not being able to revolutionize the country, could aright, to make their opinions tell even upon the present conceive such a thought, for that would assuredly never bring House of Commons, but in order to effect that they must take back the sons of Rio Grande to their monarchical and consti care not to deviate from those principles of order and obedience tutional brethren. No declaration of war h as b een , or i s lik e l y to be, made to the law, without the observance of w hi c h no l arge b o d y o f against. Monte Video, e xce pt th e P res id en t o f th e l atter, T racto " men could conduct any measure to a success f u l i ssue .—( H ear. ) Rivera, continues hi s behaviou r i n e ncourag i ng t h e re b e l s w i t h GEORGE GOODMA N , E s q., move d th e fi rs t reso l ut i on, as arms and horses, and sometime s even w ith money , f or which follows : " reason a Brazilian corvette and sc h ooner h ave l ate l y b een sent That this meeting cannot b u t ex p ress th e i r astonishment down to Monte Vide o as a d emons t ra ti on . Majesty's pre " indignation at the m easure p ropose d b y her pre ,. With regard to all the nor th ern prov i nces, we have here sent Ministry for an alt era ti on i n th e C orn- l aws, a measure in London from one t o t wo mont h s l ater news than any known which they re g ard as a moc k ery o f t h e prayers and petitions of at Rio on the 23d of Decemb er , an d th ey are k nown to be per- the people describing th e i r intense in the opinion of this me e ti ng , h ave b een mainly sufferings ;occasioned whi c h su ff er i ngs , fectly quiet. The c a se , even , o f t h e assass i nat i on of Senor by the operation of b a d l aws a ff or di ng protect i on to particular Facundo, a former Vice-P res id en t o f C eara, i s, by official docu ments seen, our infor man t h as sa id, t o b e c l ear l y proved to be, classes at the expen se o f th e great b o d y o f t h e community, " G however severe, s till a con di gn punishment, for atrociously Mr. some change OODMAN observed, th a t th e per i o d h a d arr i ved when would be mad e i n th e C orn an d P rov i sion-laws. tampering with a Jury, o f w hi c h said Fecund() was foreman. The circumstance is remarkabl e , an d ma y b e wort h re l at . —( Hear, hear.) Il e expressed his decided disapp ro b a ti on o f ing here. the measure proposed by si r R o b er t P ee l as b e i ng totally firm " A planter's wife had her husband poiso ne d by a man of dequate to meet the req u i remen t s o f t h e country, and called colour, with whom she lived in adultery. The n umerous friends upon the inhabitants, a nd es p ec i a ll y t h e wor ki ng classes, to show, by their unanimity of feeling, that they would be satisfied of the deceas©d brought both of them to justice, but an influen with nothing less than a full measure of justice. tial neighbour of the woman, her godfather, interceded for her, H. H. STA NSIELD, Esq., seconded the resolution, and el and in so direct a manner as to send down a message to Fa- H. to the fact that great slumbers of the aristocracy, when cundo, who depended in a great measure on the many votes at they became involved in finare ial difficulties, went on t o th e t he e t through the penalty of losing all his obtain the necessary arSicles of food much cheaper than in Fecund° discharged three different sets of Juries because th e y Englan ; end yet thrivileges which the took care to were untractable, and presiding himself at the fourth, t a mp ere d acquire d for themselves, e same they p cruelly 'withheld from the great greatly with the witnesses, arid the woman was acquitted on mass of the prop:e. (The truth of this assertion was followed the 6th of December. A numerous body of horseman belong by loud applause. ) ing to the deceased' s f r i en d s were then in Court ;on the fol- Mr. F. R. LEES proposed an amendment on the resolution lowing evening Facunda was shot, and these men left the town proposed by Mr Goodman, contending that nothing short of a that same night. " There is said to be no exc it emen t amongs t th e peop l e con- repeal of the Corn-laws, combined with an a b o lit ion o f sine cerning the probabl e di sso l u ti on o f t h e next Ch am b er o f D e- cures and pensions, and an equitable adj us t men t, wou ld res t ore puties ; for the Empe ror , if h e di sso l ves i t, w i l l act un d er the country to its wonted state of p r o s p er ity. g,od advice, an d on hi s unquest i ona bl e r i g h t. Th e Ch am- Mr. WIisTLA KE, a Chartist, secon d e d th e amen d men t, an d, bees haste already h a d it t oo l ong t h e i r own way, an d i t i s in doing so, charged the Whig p ar ty w ith b rea ki ng f a i t h w i t h time the tables we re t urne d, p ar ti cu l ar l y as t h ere i s goo d the people. Mr. Jos. HOBSON', publisher of the Northern Star, made reason to suspect that much foul play was practised at the last a proposition to the gentlemen who had of iginated the meeting, election, the recurrence of which will be prevented, in a to withdraw the original resolution in favour of the amendment, great measure, in the next, by the salutary reform in the in order, as lie