The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Williams, the late candidate for the Poetry Professorship at Oxford, appears to have mingled but little in the violence of the late party question. During the hottest period of the controversy he was down with his family at Aberystwith, attending to the coil. accretion of a new church in the sequestered spot of Vangorwen, to the building of which he had subscribed considerable sums. A grand fancy ball was given at Floience, to about GOO of the elite, on the 17th ult., to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Wales, in the Palazzo Ferrari, where Lord Holland resides. The Duchess of Castigliano appeared in a Persian costume, richly jewelled; and the Marchioness Iremtri as Mary Queen of Scots, with a profusion of pearls and diamonds. struae. They were before the eyes of the nations of Europe. They had always come out of such contests gloriously. They were now contesting with a few—with an oligarchy —as to whether they would enlarge and throw open the markets of the world to themselves. Their object was to receive from those markets the commodities they needed in exchange for their own manufactures. They were to decide whether or not they should succeed in increasing their com merce—the source of wealth—:despite a haughty and cruel enemy who treated them with contempt and cruelty merely because he claimed to be a landed proprietor, and deemed them serfs. Their contest was as to whether they should go feed with the swinish herd.—(Hear.) Let no one say that he used that word for inflammatoi y purposes. He confessed if he had the power he would inflame the mind of every man on this question, because it was the cause of all—a holy—a religious cause. He took that word from the uncentradicted accounts in the newspapers of what had really taken place in Wares, where the starving operatives were seen actually to drive the herds of swine from the troughs in order to grt at something like food. ; Their great contest, then, was for freedom of trade—freedom in the trade in provi sions—in the necessaries of life. Would they let the aristo cracy trample upon them ?—(" No, No.") If they would boldly struggle—if they would be guilty of no riot, no tumult —if, becoming bold from their sufferings, tkey spoke out to the h nighty aristocracy—they would find that they would be no longer plundered.—(l he Hon. Gentleman sat down aulidst the most enthusiastic cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then said that the gentlemen of the Exe cutive Committee were requestel to withdraw to the Commit tee- room. Mr. O'Connell then left the room, and retired amid three distinct rounds of applause. Mr. R. J. GREG, of Manchester, then rose to speak to the resolution proposed by Colonel Thompson. He felt under some degree of embarrassment in addressing the meeting after the eloquent, oratorical, and feeling speech of his friend, Mr. O'Connell.—(" Hear, hear, and cheers,") Their worthy and excellent Chairman had in some degree prohibited anything like a Corn-law lecture in the present state of public feeling. He agreed with him in many respects as to the necessity of • that prohibition, and that the time had come for action, and not for words.—(Great cheers.) He agreed with him also in the statement that anything like a cold lecture on political economy would be altogether out of place, —(Cheers.) At the same time he knew of nothing that ex cited the feelings of people more than a sense of injustice— (Cheers)—and he knew of nothing that excited a feeling of in justice more than dealing upon injuries.—(Cheers.) What, he would ask, did Mark Anthony appeal to when he wished to excite the people? Why, the bleeding body of Cassar ? —(Cries of " Hear, Naar.") And what did Peter the Hermit do when he wished to excite commiseration? He pointed to the sufferings that the people endured on their way to Jeru salem. He would for a few momenta allude to the great prin ciples that had excited the country to action, believing that by so doing he would put their injuries in a more prominent light, and the, eby enable the Delegates, when they returned to those who had sent them to the metropolis to explain to the people the amount of injuries they had sustained, and show them the necessity fur action.—( Cheers.) He would allude for a moment to the great principal cause. The effect of the limita, Lion of food was the bottom of all the evils the people of Eng land were suffering. That was the great injustice, and that was the evil must be removed before any remedy could be hoped for. —( Cheers.) He begged of them for a moment to con sider the state of their countrymen when they were confined in the black hole at Calcutta. Many of those persons were men of great wealth, yet what was the consequence with respect to them • why they struggled to get more air, and in that s t ru g g le the weak sank under the strong, and be fore the morning many of them were dead.—( Cries of " Shame.") Many of those individuals would have given thou sands for air, but they could not obtain it. In the same way in this island, there was but a small space, and the inhabitants were too numerous for the food it could produce, and the re sult was that they must perish unless more food could be pro duced. It was useless to talk of any thing that would not have that effect.--(Loud cheers.) If the people had money, it was true they would buy . food, but what would be the effect of that ? The price of food would be increased, but no more food could be got, and the agricultural labourers would have to perish.—(Cheers.) In short, before they could get more food relief must 'be given.—(Cheers.) But it was said, negociate with foreign powers, open new markets for your industry ; but what would be the use of that unless more food could be ob tained ?—( Cheers.) He would suppose the whole empire of China was open to the English markets, there would be no use in that. No good result from it unless more food could be ob tained.—( Loud cheering.) It was true that if China was opened to the English, they might get more gold and silver, they might get more raw silk.—(Hear.) But that would do no.good without food. It might be applied to the purchase of that, corn mostly, but how could it be ex pended unless there was plenty of food in the country to purchase If the Corn-laws were repealed, then they should have the benefit of new markets, because then the manufacturers of the country could be exchanged for food.—(Cheers.) He was sorry to dwell on the point, but it was the most important; as he had said hefore, they cou'd have no relief without snore food; no extension of trade would have any effect, they must keep this in mind that every measure that did not increase the quantity of food was useless.—( Cheers.) They had been gulled and cheated by the operation of the Corn-laws ; their;manufacturers had been racking their brains to find out new inventions, but by that they did themselves no good, because every thing produced by other classes of the community had to be exchanged for the limited quantity of wheat that the country produced.—( Cheers.) For the last twenty or thirty years there was hardly the slightest increase in the value of the exports. What was the reason of that ? Why, that there was but a small quantity of food grown in thiecountry. There wa3 a bl urideringgoing on, an unconsciousness of that which, if they had been conscious of, they would have resisted long ago. The people were now awakened to this, and he trusted that they'would not stop till they had effected a total repeal of the Corn-laws. Referring to Colonel Thompson's speech, the question of their exports had formed a large portion of the speech of Sir Robert Peel; to these he had referred as a proof of the prosperity of the isountry. He did not know whether he was aware that such was not the fact. If he was, he had acted in a most improper manner; if he was not, then he was not St for the post lie held. (LEFT SPEAKING.) CORN-LA WS-MIN ISTE RI AL PLAN. RESOLUTIONS INTENDED TO BE PROPOSED IN THE COAINIITTEE ON THE CORN-LAWS—By SIR R. PEEL. I.—That the following Duties shall be paid upon the Impor tation of Corn, Grain, Meal, or Flour, in lieu of the Duties now payable thereon ; viz., if imported from any Foreign Country : _ WHEAT:- Whenever the average price of Wheat, made up and published in the manner required by law, shall be, for every quarter, Proposed Present Sliding Sliding Scale. Scale. C Under 51s. the duty shall be, 1 20s. Orl. 36s. &I, 1 for every qu ar t er 51s. and under 525. l9 0 35 8 525. and under 535. ••••••34 8 535. and under 545. 545. and under 555. 555. and under 565. 565. and under 575. l6 0 ...... ...30 8 i7g. and under 585.... 15 0 29 8 iBs. and under 595. l4 0 28 8 i9s. and under 6os. Xis. and under 61s. l2 0 26 8 ils. and under 625. its. and under 635. ;3s. and under 645. 4s. and under 651. ,s*. and under 665. , 6s. and under 575. ....20 8 7s. and under 58s. ..18 8 :is. and under 695. ...... 16 8 9s. and under 70s. Os. and under 71s. Is. and under 725. 2s. and under 735. is. and upwards BARLEY. THE GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE. (THIS DAY.) The Conference met this morning at the Crown and Anchor, at eleven o'clock. The attendance was much more numerous than it had been on any former occasion. Mr. APLAREN, on taking the Chair at half-past eleven o'clock, said that at a meeting of the Executive Committee this morning, which had been very fully attended, he had been allowed to propose that, as he had occupied - "the Chair two days, the Committee should fix upon another member to fill that post. He bad occupied the Chair two days, and he thought that a sufficient time for a Deputy from the country to have occupied that Chair, and therefore he had expressed it as his opinion that the Chair ought now to be occupied by some person connected with London. The Committee had consi• dered the subject, and had acceded to his request. It had then been considered who should be recommended to occupy the Chair to-day, and it had been agreed upon that P. A. Taylor, Esq., of London, should be requested to occupy the Chair.— (Cheers.) He therefore proposed that Mr. Taylor should take the Chair. Mr. KERSHAW, of Manchester, seconded the nomination, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. TAYLOR then took the Chair. The Cmaramast said he had unexpectedly had the honour conferred upon him of being called upon to occupy the Chair to day, but from what he had seen of the quiet and orderly manlier in which their proceedings had been conducted during the last two days, he felt that he should have no difficulty, with their assistance, in exercising the f unc ti on w hi c h h a d d evo l ve d upon him. The question had assumed such a shape since yesterday —( Loud cheers)—had been so cleared from all difficulty, as to snake their path clear and straightforward.—(lmmense cheering.) All apprehensions had been removed lest the wily politician at the head of her Majesty's Government. should by securing concessions, concessions in words only, lure some portion of that support from them which had recently been manifested in their favour throughout the country— ( Cheers) —and if they continued in theircourse with resolution, moderation, and firmness, they must carry their point even tually, as they would be sure to carry every question involving a national wrong.—( Loud cheers.) The question was, in fact, shortly, whether the corn- growing trade should be protected at the cost of every other trade and class, for the sole purpose of en riching the corn-growing trade.—.