The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. mem THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Civil disabilities—as penalties for hold ing doctrines and observing ceremonies which differ from those of' the Established Church—are not yet extinct. Roman Catholics have obtained emancipa tion, and Dissenters relief, from the invidious and im- Londe restrictions which the legislation of the darker ages had imposed, and the intolerance of more enlight ened times hal long refused to remove. The Jews, however, still remain under the curse. The Corporation ofLondon, in its highest Court, clings to the prejudices against Jews for which the Corporation was pre-eminent in those days gone by when such prejudices prevailed e e generally than, happily, they now do. The t of Aldermen torture their little wits to twi▪ st and distort a statute couched in plainest phraseology, into a meaning foreign to its spirit and design, to afford a pretext for their pre-determined decision. The Ward of Portsoken had elected for its Alderman Mr. David Salomons—a gentleman whose intellectual superiority, great wealth, high position in com mercial society, unimpeachable honour, and ex tensive benevolence, unrestrained by sectarian dis tinctions, all men agree to admit and commend. Mr. Salomonhas served the office of Sherif▪ f of London and Middlesex with a fidelity, zeal, and hospitality seldom equalled, never excelled. He has also served the same high office in Kent, a county in which one of his estates is situate ; and is a magis trate for at least two counties. Yet, on presenting himself for the purpose of being admitted to the office to which he had been elected, a form of de claration was placed before him, which he was re quired to subscribe ; but to which, as a Jew, he had conscientious and insuperable objections. Mr. Sa lomons applied for a short adjournment, in order that the question might be argued by counsel, whether the required form of declaraticin is applicable to his case ; and if so, whether the obnoxious form is imperative on the Court, and com pulsory on the individual, or whether the former has not a discretion vested in it by law, and the party held responsible for exercising the functions of Al. dermanic office, not having qualified in the terms of the statute. This reasonable application was refused. The election was declared void ; and a precept for a new election at once ordered to issue from the Court. Mr. Salomons has declared his intention of bringing the question, as to the validity of the proceedings of the Court, before a higher tribunal. When Mr. Salo mons was elected Alderman of another ward (that of Aldgate), and was ousted by the Court of Aldermen on similar grounds to those now taken, he was barred from obtaing redress from the superior courts by one of those technical objections by means of which legal ingenuity frequently defeats the claims of justice. He will, of course, take care, in the present case, to avoid such an oocasion of defeat. The whole ques tion will, we hope, be placed fairly before the Judges, to be decided on the fair construction of the terms of the statute, and in conformity with the principles of law. The objection urged by the Aldermen who con: tended against Mr. Salomons' admission as a member of their Court, would equally apply to the admission of a Jew to the Court of Common Council—it would, doubtless, be taken if a Jew were to be returned as one of that body by any one of the City wards. The corporations of Birmingham, Southampton, Ports mouth, and other towns—to whom the Act pressed by the Aldermen of London against Mr. Salomons is equally binding as on the Corporation of London— admit gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion to office. The declaration required to be made is in lieu of the sacramental test; which was enforced or not, at the pleasure of the corporations : some requiring a rigid observance of the statute by which the tokens of atoning grace were prostituted to the purposes of pasty, and the most solemn rite of the Christian faith was received as the passport to secular place. The annual Act of Indemnity, passed every session of Parliament, relieved persons who had omitted to observe this required religious proof of peculiar fitness; and thus Dissenters, by a side-wind, were admitted to corporate offices. The Corporation of London was, however, among the most earnest sticklers for the law of exclus;on—ex cept, indeed, when the coffers of its Chamberlain were exhausted, and the fines imposed by their charter upon persons who refused to take upon them selves offices to which they had been elected, afforded the Corporation an opportunity of re plenishing their empty exchequer from the pockets of wealthy Dissenters. Then, indeed, they were liberal with a vengeance. Under such circum stances, the Corporation was in the habit of select ing the richest and most consistent Dissenters for Sheriffs. These, of course, objected to take the sacra ii.ental test ; and, to avoid the annoyances and more substantial evils of resistance, generally paid the fines. The records of the Corporation, still in existence, show the use to which this monstrous perversion of a perse cuting statute was put he those days by the Corpora ti m hf London. An observation, which had passed into a proverb from a conviction of its truth, is not yet for gotten, that the building of the Mansion-house was I aid for by fines imposed upon Dissenters. At length t .e question as to the legality of these fines was I rought to an issue by a Dissenter named Evans, who had the courage to contest the power of the Cor p ration to fine him for not taking upon himself an &lice for wiiieh he was disqualified by law. The case was carried by appeal to the House of Lords ; and Lord Mansfield's judgment, in pronouncing the deci : ion of the House, is among the moat luminous of that Noble and Learned Judge's very able judgments. STAND AlID.—We have sincere pleasure in di recting attention to the proceedings of the meeting held yesterday in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion house,. for the purpose of adopting measures for toe establishment of baths and washhouses for the accommodation of the working classes of the metropolis. The proposed plan has been rlready tried in Liverpool, where public baths and washhouses for the poor have been es tablished upwards of two years, and we cannot doubt therefore that such an arrangement would tend most materially to the improvement of the health and comfort of the working classes of this great metropolis. We could have wished that this excellent design could have been associated with serne comprehensive plan for improving the dwellings of the poor, and providing them with accommodation not only of a superior order, but at a much cheaper rate than is accessible to them at the present moment ; hut we must not reject an acknowledged good because benefits of even greater importance re main yet to be supplied. The distinguished aus pices under which the meeting of yesterday took place encourage the hope that the two objects may eventually be combined. Meanwhile, the associa tion which is about to be formed cannot fail of d ring unmixed good. It is the melancholy con dition of the poor, that there is scarcely a necessary of life for which they do not pay considerably snore, by comparison, than the rich. But there is, perhaps, nothing for which the operative in a large town is more extravagantly taxed than for rent. Pub lic attention leas been prominently directed to this fact 1.3- the - report ce" the Sanatory Committee of the House of Commons. Miserable dwellings, in confined and unwholesome situations, underlet in single rooms to the poorest class of tenants, have been known to yield three and even four times the expenses of the entire tenement. Thus the metropolitan artisan will often be called upon to pay a fourth of his weekly wages for the mere shelter afforded to him self and his family by a single room. In this con -I;,:ed domicile must they all sleep (the sexes indis criminately mingled), and the whole of the do mestic affairs, including washing and cooking, be performed. Yet, for a less rent, two comfortable s id well-ventilated rooms, with access to a wash house, might be afforded by the construction of b.rracks, capable of accommodating a con s derable number of families under the same roof; each edifice, if desirable, being provided with the baths and other conveniences contemplated at tt a meeting of yesterday. In order, however, to erect this object, the matter should not be left to sneer trading speculators. A guarantee fund should be provided, and a system organised, by hich numbers might be lodged in the sane building; and the experiment might be tried for a sum comparatively unimportant when the vast benefits it would conf e r are taken into . consideration. A ssoc i a ti ons f or th e porpose of retailing to the poor cheap provisions, and even cheap coals, are far from uncommon ; but we L.ve never yet heard of any attempt to carry out the principle to cheap lodgings. In the present condition of the poor the parlour of the labouring man, the place in which most of his leisure hours are passed, is the ten-room of a public-house----for want of that decent accommodation which his home cannot afford him ; erd which is eventually, by his desertion of it for such a substitute, rendered infinitely more miserable than it need to be. Any scheme which would avert such consequences would effect a purification at once moral and physical; and would do more to benefit the working claws than anything that has hitherto been devised for their benefit. LYNN D ISCOVEBY OF ANCIENT COFEINS.