The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-23 00:00:00

is 44• WhOla 3 HU' W ill . ' rho 16 irb If 4 ere . , ii ` l) bo , i tt y L i ill et ,terdaY t° ; not .ar ~...ilgr lec - t e "ol'3 C 3‘ °5 s till A t Ueen , ro ';es ,denteol Ole SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtit)lir Opt ton. " Who runs may read." rortmxow. Louis Philippe came to Paris on Monday, and again visited the exhibition of National Industry, where he remained until il early six o'clock. Ilis Majesty then returned to Neuilly to dinner, The funeral service of Admiral Lalande was to take place on Wednesday at the Church of St. Louis. The waters of the Seine have risen considerably, in conse quence of the heavy rains which had continued for some days. In the Chamber (4* Peers, on Tuesday, M. Guizot had made 4 Severe attack upon M. Montalembert, and accused the Party with which he acted of wishing to lead the country Into anarchy and disorder. The Jour na l d es Debuts blames the Prince of Joinville for h is atnphlet, and declares it to be imprudent and impolitic. T neJeernal de Franchrt states from Rome that the Bishop of Urleaus had arrived there on a special mission from his t Government, and had already had an audience of the Pope, ma Sev eral_ conferences wi theardina I Lam brusch i n i,the Secretaryof . Nate, and several otherniembers of the high clergy. The Arai ri. 1 Re f • . • a tywe, a Paris journal, states that the Pope has made the Bishop of Orleans a Count of the Roman empire, and assistant prelate to the Court of Rome. The Journal de r Ain bl• .1 lat Bourg, says:—" The , pu lb let C hateau de Fernev the celebrated residence of Voltaire, is decidedly on sale. - ' lt i 3 said that the Duke d'Aumale intends to becom e the purcha ser. " tie Ve find by the B russels. and Antwerp journals that one of Passenger:swho received in j uries in the late railroad acci dent ha s di ed of his wounds. He was a baker at Hobokeu, _kilned Daelewyk. The number of the other passengers who were seriously injured does not appear, as stated in a report Published by the railway direetors to exceed ten, but some ,O 7 them have received fractures of a dangerous nature, and be l,l! number of persons who have contusions is consider_a___l e • i'l_.!ivo female. who were killed are said to have been Mll • .... e ntell, a Dutch lath•, who had resided many years in Ant .eurP, and a lady of Ilainault. According to the presentac v_o_rt!ta the shock to the whole train was tremendous. Fourb ers _ e r c 'ages were entirely broken to pieces, and several others w e much injured. At Union -hall AND POLICE. brought up from t.T,I,e mess -master of the 76th Regiment was between the - -"le Ell 8 , for refusing to pay the difference r ..t. _ _, , a_ fares of a second and third-class carriage. Ihe r,e_cir e r ker of the South -We t Railway stated that the mueoirnen:lant arrived by the half-Past ern ten o'clock train that Produced'ug, from Gosport 'and alighting from a second he a third-class deck, oa and fused to pay the diner reire,e between it and the second-class e fare, and was•therefore rejas. ipto custody. loudly' complained of the business, hip of the case • that he had come up on very urgent oie ...me ss and e . . Persons L . I,Lis deta i ned, owing to the negligence od. - -e t°, l, ging to the Ailway, and brought upntthoeurte to p en3 asse t- -i• ' f ere was no policeman present . to ha p in oi adjudged th e Ners the different classes. Mr. Cottiiig b e At ii e e te f hl e ie n t d la n t to pay a fine of 10s., besides 55., the difference ea,,ftares of the second and third-class carriages. Lit which • weekly meeting of t e h r e a K n i d ng c st a o p n ta m tu ag ll is o t b ra e t r e ts s : efich w it were present the a) 4 . --`` 'Were a respectably-dressed man, about i 27 y e •zi a ss ue o e f : i f and Charles Duval, also a man of respectab e ap . p ~ ett.. rnid die age, were charged, the former, with prese t nting_ r a 40,1_, Pnrporting to be in the hand-writing of the I . ev. Al. Riir , of Ham and the latter with forging the sidle ter, cAe l 4ntent to defraud the charitable public. Ilie Board iimsidered that Kerr had been the most active in the affair. bkrciernmitted him for the full period of three months, with . tileat ab°ll r. Duval was sentenced to two months' imprison- At,i,with hard labour. Ile a . " Thames police-court, Richard Bragger, George Asilbger, Alexander Nicholson, John Horsted, Mary Ann C. x,.,1414 Rosetta Bragger, were brought before the 1i0n. ,.11 G. and " p r t, ol ?, charged with the wilful murder of Luke IN! iam , treat ten him of 30/. The prisoners were examined at charln, and again remanded. erkenwell, George Barnes, police-constable 194 G, was d eh,,..d with an assault of a very brutal and unprovoked to on the person of Edward J -c oce, a shoemaker, - to . i g a t No• 62, College-court, Cowro y ss, and was ordered• —Y a fine of 2/., or be imprisoned for twenty-one days. li e , •,. cotrwr—r.a.srixONlLXllM. 01 li d - . ..!4ajesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal f '4, 0 ,7, are expected to leave Buckingham Palace this a ter- t e rrat ; or Claremont, where the Court, according to present Isot,thjett,naernt tast,idsvill remain until Wednesday next. Countess of Gainsborough, and Lady Louisa beloare,exPected to arrive at the Clarendon Hotel on Sa ithke Co 4 „ l niglit, from an extended continental tour, when f It L a t i:`Less will resume her attendance at Court, as one o • ford ins of the Bed-chamber to the Queen. 8 4 11 4 a rid Lady Combermere will give a Th a Y r , ext at th • - *dence at Belgrave-square. grand dinner on t i . e ri tik . eir new msi 7 ri ght° '°f Sutherland has arrived at the Albion Hotel, •1rie;,,,, T2, for the benefit of his health. His Grace is acc 3 o r n r t a - Yo k ill ( bY the Man -lids of Stafford. The. Hon. Mr..and . ~_ allhe arti ved yesterday at the Clarence Mansion. the , P l 4 last of th • f o o r r e c ' e mn ori br l i v elies e rda a7c l ie s n C t concerts but (l on tr e s of . the season took evening, under the direction of the utl y i Duke r _ 'bee, 1 ,. • flie music was good, and e. b lV l!at 0 10 4 1 83 R• Birch sang the beautiful air from Solomon, tel . ugh I trace," with great sweetness. The olh as ef hilto,kes,,Bl4..gers were Madame Caradori Allan, Madame U . ~.e 00,11-;'S• Salvi, Staudigl, Hobbs, Hawkins, and Machin. t otr, r a,sorather thinly attended. 1r Itight'l,l) uchere gave a dinner . party last evening to e,trse o f r," 10 n• the Speaker and thirteen Members of the Al th '4lll4lons, s a, 7c e e4l.B o e f e tr e in r e neenlent of Trinity TteeridutofanvoWureadbnieesadiaTpetahre espective courts presen , ... 4 4,, erY c onsiderable diminution has taken place in the . Net t ca sts b • te,..,katt y the Act enabling the Courts to determine Chat thez!o2t of term. The arrears are now very trifling j a "40'4 .7. were some time ago. 'oe 4 stlee Tindal's rumoured retirement from the Bench at, atb o ..,, qc'yterie„,,'lLY, contradicted. Basin lector the first day of Trinity Term, the holinghaillettures were commenced in Gresham Collee, toti" t t of v _ r eet• The attendance, though small, and during th 4„ ue day exceedi ng forty persons,m C w o nee s i s vit., "gen i t , --; 'or, before the erection of the n th ew eat b r u e il o d f in t g h s e , 104 of L o "7,e lectures were delivered in the \ ''e te ll 141011 School, it was seldom that an audience of Persons assembled. " 4 01\11, ".tAr ;A- - -- and &Ivy NEWS. vt MARKET - t Bank °l"l ia MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. ituankr-qt will have been observed that the demand VI si h -t nek has increased, and that the price has ` 5 114 c e th e 4 0 , 8 t. y row., ,further,.disclosure. which took place on th e toe. , i ;.,le to Sir R. Peel's views on the banking he w ,Publi e :` l . l a is accounted for by the fact that it took kn., taeas so is trine to ascertain the real merits of the De; . (l eg - r ll -f e " ec and that the further . explanation was in ker... l tod,'" :;,, ovv ess! . ll7: before it t s ha w t hole bearing could be stability at least is ot,' 4 lL ed ; 0 , it is . seen . di Bt ges b y ",. precaution exists against those violent *J.,, llt bad w "lnh the mercantile world has been so often . 