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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1S& (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.) Mr. STUIGGE wished to make a single remark upon wha and hbade fallen from their indefatigaole friend, Joseph Hume ; wa s sure that he would be th e last man to throw cold water upon a great movement in which the ladies had set the example. His friend gave them a caution not to act illegally law.— (!Ur. refusing to pay assess ed taxes. Now: - he belonged to a Society which he believed was not remarkable for breaking the (Mr. O'Connell proposed three chests for " 'fhe Friends," which were g i veu with great en thusiasm.) He was p erfectl y satisfied that' the ladies of Manchester had hit upon the right method of bringing the most aristocratic Ministry in the world to terms, and compelling them to surrender at discretion ; and he trusted. that their example would be followed.—( Great cheering.) The Society of Friends had acted upon that prin ciple 150 years with respect to church-rates' and some other things. Ile had had what he might call the pleasure of having his sofa taken not lung a g o out of his room ; and he had late 4 refused to pay the armed pollee tax in Birmingham, and had had other goods taken. He would have the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the,alember for all Ireland by and bye to explain the law of the case.—( Laughter.) Mr. HUMS wished, with the indulgence of the Chairman, to explain what appeared to be a difference between himself and Mr. sturge. Mr. Sturge was quite right-in saying that he would not throw cold water 'on their proeeedings. What he intended to caution them against was, the committing them selves to a public resolution to refuse to pay taxes.—( Hear.). He himself was the chairman of a meeting of the Political ['Mons when a similar resolution was proposed ; and he was told that it subjected himself, and all who agreed to it, to a public prosecution.—( Hear, hear.) He wanted them to imi tate the Quakers—it would not then be conspiracy; they might separately agree, yet not in conjunction. Mr. G. Trioeirsors said the mystery was now cleared up, and he was sure the meeting would take the hint.—(Hear.) Mr. O . CONNELL was then called, and three hearty cheers having received him on his rising, he slid, Gentlemen, I readily obey your summons, I had almost said I cheerfully obey it ; but I have so much to say that I fear I shall fatigue you before I sit down, for this is the time when words ought to be things, and when the situation of the country ought to he distinctly under stood, and the determination to right themselves from the odious and sordid classes of the aristocracy ought to become general. —(Loud cheers.) I would I had the power to rouse the country to a sense of the necessity of the crisis, and to the pow erful exertions that should be made to put down this aristocracy, unless you should be resolved to become their willing and con quered slaves. —(Cheers.) Your masters were abroad, and they insisted on continuing, your masters ; and the question was whether the people of England would consent to remain their slaves, aitd not only forsake their masters, but bring them to 'a proper sense of their duty.—(Cheers.) It is now universally admitted (admitted even ; by Peel and his followers as well dS by 'every unman being, that the distress was now bee -conic universal; and was not confined to any particular place or locality.—(Hear.) Take any. particular circle of the country; and it -be found that from the circumference •td the centre the distress is universal.—( Hear, hear.) It is admitted that, from Paisley to Taunton, and from' Bath to Aberdeen, there is universal suffering, distress, and destitu tion.--( Hear, hear.) lam Mot exaggerating—nay, it would take more time than you or I can afford, to describe its extent and its intensity. Peel admitted it ; and Beckett, whom—oh l shame upon them—the men of Leeds substituted for my Hon. Friend. There,is this good, however, that those who denied the distress a few months ago, were now forced to admit the amount of distress.—(Hear, hear.) But is it casual distress—is it accidentil—is it produced by any parti cular season ? Peel, to be sure, said it was something in America which caused it ; but that was one of the most auda cious sophisms that was ever thrown out by man.—(Hear.) He said that the distress of America produced the distress of this country, and that the exports to America were much less; bathe did not recollect that those exports were paid for in rice and tohaeco, and cotton, and that they would be a great deal more if you were allowed to give them value for their corn, which the Americans produced in abundance.—(Cheers.) No. The distress is not casual. It has been coming on gradually, and stealing, and that is the woeful nature of malady.— (Cheers.) But four years ago the distress was less ; three years ago it was more ; two years it, has been increasing,; and now it is universal and overwhelming distress.—(Cheers.) Now, people of England, let no man delude or deceive you. You are not likely to be relieved from this distress by' the pro position of Sir Robert Peel.—(Laughter.) If iou were in a position to compete wit h fereienere, frightful as is the distress there would be a hope of its termination.—(Hear, hear.) But if . you could undersell Germany, Belgium, France, anti the. Hauseat le Towns, of what use would it be to you now? What prospect of mitigation for you of your distress?—( Hear, hear.) But. foreigners are even underseiling us in our own market.---(Hear, hear.) 'What prospect of relief from Peel and the proposition, he holds out ?—(Hear, hear ) Five or six. months ago he was lecturing to some of his friends. He turned from side to side, shook hi, head, and did nothing. — t Laughter.) But he proposed. no remedy to cure the aisea , e.—(Hear, hear.), He had the audacity, to be sure, to prescribe a plan of eurc.—(Cheers:) But how or in what .respect it is d.fferent from the present I cannot understand.— ( Hear, hear.) I remember it was said of a philosopher who found it difficult to discover the distinction of differences— " Who. could not see . . • What difference there could be 'Truitt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee." • —(Cheers and laughter. )--We had Tweedle-dum before, and we bad Tweedle-dee note, and that is ail.—(Laughter.). In the late debate he (Sir R. Peel) said in answer to me that the question was of " awful importance." That was his expres sion, and he was right; but. ht.v was I met ? Why by a state eueut of vulgar figures, with 5 before 52, and 4 before 51. Cheers and 'laughter.) Thus he mei the " awful importance'' of this most awful crisis.i.—(Cheers. ) And that is your states man—that is the leader' of the English nation!—(Cheers. ) (The, lion. Gentleman then referred to the foreign relations and the positioh of 'England, and the, state of America, Cabool, Atighanata.n, and. Cliipa, and the danger of imposing taxes for the support of the war in the latter country, while they were starving at home.) The condition of the'people is discredit ab:e to. the ,nation and ,the Government.—(Cheers.) The question is between the operatives and the aristocracy, and I 'know who will be the. winner in the contest.--(Cheers.) The people Will not endure to be beaten with injustice and scorn, and if they did they would" deserve to be beatsn. Nay, more there 13 another preposition perfectly understood, that cheap corn, on the contrary, means high wages—( Hear) —and dear corn sinks wages ; so that the developed aspect of robbery, as committed by a scirditl aristocracy is, that oil the one hand they sink wages, anti on the other raise the price of . food. In what country is this dens? Its a country renowned ter its common sense. The Frenchrinin dances better ; the Spaniard has a gri ver carriage ; the Italian snore flippant, the German snore serious and plodding, but the man who has common sense always as his favourite and' dis tinguishing quality, has been hitherto the Englishman.— (Cheers.) What then bas become of his common sense flaw? I remember telling a story of a . Frenchman boasting of the in genuity of his countrymen because they had invented tuckers and ruffles; but John Boil observed to him, we added the shirt to them. Illustrating, thus, the truth of the principle that Englishmen were, of all men, most euided by .common sense—Englishmen, who possessed more ingenuity than the inhabitants of any country in the earth—Englishmen, the first in the arts and sciences—Englishmen, who were never heaters in srme who have invented and made improvements in ma chi-tery until they have almost made it. to think and execute 'the functions of sentient beings—Engbdunen, whose skill, in ' destry, and patient trial, are the admiration of the world. (Y,! a re these the people who are to lie prostrate at the feet 01 an aristocracy !--(Hear, hear,, and cheers.) Peel, to be sn-c, told you that the people were worse off in Prussia , . NI, by? I an , wiry for it ; but I want en know, if the Pressiett Lae nothing to eat hut sourcrout, is that a reason that John Bull should not have enough to satisfy his wants ? But there is ; Aber view t..) be taken on that subject. The Prussian It••Weinin is hardly better off than the Prussian serf,- or at 1, act the previa of- the middle classes.—( Hear, hear.) But your nobility, your aristocracy, are surrounded by all the luxuries that the earth can produce. I will take Peel at his own comparison. The Prussian serf might be worse off than the English slave, but the English Nobleman enjoys the benefit of all the skill, ingenuity, and industry of Englishmen. He absorbs all the advantages of your science and labour -s-all the luxuries arising from it. Oh, people of England, you are labouring not for yourselves but to increase the luxuries of a class—( Hear) —that has the beastly cruelty to tell you that you shall mot have food except at their discretion. Certainly st is not creditable to the people of England that a Parliament such as the present should be returned. You re-echoed the 'cry when I spoke of my friend Mr. Hume being rejected from Leeds ; end it is a disgrace to the English people that. he is not in Pal liaineot.—( Hear.) And why is he not? Because- the c aastituency is not egt,,nlive enough—because in those which ave caded open pli.ot?, gener:il dime are 100 or 50persorts who tin, the scale ; and it requires a sacrifice of private property ; which spy friend is too honest to himself and others to make in order to Lily the' v(Mei. • •Etermerly teats in Parliament were bought openly and at once front. a single individual, but now they were bouglirfrom mmy. At the last election, was there not, as it was pretty generally known, 1,500/. given for two votes it a certain borough. —( Year, hear, and cries of "Name.") I have no objection to name Harwich.—(Hear, hear, and c h ee se ) I always call things by their proper names. Oh ! the Members had nothing do whh it ; but some good-natured friends did it without their knowledge. --( Laughter. ) It is disei'ead able that the people of England, who have ever been rem trkatile for their love of human freedom, should be the first to think of votiles • for the enemies of the country. They woult not allow their Kings,.as the rest of Europe did, to tax tittle at their discretion. Englishmen have always had a salutary horror of letting their pockets be picked without their cottsent. It is an established rule that -, ' Englishmen should not be taxed except through the med um of their representatives. 