—As some labourers, lately, were employed in digging on the site of Blackborough Priory, near Middleton, they dis covered thre e stone co ffi ns in a good state of preserva tion, ono of Which contained a complete skeleton. We understand that the pro prietor of the land has presented them to the Lynn Muse um . -- Elury Farmers' Journal. The weather at Killar ney during the last week has been very bad. On Wednesday a dreadful storm sprung up on .the lakes, and a large party had to take shelt e r for the night, at Glens Cottag e , as the the lower lake was extremely perilous. The m ai l-car p ass age aero to s li s emnare was thrown over the cliffs on the same even ing--the driver sustained serious injuries, and the h orse was killed on the spot.—Cork Examiner. Such has been the effect of the mildness of the pre neLt season, that in the orchard of Lieutenant John M. I.li!es, near Castleisland, an apple tree is to be seen, part in blossom, part knitting into fruit, and part bearing the WI grown ripe apple.—Tralee Chronicle. -- - COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held, in consequence of a requisition to the Lord Mayor, "to consider of an address to be presented to her most gracious Majesty the Queen, on her auspicious visit to the City, to be present at the opening of the New Royal Exchange." The Court was filled with members. THE KING OF THE FRENCH. The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that the de putation appointed by the Corporation had had the honour of waiting upon the King of the French with the City address, upon his Majesty's arrival upon a visit to the Queen, and that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to give an answer, which the Re corder would matt to the Court. The RECORDER read the answer of the King of the French in an extremely impressive manner. The Court applauded to the echo every paragraph of his Majesty's answer, and manifested their admiration when the Recorder concluded by the loudest cheers. Sir PETER LAURIE rose to move that the answer of the King of the French should be placed upon the records of the Court. The motion having been seconded, Mr. ANDERTON said he hoped that this Court would go further.—(Cheers.) He thought that such an answer as the King of the French had re turned to the address of the Corporation—an answer so highly honourable to the feelings of his Ma jesty, and so highly complimentary to the body to whom it was addressed, should meet with no ordi nary reception by that Court.—(Cheers.) He was convinced that every member of the Court would feel the utmost gratification and pride in having the opportunity of keeping and exhibiting in his own house an engraved copy of his Majesty's words.— (Cheers.) Mr. Anderton then suggested to the mover to improve his motion, by adopting the addi tion to which the Court had so unequivocally assented. Sir P. LAURIE acknowledged that the suggestion was unexceptionable. He begged to state, too, that the Court had now the opportunity of supplying an omission which had been made at the last Court. In consequence of the hurry in which the subject had been got up, and the short stay which his Majesty intended to make, the form of having the address to his Majesty ornamentally written and emblazoned had been omitted in the consideration of the merits of the question. They had, since the meeting of the last Court, had time to consider more particularly the subject, and they had what enabled them to form a more accurate opinion of the nature of their duty upon such an occasion—the answer of the King of the French.—(Cheers.) That was no common answer.— (Loud cheers.) It was no ordinary answer to a Corporation from a great Monarch to say, as he (Sir Peter Laurie) had heard with his own ears the King of the French say, that he was desirous to have the portrait of the Lord Mayor, that he might place it in his palace at Versailles.—(lmmense applause.) Sir Peter Laurie then moved that the address be orna mentally written, properly emblazoned, framed and glazed, and transmitted to his Majesty the King of the French. Mr. Jurr seconded the proposition, which was unanimously agreed to amidst great cheering ; and it was also unanimously agreed that the answer of the King of the French should be inserted upon the records of the Court, and that steps should be taken by the Committee to emblazon and other wise record the answer of Louis Philippe, the King of the French, and that a copy, executed in such manner as to the Committee appeared to be most eligible, should be transmitted to every member of the Court. THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. Mr. R. TAYLOR said he wished to call the attention of the Court for one moment to a subject of very serious importance—the decision of one of the Revis ing Barristers, lately delivered, to the effect that none of the freedoms conferred by the Court of Com mon Council are recognised in the matters concerning the election of Members to serve in Parliament. Now, he could not see why the privileges of the Cor poration were to be done away with by a revising barrister.—(bear, hear.) Mr. HEPPEL said it seemed to escape Mr. Taylor's memory that no man had a right to vote for a Member of Parliament merely as a freeman. Mr. R. TAYLOR stated that, in the case he alluded to, a Liveryman had been divested of his right to vote because he had been made a freeman according to the recent regulations of the Court. Sir P. LAURIE said the subject was certainly one of much importance, and that Mr. Taylor ought to give notice of it for future discussion. Mr. R. TAYLOR accordingly gave notice of motion. HER MAJESTY ' S VISIT TO THE CITY. The LORD MAYOR rose, and stated that he had received a requisition " to consider of an address to be presented to the Queen upon her auspicious visit to the City, to be present at the opening of the new Royal Exchange." His Lordship then called upon Mr. Harrison, the gentleman whose name appeared first upon the requisition, to proceed. Mr. HAuntsoN said that the sudden adjournment of the last Court rendered it necessary that a requisi tion should be transmitted to the Lord Mayor, re questing that his Lordship would call another Court, to consider the subject. He was aware of the claim which several gentlemen who had been actively en gaged in superintending the elegant building which had been erected posses3ed above that which he had, and he should withdraw whatever claim he might be supposed to have in favour of Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Committee.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. R. L. JONES said he felt highly honoured by the flattering distinction of being called upon to move that a loyal and dutiful address be presented to her Majesty on the occasion of the visit to the City of London, to open the new Royal Exchange. It was a most gracious condescension upon the part of her Majesty to pay so high a compliment to the Corpora tion, and to all the commercial interests of the great community of the City of London.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty had most graciously intimated that, upon the 28th instant, she would come to pay respect to the citizens of London. The Corporation felt how highly they were honoured by such condescension, and so did the Mercers' Company, who, as they were joined with the Corporation in accomplishing the great object of raising the magnificent edifice, felt that they ought to be blended with the Corporation in the great honour about to be conferred.—(Cheers.) Mr. Jones then moved that g, loyal and dutiful address be pre sented to the Queen, and that the ancient Company of the Mercers be duly recognised in the address. The following letter from Sir James Graham to the Lord Mayor, was read : " Whitehall, Oct. 15, 1844. "My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your Lordship, with reference to my letter of the 9th ult., that her Majesty has been pleased to signify her gracious intention of visiting the City of London on Monday, the 28th inst., for the purpose of opening the new Exchange. "Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at noon on the 28th. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's obedient servant, " J. R. G. GRAHAM. " Th?, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." Mr. HARRIsoII, in seconding Mr. R. L. Jones's motion, stated that the new building reflected the highest credit upon the City of London, and upon the Committee who had so ably superintended the whole of the proceedings, and were wholly actuated by the desire to administer to the convenience of the mer chants of London, and by the wish to contribute as much as possible to the advance of the commerce of this great country.—(Cheers.) He contrasted the enormous extent of the shipping of the present day with that of former periods, and said that this mea sure was only to be attributed to the enterprising spirit of the merchants. North and south the trade of London was becoming greater and greater, and he fervently hoped that the Queen would long be spared to see the merchants of London prosperous, and her people happy.—(Cheers.) The motion was then agreed to amidst shouts of applause, and a Committee was formed to draw up the address. It was then determined that the Lord Mayor should himself decide upon the members to present the ad dress to her Majesty, and that the Mercers' Company should receive due notice of the regulations. The Court then having resolved to do no other business, adjourned amidst acclamations. The most oomplete harmony existed amongst the members during the whole of the proceedings of the day. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. A meeting of the magistrates for the county of Middlesex was held yesterday, at twelve o'clock, in the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, for the transac tion of business connected with the affairs of the county, at which there was the most numerous at tendance we ever remember to have witnessed. Mr. Devon in the chair. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BO W-STREET. MENDER IN THE STRAND.—A young man, who gave his name Thomas Stokes, but which our reporter was given to understand was not his real flame, tra veller to a lace-manufacturer at Honiton, was brought up before Mr. Hall, charged with the wilful murder of Obediah Garrett. _ _ Mr. Robinson appeared for the prisoner. Charles Fox was the first witness examined, and he stated that he was a warehouseman in the service of Messrs. Harvey and Co., silversmiths, in the Strand. On the Ist of September last, at about nine o'clock in the evening, he saw the prisoner standing against the wall of Mr. Harvey's house, in Durham street. Witness told him to go a little lower down ; and he (prisoner) said, " What have you to do with it ?" The witness then went up the yard to fetch the shutters for Messrs. Harvey's shop, and on his return he saw the prisoner talking to the deceased. The prisoner threw himself into a fighting attitude, and said to the deceased, " I would do for twenty five such - as you." Witness did not hear the deceased make any reply. The deceased came to wards witness, in the direction of the Salisbury Arms public-house. The prisoner followed him, and laid hold of his collar. He wanted the deceased to go into the public-house, but the deceased said, " I will have nothing to do with you." The prisoner then let go the deceased, and said, "Come, will you fight ?" The deceased replied, "No, I will not have anything to do with you; if there was a policeman here I would give you in charge for committing a nuisance." The pri soner and the deceased were then standing on the steps leading to the Salisbury Arms. The prisoner seized the deceased with both hands by the collar, and threw him violently down backwards, and fell on the top of him. The prisoner said to the deceased, "There, what do you think of that?" and he went into the Salisbury Arms. The deceased was then lying on the ground, and witness went and picked him up. He was quite insensible. Witness bathed his temples t and he came round a little, and said, " I am dying," and pointed to where the prisoner had gone. Witness carried - him into Messrs. Harvey's house, and he became quite insensible. He died on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. George Powell, residing at No. 2, Durham street, corroborated the testimony of this witness. Mr. Skegg, surgeon, residing in the Strand, stated that he had attended the deceased since the accident. He died on Wednesday afternoon. The cause of death was concussion of the brain. The blow which he received in the scuffle with the prisoner was suffi cient to cause the concussion. The deceased appeared to be a delicate young man. Elizabeth Garrett, the mother of the deceased, was called to prove his name. She stated that he was 28 years of age. Mr. Robinson said the prisoner would reserve his defence until his trial. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to take his trial for the wilful murder. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18 1844. APPOINTMENT OF MIL. SERGEANT ADAMS. - - _ Mr. EDMONDS, the deputy-clerk of the peace, having read a letter from Sergeant Adams, an nouncing his intention to resign his chairmanship of the Court, in consequence of his appointment by her Majesty to the situation of Deputy Judge of the Middlesex Sessions, Mr. POWNALL proposed a vote of thanks to the Learned Gentleman, and also that the meeting should present him with a congratulatory address, expressive of the high sense entertained of his general conduct by the county magistracy, and of his untiring exer tions in behalf of the lunatic poor at Hanwell Asylum, and for his excellent management of the Adelaide fund for the relief of the poor upon leaving the asylum. The proposition was agreed to with acclamation, and ordered to be inserted in four morning and even and upon the r eco rd s of the Court. ing papers, ILSNwELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. Upon the report of the visiting justice of this in stitution, and also that of Dr. Conolly, the resident physician, being brought up, a long and tedious dis cussion ensued with respect to the practice of the guardians of the poor in the several workhouses, in which Mr. Freshfield, M.P., Mr. Wilkes, and several other magistrates, took part, the report was eventually ordered to be received and printed. THE METROPOLITAN PRISONS. The visiting justices' reports of the state of the Middlesex prisons were brought up and ordered to be received, after a long conversation. By these docu ments it appeared that the number of persons in the House of Correction was 1,011, of whom 252 were females ; and of this large number only three were in the infirmary. In the New Prison there were 149, of whom 47 were females ; and in the Westminster Bridewell the number of prisoners was 450, of whom 149 were females. The deputy clerk of the peace read a memorial from the vestry of St. Marylebone, complaining of the increase in the county rate, owing to the expense of maintaining those establishments, and praying that means would be adopted by a reduction in the sala ries of the various officers, and otherwise, to lessen the tax. After the declaration of a county-rate of one halfpenny in the pound, and the transaetion of some other routine business, the Court broke up shortly after six o'clock. YOUNG ENGLAND AND CO.: (From the Glasgow Argus) We have heard much lately of " Young England," though very few persons exactly know what the term means. We have also heard of Young France, Young Italy, and Young Germany—nay, there has even been a whisper of Young Scotland, although so very low and faint, that we suppose we must as yet consider " Young Scotland" as among the things that may be, but are not. A word or two about these various juveniles may not be out of season, with a slight description of their objects and wishes. Firstly—Of La Jenne France. He is the offspring of the Revolution of 1830, and is a very warlike, loud-speaking, clever, and conceited youth. He wears a long beard, spectacles, white kid gloves, and unexceptionable coat and trousers ; haunts the cafes of the Palais Royal and the Boulevards • the theatres and the opera;—has literary faith in Victor Hugo, and political faith in the Prince de Joinville. He hates the English with the most intense hatred, and longs for an opportunity to wipe off the disgrace of Waterloo, and scores of other disgraces that went before it. He rails at "perfidious Albion" over his dominoes and coffee, and, intensely military in all his ideas, adores the memory of Napoleon as much as he abhors the English. Though a politician of the first water, his politics are not home politics ;—he can, it is true, abuse French Ministers, but it is only when he suspects them of English sympathies; but in French internal affairs he seldom meddles. There are no abuses to be corrected in France—no sufferings to be alit viated—no masses of the people to be better educated, better fed, or better governed. For him, all France is abroad—wherever she can hold up the in sulting finger to England, invade English interests, or establish herself in a point where it is thought Eng land would not like her to be established. He is vain of military glory, and loves war for its epaulettes, its flags, its cannons, its smoke, and its excitement, and because, by means of war, he hopes one day to reduce England to a second-rate Power. Young France is elated with satisfaction and joy whenever a new mis understanding breaks out, or threatens to break out between the two countries, and most doggedly sulky, and ill-tempered whenever a misunderstanding is cleared up, or a cause of quarrel removed. For the rest, Young France is hot-headed, witty, and fond of pleasure—a disciple of Larochefaucauld in ethics, of Faublas in morals, and of Voltaire in religion. Young Italy, or La giovane Italia, is a different character. Young Italy has a mind filled with the traditions of the past. He is proud of being a descendant of the ancient Romans, and, burning with the love of his country, he would re-establish its ancient fame, and make Italy once more a queen among the nations. But the iron grasp of the Aus trian is upon him, and Young Italy is compelled to cherish his aspirations in secret, at the risk of banish ment or perpetual imprisonment, if he dare to give them vent. Now and them some burst of patriotic enthusiasm finds a channel of communication to the world, and Young Italy, in song, or poem, or drama, or romance, contrives to enlighten his friends in far countries upon his sentiments and hopes. But more frequently in secret and illegal societies, he seeks the intercourse of congenial souls, and forms plans for the regeneration of Italy and the amalgamation of its now scattered and divided states, amid darkness and the subterraneous meeting places of the Carbonari. But Young Italy hopes on, amid all discouragements, and sees, not very far off, the day when Italy s h a ll b e again, what she once was—the cradle of art—the nurse of poetry—the mart of commerce—the seat of empire —and the mistress of the, world. Young Germany, or Das Junge Deutschland, is a young gentleman of a similar turn, with a gr ea t er mixture of French extravagance about him, Young Germany is a student, smokes a long meerschaum, fights duels, sings patriotic and Burschen songs, an d longs for the day that shall unite all the scattered nations of the Great Teutonic family into one mighty empire. Unlike Young France, he has a kindly re gard for Great Britain—admires Shakspeare and Sir Walter