4 eict s i ti 4 ol : l that, whereas things could not. b . e in a o v en 4 , than they were, there is now evidently eiZe.rst 44 4 4 ,o t violent mischief. . All who most clear . ly . Iv ; 14 t tli ""e Position of the Bank of England, in ih,ei? platelthy .)s e ho would be the first to feel annoyance e-oh::t!ltioih4adopted contrary to the interests of that th t lger 4 if o seem to consider the measure, for the mature f s elf,, bona n o rhich they have now had time, one . ri h eoli`"pcthe public generally and the Bank it the he Puhr " aye been adopted. hwleak ; le are anxious to know how the separation of . ~;tthilitts° about issuing and a banking department will trei b b ,Y Wll i . „V lt , , imagining, perhaps, that the ma h - 417'3' . 0 --' 410 change is to be effected mill be ex hie; ye cll3Pliated. As far as we can learn, nothing ‘, ,44st .ore :_ üb4 wortiaa.ple ;in fact, it is said that the plan will tl i , t ttl t o & itself." A few offices may perhaps be lat d' W h de tl oa tir t k Out more plainly the distinction between °rA% o ttltaie - h r r n , e nt 3 , but these will doubtless be regu eoih f"4 Chan principles. Thus, there may be an ' 4 e ' o r not: i ting notes for coin, another for changing li olt i t t% th 11 7; A third for changing notes for other notes, With sho4,,n circulation should be worn out, or . the 141 , ti, ti!n• walit paper of a different denomination. th4l.l'lll ::eePtion of novelties like these, which, after to l 4 o h • Inerely formal, as tke same work is already h_ In other d ' e •IPoet.-_, Lpartments, little or no alteration is is 0 0 fe r „,7t. teh e ° l yet j: 11l which the weekly returns are to be made SUNS tit t l s eqv ,n, but will most likely be regulated by a kid-10,---st-led to-the Bill. atit -e qth: e .," Closed better than they were in the !it -,011,0-:aY, Consols 'being 99i 1-; gut there was a In t'k e e4 " -- th'e .- b ile Y• The heavy investments were also 4 4 01 1 '1 I ,-,pitteed Three-and. a-Half per Cents. be- S '"" the New lir 1 / Bank Stock remained I' Paoi 1, I st thi 3 ' A e r It)3 f .3 4 101. • IV ° tends wore erroneously quoted in the ' l it th ' 1 • • 1 and which is also hi th o e e1, )4 . gat 251 instead of' 2.4 i, 1:i nv e . ,, 111 ,° 1 )1 4 , 111 4 value. The Three per Cents. were as beeht,--'44 46. e. Venezuela were 40 to 401; Portuguese ‘ ''''_ ftdd.,,4 tO 46 ' and Colombian receded to 13i. 11,4" th I "nnal L 4 ' • in Railway Shares have . Th 4e• ~ transactions ton ,•"--tiirm• Ingham and Gloucester were 10; ilt % hu e Chi Greenwich 6, 1 ,- discount; Bristol and 41 Ili r !kl llrral,_l_ 124. Chester and Holyhead 4; Chi - • min h -6 .`'on 14 to 'Li; Eastern Counties New, li4;,l.Alattalli 122; South Western 47-4-; Do. Eighth, Il ich lo „gtoti s i. t ? E ' and Birmingham 15; Newcastle and 1 1 11 ,4 IV i cl li r .Z 24; Northern and Eastern 121; N0r t.,4•11/ro4.!lvielt 6 ,1 1 , 1 61; South Eastern 31 ; -; Yarmouth_ -s a4t. ` 0 Pret,'; ' aria and Orleans 19; and Rouen ai . id -"Ilin• Colonial Bank Shares were 91 dis 't 4 41 hop . * ---- " ..-1----- """...-......................_,.. 1 , - 7-------_________., i , .., -1-) ., ICY AND MURDER IN ;itll - ';' e nla r b• It ATCLIFF. 44 0 140,, . ...Jenard B sat 4 1;g e ", Job,. ragger, George Bragger, Alexander '. r, le er i• Iforstd, Mary Ann Ash, and Rosetta I ‘ith f 'r iqr, Ballarat b rought b e t. • ( 4.-- the • • allarit , - s before the Hon. G. C. (who , ee k wek i Jnc) at the Thames Police -court, charged l'ikh Th, ,_i murder of Luke Williams, and robbing him kre,ittaataio''ollB Cou rt and the avenues leading to it were crowded 1,311 tL in tereat . '` e rters, and the proceedings excited the d_qt CoPrisonern with day h al before k r. ~,', the exception of Richard Bragger, 'eel biLit lti .11• "auantine and were remanded. On Tues 'lei •e, ef L ha Br •• ' iittaiNth tl eo ie 1 C- di visiaong,eratsit'irlree n s d t e e r p e n d ey himself ata t station-house, n to - h l o n u s s iz a t d o - r I ' l ll 2 t urt !'! ) tk - ken h. , and said lie had done so in consequence of ,eht t ' l 7 4 ) th ere ts , . I '..aPre in ttie newspapers, and wished to be i t ,,, 1 ospoeto",,u ri ot marched through the streets at day f.,tilr4seyknkliv." eiturukipnale sent for a person to identify him, arid 1 4 toe-. ? n ds, the chef • 141rie.r_c1041.31.,owboirliactiilvba:b clerk, read over the evidence given .een over reported ; and some h..!„...c-• N ci orto- n said h e etessht_mv.ny having been given in, 14744etiee°rge Brag ger remand all the prisoners for a resent, as an in voluvflaus not so much implicated in the tZrate tr i m s . the rest • e,',Y, e,. , at p the prisoners, but he could not '-"' klditi quest was to be held on the ()nal evidence against him might be brought 'wind, 1:/41,,Lbettiitti:militttra4":1,0Nbaecl'itstesleer_k a,sked Mr. Norton to admit Horsted : . 4 ,,. 7,prir a.andet\-uhvielitnitoyers were present to enter into "qt tri elortoit could not think- of admitting Horsted to bail. i rtelmieuontoleiedrst ~,t4it. sorters were 'is Clerkenwell gaol for "41 4 (ay - --'--,-,-----_________ It t e ki r n .'ght nine a - -- - ----- ----- r t to._ ._ gu ts of w _ , er _ cres of fox cover, the property '41131 deptoy o 4 ,l by rl r d, e. in the vicinity of Curraghmore, IPA" elf td dis; R. r e " r the $ th' to ,eater t at les fo , rB ,en f Act . It 0 1 le. 1311 . 4 ldr• Ply Dui ( ' rr Ihe qu iet nt' w e" . e itert ' lei 1)111 tigia!„ o f [lto° -, to 50 3 1811• lsioinß Id I 'l4 i rate o. .k 0 t ) be tsS i l with 'h b t a ta' e t Roe vit h th igges t be 6111—pse ' J s• s. each, e a over a~ i 1 J P . .) 5. , wit h 0 505. coupe, 31b 1 'Ol EPSOM itACES. The morning, early yesterday, appeared uniformly and thickly overcast with clouds, and a few large drops of rain falling as we were about to leave London gave indications of a wet day. Getting clear of the metropolis, about nine o'clock the clouds began lazily to disperse, making room for the appearance of the sun, which shone pleasantly for intervals during the greater part of the day; its heat being every now and then tempered by large masses of clouds, and by a cooling breeze. On arriving, about ten ' o'clock, at Epsom, we were informed that a large body of police, horse and foot, had marched through the town a short time previously, with all the parade of regular infantry and cavalry, as if they were going to take the race •course by storm. Arrived upon the course, we saw the aforesaid body drawn up in military array, a little to the west of the police station, receiving orders from mounted and armed superintendents and inspectors, and soon after moving off and taking up the various stations as signed to them in different parts of the course. 'These military movements were made to carry into effect the notice for the suppression of gambling booths, suddenly, and in the opinion, of many persons, ungra ciously, if not unjustly, issued by the Police Com missioners on Monday night. The issuing of the notice alluded to took place without consulting on the matter the local magistrates of Epsom, who for thirty years have managed to keep in order the vast assembly of persons drawn together by the Derby and Oaks, and who during that period have discharged their functions in most cases successfully for the protection of the public. To say the least of it, those who have authorised . these new regulations have been guilty of a great breach of courtesy to wards the Epsom Magistrates in not making them aware of their intentions. The feelings of the inha bitants respecting this last, we think we are justified in calling it, arbitrary proceeding of the Police Com missioners, may be gathered from the following memorial : To the Right. Min. the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the parish of Epsom, in the county of Surrey; Showeth,—That your memorialists have just heard that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to suppress gaming in the booths at the present races at Epsom. That your memorialists have no desire to de fend gambling of any description, but they feel that the peculiar circumstances of the present moment justify them in addressing you on the subject of the notice issued last night only by the Commissioners of Police. It is notorious that, for many years past, the