'l'o he sure the principle noes not apply in practice, becau:e they are not your repre sentatives, I deny that the present House of Commons is the • representative of the English people. It is the representative •of the corruption of the rich and the intimidation of the aris toeraey—witat were called the Duke of Buckingham's bucks - ( Laughter)—the 50/. tenant at wilt voters-e•the Venal freemen of Liverpool, and other tOWns.• The peraele of England (meta not to be calumniated by saying that the - present Parliament is their representativ e . his an oligarchy; got together by the force of brilisry to swindle the public money into their own pockets.—(Hear, hear.) Well, now, .1 have not antiouneed a e single propositions that could not, be demonstrated , or, rather, is not demonstrated by the Tor enuneiationss What I want t o Itiow is, will yens put up with a ll this ?::._(" Ms.") Will the people of England submit it. Why if they do, they may ; and If they did not choose to act as the people of Ireland did during the last famine in that country, namely, to approsch the sacra mental ceremonies, receive the extreme unction ' and go to their cabins to die- - let them g o to their clergymen, and prepare for d ea th; because death is approaching—death is in the streets—it t r i t s .4 e l , , tel a lz s c a o n n d if, s , v r r t t a t n th d et h l ( h .a a t - , is in the lanes a nd alleys—it hitations of the poor , and light are excluded.—( Hear, hear, and some interruption • from an individual in the throng, who asked what these obser vations of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentlema n hail to do with the question?) Mr. O'Connell went on to observe, that it seemed to him that when the question was whether food was to be cheap or de ar, death by stervation had something to dS with it.—( Cheers.) E ven an, Irishman might be permitted to have just so much eosins - ion sense as to see that a ne m • earning six shillings a week ,c ould buy twelve loave s - if the markets were open , and now that he was not see . permitted to get mere than eight for the same mo ß m the want of the other four migfit : produce death in his faz mil t , not immediately, lint in the apse of a few iioekii by the 5 . 1,7 , process, upon his little ones, of continued inanition. He km • ( CYG. ) believed his friend who put the q uestion must be from Chusan or some part in China, to think that the people of England coulali ve laughter.) The Ria ‘?' i l t l i Ce on les a t n ia d l favour.--(Hear, i .. hear, anti en f tly l nan then went on to deprecate riot or tumult on ea th in c ed a? to the Legislature,lF eat ople, and advised continued petitioning that their wants must be ultimately attended to. Let them ..sna. was a wrong thing. There might be prosecutions for such conduct. , But he (Mr. O'Connell) wished to know who would prosecute the Lancashire witches. Not one of the aristocracy would dare to prosecute any of the Man chester ladies.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) The ghosts of the operatives murdered by. the starvation laws, could not, of they appeared before the aristocracy, frighten them more than would the idea of prosecuting Mrs. Brookes. lie (Mr. O'Connell) thought there would be some magic in the sound. The ladies of Lancashire had been long celebrated for their witchery. .The Lancashire witches continued the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, is a name that sounded like magic to the young, and what prevents the auditory nerve of the old being also delighted with the sound.—( Hear, hear.) They are, all that painting can express, or youthfnl poets fancy when they love. No, the Lancashire witches are safe.—(Cheers.) They are more, their example will be irre sistible.—(Cheers.) 1 do not want any man to join in their agreement—(Laughter and cheers) —but all my life I have had a taste for passive resistance.—(Laughter.) There is no law against a man's putting his hands is his pocket and not taking them out at the command of the tax-gatherer.— lLaughter and cheers.) We tried this where law is ch e ap , in Ireland ; what was the result of the first movement ? The result was that we abolished Church-rates altogether, root and branch. Stanley himself swept them away when he saw that Paddy was determined not to gay.—(Cheers.) There was no agreement, mind—(Laughter)—but he refused to pay when he saw it was time to say he would not.—(Hear.) We also made an experiment on tithes—it was not successful to the same extent, but we struck off one-fourth of the tithes. — (Cheers.)' These are Paddy's precedents for you. My friend near me was quite. right in saying that your resolution not to use excisable articles would speak trumpet-tongued against She Ministry. But here, again, Paddy has a precedent for you. The last ticket 1 saw signed by Father Mathew was No. 52,071.—( Great cheering.) The defalcation of the re venue in consequence is 63,0001., on a revenue not exceeding 5,000,0001, being more than a tithe of the whole. This is the kind of tithe I wish to see taken.—(Laughter.) I have the happiness to say my brother teetotallers—(Loud cheers) —for I taste neither wine, nor spirits, nor porter, nor any fermented liquor. 'I have new been a year and a half at it, and now I am two years younger than when I be gan.—(Cheers and laughter.) Nay more—it is said Paddy is unsteady.—( Laughter.) Now the minutest calculation that can be made shows that only one out of 300, or rather less, has failed in keeping the pledge. The number of teetotallers is in creasing, and happiness has been the result in the country which used to be so subject to destitution. Ireland has become a corn importing country during the last two years, and the bread consumed has been guadrupled.—( Hear, hear.) Oh then take the advice of my friend—proclaim the pledge of non consumption of excisable articles, and corn will be rapidly imported into England—the nails of the aristocracy will be paired, and their tusks will be drawn out.—(Cheers and laughter.) This is a noble idea ; but it may be said that it is not practicable. I never heard that an Englishman was not able to do what any other man did. It was never said at sea—tt was never said in the loom—it was never said in the factory—it was never said in the Senate. Paddy has done it, and why shouldn't John Bull ?—( Hear, hear. Here some confusion occurred in consequence of an interruption by a person in the body of the meeting, and a cry of " Turn him out ." was heard.) Oh, don't turn him out, I like to be interrupted, as it givee me an opportunity of addressing you again.—(Laughter. A voice—" You ought to have put a little mere water in you: 'grog before yp e. came, he e e.", Great laughter.) Oh, you ,have not.put,spoits enoug in4htirl as for' if' rite had you would not talk such .nonsense.— f:auiliteg arid - cl4.et-ss)' Don't in eerrupt me now again Ural, I em'done. I rtmil , eare how much I am interrupted after I griCdorie,L4Lafighter and cheers.) But after all, can you have any aaners' bf Opposing • the aiis- tocracy, backed as it is by the army and sustained by the Church, unless you unite together all the ho nest operatives, and all the commercial inhabitants of the country. I may say by way . of parenthesis, that without &teetotal movement being made in Ireland, a great many of the Catholic clergy have joined, and also several preachers of the Dissenting congregation, but I believe not one clergyman of the Established Church.—( Cheers. ) A GENTLEMAN-Oh, I know one. , Mr. O'Coteeme—Oh, lam glad you do.—( Cheers.) But you must have all the people of England with you, or yolu have no business to think you can conquer. It will not do to have the middle classes alone, though they suffer exceedingly. It will not do to have the operative classes alone. Let me see the magic mind that can combine the operative and middle classes. Now let no one think, that in what I am going to say I am about to censure one class or the other. Hear me first before you condemn any particular phrase that may seem to have any thing offensive in it. The operative classes say that the middle classes do not sympathise with them, and that they would be content if they could get a franchise for themselves, without insisting to have it extended to the operatives. The middle classes again say that the operatives have become exclusive, and will not act with any one who will not go the whole hog with them. Now there may a little common sense in both accusations ; but whether there is or no, this is the time to put an end to every delusion; and I ask you. would it not be an arrant delusion, if the middle classes were to say to the operatives, we invite you to join in the fight, but you shall not share in the victory ? They ought to agree upon some avowal respecting the exten sion of the suffrage. Now, it has been said—indeed, I have said it myself, that the words Universal Suffrage do not intend what they mean, for no one would think of giving the suffrage, to the convict, to the person under age, to the female sex, tothe lunatic, or the idiot. The words are, therefore, inaccurate. On the other hand, Household Suffrage was mentioned. 'This would not let in the operatives, for the great mass of the operatives live in lodgings, for, alas ! they cannot have houses ; and there never was a period when they were less likely to have them, unless some change be speedily made. But another phrase has been suggested, and I think it is more favourable and proper--it is the Manhood Suffrage—the suffrage of every one who had at tained the age of scan.—( Cheers. i This would be perfectly consistent with the principles of the British Constitution. I threw out this expression then, and I hope it will dwell in the minds of the people, and set them thinking; but however you agree : as to the , name, I hope we shall, from this time forth, see the middle classes embracing the operatives, and the operatives extending the right hand of fellowship to the middle classes, and that the heart will be in the hand when it is offered.— ( Cheers.) You are coming-to a time of great struggle, Eng lishmen. You have in history, that when Jack Cade and Wat Tyler hanged an Archbishop of Canterbury and a Lord Chancellor, during an insurrection which was,caused by the oppression of the aristocracy upon the universal people of Eng- • land, what was their excuse when the insurgents were put down, and carried by hundreds to execution ? "We rose in insurrection because we were miserable."—( Hear, hear.) You are come to a period when the operative classes are miserable again. Remember, that insurrection had only the effect of loading the chains of the people. They were 'soon defeated, because their forces were tumultuous, unorganised, violent, forcible, and sanguine. But a period is now arrived when the greatest revolution may be achieved by the force of public opinion, and by peaceful combinations, with out endangering the social state, or the relations of private life ; but these may be made more sacred and prosperous by taking away grievances, abolishing oppressions, and giving jus tire its full range. The humble individual who addresses you comes from a tumultuous country, irritated by 600 years of ceaseless oppression, whose peasantry have been hunted from their hovels—(Near) —and even at the present day, it occurred last week—they have been obliged to burrow holes in the church-yards to shelter them.