Scott, and thinks them almost, if not quite, equal to his own Goethe and Schiller—and in any fu ture European convulsion would hold out the hand of good-fellowship to this country. At present, how ever, Young Germany, more especially Young Prussia, has fixed his hopes upon a Constitution which, next to the amalgamation of the German States, is his grand object—a Constitution upon the English model, which he has been promised more than once by his Kings, but which he has never obtained. Add to this that Young Germany is a philosopher —that he has deeply studied Kant and Leibnitz, and all the systems and no-systems that have been pro mulgated in Germany, from time immemorial, that he is a mystic, and full of the spirit of romance and adventure, and the portrait is complete. Lastly comes Young England, the most juvenile of all these young gentlemen, and who differs from them all in many essential particulars. In the first place, he has never called himself Young England, but has been sn designated by people who intended to scoff and laugh at him. The appellation, however, has stuck to him, and he has shown no disposition to throw it off, or adopt another. Young England is an aristocrat. Mr. Cobden first informed the world that he wore a white vest and a white neckcloth, em blematic of the inner purity of his heart. A smooth spoken youth he is, and well behaved—never excites himself into enthusiasm upon any subject, but is cold, dignified, and polite. Brought up in the old Tory school, he is essentially and at heart a Tory ; but having some talent about him, which he has cultivated since he left the University, but which was, most certainly, not drilled into him there, he has een able to see something of the signs of the times, and to learn that Toryism, in its old shape, is not suited to this age, and that if it do not alter and conform itself, in some degree, to the advancing intelligence of mankind, it will be left behind altogether and ultimately die of neglect and starvation. While Toryism of the old school obstinately persists in going from one end of its journey to the other, by the old stage coach, with its wheezy coachman and its purblind guard, the Tory ism personified by young England, has condescended, after much cogitation, to travel by the rail. Young England, moreover, acknowledges that the people may have feelings that ought to be consulted in the enact ment of laws—that the said people ought to be allowed to have some amusement now and then after their labours—indeed, he seems to have a glimmering and indistinct notion that the people have actually rights I—the right to live—the right to labour—even the right to be paid for their labour, and the right to be instructed—which, it must be acknowledged, is an advance made in the proper direction. Young Eng land has a great admiration for country gentlemen— and a still greater for country noblemen—and had, very recently, a kind of vague idea, which he put into verse, that a rural paradise might yet be created in Great Britain, provided such places as Manchester and Glasgow were razed to the ground and utterly annihilated. Young England for this notion got into some trouble, and was called some ugly names on account of it. He has been at some pains, in conse quence, to remove the unfavourable impression which he thereby created against himself. He went to Manchester accordingly the other day, and made long speeches to prove his sympathy with manufacturers as well as agriculturists, and spoke largely and learnedly of the growing necessity for providing healthful and mental recreation for the sons of toil, whether they dwell in cities or in the rural arcadias of Suffolk or Yorkshire. Among his political ten dencies he has a craving thirst for distinction, and though but weak to act of himself, he, nevertheless, in the present state of parties in the House of Com mons, manages to become of importance. The Pre mier and the whipper-in are never quite sure of him ; and as on questions where parties are pretty equally divided, his vote might, if adverse, seal the fate of the Administration, the Premier, although he has been known to snub him, when exasperated by his conceit, has usually treated him with marked kind ness and deference. For the rest, Young England is a man of letters—writes novels, and rhymes very respectably, and would almost make a poet, if he had those essential qualities—feeling, passion, and enthu siasm. Upon the whole, he is a promising youth, and when he has a little more experience, aid has got happily . l i over some of his present crude notions, and the insuf ferable vanity and self-sufficiency that are common to boys at his time of life, will make a respectable and useful member of society. At present he is a decided improvement upon his father Old Tory, and from the speeches he made at the Manchester Athenaeum, we are inclined to augur rather favourably than otherwise of his future career. Dispatches were sent off on Wednesday evening for the Governors of the West India Colonies. CLERKEIV WELL. A great portion of the time of the court was yes terday occupied in inquiring into the case in which two men, named John Terne and Thomas Triggey, were charged with obtaining money on false pre tences from Anne Griffiths, the wife of a labourer, living in Somers-buildings, Somers-town, the par ticulars of which appeared in Monday's Sun. Mr. GREENWOOD, who took the greatest pains to sift the affair to the bottom, said the prosecutrix was just the kind of person upon whom designing persons would soonest fasten. He would commit the prisoners for trial to the Old Bailey.—They were committed accordingly. We are requested to acknowledge the receipt of 10s. by the magistrate, from P., for the prosecutrix in the above case, which has been handed over to her. MARYLEBOIVE. John Graham who described himself as a bone button maker, living at Fazely, Staffordshire, was placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having travelled a greater distance on the London and Birmingham Railway than that for which he had taken his ticket, and for refusing to pay the excess fare, the penalty attached to which offence is " any sum not exceeding 408." William Caldwell, ticket-collector at the Camden Station, deposed that the prisoner, on the prlvious night, was a passenger in a second-class carrince in the train which arrived at the station (ahov eiluded to) between eight and nine o'clock, and on han l ing in his ticket, witness discovered th..t he had merely paid for his transit from Coventry Lo Leigh ton; the sum of Gs. 61, being the fare from the latter place to London, was demanded of him, when he stated that he had no money at all; and on his being asked why he came further than Leighton, he replied that he must have been asleep when the train stopped there. lie was then taken on to the termi nus, and given into custody. Inspector Challoner, of the Company's police, said that the prisoner had evidently been drinking, and that when he alighted he had a bottle containing spirits in his possession. Mr. LONG (to the prisoner)—What have you to say to the charge of riding to London when you had paid to goino further than Leighton? Prisoner—l didn't want to come to London, Sir, and I suppose I must have tumbled off to sleep. Mr. LONG—Can you pay the 6s. 6d. ?—I can't, Sir ; I've g‘it no money about me. I have fund:Al.:. in my place at Fazely worth a matter of 101. Mr. LONG—Can you, in any way, get enough to pay the Company's demand upon you? Prisoner—l don't think I can, any how. Mr. LONG, after perusing the Act, said that the remedy pointed out was that of distraining upon the goods and chattels of the party offending. Now the property Of the prisoner was in Staffordshire, and he (the magistrate) had certainly no power to issue his warrant for a distress to be made in that county; it was entirely out of his jurisdiction. The prisoner was then discharged, and prior to his leaving the court he gave to Inspector Challenor an undertaking in writing, that he would send up the 65.6 d. soon after his return home. CLERICAL INTOLERAN9EI.—A few weeks since the following circumstances, disgraceful in th e i r e ff ec t, an d ridiculous as proceeding from an individual a pp o i nte d to teach good will and charity with all mankind, took place at the village of a few miles from Ipswich. It appears that in this village stands a chapel attended by a body of Christian Dissenters, in connexion with Stoke Chapel, Ipswich. No regular minister being appointed, the service is served by an occasional lay preacher, a highly respected inhabitant of this town, w h o j ourneys over for the occasion every Sunday. On the Saturday previous to the day on which the circumstances we wish to relate took place, a person living near the chapel was surprised by the clergyman of the parish calling upon her, and asking in a loud tone, " what time the abominable practices would commence on Sunday." Not under standing him, she asked for an explanation, when it ap peared he referred to the performance of divine service. bhe replied, that two services were performed in the day —in the morning at ten, and in the afternoon at two. The clergyman left. On the Sunday afternoon, while the person who officiated as minister was seated in the vestry previously to the service, he was surprised by a loud knocking at the door, and opening it, to his sur prise, he found the clergyman in full canonicals, book in hand, and followed by a string of boys and girls. "I am come to denounce your proceedings," quoth the Rev. Gentleman, and began an excited oration. As soon as the minister recovered his surprise at the novel sceno, he gave the clerical disturber to understand that such proceedings would not be allowed, and if persisted in a policeman would be called, and a charge exhibited against him. This appeared, if not to produce a calm, at least to prevent further annoyance, for gathering up his robe, he retired, saying, " I can only do what I am bound to do by the Scriptures—shake off the dust of my feet as a witness against you." The zealot then per formed the action bodily and quitted the spot, not how ever before a Church-taught labourer, thinking he might save the parson some unnecessary labour, cried out to him, " Well, you won't have much trouble to do that, for we've had a heavy rain t' morn."