The Sun. — London, England, 1844-06-20 00:00:00

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's citified, rit °°, iceb 9 LA' v ; tDe ;Ari:' rat"' rec° orde r ore are' T jtaiii ha in O % I Y I ' l LLINGTON STATUE. the statue and pedestal was 9,0001., the 1 tel:o r hk'en giv en to t h e C omm i ttee b y th e Chan diti„_ of the Exciteo.ler, and valued at 1,5001, in ad to that amount. The money was raised by a tole , u s e subscription after a meeting held at the Mansion 'irll9 conigc't with Sir Francis Chantrey was Lttu r i e ; 1 / 4 tebruary, 1839, by the trustees, Sir Peter atiall; JOhn Master:man, Mr. Arthur K. Barclay, by 1 8 ;4 .".• L. Jones, t h e wor k to b e comp l ete d an d fi x ed to'l (Ati Sir F. Ch.ntreN, at his death, leit the whole iiet-plete, and also the head of the Duke, the full work has since been completed by his assistant, tt, : lee ks , under the direction of the executors. There st ill : e h apprehension, from the delay in delivering il i C'es of the pedestal by the contractors, Messrs. 14 4 ultald and Leslie, that the statue could not have 11' 0 .,,, c ,. °131 Pleted on the anniversary of the battle of d"Y`r't'o, and they were nut on the ground until mid ,°llBaturday. Mr. Jackson, the contractor for the Ihe34lxchange, then took the work in hand, and, by miluost spirited exertions, succeeded in getting the h r ti Q of th e pi destal fixed, and the statue in its place, % e th e ' e lling of Monday. The general opinion passed tuuh. ';_e Pedestal during yesterday, was that it is much itr ti i gn , and too plain, to do just:ce to the magnificent the in the front of which it is placed. feetklie statue itself is fourteen feet in height, from the Duk t4 i ; The gf the horse t o th e t o p o f th e h e ad of the P t . _ pedest a l on which it stands is of th e or the red granite of Aberdeenshire,. with Rtli tiit xc eP %ion of the lower course, which is of grey I tt„. th e this pedestal is altogether fourteen feet high, 4h e the t ,- ,tal height is exactly twenty-eight feet. b attitud e or the horse is of the quiet characte l r ,ke e eiv ,,wris introduced by the great artist, and greatly tro li Ct's the horse of the statue of George I Ni to t! the National Gallery. The costume of " the the - generally taken from that which he wore on ltu tr tent day o f W ater l oo, i nc l u di ng hi s usu al and re ktde military cloak. The following EXCHANGE. t(?llowing is the last report sent in by Mr. Tite, arc hitecteo t ,. of the Royal Exchange, to the Joint Grand Itt ee for Gresham Affairs:— ARE.4.—The carving of the various en ndin and the stone-work generally is rapidly pro - Sth • The fresco decoration to the ceiling of the 14:ntrance is finished, and that to the north entrance ,14 4 ,: er Y forward state. iliall„,l tB . — Subseription-room—The pricking up is all It 6,114,- Lobby —The greater part of the bracketting Iller e i; s ued, and the lathing has been begun. Com • tito—Above the cornice the plasterer's work, q th tti )ra e exception of filling in the various enrichments, tti,Pleted; below the pricking up is finished. TheCap 41'Equi• ~° ()I n has generally received one coat of plaster. 44 (1t0 ..r ° 0 m—The plastering to the lathing is finished, .Ti v ,, e C eiling pricked up. %de r CAI FLOOR. —Very little remains to be done in Ni ke : complete the rooms upon this floor, south of the to ; on the other the plastering is finished, except t ttaz tt , t he room in the tower, but the matched linings T o to be fixed. i 'WE4 r - The staircase leading to the clock chamber ts t 1 Place, and the inclosures for the works of the a lld chimes are finished. The workmen are fixing t remainder of the lightning rod, under the direc ef k ut , "kr. Walker, so as to continue it down to the and into th e drains. I ttIiC:OPROPRIATED OFFICES.—The two-pair floor is Ple• teP l ' One-pair Floor—All the plastering is corn ' with the exception of the water .closets and the t irlo r - 8 4e, Which l as t only - remains to be floated. The Ac ret tire laid i n t h e b oar d- room , s hippi ng o ffi ces , a nd it olt itt Y's ro om , an d commence d i n the others. • 'it EXCHANGE ASSURANCE.—Two-pair floor may mat sidered as finished, as only some very trifling ttri hi : s remain to b e done. One-pair Floor—The plas lite to ali the fl o ors is completed, and to the passage 111' s:t. -n R r emains but the last coat. Both the staircases kit) 4 13 ° 1 1 ASSURANCE.—Two-pair Floor—This may he "ha 'One-pair Floor—All the plea , red as completed. I lltir e l e xcepting that to the passage, is finished. The tlitC.rt s t' the floors are laid in the governors' and rt ( - 4 , ri , s. • t i ttedl rt ALLY.—The carved enrichments are being corn "ust C i enially, and the cleaning down of the west 5 8 been commenced. I L - --The works are all completed, and Mr. Dent u l* thatthe compensation pendulum has been going 4 et o -ori ths, and that its performance is highly sails s:l4l7. In rep l y to my l etter , urg i ng th a t th e clock I ke be fixed without delay, he begs that the latest llikirssible may be permitted him, because he is 1 4 4 us to avoid every chance of damp from the very frotwki.lis of the t o wer in which it is to be placed, til ls recommendation I am induced to recommend '4411 ill 1 • i ' ll ittee to allow it to be postponed until the bells been ad hung. I , 4 kti rka • - " ,-..- -The bells are all cast, and by Wednesday or • / 4 3' next they will be ready for the examination by :ip "essor Taylor, as to their tone. As fast as he • k C ej of them they will be fixed in the tower. "ork :'USTIC PAINTING.—I am happy to state that this the„ is Proceeding with great rapidity. 'i he ceiling on 1 444° side very nearly completed, and that on the ..01.1. l o ft he side is in great forwardness. T here Clether 28 or 29 artists and workmen employed Ceilings,hathse exclusive of Mr. Sang himself ; about 44 11; ur ds 01 tare Li-ennui's, and the rest are Eug -2 en W. TUE. fat - ' 4 Y, 1844. - - - L _NI 4 ; 41 OF DR. HOPE, LATE - PROFESSOR or CLIE: Rtli t ,r - We regret . to announce the death of this '', 4 , 1 4 - ;,geetleni, who for nearly half a century has ~ ,'Neh""e chair of chemistry in Edinburgh University, llt e vent occurred at his house in Moray - place. at ei sa lt .. quarter past one o'clock in the morning of : I ° , 4 tie e p _last. The h l) ctor's health had been failing ° lest few months, and on Friday )1.7% Current during t 41p fro l r i en e t, understand he was struck by pant , h severity "'e of which he never rallied. He nearly completed the 77th year of his age. .At "'lf e en ' s e'of the winter session before last, he felt lifim -7ali„l4Pelled by increasing years to resign the prodes veou'Y Which he had so long and so ably idle . k.. T: it Record. ;v4l „,( I AGUE, JUNE 16.—The anniversary of tb ~,lite t „"LjWaterloo was commemorated to-day (as the h. t Tee" . " 7 ,unday to the 18th) in all the churches of t -- "tir e h" e /hair/ was performed in the Roman Catholic (1911 VA.LDSEN'S STATUE OY LORD BYRON.—It will : e °ll ected that a s:atsment appeared in the papers a I k ti 2c eince, to the effect that a statue of Lord Byron, 0 11 ;" by Thorwaldsen imported into this country s t e "' e at's binee, and deposited in the King'e warehouse he Pflrti e urity, an d whieh had never. been removed by the * kb " ' had been allowed to go to decay, or at all . eve PII4 4LtL4 ~.,t f orthcoming. and that the executors, having ap e: ; . " 1. it, and not having received a satisfactory r i h mt ell - ded to proceed against the Customs' authori ( 7,00 1 - 1 , Lond o n f or the same, which was valued at ,4! "" The facts of the ease are that the statue it Was imported about ten years in two cases, one tk tsr, ; a very l arge one , containing, it is supposed, the t r . -4 sitt*posture, and were deposited in one of the oudon Docks, and not in the 11:c4 W areheuse in Thames-street, as has been erro -101141 stated. *Very shortly after these cases were • ii P Q I I u ver to this couritry,.the proper duties were paid o r A t k Ne t hee, it being the iniemion of the sculptor at elire 'to the auttioriti , e. of Westounet h e e r 'et, to be placed there as a national menument t waft found, hoveever, that the te ki eubsequent y ,tke, t used to permit the statue of the author of Don 73 4 n 4„ deposited is that hallewed place. The con- f ,(elL'e has ' be n that the statue was never removed : k ke .dock;, and ha remained ever since where it „"Qouct,ginally deposited. The statement, therefore, r 'tine paelme.,:boing lost or destroyed is a fabricae 07 14 1 1 11 e —„ ", doubt, they will be delivered up by the Cons- L me t o - „ e ,r B of C u stoms (or, more properly speaking, by th :nn Dock Company, for immediately the proper 1: 1 e paid upon packages warehoused at the docks, INuice delivered out of charge of the Customs into the te eii - ci , f tilt Company; until their dock charges, tQze., 4 eir satisfactory proof from the executors of k4e e,, e t t b g , n t to claim the same. It is believed that the e . „ - 's are not aware of the place where the pack -Noe, C t l'e originally or are at present housed, but no e will s h or tl receive a notification to that effect. v eree tt r i tY and ide y ntity of the packages has been dis .L'ct e v " 1 1 consequ e nce of an inquiry having been set pn 014, t1 . 1 3 e Customs Board into the matter. It may be th t r 'eu as certain that the statue is in a state of . pey -vaieVe4ervatio as the case in which it is deposited is , 11114 (1 !,. we ilkeh n e ' s in thickness, and has newer bee .. n . dis: net it was first brought to this country.— Morn , Ad - t -'qa h 1 : 1 1 4 ,, N , I ) RECOVERY or 2,0001.