—( Shame, shame.) And yet that country, however, by all the bad passions that such treatment must have produced, have allowed (pardon my vanity for saying it) the individual who is honoured by your attention to rule the whirlwind and direct the storm, until he succeeded in achieving a victory, glorious in principle and sa lutary in its results—for you never would have have obtained Parliamentary Reform if Ireland had not. assisted you.— ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) You never _would have gained Municipal Reform if Ireland had not stood at your ,fide, and you shall have Ireland now struggling again to obtain justice for England.—(Cheers.) I shall call her organised Ireland, for though the organisation is not military, there is a tact natural to the cause of temperance that gives Ireland a power she ',e'er had before, and she can exercise that power with a power and effect such as no other nation can exhibit. — (Cheers. ) With this example before you, in your present state of suffering, with your present knowledge, will you, people of England, longer submit to be trodden down by the Aristocracy ?-.:( Cheers.) How much better than you are they? Is slave written on your foreheads—is master marked on the brows that wear their coronets? Are they superior to you as a class in intellect? Just listen to their speeches for an hour in the House of Lords, and then hear the speeches made by the operatives within these walls.—( Loud cheering.) l'he mumbling, broken tooth—(Laugh:er)—and the gaping, half articulate, and entirely ungrammatical sentence, have made me exclaim, after listening to them, And are these the men who are to legislate for the English people ?—( Cheers. ) Is it for these the people are to starve ? Is it for these the ope ratives arelis lie down and die. Oh no. We are men as well as they. Indeed the question is, whether they are men ae well as us.—(Laughter. ) I have ' sometimes imagined—no dis credit to the Lancashire witches—that the pantaloons were ill placed on some of them._( Renewed laughter.) I know this that if England does not rise, not with the strength of a giant refreshed with wine, but with the strength of a giant and with the wisdom of a Solomon,--if she does not rise, not for the slsughter or of blood, but for principle arid exertion-- (Ch . cers)—ii she does not tell the Lords that the people will nod crawl upon their feet—(Clieers)—if she does not tell the Lords it is our House, and the money-changers must be swept Away"—(Cheering)—if she does not do this she will be swept away herself. Yes, people of England, the eyes of the world are upon you.---(Cheers.) The monster of Russia, on his throne of ice, is looking at you, to see if you are ready to be worse than his own serfs, for they have plenty of fwd.— ( Great cheering.) The Americans are looking at you, to see if you are like your sires,—(Cheers.) Yes, America, with but one black spot on her escutcheon—Negro Slavery ! North and South America are looking. to see whether you ate worthy of the times of your forefathers.—( Great cheering.) They are asking, Are these the descendants of the men, who at Runny mede made the tyrant Monarch sign the Charter, declaring two things—first, that religion should be free, and that the food of the people should be untaxed ?—(Cheers.) They are asking, Are these the descendants of men who, more than once, com pelled tyrant Monarchs to reconfirm that which %els not in the Charter, but which had been obtained by the determination of the people —( Cheere. ) They are asking—Are these the men who, in the last century, found an imbecile Monarch on the 'Throne, and sent him to wander in a foreign land ; I said, be fore, we live in happier times the Monarch, now en the 'Throne has no wish foreign to her people —( Cheers) —and no inclination .adverse to their happiness.—( Cheers. ) It is delightful to see the example she displays in her domestic happiness.—( Cheers. ) The wife leaning upon the husband, and both of them smiling ,n their infant children.--(Cheers.) And it is delightful to pink that that weakly being is the most i otent Monarch upon eirth.—( Great cheering.) There is no question between the ;lonarch and the people but how to preserve thein.—(Tre inondous cheering.) The danger is in the a.istocracy ; they are for their own selfish interest, and by that means weaken ing the throne, and eclipsing the glory of the country.— (Great cheering.) Why did the Duke of Buckingham retire ? —( Cheers. ) He thought that it would gain him a little credit for common sense.-;-(Great cheering.) He must have supposed the monopoly he supported would be tren ched on a little—( Laughter )—that some little alteration would be made that would injure the landlord.—(Cheers. ) Does aot that speak a forgone conclusion—does not that say they are determined to support their own class at the expense of the whole community ?—(Cheers. ) I impeach them in the pre sence of the English people with treason.—( Tremendous cheerio ) I impeach them in the name of Ireland.—( Cheers. ) g. They have lost my confidence.—( Cheers.) I impeach them in the name of the industrious people of Scotland.—(Loud cheers.) . I impeach them in the name .of the wise, the common-sense people of England, the prudent people of Eng land.-( Cheers.) I 'impeach them, in the name of the people, the! 'w ou ld s tarve the Queen's subjects, of endangering the security of our beloved Queen's throne.—( Cheers. ) Yon have listtined to me long-.--(Cheera)--1 perceive that my brogue does not frighten you.—( Cries of" No, no:") There does not breathe on this earth a being more anxious than myself for order, or one more anxious to get rid of every shackle upon human convenience, or upon human food.—(Cheers.) Your country stood high in battle, it was never defeated in industry, i t was never exceeded in ingenuity.—(Ch eers. ) En g lishmen, with all these qualities, with a memory of what your ancestors have done, with the interests and happiness of your children at 'eiears, 1_ «11l upon you .frock, this room to commence that `-v.:.l._The_ 'Mr. THOMPSON rose, amid cries of "Cobden." The CHAIRMAN briefly explained, when Mr. THOMPSON came forward amidst loud. cheers. He said he came there to gratify no personal feeling, but he had been earnestly requested by those who felt anxious that out of the vast mass of information which this body possessed, those facts should be selected which were of most importance, that they might be applied to their respective purposes by those who were present, in their respective neighbourhoods. He stood before them at the express desire of those parties to make a statement on the authenticity of which they might depend, for the purpose of exposing the wicked and hypocritical cry in the House of Lords re garding the sliding, slippery scale, that the Corn laws were for the benefit, not of those who made speecees in the House of Lords, but for the occupiers of the land, the cultivators of corn, and the labourers employed In their service. Knowing that this had heed the statement put forward for years to sustain the Corn laws, and, having a desire to test the truth of this statement, he took the opportunity of visiting the town of Longs town in Cumberland, the residence and seat of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Charles James Graham, Bart., late of Pembroke, late of East Cumberland, now of Dorchester, and one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State for the Home Department.—(Hear, and laughter.) He visited that property. and he lectured on that estate to a number of friends at the Graham Arms, where Sir James was wont once a year to deliver a lecture to his independent yeomanry and intelligent peasantry—(Laughter)—a lecture of the most satisfactory kind, for it was delivered after dinner, whilst the wine and the pewter was yet on the table; its subject would be the improvements lately discovered by the Agricultural Society, and praises lavished on the intelligence, skill, and' inge nuity of his farmers. It could not fail to be a most interesting and satisfactory lecture.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Thompson) held in his hand a statement, which might be relied on, as it had been made by himself in the district of which he had been speaking, and to which it referred, touching the tender mereies of those who sustained the Corn-laws, on the hypocritical plea that they were for the benefit of the occupiers of land, the cultivators of, and the labourers on, the soil. —(Ch , :ers.) He dare say it would be re membered, that sixteen years ago Sir James Graham wrote a book called " Corn and Currency," which referred to the conduct of the landowners ta their labourers, and which also entered into the Cur. rency question. Sir James Graham had forgotten his book, or if not, wished he could; but the public had not forgotten it. But in the month of February, 1839. he made a speech in the House of Commons, on what subject ? On the subject of inquiry, when the people asked to be heard by counsel at the bar of the House, and solemnly affirmed on the Gospel, that the Corn.laws were acting against the best interests of so ciety; he (Sir James Graham) made a speech on that occasion which was called, in the papers of the day, " the speech of the night," " the speech of the season," " one of the finest ever heard;" and the peroration was so grand, it was beyond anything that ever preceded it, and they left it alone in its glory.—(Loud cheers.) This peroration contained the life of a farmer on his own ;estate. He described him as rising to the call of incense-breathing morn, going forth mid the chirrupping 'of feathered songsters,—cheered by the magnificent views around him, --L- fanned by the • .breezes that wound their way along the perfumed vale—then a little healthful labour—there. turn home—the ivy-covered porch—the woodbine and honeysuckle peeping In at the window—the snow-white napkin—the careful dame—the hearty dinner. Then a-little more healthful labour — the return again—the smiling babe and rosy children—the sub stantial supper—the sound and healthful slumber—rise, breakfast, and labour again. The Saturday night—the Sabbath morn—the time-honoured edifice—the edifying discourse—the Sunday dinner—the chapter in Pilgrim's Progress, where the beau tiful vale is described and the pearly gate ; thus they spend their lives in healthful inoffensive exercise• with the smile of ap praying vir(ue. If they abolished the Corn-lawe, !mid Sir James, all thia'happiness would be dispersed, these men woulA i be sent into ' the manufacturing' districts, which he deseribed:aeatie sinks, of ipi . tinily andltifidelity, where they. would .be oppressed by spinsters in the shape of mien. He (Mr. Thompson ).went to this. estate, and held a meeting at Longtown ; there were a good many of the inhabi tants of the town and the neighbourhood there ; lie de scribed to them their happy condition as he had just done to this meeting—they looked exceedingly vacant—(Hear, and a laugh)— He said, "Is it really true? Is this the actual Garden of Paradise, with the river of Eden flowing through it ? What happy men you must be, who live in this paradisaical state, under the patriarchal sway of the knight of the bright sword."—(Cheers.) They looked' exceedingly vacant. He told them there was one thing which struck him very forcibly. It was, that all those blessings which Sir James Graham had enumerated, seemed in the bulk to be a very cheap lot.