—Suffoa Chronicle. On Wednesday the Earl of Chichester held his half-yearly audit at Stanmer Park. About forty of the tenants sat down to a handsome repast, his Lordship pre siding over them with the kindness and affability for which the Noble Earl is proverbial. Next evening the cottagers and those holding a ll o t men ts in the parishes of Stanmer and Palmer, to the number of seventy, also attended their audit, a substantial hot supper, flanked by a plentiful supply of good October ale, being provided for them. After supper his Lordship addressed his humble but happy guests, and presented many of them with various premiums for keeping their cottages and allotments in good order.--Sussex Advertiser. SHERIFFS' COURT.—Yesterday, proclamation was made in the usual manner by Kemp, d following persons not answering to t t h h e e ir offi n c a o m r, ea a , nd vi ethreeclared outlaws:—Thomas Reade K em p , at the sui t ofe of Joseph Ivimy; Thomas De la H a y , at the sut of aSir the W i a l i i a t m e fPi Jacob l k ing t o o e n a , a ß e a p r t ; . ; J Ge o e h r g n e C c h l a a r r l k e e s at e t v h a e. n ! Trion, suit William Graham; Thomas K. Channell, at the suit of J. Wilkinson; William Pyne, at the suit of J. Calcott; Sara h Fran G cis E r e u g e s r o h n ; a a t t t t h h e e a s e u i i t t e o f f N W a t i h l i tt a e m i e IWDoaondi Daniel; ;IGV George Boker, at the suit of William Tombleton ; Thomas Hawkes, at the suit of William Adams ; E. B. Lake, at the suit of Joseph Smith ; George Croke, at the suit of E. J. Hill ; John Croke (clerk), at the same suit ; Sir John Scott Lillie, at the suit of E. J. Hill ; William Pyne and William Learmouth, at the suit of C. Lewi s ; and C. Wing, at the suit of the same plaintiff. DEATH FROM DRINKING.—Mr. Wakley held yes terday au inquest on the body of a lady who had been found dead in her house at Hammersmith, where she lived by herself. Her husband, a surgeon, said, that soon after their marriage he had found her dreadfully addicted to drinking, and they had in consequence sepa rated. A girl, who had been her only attendant for some time, said she was constantly drinking spirits, and would send out for a quartern perhaps a dozen times a day! The Coroner observed that the husband should have put her under restraint, as the unfortunate woman I was evidently deranged. The verdict was, " Died from excessive drinking of ardent spirits." FREE TRADE and AGRICULTURAL - - DISTRESS. On Wednesday, a public meeting took place at High worth, " for the purpose of taking into consideration the distress of the working classes, and to discuss the benefits likely to arise if the trade in corn and other provisions were free." The Earl of Radnor, whose seat is about two miles from the town, was requested to take the chair ; and Mr. Falvey, one of the lecturers of the Anti-Corn-law League, arrived a short time prior to the commencement of the meeting, to assist in the pro ceedings. The place appointed for the meeting was a field near the town, called Bear Barn-close, and three waggons, placed side by side, formed the platform for the speakers, with no shelter overhead, though the weather was wet. At two o'clock, about 700 persons had collected in the field ; some of them small farmers, chiefly tenants of Lord Radnor, and the rest consisting of the townspeople and a considerable number of agricultural labourers. The market-day had been selected for holding the meeting. At a few minutes after two, the Earl of Radnor, accompanied by Mr. Edridge, Mr. J. Crowdy, Mr. Falvey, and one cr two other gentlemen, ascended the platform, and the Noble Earl took the chair. The Earl of RADNOR, in opening the business of the day, observed that he undetstood this was a meeting called at the request of some of his neighbours, for the purpose of inquiring into the causes of the distress of the working classes, and whether they might not be removed by a repeal of the corn-laws, which would add to the demand for labour by increasing the demand for our manufactures. He was very happy to preside over such a meeting, and he looked upon his having been called upon to do so as an evidence of the disposition of his neighbours towards him, occasioned by his own beha viour to them. He was there to hear the sentiments that would be uttered by others; but, if in the course of the proceedings of the day he should be called on to give his opinion or advice, he should be ready to do so. He hoped that all persons who might wish to address the meeting would bo heard with attention, and replied to with candour. Mr. CROO3IE (a small tradesman in Highworth) came forward to propose the resolutions, which were amalga mated. He said he ,depended for his business upon working men. He sold second-hand clothes and bed ding, which brought him very much in contact with the working classes. They used formerly to come to him to buy clothes and other things, but now he was sorry to say that they came to sell again what they had bought the year before, in order that they might buy themselves victuals. The poor were told by the gentle. men in their neighbourhood to go to the poor-law union. That was more easily said than done. It required a deal of fortitude in the poor man to break up his little home, to leave the cottage where he had reared his chil dren, to give up his little patch of ground tilled by his own hand, and perhaps the little tree planted to com memorate the birth of a favourite child.—(Hear.) Sup pose, however, he got over all these feelings, and when winter set in went to the union. As the season advanced he would come home again —no ; he would come back to the cottage which he had formerly called his home, and he would find it in the possession of another.— (Hear.) Then indeed would the tear come into his eye. —(Hear.) He (Mr. Croome) would, with the consent of the chairman, read a statement that had been made of his condition by a poor man in that neighbourhood. It ran thus :—" I. a labouring man in the town of High worth, do humbly pray that something may be done to lighten the difficulties and distress under which I labour through the badness of the times. I have a wife and four children to maintain out of Bs. a week. My chil dren are so small that my wife and the children are not able to go out to work, as the oldest is under nine ; so all depend on my Bs. a week, which I find is not enough to maintain us in a proper manner, as I have to pay ls. 9d. for house rent, 9d. for firing, and 6s. for six gallons of bread at ls. a gallon, which alone amounts to Bs. 6d., and leaves me therefore in debt 6d. I have nothing left to buy tea, sugar, candles, meat, and other things too numerous to mention. As it is, I have to work in the harvest from daylight to dusk like a slave, to pay what I get behind at the shop, and I can't do it then, instead of my having something left to spend with the tailor and the draper, to clothe my wife and children. Something must be done. What will be the end of it, I know not. I can't stop longer to see my wife and children nearly half naked and half starved." This was the condition of this poor labouring man.—(Hear, hear.) Unfortunately, there were too many in the same state.—(Hear, hear, and a cry of " It's true.") It was impossible for a man with a family, to live as a free-born Briton should, upon eight shillings a-week.—(" They can't do it.") He (Mr. Croome) did think that the labourers of this country were not treated as they ought to be.—(Hear, hear.) What was to be done ? He would leave it to others to say what should be done ; but it appeared to him that we wanted a greater outlet for our industry. The population increased at the rate ofa thousand a-day. Was that a time to shackle industry ? All that the poor wanted was work. Give them work, and they were always well inclined to labour.—(Cheers from the labourers in the meeting.) What they asked for was a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.—(Cheers.) Mr. Croome then proposed the following resolutions : " 1. That there prevails at this time amongst agricul tural labourers and small tradesmen in this neighbour hood great distress arising from want of employment, and the inadequate wages which they can obtain when employed. "2. That it appears that the population rapidly in creases, but that the means of employment do not in crease in an equal proportion. "3. That it is the first and most important duty of all Governments to provide as fully as they can for the adequate supply of the food of the people ; and, if no human care or foresight can entirely obviate the uncer tainty of the seasons, to take care at least that no legis lative enactments should intercept or diminish the amount or increase the cost of the supply which, but for such enactments, might be obtained. " 4. That the corn, Li dt, and other provision laws now in force, have the effect both of intercepting and dimi nishing the amount, and, at times, greatly increasing the cost, of the supply of food which might otherwise be ob tained by the people ; and that, therefore, they ought to be repealed. " 5. That these same laws, by throwing obstacles in the way of trade, and by impeding the natural course of industry in the manufacturing districts, greatly diminish the sources of employment which would otherwise be opened for the increasing population of this kingdom. " 6. That the working classes of this country have no desire to rely for support on gifts of charity or benevo lence ; that as free men they wish to support themselves by their own exertions and labour ; that they have no doubt that if human laws did not interfere, they would be able to do so ; and that they, therefore, hope that all laws tending to curtail the supply of food, to diminish the sources of employment, and to press down the springs of industry, may speedily be abolished. " 7. That all laws enacted for the purpose of raising the price of food and other commodities used by the people above their natural price in the great market of the world, may be beneficial to certain classes, but must be injurious to the great mass of the people." Mr. ASKELL (a tenant-farmer) came forward to second the resolutions. What was to become of the labourer ? That was the real question of the day.