(Cheers.) The effect being the aggrandisement of the enormous rents of an already too wealthy aristocracy—(Loud cheers)—which were upheld solely for their own purposes, by that aristocracy having the com mand of the legislation of the United Kingdom.—(Cheers. ) Nothing could be said to add to the sordidness of such conduct, but something might be said to demonstrate its absurdity.— (Cheers.) The aristocracy attempted to lessen the force of this plain statement—attempted to delude the people by telling them that this law was not enacted for the purpose of adding to their rents—not for the aggrandisement of their wealth- .that it was not a tax imposed upon the country—but a la w enac t e d for the eational go o d. fie would merely remark upon two of the arguments which bad been propounded by Sir Robert Peel, in his speech of last night. Sir Robert had said that the distress was not attributable to the Corn-law, but to the great excitement of the year 1837. Now he would say, that this could not be a cause, but it must be a consequence.—( Loud cheers.) In what state must that nation be which fears to put forth its utmost powers of production?—(Cheers ) What state must that country be in which could only be maintained in health by keeping the exertions of its industry in a languid state ? (Immense cheering.) Was the whole world civilised? Was it true that the country could only be maintained in a health): state by restraining its creative powers. If such were the ease, the end of the world must be at hand. At all events there was not room for another producing individual in it. We already produced too mu :h for the consumption of the world.—( Loud cheers.) Another argument made use of by Sir Robert Peel was this. He congratulated the country that the amount of the exports had so much increased. Now if any of thorn had ever walked through the streets of London during a time of distress, he must have seen staring him in the face the announcement—" Tremendous sacrifice." The con sequence of that announcement always was, that immense sales took place ; and perhaps, in the course of two days, the mer chant's warehouse was cleared. Well, then, when this had taken place, Sir Robert Peel would go into that merchant's warehouse, and, shaking him by the hand, say to him, " Sir, I congratulate you on your prosperity ; you never made such large sales in your life before." The merchant might well re ply, as did the General who had lost half his best troops in a victory, " Sir Robert, another such a run of prosperity would be my ruin."—( Hear.) He woted recommend that, in their speeches of to-day, those who addressed the meeting should use rather the language of action than that of reflection.—( Cheers. ) that they should rather say what was to bedone for the future. (Cheers)--than deliver anything like Anti-Corn-law lectures. .. (Cheers.) On the question now there could be no mis take.—(Cheers.) The landed aristocracy were pitted against them, and give way easily they would not.—( H ear, h ear. ) Sir Robert Peel, after five months, of gestation had brought forth the mouse of last ht —( Cheers and laughter.) There were no hopes for them, they must either conquer the aris tocracy in some way or other— (Immense cheering)—he meant peaceably, constitutionally—(Cheers)—but they must put the aristocracy down in some way or other, or the aris tocracy would crush thern.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. GREG, (the late member for Manchester,) said that before they proceeded to the regular business of the meeting they had a grateful duty to perform, and he therefore proposed a vote of thanks to their late Chairman.—( Cheers.) Mr. E. BAXTER had great pleasure in seconding the propo sition. He had come a distance of 500 miles to advocate jus tice to all—to the merchant, to the manufacturer, to the spin ner, to the poor ; and he would tell them he was determined to come back again as often as Sir Robert Peel pleased.—( Loud cheers.) He would riot relax in his endeavours as long as justice was refused to 'the people.—(Cheers.) He wished to see justice done to the commercial man, the manufacturer, the labouring classes, and the poor—(Loud cheers)—and he hoped that they would none of them desist until they had accom plished justice for England, Scotland, and Ireland.—(lmmense cheers.) He had come 500 miles, and therefore claimed a right to second the vote of thanks to Mr. M‘Laren, for he knew him well.—( Cheers.) He was a gentleman who had been most highly esteemed as an upright, intelligent, and ta leutel man. He had great pleasure in seconding the vote proposed by Mr. Greg.—( Cheers.) The vote of thanks to Mr. M'Laren was then put and car ried by acclamation. Mr. APLa KEN, in rising to return thanks, said, he begged to acknowledge the kindness of the gentleman who proposed a vote of thanks to him for his services in the Chair. He consented to occupy the Chair with great reluctance; but, having undertaken the office, he used his best endeavours to discharge properly his duty to the meeting, and he must say, that the conduct of the assembly was such as to render his office almost a sinecure.—( Hear, hear.) He begged to thank the meeting for the manner in which it had received the vote of thanks which was passed to him; but, being on his legs, he wished to explain, that the meeting which was held last night at Brown's Hotel, after the announcement of the Pre mier's measure, was quite unconnected with the Conference. They met as individuals, and passed resolutions which would be laid before the Conference to-day ; but he begged it to be understood that they did not meet as a Conference.—( Hear.) It was not their intention to take upon them the powers of the Conference. He also desired to say that he cordially agreed with what the Chairman had spoken, that this was not a time for reflection, but for action.—(Cheers.) There could be no difference of opinion, that though the sliding scale had got a new face, it was essentially the same as the old one—( Hear, hear)—and it was perhaps the best thing that could have happened that there was so little difference in the two mea sures.—(Cheers.) If it had been larger, some of the friends who were not over zealous in the cause might have said, " Oh, it is a large measure, let us give it a trial for a year or so, that we may know how it will tell ;" but now the change was so small that no person who might be inclined to take the smallest good alteration, could listen to it for a moment as worthy of consideration.—(Cheers.) He knew they would more than ever be united in resisting it.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he could not help announcing to the meetiug, that he had got intelligence that the Manchester Bazaar had already realised 10,0001.-4 Loud eheers)—an answer to Sir Robert Peel's speech last night.—(Cheers. ) He would take that opportunity of reminding gentlemen that they must have for the struggle the sinews of war —( Hear)-- and that they must open their purse strings, not looking on what they gave as an outlay, but as an investment that would bring a large interest.—(Cheers.) Colonel Tnomesost rose amid loud cheers, and said, that since he came into the room, an abstract of the speech of the Prime Minister had been put into his hand, with a desire that he would comment thereupon, and inasmuch it would be very unwise to occupy three hours on a commentary on the three hours speech of her Majesty's Premier, he must be excused if he fell short of the longitude of that speech.—(Cheers and laughter.) He would follow the advice of the Chairman, and g ire them words of action, rather than of reflection.—( Cheers. ) Nevertheless he would beg of the meeting to hear some words of reflection, rather than of action, on the plan of the Prime Minister, and the reasons he avowed for pursuing that plan.— ( Hear.) And in the first place, he (Sir R. Peel) took the position that the existing national distress was not to be traced altogether to the o peration of the Corn-laws. Now, when every one of them went home tto their own residences, would not distress, whether they would or not, present itself to them?--(deers.) 'And would not their ledgers trace it to the operation of the Corn-laws ?—(Cheers.) Does not each mer chant know that the operation of these laws has been the cause of throwing out of his employ men, women, and children, and that they are cast starving on the world, because the hands that would feed them are not allowed to carry food to their mouths, because the law says that the productions of industry shall not be exchanged for food ?—(Cheers.) On wh a t principle of justice could these who advocated those laws now, defend themselves when they came to answer them, as he trusted in God they wouldbe compelled toanswer them—when they were asked why a compensation in the shape of a bounty on foreign corn should not be continued to the people for an indefinite period ?—( Cheers.) He (Colonel Thompson) hoped that a few like touches from the Minister would bring their courage to the sticking-point—(Loud cheers).— and that they would find out that there was nothing of the pith of anything like argument on this question. These Tory aristocrats tell you that they were born for the enjoyment of duties, and that the people were born for the enjoyment of paying those duties.— ( Laughter.) Now, when it is urged that trade is declining beynrefiteas how , n o h f th e a tlaw, asked, which would is theyo nt answer the th people, e eristea th tl e b demand for retribution ?—( Cheers.) He would not unneces sarilycinuedfo to r advocate retribution, but it was Scriptural?—(Cheers. ) He found that four-fold was paid for a sheep, and five-fold for an ox, and if that were so, what retribution ought not be demanded for the Corn-law ?—( Loud cheering.) He went back to the principle-:-he might prove that retribution was acknowledged to be most profitable in all nations and ages, and it would be found that it would not do for any man to cowinue injustice in the expectation of impugnity. (Loud cheers.) Something must be done in the way of threat or retribution before the wicked or selfish were made to give up their unjust practices.—(Loud cheers.) It remained to be seen whether they were not to hese some other droits de sag neur. He need not explain what that meant, they all knew that it gave certain kinds of rights over their wives and daugh ters. And just as insulting and unjust, considering the differ ence of ancient and present times, were the demands of the aristocracy urson them.—(Cheers.) They tell us that the ma nufacturers must not work without paying to them a high per C cutage for the liberty,, and this was a s t a t e of things which no nation like E ng l an d wou ld sub mit to. —( Cheers. J - ie would now p rocee d to some o f t h e ) arguments of their enemies. The existing national distress was stated to arise from a concurrence of various causes. There was a rope about the neck of the patient, but the doctor comes in and says that it was a concurrence of causes that was killing him.—( Loud cheers and laughter.) The poor patient it was evident had not died from the rope, brat from a concur rence of causes.—(Laughter. ) He bad a Now Of tp th e head.—to suffoeAtien.e--( Renewed jaughter ( . 4 ) u sl gh u t t er th .) e 4 tendencynter in his capacity of Stge SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE. j PhYSia43l, would account for the phenomenon of the patient's INTILULIGENCE .. 1 .T.-XTRA.—NEWMARKET CRA YEN I ;quit by attributin it to a concurrence of causes and a comp , IVIEETINO, 1842. cation .7! embarrassment.---(Laughter. ) Say' not a word of the °use to PonPurrPn•- , - • re of circumstances T ""A'r• - •—The Oatlands Sta l- a + of 50 soya. each, &c.