—(Hear, hear.) He could not tell how much it cost the Right Hon. Baronet, that men should be called up in the morn ing by the song of birds, or regaled by the freshening breeze, as they proceeded to their labours. These were very cheap advantages , but of course the man who so eulogised nature would himself resemble nature in his bounty to his own ten antry. Therefore, in his conversations with those tenants he observed to them—" in addition to happy cottages, to the sound of birds and healthy recreations, you no doubt get good wages; suppose we say 20s. a week." The reply was, "No." " Then let us say 155." " No." " Then let us say 125." " No, we get Bs.' —( Hear.) " No," said another, " some on us only get 65."--(Cheers and laughter.) He had heard of ploughmen in that neighbourhood who were in the rectipt of five silver shillings and their food ; he asked if it was true ? The answer was" Aye." Then said he, " If you get ss. a week, and have nothing to do hat l i to pay your rents, and furnish your -tables with food, of course you are enabled to store yonr shelves with the periodical literature of the day—(Laughter)—to place the surplus of your wages in the savings.bank, and to do something for your benefit and that of your country—(Laughter)—you must be happy men, indeed!" But they did not seem to understand him.—(Laughter.) He then proceeded to inquire into the condition of the farmers in that' district—he wanted to know whether Sir James Graham's disinterestedness in the 1 House of Commons, had been displayed by him upon his property. What did he find ? Within six weeks atter the arrival of the Right Hon. Baronet at Netherby, he went to his parlour. He had private interviews with his tenants ; and he who seemed so desirous of stimulating their industry, and who had been in the habit of giving lectures on the breeding of cattle, on ploughing and thatching, and the rotation of crops, instantly raised their rents from 5 to :35 per cent.—(Hear.) Now these were important facts ; and Sir J. Graham when he rose to tell of the happy condition of agricultural labour ers should be greeted with one universal groan. He might be a gentleman—he did not mean to deny it. He was a scholar, he (Mr. Thompson) was sure, from the number of classical quotations he had scattered throughout his-work upon " Corn and Currency," for the purpose of enlightening and educating the farmers and the peasantry of the country. He (Mr. Thompson) was sure he was a learned mao—he was a great man, and, therefore, he did not wish him to be treated with personal disrespect ; but, 'as a public man, his conduct at Netherby ought to be generally known, and he wished that meeting to receive the statements he was ahout to make without abatement, without suspicion, for lie could assure every gentleman present that he came there charged to the very muzzle with proofs that Sir James Graham had made the Corn-laws the means of augmenting his rents for years, and that he was now making them the means of bringing him an additional income of 4,000/. a-year. —(Loud cries:of " Hear, hear.") That hypocritical plea of his being the farmers' friend, and doing every thing for them and nothing for himself, should be scattered to the winds or consumed by the execrations of the public.--(Cheers.) He would now read the following communication which he had received from a farmer in the district in question, and which was well deserving the attention of the meeting :- 1 "As a farmer, I beg leave to state the effects I consider the existing Corn-laws have had upon the rent of land and wages of agricultural labourers, in the neighbourhood in which I reside. The land, since the passing of the Corn law in 1815, has been ad vancing in value progressively, as instances of which, 1 may mere tion that several farms on the Netherby estate, the property of Sir James R. G. Graham, Bart., has been advanced from 25 to 80 per cent., the particulars of which I annex. Consequently the farmers even under Sir James Graham are now beginning to dis cover that the existing law only benefits the landlord, and have hitherto proved a delusion to them, and a scourge to their servants and labourers. • " Farm servants may be divided into two classes, the married and single; the former have from gs. to 103. per week, with a cot tage to live in, and on an average 1 calculate the number of their families at five each, consequently the Os. or les. per week has to procure food, clothes, and firing for the whole family; and although it consists mostly of oat and barley meal, potatoes, milk, and her rings, when they call be procured, as I of my own knowledge know that many of them don't taste butcher-meat once in six months, consequently to them it must make a very material difference whe ther they purchase their food at a high or low price. " Single men-servants are generally hired by the half-year, at stated hiring-days, held at some market-town twice in the year, and arelodged and victualled in their master's:house, consequently, when provisions are selling high, the farmers invariably contrive to do with as few servants of that description as possible, particu larly in the winter half year, on account of the great cost of their victuals. And from the same cause more servants ensleavour to procure half yearly engagements ; consequently, the supply be comes greater than the demand ; hence, a fall of from 15 to 00 per cent. frequently takes place. " 1. Rent of Rosetrees Farm previous to Candlemas, 1824, 447/. 10s., then let on a lease for eineteen years at 6041., and lately offered to the present oecupier at an advance of 1561. 10s., but declined; but has since been let to another for that advance ; consequently this farm has been advanced about. SO per cent. since 1823. "2. Rent of Mossbnund Hall Farm previous to Candlemas, 1816, 3501., and then let at 526/. 10s., being an advance of about 50 per cent. " 3. Rent of Moat Farm at this time 335/., and now let, to enter at Candlemas, 1843, at 416/, being an advance of about 25 per cent. " 4. Rent of Linton Farm at this time 286/, now let, to enter on at Candlemas next, at 3531., including some new buildings to be erected by the tenant, being an advance of about 25 per cent. " 5. Speard Farm now let at 2451., and lately let to another . tenant at 306/., to be entered on at Candlemas next, being an ad vance of about 25 per cent." These (continued the Hon. Gentleman) were but specimens of 0% tender mercies of those who would seem, in the House of COM. iuMis, to have caught up the mantle of Wilberforce, so eloquent were they in their advocacy of the rights of the farmer, and of his claims to protection'—(Hear.) He had laid these statements be fore the meeting, that they might see that the Captain of Sir R. Peel's D.agoon Guards in the House of Commons, was himself a man who had ground down his tenants and labourers to the lowest possible condition.—(Leud cries of " Hear, hear."' Sir James Graham said to his tenants—" You have improved my property by the expenditure of your capital upon it. It is to your skill and industry, and to the application of science, to which I owe the beauty and fertility of my farms, and my gratitude is in propor tion ; persevere, and you shall find, that when I come to renew your fmct capital, s: D ias le,p and Department n tenants, ploughman,i unless nh n ite;.:ehndt he inquiries ge a uv g ii e or iv a es d . adopted i t rt e dehn respect pi t : c h g e t t htoe Secretarytlie,aeses amount offo any t I h olo e f. leases, 1 am not ungrateful nor forgetful." Such was the lan guagehis s of was possessed of sufficient for several years, he refused a renewal. It was true, be gave small premiums, 2!. 10s. to the thatcher, and he brought his lady to grace the scene, but begot more than cent. per cent. upon these trifling premiums, He increased the rents of his tenants when he came to have a re newal of their leases, and that was the manifestation of the grati. tude of this ne plus tears of Pro. Corn-law humanity. He re gretted to find that Mr. Alderson was doiug she same thing in Westmoreland which Sir James Graham was doing in Cumber land. The handwriting was upon the wall, the spirit of the people were raised, and nothing could quench the extent to which it had now been raised but the total and unqualified abolition of the Corn. laws.—(Cheers.) It.'was the desire of his friends around him that the facts he had stated should go forth to the world ; and also that although he did riot wish publicly to state the names of those to whom he alluded, yet if any gentleman wished for full and authen tic information, he should be most happy to prove the truths of his assertion upon the most authentic information.—(Cheers.) E. E. Rswhires, Esq„ of Liverpool, proposed . the following re. solution : "That the Delegates attending thi s , . at the meant crisis of the Anti-Corn-law movement; w ould strongly lectmunend to the various Associations throughout the country, the necessity of meeting throughout the ensuing week, t o especially confirm the Resolutions adopted at this Conference, pledging the Delegates not to vote for any Members of Parliament who. may . not vote, or ean didates who will not vote, for the total and immediate removal of all restrictions on the importation- of food, and protesting a g ainst all the laws which tamper with the subsistanee of the people; and also to memorialise her Majesty, expressing an utter want of confidence in her present advisers, or in any Ministers who will not propose to Parliament-the entire and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provi. sion-laws.' , - , .... • . Mr. leensoe seconded the resolution without comment The resolution was pfht and carried unanimously. Mr. G. THOMPSON in the absence of Mr. Rawson, proposed the following resolution, and he would do so without a word : " That the Conference close its general business with this day's proceedings, and that the Executive Committee, with power. to add to its nnmbers, continue sitting so long as it seems needful ; thirteen constituting a quorum ; P. A. Taylor, Esq., being Chair -- - ... _. •.__ ...... r iv Gentlemen to compose the Executive Committee. The Committee to sit at Brown's Hotel. " EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Colonel Thompson, London ; . Mr. P. ~y James inr , VV c i b ia a o i r n m a , London Lnd 0 ; n Mr. Sidney, Smith, Lendon ; Mr. Scoble, London ; Black, M.D., Deputy Chairman, London; Mr. Kershaw, Manchester; Mr. Wm. Rawson, Manchester; Mr. W. Evans, Secretary, Manchester ; Mr. E. Armitage, Maecbes. ter; Mr. A. Prentice, Manchester; Mr. S. Lees, Manchester ; Rev. J. W. Massie, Secretary, Manchester; Mr. J. Bright, Roch dale ; Mr. L. Heyworth, Liverpool; Mr. Stanfield, Leeds ; Mr. Millington, Bradford ; Mr. Clayton, Bradford ; Mr. -Dixon, Car lisle ; MY. Ashworth, Bolton; Mr. Joseph Sturge, Birmingham ; Mr. Bell, Coventry; alr. Larin, Edinburgh; Mr. Aston, Edin. burgh; Mr. W. Buchanan, Glasgow; Rev. J. Burder, Stroud; Mr. J. C. Symons, Stroud; Mr. Biggs, Leicester; Mr. Akroyd, Halifax.; Mr. Batley, Huddersfield ; Rev. W. Williams, Caer narvon ; Mr. Evans, Caernarvon ; Mr. W. Ibbotson, Sheffield Rev. T. Bailey, Sheffield ; Rev. W. Roaf, Wigan ; Mr. W. Morris, Halifax; Mr. E. Watkins, Manchester; Mr. C. Edward Rawlins, Liverpool; Rev. Ellis,Rev .Bsaenijt.enßaetisitr Platt." The ; in Rev. W. Lowe, Forfar:; The Rev. J. W. Massie rose to second the resolution, and in doing so, said he ought to explain to the gentlemen who would be leaving London, that a power was vested in the Executive Com mittee, in which 13 was to be a quorum, to add to their number, and this would secure the continuance of the Conference as long as needful. He might mention, that those gentlemen who were leav ing London, were requested to communicate the same to the Se cretary of the Executive Committee, and to mention any person whom they might wish to supply their places as Delegates remaining in London. They wished, that in order to perpetuate, as long as was needful, the Executive Committee, because not only must they watch the proceedings, but make a report of those proceedings to the country ; and that report must be made in a form which would give it an authentic character. They hoped also to follow p, not only what was passed in this report, but to suggest what was necessary to be adopted in future, with respect to any future transactions relative to the state of the country. He would not trespass longer on their attention. He had been anxious that the details of the proceedings should he settled, and that his re spected friends, who were so well able, and who were so entitled to address them, should have a full opportunity of expressing their sentiments ; and although he was a member of the Executive Com mittee; he, in the absence of Mr. Rawson..would second the reso. lotion.