---0 a Saturday a b il , r at '11 ;3" , gentleman, lust arrived from Liverpool. put — eD "'e Southampton Railway Hotel, Nine Elms, ktkt 4 tat 4 htb. l7 to his leaving tewn for Southampton; bt , 411 4 s " r emembering that he had some trifling t ' u ttla s- ns to transact in .dark-lane, City, he ch ile:l b en " waiter to call a cab, and he immedj kll, 1 1 - 1 6 .. eded thereto. On arriving at his destine- I , h e ,rer, to his great consternation and dia. histopocket-book, in which be 00 4p 0 Ti se te yered that the amount of about ttt m baok-note i 3 instantly resumed his seat. tt . 4l 44 4 f e e ll e h , , b and w iss t i i n a g y i g I p c nen. i sew il it t h he a. c . abman an addi ti speed towards 144 4 ,n.0t0 "",_ as back u if . all thes e things were against 1 1; _qa ti,r , horse twice fell . in his progress to 14, 8 1te t l a on ead when the antxhiotus gentleman arrived, some seconds had ed b efore " great %v.; Wh at r. Howse, the ,paroprietor, could under 13,ter, ne really meant. Mr, Howse rang for the b j „ T homas Wenham (but who is better known re f n ec ig ; notnen of " Little Thomas * ), who , 1 2P,P 11 e s f t a - V i g what was wanted, to the infinite p o cket, th e gentleman, immediately produced th_ L' l tebe i . "°° k, with the notes (scarcely any of the (>1 which, he acknowledged, were known t eta t. ) 4 mad other property perfectly correct ; and e ttie, l3 at, about three-quarters of an hour after the ictoh underneath had left the coffee-room, he found the pocket "ee 2 t v !erneath the table at which the g e " lelnall had muttriniltng, althouvh several persons had been there t;,,,Nat.re. The now overjoyed gentlemen pre .7tot f wa d ter with a 51. note, and an order upon his 5 40 1 °2" a full suit a clothes, promising also to do . 141."-7 more for hi m . 1114)7g TRADE.—In consequence of the strike, i tba l „ Lo have risen from 3s. 6d. to 4s. Per ton `s'eek's pries, The following are•the nominal it 31. 10s. to 3/ Ps,; bars, 61. 10s. to rods, 7L -beets, &c., 10/, 'co 104 thtt ..gozo tiercad• os. to 81. ; i tlv A t ins AL L FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.— 1 — ` C l a tb b e , ld e rnWesttninster have it in contemplation to erect .? to be call e d t h e C hart i sts ' H a ll , which is to be *f t :, 0 104 1 their instruction in science, literature, the tine 1%1' 4 104 4,B,°cial, and p o li t i ca l economy , an d a l so f or t h e -11 " N children. It is, moreover, to have a news- I SI . _ .THE NEW POOR-LAW. TREATMENT OF PARISH APPRENTICES. A good deal of interest has been created among the authorities of the Croydon Union on account of a reso lution recently come to by the magistrates of that divi vision, restricting the hours of labour of the poor boys apprenticed by the union. The circumstances out of which the resolution in question arose were these :—An orphan boy had been sent out from the union on liking to a master shoemaker in London, and, at the expiration of' a certain period, the parties came before the bench for the purpose of having the boy regularly bound. The magistrates, not having any information afforded them by the overseers, questioned the boy and his master, when it appeared that on several occasions the lad had been worked from seven o'clock in the morning until I eleven or twelve at night, and that no regular period was allowed for his meals or recreation, and the bench de clined to bind the boy until some further information was afforded, and Mr. Garraway, the acting overseer of Mitcham, was appointed to make the necessary inqui ries, and, at the next -meeting of the bench, he reported that the master bore a very good character, and that, although it was true that the boy had on some occasions been kept at work till eleven or twelve at night, it was only on Saturdays, or when they were very much pressed with work. The magistrates, Messrs. Adams, Lucas, and Sutherland, on this occasion ex pressed their opinion, that from whatever cause it arose, they were too many hours for a boy to work, and tkey remarked that it would be like binding a boy to a state of complete slavery ; and as they considered themselves to be placed in the position of the guardians of poor per sons, and that it was their duty to protect them, they would not consent to bind any poor boy as an apprentice, unless under certain restrictions, and they eventually came to a resolution that the hours of labour should be from seven till seven in the summer, and eight till eight in the winter, and that two hours of that period should be allowed for meals ; and they directed that a covenant to that effect should be inserted in the indenture before they would sign it. It appears that the person to whom the boy was to be apprenticed refused to take the boy with these conditions, and at -a subsequent meeting of the bench, Mr. John Blake and several other gentlemen, who are guardians of the union, waited upon the magis trates, and urged them to rescind their resolution, on the ground, that if they did not the unien would not be able to get rid of its poor boys, as no master could be found who would take them upon such terms, and they also said, that if the bench persisted in carrying out their resolution, they considered the question of so much importance that they should feel called upon to make a special application to the Poor-law Commissioners upon the subject. The magistrates upon this occasion de clined to make 'any alteration in their resolution, and the matter stood over. At the last meeting of the bench, Mr. John Drum mond attended professionally, on behalf of the parish authorities of Mitcham, and went at great length into the whole subject, contending that the magistrates, by law, had no power to come to any such resolution as the one above alluded to. He then cited the Act of Parlia ment under which the parish had the power of binding boys apprentiCes, and read the preamble of it, which commenced as follows :—" Whereas many grievances have arisen by the binding of poor boys improper persons, and at a great distance from their homes and their parents,'-' &c.. and he argued that, when the magistrates were informed that proper inquiries had been made by the overseers, the signing of the inden ture was merely a magisterial act, and that they had no power to go into any of the details of the apprentice ship. He admitted that the magistrates had a discre tionary.power to inquire into the fitness of the party to whom the apprentice was to be bound, but that it was quite beyond their province . to restrict the hours of his labour. Mr. ADAMS intimated it to be his opinion that the Legislature had made the u:agietrates parties to the binding of parish apprentices, for the very purpose of protecting those who probably had no relations or friends to pro tect them, and who were therefore likely to become vic tims to the cupidity of parish officers. The preamble of the Act which referred to many grievanceses having arisen by the binding of poor boys to improper persons, confirmed this impression, and showed that the magis trates were empowered to inquire into all the circum stances of the party, and to take care that the apprentice Was not in any manner ill-treated. In this case not the least pains were taken by the overseers in the first instance to ascertain how the boy had been treated ; but he was brought there to be bound, as .a matter of course, and it was only when the magistrates felt it their duty to interfere, that the overseers went to make inquiries, the result of which led to the passing of the'resolution. Mr. Drummond said he had no doubt the bench had been actuated by the most humane motives, but he sub mitted the law did not give them the power to make such a resolution. If the boy was over-worked or ill treated in any other manner he would have a remedy by applying to the magistrates. Mr. REID, the Chairman of the bench, expressed his opinion that the bench had not the power to carry out the resolution they had come to. Mr. ADAMS said the magiStrates on the former occa• sion had acted under the advice of their clerk, who was their professional adviser, and he was quite prepared to adhere to that resolution. if there was really a doubt, whether the law gave them paver to make such a regu • lation, it wuuld be necessary that they should consider the point, or the parish might, if they pleased, apply for a mandamus. After some further discussion the bench took time to consider the question, and in the meantime the matter was ordered to stand over. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) Owing to the non arrival of the usual German mail yesterday morning, there was not quite so much demand fur yarn as last week ; but the market continues very firm and healthy. In the gootla market there is no ma terial change ; 40-inch shirtings are still in limited de mand, and rather lower in price, but printing cloth sells freely, and at very firm prices. Domestics are steady, with a rather better demand for the lower qualities. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 17. — The flannel market has been more than usually brisk to-day. Many of the large manufacturers, as well as the merchants, have purchased freely at former prices. There has been also a good demand for wool, which has fully maintained the last week's prices. Lord and Lady 'Villiers embarked yesterday, at Blackwell Pier, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship ColUmbine; for Rotterdam. It is intended to have a grand national meeting of i the Archers of Great Britain, n the city of York, during the present summer. • Tim CROWN PRINCE - OF DENMARK AT CULLODEN. —His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived at the Caledonian•Hotel here, on ; the evening' a Wednesday last, by the Glasgow steamer, unexpected 'even to his own officers and suite, who did not look for his appear ance till next week. No preparations were, there fore, made for his reception ; but as soon as it was known that his Royal Highness was safely housed in our Highland capital, Prevost Sutherland waited upon his Secretary, Count Reseia . tlow, and Captain Irmingen, of the Danish frigate, now . at Cromarty, and ascertained that, although the Prince had arranged to embark on Thursday morning for the *Faroe Isles, he was still must anxious; if possible, to visit the field of the battle of CullOdeu, the spot on which the Highlanders of Scot land had so - nobly - and disinterestedly iwmortalised "their attachment to . the • principle of loyalty. In con sentience, ,it was arranged that the magistrates should . at ,j uie p a e.y his Royal highness and suite. to Culloden moor- yeiterday forenoon; which they did along with a respectable cavalcade, which was joined on the ground by Mr. Forbes, of Culloden, and Mr. Mclntosh, of Raig more, the proprie ors of the soil. Cull' den's piper w as • also in attendance, and pointed out the positions of the contending armies on the 16th of April, 1746 ; while on the muir, Mr. Forbei, of Culloden presented his Royal Highness with some relies of the field, consisting of a cannon-ball, and' a finely ornamented barrel of a pistol, with which the Prince expressed himself highly gratified. After minutely inspecting the gravea of the heroes who fell, and the diaposi tions o fth e battle, his Royal Highness moved on and inspected the sepulchral and religious monuments of Clara (whether Danish or' Druidical is uncertain), under the guidance of Mr: Anderson, Secretary to the Northern Institution for the promotion of Science and Litt nature. In these remains his Royal Highness eat , pressed himself as peculiarly interested; especially from their resemblance to similar antiquities in his own coun try ; and he was also nineh delighted' with the magnifi cent panorama of the Highland mountains of Inverness and Rosi-shire, presented from the elevated ridge above Culleden.-4nverness Herat/. , An iminansp steamer, to he named the Terrible, and to be fitted With engines ef,Boo-horee power, is now building at thedock-Yard; Deptford, She will be soon ready fur Munching. ;ac;, MURDER AT QRAVESEND.—On Monday afternoon, Mr, ewt§r, the Coroner for Kent, resumed and concluded an inquiry, 1 14 0 twice been adjourned, at the Town Hall, High-street, Gravesend,"on the body of Elizabeth Harwell, aged 35, who died from the effects of violent p gsgfl towards her by a man named Thomas. Jurythe, with whom shend cohabited. nr a POnairlerable time .past deceased a Jury, who possesses mach property' in the above town, have led a moat tlisticlute life, .re§ii . le4 I 4 Pcsild-street: The, prisoner had been heard threatening deceaAel the 'night be fore her death, whlch.was canSed by A wou4 on the fn e_ head. - The jury returned a verdict of `‘ WilfulMnrder. against Thomas Jury." The Coroner then made out his rent for the committal of the accused, and in the course of yesterday morning he was removed to Maidstone gaol. LTRERMLIT ~- -6 ` Y, , WANTED 4 CirOVRANEss. Evangelical M_a may be seen the gagine—ln the following adver tisement :—" wanted, a young-person-of decided pielY ; about twenty-two years . of: age, to take the charge of and educate three children nnder. twelve yearli. She must he capable of imparting a sound .Eng fish -education ; with - French -and. music.. Any one who Would feel anxious .for the 'welfare of the dren will be treated as' one of the faiOlib fi.n4 Ipay realise the comforts. of a home. Salary, 111, per emPlio: l ' The pa tr . iot newspaper;,afier quetingtliiitsteralu ea p ai t i l fi ng' ° Pon y ; animadverts .strpin abater irony ot the ( a ' ; ! ° d l, 4 e f o l i r r g n o learned,. d e l e m s t r o required, and the remuneration pr9Toised by the'very re liwous. and charitable advertiser. h b bi t3 n 6 i ' f f i g ° t u h 4 L ' e t w ''Pe ith P en inP a l l g mo lle a d lZ eEn n usitele'ref : ' tiser's children, all for :B{•' per I-TP*l sSprely there must be some error here—may it not , hti, ,, wc would c haritably ask, an err or of the press in aceidentaiii opitting the 0 after th e 8? If not, we are utterly at less "le dea4iihe the immeasuran . le meanness of the man, or his ogr eki p4s - foi pOvetplg his adi ernsetnent to bp.answerederkf , ( . broiliog. in the 'Waterloo.flock, and (PirplF-Ptst.wren.r.frOn 'Wednesday, the sth . inst., ship biflia burtbed " " ufen 6 ' 1117 ' 0 FliOlPfgP4 term 'Pf.41)61.9 withintiv,- • , --exar; Wen *44' tpc prOifitt?; 500 hiTsheacl6 the iSth instant Dock for repairs, and by Wetuies, • ..,U1 Whiled had taken a full-cargo , for export on WO. . next day.—Liverpool Courier ' GhAND WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE MEETING 4T COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The usual weekly meeting of the members, friends, and supporters of the National Anti-Corn-law League took place last evening at the Theatre Royal Covent- Garden. The house was more crowded than it has been on several recent occasions, and there was a very full attendance of ladies in the boxes. The doors were open at seven, and within ten minutes after the boxes and pit were crammed, and before the com mencement of the proceedings the gallery* also was completely occupied. At half -past seven o'clock G. Wilson, Esq., the Chairman of the League, entered the theatre, and was received with loud applause. He was accompanied by several active members of the League, among whom were Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Geo. Thompson, 'and Mr. W. J. Fox, who were loudly cheered by: the meeting. Among those present, we observed the following : Benjamin Smith, Esq., M.P. ; the Rev. Thomas Spencer, of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath ; Col. Tucker ; George Thompson, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Davis ; Rev. Mr. Roberts, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Professor Wright, Boston, United States ; Rev. Dr. Jenkyn, Coward College ; Summers Harford, Esq. ; William Felkin, Esq., F.L.S., S.P., &c.; Professor Key ; General Briggs ; Rev, S. Edwards, Notting ham ; Ed. Wm. Gray, Esq., Newbury ; Messrs. John Rawsthorne, of Manchester; Charles Mackay ; W. D. Starling, Stourbrirlge ; J. D. Cummings, Thomas Hoyle, Rochdale; Crew, Shelley Mouse, Essex ; H. 'Warland ; R. Palmer ; H. T. Stanton; John Moor, Tutbury, Derbyshire ; Samuel Lucas ; W. A. Wil kinson ; J. P. Btirnard ; A. Bauer ; Frederick Far rand ; Sidney Kennedy ; P. A. Taylor ; Thomas Carman ; J. Carlton ; T. Johnson, Sunderland; Samuel Rogers, Isle of Man ; Duff, Isle of Man ; Garrett, jun., Isle of Man; 'William Leaf; Press Granger ; Oliver Wilcocks ; W. Thornborrow ; M. Curtis, Manchester; J. Ridge ; Charles Cobby ; George Dilly, Newbury ; J. Elkin ; John Wall ; D. Jonassohn ; George IVood ; W. Geasin ; John Howarth, Rochdale ; W. G. Thomson ; A. Thomson ; Thomas Thornton. The proceedings commenced by the CHAIRMAN calling on the Secretary to read the minutes of the preceding meeting, which, having been done, the minutes were confirmed, on the motion of Mr. G. THOMPSON, seconded by Mr. M. GIBSON, M.P. The CHAIRMAN then came forward, and addressed the meeting as follows :—Ladies and Gentlemen, we are again assembled here to discuss the great and un redressed grievance of monopoly the parent of scarcity, which still continues to weigh down our industry—to express our hostility to its long continu ance, and the fixed purpose and determination of the League to increase its efforts, if that be possible, for its speedy and final overthrow.—(Loud cheers.) Before we meet again in this place for the promotion of the objects of free trade, our excellent friend, Mr. Villiers, will have submitted this question to the con sideration and decision of the House of Co:ninons.— (Cheers) I will not now stay to inquire as to the probable manner in which the Members of the House of Commons may treat that motion ; it is sufficient for us to know, that after their election to Parliament for the purpose of upholding and continuing monopoly, the rank and file of the monopolists, who think it right to sacrifice every interest of the coun try to their own, are not likely to make any concessions now ; but we trust there will come a time when, although the Mo nopolists now think that their lease is a long one, this matter shall be' put an end to.—(Cheers.) In the meanwhile, our endeavour is, by producing a timely action on the constituencies, to prepare them, when the proper time shall arrive, to vindicate their own rights, and the rights of the industrious classes of this country.—(Cheers.) Before I sit down, I have to make an announcement with respect to a subject which was some time ago brought under your notice in this theatre—l mean the bazaar. It was originally proposed that it should be held in the month of July. We have, since that announcement was made, had several applications from our friends, more especially from our friends in the country, expressing a great anxiety to furnish contributions to the bazaar, but stating that the time was too limited to enable them to do justice to the work which they had undertaken. Now, as there is no pressing reason why the bazaar should be immediately held, the Council of the League, taking these representations into their consideration, have come to the determination of postponing the bazaar until the month of January, in the next year, and I hope that by so doing we shall satisfy our friends here as well as those friends who have sent us up these representations from the country.