keeping of gaming tables at the various races round the metropolis has been indirectly sanctioned; and the keepers of those places, not being apprised that a different course would be pursued at these races, have spent large sums in hiring the ground and fitting up places for the entertainment of the public, and which sums have been appropriated in making stakes for the different races now running on Epsom Downs, and if they are not allowed to proceed, hundreds of persons must be reduced to a state of destitution—many having travelled from all parts of the United Kingdom. That, bearing in mind, as your memorialists have heard, that within the last week large sums of money were paid in the presence of the police to the Earl of Verulam, at Gorhambury, that a similar practice has prevailed with the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood, and at Ascot, Moulsey, and other places, your memorialists hope they may be excused for sug gesting to you the propriety of permitting the present races to pass over without interference, and of giving full notice that gambling of every description will be suppressed at 'future races, in which case your petitioners would be happy to co-operate with her Ma jesty's Government in giving full effect to the law, but to do so at the present moment would he a flagrant act of injustice, and be opposed to every principle of justice and fair-play, to which the humblest criminal is said to be entitled. Signed, on behalf of a meeting of the inhabitants, JOHN BAILEY, Chairman. A deputation of the memorialists promptly pro ceeded to the Home- office, and had an audience with the Under-Secretary, Mr. Manners Sutton, who told them that the prayer of their memorial could not be listened to, as Sir James Graham's determination to suppress gambling on race courses was irrevocable. It is useful, though at the eleventh hour, to know this, since the keepers of gambling booths will for the future know what what they have to expect, and be enabled to avoid the consequences of the sharp prac tice on the part of the police, by which they have been such severe sufferers at Epsom. Possibly, we have seen more crowded meet ings to see the Derby run than that of yester day, yet for all the purposes of gratifying the eye with a multifarious variety of specimens of huma nity, from the peer to the peasant, the immense assemblage of yesterday must be deemed suf ficient. Until about 12 o'clock the arrivals were comparatively few, and they chiefly consisted of per sons who had performed the greater part of the jour ney by the London and Croydon, and the Southamp ton Railways, which ran, the latter to Kingst9n, and the former to the " Stoat's Nest" station, every 20 minutes, first starting at half-past seven in the morning, aad bringing each journey, on an average, 300 persons, who had to make their way to the course by all sorts of conveyances, many preferring. the sure and steady locomotion which nature bestowed upon them. From noon to two o'clock, all the roads open ing on the course kept pouring in an incessant stream of visitors, in every species of carriage, from the aristo cratic four-in-hand to the heavy, surcharged, plebeian van. At the latter hour, taking a bird's-eye view of the course, it might be seen thronged inside the ropes with a moving multitude of each sex, from the win ning-post to Tattenham Corner. Outside the ropes, all along each side of the course for the space just indicated, were the usual double and triple files of carriages, occupied chiefly by the fairer and better part of the creation. The side of the hill, just beyond that part of the course opposite to the Grand Stand, had a very lively appearance, crowned, as it was, with a dense mass of dashing equipages, and animated occu pants. The Grand Stand, from 'portico to roof, was well filled with rank and fashion. The instant the bell rang for the clearing of the course, all persons upon it retired promptly, and, we might say, spontaneously, without any interference on the part of the police, who had not the slightest trouble in keeping fhe course perfectly clear, the vast concourse of people settling themselves down quietly where they might best see the race. The unfortunate persons who bad hired and paid for ground for their gambling booths, (lid not create any disturbance ; and we have heard that the reason they did not was, not so much from fear or deference for the police, as re spect for the local magistrates; their conduct yester day has created sympathy in many quarters on their behalf; and we have heard persons of high standing and influence in society deprecate the treatment they have received. After the usual notes of pre paration, the spectators on the Grand Stand, and in the vicinity of the winning post, were made aware, by the cloud of horsemen that were to be seen issuing from behind Sir G. lleathcote's stable, and careering at full speed across towards Tattenham-corner, that the start had taken place, and that the exciting con test was begun. From the spots just mentioned the competing horses were first seen in a body as they passed the betting-ring on the hill. They were then invisible for a few moments, when they were seen again rounding the corner in gallant style. In an instant afterwards, as they were crossing the road that intersects the course a little westward of Tattcn ham-corner, riders and all were enveloped in a cloud of dust; emerging from which the race began in earnest—that is, a struggle was made to catch the rider in white, who for some time was having it all his own way, but in vain. Running Rein maintained his lead, and won easily by nearly a length. Thus the two favourites, who ran so closely to each other in the betting circles, and who stood for so long a time in public estimation at so extraordinary a distance from their compeers, were most disgracefully beaten. Ugly Buck by four horses, and Ratan by six ! So much for the judgment of the initiated. Running Rein will not be allowed to wear his honours quietly, Colonel Peel having claimed the race for Orlando. The matter in the first instance will be brought before the Stewards, but the general opinion at present is that the race will have to be run over again —in the narrow precincts of Westminster-hall. We will now detail the amuse ments of the day. TIIE DERBY STAKES. Of 50 sovs. each, 11' ft, for three .yrs old, colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. The owner of the second horse to receive .100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police re gulations of the Course. Last mile and a half. (155 Subs.) Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein... (F. Buckle) 1 Colonel Peel's Orlando Colonel Peel's lonian (G. Edwards) 3 Colonel Anson's Bay Momus ...... :. (F. Butler) 4 Mr. J. Day's The Ugly 8uck......(J. Day, j un .} o Mr. J. Day's Voltri Mr. Crockford's Ratan Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire . (Holmes) 0 Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar (Chapple) 0 Sir G. Heatbcote's Campanero (Perren) 0 Mr. Ford's Qui Tam (Robinson) 0 Mr. Ford's Phalaris (Whitehouse) 0 Mr. G. Osborne's Mount Charles (Bumby) 0 Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil (W. Howlett) 0 Mr. A. Hill's Beaumont Mr. Lichtwald's Leander . (Bell) 0 Mr. Gratwicke's Needful (Cotton) 0 Mr. Forth's The Ashtead Pet (Boyce) 0 Mr. S. Herbert's _Delightful colt (Sly) 0 Lord Glasgow's Amulet colt (Heseltine) 0 Mr. Gregory's Loadstone (Darling) 0 .., - Ti"lleman) 0 Lord Westminster's Lancet . (Tempt Mr. St. Paul's Telemachus .. (Marson) 0 Mr. F. Ongley's King of the Gipsies... (Marlow) 0 Mr. M. Jones's British Tar (M. Jones) 0 Mr. Cuthbert's Beaufront ~(J. •Howlett) 0 Lord Maidstone's Cocktimaroo.. (Simpson) 0 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1844. Mr. Dickson's Dick Thornton..... (Darling, jun.) 0 Mr. Thornhill's Elemi. (Chiffney) THE BETI ING. The betting commenced in the town at an early hour, and was kept up by fits and starts until within two hours of the time fixed for starting. Its effect was to give the Ugly Buck the lead of Ratan, and to bring Running Rein and lonian more prominently into notice, their respective prices, taking them in the order we have named them, being 9 to 4, 5 to 2, 9 to 1, and 14 to 1, Orlando, of course, giving way. Some minor changes arose, which it is not necessary to go into. The betting ring on the Downs, made doubly convenient by the erection of an outer circle, inclosing space sufficient for those an horseback, who were disposed to pay the usual admission fee, was as much thronged and as noisy as ever. Amongst the din that prevailed, we ascertained the prices at the break-up to be as follows 5 to 2 agst Ugly Buck 20 to 1 agst Alibar 20 to 1 agst Qui Tam 20 to 1 agst Bay Alomus Outside prices against any other. 