—(Cheers.) A DELEGATE inquired if the Committee would be open far any one who wished to attend ? Mr. G. TitomPSON—The whole of the members of the Conference will be welcome there. A venerable and respected friend at that meeting had suggested whether they should not have a great out-of door Anti-Corn-law meeting.—(Great cheering.) The resolution was then put and carried with great cheering. Loud cries were then raised from every part of the meeting for Mr. Roebuck ; and when it was stated that he was not in the room, Dr. Bowling was also called for with equal vehemence, but neither did he answer. Mr. Situate-al CRAWFORD being next called for, at length came forward. He said he felt. it his duty to come forward at their call, although, after the eloquent speeches ;which they had heard, he could not expect to say any thing that could add to those arguments adduced by previous 'speakers. But he obeyed their call with the intention of expressing in a few honest words, the wish of his heart to co-operate with the delegates in every manner he could in the just cause in which they were engaged.— (Cheers.) He did not come forward as a manufacturer, or as a commercial man, but as a landed, proprietor—(Loud and repeated cheers)—and he was convinced that the interest of the land-owners was as deeply involved in the repeal of the Corn-laws as those of any other class of society.—(Hear, hear.) He felt that the inte rest of the landlords and 'the manufacturers could not be separated. Whatever served the one wastseneficial to the other, and any attempt to separate the interests of these portions of the community by restrictions and protectivelaws, could be of no interest to any class or body in the country to which, they were applied.—(Hear, hear.) There had been a gooddeal of discussion as .to the compa rative advantages of a sliding-scale and a fixed duty. But for his part he would not consent to enter into that discussion, because he could not see in either of them any remedy for the evils which afflict the country, nor could he see any remedy except in the total repeal of those mischievous laws.—(Hear, hear.) He could not consent to compromise that great question. —(Cheers.) He eould not admit that the people should not have provisions as cheap as they could be procured. There was no other remedy for all the distress which prevailed than the instant and absolute repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) That-repeal might not instantly affect trade to any great extent, but a starving people ought to have instant access to a supply of cheap food.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that those persons who were parties to keeping up the price of the people's food were indirectly answerable for the results of those laws on the lives of the people.—(Cheers.) The results were starvation and death—(Cheers) —and if he were a party to keep ing up the law, he would feel that he was in some degree account able for the deaths which it occasioned.—(Hear, hear.) He felt that the great relief which they were contending for, could only be obtained by the cordial co-operation of the different classes of society.—(Hear.) Neither the middle now the working classes could obtain any object by themselves. But when they were united cordially such moral power was acquired that no aristocracy could continue long to resist them.—(Hear, hear.) Those were the feel ings which he had long entertained. With those feelings he had advocated extension of the suffrage to the whole people, and he was persuaded that the country would never get rid of class legis lation until the whole people were fully and fairly represented in -Parliament.-(Cheers). Those opinions he had long entertained, and at should ever be his most anxious endeavour to advocate them. Dr. BOWRING; M.P., was then announced as the next speaker to address the meeting. The Hon. and, Learned Member was re ceived with enthusiastic cheers, which lasted for some minutes. When silence was procured, he stated that if any encouragement were wanted—lf any recompense or' Inducement were necessary to get the people to persevere in the good work which had been so nobly commenced, that recompense would be found in the en thusiasm—the excitement —of that influential and respectable meet ing.—(Cbeers.) That enthusiasm would glee every motive to pro mote the great question in which they were engaged, and which had been in every respect. he. would Say, delightfully carried on.—(Loud cheers.) Whe n it was recollected how it had commenced—first, there were statistical discussions—next arithmetical inquiries—then doubts, hesitation, and opposition— when these things were remembered and compared with the pre sent state of feeling in this country as to the question of Corn laws, looked upon as it now was, not only as a moral and a political ques. tion, but as a religious question, inseparably connected with the principles of that book to whirls they were all bound to defer— (Hear, and cheers) —no longer were the frauds and fallacies of the house of Tarnworth to cast impediments in the way of public, the - the mothers, and the daughters of England provement. The question of Corn-laws was now taken up by the clergy, by the men and by the women of England.—(Cheers,) The matrons,were to get rid of those iniquitous laws—(Loud cheers) —those laws which had given authority to that monopoly which was so intolerable an injustice—which had perpetuated the abominable system of giving up to the few the rights and the privileges of the many.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Ministry had referred to his (Dr. Bow. ring's) report with reference to the state of feeling and trade in the north of Europe. He fOr. Bowing) had been sent to the Conti gent and to the north of Europe to ascertain what were the feel. legs of the German Goviirnment.l The feelings and wishes of that Government were everything he could desire—(Cheers)—the mar. an d proposals were made which would have undoubtedly kets were large , and demands for British p roduce were considerably i effect;h of improving the condition and securing the proiper t i g:tnhis co untry. What was the answer made when he (Dr. n a : d r increasing;; of thea s Bowring came homeP—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The answer made by the British Government was, " we cannot touch the Corn-laws —(Hear, hear, and groans), We cannot touch the Timber-laws." —(Loud disapprobation.) No matter what the ad vantag9s to the British people may be, the German and foreign mar. kets are not to be made accessible to Otem.—(Hear, hear.) The peo ple of Germany shall not have the manufactures of England—nor shall h a ve the produce of Germany. The people of German y mg h t they be na ked, and the people of England might starve, for the interests of the monopolists should not be disturbed.—(Hear.) He had compared the condition of the people of Prussia and the Conti nent with that of the people of England, and having had a good op portunity of making that comparison he had not the least hesitation in saying that the contrast was most discreditable, most dishonourable to Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) If the condition of the people of England was contrasted with that of the inhabitants of the most im poverished countries on the Continent, Sir Robert Peel should blush ' with shame for being the cause of the poverty of England, and for having prevented the repeal of those laws which had caused so much misery through every part of it.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He (Dr. Bowring) had visited most of the cities of the north of Europe, and he could assure the meeting he had never seen anything like the extreme poverty and distress which existed in the town of Bolton, with which he was connected. There were thousands amid tells of thousands of los fellow.men in a state of starvation, and producing that which they could not sell, though hun dreds of thousands of persons in Germany are anxious and willing to buy.—( Hear, hear.) Was that state of things to be endured— would the conduct of the Right Hon. baronet be tolerated merely because lie represented, as he called it, the great landed interests of the country—No. But as the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin had properly observed, let the matter be analysed. Look at the enormous consumption of the lower classes of this country compared with the landed aristocracy—(llear, hear) —look at their relative influence, and if the Comparison was to be carried out, it must be. seen that there are miseries endured in England which are not to be found in any other part of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Yet there Wm s no peOple who had so much moral aptitude, so much virtue, as iii this country. Was it not insulting, that after five months of deliberation and consideration, her Majesty's Government should come forward arid say they admitted the extent of misery in the country, but they did not imagine that the proposition with respect to the introduction of corn would afford any relief ?—(Hear, hear.) As far as he (Dr. B.) was able to see, he could state posi tively, that the proposal of Sir Robert Peel was much worse than the law as it was at present.—(Hear.) rld'ileiecßoirgnh.itawHBO.n. BGeenttoleldmatnhemi n t h e e n d v. e .a el s t i o ,o p t eLf t e i c s t fi t e h d e w i r t h h i o n s e e r machinery h o o f and he proposed, therefore, to intr oduce made the averages ; that most utiPoptilar part of the administration, the excuse to draw yet tighter the cord by which foreign corn was excluded. H . e mismangement the people should obtain cheaper. some He was determined that d that only on certain terms should foreign 735. should be 755., an He was sure that this would corn be admitted.—(llcar, hear.) • of the question. He rejoiced to think ution t w h a e s i f b ra re id ad lest one by De not be accepted as a ded the land.—(Cheers.) He viewed that a higher and whole question, now pe va between ) dinslg-scales he s uabble bet with great indifference snlobler tone —a clearer understanding of the were lowered inquiry. He would not give up the to so mean and unworthy and fixed duties. of the people ought not to be taxed. That HQ principle that the bread o elioutlit be sorry g if the question solution; ,by that lie would stand, and he principle was the 00. Y over a sliding scale. —(Hear.) show s on which Lad for its object to the would accept of no solution be satisfied that nothing superiority of a fixed scales and fixed duties he should alike repudiate. The Hon. Gen their overwhelming tleman sat down av,ro,l:lnsirt,lsoauidd mightcthheeeby:t. The R m e n v v . e n t r be 0,000 could d the black terror. — (Hear, hear.) Peel had hoisted it e er to them, flag and of monopoly and they should give no piracy ; he would give no qu The hands of the monopolists are quarter to hint.