— the rope— _l oo k The , Gitoins, 5 - rt, Bst 71b—Ces h ar " w'tch, 4 ors, Bst 411, to account for the ' —.firm • and thus the FrPtPlPr P!Ffs IttiASOUN, OP TUE DAY. (FaoNt a CORRESPONDENT.)—A richly.endowed Roman Ca tholic Chapel is shortly to be erected at Windsor, for the special accommodation of the Roman Catholics, who are now, or may hereafter be, attendant on her Majesty. This will be very wel come news to the foreign Princes and Ambassadors, &c., of the Catholic faith, who have hitherto been obliged, while the Court Is at Windsor, to go to Clewer-green. The Queen of the Belgians, particularly, who was put to great inconvenience last year, will be glad of this. The lining is to be in the gift of her Majesty our Queen, with the approval of the Vicar Apostolic of the. Loudon District. The curate will be a French priest. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LivEarooL CorroN MARKET, FEB. S. —The sales of Cotton to-day amount to 3,000 bales to the trade, with a steady market. Prices remain !t Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 9.—The transactions at the Stock Exchange this day have been to a considerable extent, comprising—Eastern Counties, 87 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 45i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 22.1; Grand Junction Half Shares, 924 ; Chester and Crewe, 46 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 59 1 / 4 ; Fifths, 9: ; London and Birmingham, 17•2 i ; Quarter Shares, The news brought by the arrival of the packet ship Stephen Whitney, at Liverpool, from New York, will be found in an other part of The Sun. . . By the arrival of the Demerara packet at Deal, from Laun ceston, Van Diemen's Land, Hobart Town papers to the 28th August, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house : HOBART TOWN, Aua. 26.—1 n consequence of the recent Intelligence from Sydney the price of wheat and flour has drooped considerably ; fine flour at the mills 201. Wheat, Ss. to Bs. fid per bushel. THE FUNDS. The English Securities opened without any material altera tion from the closing prices of yesterday. A sale of Money Stock to the amount of 30,000/.. took place this morning, but had little effect upon the Market. Consols are 88i 89 for Money ; and 89, buyers for the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced are 89i 1; Exchequer Bills are firm at 19s. 21s. prem. The principal business doing in the Foreign Market has been in Spanish Securiti.!l, and a further advance has taken place. The Active Stock is now 25k , Passive, 51 ; Deferred, I2i ; Portuguese Fives, 32k ; ditto, Threes, 19i. HALF-PAST ONE. The Dutch mail has arrived. The Five per Cents. came 101 15-16, and the Two-and a-Half per Cents. 51 13•-16. Exchange on London two months 12 2/, Cash 12 10. The English Steek Market has improved. Consols are now 894 for Morey aid Account; Bank Stock 16i ; Exchequer Bills 21s. to 235. prem., and India Bonds ss. to 7s. Spanish Active Stock continues firm at 25, Mexican Bonds are rather ht at 31%, Portuguese Fives are 32a, Dutch Two and-a. Half per Cents. 51a 3. Very little doing in Shares, the following are the quota tions :—Birmingham and Derby, 58 ; Ditto and Gloucester, 19A ; Great Western, 853 • London and Brighton, 363: Ditt o and South Western, 64; York and North Midland, 92 ; Ditto New, 313. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6Bk India Stock 3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds 7 pin 3 per Cent Cons B9} Ditto Old Annuities ... 3I per Cent Red 991 Ditte New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities i.oespire Ditto Small 23 pm Jan. 1860.......... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct — Oct 1859. 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 893 FO 11 EIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 psi cent.— Be!gum, 5 pet cent Brazilian Bondy. Buenos Ayres 6 per cell t Chilian, 6 per cent...« Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Ditto, I 524........ Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 321 Ditto, 6 per ceiv_. 1.637 Peruvian, 1825, [per ct. Portuguese, 5 per cent. jDitto, New Ditto 321 Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent ll6 Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent 2. Ditto, Deferred.... 12i French, 5 per cent. 1. Exchange French, 3 per cent — —c Dutch, 2i per cent. 51 i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . SHARES.' - Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 53 Ditto Thirds (25 paid) 19% Great Western Hallway ( 65 paid) B5l Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) I6A London and South Western North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 pai,!)... ........ 3-li York an&North ;Midland Railway (50 paid ) 92 Ditto vi ew Shares (15 paid) 36} - , CORN AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fur the Week ended Feb. 4, IN% made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England :mu Wales, per Imperial Quarter. fit, Oats Barley' 2Sti. sd. I Rye St: lif I Pease 234 11, AVERAGES OF THE LAST six wzgKs. Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. RYE. BEANS. I PEASE Dec. 31 63 1 29 9 Jan. 1 . 4 al 5 23 1 141 26 66 7 23 S 4 CO 6 2 5 20 7I 43 6 36 0 37 2 'A 7i 39 9 :)6 u :=5 10 21 4' 40 n 34 II 35 2 !0 0 I I 31 . 8 0 4 • % 3 ; 4 Zl4 D. 20 1 36 1 : 1 4 33 11 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVIIRAOLX OF TIIX SIX WILSICS I'd.' Oats ...,......0•. 4t. lICAIIS .345. 7 11arIvy .. f2s. 01. ItYe DUTIES GE FOREIGN CORN. Wheat .4 . 5", 6 — d, I OsttS Barley — 183. 4d. l Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. COLONIAL MARKET. Prices were sustained, but the market was dill Coffee arm, and in request, low and good middling Jamaica 100 s. to 130 s. Good ordinary Ceylon 70s. per cwt. TEA MARKET. Prices firm, with a lair demand. The value of common Black is Is. Mid., and Green is. Md. TALLOW MARKET. Tallow in good request at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s. 6(1 to 495. for delivery. OIL MARKET. The market looked lively, and holders were firm. Seal, 411., and Linseed Oil, 351. per cwt. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The supply of Hay and Clover was moderate, with a good demand. Prices without alteration. Of Straw the supply was middling, with a good trade. Pale LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Lowssom, FEB. 10.—Wind this day at noon S.W. Dz.& L, FEa. 9.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. from the River and sailed, Houghton Le Spring, Cape ; Swiftsure, Algoa Bay; Newport, Rio; General Palmer, with the rest of the outward bound. Arrd. Demerara pckt, Cobb, Launceston.' PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 9.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. her Ma jesty's ship Revenge, Lisbon. HULL, FEE. 9. —Wind S.—Sailed Independent, Bombay, Leon, New York. PEEL'S NEW SLIDING-SCALE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. sit-1 send you herewith a copy of a requisition which is now in course of signature in the City of London, requesting the Lord Mayor to call a public meeting to consider the subject the. ein stated. 1 have, for the last right years, taken no part in the political warfare which has been raging between the two great pasties in the State. I have long been convinced that the struggle is but a contest for power, for pitsco, and for pelf; that, in short, the two parties are both " tarred with the same brush." Common humanity, to say not a word about Christianity, calls upon every rean, every woman, and every child in the United Kingdom, to stand forth and appeal to our Most Gakcious Sove reign to save her FAITHFUL and Lover. people from STLRVATION I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN NICHOLSON. 15, Fenchurch-street, Feb. 10, 1842 " Feb. 10. 184:1. " TO THE RIGHT MONOURARLE TILE LORD MAYOR. " My Lord,—We, the undersigned Liverymen, citizens, and householders of the City of London, request that your Lordship will be pleased to call a public meeting in our Guildhall, to take into consideration Use necessity of presenting a petition to the Queen, and to consider whether it may be thought tit to petition either the House of Commons or the House of Lords, relative to She proposed measure of Sir Robert Peel on the Corn-laws." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the Castle-terrace, and in the newly laid-out grounds of the Home-park. This afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, accompanied by the Prince- Ferdinand and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, in a potty carriage, followed by the Viscountess J oc elyn, Hon. Miss Paget, and Hon. Miss Liddell in another pony carriage, and attended on horseback by the Earl of Mor ton, Colonel Wylde, Hon. Captain Duncombe, Count Degen feld Schoufberg, and Captain Zaitsch. Her Majesty's Private Band, and the Band of the Royal Horse Guards will be in attendance this morning. Col. Bouverie will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle at the Castle this evening. The Court will leave early to-morrow (Thursday) morning, about half-past eight o'clock, and will proceed by the usual route to Brighton. . Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning lAsh Wednesday) in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on her Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlbe rou_gh-house. s The Duchess of Kent iisited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester.house, and also her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge house. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Deans, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. 'The lion. Mr- and Mrs. Watson have arrived in town, from Rockingham Castle. Mrs. Walker Ferrand has arrived in town, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has left Farrance's jlotel, for the seat of Lord Lyttelton, Worcestershire. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell sat vrsterday. The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Mr. Justice Erskine. An Appal was resumed which had been part he ar d at f ormer sittings, from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, relative to the property of Mr. Peter Rainer, who died oa the 30th of Oc_ " teber, 1837, the parties being Charles Deere a n d Thomas Alayhew e. Ellen Elwyn. Dr. Addams was heard for the respondent, and occupied the Court until past three o'clock, w hen the Queen's Advocate ros e Io eonamenoe his reply for the appellant, Their Lordsh i ps adjourned at four o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY lO, 184. to the people of England for the state of the country. But there was mention made in the speech of the state of joint-stock banks. Let them recollect that was what pre vented the prosperity of trade.—( Hear, and laughter.) 'then there were the improvements in machinery. These improve ments arc charged as the cause of the mischiefs of manufactur ing speculators. What wicked men they were to speculate.— (Laughter.) But, there was not one word of landlords' specu lations. Now, why should they not get up parish committees to ascertain whether the landlords had or had not too much rent ? If it could be proved that the manufacturers had made any profits at all, that was immediately produced as evidence to show that their demands for more were unjust. Now from what he had learned from those who had preceded him, he be lieved that a man had a right to all that he could honestly get; and there was no reason to say to a man I should think he had already made enough. If a contrary principle were established, the time might come when the people might turn round on the aristocracy and tell them that 2001. a year might suffice for any man. But the depression of trade, it was said was accompanied by an interruption of our relations with Ame rica; and the distress in the United States arose from the ope ration of causes similar to those which last produced our war. That reminded him of the story of the sailor boy who, when asked by his Captain what he was doing, replied, " no thing," and when another was asked what lie was doing, he replied, " helping Jack, Sir."