3 to 1 ag - ,3t Ratan 10 to 1 agst Running Rein 14 to 1 agst Leander 15 to 1 agst lonian 20 to 1 agst Orlando THE itACE. Before leaving the weighing-stand Sir Gilbert lleathcote intimated to the jockeys, that any and every violation of the rules advertised with regard to starting, would be followed by the infliction of the full penalty. The Starter was directed to take the horses a proper distance below the post, walk them in line up to it, and then, provided they all kept well together, to drop his flag; if by any accident, or otherwise, any horses should be left behind, to repeat the ceremony once or more, as occasion might re quire ; the flag, however, once down, the start was to be decisive. Precisely at three o'clock, but not with ou't a couple of failures, the race commenced, Leander taking the lead at a great pace, followed by Akbar, the Ugly Buck third, and in attendance on him Or lando and Ratan, Running Rein lying in wake of the Buck, and in his rear .Ratan, Bay Momus, and lonian. This constituted the front rank from the beginning of the race to its close. Leander made the running for about half a mile, when, from some unaccountable twist, his off bind leg broke between the hock and the fetlock, and he was instantly pulled up. Running Rein now ran through his horses and took a decided lead, fol lowed by Akbar and the Ugly Buck, who severally kept their places round the turn, until near the road, where both were most unquestionably beaten, and Col. Peel's two were left to follow their leader home ; Orlando got within a length of him at the distance, and making his effort half way up, s li g htly mended his position, but without in any degree im proving his chance for the race; Running Rein re taining his lead to the end, and winning easily by three parts of a length. Orlando beat lonian by about two lengths, and the latter Bay Momus, by a neck ; all were placed, a departure from the ordinary rule, occasioned and justified by the protests lodged previous to the race. The Ugly Buck was a bad fifth, Akbar next at his girths, and Ratan seventh ; the others were beaten so far that it would be idle to speak of the order in which they passed the winning chair. There are not two opinions as to the pace— it was tremendous throughout. Value of the stakes 4,2501. _ _ _ Shortly after the race the stakes were claimed by Colonel Peel on the same ground upon which the protests were founded, and notice was given to the stakeholder not to pay them over to the owner of Running Rein. The objection having been made after the race, the proof of disqualification rests with Colonel Peel. When we left the course the Stewards had not fixed any time for going into the case. The Epsom Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 added, three years old, 7st 1011) ' • four, Bst 111 b ; five, 9 s t 2113; six and aged, 9st 6113; mares and geldings al lowed 31bs. The winner is to be sold for 120 SOTS. One mile. Lord G. Bentinck's Misdeal, 5 yrs ...(Rogers) 1 Mr. Stanbrough's b h Isleworth, 5 yrs • •• 2 Mr. W. Etwall's b f Venatrix, 4 . yrs Mr. A. Johnston's b e Broadholm, 4 yrs.. Mr. A. C. Littler's bin Dahlia, aged .. 0 Mr. Balchin's b c Moustache, 3 yrs 0 Lord G. Bentinck's bl c The Black Gentleman 0 Mr. Law's Romulus, 4 yrs Won easy by a length. Moustache a capital third. The winner was claimed. The Walton Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 35 added ; three yrs old. 7st 101 b; four yrs, Bst 1 11b ; five yrs, 9st 21b : six yrs and aged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. The winner to be sold for 120 sovs. Three-quarters of a mile. New T.Y.C. (10 Subs.) Mr. Booth's Camelino, aged . (Sly) 1 General Wyndham's flashed Venison, 3 yrs Mr. Payne s Audrey, 3 yrs The following also ran, but were not placed : Mr. Etwall's The Spanish Ox, 4 yrs ; Mr. Dawson's Dalesman ' 3 yrs ; Mr. Owen's b c by Clearwell, out of Nininka, 3 yrs ; and Mr. E. R. Clark's Mespelus, 3 yrs. The race was entirely between the first three, and was won cleverly by a length. The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 added. Three-yrs-old, Bst 21b; 4 yrs, Bst 1 llb ; .5 yrs, 9st; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. Mares and geldings al lowed 31bs. The winner to be sold for 801., &c. Last half mile. (12 Subs.) Mr. E. R. Clark's Llangollen, 5 yrs.... (Rogers) 1 Mr. Greville's Molly Mogg, 3 yrs .. Sir W. W. Wynn's Era, 3 yrs.. Mr. Death's Light Dragoon, aged .. The following also started but were not placed : Mr. W. Etwall's Pelerine, 6 yrs ; Mr. Shelley's Omphale, 3 yrs ; Mr. Dawson's Dalesman, and Mr. Law's Isabella, aged. Llangollen made all the running, and won easy by a length. Immediately after starting the Light Dragoon's saddle slipped round, and Butler was thrown with great violence ; he was taken up in a state of insen sibility, and when we left the Downs, was supposed to have received serious, if not fatal injury. THE GROSVENOR DISTRICT ACT. The greatest sensation having prevailed among the tradesmen of Pimlico during the past week, in con sequence of the recent decision of the magistrates, that it is illegal to place or expose any goods what ever on the outside of shop windows,.no matter whe ther upon private ground or not, a very numerous and respectable meeting took place on Tuesday evening, at the Cheshire Cheese Tavern, Pimlico. Mr. W. BRISCOMBE having been called to the Chair, commenced business by observing that the meeting had been convened in consequence of.the construction put upon the 61st clause of the Gros venor District Act (which states that it is unlawful to expose goods, &c., so as to cause any obstruction on the footway), in order that the tradesmen of the district might adopt such measures for their own pro tection as the meeting at large might think proper. Mr. MACPHERSON proposed that a deputation be appointed to wait upon the trustees, and endeavour to come to some amicable arrangement with them. Mr. HARRIS, who stated that, although no trades man himself, he had come forward to raise his voice against what appeared to him an act of the most de testable tyranny, and to contribute his mite towards its removal, thought, however, that the spirit of the Act was totally different from the construction put upon it; and concluded by suggesting that as the room was already crowded to excess, and as many re spectable tradesmen were unable to obtain admission, a subscription be opened, and a committee ap pointed, to make arrangements for a large public meeting at some place where the majority of the tradesmen of the district might find room. Mr. Harris's suggestions having been unanimously adopted, and a liberal subscription collected, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting se parated. DETENTION OF WIND-BOUND VESSELS IN THE CHANNEL. Admiralty, May 20, 1844. Sir,—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of this day's date, stating that, from the long prevalence of easterly winds, there are probably many merchant ♦essels detained in the Chops of the Channel, and requesting that some of her Majesty's ships may be sent to their relief, I am com manded by their Lordships to state, for the information of the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's, that her Majesty's brig Nautilus has been ordered on this service. (Signed) JOHN BARROW. William Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. M‘NAUGHTEN THE ASSASSIN or MR. DRUMMOND. -It may be a matter of some interest to your readers to `know how M'Naughten, the murderer of the late Mr. Drummond, is getting on in his splendid quarter, Beth lem. A recent visit to that abode enables me to state that he has now, as he always told me, the appearanco and manner of kperfectly sane man; features calm; eyes steady and composed; appetite good; he is, moreover, getting fat, so prime is the food, the air, and the exer cise he is blessed with. lie had one ground of complaint however. What was it? Why, that the books fur nished to him were not varied and interesting enough ! No sooner uttered was the complaint than Sir Peter Laurie, good easy knight, ordered a supply for his coun tryman M'Naughten. Ile now picks his teeth, walks about the garden, talks on all manner of subjects, except one—which readily suggests itself to your readers. Ho may live forty years where he is.