—(Hear, hear.) ta of the people; it was the death upon the thrOa 0 _ amp and free. trade, it was "pull grapple between mon , hear.) 'operatives devil, pull people."—(Hears Fire were those the fight. Neither the middle classes, of them. who must decide polistts selves,. nor the operatives, of themselves, could conquer the aris. was a mond force Chartist.—(Cheers.) The moral Mcrae) , ; but, u;,ited, the aristocracy would sink in the struggle.. He (Dr. Wade) Y to them the They only required equal rights -and equal hand of friendship• the o n Charter i ta they moat u t e sought, argued laws. He had differed from some of them as to the plan of action. B yo could t ainetl obtain h e There were soma' who contended that the Charter should first be force chartists would c n to them if the extended long e r have it in their power to impose burdens upon the people. and strike down its strong. When this had been done it would be time hold.—( Hear, hear.) 40 clench the nail by carrying the Cha:ter. The Chartists thought they had not the confidence of the middle classes. If the middle paralyse the right arm of ;Ineoseaoly, themselves that when this measure classes would pledge operatives should not be forgotten,' he was carried the operatives would join them in the attack upon had no doubt the mono..oly. The necessity for such a combination could not be doubted. ans e t hwal; ebnetfhoar e t s t v h a It hbourhood of this city, a man had was a fact, that , in the neig d that when the body was o p ened at the Coro. died of starvation , an tier's inquest grass , yes; gr ass of the field, wa 4 found in his stomach. liundreds.w „, dy ing of hunger, and hundreds more were daily ap plying to t h e • - fain 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 s _ rani an end to such a state of things, and the minister of religion, like the prophet of old, was bound to " cry aloud, and to spare not, and to denbunce oppression in the highways." Their Divine Master, in his sermon on the Mount, told the poor and the meek 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 not 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 lsisheps 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 • eater 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 let 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. Rewsosr, 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 62 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 commission of buying flour, Lnd 201 the expense of selling flour in Liverpool, making a total of 134 barfels. 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 the working men 134 barrels out of 216.—(Loud cheering.) It was not desirable that he should enter at any greater length into the subject. But on another occasion he would make statistical 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 the luxury of a carriage and horses.—( Enthusiastic cheers.) Mr BARRET WADDEN next addressed the Conference. He said, that since the commencement of the present Conference, 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 be did. He knew him well; he knew his mode of proceeding, his public actions—nay, the very time in which he performed those actions.--(Cries of " Hear, hear.") 'Vas 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 taken his places among, ahem as a delegate, he bad heard various Cleegymen of the Established Church an atten. lion to the denunciations - ins the, sacred writing's againstthe man Who withheld•fdod from' the people. HIM the people shall curse. In' the Prayer-book of the Church. of England what' whs. inserted among the prayers for the first day, of 4 Lent? Certain denun ciations ; and those denunciations *ere' appointed to be read aloud by the Minister. (Hear, hear.) They were as follows :—." Accursed is be that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow ; accursed is the unmerciful extortioner." Was it possible that if Sir R. 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, no speech being allowed to be made on them, and Sir Robert Peel had refused to. receiving the deputation front 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 had 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 under 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 the 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 hani 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-book 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 were dying of want.—(Great cheering.) The Cif AI RNI N then said Gentlemen,• it now devolves upon me, as your Chairman, to close the Conference. As 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 on 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 reso 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 Anti- 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 was an argument for its being made, because it would have a strong effect on the public 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 thepassing 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. Mess's, Mr. Taylor then re. tired from the chair, and W. P. Wilkinson, Esq., late Mayer of Etter, 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 that '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 of gratification to thosewho 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 causeby presiding over them. 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. ASHWORTH 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 ultimate success. In conclusion, he should congratulate the meeting on having taken up its position upon such high grounds as to render it impo sible that the cause which they advocated should ultimately prevail. The Chtsigmag said, before putting the motion from the Chair, Ire 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. 'faysoit said 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 him upon other grounds ; than% those which arose from his untiring exertions in advocating the repeal of the Corn-laws. Ills friend Colonel Thompson could bear him out iu the assertion, that some eleven years ago they were able to muster but a few persons at their meetings in the City, but this 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 vete of thanks was passed. The CHAIIIIIAN then submitted to the meeting the following do cument : ADDRESS OF. THE FINANCE: COMMITTEE OF ANTI CORN-DA W DELEGATES ASSEMBLED. AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR, FEB. 6, AND SUCCEEDING DAYS. The . above Committee, in the faithful discharge of their duty, have given their deliberate and earnest attention to the financial affairs of the National Anti-Corn-law League, in connection with the present position of the question, and the immediate and prospective claims npon the funds of the League. It must be !obvious to all friends of the great cause, that a contest of unexampled interest importance, and ex tent, is at hand ; and that there is at this moment an imperative call fear renewed arid redoubled efforts to carry on and complete the work of Universal Enlightenment, and of the consolidation of the moral power of all who stand opposed to the restrictions and du ties upon the food of the people. This great end the Commmittee believe is to be accomplished by the employment, to a greater extent than ever, of duly qualified persons to Lecture in all parts of the Kingdom, and especially in the Agricultural Districts, from which there are already applications for at least ten in dividuals where only one can be afforded. The Committee are of opinion that, at no conjuncture of events could more labourers be sent into the field with a better prospect of suc cess, or under circumstances more strongly demanding their most strenuous exertions. A noble, benevolent, and patriotic effort has been made by the Anti-Corn-law women of the country, and the Committee trust that their example will be immedia tel y followed by the De puties now in town, and their Associates throughout the kingdom. They therefofe respectfully, but most earnestly, recommend that every Deputy should assist the League to the .utrisost extent of his ability, and that he should take steps on his return to his co •.ec ents to obtain, by congrega. tional collections and indivileals ...ascriptions, pecuniary aid. Do nations made in London r• a'y .se handed to the Treasurer of the League, now in attendera-e and hereafter to the Executive Council of the National Anti-Corn-law League in Manchester. 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 nate in the triumph of justice and -humanity, over the cruel and selfish legislation of interested Men. JAMES KERSHAW, Chairman. WILLIAM RAWSON. ELK ANAH ARMITAGE. FRANCIS BOULT, Jun. SAMUEL LEES EDWARD EV ANS. JAMES AYTOUN. EDWARD WATKIN. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. GLOBE.—Those who have hoped, against hope, fur a good Corn-law from the Peel Cabinet may now see they have "expected," as Mr. Cobden said,- " grapes from thorns, and figs from thistles." " None can compass more than they intend ;" and if Sir Robert Peel has not compassed a satisfactory Corn-law reform, it is because he did not intend such a reform. Everything roust depend on the view which a statesman takes of the situation which he seeks to im prove. Now, there are two opposite views which are taken of the present situation of things. The Liberal party regard it as an " awful" crisis of our finance and commerce—as the turning point of our future destinies which must decide the extension or decline of our wealth and well-being. They trace mainly and distinctly to the Corn-laws a commencement of decline, which has most decidedly, vsliether permanently or not, taken place during these three or four years. They ask whether these acute fits of distress are to' recur periodically—whether the malady (rooted in the precarious ness and insufficiency of the home supply of the neces saries of life) is to become chronic—whether the waste of national capital on improvidence-prices, for mere food is periodically to derang' our commerce, and city up our financial resources? Most clearly anti demonstrably it has done so, during these four ye:.rs last past. The Con servative Minister cannot deny the facts, but refuses to trace them to their source. Refusing to tra ce, in any great degree, to the Corn-laws the commercial and financial symptoms so fearfully developed and aggravated, he refuses (consistently) to seek the remedy in a thorough reform of those laws. The party in power have had ample warning both from the errors of their predecessors, and their, however tardy, perception and abandonment of those error. If Sir R. Peel had been free to act, he has had full experience to guide action—the experience of faults and embarrassments incurred by others for his instruction. The Whig ministers had tried expedients, be£ore they threw themselves upon prin ciples ; had tried them with that signal ill-success which should have been a warning ko their successors. It appears to be a settled routine in .hnglish statesmanship that every variation of vulgar policy shall be exhausted first, before it will be permitted to statesmen to strike into any new track. We certainly think the late Ministers ought to have taken new measures sooner ; because it would have prevented the imputa • tion of moving without hope of carrying them. They are accused of having proposed those measures, because they had forfeited their tenure of office. It would be more correct to say they proposed them, because they had spent their stock of expedients. When new taxes proved unproductive, new prin ciples of taxation became imperative. STANDARD.