—( Lauisliter. 1 So it was said that there was nothing doing in England, and in America they were following our example. And that was given as a reason why we were to continue to do nothing. It was added that the diminution in the demand from the United States arose in some degree from its monetary embarrassments. He ( Col. Thompson) supposed our refusal to take their corn had nothing to do with the matter. It was very certain, however, that a man who might not be able to pay in money might be able to pay in articles of subsistence; and our refusal to take the corn of the United States, might have caused an unfortunate irritation on the other side of the Atlantic, and only corresponding with our own. They could not put an end to the distress in the United States —they could not prevent the cessation of a steady demand from the United States, nor prevent their monetary embarrass ments, under the existing state of our relations with that country. But the Government might put an end, by wise legis lation, to the interruption of our trade with America. Again, it was said that commercial distress and embarrassment were inseparable from the nature of commercial transactions. That was the assertion of Sir Robert Peel ; but he might as well have told them that men died and worms eat them. That, however, was no reason why their countryhouses should be closed ; and why their prosperity should be allowed gradually but certainly to decline, England, too, was a country in which a large portion of the people were dependant upon the pros perity of trade for the means of subsistence; and yet it was supposed that the interests of the working-classes could be separated from the interests of manufacturers. That was 'a fallacy into which he was sorry to say some of the working men had fallen. He believed, however, that few of their men really belonged to the working class ; he believed they were a set of men hired to play the part of mummers.—( Hear, hear.) At one meeting he had seen three men and two boys whistling, who called themselves the repre sentatives of her Majesty's Pro •Corn-law opposition. (Laughter. ) Yet these men called themselves the mouth pieces of the working classes ; while the real working men came forward and ti ld them that what they wanted was a cheap loaf.—( Hear, hear.) He had no doubt but there were indi vidual manufacturers who might have made an improper use of the power whieh their position gave them over those who served them ; but the good sense of the nation ought not to allow some private and individual errors to be brought forward as a ground for maligning a whole class.— ( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel said, that "although very great distress did most unquestionably exist, there was no cause of despondency as to the future prosperity of our com mercial greatness." Only let things go on as they were, and the Prime Minister would exhort th em no t t o despond.— ( Hear, hear.) But what invitation was there to go on when we had lost nine-tenths of the commerce of Europe, which might have continued our own if legislation had not interfered to prevent it ? The Corn-law was framed upon the principle that commerce and trade were to be depressed, except in as far as the landlords were to receive the benefit of them. When the day name for trying the converse of that proposition, let them not forget that that was the tendency of the language of the Prime Minister in the day of his pride and prosperity. The, agriculturists, according to Sir Robert Peel, were not opposed to a modification of the Corn-laws. lie (Colonel Thompson) knew some agriculturists who would not oppose a total repeal of the Corn-laws.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") There were some long-headed men among the agriculturists, and there were many of every other class. There were some of them in that room—mere whom 'he (Colonel Thompson) knew to be of capacious heads. There wet e also great terri torial possessors both in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons, who had good sense enough to know that their interests were bound up with the prosperity of commerce. Honour to these men, and a speedy increase to their numbers. —(Hear, hear.) But, according to Sir Robert Peel, "it was impossible to satisfy the free traders." There were, perhaps, in that assembly many gentlemen who had come to London with exaggerated fears of the thieves of London, and who were surprised to find that they escaped in their walks with their pocket-handkerchiefs. But it would seem they should have been satisfied with half the pocket-handkerchief. It was im possible to satisfy the free-traders who demanded the removal of all protective duties—who asked to escape with whole pocket-handkerchiefs. They should have surrendered the half at least to their plunderers.--(Hear, hear.) There was, however, another subject worthy of notice. It had never been shown—it never could be shown—that whatever sum was levied for the purpose of protection, as it was called, was not twice taken from some one to be given to somebody else. And the principle of the Corn-laws was to take a shilling out of the pocket of the manufacturer to put a sixpence into that of the landlord.—( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel proceeded to say— " There remains then the parties who advocate a fixed duty upon the importation of foreign corn." Now of that class of persons there were two descriptions—there were those who wanted to stop there, and there were those who wanted not to stop there. He apprehended that any one in that room who advocated a fixed duty, advocated it with a view to a final abolition ; and he should not, therefore, dwell long upon that part of the subject. Sir Robert Peel, turning to those who advocated a fixed duty, said—'• The same odium was surely to be attached to a fixed duty as to a variable one." There was odium, then, incurred by those who left the passenger without the whole pocket-handkerchief in the practice of their par ticular vocation.—(Hear.) Sir Robert Peel went on to say— " But the true test of the matter, was not the corn ! paratire prices of food at home and abroad, but the compare ; live amount of the enjoyments and comforts of life which each individual labourer could command." Why, what was the comparative amount of the comforts and enjoyments of life possessed by the workmen of Bolton ?—(Hear, hear.) By the men whom he had seen in that town thrusting their beads into corners and dustholes, to find nothing more of softness that a dusthole could bestow? The comparative amount of the comforts and eejoyments of life, quotha ! Let each of them go home to their villages and towns, and hunt up the comparative amount of the comforts and enjoyments of lite, as a proof that the Corn-laws ought not to be removed. In giving extracts from the evidence of Dr. Bowring, the Minister contended that the labourers of England were able to command a larger share of the comforts and enjoyments of life than the labourers of the Continent.—(Disapprobation.) Sup pose that they did—was that a reason why you should take from them all you can squeeze ? Did Sir R. Peel suppose, that, even if it were true, it was a reason for stopping the progress of their ledgers, of their sales abroad, and preventing the employment of their operatives at home ? Why, if that were the case, they must shut up shop, or if not exactly that, must carry on a little business, instead of a great one. Looking at all this, did not this meeting see that if anything like pa triotism was left in the country, it must consist in ousting these men from power.—( Tremendous cheering, renewed and continued for several minutes.) But, thank God, they had at last got them to a point. The bull was at last brought to the ring, and they should now see what metal he was made of. The question was brought to this :—Shall there be any commerce allowed by the law of the country ? Shall all the industry, all the wages, all the population that might by every possibility be called forth and supported by commerce, be pro hibited and forbidden to exist ? There had been much said of a work written on what was called " painless extinction," in which a number of men had incurred perhaps justifiable odium, from advocating this " painless extinction." He knew not what it meant. It was something that ought not to be, lie did not doubt; but what was it compared to this general " painful extinction ?" Here was a population under the pro cess of being carried through all the various grades of misery of which human nature was capable, the men of Bolton were actually dying of the experim en t o f how much dirt a man was capable of living on. He had seen a wretched bird perishing from the ignorance of children, who did not know the quantity of misery it was capable of supporting. Such was just the case with the population tney saw perishing under their eyes. When the gentleman whose evidence was unfairly brought to establish a case against them, gave a true and honest account of the state of the population of the borough he repre sented, "liar" was the genteelest term he was saddled with. 'this alone would show them the line every man had to march through who took this view of the question. But six weeks ago " liar" was the term put forth by the satellites of the Pre mier's press against the gentleman whom they had themselves appointed to discharge an honourable ditty, and who had insisted on doing it honestly and creditably ; and the same abuse must be sustained by all men of the same opinions. But he goes on to say, that " the argument founded on the prices of Mod at home and abroad is fallacious." It was fallacious if it was put in a fallacious manner ; but taking it to be correct, it did not touch the fact that for every shilling given for food by the ope rative, you turn through his hand another shilling, which is sent to the landlord in the shape of rent. And there was a peat fallacy which had been often offered to the operatives, and to which too many of them had submitted; they had been told that the tax paid to the landlord was the security for their wages ; now, if those could be weak enough to admit that what was taken from them in the shape of a tax to the landlord, a tax on the operative's food, is a part of the wages of the operative—if some of them had been deluded to believe this, it was for those who' had some leisure, and better means of information, to disensi the foul fallacy, and disperse it to the winds.—cCheers.)_ Well, then, what had they done after all this? 