—Londiin Correspondent of the Edinburgh Weekly Register. Belli Life London of Sunday, May 26, will give the most correct account of the four days' sport at Epsom, with a portrait of the winner of the Derby. Contents of Bell's Life of last Sunday, May 19 :—Fifteen columns of Sporting events, including Paris Races, and a peep at the French Derby (Chantilly), an epitome of the week's mis•• cellaneous news, and 100 advertisements, chiefly connected with Sporting matters. The insertion of a single advertise ment in Bell's Life may be equally beneficial to that of half a dozen in some journals. A sixpence, or s i x p enny s t amps , to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will at all times insure a copy of Bell's Life by return of post. The, weekly sale of Bell's Life exceeds 20,000 copies. It is regularly published in time for the Saturday aft ernoon railways. Bell's Lift of Juus: 2 Will MURIA epgraTiog cf the MCA CuP• GRAND WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE MEETING AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The usual weekly meeting the League was held last evening -in Covent-garden Theatre, Major-Gen. Briggs in the Chair. The house was full. Among those present were Dr. Cooke Taylor, Rev. Samuel Green, George Thompson, Esq., Richard Taylor, Esq., W. J. Fox, Esq., J. W. Heath, Esq., J. P. Nixon, Esq., J. E. Royle, Esq. (Manchester), Robert Welsh, Esq. (lluddei•sfield), T. H. Hall, Esq., A. Hall, Esq., N. V. Squarey, Esq. (Salisbury), John Wilson, Esq., Alexander Jacob, Esq. (Man chester), F. Scheer, Esq., Captain Gear (Exeter), Messrs. Stour, James Lewis, Henry Franklin, Geo. Dixon, F. Rolfe, J. Rogers, Moore, Knox, Campart, Kent, Phelps, W. Thornborrow, Wagstaff, Geesin, Samuel Harrison, P. A. Taylor, J. P. Burnard, Ridge, 11. Underhill, R. Welland, W. Elliott, W. D. Christie, 11. Glover, J. Nutley, William Miller Christie. The chair was taken by Major-General Briggs. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry to be obliged to open the meeting by communicating the painful in telligence that Mr. Mark Philips, M.P. for Man chester, was unable to attend, from indisposition. However, they had been fortunate enough to find members ready to supply the place of those who were not able to attend, and they would be addressed that evening by the Rev. Samuel Green, by Richard Taylor, George Thompson, and W. J. Fox, Esqrs. He now begged leave to introduce to them The Rev. SAMUEL GREEN, who said that it would not, perhaps, be irrelevant to the subject-matter on which he meant to address them, if he just adverted to the reasons why he stood before them that night. He was not accustomed to such large audiences as he now addressed, nor was he aware, until twelve o'clock that day, that he should be called on to address them that evening. He mentioned that circumstance for the purpose of throwing himself upon the kindness of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.) He was going to say he had been somewhat reluctantly induced to take the place he had now oc cupied, but that, on second thoughts, he deemed that the word reluctant ought not to fall from any gentle. man's lips in connexion with such an employment as that in which he was just now engaged.—(Hear.) Any man and every man, be his standing high or low—his influence great or small—be his power mighty or feeble—when called upon, ought to be willing to give that influence, and consecrate those powers to the mighty cause which had convened the large assembly which he now beheld. As he was coming to the meeting that evening, he could not help thinking that in those days it would be a some what difficult thing to find any man pressed with re luctance into a service of that kind. If there were reluctance to unite with the ranks of the anti-mono polists, it must arise from something like indifference to the great cause, or something like a disposition to avow oneself a supporter of monopoly. He thought there were very few who would readily acknowledge themselves supporters of monopoly. Among the labouring people—the lower classes as they were some times called—he thought it would be difficult indeed to find any person anywhere to avow himself a sup porter of monopoly. Certainly among the agricultu ral poor, whose privations were so heavy and oppres sive, so grinding, unless they were bamboozled, ca joled, or constrained against their convictions, none would be found to come forward on those boards and avow themselves monopolists. Then as to the trading classes of the community ; there were circumstances enough to make them per fectly willing to advocate the great cause which had brought them together that evening. It was quite true that the mill trade was not quite so depressed now as it had been a few months ago, and yet there were still mills unemployed or only half employed, and yielding but a low rate of profit, and trade was sufficiently depressed to constrain every man con cerned in the best interests of the community, and oc cupying any standing among the trading classes, to conic forward in the cause of free trade—for it was by free trade that they lived. Even in the legisla tive assemblies of the land, where some of the stanchest friends of monopoly sat, there were few who would not be ashamed to acknowledge themselves as the supporters of monopoly. The principle so often pro pounded by the League, of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, was even conceded to them from the highest place in the Legislature. There were other classes—the great landed aristo cracy—he did not use that epithet in a bad sense— among whom the number of those was small who were ready to avow themselves the friends of mono poly; and small as that number was, it was daily becoming smaller and beautifully less.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He ought not, there fore, to say that he came forward reluctantly on an occasion like the present.—(llear, hear.) He knew the character that he sustained, and the office to which the kindness and the providence of God had called him. But he could say that every possible sentiment and feeling which he cherished in that office was in perfect harmony with that great and noble cause which that assembly advocated.--(Cheers.) Where should the follower of the meek and humble Redeemer be found, save in the ranks of those who were prepared to undo heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free ? — (Cheers.) He was a little amused some times in watching the progress of the sentiments of those anti-monopolists. Men in his position in society were not often found mingling with corn merchants, farmers, and millers, in their corn halls and corn exchanges during the hours of business. Yet, now and again, men like him did frequent such places. It had happened to him more than once to visit one of the principal corn halls in this country in the hours of business, and there converse with respectable farmers, merchants, and millers. Seven , years ago, those men sc ou t e d t h e not i on of free trade. Three or four years ago, when he again spoke to the same persons on the subject of free-trade, their observa tion, accompanied with a contemptuous smile, was, "Mr. Green, don't you wish you may get it." They spoke thus contemptuously, because their monopolist Par liament had j ast been elected. He had again visited that corn-hall after Sir Robert Peel's amended sliding scale had been broached, and then those same merchants and millers said, " Dash it, we might as well have a free trade in corn as this sliding-scale 1" and last December, when he asked what they thought of a free trade in corn, their reply was, that they would rather have it than continue in the state of uncertainty they then were. It might be said that he forgot the Anti-League. It was a long array to be sure, and some splendid names were to be found connected with it. They used language of a bold description—sometimes approaching even to threats ; and they had a purse which threatened to be .a long one, and perhaps it might be as long as it promised ; but that Anti-League would never come forward and hire Drury-lane Theatre and convene such a meeting as the present.