— (Loud cheers.) I have another announcement to make with respect to an alteration in the proeeed legs of this meeting. It was originally announced in the advertisement convening the meeting, that Dr. Bowring, the Member for Bolton, would address you; but, owing to other engagements, he is unable to attend. But lam quite sure, that when I state that Mr. Cobden will take his place—(Loud and long continued cheering, which drowned the remainder of the sentence)—l will, then, without further pre face, introduce to you the Hon. Member for Stock port.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. COBDEN, M.P., then came forward, and was received with repeated bursts of cheering.—lt was only within the last two hours that an announcement had been made to him that Dr. Bowring, who had proposed addressing the meeting that night, was un avoidably absent ; therefore he appeared before them on that stage, to fill up the vacancy which had oc curred. Under these circumstances, he did not know but that he might have found himself at a loss for some topic on which to address them, were it not that the 'question of free trade was so prominent everywhere, that each week turned up some new topic, or some new phase of an old topic, so as to invest the question with new interest. Last week, they had had two discussions in the House of Coin mons—(Cheers and laughter)—and if party spirit had not elbowed poor political economy aside, those discussions must have been made the school for the instruction of the public mind on a subject which was but little understood—he meant the subject of differential duties, Unfortunately, however, many Members, on both sides, were possessed of am idea that, instead of being merely a question of a duty of 4s. a cwt. on sugar, it was a question of place, and power, and patronage, and the question had conse quendy been discussed with mutual recriminations and invectives. Retrospective attacks were made upon the past conduct of parties, extending back as far as 1835. Those who were in feared they should have to go out, and those whose were out manifested only one anxiety, and that was to get the others out and themselves in.—(Cheers.) Now, that meeting was a pretty large school, and he would endeavour to give them a little instruction on the subject which was really the topic which ought to have been dis cussed before the House of Commons the other night, although other and less important matters, as he thought, had superseded it in the discussion there, to the great disadvantage of the public interest. He wanted the public to understand the meaning of dif ferential duties, and he would give them an illustra tration which, he thought, would enable any child there to understand the subject so completely, that it might go home and explain to its grandpapa what was the meaning of differential duties. Ile would sup pose a certain number of market - gardeners holding a limited surface of land—say the parish of Hammersmith, for instance. Sup pose the market - gardeners of Hammersmith proceeded to the Duke of Bedford, who was the pro prietor of Covent-garden Market, and induced him to lay a duty of 10s. a load on all other cahbages brought into the market except " Hammersmith cabbages," including, of course, Battersea among the places, excluded. Now what would be the consequence of this ? As the parish of Hammersmith did not raise as many cabbages as the people of the metropolis re quired to eat, the effect w ould be that the market gardeners of Hammersmith would hold back their supply until they could get the same price for their cabbages as the Battersea people got, who had to pay an additional 10s. to the Duke for permission to bring their cabbages into the market. What would be the effect ? The Duke would receive 10s a load upon all the Battersea cabbages, while the Hammersmith gar deners would get 10s. a load extra for their cab bages, which they would put into their own pockets, the publip paying the 10s. extra for both.—(Cheers.) Suppose the Duke wanted more revenue, and still wishing to favour the Hammersmith c abbage-growers, put a duty of 10s. a load upon Hammersmith cabbages, and raised the duty upon. the Battersea cabbages to 20s. What would be the effect of this change ? The Hammersmith people, would hold back until they got the same price as the Battersea people, so that they would still put 10s. into their pocket. How would that affect the public ? They would have to pay 20s. upon all cabbages; the Puke would get 20s. upon Battersea cabbages, and I.os. upon Tippipprsmith cabbages, while the Hammersmith people would pocket another 10s. But the Hammersmith people, having had a taste of monopoly, wanted a little more of the same, but thoy considered that it would not be expe dient to go to the puke anti as him to put a higher duty upon Battersea cabbages ; but they raised the ell of ." cheap cabbages," and said' to him tf echice our dlity of Ips, to 14, 3 and leave the duty nn Battersea cabbages -as it is now i", and having raised this cry on patriotic grounds they w ould g o to Lord John Russell and ask him to in terest tiiself with hie brother ? the. puke of Bedford, to help th em to it out.--(Cheers.) lf they phangrd the word "Cabbage for the word " Sugar" t - nen Ow would have ilfultratipii of the motion which had befit niade by heir 014 iippo42 te West India planters. Thio Ciovornmerit brought forvvard a measurecfor .g the duty on foreign sugar at 345. a cwt. of al kinds, not refined; and 245. on colonial sugar; that 10s.a cwt. extra or is, they give to the colonists all they brought to market, seeing that in the case of the Hammer smith cabbage -growers they could not sell one onncQ 'Of sugar until they could get the same price for it that was given for Java sugar, which paid 10s. extra duty. Now, taking the animal import of sugar frcrin the colonies at 4,000,000 cwt. annu ally, that would give them 2,000,0001. sterling at the lowest as protection, as they called it—monopoly, as he called it—and that was what the Government pro posed to give the West India planters. Those who, with him, advocated free trade principles in that House had brought forward a motion for equalizing the sugar duties—that all sugars, without distinction of the country in which they were produced, should pay the same duty to the Queen. That was a ques tion which had not excited any great party or poli tical interest. The free-traders had the best of the argument, as he thought, though their oppo nents beat them in th e vo t es . Another amendment'' proposed was Mr. Miles's proposition, which was :.to charge 20s. a cwt. on colonial sugar; 30s. a cwt. on.; certain descriptions of foreign sugar, but he intro• duced a third line of di s ti nc ti on , w hi c h was not in troduced in the Government measure. According to the Government measure, all foreign sugar, without distinction of quality, was charged the same duty; but according to Mr. Miles's proposition, all white clayed sugar, or sugar of a quality equivalent to white clayed, was charged a duty of 345. a cwt. He had been told that a great number of people in that enlightened metropolis believed that the free-traders were wrong in resisting Mr. Miles's amendment. In the first place, its origin was suspicious, but he would not judge it by that. The West Indians complained to Sir Robert Peel that they did not re ceive protection enough, and yet there were some . people _gullable enough to believe that they would propose for themselves a less protection than Sir Robert Peel would give them. The 4s. redue tion of duty on colonial sugar was o-i all' colonial sugar; the 4s. • reduction on foreign sugar was only a reduction on a certain description of foreign sugar. Now, the free traders were de sirous of ascertaining what description of sugar was affected by this exceptional duty of 345. Men not conversant with the trade were unfit to judge of those matters, and they had gone into the City to inquire what clayed sugars really were; and they thought they could not do better, whilst they were consulting refiners and importers, than consult one of their oldest and truest friends, who had been the chairma n of Lord John Russell's and Mr. Pattison's Committees —he meant Mr. Travers.—(Loud cheers.) He be. lieved Mr. Travers' was one of the largest wholesale dealers in sugar in the country ; and not being him-, • self a colonial proprietor, but simply intfire3ted in the distribution of sugar, his interest was identical with that 'of the consumer. He had received a letter from Mr. Travers on this 'subject, which he would read to the meeting. It was these in words ;-- ff My WAR SIII,-,-.1 repeat to yeal, Without heetation, that the practical effect of Mr. Miles's amendment upon the proposed sugar duties will be to establish a differ= ential duty of 14s. per cwt. in favour of colonial sugars, as against three-fourths, at least, of the foreign sugar named for borne eltignmPtinli in November next. • Java sugar, which will yield much mor e th an h a lf- o f this additional supply, is wholly c l ayed, and its lower qualities are, in substance (or the amount of saccherine matter contained in them), more than equivalent' to the white clayed of many other countries, whicb, in com parison, are often weak and worthless. The same remark will also apply to a portion of the China and Manilla sugars, though the latter are not clayed at all. " Then, again, as to the terms brown clayed' and white clayed,' it is impossible to draw a line of distinc tion in which any two parties, whose Interests are opposed to each other, agree. There is, between these two extremes, 'every shade and variety 'of 'brown white' and white brown, and, thus, the disputes of the importer and the Government officer will prove