said, that the meeting might be unanimous. criminal and civil code, made last session, which, as well as To this proposal, Mr. Stansfeld and other gentlemen felt that the law for forming a Council of Sta . e, was chiefly brought they could not accede without compromising their own inde about by the giant efforts of Senator Vasconcellos, whose pendenee. mind and activity are scarcely excelled by that of any states- Mr. J. AY ILLY avowed himself favourable to the principles man in Europe, and certainly not equalled in Brazil. The above reform takes the most imp or t an t f unc ti ons , h ereto - embodied in the Peel le's Charter, and he call e d u p on th ose fore exercised by illiterate, and genera lly corru ptibl e , J us entertaining similar principles, n ot on ever y p u bli c occas i on t o tees of the Peace ( who owed their ele va ti on t o p o p u l ar else- factiously oppose a repeal of the C orn -la ws . Mr. STA NSFELD, in reply, announcest that the third resolu tion and the pandering to evil pra c tic es ), f rom th em , an d tion to be proposed asked f o r a re p ee l cf all taxes whatever on transfers them to the hands of magi s t ra t es a pp o i n t e d b y th e Crown. This c hange is a great step towards the supp Iression the importation at food. of the slave trade, for the "former justices of the peace owed 'his statement was followed by loud cheers. The amend ment was negatived by a large ma j ority. their elections chiefly to pledges in that respect, which inferred Mr. :MATTHEW HALL, surgeon of Wortley, moved the a dereliction of their duty, for participation in the profits. " As to making a loan in this country, there exists, we are head which second re,olution, and produced a sample of the chief necessary of life, brought from Belgium, by Mr. John White , told positively, no, longer any such intention, for offici a l no- was beautifully white, 4rd of as fine a quality as any that could tifieation to that effect has been received by the Minister be produced in this country. This practical refutation of one Plenipotentiary and financial agents here. Equally certain of the fallacies advanced by the Pro-Corn-law party, was hailed it is, that debentures ; bearing 0 per cent. interest, or bil with loud cheers:— lets of 600,000 reas, at 100 reas interest per day, will be " That this meeting protests, in the strongest mariner, aainst issued for one year, re ce i va bl e a ll over th e em pi re , f or g the injustice and c rue lty o f an y t ax on h uman f oo d , an d en duties, &c., and the public are d es i rous o f o bt a i n i ng th em , dally against the scale o f d u ti es con t a i ne d i n the measure the foreign merchants included. It i s a l so p os iti ve l y known that the Com m i ss i oners f or th e li qu id at i on o f the brought forw e nt by Mi n i s t ers i n th e H ouse o f C ommons ;—it regards the new project s as no t l ess h os t i l e t o th e i nterests o f balance due by Brazil t o P or t uga l, o f 487,0001 . ( an d p l e d ge d satisfactory manuf es and commerce than the former an as celeu ortug al mariner, to Sir Is so much aac Ly Go:d that smid) assurances are haveroceeding been in a lated to ectur undermine and destroy the prosperity law, of the d co untry." h so, A received by the last packet, that the b us i ness w ill b e se ttl e d i n Mr. NV . M aft N, an operative, second e d th e reso l u ti on i n a another meeting or two. All that is requi re d i n thi s case , i s to very judicious sp e e c h, i n w hi c h h e ca ll e d upon t h e wor ki ng make it secure that the mo n ey d oes no t go i n t o th e h an d s o f casses to be united on 'his peat question, without which it the Portuguese Ambas s ado r ; an em b argo or p ro t es t would was impossible to obtain justice from the G overnmen t. S e l ong Eas eir Robert Peel and th e T or i es saw t h e peop l e di v id e d, therefore be perhaps expedient. It is very much to be hop e d amongst themselves, and squabbling about s tr aws , th e y wou ld that the late Brazilian Envoy here, Chevalier de Montezuma, play into the hands of the aristocracy, and perpetuate the un will not oppose the settlement of this honest negotiation, for just monopoly which they now enjoyed at the expense of the which, when in London, he is said to have wished Senor Gal- just millions. vao to be impeaehed by his Government. However, the re- Mr. HOBSON' said that the Chartists did not intend to pro- Emperor, which this Chevalier is said to have met with from the po ean amendment upon the second resolution.—(Cheers.) Emperor not at a private intsrview, but amidst a crowd of other The resolution was carried without a dissentient. individuals, does not betoken his having such influence in that Mr. Penerseen, after denouncing the measure proposed by quarter."—Murning Advertiser. . - - Sir R. Peel as a rniserabl, - Ain , - I to potion, for which both he and his party deserved the execration of the whole country, proposed as a substantive resolution the amendment which had been pre viously submitted to the meeting and negatived, but it was withdrawn. Mr. liousox moved a resolution to adopt the People's Charter. JOHN WM To•rvia, Esq., said there was n ecessity for him to repeat the oft-told tale of suffering ; its e -tence was admitted by all. The question before them was not isolated question, but a leading link in a chain of evil—he nt the chain miscalled "protection."