—(Cheers.) He should like to see them come before a London audience, and he thought the shout of derision with which their arguments would be met would be the most cheering he ever listened to.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think the speakers there would avow that other nations would continue to trade with this country, though this country would not trade with them. He did not think they would refer to the moral benefits which an unrestricted trade would afford by binding all the nations of the earth in one friendly union, or to the higher considerations suggested by Jesus Christ, who would have them to do to others what they would wish to have done to themselves, and who preached justice and charity to all.—(Hear, hear.) They might say that the nation flourished under those laws. Why, so it did under the feudal system—under the persecution of the Stuarts, and under the system which allowed representatives to Gatton and Old Sarum. But would they bring back the lords and serfs, the religious periecutions of the Stuarts, or the repeal of the Reform Bill,? The argument wou ld carry them to that length. There was another argument which they would be likely to use, and which he would endeavour to state as briefly as possible—it was sic rola, sic jubeo—(Laughter)" We are the majority, and you must submit." But that was a dangerous argument to use, for they might not be always in the ascendant ; and if the people were in power, and said sic rob°, sic jubeo what would become of the aristocracy ?—(Cheers.) They might use another argument, which was, that they had mortgages and incumbrances of various kinds to meet, and that the protection of a corn-law was necessary on that account. His Norfolk friends used that argu ment, but he would meet it by the motto, fiat ju s titi a , ruat ccelum—let them have what was upright and just, no matter what the consequences were.—(Cheers.) But he would meet it in another way, which was that the corn-laws, instead of preventing ruin, were the ruin of others, and at least prevented men from rising by honest industry from a state of destitution.— (Hear, hear.) It might be said, if what the free traders alleged were true, that the corn-laws were doomed, there was little use in agitating the question for they would soon fall of themselves. H e w i s h e d that anticipation were correct and that it might soon be sacrificed. But monopoly was long lived, and it would continue vigorous if they did not continue their exertions. He was not a Co nservat i ve i n th e technical sense of the word, but all men were natu great changes—h a d a di s lik e t o rally averse from touch things of long standing. What was the prac tical inference from this ? It was this, that they should pursue monopoly to the death ; and the people had only to go to the Legislature and say to the Govern ment such a change must be made, and the moment' the Sovereign people said so, depend on it monopoly would be doomed.— (Cheers.) There was one power opposed to them, namely, the Established Church. Ile would not tell the meeting what he was; 'but, at all events, he could not help saying that the tsta blished Church was determinedly hostile to the over throw of this monopoly. They had an interest in the corn-laws, for they had a portion of the produce of the land in the form of tithes. Under the Tithe Commutation Act a certain modus, or money pay ment, was made compulsory after some time; and on this principle, that the produce of the land would be calculated on a certain number of years, and the ave rage value was to be taken as the amount to be paid to the Church Establishment in the shape of tithes. Now, if it was true that the corn laws would cheapen the price of corn, it gave an interest to the members of the Established Church in opposing the abolition of the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) He did not think that was an enviable position to be occupied by men who called themselves the ministers of the most mer ciful being that ever trod this earth.--(Hear, hear.) He would now tell the meeting what he was —(Hear, hear)—and he would advise them that it was better that the Establishment be utterly de stroyed, than that they should not have their own. —(Cheers and hisses.) What they wanted to in sure the abolition of the corn-laws was, a full, fair, and free representation of the people. If they had not at present such a representation, let them create it.—(Cheers.) Let them never record a vote, unless it was in favour of an honest free trader, their Chairman.—(Hear, hear.) Let them do everything in their power honestly, honourably, and legitimately that the House of Commons should be a full, fair,' and transparent representation of the public mind. Mr. TAYLOR, of London, then came forward, and said that he felt extremely reluctant, after the many eloquent, addresses they had heard from men much abler than himself, and better acquainted with the subject, who came from different parts of the country to expound their views before them, in presenting himself to the meeting. But he came forward as an old inhabitant of the city of London, to express, for one, his cordial sympathy with the cause, and to en courage all others to support it.—(Hear, hear.) He could only express his good wishes for the cause, and point out a few reasons why the inhabitants of the metropolis should aid it. in the first place, to ap peal to their interests, he need not point out how much the prosperity of the metropolis depended on the prosperity of the nation—Hear hear)— whether he considered the foreign trade of the country, which had so much to do with the port of London, or to the large portion of its prosperity which was derived from the home trade, conducted by the manufacturers and warehousemen, whose trade depended on the orders they received from various parts of the kingdom. It was known to everybody that the principal portion of these orders came from the manufacturing districts. If the foreign trade continued to be restricted, manufactures must decline, and the prosperity of the metropolis must decline in the same ratio. Another fact which struck him as being of great importance to the metropolis was the increase of destitute paupers from the rural districts. —(Hear, hear.) They had all heard of the appeals made to them during the last winter, for the support of new societies to relieve those persons who were said to be wandering about their streets and parks. He was struck by the fact mentioned in Lord Ranelagh's excellent appeal on behalf of those persons —that nine-tenths of those destitute persons were not inhabitants of the metropolis, but came from the rural districts, being driven here through the greatest extremity. The distress of the rural districts might be inferred from the number of incendiary fires, the accounts of which they must have read in the newspapers;and a Baronet in Suffolk had admitted that the crimes there arose from the inadequacy of wages and want of employment.— (Hear, hear.) They might be sure that the morals of a people who were not independent could not be in a sound state.—(Hear, hear.) 'Was it to be expected that a people would respect property who did not participate in the benefits of property ?