endless, terminating, however, there is no doubt, in all eases, in favour of the revenue, and the imposition of the higher duty, unless, indeed, there is any fraud or collusion between parties in favour of the lower duty, which would, of course, operate to the injury of the fair trader. "Both in the substance and colour of sugar there exists, in fact, as to the value, no point of fixed or gene ral argument. The real substance of sugar can only be determined by -frequent experiment and real practical experience on the part of the refiners; and the value of colour is a thing generally settled between buyer and seller—caprice of the moment—the colour itself varying with every light to which it is subjected. "If the Government intend a differential duty of only 10s. per cwt. between colonial and foreign sugar, Mr. Miles's amendment will not answer the object. In the absence of fraud, the colonial interest may be benefited by it to the extent of 4s. per cwt., but it will be just so much out of the pocket of the cons:mien "I am, my dear Sir, faithfully yours, " JOHN THAVERS. " Swithin's-lane, June .17, 1844." He had received letters to the same effect from Messrs. Thornton and West, Messrs. Goodhart, John and Henry Taylor, Mr. Peter Martineau, and Mr. John Davis. He had no hesitation in saying that that motion was a trap to catch unwary free-traders. —(Hear, hear.) He did not charge Mr. Miles with originating it, or with being an accomplice in the trick, but he believed that it had been got up in Mincing-lane by those who understood well what they were about, and who thought the free-traders in the House of Commons would be caught by their superficial contrivance. The effect of the duty on colonial sugar being reduced from 245. to 205., while the great bulk of foreign sugar was only admitted at a duty of 345, would . give 14s. as a protecting duty to the colonial interest, instead of 10s., as was pro posed by the Government plan. There were some unwary people, who said, if they got sugar cheaper, what mattered it if the colonial interest got a little advantage too. The free-traders denied that sugar would be rendered any cheaper by the reduction of the duty on colonial sugar. The 4s. would be trans ferred from the revenue into the pockets of the monopolists; and 45., on two million hun dred weight of colonial sugar, amounted to 800,0001., which would be annually taken from the revenue, and which the people would, have to make up in some other shape. The public and the revenue were in the same boat—the monopolists were in the other boat. If that sum were- thus abstracted from the revenue for the benefit of the colonial interest, they would have to pay it in some other form. It was through the absorption of the revenue that ought to go t o Queen Victoria, by the monopolists of this country, that they had to pay the income-tax already. —(Loud cheers.) What was this mean amount they proposed to transfer to the pockets of the monopolists ? They said it was a small sum. A duty of 41s. on 4,000,000 cwt.—which was what the monopolists wanted—amounted to 800,0001. per annum, and that in capital would purchase what was equal to 20,000,0001.; and the proposition of the Lion. Member for Bristol would take from the pockets of the people of this country another 20,000,0001., and put it into the pockets of the monopolists.—(Cheers.) He had stated these things because he perceived there were good friends of his whose chins were not long enough, and who were liable to be gulled by this trick.— (Laughter.) He told' them that the reduction of the duty on colonial sugar would not reduce the price to the consumer one farthing, and as they were told that a future period, probably next year, there would be a great change in the sugar duties— for Sir H. Peel put a hypothetical case with regard to the reduction of the colonial duty to 165., and the reduction of the duty on foreign sugar in a corres ponding proportion —it should be their business to understand what differential duties were, and if they could once make the people understand that, no Mi nister would dire to come down and make such a pro position.—(Hear, hear.) Now, he told them that if the Government were to take off the whole of the duty on colonial sugar to-morrow, they would not, have sugar one farthing cheaper than they had it now.- s (Hear, hear.) The only way to reduce the price of sugar was to increase the supply of it in the market, if the power of consumption remained the same.—(Hear, hear.) If the whole of the 245. duty were taken off, it would only be putting the whole of the amount derived from the duty by the revenue into the pockets of the monopolists.—(Hear, hear.) 'rake off 4s. or ss. from it, and they would have an other income-tax.—(Hear, hear.) If they could only have the public well informed on the sub ject, they would soon get rid of the gross fraud of differential duties. The proposition. of the Hon. Member for Bristol was neither more nor less than to take so much irons the pockets of the people and give it to the landed owners of Jamaica. —Wear, hear.) When the colonists came forward an ,proposed protection as a remedy for their griev ances, they should see whether it was a system which worked well for the colonists even themselves. Se veral gentlemen . in the House of Commons almost cried over their distresses and the distress of those connected with them, because their property was of e no value. But it should be recollected that those ddiusttyreossi6s4hsa„ppewnheicdhwhen amountedthey w to re a proteeted by a prohibition of foreign sugar.--(Hear, hear.) If such a duty did not cnable them to bring on their business, did it not argue that they were on A wrong task altogether— (Hear, hear)—and that a systeni which was beyond all doubt injurious to the consumers; was not ever, beneficial to those for whose benefit it Nylw intended ? They all4d, tlAerefofe, get on a new tack. His Hon. Friend the Member. for Manchester (Mr. M. Gib son) put the question on its right fgoting, when ha said that when they Were COW - oi l to vote supplies for the drown they should not vote supplies to the monopolists, but that having voted the supplies to her Majesty, the West India interest, unlit to coals. forward with their claims, which would be voted separately, if they were entitled to any. —(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But befow t hey yotO them, Opt should firq.e inquire xylleqier 00 managed their Koper.ties, in the 'best ssay.—(Hear, hear) They should do as people did when 4.debtor came before them ; that is, inquire into his habits, and see if he leadconducted his business with_ skill with economy.. They should adopt the , same plan towards the West India preprietors. He (Mr, Cobden) crossed the Atlantic ten years ago with a gentleman who had travelled over all the sugar producing eoun• tries of the globe, who told him that there was as much difference between the mode of cultivating West India land and manufacturing its sugar, and the mode which other countries adopted who - had no monopaly, as there was between the machinery and management of one of the cotton-mills of this day as compared with one twenty years ago.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, he said they ought to do away with the rotten prop of protection, which .even made it impos sible for them to protect themselves. Let them, like other men in this country, fight . their own battles.— (Cheers.) Now, having told them what were the grounds on which he had voted against the amend rnent of the lion. Member for Bristol the other night, he would frankly confess that he was not aware of' the I trap which had been laid on Friday morning 'I till the motion came, for he had on Thursday made' up his mind to vote in favour of the amendment. • •hearted creature that he was, he thought that something goad might come from the Hon. Member for Bsistol —(Laughter.) He believed, in fact he' had no doubt that a great number of free-traders, as' earne-t as any in that theatre, who had voted with' the Hon. Member for Bristol, did so under the mis apprehension which would have caused him to vote' for it on Thursday. But that could not shut their eves to the fact that there were other parties in the! House of Commons • who made this a party contest; and the newspapers, organs of that party, were very. much dissatisfied that the free-traders, who had any other objection than party or factious objects (Cheers)—lid not join in carrying a worse measure than the bad enough measure of Sir Robert Peel; and by that means upset the political coach.—(Clieers.)' He did not look on this contest as a party or political' contest. Ile had never given a party vote in the' House of Commons, and he hoped h e never s h ou ld . —' (Cheers.) Ile would get the beit measure he could, and he would never siipport a worse. measure when a better was proposed to the House.—(Hear, bear.), But if he were a politician, and disposed to' look at the question as one of .party tactics, through` Whig spectacles, he could see no wisdom in those tactics. He had heard of a coalition, but what, sort of a coalition ?—(Hear, hear.) He had heard' many sensible men say, that there were 250 Mem bers on the Tory side, and 100 on the Whig side, bee . tween whom there was very little difference ; and who might now be sitting side by, side in the 'rouse of Commons, if it w ere no t f or t h e difficulty of ad-! justing the rival pretensions of opposite leaders. What sort of coalition could there be between the liberal and the ultra-bigots of monopoly ? Lord John Russell with the Whigs, and Lord John Manners with young Englgid, went out Into the same Now,; ii faction dal not blind men, if they could look beyond their noses, why should they not ask them selves what good that would lead to, whither it would lead them, even if successfiil ? The next vote they name to'vvitli sireh ingredients, would put them in a great ininoeityi and if ever Sir R. Peel resigned and Lord J. Russell were sent for by the Queen tet take office, he would prob a bly edyise 'her Majesty to send for Sir R. Voel, - for there was nobody else.