'I his, they might suppose, must lead . to some thing. What is it? Nothing ! What is at best ? Why, a partial reduction of the scale; but the sliding-scale, with all its ingenious di s ho nes t y , i s preserved unharmed and un touched; something was done in the way of altering the degrees of the scale, calculated, he observed, with peculiar ingenuity, with reference to the present time, appearing to promise some relief at the actual moment, but the evil principle was there preserved. What must be the consequence? Why, that all the agitation that might have been diminished now, will be in creased at a future time. Sir R. Peel appeared to think that if he obtained temporary relief he might go en for a certain time, and then, he presumed, - there would be a necessity for more starving operative s a t B olton, more widows, more orphans, with none to care for them ; more men living, as he had seen them, on pennyworths of mutton, and half pennyworths of , bread, and all the while these men were looking on, riding in their coaches, whit s they were living on the life-blood and sinews of their fellow citizens; all this while, too, they were calling themselves, and being called by others, what by courtesy they were termed in the House of Legislature, and felt no shame in meeting the eyes of their countrymen in the streets. There never was a wore barefaced injustice, there never was a robbery so large committed with such palpable evidence of falsehood and wrong. —(Cheers.) To this demand for relief it is objected, that " it seems as if it was a law of nature that there should be these several periods of scarcity and abundance, succeeding each other ; not single or alternate years, but certain periods." They knew that this was true, they knew that thistles grew in one place, and nettles in another, and, if great care was not taken, sow-thistles would grow over all. But what is all this but fudge, when compared with the vital interests at stake? Why, they had always knovrnthat there must be periods of scarcity and periods of abundance, and,assensible and honest men, they ought to encourage commerce, in order to relieve those periods of scarcity. But there was an objection to the occurrence of periods of abundance ; they keep us at the scarcity point, that we may be reduced to the necessity of giving a famine price, in order that we may pay, as we do pay, a great portion of the earnings of our honest industry to the landlords' rent. But you were born, as our Amercan brethren phrase it, to the possession of natural and water-born privileges, you ought not to consent to a confiscation of a half pp a, quarter of your means, to be put into the pockets of those whq heal the Pgrftr tp neap the laws. Why, if any other set of men were in the Possession poy pr—if all the tuenufae turing operatives had the power of making "the' laws—could they mak e an y worse ?—(Cheers.) If the sailors of a Ship:-: if the common soldiers of a regiment, had the power of law- making, could they make such laws for reducing a great country to a little one ?--( Loud cheers.) He says to that " a fixed duty in abundant seasons would discourage their borne agriculture by bringing down the price." What is done by the home manufacturer ? He gets such prices as he ca,i, and calculates his outlay accordingly, and if he is disappointed, like an honest man he puts the disappointment in his pock. t. He is never heard going to the landowner to make up the de. ficiency. But the lindowners, it seems, must have two bags, and those bags were the right and left pockets of the manutac turer—(Cheers)—and they dip their hands into them when ever they find it convenient. There were perhaps some altera tions in the plan ; as many, probably, as amounted to the dif ference between a silken halter and a hempen one ; but it was a mere change in the mode of doing mischief. It was a great comfort, no doubt, that there was some alteration in the scale, and when they came to examine its amount, they would find that there had been just enough agitation to take think that , and they wou ld h e enc ouraged to airdhotftlethe more evil agitation would bring down the whole.—(Cheers.) And if they wanted to ha s ten the re moval of the whole , they must threaten the enemy with tthaat third going farther than that. He should, himself, conscientiously and with integrity advocate th e t a ki ng a l arge retr ib ut i on on the landlords • how many would f o ll ow hi m depende d on t h em, not on himself. But he did utterly scout the charge of insin cerity and deceit, and what not, which was launched by the Press against the advocates of the system of compensation, He would not launch accusations of insincerity and deceit against any man. Let them advocate the total repeal of the Corn-laws. Though they.were told that such men were never heard of—men who would accept of no compromise. Let us tell them that we will compromise, but only to this, that a full retribution be taken for us for the evils of the existing Corn-laws. Twenty-four years' bounty on the importation of foreigu corn would be a just and adequate compromise.—( Hear, hear.) Out of that they had his full consent to compromise if they thought it would aid the attainment of their object; but he would op pose all compromise out of any thing else. And, now, having applial himself at some length to this subject, the meeting might not be aware with what he was going to conclude. He had first to read the resolutions adopted at a meeting of thedele gates which was held last night, and then to propose that they should be adopted by the meeting. The delegates walked, about 600 in number, to the gates of the House of Commons, decent respectable men, he was sure not one of them had picked a pocket. —( A laugh.) Only 100 obtained admittance— ( Several voices, " Not so many ")—the others were locked out. It was within his memory, that the last time Sir F. Burdett was elected, his Tory mob, horse and foot, went in procession to the House of Commons, and when he (Colonel Thompson) who was a Member of that House, arrived there, he found the lobby filled with his infantry—( Hear, hear)—who wore his colours in their hats. —(Hear, hear.) On that occasion the House of Commons had no objection to allow a mob with elec. tion colours to enter within its walls : but when 600 gentlemen the representatives of the oppressed country went to the House of Commons, they were treated uncourteously —they were treated unhandsomely—(hear, hear)—indecency was thrust in the face of each of them, and that House had declared itself to be what they had found it, what they would find it, and what it always would remain till they had altered it. Those who had gained admission waited till the close of Sir R. Peel's speech, and then adjourned to Brown's Coffee-house, and, after serious deliberation, judged they ought to express their opinion as follows: " At an adjourned meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Deputies, held at Brown's Hotel, Palace-yard, at half-past seven, this evening—. Resolved unanimously— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the measure announced by her Majesty's Government, on the subject of the Corn_laws, so far from holding out the slightest prospect of any relief of the dig. tress of the country, is an Insult to a patient and suffering people; and the Deputies view such a proposal as an indication that the landed aristocracy of this country are destitute of all sympathy for the poor, and are resolved, if permitted by an outraged people, to persist in a course of selfish policy, which will involve the destruc tion of every interest in the country. " DUNCAN M`LAREN, Chairman." " Palace-yard, London, Wednesday Night, Nine o'Clock. " At a second Adjourned Meeting of the Members of Conference at Brown's Hotel, at nine o'clock the Deputies took into con.. sideration the course which should be pursued in the present posi. tion of the question, amt unanimously adopted the following Reso lutions, as expressive of their opinions, and agreed to recommend them to the sanction of the General Conference : " That the Deputies now present having further deliberately considered the proposition of her Majesty's Government on the sub. ject of the Corn laws, this evening announced in the House of Com. mons, deem it their duty, on their own behalf, and in the name of their constituents, to record their emphatic condemnation of it, and their solemn pretest against it, as a total denial of the just demand of the people of this country, and as evincing a determination to perpetuate an oppressive and unrighteous system, together with all the essential evils which have hitherto resulted from the operation of the existing Corn-laws." " That the Anti-Corn.law Associations throughout the United Kingdom, and all other friends to an immediate and total aboli.. tion of all duties and restrictions upon the necessary food of the people, are earnestly requested to take measures for expressing, without delay, in every constitutional manner, their hostility to the proposed measure of her Majesty's Government, and their fixed and unalterable determination not to relax • in their exertions, until a measure of complete justice is obtained ; and to consent to no compromise of the sacred principle upon which the agitation for the abolition of the Corn-laws is based." " That to the end that every available support may be given to Mr. Villiers in his intended resolution for the total and immediate Repeal of the Corn and Provision laws, the Deputies recommend that all petitions be forwarded lin mediately for presentation, and that any protests or resolutions calculated to sustain the Deputation in the approaching contests, may be forwarded to the office of the Metropolitan Anti- Corn-law Association, 448, Strand, London." " That it is desirable that these resolutions be immediately published in the provincial papers, and that the Committees of Anti-Corn-law Associations be requested to take measure; to effect that object." " Now," continued the Gallant Colonel, " pull Ministers, pull people, for you are fairly pitted against each other, and he who pulls best will carry it.--(Loud cheers.) I propose, that in your capacity as the aggregate of Delegates , you adopt and confirm the resolutions w hi c h h ave now been read to you."— (The Gallant Colonel then sat down amidst great cheering.) Amos STANSFIELD, Esq., on rising to second the resolu tion, said, he ought perhaps to apologise to the meeting for fol lowing Colonel Thompson.; hat, as a Delegate from the town of Leeds—the capital of the clothing district of the West Riding, and from which place he had that morning received a petition signed by 42,900 persons—he would consider himself guilty of a dereliction of duty if he did not, on the part of himself and his colleague, put in his protest against the nefarious scheme propounded last night by Sir Robert Peel.--( Great cheering.) He did not say " by her Majesty's Government," for he could not bear to attach the name of one whom they loved so much to a scheme which they detested so much.—( Immense and loud cheering.) The scheme was a nefarious one. injustice was stamped on its brazen front. It claimed an exorbitant price for the Property of the rich at the expense of the poor ; it never hinted at securing a profit for any other class of the community, or at providing a fair diy's wages for a fair day's work. That the labourer was worthy of his hire, and had as good a title to it as those idlers whose claims to their property were based on artificial rights, seemed not to have entered into the political creed of him who concocted that scheme.—( Hear, hear.) One of two things was clear, either that the Prime Minister did not understaud the dangermekposition of the country, or that he was employed by a patty to strand the vessel of the State. He would not, for the honour of huma nity, entertain the latter idea, but in all charity suppose that he acted in ignorance, and really believed that over-production was one of the great causes of distress. If he had attributed it to overreaching on the part of those who were entrusted to make the laws, he would have been nearer the mark. Over production ! It sickened one to think that a man invested with such great power • should have such small ideas. Did he wish to say that there was too much food and clothing in the country, while thousands in the country were pining of destitution ?