—(Hear, hear.) His attention was drawn to this from a comparison between the rural population of this and of foreign countries. He did not mean to say that there was not poverty in the continental countries; but there was little destitution. It had been said that the fare in their workhouses had been' better than that of the peasants on the continent. He admitted that the fare used abroad was common ; but it was the produce of their own farms, and they were consoled by the hope of leaving some property to their children. There was some talk lately about Inclosure Bills, and it was said it was better to cultivate the lands than allow them to run waste. But this need not be the case. It was not so in Switzerland. There the commons were placed under a certain master, who managed them, and divided them equally amongst poor and rich, though he was told when they had an aristocracy the rich got the largest share. He re membered the period when the aristocracy had been swept away in France, but the land remained, and was even more productive than ever.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it was a great mistake of the political economists to dwell on the net produce of the land as 'the principal thing to be considered. Ile be lieved if they got corn cheaper abroad than it could be grown at home, they would be benefited thereby. These considerations derived great force from our insular position. Great Britain had been called the " sea-girt isle ;" but such had been the follies of past legislation, that that position was an evil to us.— (Hear, hear.) The sea had converted the island into a prison, instead ',of being, as it should be, the high road to prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) 'Was it not monstrous that there should be millions of quarters of corn in bond, whilst the people were in want of it ? Our naval superiority entitled the people to greater ,abundance than any other country ; nor was our colonial position of any other use, that he could perceive, than in bestowing increased comforts on the population.—(Cheers.) The subject of inclosure had been adverted to. He was surprised to see one of the public journals, otherwise liberal in its ten dencies, advocate the inclosure of waste lands. That question should be considered with reference to the great question of free trade. If the improvements in agriculture would make corn cheaper and better than it could come from abroad, why had not these im provements taken place ? The only test of improve ments in agriculture, as in manufactures, was, whe ther the article could be produced better and cheaper. That had not been done, and the people were entitled to have that from abroad which they could not obtain at home. If agricultural improvements could only be made at the expense of the people—if the capital of the country must be sunk in making these im provements—they must be of a deceptive nature. The improvements on waste land must de pend upon the quality of the land; but he deprecated the system which would engross those lands where the poor man fed his cow, his goose, and his pig —where his children recreated themselves ; he disliked that wholesale encroachment on the few remaining comforts of the poor. These waste lands, as they were called, which were now of so much advantage to the humbler classes, would be annexed to the estates of some of the wealthy lords of the soil, and would be converted into preserves for hares and pheasants. And probably those very persons who were formerly quiet, poor cottagers, would be en gaged in murderous affrays with each other as game keepers and poachers, and so be sacrificed to the san guinary laws of the country and the monopolising disposition of the aristocracy.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Now, it was said by some of the advocates of the Inclosure Bill, that all claimants would have compensation. That was the most fallacious thing in the world, because those common lands were the inheritance of the people through all ages, and the existing generation had only a life interest in them.— (Hear, hear.) If they took all the cottagers, and gave them some little bribe to allow the Bill to pass, what would become of the next generation ? Would not they be left destitute? And what argument had experience fur nished in favour of the plan ? Were not the people more miserable now than when they had a greater quantity of these waste lands ? If these lands were to be tilled, why let them be so • but let it be for the advantage of the people, to whom they belonged. Anciently all the land of the country was divided into what was called "folk" land and "boke" land. Now the greater part of the land of the country was "folk" land, which belonged to the poor. The "boke" land was the land of the aristocracy. It was said in justification of the inclosure system, that it would increase the rents; but of what advaatage was that to the people ? Were they the better off by the landowners becoming wealthier ? He had trespassed upon them at much greater length than he intended. He heartily concurred in all the principles promul gated by the Anti-Corn-law League, and exhorted all the people of the City of London to advance those principles by attending to the registration, and so sending some Members to Parliament who would watch their interests. lie agreed with the last speaker in the slight hopes he entertained of what would be done in Parliament.—(Hear.) Indeed to say the truth he did not admit that the people hada Parliament at all.—(Loud cries of " Hear , hear. ') They had not that sort of Parliament which those who had written of constitutional and original la ws s p oke of. There was an assembly which went by the name of the house of Commons, but he denied that that House represented the feelings and opinions of the people of England.—(Hear, hear.) But still the people had a right to use all their exertions in order to place in that House men of weight, who would advocate free trade principles. He must say that the other party was very active in watching the Regis tration Courts, and he believed the clergy were like wise very active. The clergy had excellent opportu nities of watching the progress of the registration. They were placed in a very excellent position for watching county votes, and they could lend very useful assistance to the squirearchy who were interested in supporting the present system of corn-laws. He knew, from personal observation, that in the county of Norfolk, when an election was expected, the chief employment of the clergy for six days in the week was in riding about visiting the different electors. The Reform Bill had increased the number of the members for the county of Norfolk, but he was sorry to hear that it had in the same proportion increased the enemies of free trade—(Bear, hear.) Formerly, the county of Norfolk returned two members, one of whom was Thomas Coke—(Cheers) a man who, al though his whole interest was centred in land, was yet always a decided enemy to the corn-laws. The county of Norfolk at present returned four Members who were advocates of the corn-laws. He would not trespass further on their time., and thanked them for the kindness with which they had listened to him. —(Loud cheers.) Mr. GEORGE Tuomrsoist in rising to address the meeting, said he felt greatly embarrassed in ad dressing so splendid an assemblage. He felt conscious that he was indeed very ill prepared, but had been consoled with the hope that he would be followed by a man in every way able to compensate for his deficiencies. He regretted the meeting had not had an opportunity of hearing the sentiments of their Chairman, who was so well quali fied to treat the subject. He felt confident that their Chairman had it in his power to lay before the meet ing many statements and facts of the greatest value to the cause, and which had not been used by preced ing speakers at these meetings. The great object of the Anti-Corn-law League was to prevent those ex plosions of popular feeling which must otherwise occur, and to accomplish by legitimate means what might otherwise be sought to be obtained by force. In 1826, the present Home Secretary wrote a book upon corn and currency, the object of which was to induce monopolists to give way. He warned them that if they did not rapidly give way, and sacrifice to some extent their own interests in the cause of the people at large—in a word, if bread was with held from industry—if commercial interference was not freed from its shackles, the time would come when, in this country as in other countries, the people would rise in their might, and in their majesty, and sweep their honours, and their titles, and their doctrines, "and all their ill gotten wealth," to destruction. —(Loud cheers.) The Anti-Corn-law League included within its councils men of the purest morality, who advocated nothing but peace, and peaceful constitutional exertion. The Anti-Corn-law League; had done :a vast deal by the circulation of tracts and newspapers to disseminate knowledge of the most useful and practical kind, and it might be a question whether the evils which the present system created and maintained, were not more than counter balanced by the good which this universal dissemina tion of knowledge had occasioned. Thus, while:they were denied bread on the one hand, knowledge was given them gratuitously on the other ; if they did not grow fatter, at least they grew wiser; and if they were wasted in their bodies, their intellectual stature was increased, and their intellectual vigour promoted by the instruction of the Anti-Corn-law League.