—The Right !lon. Baronet, while he does full justice to the claims of the agriculturists, puts their case upon much higher and much stronger grouna than the claims of any class; he demonstrates that it is the in terest of the whole he consults in defending the landed and agricultural interest, and proves by irresistible ar gument the utter fallacy of all . the pretences of the anti •agricultural party. Without in the least courting the manufacturing body, he disarms of the topics of agitation all who would excite discontent among them. The new seals will give corn cheaper—muds cheaper—in all seasons approaching to scarcity, than the fixed duty of the late Ministers. There is not much novelty in the reason ' ing of Sir Robert Peel's speech ; there never can he in the speech of one who reasons with truth and can- , dour, and without affectation, upon a well-worn subject. The highest merit of a speech in such cases is clearness of an rangenaent,-happiness-of combination, and force of expression ; and by these last night's speech ,seas otnisiently distinguished. 'There is one Observation of the. Righ' s Aion.Birinief,-hOw e‘ier, which we do not remember to have p l et,witisbeforeat - least in conne ction withtheCern-law questionss-s2*"gh the fattreferred' to is fully warranted by experience, and,altliqughlt has a most important bearing upon the question referred to. We allude to the fact that unfavourable seasons commonly come in periods of successive years, and not singly. But whoever suffers by an unfavourable season, the farmer is sure to suffer more than others—one bad harvest discourages, if it does not disable, bins from cultivating to the highest point in the next; and two or three bad seasons following each other without interruption, must utterly exhaust his resources, if, in addition to the evil of a deficient crop, he has to encounter a free foreign competition. Thus, the fields would, in a little time, be left desolate—the home market, for all manufactured goods, extinguished—and the country reduced to a state of ab • solute dependence upon strangers for necessary food. As may easily be supposed, the organs of the Opposition are extremely angry with last night's exposition. It wounds them as fatal to the hopes of the money jobbers by whom they are prompted, and as belying their confident predictions that Sir Robert Peel would desert the agricultural interest. Lord John Russell last night seemed disposed to cavil at the extension of the field from which the averages are to be taken, and Mr. Cobden unloaded his bile in a fierce expression of mock amazement ; but the other Members of the Opposition were generally silent and sullen. As to Mr. Cobden, if he is, indeed, taken by surprise, he has to blame those journals of his own party that have taken so much pains to lull him in a "fool's paradise." COURIER.—We can only briefly advert to the admirable style in which Sir Robert demolished the fallacy that the well-being of the people must be measured in any country or at any period solely, or at all, by the compara tive cheapness of bread and provision stuffs. The only true barometer by which the healthy state of a people can be ascertained must ever be the relative extent of command over the necessaries of life, which result f:om the advantages of a larger field of constant employment at more remu nerating rates of wages. The First Lard of the Treasury tested these important considerations by this only infallible standard, so far as such a standard can be termed infal ilible, whose construction is the handywork - of such impure hands as those of Dr. Bowring. That person, as our readers know, was engaged and pai dto make out a one-sided case against the Corn-laws, coute qui coute, in respect of exaggeration in one sense, and depreciation in the other. He performed his task to admiration, as all the Anti-Corn-law faction have testified by unanimous acclaim. His object was to elevate above reality the social position and the material condition of the foreign operative class, and contempotaneously to understate that of the labouring classes here. With these objects his statistical figures, where not actually reposing on official authority beyond suspicion, were collected and constructed. Well it is on the partial, and on both Sideshighly colouredor trea cherous statements of this semi-official tourist, that Sir Robert proceeded to establish his case, and establish it he did to the satisfaction of every one who heard him, or who shall read at tentively this most interesting portion of his speech. He esta lished beyond all question that the general condition of the British operative is, as we trust it may ever be, and as it ever will be, whilst home industry is promoted by Corn-law protection, greatly superior in all regards to that of the same continental class. He established it, under the disadvantage of reason ing, from, materials fabricated, tortured, or furnished from a hostile quarter, incontrovertibly and irrevocably. Let those who doubt compare the amounts of wages, the prices of food, and the several rates per head and per people of the consump tion of necessaries or comforts in Prussia or Belgium, with those of this country. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 12. IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD HARRIS. The insolvent, who had been acting manager of the Victoria Theatre, and had entered into liabilities for the two late pro prietors, Beverley and Ratcliffe, both of whom wet e described as " insolvent debtors," applied to be discharged on sureties until his hearing on the 11th of March next. The COURT granted the application for the discharge of the insolvent. The case of Mr. Wallack, the actor, of the Haymarket the atre, which was reported on Friday, was again mentioned at a subsequent period of the day on which the motion was made. The application was for a special order to enable the insolvent, who has lately been performing the principal character in ton new comedy of Marriage, to appear before the Court on Wednesday, to be discharged on sureties until his hearing. The report stated the readiness of the Court to grant the in dulgence, provided the messengers of the Court would give a certificate to serve the bail notices in time, as the customary day for the• delivery of the same had expired, and it was uncer tain whether the application could be granted. Tte messen gers, however, undertook to serve the notices, and the Court directed the order to issue for Wednesday next instead of the following Monday. The schedule of Mr. Wallack, who is now in the :Fleet Prison, has been filed for public inspection. It exhibits debts for which consideration has been received, extending over a lengthened period, to 12,7051., and there is property mentioned on the schedule for the creditors. It will be recollected that Mr. Wallack was the proprietor of " The National Theatre" in N e w York. The insolvency is attributed to the destruction of the theatre and the loss sustained by fire in September, 1839. The professional income of the insolvent appears to have been considerable, especially last year, when he realised 1,2001. His expenditure, on the other side, shows the disbursement of the money he had received for a number of years. By the 'general practice of the Court, insolvents are required to commence their balance sheets from the data of the earliest debt in the schedule. —Mr. Wallack has an order to appear before the court on Wednesday, the 16th inst. The hearing of the case is ordered for the 21st March. An insolvent, named Richard Pryce, who had been a shell fishmonger in the Strand, was on Friday opposed by Mr. Nichols, on the part of creditors, and supported by Mr. Cooke, with Mr. Woodroffc.-1 he insolvent was' examined at con siderable length, and his case occupied several hours. It al). peered that he had been bail in this Court on some occasions, and had been a " sporting character." He betted on horse races, and last " Derby Day" he lost about 4001., which he believed he had nearly all paid.—The Court, alter a long in vestigation, ordered the insolvent to be discharged. EXCISE COURT. CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Mr. Frederick Bonselmain, proprietor of the Whitellart i public-house, in the Whitechapel-road, was complained of for selling wine without a licence. The offence having been proved, the Court asked the defendant what he had to say in his defence.—He replied that he was not in the habit of retailing wine, but generally kept a small quantity in his house for the consumption of his family. Mr. MAYOW (to the officer)—Did you have any difficulty in procuring the article. Officer—Not any. The defendant immediately on my asking for it, reached down a bottle and filled a glass, remarking as he did so, " I do not sell wines, but I will let you have some. Defendant—This is the first time I have offended against the Excise-laws. The Hon. BERKELEY PAGET—lndeed. How very unfor tunate to be caught the first time.—( A laugh.) Defendant-- It was my first offence I assure you. Captain MERCY—TeII that tale to some one who will believe it. You can hardly expect that we do. Defendant—Will you allow me to take out a license. The Hon. BERKELEY YAGET.—We will insist on your doing that if you sell wines, and, moreover, we now order you to pay a penalty of 101. The honest trader must be protected. Mr. Hail, of the Cooper's Arms, Rosemary-lane, was charged with selling ale and spirits without a license: The defendant's house had been duly licensed, but the license ex, pired in October last, since which time the trade had been car ried on as usual. It was stated to the Ct,urt that the de fendant's poverty was the cause of his offending the law. He, unfortunately, was then a prisoner in the Fleet for debt. 'I he defendant, when he took possession of the house, paid upwards of 7001. for good will, Sze., which sum he might as well have thrown into the Thames, as the property was now worth scarcely anything, in consequence of its abutting upon the Blackwall Railway. The Commissioners said they well knew the badness of the times had greatly affected publie.house property, and that rail ways had in many instances deteriorated the value of taverns, while they necessarily had improved others. They were Nese, however, to enforce the law, which they would do as strictly, but as mercifully as possible, arid hoping the defendant would be enabled in the course of a few days to renew his license, they would suspend their warrant to compel payment of the penalty which was attached to the offence —namely 100/. The sum would, perhaps, be altogether remitted if he acted upon the hint thrown out. Mr James Seaqer, of the Ship public-house, Fore-street, Lambeth, and Benjamin Emery, the keeper of the Salutation, in Barton-street, Westminster, were complained of for neglect ing to renew their license —The defendants were severally fined 100/., and told that on taking out their license again they might apply fora mitigation. THE . GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. (SAT URDAY.) Subscriptions will be received by Mr. Ilichiisi, Secretary to the 1 A Froptchman named Blue!, described as of No. 7, Borortgt' an. .