—(A: voice, " O'Connell.)—(Cheers.) With a majority of 90 or a 100 on a party qu es ti on , cou ld Si r R. peol be dispossessed of office by such miserable maneeuvres of the House Of commons ?-,(1-lear, hear.) If, indeed, parties came to something within 10 or 20of each other, then there would be an o p en i ng f or party movements. But, as he said before, with a majority of. 90 or 100 on the side of Sir Robert Peel, how could those tac ticians in the House of Commons put the Opposition into power P—(No, no.) The way to get into power, if Lord John Russell and the Whigs wanted it, was not by joining the ultra-bigots of monopoly, bat by working strongly out of doors, that he might b e strong within doors; and how could he increase his power out of doors, but by an advance to free trade, which indeed he professed to advocate in principle, but which he did not carry out to its full extent? He vas sorry to say, that such was the opinion of poli tical parties throughout the country, that his belief was, that people cared very little for one party or the other on the present question, and that there was very little to choose between them. He should not be sure prised that, for a ss. reduction per cwt. on the pro `ection to sugar, the public would sell either of them. Now the League, at least aelar as ha was concerned, was of neither of these political parties—neither the Whigs nor the Tories were practical free-traders. They had never a et heard a pledge, a distinct pledge, from the leader of the Whigs, that he was prepared to carry out the principl e o f free trade. They bad plain declarations that the country was not satisfied. When questions of free trade were brought forward, there was always some plan to continue the pro tection on sugar, and some plan for protection to corn, and till they could get one party or other to stand up for free trade, and against all protections, which were Mere robberies, he did not believe that the League, as a League, would be acting with wisdom or policy in identifying themselves with either of them. Ills opinion was, that if isolated as a party, the free trade party would be stronger in the House of Commons, though not nominally greater, than if it merged itself in the ranks of either party.— (Cheers.) He saw an -utter chaos into which_politi-: cal parties were falling. H ew e s n o t sorry for at, be cause, give them a compact body of free traders, the: more complication there was ,between the Whigs and the Tories the sooner they would suooeed in carrying their principles to a successful issue. The Hon. Gentleman sat down amid loud cheers, but immedi ately afterwards came forward to correct a mistake which he was told he 'had fallen into. He was told he had calculated the reduction of 4s. on the colonial duty upon 2,000,000 cwt. •of sugar. He should have .calculated it upon 4,000,000, which was the quantity imported from•the colonies, and this, he be lieved, would amount to 800,000/. The Rev. TLIOMAS SPENCER, of Bath, then came forward, and said he had listened with interest to the address of Mr. Cobden, and was glad to find that the party distinction of Whig and Tory was about to be given up. He hoped another party • would be founded upon th e i r r u i ns , t o b e ca ll e d t h e Justice Party.—(Cheers.) He hoped also that the newspapers would alter their course, and, instead of writing articles on the poor-law and pauperism, to excite the people, would write for truth. -He con fessed he felt diffident of his - own abilities.when he found so many persons of high character differing from him. He found that there were six or seven. clergymen of the Church of England who voted for the free .trade candidate in South Lancashire, while' sixty or seventy recorded their votes on the other • side. He was inclined to be of the opinion of Bishop Butler, who said " that the greater part of mankind did not think f o r • themselves.'- He was convinced that many men were too indolent to labour with their minds, though they might . do so with their body ; and even reading was, with regard to some persons, an ' act of idleness.—(Hear, h ear .) S uc h persons liked to have their work. done for. them. They left their health in the doctor's hands, ,their property in the lawyer's hands, and their so u ls in the par son's hands.—(Hear, hear.) The Seriptaire says "Examine yourselves," but it was only when men began to think and to distinguish what was right' from what was wrong, that they would' succeed, When men became informed, the League would do more in a few weeks than it did now in so many years. This was one reason to account for the fact that the League had not made greater progress; another reason was that men, who even might be well informed on the subject, did not think it necessary to act —they left it all to Mr. Cobden.-- (Loud cheers.) They left it :to their representatives to speak their opinions; but it was the duty of each man to act, and to spend his time and his money, as though the successful cause depended npon his. own exertions.—(Loud cheers.) Each man ShoUld say that he would take the step which was right, though other:, should neglect their duty, and, without doubt ing of the superintendence of Providence, he should act as if Providence would only assist the man who should assist himself.—(Loud cheers.) Moreover, he . besought of them not to follow n a m e s however high . When they dethroned one Pope, they should 'not follow another. If they cast off one Pope, they followed another—some had their - Luther, their Calvin, their Knox, and their Wesley. - them' throw aside all'great names, and follow the (Cheers.) What matter, though Clarkson be against you, if truth .be on your side ?—(Cheers.) Though he was willing to,pay deference ,to the . opinions of the majority, the minority were often•in the right ; and in this case he thought he had even an advantage over them, because what he advocated was the' doctrine of the Scripture and the Prayer-book, He was not going to allude to portions of that Prayer- 1 book to which he had alluded at. other* tirries e and in other places, namely, the . prayer for' cheapness and plenty, and the thanksgiving for it when' it _corneae but to another portion of the Prayer-book, in refer- - - ence to the right mode of action when a nation was in ; distress. At, that particular time, for instance, the clergymen were reading the prayer for rain ; they had had three months of dry weather, One farmer in his: own parish had, in consequence, lost no less than Bi> . horvieed pounds. Now, what the clergyman; sOuOt to-, desire was comprised in the worde•-e- That we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to . .Q4l - lionatir;" and the meaning of the fruiti of the earth being given to their comfort and to Glcicro nour, was in other prayers 9;044 by the..worcY. "cheapness and pletkty." This was the standard, thyrefore t . 14j , which every clergyman was to be. guided.—(Hear, hear.) He had no faith in prayer, eAc o ep s t ii a l s l i , t , G w i a y s e v e s ori t ti : e i t y w . an cur daily bread," and , laid iigt WQXk in order to obtain it, was a Man of very email 4enze indeed. (Hear, hear.) He believld was not an instance, throughout of Gods do•e ing anything for wAn which ma .could 4 0 f or hi m • self ; and this was a fact which he wished especially I to impress up on th e w i n d s o f all who respected that book. When their Lord raised the dead they did not find that he rolled away the stone, because that the disciples could do. Again, when the dead was raised, he did not do any more than utter the words, " Loose him, and let him go," because all that was needed was in the power of the disciples. When he fed the multit u d e , h e instructed Ms disciples to tell 'them to sit down on the grass, although the multiply ing of the bread was his own act ; whilst it was the disciples who gathered up the fragments that nothing might be lost, because the act was not beyond their capacity. In every case where a needful thing was beyond their own power, they had a right to ask for Divine assistance, but when it was in their own power they had no right to expect the assistance of Pros idence, except in connection with their own ex ' erlions.—(Cheers.) He would, then, appeal to the clergy, and to Sir Robert Peel, as a Churchman, whether the Prayer-book did not lay down, as a foundation to be built upon, cheapness and plenty ? (Hear, hear.) If it were a thing to be prayed for, it was also a thi ng t o b e sought after. He would also: appeal to Sir Robert Peel on the ground of his own statement, that the proper rule for the State was that the peoplo should buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest. This, he said, was truth in the abstract, this was right, and it ought to have been the original basis of their laws. But, then, he justified himself for not ' acting up to this principle by the circumstances in which they found themselves in the present day. Now, he was bound to offer up a prayer every Sunday for that Parliament, of which he was so conspicuous a Member, and a part of that prayer was to this effect : —" That all things may be ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest founda tion," which he acknowledged to be cheapness and plenty, or free t ra d e —" t h at peace and happiness, truth - and justice, religion and piety, may be esta blished among us for all generatiions." Now, at pre sent they had anything but peace and happiness amongst them, they had anything but prosperity. Did not Sir Robert Peel, when he heard this prayer, knew• that he himself was acting contrary to the spirit of the Prayer-hook ?So long as he declined going to the foundation, which was here described to be " the best and the surest," the foundation of cheap ness and plenty, allowing men to buy and sell to the best advantage, so long would he continue to act in opposition to the Prayer-hook.