—(Hear.) The first duty of the Legislature was to see that the people do not starve. How was it possible for a labourer to live with a family on 6s. or 7s. a week ?—(Hear.) He advised the labourers to be as patient as they could—to hold together as well as they could for their common in terest. They need not terrify any one or attempt any violent measures ; but they could form associations.— (Hear.) Many, no doubt, would have to go into the poorhouse ; but the rest could form associations, which they had as much right to do as the Carlton Clab. They could form village clubs, reading societies, aye, and tee total societies, and then they would not get drunk and break the law.—(A laugh.) The wants of the labourer were the cause of his committing crime. —(Hear.) After some further remarks, Mr. Askell seconded the reso lutions. _ _ _ WILLIAM SPACEMAN (a labouring man in the neigh bourhood of Highworth) requested to be allowed to ad dress the meeting He said he had a wife and nine children to support, and he had not done more than three days' work during the last fortnight. This brought him in ss. 6d or 65., out of which he had to pay 2s. a week for rent. What could he do with the rest?—(Hear, hear.) Well, but he was told he might go to the workhouse, and there he meant to go, and he hoped that all labour ing men with families would go there also. But there they would be separated from their wives and children. —(Hear.) That was against God's law.—(" Yes, it is!") The Scripture said, " Whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder." The Scripture also said, that cursed would be the man who put them asunder, and he be- lieved it would be so.—(Cheers.) The poor-law Was — a law against Scripture.--(Renewed cheers.) But it would cost so much to keep them in the workhouse. To keep him and his family in the workhouse would cost 30s. a week. Out of the workhouse, with labour and the wages paid for it, it would not cost half as much.—(Hear.) He was willing to work, but could get no employment. Even be did, how :could a poor man keep a family on Bs. a week?—(Hear, hear.) Something must be done. The poor could not go on any longer. If the poor man wanted twenty lug (perches) of land, why could he not have it at the same price as the farmer? Why was he charged at the rate of 51. or 61. an acre?—(A voice— " Yes, and 8/. an acre!") How could the poor man pay that price? Why, if they let the poor man have a couple of acres of land for a year or two for nothing, and then charged him a fair rent for it afterwards, would not that be better than his going to the union?—(Cheers.) But it was of no use. They must all go to the workhouse. His advice was, to the poor who had families, " Flock to the union—fill the union—and then something would be done."—(Hear, hear.) A gentleman came to him tho other day and said to him, " Can't you maintain yourself on Bs. a week?" He answered the gentleman, " Could you keep yourself on tBs. a week?" The gentleman replied that that had nothing to do with it, upon which he answered that it had a great deal to do with it ; for if one man could not do it, another could not.—(Cheers.) It was this poverty that drove men to do what they ought not. Many a poor man, with a wife and family, rather than go into the union, where he would be separated from them, did what he would not have done.—(Hear.) He (William Spackman) had been nine months in a workhouse. He did not mean to go nine months more there. He would rather travel the country first. He did not care who was there to hear him, or who was not. The Scripture said, " Thy gold and silver shall bear witness against thee, and the cry of ',the poor shall reach the Lord." The state of th e poor was something like the state of the children of Israel when they were in bondage. He said to his fellow-labourers, " Let your prayers ascend to Heaven ! May God send us down help, and deliver us from our distress."—(Cheers, awl cries of " Bravo !") Mr. EDRIDGE, who lately contested the county, was the next speaker. He said he felt some hesitation in addressing them, as he was a stranger. He was a plain man speaking to a great many plain men. He should treat the question as a matter of business. The agricul tural labourers and small tradesmen were in distress. Why were they in distress ? Was it because they were lazy and indulged in drunken habits that they were in want of the common necessaries of life ? Or was it because they were starved by the unjust laws of unjust men?—("Yes!"). Was it in consequence of the taxation on corn, on leather, on sugar, and on all other things ? Yes, it was ; and they were taxed in an unjust degree. The poor man with his limited means was taxed in a greater degree than the rich man. The taxes bore the most heavily on those articles which the poor man con sumed ; yet the gentleman could not eat more bread than the poor man.—(Hear.) The taxes ought to bear most, on the rich, and least on the poor man.—(Cheers.) Clever men had calculated that the labourer paid nearly half his wages in taxes on articles of consumption. The gentleman did not pay in anything like the same pro portion. This was one great cause of the hardships under which the poor suffered.—(A voice—" That is the only cause !") No ; it was not the only cause ; be cause, by the laws restricting commerce, and therefore lessening the demand for labour, the poor were deprived of the means by which they might be able to pay the taxes.—(Hear.) This was foul play ; and he (Mr. Edridge) would be ashamed if he did not denounce it whenever the opportunity offered. One of the previous speakers had recommended the labourers to form associ ations. He thought that was bad advice. No ; let them come forward and attend public meetings. Let them appeal to the gentry of England to lead them, and let the gentry and the poor be once more of one family.— (Cheers.) The flock would fare badly without the shep herds ; but in this case the shepherds were all rogues.— (A laugh.) Their Noble Chairman ought not to have been left alone by the aristocracy to-day. If he (Mr. Edridge) was charged with having done wrong, as they were charged with doing so, would he skulk in the woods ? No I But they were charged with cruelty and oppression towards the poor. If he were the subject of such a charge, the first 10 or 12 men he met should be his jury.—(Hear.) The gentry ought to come forward and see to the poor. If their horse or their foxhound were ill, the doctor would be sent for, and the fine generous animal would be cared for and physicked. But if men—men made in the image of God, with wives and children whose cheeks met together from starvation— came to them, they would not give them a bit of bread ! —(Loud cheers.) They knew that the people were starving—(Hear)—yet they would attend to their horse or their dog, but they would do nothing for the honest industrious working man.—(Hear, hear.) The men who allowed the wives and children of the poor to starve were murderers. " The blood of thy brother be on thy head !" It would be visited on them.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Edridge) threw this out by way of hint. It was not often they got such hints.—(Cheers.) There was nothing of a rebellious or a sour spirit among those who had met there that day. All the poor men wanted was to be able to work for themselves and their wives and children.— (" Yes, that is all we want, gentlemen.") He hoped the gentlemen of England would come forward while it was yet time.—(Cheers.) WILLIAM COLE, of Lechlade, a labourer, next mounted the waggon from the body of the meeting. He said—We poor men are put upon very much indeed. The farmers make poor souls work many hours more than they ought, and give them nothing for it. They put taxes on poor souls, instead of tvhich they ought to take them off. If they took a little of the duty off malt, it would be good for poor souls. Also if they took a good deal away from the parsons.—(A laugh.) It would be a good thing for the poor man to get his acre or two acres of land. The farmer says he would not work if he got it. That is not true. What the working man wants is a little more wages, and then he would be able to pay his rent and taxes,—(Hear.) The Lord will be with the poor, and God knows what will become of the gentlemen when they die. I'm sure I don't know.— (Hear.) I hope the gentlemen will let the poor have a little land. (A voice—" Yes ; but not at 61. an acre !") Let them have land for one year for nothing, and then let it to them afterwards for a penny a lug (perch) more than the others have it for.