•*: League, or Mr. Edward Watkin in hiS behalf. road, iv,s charged %, ith being found possessed of a la., lie V • • 'l' hree cheers were given for t he QUCCII, and three for the rep eal tit y of illicit ~,irits. it appeared ruin the evidence, that , the ' of the Cormdaws, and the m eeting then dispersed. 1 defendant having quarrelled with one of his coun tr y men, who i, was as "deep in the mud as he was in the mire " in his illegal I practices, ' the latter " split " upon him to two excise-offs ; who repaired to his premises, and found concealed an immense quantity of illicitly manufactured spirits.—Fined, 51. Mr. John Gronett, of the Cock and Key, Mouta,gue-streetf. - , Whitechapel,- was charged with having in his possessicn some brandy, 41 per cent. underproof.—Condenmed. Daniel Reader, of Store-street, Stepney , wa s charged with working an illicit still. Messrs. Whisker a nd Hughes, the ;, the case. The still, they said, was fully c officers, proved harge , ' ~- when they seized it, and the construction of it had cost an irn- mense sum of money.—Defendant was fined 501. POLICE IN ' MANSION HOUSE. On Saturday a Brussels banker arid broker, named Stock/eg was brought before the Lord Mayor upon the clla rge of en: •2 , lawfully selling, negotiating , transferring, and converting rn his own use and benefit 14 Dutch Fri licit certificates of a loss 0 0 at 2, 1 , per tent., made by the Dutch Government for I florins each, of the value of 1 , 2001 . , or thereabouts , which eel; tificates had been entrusted to him as a banker , by. a 00 , lady named Honoria Hannah Molony. dkits . • Mr. C. Jones appeared for the prosecution , and M r. Bo .4-.',,t far the prisoner, who was brought up in custody of Pan''' . , Forrester. vrlin Mr. C. Jones opened the case by stating , that the lad y complained, the widow of a gentleman but lately deceased , el; in Brussels in 1840, and being possessed of Ditch French b° IA ; •; to the amount of between 1 , 200 /. and 1,300 / , deposit ed there ; the hands of the prisoner, a banker and money agent iri,. o , _ place, for security, arid at the same time received from 11 ,;, 10 ~ to answer some occasion, an advance of 1201. or 130/. - .J.!. • . lady, unsuspicious that any unfair play was meditated, receita ..,,, from the prisoner the interest upon the bonds at, the On; ~, , period of the liquidation of the claims of the bondholders; °l4O-4, after a time she ascertained that the prisoner had actually s n ' ,. . l . them, and applied the proceeds to his own use. There vi ii ,e:i another charge arising from the transaction, to which in a O w •••, aequent stage of the proceedings he should refer. At preseatl o . ; should confine himself to the particular accusation to whic h i ,kj i , alluded, and which was comprehended under the 7 th and 8 11 ...; ~ George IV., cap. 28, sec. 49. The Learned Counsel then 1 ,1 '7 - , ceeded to call witnesses. - Mrs. Honoria Hannah Molony deposed that in th e e 9 74. part of February, 1840, she was in Brussels with her husbeek' who had since died. She had in her care fourteen Pl it o i French bonds, which cost her husband the sum of 1,2 ,," 1 ., Mr. Stockley carried on in Brussels the business of a banks a broker, and a money-lender. By her husband's direc t he e she applied to Mr. Stockley for the loan of 3,000 francs , w - bc • he asked her upon what security the loan was required, : 0 , ,• offered him, at her husband's desire, some Spanish piss rye !. which he declined to take. She afterwards offered hinic4 Dutch French bonds, and upon looking at them, he said t ie le .• were very good, and asked her whether she wanted the el " n a ~, of the 3,000 francs at once, to which she replied that it s9Air;. object. Mr. Stockley paid her the 3,000 francs in three "001,1, ferent instalments of 1,000 francs each, the whole anteol being paid up in ten days. She deposited the bonds l o p/ hands of Mr. Stockley as security for the money he h ad. b vanced, and for no other purpose. As the interest of tke,oei• bonds formed part of the property of the family, she s r ° pi Mr. Stockley upon the subject of receiving that interest, anoos,, said to her, " Oh, when you want the interest you eau c ~,,, to me. r6e ,' • Mr. Jones—Did you ever give him authority to sell of • . pose of the bonds? Mrs Molony—Never. nd 4› fa* The Loan MAYOR—How much money, principal a rest, have you received altogether from him ? Mrs. Mell o : .. 1 Teeeived 3,000 francs as a loan, and it is st, ssible tha r • ,ceived a. little more than the interest'upon the bondsi..-',. L i' Mr. Richard Itaughton, clerk in the Union •Baels - ei di ' don, deposed that • U' knew 'Mr. Stockley rinse the,,lailel 'OO of the year 1840. ' Mr: Stock'sey. opened an account vilt" 0 0 1 Union Bank abOut the sth of October, 1840. The-agree dibi was made between Mr. Stockley and Mr. Scrimgeoere,to manager of the Bank.—(The witness here produced a, r iai directed to the Union Bank, in the prisoner's writing.. 1 : ;",• date the 26th November, 1841, and desiring that his ~,0 1 0 , bonds should be disposed of, and that he should be inform o re , - the proceeds. The postscript stated that a half year's ' i l, was due.) Witness proceeded in his evidence. The Ina_ olts , of the Bank gave him the bonds to take to the broker f°1:01, and the sale was effected accordingly. They realised 5 61 04 5d., exclusive of the commission, and the proceeds were . ,fi i to the account of Mr. Stockley. Witness had the reitirhAi the bonds. They were 2,171, 2,172, 2,176, 553, 55 ;iiiif and 2,284, about 1,000 florins each. The value was fleet as they were subject to the rate of exchange. r 1 It Mr. Chidley Kearnan Molony, son to Mrs. A. 2 "' n ,i posed that he lad made different attempts to recover the ~%). c but without effect. ee" The Loan MAYOR said that if, under existing id stances, he could think of taking bail, he certainly l i nfo' . . take less than substantial sureties for the whole Wenn 0 ( • P', bonds, He should, however, consult the legal advisers' '!''• 4 Corporation on the subject of his jurisdiction. ior. The prisoner was then remanded for ten days. • ''' A . CLERKENWELL. n iskA4 William Warder, a ragged antl very dirty-looking erl charged with being drunk and obstreperous. T bB !''...") having been proved, i ~ 0 0 , 4 Mr. GREENWOOD, addressing the defendant, sak,,,'bre i tAP not the first time you have been here. You and 1 0 • before.," Defendant—You are in part correct, Sir. h 0 0 ( is not the place wherein I had the pleasure of 6r " with you.— '(A laugh.) 00 1 ° 4 7 Mr. GREENWOOD—Where was it, then ? I:te'' Hatton-garden Office. You then kindly allowed info - ',,ve in peace, and (making a profound bow) I am i' t - ~,.,14 hopes that you will do so now.—(Much laughter. 1:r Mr. GREENWOOD—What are you? Defends: ' re surgeon. Defendant —lf out t e a a t pp m ea y ra e n lb c o e w o s f y a est 41 cl-:: : - / Mr. GREEN - wools—A surgeon, and in that Pi n iie t'o3 o dit p io my flesh was clean. -61se°' 'Oa Mr. GREENWOOD—Wha made your face 90 : _OO , i r fondant—Why the fact is, I met with th some b ate mein my prosperity, and he treated me '' a little tape, which overcame me. esh Mr. GREENWOOD—Heavy and tape ; —Defendant—l'm surprised that you don't ing to the classics of St. Giles's parish, hex a geintleinan_ 0 tape is gin. Now, as to my face, I said the morning—that is true, and it was also true compos ,nentis. However, after my indiscre, me, I fell in with a lot of cab-fellows, who bl and here lama la Jim Crow. Will you TB wheel about and walk out of this office?—(G Mr. GREENWOOD—What do you do now fendant—Prctcribe physic, and prepare a cot plate. Inspector Penny, holding up a pill-box, — in trade. Mr. GREENWOOD, (laugbing)—What does Defendant—lt's the} best physic in the scot of calomel and colocynth ; a dose which I ately on being honoured by your worship wit, Mr. GREENWOOD could no longer hold a cetious defendant, and set him at liberty. WO 0 LWICII. On Saturday Mr. Superintendent Withal sion of Police, laid some documents heron sitting Magistrate, relative to a complaint dr by Reyles Hurrell, Esq., the SOD of a Magi: wherein he states that he was down at W , review, and an utter stranger in the to suddenly laid hold of, dragged to a house, cuffs were in the most siolent manner conveyed to a station-house, and for Ws at a loss to know; at which he, of cours excited ; but, through the worthy Magis; was discharged, with a regret that such happened, and that there was no prete taken into custody at all, and the offices duty in so doing. However, as he heard th! character in the force, and had a large fam him, he would forego the charge if he •sv, apology in the same Court, isnd put a smal box ; but grosser conduct anti violence he noc - o be and protested at the time against it, and s tatea tit them. The police..constab l .e Cox, 31 L, expressed . 11 : 5 ' ,4 4 .4 i, said it was quite through a mistake it occurren_r_ 0:,06,;o1 Mr. Cohen, a most respectable schoolmasitco',o94•sl Powis-street, Woolwich, then had a complain t 00. 11 ,1 , 7 the same constable. He stated that he was P eg ai r , 0 , the churchyard with a cloak on, when he f en 1 00 0 11 0; against. Thinking it was the swell mob syno e l,4 :oo / 01 , caught hold of him he resisted, he (the consta en teci ' .j any uniform on; when the constable thr .th or e I pe ? the handcuffs on, but would show no 101 0 . 0 10 doing, when they had a scuffle ; but he was to 50 0 0 4 0 I and into some house, when he was recognised bp " e / '- influential people in the town , and bail t o a . offered, he was liberate Mr. GROVE expressed d. regret that so big, so bif ie .4 person had met with similar treatment; tP-00100:1'../, liable to a fine of 101. in each case , or two 100 , 00 0 o ment. He might most gratefully thank the ~g 0 50 11", e ; leniency as they had shown after being so it j o g .r , ~ . of his good character and family he would an • 0 they wished. A ~.ft The police constable made the requisite aP';fie,,,;iif money in the box, returning many thanks 10, ,;,, allowing him to do so. . ilore r ; c Mr. Richard Kuegg, late editor of the not ,,(l or 1 was stopped a few nights since in his gig, o rP - I,oori detained in a similar manner, for some eit r 'iteti t i .1 MR. GUNDP,Y.—The Mr. Gu t ? sisXOr° 1 exe hiAdi - it amination has, its our opinion, been so unn artr,,.# dt was a fellow commoner at Peterhouse , 0,10 • 1111 7 1 0 0 Y resident at College, he was scarcely seen no !pti . 4 e e ing to any gownsman. He then rode as ti ag - t li '' - b en 1 301 , head erect, his eyes intently fixed on th,-,, sr' o h e i played billiards, but never, on any o cease,',.:tli e I: oil s the marker. His stake never exceeded ti° 0 9!,; 0 . " PROFITS OF STATE PRlS ° .,,,oli! r 01 ifq 4,306 criminals confined in 15 State Peto u b ' er e i 9 sir the country. In nine of these institutions , °joie i " 071 from convict labour of 63,638 dal. 53 e• :0 0 • ' and in five there is an annual loss of 1 4, Chron. I' 0 , St LVERTLATED T. COX SAVORY, Manufacturing SilTerr'clystillit hill, London (Seven doors from Grae ee 'lng l ilter the prices of the following pattern s of 9 t r on a s'' Dishes, with silver handles and edges, engraving the crest or coat of arms rfp 4 The Gadroon at te d Cove';;c l Four Strongly Plated Corner Dishes itn fl oe% Four Extra Strongly Plated Corne r Covers ... ........... .. ..... ......... • Pattern. e 9 Four Extra Strongly Plated The Flower . nigl., c a per m ...l i alli Covers ............... . ............. 'lce b' l fa N.B. The covers are ... made.... with roovheB above they form extra dishes. 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