—(Hear.) The leade of the Ministerial party advocated a protecting duty--now, what did that mean but the advocacy of an unnaturally increased price of the projected article whatever that might be. The increased price must surely be a stimulus to the investment of capital in such protected article, and therefore to its increased production ; but the Right Hon. Baronet told them that artificial stimulus had been the cause of our present distress, and yet he proposed as a remedy the continuance of the very cause which according to his own showing, had produced the evil.—(Cheers.) He concluded by moving the following resolution : That a petition to the House of Commons, founded on the above resolutions, and praying for the entire abolition of all taxes on food, be adopted by this meeting, signed by the Chairman, and forwarded this evening to the Hon. C. P. Vil liers, M.P., for presentation to the House of Commons on Monday. JOSHUA. Bow•aic, Esq., seconded the motion, which was carried. The proposition moved by Mr. Hobson was there fore negatived. '1 he adoption of Mr. Tottie's resolution was followed by several rounds of cheering, waving of hats, and clapping of buds. The proceedings then terminated. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. HAGUE, FLu. 9.—His Majesty the King of Prussia left the Hague, this morning at half-past nine o'clock, to return to his own dominions. Our Sovereign paid hi Majesty a farewell visit at nine o'clock. Before his de parture his Majesty conferred the Grand Cross of the lied Eagle on M. Rochussen and on Baron lityyssen van Kattendyke. General Luzaraz received the Cross of Commander. Yesterday, the Bth of Feb., a treaty was concluded in this town, for the acassion of the Grand Duchy of Lux= emburg to the German Customs Union. Stipulations have been made on this occasion which remove the in convenience v% hich had hindered his Majesty, the Grand Duke, from ratifying the original treaty, concluded on the Bth of August, 1841. This new convention is signed on the one part by the t C h h e a o n t e i clr ier lo ,b the Prussiany the Ga zl Duchy a liEnvo y a t tLuxemburg,the Court andn the Netherlands. It was ratified on the same day by the two Sovereigns. UTRECHT, FEB. 10.—Yesterday afternoon, at half past one o'clock, the King of Prussia arrived here, ac companied by Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. Prince Frederick accompanied the King, his brother-in law, to Arnheim, and passed through this city at half past two this morning, on his return from the Hague. The King of Prussia left Arnheim at seven o'clock this morning from Dusseldorf. BRUSSELS, FEB. 10.—The average price of wheat last week was . 2lf. 59c., and that of rye 12f. 56c. General Vandermeeren has transmitted to the Attor nev-General the list of the witnesses whom he intends to call on his defence in the affair of the conspiracy. A murder has just been committed in the territory of the commune of Acoz. Two peasants are arrested. The fact is that crimes never were more numerous in Belgium than they are now ; since the many in stances of criminals receiving their pardon, of which they are almost always certain, it is unsafe to venture into the country without arms. Robberies are increasing in a frightful manner. The penitentiary syst em has been rendered so agreeable by the care of our philanthropists, that a multitude of idle va gabonds prefer the comfortable and certain regimen of a prison, to the liberty of starving while looking for work. HANOVER, FEB. 4.—The budget was laid before the Chamber to-day, and will undergo some discussion to morrow. We hear that Counsellor Hupeden is gone to London, to negotiate about the Brunshausen-toll, and that after the Session is closed, AL Klenze will go to Dresden as Member of the Commission of the Navigation of the Elbs. BERLIN, FEB. 2.—So many orders for engraved and lithographic portraits of our King are received from England, that our printsellers make good profits. Till fre,h copies could be struck off, his Majesty's portrait was not to be had for several days.—Hamburyh Papers, Feb. 8. DUTCI , 'FUNDS.—AMITSIDAM, Fre 11. Money. Bile. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent ..... 3 , 2_ 4 Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen t Syndic, 4 per ............ AY 9.2N17.7 Ditto, ditto, S per cent. ........ ..... .f 2?, Commercial Company, 4 L s , per cent 1 0 , 2u Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... iy2 Loxn 1837, 5 per cent.... ...... . ........ JO FA change on Lendow, One month...". 02 Two months Hamburg!), One month... .«~M • 3 1 og Twomonths ..... Balch Papers, Feb. 1 h vistiNA, Fos. 3. AUNI ..... 107 f Three hintare e k FIR. 5, pgt)bSlAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Billa. Mone St. Schuld. y. Prueeian is , ht 4 aL l i y eea p: G: r zl : B3o c i n te t ,. . 4:e . e .. b . r ... 104% 11;xetiange on London, three months • ti 2UN 16.`24