—(Hear.) The speaker was going on to recommend that the tax should be taken off tea and sugar, and put on thrashing ma chines, when it was intimated to him that he was talking too long. He persisted, until Spackman, the former speaker, stepped forward, and gave him a signi ficant look, upon which, turning round to Lord Radnor and the gentlemen who had got up the meeting, he said, " Gentlemen, I have said all I can to do good. I hope it will be pleasing to you." A person named CANDY, who was dressed like a me chanic, and wore an apron, and who said he came from London, then addressed the meeting in a long and rather violent harangue, savouring of Chartism. After entering at some length into the condition of the work ing classes, he asked, " What are you going to do ? Are you going to submit, or are you going to join heart and hand in putting down the demon power— monopoly ? Unite—unite—unite I Get information. That is the groundwork of regeneration. All nature around you is good and beautiful, testifying to the handiwork of God, yet man, his noblest work, presents this spectacle of woe. Yes, there are men, who have reason to curse the hour that gave them birth.—(Hear, hear.) Then, let us use our energies to put an end to such a state of things. Let every man do all the good he can. Ultimately a great and glorieus end will be accomplished. God forbid that we should see here the days of Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. The English people want no revolution. All that they want is a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.—(Hear.) The Earl of RADNOR said he wished to say a few words before the resolutions were put. Some of the speakers had described the state in which the labouring classes were. Ile feared that in that neighbourhood the poverty which had been stated to exist was not at all uncommon. The agricultural labourer suffered con siderable privation. Not only was there a deficiency in the demand for labour, but the wages given also were most inadequate to supply the wants of the people. At the same time it appeared to him most unjust to bring a charge against the landowner and the farmer for giving insufficient wages. No man was bound to give for any thing more than he could get it for. They had heard a great deal about the new poor-law.—(Hear.) Now, he had always been, and still was, a zealous friend to the poor-law. He thought it was a wise measure. They all knew what abuses there were under the old poor-levy. The present law was based on the most strict philo sophical principles, and the more stringently it was car ried out, the better he believed it would be for all per sons to whom it was intended to apply. At the same time he was free to admit that the poor of this country were labouring under great difficulties and grievances, for which some remedy might and ought to be found. He believed that the poverty of the working man arose from the labour-market being overstocked, which was owing to the demand for the industry of the country being restricted by the laws affecting trade, commerce, and manufactures. He believed !that what the country wanted was free trade.—(Hear, hear.) But a great deal had been said about the allotment system, and it was said that the labourers paid too high rents for their allot ments. He thought the argument was unjust. Why should land he let to one man for less when another was ready to give more ? It would be to deprive the land owner of his right to his property. The real cause of the high rents was, that there was a great demand for allotments, and people were ready to give more for them than perhaps they ought to do. lie for one was alto gether opposed to the principle of the allotment system. That principle prevailed almost universally in Ireland, and yet there was no people on the face of the earth that suffered more from poverty than did the peasantry of Ireland.—(Hear.) The Noble Earl concluded by advo cating the repeal of the corn-laws, which, by opening a larger market, would increase the demand for labour, and therefore the wages of labour. Mr. Pius said ho was in favour of allotments, and thought it, was of no use talking about free trade. It was of no use to send the labourers to Manchester. They bred too fast there already. He was for allotments, but they should net be at rents too high for the people to pay. They should not be treated as the Noble Earl in the chair treated some tenants of his, when he enclosed a strip of waste land at the bottom of Blunsden-hill, and let it in allotments at Bd. the lug (equal to 51. es. Bd. an acre), and, when the tenants had worked the land, and improved it, turned them out to make room for others ; putting them on fresh allotments for them to cultivate at the same high rents.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The speaker entered into some details which seemed to be understood and taken up by the working men in the body of the meeting ; but his statement was so rambling and unconnected, that it was not possible to understand it clearly. At length he was called to order by The Earl of RADNOR, who said he would tell them exactly how the matter stood is to the allotments at Blunsden-hill. The fact was, that although many years ago he was bitten by the allotment system, he was now wholly opposed to it. One reason was, that instead of it making the poor man independent, as it professed to do, it really made him dependent, for it required super intendence and management, all of which took away from the poor man's independence. As to his own al lotments, the case was this—there was a large strip of land by the side of the turnpike-road, which was taken in for him by Captain Bradstock, the surveyor of the roads. Captain Bradstock let it out in allotments, and chiefly to workmen employed on the roads.—(A voice— " Yes, but who receives the rents ?") If they would let him finish he would tell them. The rents were paid, and he (Lord Radnor) received them.—(Laughter.) A gen tleman in the neighbourhood disputed his right to the land, and the rents (as we understood) were therefore for a time not paid to him. But as soon as the question was settled, which was next year, he reduced the rents 25 per cent., and notice was given that there would be further reductions, if the tenant managed the land well. The Noble Earl then repeated his previous objections to the allotment system. It was either merely a means of eking out the wages of labourers, or it afforded a temp- I tation to greedy landlords—(Hear, hear)---to drive hard bargains, and get more than the real value of the land. That was the case in Ireland. A VOICE.—Let us have the land at the same rate as the monopolising farmers. The Earl of RADNOR—Who is to fix the price ? If a man is willing to give eightpence a lug, of course I shall take it.—(A labourer—" Yes, but you won't benefit the poor, my Lord.") If I could get eightpence a lug and I let it to you for fivepence, of course I should be making you a present of the difference.—(A voice— " The poor don't want the land cheaper than anybody else.") Mr. PHIPPS—Lord Radnor was born a nobleman and bred a nobleman, how can he know what the feelings of the poor are ?—(Hear, hear.) What the Noble Chair man said might be all very well, but how could the poor man help giving the high rent ? lie could not move his family to another parish, as he might pigs to another market.—(Cheers.) Mr. LAWRENCE (a shoemaker, who was saluted as the " village lawyer") here came forward, and declared he had been a tenant of Lord Radnor at eightpence a lug. He was also bound to clear the ditch. If a man kept his allotment drained and paid his rent, ought he to be turned out because another man was ready to give more rent, after the place had been worked upon 1-- (Cheers.) ITo, let them keep the land they had dug,—. (Loud cheers.) If the Noble Lord let his land at 2L acre, which would be IL more than it was worth, so gave the second 11. as a premium to labour, then he (Mr. Lawrence) would be glad to meet him, and hail himss. s , friend to the poor.—(Hear, hear.) Lord Radnor tots them that if one man would not give the price anothl would. He held that to be an abominable doctrin e to b._ broached in a Christian country.—(Cheers.) W as this the way to mend the condition of the poor man ? Let him have the land at a fair rent.—(Cheers.) If the . Noble Lord let allotments, he should give them at a rea: the poor man could pay, and not at such extortion Newie and extravagant rents as were paid to the Chairman. CANDY, the man who had spoken before, again ad dressed the meeting. Since 1688 there had been no les ! , than 3,900 Inclosure Acts, to swell the parks, lawns, e n :' shrubberies of the landlords.—(A voice...-. Yes; thatl a home truth.") And then, when the poor came o n so asked for a scheme of home colonization, wh i c h woe . : reduce the amount of misery and thin the gaols Sn, poor-law unions, they were told by Lord Radnor ttts: he would not agree to it, because it made the poor de, pendent. .They had a right as Englishmen to ask '`), it. England was the land of their fathers, and t_ i k e i ought to be able to enjoy it, by paying the full "' lle fur it.—(Cheers.) The Earl of RADNOR then put the resolutions, bu t there were not more than one or two hands held up; One labourer in the crowd cried out that they wa lite ? allotments at 1/. an acre, and not free trade. The fet'', ing of the meeting was so evidently in favour of all o „, ments, and against the Chairman, that it seemed Pr" bable that the resolutions would not be carried. Mr. EDRIDGE came forward, and made a speec h e favour of the allotment system, which put the P e W into better humour. Mr. CROOME then took the resolutions from Lora nor, and spoke for a short time in favour of the ment system, but saying that it had no immediate can nection with the object of the meeting. Tlap Earl of RADNOR then again put the resolutionsyst which, after a little hesitation, were carried by s le ): hands (some 20 or 30 in favour, to two or three agaiilst%; but while they were being put, one or two labo ur % called out to Lord Radnor to give them allotments t" fair rent. Thanks were then formally voted to the Chair, and the meeting separated. . THE ROYAL EXCHANGE- . 