—( Hear, hear.) The Poor-law Commissioners told us that there were every year two millions of destitute people is Ireland ; while numbers of poor. hislr wandered through this land in tattered garments that seemed held to gether by a miracle ! Did he mean that these poor people had plenty of clothing? Did he mean that the people of Paisley had plenty of food, while 17,000 were existing on charity, and 7,000 of them had not a bed to lie on? Absurd ! He might mean that there were more goods made than the people had money to buy ; but who prevented them from purchasing ? Why, those that prevented them from labouring—from using their labour, which was the coils given the poor by Heaven.— (Cheers.) The same party prevented the merchant from ex changing his goods with the produce of America.—(Here Mr. O'Connell entered, and was received with enthusiastic cheering)—and the starving people of Paisley from purchasing food by their labour. Who was that party ? The landlords and their restrictive laws. Paradoxical as it might appear, he (Mr. S.) would answer Sir Robert Peel, that the present distress of the country was not caused by an over-pro duction of manufactured goods, but by an under-production of agricultural produce.—( Hear, hear, and great cheering. ) It was a fact that as the harvests were good tha demand for manufactured goods increased. In 1832 the good harvests began, and the profits of the merchants and the labourers in creased. In 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, the harvests were suc cessively good.—(Hear, Lear.) In 1836 the raw produce was 200 millions, and the manufacturers were not able to supply the domande that were made upon them, and the machinery had to work all night. In 1837, 1 838, 183 9, 184.0, 1841, we had bad harvests; the raw produce amounted to 150,000,000, the manufactured at 200,000,000. From these and other facts the Hon. Gentleman inferred, that under-agri cultural production, not over-manufactured produce, was the cause of the distress. Free trade, it was not perhaps ge nerally known, had been guaranteed to this country by Magna Charta. Mr. 111‘Culloch had informed us that one clause in that famous docUment stated that " all user chants shall have safe and sure conduct to come into Eng land, and depart from it, and to buy and sell without the obstruction of evil tolls."—(Laughter and cheers.) This pri. vilege was confirmed by several subsequent statutes, and Lord Coke distinctly stated " That all monopolies concerning trade and traffic are against the liberty and freedom granted by the greater charter."—(Hear, hear.) True, the Lords and Com mons might takeaway those rights, and they had done so ; but let them beware. The people of this country resembled those poor animals who'were made experiments on in the receiver of an air-pump. At the first turn of the handle they were in blissful ignorance, but as the handle was successively turned they moved about, and at last jumped up in agony, struggling for life. That was the state of the people of this country. To be or not to be, w as now t h e quest i on ; and if they wish ed to live, they must redouble their exertions.—( Cheers. ) With these observations, he seconded the motion of Col. Thompson. Mr. O'CoossaeL, being now generally called thaton roseo amidst loud cheers, and said— Having understoodi call that that has been Chairman has assented to my obeying the ca made upon me, I first beg to gratitude for express my the kindness that dictated that call. My next duty is to state to you th a t I come here for a dif ferent purpose from th a t which brought me here la s t. On Tuesday I came h ere t o listes—to.day I come to look a t you.--(Laughter and cheers. J I come in order to estimate .• on. what mann er o f men you be.—(Cheers.) This is the question. Englishmen, what kind of men are you ? Are you crouching ? —(No, no.) Were you timid ?—( No, no.) Were you ever deluded?—(Y es , and a laugh ) Well, I have got an aye at last. I sa id, on the last day, that you would get no relief, and I was a jprophet. I said also that y ou would get plenty of delusive words, and a scheme that might deceive somebody. But I was no prophet in that. You have got words, but no delusion. It is plain, Palpable , and distinct You may singlthat " Britons never will be slaves," but you are slaves if you submit to this.—( Great cheering.) My Heaven ! The question between you and the sordid aristocracy —for sordid they are—is whether 'or not they have a right to tax your bread. No figures of arithmetic should Jude& you. It us a question of the loaf. It is a question whether one class of Englishmen shall say to another, o you shan't eat your breakfast until you have paid me for leave with some of the loaf." This is the question. You have food enough, and money enough, but you will dot be permitted to buy it, unless as the landed aris tocracy are pleased to consent. Englishmen, will you be slaves ?—(Cries of " No," and cheers.) Let the echo o f t h at sound spread from John-o'. Groats to the Land's -end. Let it be heard distinctly, emphatically. Let the cry be general and simultaneous, and you need not cry agai B . (Cheers.) You are in this happy situation, that you have but to speak emph a ti cally loud, and you ne e d not act. W or d s a re things now. If every part of afflicted England —if every man whose bread is taxed— if every man who is not able to give his children an additional slice, 49.14§e the aristocracy step in and take away the hi I gest: part •of the }oaf--i€ evety suds 1114 n wily iPealt lope y, simniteneottsly, and -emph a ti ca lly. 'bow c a n the aristocracy ' resist? They may make Peel the instrument of a party, but what do we care for Peel or them ?—( Great cheering.) H e may dance Jim Crow, and think that he is stationary while he is twirling rourd, but if the people are in earnest—and was there ever a question which so called upon them to be in earnest—it will be impossible for him and his party to resist.—( Hear, hear.) Tree, he has the Parliament tolerably well constructed for his purss , e. I have heard that 1,500,000/. were expended in bribery to get up the the present I-arliament, and; I believe it i 3 a fact. For a time I was staggered at the idea that such an amount should have been laid out by a knot of men for the mere privilege of trampling over Englishmen and Irishmen. I did not think that the mere pleasure of dominion, and the desire of a share of the loaves and the fishes would account for this outlay, but now I perceive a better reason for it. They did not lay out a single shilling of their money, which they did not advance as a manufacturer does his capital. They laid out their money, it is true, but then it was to make the people pay three times as much.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It was a mere pecuniary speculation.—( Cheers.) They were great men to be sure.—(Cheers and laughter.) They were descended from Noble Saxons and Normans, although, in truth, some of them, like the Members of the Delegation, came from the farm or the spinning jenny—( Great laughter)—and such were the worst oppressors he knew.—( Vehement sheer ing.) They secured themselves from apprehension for the agitation on this question by saying, that there would be meet ings at the Thatched Tavern, and at the Crown and Anchor; but that they would be able to find at th' se meetings some people who would not consent to take their breakfasts until they got Universal Suffrage—(Cheers)—and ethers who would bring the libel law into operation.—( Hear, hear.) There never was so oligarchical a Parliament in England as the pre sent.—( Hear, hear.) There never were so many Lords and sons of Lords in the House of Commons; and very odd things were sometimes done by those sons of Lords.—(Cheers and laughter.) People heard a good deal of talk about horse-races aye, and there used to be a favourite athletic amusement called boxing.—( A laugh.) But that went out of fashion by their mosses and sells, and the lords and sons of lords were now driving horse•races out of fashion by the same tricks and crosses —( Cheers and laughter.) But if there ever was a cross or sell, it was the Duke of Buck ingham hat done it.—(lmmense cheering and laughter.) What did he do? Why, he resigned.--( Renewed cheers.) Was it because the interests of agriculture were compro. mised? No ; it was because he wanted to blind the people.—(Cheers.) It was because he wanted to delude them into a belief that something good was going to be done for them at the expense of the landed monopolists.—( Hear.) But what? Were the landlords not satisfied now with Peel's plan ?—(Cheers, and a cry of " No.") Well, no; they were not satisfied, and they could never be satisfied—they wanted more, mere.—( Great cheering.) But of all the paltry dexte rities that ever were played, that resignation of the Duke of Buckingham was the most paltry.—(Cheers.) And yet who could tell what the Whigs would do ?—( Hear.) He was told that they were to have a meeting to-day, and he wished to know would they stand upon the fixed duty ? But was not that a fixed injustice —a fixed oppression ?--( Hear, hear.) It fully admitted the principle which that meeting contested.— ( Hear, hear.) They were assembled to contend for a Christian prierciple—to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to solace the sick.—( Cheers.) Suppose twenty of them were invited to dine in the next room, and the dinner was paid for and served up, and then the Duke of Buckingham was to come in, and like the Doctor in Don Quixotte, flourish his wand civet the viands, and say, " You shall not touch a morsel until you give me one-half, and pay for the other, which is the entire value of the whole."—(Cheers and laughter.) Should they not say in reply, " Get out, you swindling rascal ; we have paid for our meal, and you want to leave us but half and charge double for the rest?"—( Cheers and laughter.) Now, what was the principle they were contending for? It was to allow every man to eat what he had money to pay for, and every other man to bring him the food which he wanted to sell.—(Hear, hear. ) There is a man at Hamburgh who has corn, which he wants some one to buy. Now, was there anything more monstrous anything more wicked than to prevent a hungry man from buying it ?—(Cheers. ) But this was called protection.—(Cheers. , " Oh, protect me," said the poor man—" protect me," said the working man—" pro tect me," said the mother of a family—" protect me," said the helpless orphan.—( Tremendous and repeated cheering. ) But to talk of protecting the aristocracy, who were clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day !—( Renewed cheers.) But the poor working man, whose daily wages were the only thing he had to depend on, and which he laid out all upon bread, that was the man who wanted protection, and ought to he protected,— ( Cheers.) The protection of the aristocracy was the protection of the slave-owner against his unfortunate victim. It was to pamper them up at the expense of the blood and bones of the people.—( Hear.) That was monstrous—it cried to Heaven— he trusted not for vengeance, but for mercy and protection.— (Hear.) It was an oppression and injustice unparalleled in the history of England. In the time of their ancestors there had been mosiopolies. But when Charles granted monopolies, on almost everything else, he never dared to give a monopoly of food.