—(Loud cheers.) -He (Mr. S.) held free trade to be one of the rights of man—a right of which nothing could deprive him—a right to be exercised at all times, under all circumstances, and by all nations.—(Cheers.) There could be no case in which free trade ought to he in fringed upon ; it was the only sure foundation. God had distributed his bounties amongst different nations. Some climates were warmer and some colder ; some possessed iron, some corn, some gold ; all these things are diversified. When there was no corn in Canaan there was corn in Egypt. It was God's intention that men should enjoy the best of what was produced in different parts of the earth, and the object of the Christian religion, which was de clared to be " glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will towards men," could never be carried out until the ministers of religion advocated those principles.—(Loud cheers.) He had before him the testimony of one who was a very great man in his day, and who had not long been dead ; he referred to Robert Hall, the Baptist minister, He said, "If there is any class of persons whose opinion on these ques tions is entitled to deference and respect, they are undoubtedly political economists, men who have made the sources o national wealth the principal object of their inquiry ; and where will you find one, from Adam Smith to the present time, who had not repro• hated the interference of the Legislature with the price of corn ? To say nothing of the reasoning of that great philosopher, which is un answerable, common sense will tell us that taxes to raise the price of such a commodity are unjust." —(Cheers.) Now they were told that the free trade which they advocated could hardly be carried out in cases where the countries with which they traded raised their produce by means of slave-labour. He had no idea of altering a rule which had once been established. If a man, for instance, had made up his mind, from external and internal evidence of the truth of the Bible, that it was a genuine and au thentic document, he was not afterwards to cavil at any particular word which he might find in it. Every science took for granted its axioms. Euclid began with definitions and postulates. Newton, in his " Principia," began with axioms and postulates ; and if they began with these, they must not object to anything which followed. Suppose they were not yet acquainted with America; suppose they did not yet know what were the practices of the inhabitants of Brazil, and yet had come to the conclusion that free trade was right—that every man should be al lowed to act upon this self-supporting, self-adjusting principle, and be permitted to do the best he could in the markets of the world, they were not afterwards to alter their course be cause they found different circumstances in different countries. They did not say " You shall not trade with Russia because the Emperor has not pleased me by his conduct to Poland ; you shall not trade with another country because the inhabitants are Mahomedans and idolaters, and therefore rob God of the honour which is due to him ; or with another, because it contains sieves." Was he to be answerable for all these things ? The question was, did they admit that free trade was right ? If they did, they were not to be always departing from their principles. —(Hear, hear.) He had been a member of the Anti- Slavery Conventions for many years past ; and he had always heard it contended that free labour would beat slave labour. Yet some persons who had maintained that for years, objected to the experiment being tried, as though they had no faith in their own principles.— (Cheers.) Under the old poor-law, he had seen far mers who preferred paying 9s. a-week to an indepen dent labourer to paying ss. for a pauper. The fact was, that many a man was sustained by a feeling of independence when he had an ulterior object in view ; when it was in his power to lay by against sickness arid old age, he would do a great deal more work than either a pauper or a slave. But these persons said that slaves were stolen, and therefore produce was stolen. He could not quite see the correctness of that inference. It did not follow that the earth on which a man trod was stolen, because - the man who cultivated it was stolen.—(Hear, bear.) But, sup posing the case to be as it was represented, the par ties convicted themselves of sin—they acknowledged themselves to be the greatest criminals in the country. If the argument were just, what was the guilt of the man who used slave-grown cotton or tobacco? The party who resorted to such reasoning condemned himself.—(Cheers.) But then the reply would be, perhaps, that two blacks could not make one white ; the parties might say " Surely we are better than you, if we do not use slave-grown sugar." He thought that, so far from being better, they were much worse. Scripture said that he who offended in one point was guilty in all. These parties admitted that they offended in one point. They (the Anti- Corn-law party) did not admit their own guilt. They were guilty, therefore, of encouraging slavery by wilfully using slave-grown cotton, by wilfully making slave-grown tobacco, and by wilfully taking up their noses slave-grown snuff. lie had told per sons of this class that the very money which they had in their pockets might be brought in evidence against them. He felt convinced, however, that the Master whom they served did not wish them to tremble at every step, lest they should happen to touch slave grown produce. The Government were under a mistake, therefore, in allowing this consideration to weigh with them ; and he was convinced 'that some of them in their own minds knew better, but they did not like to:offend the feeling which pervaded the minds of many good men in this country. When ever charity or pity influenced the mind, instead of Justice, it led men into all kinds of blunders. The Bible did not put charity for justice ; it first said, " Do justly," and then " love mercy."—(Hear, hear.) Let everything be upright, honest, fair, and equitable —let them do what was right, and then, if they had the means and the opportunity of exhibiting their generosity, let them do so. But true charity was not that which arose out of poor-rates or church-rates --it was not the charity of the State, but that which came out of a man's own pocket. He would tell them a case of charity which had come to his know ledge yesterday. An excellent gentleman, with whom he was travelling from Bristol, told him that about thirty years ago a gentleman was travelling in a coach in a stormy night in winter. Outside of this coach were a soldier's wife and child, _ ex posed to the pelting rain and a very "., keen wind. Hearing that the child was al though the journey was a long one, h changed places with the woman and child,e immediately and bore the pitiless storm for hours, whilst the mother and child travelled inside.—(Loud cheers.)' This gen tleman was a noble free trader, and his name wa s Radnor.—(lmmense cheering, which 'lasted for up wards of a minute, the majority of the company rising.) He said to the gentleman who related to him the anecdote, " I wonder whether Lord Radnor would recollect the circumstance if you were to tell ofit." The reply was, " I k now o f scores o f th i ngs of that kind, which, when mentioned to his Lordship, he had entirely forgotten.—(Cheers.) That was another mark of a noble mind.—(Hear, hear.) Now what he wished to impress upon them was, that if there was distress in the country they should not resort to the modern system of' patching, and mend ing, and tinkering, but go to the fountain-head'of the misery, And try to remove its cause. It was better to spend 51. in removing the cause of misery, destis tution, and vice, than 5001. in keeping men comfort -able in their wreteliedness. Now he would just state to thg4 the views which, on the previous Sunday, it ~ fiß ci Ue n his business to bring before his congregation. If he were wrong, it was the Church which made him wrong. In 044 a the psalms of the afternoon Iservice he read, respecting misery and distress " How long will y e j u d ge un j ustly, and accept the persons of the wicked ? Defend the poor and father less ; do justice to the afflicted and needy !" It was not the mere giving of charity, which was meant by doing justice to the afflicted and needy. Then, in the next verse, were the words " Deliver the poor and needy, rid them out of the hands of the wicked." This was what the free trade movement was intended to effect. He found another command, which it was very necessary to remember, at a time when religion was so much in fashion, and when numbers thought it sinful to interfere with the affairs of the world— " Is it such a fast that I have chosen a day' fora man to afflict his soul ? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to l e t th e oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" It was in the breaking of the yoke, then, and in the undoing of heavy burdens, that religion chiefly consisted. In another part of Scrip tyre, he found a description which might be almost li-- terally applied to the state of society now existing in this country, in which the great majority of the people were hardly able to get bread and water, while a few I were growing enormously rich by the very burdens of the State. This was the description to which he referred. " Now, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, con sider your ways ; ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ve clothe, hut there is none warm ; and ye that earneth wages earneth wages to put in a bag with holes." . This was exactly the case at the present day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a great number of holes in the bag of the State. After the description thus given and thus applicable to the state of England, it was again repeated—" Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways l" It was because the people did not con eider ; it was because they did not reflect on the effect of the presentjstate of things, if they continued, that they mere badly governed.--(Hear, hear.) There could be no tyranny where there were free spirits ; there could be no bad laws where the people were wise.— (Hear, hear.) They could not bribe a virtuous man ; they could not make drunken at an election a sober man—(Hear, hear)--they could not in timidate a noble man. It was, therefore, purely the hult of the people that the laws and the taxes of the country were in their present state. Reform must begin with' the people. They must enlighten the public mind--they must excite greater generosity, and teach every man to promote his own interests without injuring those of his fellow-men. He should not trespass much longer on their patience. When ever he had talked to the farmers on the subject of the corn-laws, he had found that their greatest diffi culty arose from the existence of the national debt. It was said that free trade might be all very well if they had no national debt, but that whilst that existed it would be impossible for the farmers, with out the corn-laws, to compete with the foreigners. Now, in the first place, he thought it was very hard, after leading the country into war, to make it the means of oppressing the people. But be contended that it was, in fact, no argument at all. H e would suppose the case of two rival shopkeepers, one of whom had a mortgage upon his property, whilst that of the other was free from incumbrance. Would the man whose property was mortgaged be justified in seeking to establish a monopoly ? Should he not rather exert himself the more in his business, and endeavour to get more custom, in order to pay off his mortgage ? He had no doubt that if free trade were , extended, the national debt would he felt as a very light burden. It would ultimately be paid off, and great care weuld be taken notto incur a similar burden in future. With respect to the complaints of the farmers, of the national debt, the manufacturers and shopkeepers were subjected to it also—all paid it ; and if paying it was a title to protection. all ought to he protected. The argument drawn from the national debt was of no weight at all ; if it was an argument, it was one rather in favour of free trade than otherwise—(Hear, hear)—and the more the subject was discussed the more shameful would it appear for men to stand up in Parliament, or elsewhere, and advocate local and selfish interests. He hoped they should not hear them say, as they had lately heard their), in Parliament, say, because the planters in the \Vest Indies had been ruined they must ruin England also. He hoped they would remember that they were sent to Parliament to represent the interests of the nation at large, and not merely their own pockets, or their o wn in di v id u l i n t eres t. He hoped that a time would come when men would be ashamed to deceive one another in this way; yet he was sorry to say, in the neighbourhood where he resided, at tempts of intimidation were going on in a large way. He had known petitions against the corn-laws taken into a village by the butler or head servant of the great house, and placed before, not only those who were in favour of the corn-laws, but those who op posed them, and these latter were dared to refuse to sign them.—(Shame.) Some were at once directed to sign them ; others were reasoned with, and all kinds of appeal made to their interest ; but in some cases those appeals had been unsuccessful.—(Cheers.) That was noble conduct in those who remained true to their principles ; but it was a shameful thing on the part of wealth and power to place men in such a position.—(Cheers.) The League, he hoped, would always use different means, so that in gaining a good cause they might say they had gained it by righteous means.—(Cheers.) On the Rev. Gentleman resuming his seat, some confusion occurred, in consequence of an individual in the pit standing on one of the seats, and requesting to be allowed to address a few words to the meeting. llis name was said to be Dwaine. The cries of " Turn him out," " Order," and " Chair," continued for some minutes. The CHAIRMAN, having obtained silence, said they could not depart from their rule of presenting the gentlemen announced to speak in the regular order; and, if the interruption should be persisted in, he should feel it his duty to preserve to the audience that order and convenience which had prevailed at all their meetings. He announced Mr. W. J. Fox as the next speaker. Mr. W. J. Fox then came forward; he was re ceived with warm and continued acclamations. He said the motion for the repeal of the corn-laws, which Mr. Villiers would propose on Tuesday next in the House of Commons, marked the completion of another year of the League agitation ; it was a time at which to note the indications of the progress which their cause was making, and the rate at which it had ad vanced. The result of that motion would be a kind of " taking stock" in the House of Commons—(Hear, hear)—and exhibiting, in the first instance, how the free trade cause stood as compared with last year. He confessed he had no very large anticipations as to this portion of the review ; he was well acquainted with that prayer for the House of Commons which had been so emphatically and soundly explained to them that evening. But however frequently, in some quar ters, or however earnestly that prayer might be offered up, he was afraid it would he as unavailing as the pro. position made about two or three weeks since in a country village, where the farmers were suffering very much from drought, that the clergyman would put up a prayer for rain. He consulted an old farmer in the village, and wanted to know what his view of the matter was, and whether he coincided with the rest of the parishioners. Why, Master Parson, said the old farmer, in my opinion it is no use praying for rain as long as the wind holds in the north-east I—(Laughter and cheers.) He (Mr. Fox) feared that the prayers of the Church for the House of Commons would be of as little use in leading to the settlement of this ques tion on the foundation of truth and justice, as lonras the prevailing wind of that region came from the bitter and biting quarter of monopoly.—(Cheere.) lie could hope but little, on a question between a class interest and the public, from a House of Com mons as at present class constructed, and even class elected. The disease was in its own very vitals, and there must be a regeneration of the Legislative body before they could hope for justice, to say nothing of charity, to the suffering millions from those who were at present the arbiters of their des tinies.—(Cheers.) There were other symptoms which must lead them to moderate their expectations of the approaching debate and division on this question. He confessed he should not be at all surprised if their strength should appear less even, instead of more, than it was on the former occasions ; and he should be by any such phenomenon ;" for no means disheartened by whenever the Whig party got a glimpse of office, they found that phrases and notions which had been thought obsolete by the progress of the controversy, were revived again ; and in the recent conflicting events that had taken place, as soon as in the Legisla ture there was any such chance of upsetting a rival party and returning to place, they perceived that the doctrine of a fixed duty re-appeared in the Whig newspapers. They had a perfect right to revive it assuredly ; they had a perfect right to dig a corpse out of the earth, if the earth belonged to them ; but they had no right to push that corpse among li v i ng beings, and say, here, this is one of you, and has a right to share your functions and enjoy a portion of your privileges !—(Cheers.) Logically, and in the public estimation, the fixed duty was dead and buried, and rotten and forgotten, and it only re-appeared upon the stage because there seemed to be some slight opening to a certain Parliamentary party, which oc cupies a better position than it did erewhile. for a return to place. Now, with a fixed duty ea well as a sliding scale, this League waged inextin guishable warfare.--(Cheers.) The hostility to their principle was as great in one case as the other. They could no more compromise with the bread-tax in one form than they could in the other. They abjured them both. They were only different phases of the intercepting of the bounty of Providence in its way to minister to human enjoyment. And they had a yet further objection to the fixed duty doctrine, which rendered it more and more obnoxious ; that obection was, that a fixed ditty tended to di vi.a the interest of the class possessing capital THE SUI 4, LONDON, TIITIRSI,-)AY IVIORNING, JUNE 20, 1844. aer ; 511°' A