0 Yesterday the Joint Committee of the Corp?ra ti L and Mercers' Company were engaged some hours in co o ' a sultation on the measures to be ad o pt e d f o r the receP t ! iig of the Queen and her Illustrio us C onsor t a t the 0 1 3 e ul- t o of the Royal Exchange o n th e 28 t h i ns t an t, and sis ° determine on the affairs generally c o nnected with t 0 opening of that noble public edifice. As the day approaches the wo r ks of th e interior hal: been proceeded with with increased ac ti v ity, so that too entire range of apartments of Lloyd's, and the W o g Exchange, and the London Assur anc e Companies 0 4 be in as forward a state of completion as possible by t'_ t , period, and from the progress made within the night it is the general opinion that the different roor: will be almost finished, so as to require but slight P u s paration and temporary decoration on the auspie l° 6 4, occasion. As far as the works internally have son e . they are satisfactory to all parties concerned. Wit" ~,- 0 gard to the exterior of the building, a few days i l 's prove sufficient to allow all the necessary arrangen i— . to be complete. A number of workmen have been el, ployed in cutting through some of the walls, W b s i b e s divide the different range of rooms, belonging to `io last foot , public companies occupying parts of the b u ilding: 7o ' order that her Majesty and th e augus t personseo who are to be present at the imposing ceremony , I p os go over the whole of the i n t er i or o f th e Eice.,,h tin ,,r o , with all facility. Yesterday th e S u b scr iption Ibu' o p belonging to Lloyd's, was completed all but fitting lo t those places where decoration is req u i re d, and for t a to purpose workmen in the course of the day entere f 0 commence the embellishments, which are to be .„() 3 superb description. It is in that room where the grl o entertainment is to be laid out, a cross table for ten W ph placed on a raised flooring at the south end of the Kee, at which her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince .1 4 - 11 1 % . and the principal guests are to b e seated . Three " fl a tended tables are to be formed from north to soutbt, o , the leading visitors having the f av our of an invittu i ne e the Lord Mayor, the members of the R o yal Exet t li,'" c l a and Gresham Trust Committ ee s, the Aldermen 0 , Common Councilmen of the City, and chief civic off° are there to be accommodated. e We understand that their Royal Highnesses theta a and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Tts Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Str,e` l o and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of, O w Weimar, are invited to grace the ceremony by ther P; 00 sence at the entertainment. The Duke of Well el, has engaged to meet th e Q ueen an d Si r R o bert t e , and several other member s o f th e G overnme nt are l'',l o wise to attend. The Ea r l o f J erse y, as M a ster of be Horse, and the Lord Chamberlain, Earl Delavvarr, ° rig Lord Steward, the Earl o f Li ver p oo l, are to be are ° ol the officers of the royal household who will attend a the Sovereign in their official capacity. We unde rstg ; s o that most of the Foreign Ministers are to be invited, al the Lord Chancellor and judges. e r e e d It is determined that sufficient space can be 5',,,--t°posi at those tables for 360 persons. At present it is 1 1 1 , -- d Tor 3 tively known whether an orchestra will be er ee ' - ititarY band, ae, by the way, there are to be three r O , Ol 0, bands, we hear those of the Royal Horse Guards (1) Blue), the Coldstream Guards, and the Grenadier Guard s ' iS the several banquet t a bl es a gorgeous di sp l a y of plat% ) likely to be witnessed, for not only that belenging, ho the Corporation, but, it is said, that belo ng i n g to j Goldsmiths' and other wealthy companies, is to be use in the adornment of the regal table an d rema i n i n g fest° e boards. In the Commercial-room, a spacious and noble sil t ; ment, ranging the whole extent east to west of t 0 north side of the merchants' area, an entertainmen t to be supplied for 400, and in the colonnade in t he quadrangle or merchants' area 600 p ers ons are to - accommodated. The Lord Mayor and Civic functionaries are to behliit waiting at Temple-bar at twelve o'clock precisely, se t r , f ; due homage may be paid to th e Q ueen on her Maie s ' ij cl entrance into the City of London. On the civic 31 royal procession reaching the p o rti co o f th e Exclot e g: l - 1 , the members of the committee, headed by the chair' n t i:e are to await her Majesty, who, on descending from ea , royal carriage, will be formally received by those g tlemen. It is presumed, according to the plan at present sg ree o ci s upon, that the Queen and Prince Albert, followed by 0 high officials of the royal household, and the noble,. and ladies in attendance on her M a j es ty, a re to be cl ducted by the south colonade round the area to the g r ' o s western entrance, at which the illustrious party ent er at their arrival ; and then her Majesty and Royal Ge es will walk across the open court, or merchants' Tea, 0 is the east area, and, turning to the left, ascend the P ro . cipal staircase, to that portion of the building 0 1 )13 „ b priated to Lloyd's ; and then the Queen is to pass thl the lobby to the Commercial-ro om , an d f rom thole ° , the north-west corner, at which point are what are ter4 the " unappropriated rooms," to th e w est front, ea ss ,. de through the apartments b e lo ng i ng t o th e R o y a l Exeut e re Assurance Company to the south side, and w ill t do s enter the future apartments selected for the Le r ' 0 Assurance Company. In that part of the Exebe n e:sie room is to be prepared for the exclusive use of the CP w e At the announcement of the banquet, appointed , .bo understand, for two o'clock, her Majesty passes from' ao d private room by a temporary doorway to the reading a isli map-room of Lloyd's, at the south-east corner, w be , communicates with the subscription room alluded t O O O fore, as the apartment devoted to the uses of the btt"oef 6 The Hon. Artillery Company have received Iv from Sir James Graham to attend at the ROW change, to form the guard of honour to her Molest)" to There are to be 600 special constables, in additi °l l, o n, the City police force on duty al ong th e li ne of proees' as given by us some days back. _-...sseee MARRID. On the 15th inst., at Southmolt E on, Devon, Bohai, Tpi Crosse, Esq., of that place, to Lucy Hawell, daughter of Gilberd Pearse, Esq., of Southmolton. 9 4 1 On the 15th inst., at Clapham Ch urc h, J o h n Bradley'et 0 of Kirkby Lonsdale, to Esther Matilda, youngest daug llt John Holland, Esq., of Clapham-common, Surrey. iq uolt: On the 15th inst., at Alverstoke, H an t s , Humphrey ''ftb° more, Esq., of Wilton ' Wilts, to Sarah, eldest daught er late Richard Welford, Esq., of Marlborough, Wilts. On the 15th inst., at Kensington Church, Mr. mall, of Sheffield, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Miss Eliza Mare' Kensington-square. ileol On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Camberwell , b ee t William Waddell, Esq., her Majesty's Customs, to , 12 ' Douglas, youngest daughter of John Holmes Gibs, , n , •L'"" Lombard-street. y in eici inst., ~te P On the 17th at St. Mary's, Islington, J o —' gcl son of John Furze, Esq., of Kensington, to MarP D - daughter of Richard llodgson, Esq., of Highbury-P„ltt,sllr t On the 16th inst., at Ly ston Church, Essex, R. h fe lts Cream, Esq., M.D., of Bury St. Eumund's, to Isabe l % St' of Thomas Lancaster Davies, Esq., M.D., of New Bat' of David's, Jamaica. s f On the 17th inst., at St. Pancras, Paul Tatlock, ° High Beach, to Helen, only daughter of P. De Wint, be t ppe Uower-s Onthe 17th in treet. st., at St. James's, Westminster,. 11°Dirti ' Puzey, Esq of Park-road, Regent's-park, to Soph ie ' daughter of Nathaniel Hill, Esq., of Regent-street. 5 . , On the 18th of April, at St. James's Church, SYc l°,B ol B. Boydall, Esq. of Caen Gwrle, Durham, New South 1„or to Mary Phcebe ' Broughton, the elder daughter of the Bishop of Australia et Di. g bt Recently, at Haggerstone, ED Miss Fanny Holcroft, dav of of the late Thomas Holcroft. re lict On the Ist inst., at Che a m- co tt age , S urre y, Mary, the late Rev. Natha n i e l Th b Rector ° t '-I.l' eOiOP 0 05 ornury, Gloucestershire, aged 87. Thos' On the 13th inst., at Upper Clapton, the Re v " ,y, fi• Hunt, aged 82. ,it;jljllP" On the 13th inst., at Upper Seymour-street, l' • t t Sharpe, Esq., aged 62. i hit Robe On the 13th inst., at Whetstone, Middlesex, d °— e A Williams, Esq., of Lambeth-hill, D oc t ors '-common s ' '''- On the 14th i ns t., a t Ull est h orpe, L e i cester shire, o''' - a till wife of William Gilson sq. TT al Oa the 15th inst. l , Hen E rietta, third child of --e Mary Sham s , o f th e Old K en t- roa d. On the 15th inst., in Il u i s h Champflower, Somerset'ies, dif ander Webber,inst., Chime On the 15th at Bromley-street, near Stern - . Mr. Samuel Henwood, late of Mount -parade, York. -trOVl 4ti t'l; London: Printed and Published by MURDO - O. - pf No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ofec e, r e ioq Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in thi EdidcUeges, Friday, Octoba 13, 1344. at An e ; m anner traffi c h. h the rha; „ory ~tel Proj a moun t From B) Stage F 7 Stea n en rn B. 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