—(Cheers.) He never dared to go to that, although his oppressions at length goaded his people to madness until they bedewed the scaffold with the blood of the unfortunate monarch.—( Hear, hear.) Oh, God forbid that such—but no, no; there is no chance of that ! She is safe by the constitution and the affection of the people.—( Tremendous cheering.) The death of Charles was tilthy—it was crime—it was madness.—(Hear, hear.) But it was occasioned by his cruel persistence in commercial mono poly. —(Hear, hear.) Still Charles never touched the bread of the people.—( Hear, hear, hear.) That was reserved for this liberal and enlightened age, this Christian age. There were eight-and-twenty Bishops on the benches of the House of Lords ; and when Christian parties throughout the land assembled in hundred and thousands, their remonstrances against this unchristian oppression were treated with scorn, and threatened with a vast deal of punishment.— ( Hear, hear.) He exhorted the meeting not to desist for a moment. Every moment's rest they gave their oppres sors, the worse they would become.—( Hear, hear.) When an attempt was made by one of their Kings to set the wishes of the people at defiance, they turned the blockheadoff. —( Laughter. ) That was an example of the folly and danger of insulting the people of England, Some of our nobility might like foreign air too.—(Loud laughter) Peel's speech asserted the principle of that robbery called protection.—(Hear, hear. ) But they were not assembled to contest shillings, but princi ples. If Peel's plan were ten times more a mitigation than it was (and it was no mitigation at all) still it it could only be said that Peel was afraid of the people, and and that when he had cajoled them to disperse, he would come in bye-and-bye for something more. —( Hear, hear.) He (Peel) had said that the aristocracy had a right to tax the people's bread. Did they consent to that?—(No, no.) If not, what then would they do ?—( Loud and repeated cries of " agitate, agitate," during which Mr. O'Connell bowed gravely, which swas followed by great laughter, cheers, and cries of "Title a lesson from.) Dan.") In speaking upon that sub ject two days ago, he (Mr. O'Connell) had said, in the words of a common adage, " that half a loaf was better than no bread ;" it was understood that he was willing to take less than the whole principle. He meant no such thing. He meant that if they granted him the principle, he would endeavour to work it out, but he could do nothing with them, or take nothing whilst they maintained Peel's prin ciple, that they had a right to tax the food of the people ( Cheers.) He would say at the meeting said, "agitate." The sound was familiar to him, and he knew the use of it before now.— ( Cheers and laughter.) Let their be a day appointed for meeting in every locality, and let pe titions be presented from all, asserting the principle that no class has a right to tax the others for its own benefit. It need. he in no more than five lines—only they should take care to have plenty of signatures at the tail.--(Cheers and laughter. ) Let no man tell him (Mr. O'Connell) that he was in too humble a sphere to be able to do good. There was not in his (Mr. O'Connell's) own position in society a more humble in dividual than himself, but he had done some good to the public cause, and to the principle of civil and religious liberty by forgetting his own humility. By constantly persevering in the agitation for what was tight, he had at length carried his purpose. He did not presume to sot himself up as an example to others. They would pardon him, he trusted, for making even a passing allusion to himself, but he thought it right to throw out the hint for the purpose of en couraging others who had higher claims on the people than he, to persevere in their struggle for their rights.—( Cheers.) Let no day pass without their doing something in the cause in which they were at present engaged. It was a question of life and death, and involved the first of all principles. In an cient times there were in this country several classes of society. There were the church and the nobility, the gentry and the serfs. The people had succeeded in destroying that classifica tion of society. They had broken through their bondage. There wore no longer legal serfs. But why should he say there were not legal serfs if there were some individuals who, by the authority of the law, were deprived of the food which they ought to have, The masters of the serfs of old, at least, allowed them to have plenty of food. They took, indeed, all their labour from their serfs, but did not the monopolists of the present day also take their labour from the operatives. 'Was not their distress ad mitted to be overwhelming:and universal. That which was stated on one side of the House was admitted on the other. That which his admirable friend, Mr. Cobden—(Cheers)—he who belonged to ne party, but entirely to the people—asserted on one side was re-echoed from the other side of the House. Could net Mr. Beckett, from Leeds, bear testimony to the desolating nature of the public distress. Could anything be more clear.); admitted than that the present distress was over whelming and universal in the manufacturing district!. Where was the Goshen —the green spot—the oasis in the desert of English legislation ? They could not point to - him one district in which th e operat i ves were prosperous and earned a sufficiency.of wages. No. It was, on the contrary, one sandy desert of desolation. 'that fact was undoubted. It was the effect of the way in which the value of their produce was diminished—of the lessening of their menu factures—the stopping of their factories. They were every day growing in that respect poorer and poorer ; and their desolation would soon be complete. There was a ludicrous story of a Frenchman, who endeavoured t o b r i ng hi s h orse to live without food, and when he had almost succeeded the ani mal died. That was something like the experiment at present sought to be tried on the people of England by the aristocracy. They were seeing how long the people could go without food, or live • upon alms—those people who would indignantly scorn alms if they got an opportunity of earning wages. Did the statesman who had been selected by the aris tocracy at the present moment tell them that he had any relief to give them ? Did he say that he would stop the progress of starvation? No. Ile said no such thing, and if he did, they would not believe him.—..(Great cheering and laughter.) He pretended to be a great doctor. Some months ago he gave himself out as, what the Indians cited a medicine-man—(laughter) —a n d he said if he had not his fee, he would not prescribe. But now he had got his paltry fee— he had been regularly called in by the pampered aristocra c y and what opinion had he t o pu bli s h —what remedy to pre-; scribe ? Why none whatever. Well, then, he (Mr. O'Con nell) would addle 33 them in th e l anguage which he had often addressed to his own immediate countrymen— " Hereditar y bondsmen, kow ye not, Who would be free, theavelves must strike the blow." —(Raptu rous an d protracted cheering.) Let them depend on themselves. Let them agitate—agitate —agitate.—(Cheers.) They w ere irresistible when they were combined. He (Mr. O'Connell) was not the man to introduce politics into the pre sent subject. It was what Peel himself said was too awful and important a subject to be mixed up with any partisan feel ings. He (Mr. O'Connell) did not mean to conceal his own politics. He did not mean to conceal that he was a thorough Radical. He considered such to be the best in the various creeds of politics. The conduct of the others was a proof of the vice of class-legislation. He submitted to those who differed from him in politics, whether they believed if all the people were represented in Parliament, would they have any Minister daring to come forward to say that the dis tress of the people was overwhelming and universal, and yet admitting that he had no remedy to offer ? Was that distress brought on by the people? No. It was not pretended that any laziness had come over the people ; but it was admitted that the governing powers were the cause of the distress—the governing powers who crushed the people. It was also admitted that no class of men in the community ever com ported themselves with more tranquillity, more decorum and orderly obedience to the laws than did the operatives of this country. What crime then had Englishmen been guilty of that they should be sentenced to starvation ?—( Hear, hear.) The rulers of the land ha r d, in a great measure, abolished the punishnsent of death m detail, and they did well. But now they sought to inflict that punishment by wholesale. The :people of England were now engaged in a glorious Whenever the average price of Barley, made up and published in the manner required by Law, shall be, for every Quarter, Under 265. the Duly shall he, for every Quarter ...... 0 11 0 265. and under 275. ...................... . ................... 0 10 0 275. and under 30s 30s. and under 31s. 0 8 0 31s. and under 32s 0 7 0 325. and under 335. ................. ........ 0 6 0 335. and under 345. . ... .................. 0 5 0 345. and under 359 ......... 0 4 0 355. and under 36. ........•. ... 0 3 0 365. and under 37s ..••• .. 375. and upwards 0 OATS. 1 0 Whenever the Average price of Oats, made up and published in the manner required by L aw , shall be, for every Quarter, Under 193. the Duty shall be for every Quarter 19s. and under 20s .............................. 0 7 0 20s. and under 23s .................. 235. and under 24s 0 5 0 245. and under 25s 0 255. and under 26s 0 4 0 3 0 265. and under 27s 0 2 0 275. and upwards 0 1 0 RYE, PEASE, AND BEANS. Whenever the Average price of Rye, or of Pease, or of Beans, made up and published in the manner required by Law, shall be, for every Quarter, Under 30s. the Duty shall be, for every Quarter 30s. and under 33 s 335. and under 34s 0 9 6 345. and under 35s 355. and under 365. 365. and und er 37 5 . 0 6 6 375. and under 38 s . 38s. and under 39 5 . 395. and und e r 40 s . . ...... . 0 3 6 40s. and under 413. 415. and under 425. 425. and upwards .......................................... 0 1 0 WHEAT, MEAL, AND FLOUR:- For every barrel, being one hundred and ninety-six pounds -- A duty equal in amount to the duty payable on thirty-eight' and a half gallons of Wheat. OATMEAL :- For every q uan ti ty of one hundred and eighty-one pounds and a half; a Duty equal in amount to the Duty payable on a quarter of Oats. 31AIZE OR INDIAN CORN, BUCK WHEAT, BEAR OR BIGG :- For every quarter ; a Duty equal in amount to the Duty pay able on a quarter of Barley. 2. That it is expedient to amend the Laws relating to the mode of taking and determining the Average Prices of Corr. GREAI NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week, ending Feb. 5, 1842: Passengers Merchandise Darlington, Feb. 9. £1,241 8 1 W. O'BRIEN, Secretar MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 9 - -Our market to-day is rather gloomy; and though few transactions have taken place, prices continue much the same. Business has been done in Bristol and Exeter, at 36 ; and District Bank, 104 ; Manchester and Leeds are rather more freely offered, and may be quoted at 75 5 , to 76. ANTI-SLAVERY.—We have just received a co mmunication from France, informing us that the public meeting is postponed till the 7th of March next, in order to give more time to receive the replies of the various friends that have been invited to attend it.—Anti- Slavery Paper. In the House of Commons last night the Bill for the Better Regulation of Railways was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday the 21st Feb. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Ocean, John Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Cus tom-house at lialf•past ten this morning, with the Dutch mail. Sir Robert Peel list night :commenced addressing the House at a quarter after five o'clock, and finished his Speech at twelve minutes before eight. EVENING SUN __;:-.• ----S,. ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGA TE 01. NAMES OF DEPUTY, NAME OF ASSOCIATION OR C . CATION, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND COUNTY') pi* Arnold, John, A n ti-C orn -L a w Association, Whitecb a l 4 ' if dlesex Anderson, John, A.C.L.A., Bishopsgate, City of Lou!! g Allen, Willi am , A.C.L. A., Bishopsgate, Cit i y of Load 7a' Audley, William, A. C. L.A., Marylebone, A iddlesex arirl iis , ;,, - Angas, C a l e b, Baptist Congregation, Driffield, Y Abbott, J. L., T a b ernac l e ditto, Finsbury, b Akroyd, John, A.C.L.A., Halifax, Yorkshire Ashworth, Henry, A. C. L. A Be lton, Lancashire A.C.L.A.. :. Aytoun, James, A.C.L.A., Edinburgh l' Armitage, Phineas, parish of Halifax. hidl ellt Ashford, R. Henry, A.C.L. A Bth l rests IVI , A.C.L.A. e na -g , Angas, E., A.C. L. A., Driffield Armitage, E., A. C. L. A., Manchester, Lancashire Ainsworth, A.C.L. A. r d Noti , , Atkin, Isaac, Wesleyan Congregation, New Based° t - _ Middlese% Ashdown, Charles, A.. C. L. A. , Stratford, Essex Acton, Joseph, A.C.L.A., Wigan, Lancashire Austin, Mr., A.C.L.A., St. Martin's-in-the-Fields ' B B l a u x n t e e l r l , , E W d m w a . r T d , 11 o p s r . , e s A i d . e C n . t L A . A. A.C. L Queen-street, , W F g or t n g Bunter, G., Carlisle A. C. L. A., Cumberland a _ o bi s , Bright, John, Rochdale A. C.L.A., Rochdale, L " Brooks, John, Manchester Ad.c. L.A., Lancashire Bishop, —, Whitechapel and St e p ne y A.C.L.A., 1141 - Stepney Bengay, W., St. Margarets's A.C.L. A., Westminster Briggs, Captain, Hammersmith A. C. L. A. ,Cur iiii g .r—kth Hammersmith Begley, Wm., Manchester A., Lancashire Bird, B yson vv , W.m , H. Hammersmith, Ca ber ell A.,A. Brook- r Old g e Kent-road, - r n o , ag i d S d a il rr e / Bowling, John, H ammersm i t h' A., Angel-lane, Alid i t d i es si Brown, Chas., Hamm ersm ith A., H ammersm ith, Burr, Thou., 33, Cannon-street-road A., Middlesen Blyth, J. S., Glasgow A., Glasgow Buckley, Abel, Ashton Wheyne, Ashton, Lancashire • irk Bexley, Daniel, jun., St. Ann Auxiliary, Westminster , dlesex Bannings, Mr., St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex. Bingley, Mr., St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex Binckets, Mr., Paddington, Green-road, Bayswater _ o4 : o lir Beason, George, Metropolitan, 6, Exeter-place, Surrey Blow, G. 1., St. Mary's, Newingt on , D over - ro ad. Bow Bionlam R., Somers Town, Beehi ve , Middl es ex Black, 'Sr. ' Metropolitan, Chel sea , Middlesex Golds Bannard, Captain, W., R.N., R o th er hithe, terrace, Surrey Bates Wm., Whitechapel and Stepney, Whitechape l ' dlesex Bates, Thos., ditto Bealby, ditt o Burford, Ephraim, jun., B ow , S trat f ord, E ssex ddiittttoo Bew, Robert, Free Trade, Bilston, Staffordshire Boult, F., Liverpool, Lancaster ', Bowns, Dr. Brotherton, J., M.P., Salford Bannister, H. J., Keppel- s t ree t Ch ape l , L on d on , ll tiddles Booth, Joseph, Mitcham, Surrey Banger, James, Mitcham, Surrey, Boykett, Tabernacle, Meorfields, Middlesex Boutems, J. F., Brentford Reform Association, Bren tf Barter, Joseph, Mitcham, Surrey But bidge, John, Baptist, Eagle-street, 8 Tysal, Loan" Beith, Alexander, Y oung M en ' s F ree Trade, Gliagew, Bowring, Dr., M.P. Bowler, William, Southwark, Bring-street, Southwark„.: . Barker, John, Alb an y Ch ape l, Frederick -street, Miele!o 0 0 1 0 0 Buckmaster, John, Leighton Bu zzar d, di tto, B e d s and • Bateman, r., A. C, L. A., St. Martin's-in-Fields, Dli Buchanan, W., Glasgow, •Lanark Bailey, Joseph, A. C. L. A. , Ilkeston, Derby Batley, Joseph, Huddersfield, Yorkshire Bill, Charles, A.C.L., Coventry, Warwickshire Eraby, James, Kentish Town Auxiliary, Middlesex n e tlir Brown, Abraham, B a pti s t an d I n d epen d ent, Be l p sr t • shire Bill, Charles, Anti-Monopoly, Coventry, Warwick Bray, Charles, dttto, ditto, ditto • • WO Boultbee, William, A. C.L. A., Bi rm i ng h am, Warwie • Bear, J., Nottingham, Notts Biggs, William, A. C. L.A., Leicester, Leicestershire Baker, Isaac, Huddersfield Operative, Yorkshire Briggs, Edward, Rochdale, Lancashire Brown, E., Tabernacle, Praed-street, Paddington Braddley, Richard, Established Church, Rochester, Ks" • Bruce, Cotton, Mr., Whitechapel and Stepney, St e p ne y, Midi p o ts' Cheeseman, Mr., St. Mary's, Newington, Dover-road s Cannon, Mr., St. Ann's, Almonry, Westminster, Bile'. Crellin, John, St. George's-in-the-East , et s , ✓ Cox, Jame s , C am b erwe ll , A . C . L . A. , 8, Grove - Ih r— ' • berwell, S urre y . Clevs, Thomas, General Baptist, Hinckley, Lincolnshil;iod , Cumming, J o h n , M etropo li tan Y oung Men, Aldersgate. City Cave, Otway, Esq., M.P. s 01; Clark, C. F., W es t S t . P ancras Association, 66, Albau r Middlesex Cornell, Josiah, Highfield Chapel and Randsor Chaps-0 derstield, Yorkshire ser i°l Cornwell, Zariah, B e th na l- green Association, "Lidd ',.P; and Middlesex • f, Churston, John, Bromley Chapel, Bromley, Kent Cadby, Phillip, Ebley A.C.L. A., Ebley, Gloucestershir e, Clay, Joseph Tra v i s , A.C.L. A ., Bast i c k and Halifax, YOr Cone, Henry, A. C.L. A., Tottenham, Middlesex J .:4J Clayton, T. G., Bradford A.C.L. A., Bradford, Yorks; t Crellin, Phillip, St. G eorge , Sh a d we l l, Wapp i ng , B Middlesex Coles, N., Stratford, and West Ham, Essex - Cienswell, N., South Hackney Association, Mare-street , - 1 4 : ney, Middlesex Courtland, J., Working Man's Association, Braintree , ing, and Halsted, Essex O r Chapman, J., Ge n e ra l B ap ti st , L oug hb oroug i s, Leic esferil/ Coates, J. W., Whitechapel, Stepney, Whitechapelf_ ,ril l • street, Middlesex Church, E., A.C.L.A., Wahharristow, IValbrook, Church, E., St ra tf or d A . C .L. A., Essex ton Clark, F., W es t H ac k ney and Stoke Newing ireto Newington, Middlesex Cooper, Was., IcdSd.tLie.sA,Gx.e,orge's-in-the-Easit A. C. L.A., Paddington, Middl esex t • Goss, ha d .a w I i e s i A. Corbett, Joseph, A.C.L. A., Bonningham, ditto • Cunliff, Roger, jun., A.C.L. A., Islington, ditto Crossby, John, Brighouse, Brigho use , Y or k Chi ppenfield, A. C. L. A. , Cray turd, Kent Cave, Otway, M.P. Crawford, John Cannon, Mr., A.C.L.A., St. Martin's-in. shn-Fieldss dlesex Cookman, George, A.C.L A., Hull, Yorkshire Chapman, John, General Baptist Congregation, Praed 4 Paddington, Middlesex 1.• Cole, Richard, A. C. L.A., Paddington, Middlesex a , Crawford, Sharman, Esq., M.P., Regent's-park, Wow Dodd, Thos., Reigate, Surrey Davison, Robt., Secession Church, Greenock, Scotland r i ls! Dunn, Jonthn., Independent Congregatio n , Friar-lane , tingham, N o tt s . DDD D eua i x iants o one n n: , ,Gx j o eur h o. : 7 1 s, a ad w titk A oienk s eg s N o tNoe ci nwe a ,w t i n i A o igni n itg , dot C dnol,n a e r i, d le td. , di C cues uP ee:e : rge, A.C.L. Dunlop, Will., A. C.L.A., Edinburgh, Scotland Dunlop, John, A. C. L. A. Edinburgh, S co tl an d Dabney, H. H., Baptist C ongregation, Maidstone, Kent Davis, _ S J., A. C. L. A. , Stalybridge Cheshire OY Dick, T., Dock-h ea d Chapel Congregation, Bermondsey, - Denmark, Reynell, A. C. L. A. , Bolton, Staffordshire Dixon, Robt. S., Baptist Congregation,Waterloo-road, 4 , Earnshaw, John, Lancashire Albany Chapel, Judd-street, Middlesex Ewart, W.. 31 P., Middlesex Evans, Griffiths, several parishes, Merionethshire • '. Everrett, Fred., Town Meeting, Reading, Berkshire Embleton, Luke, A. C. LA., Southwark, S urrey Evans, Edw ar d, A. C. L.A., Manchester, L ancas hire Evans, Wm., A.C.L. A., anchester Lancashire Elwell, M., A. C. L. A., Stratford, Essex . . Eastey, M., (St. Mary's), Dover-road, Surrey -- es o " Evans, Jas. Cook, C ongregat i on B runswick Chapel, II . • Middlesex Evans, Major- General ag.° Evans, Daniel, B a pti s t C ongregat i on, Waterloo-road, g .bia Edwards, J., Unit ar i an Ch ape l , Cheltenham, Glouceste r° Eccles, William, A.C.L.A.,, fr ßlackburn, Lancashire • Freeman, Richd., Baptist Church, Shadwell, Middlesef i , o o. Field, James, Anti-Corn-L aw S oc i ety, Edmonton, Miti". Frost, Samuel, A. C. L. S., Edmonton, Middlesex ~„o j lo Frasks, Dr. Edw ar d, D r , F letcher ' s Congregation, °"'r Middlesex Falvey, Timothy, A. C.L.A., Macclesfield, Cheshire Finnis, William, A. C.L. A., Southwark, Surrey French, William, A.C. L.A., Westminster, Middlesex Fairbairn, Peter, A.C.L. A. ' Leeds, York s hi re • , Fielder, Peter, A.G. L.A., Somers -town, Middlesex % Fowler. A.C.L.A., St. George's East, Middlelle Sa '" • Gibson, Jas. Philip, A.C.L. A., Bethnal-green, Middjes e d t K Gilfillan, Wm., Dissenting Congregation, Paislej, ~ shire, N. B. cal ter :* 1 Gittins, Edwd., U n it ar i an C ongregat i on, Leicester, Lei • shire Greg, Robert Hyde, A.C.L.A., Manchester, Lanooh ire Greenfield, John, A.C.L.A., Greenwich, Kent . • Gibson, T. M., M.P . Gosbill, Eb enezer , S ecession Church, Greenock, S c ot . c li frrO Green, Samu e l, A. C . L . A., St. Mary's, Newington, Gould, Henry, A.C.L.A., Crayford, Kent Gardner, W. A., A. C. L. A. , Preston, Lancashire Gardner, Richard, A. C. L.A ., Preston, Lancashire Graftey, S amue l , A.C.L.A.Southwark, Surrey Gishingham, A.C.L.A., St. Leonard's, Shoreditch' '7 dlesex Mld ° Green, —, A.C.L.A., S t. Leonard's, Slioreditck, Gibson, T. F., A.C.L.A., Strand, Middlesex 04410:0", , Granger, P., A.C.L. A. , Whi techapel and StepneY*,,,ke Green, Samuel, A. C. L.A ., W est Hackney an d ington, Middlesex Gumbleson, J., A C L.A., Rotherhithe, Middlesex Gibb, James, Camberwell, Surrey Gibson, T., Independ en t Congregation, Lisle-stree t, Middlesex Grover, A.C.L. A., St. Mary's, New 5u ‘ , 1 7,.,. e1 e r Gover John, A.C.L.A., St. Mary's, Newington , Gray, A. C. L. A., Whitechapel and Stepney, Green, S., A. C. LA., Hackney, Middlesex Gibbs, —, A. C. L. A. , South Hackney, Middlesex p a ll Greive, James, Rev. Mr. Cairn's Secession Church , s I Renfrew shire G Midclt s ~j `,,• ireive, Stratford, A. C . L . A ., Pl a i stow, E ssex . ' '',,,, roulston, James, A.C.L.A., C am b erwe ll, Surrey- :14: •;0 04 1 , e , 5 ,41 1 0 1 w, M.P. Gee, J., A.C.L.A., H ammersm i t h, Mid . legex Gilbert, Luke, V. Bromail, A.O L.A •, St. Georges; ' ' r s, Ea st, Stagordshire Grant, Mr., St. M art i n ' s -i n-t h e-Fields, M iddl e sex ist iosto. , '„A Gadsby, J o h n , C ongregat i onal Anti-Corn -l aw Assoc c ;,13 0 5 •4'" , f t, •P - ,. ' diddle GGtimitf,%r.,, w it! . ddie "1/20 Baptist Chapel, St. G eorge ' s-read, Manc h es ter -- Particular Baptist Church, Blackburn Particular Baptist Church, Accrington 7 -- Particular Baptist Church, Bury, Lancash i re • ---Particular Baptist Church, Macclesfield inewortb,, Particular Baptist Church, Wool-road, Sa d Yorkshire v kshire . _ Particular Baptist Church, Clayton, • "..,....ohire _.... Particular Baptist Church, Slaithwaite, 5," Derbo Particular Baptist Church, Charlesworth, „, Particular Baptist Church, Yorkshire-st-, " I D"" „,:adieserc Homan, Francis, A.C.L.A., St o ke Newington , Hull, T. I'., A.C.L. A., Leicester, Leicestershire • Hare, S. M., Baptist Church, Hackney, Middlesex 0 u r , Horspool, Rich ar d , A.C.L.A., Kent i s h an d Somor 4To Middlesex Hale, Wm., A.C . L . A., Woolwich, K ent Hurrerd, J ames, A. C. L. A. Colchester, Essex o tti• Herbert, Josh., Gen Baptist , Congregation, New ,Nr Harris, Richard, A. C.L.A, Leicester, Leicestersh ire Hall, Thomas, A. C. L. A. , Bridoorth, Shropshir e Halsey, Henry, A. C. L. A., Edmonton, MickileNx R t '! , S ti 4 Nil