— (Cheers.) Their argument Was complete; their il lustrations might seem to be utterly exhausted, yet their audiences failed not—their speakers failed not —their eloquence failed not—their facts failed not ; constantly, no matter how often it might be re iterated, the grand argument was presented to the public mind in an attractive form.—(Hear, hear.) The cause itself seemed to bring men there almost whether they would or no, and when they met there and at similar meetings, they never departed without the frank acknowledgment that they had been made wiser and better by thus meeting together.—(Cheers.) What an immense benefit that League conferred upon their country !—(Hear, hear.) He, for one, acknow ledged his obligations to the Anti-Corn-law League. He thought there was not a man there who was not prepared to acknowledge that he lay under similar obligations to that body.—(Cheers.) Had he the same views, before that League came into existence, of the importance of the great principle of interna tional intercourse ? He had not. Did he see the im portance of this subject in all its bearings as he then saw it ? He did not. Had he the same amount of knowledge as to the chief producing cause of the po verty of millions in his own country ? He had not. Had he the same view of the causes which contri buted to increase the amount of immorality and crime in the country that he had now ? He had not. Had he the same same view of the cementing and frater nising influence of unrestricted commerce as he had now ? He had not. Was he then as well aware as he was now of what was the chief hind rance to the progress and universal diffusion, through this and other lands, of those great religious and moral principles which were at once the glory, the beauty, and the stability of his own country ? He had not. Who was it that had shed this light abroad ? Who were the men—whit the body ? The Anti-Corn-law League.— (Cheers.) Thus, while they were striving to obtain bread for the people, they were giving them knowledge. And let the lovers of ignorance—(Hear, hear)—and the lovers of the people's moral impotency, put down the League as soon as possible, for the longer it was in existence, the more certain its ultimate triumph would be, the wiser would the people become in their poverty, the more deeply would free trade prin ciples be impressed upon their hearts.—(Cheers.) The longer justice was delayed, the more evident would it be in the end that it was by the combined moral - power of the people that the triumph had been achieved ; and the energies which would then no longer be required to carry on this great movement, instead of being scattered and lost, or suffered to lie inert, would be gathered up again, and consolidated and directed to the accomplish ment of some other equally , great and glorious object.—(Great cheering.) He was anxious to see that day, for this reason amongst others. The light that had diffused itself over this kingdom had revealed other evils than that specific evil to which they were then directing their attention.—(Cheers.) The line and the plummet which they had used to measure, or rather to detect, the crookedness of this system of the monopoly of the people's food, had enabled them to ascertain how far other institutions and practices and customs in this country were in conformity with the requirements of righteousness, and according to the national, and, he would add, the natural, rights of the people.--Cheers.) Let them hasten the day, then, when they would be able, having gained the field in the conflict which they were then waging, with their flag unstained, their weapons undimmed, the chorus of their triumph having in it no sigh of the orphan, or the widow, or the destitute,—to direct the mighty phalanx, which had been collected to extinguish the corn-laws, in some other direction, so that the people, having obtained bread, and, having tested their moral power, might gather up their strength again, and march forward to still higher achievements.— (Cheers.) They were reading a lesson to the world; they were teaching men everywhere throughout the civilised world how to gain their object—how to gain it without remorse, without guilt, without compro mise, without the shedding of blood, without infract ing any of the laws of society, and still less any of the laws of God.—(Cheers.) He trusted the time would soon come when their disgrace would be wiped away, and other nations would follow their example, taught by their practice, and encouraged by the results which he felt sure would follow.—(Cheers.) Why, in what estimation were they held in other countries in conse quence of this very evil, the corn-laws?—(Hear, hear.) An excellent philanthropist, whose heart was as big as the world, went to the United States of America on a mission of mercy, on behalf of the fet tered negro in that country—he alluded to Joseph Sturge.—(Great cheering.) He had not the honour of being turned out of the hotel into which he went within thirty-six hours after his landing, as it was his (Mr. Thompson's) honour to be in company with his wife and children ; but what was the salute which he received on reaching New York ? " Friend, go home again, you have a corn-law that beggars your own countrymen. Go, look at the faces and wasted forms of your pauper population, and when you have abolished your own corn-laws, and set human industry free in Britain, then come and rail against America for holding her negro population in slavery. —(Cheers.) That was America. What was the language of a leading Parisian journal some time ago ? " Britain, proud Britain, erase from your na tional escutcheon the lordly lion, and put there a starving operative vainly imploring bread . "—(Loud cheers.) What was the language of Mehemet Ali, the Pacha of Egypt, when an Englishman remon strated with him on the subje ct of his monopolies, for he was the gr ? ea t monopolist of the East—what was his language " Go home and abolish own corn-laws, then come to me, and I will,be ready totreat with you for any relaxation in the way of trade that you can desire."—(Hear, hear.) Thus, whether it were the bearded Pacha of Alexandria, or the sensitive American of New York, or the polished Parisian in the French capital, every civilised and enlightened foreigner taunted them with their incon sistency, and could not understand how a population like that of England, pretending to govern itself through the medium of a Parliament of its own choosing, should tolerate so pestilential a nuisance as that of the corn-laws.--(Cheers.) But it was cheering to know that they would soon come to the last diffi culty. The House of Commons was not their worst difficulty.—(llear, hear.) He believed it might be said with truth, with regard to most questions, that they would be carried, whatever House of Commons they might have, as soon as the people appreciated, fully, generally, universally, the nature and the value of that which was demanded.—(Hear.) He could not look with hopelessness on the House of Commons. Bad as it was, in itself considered, and, as regarded any reforming elements which it contained, incura ble, having in it no restorative or renovating qualities whatever, he well knew, from the history of the last thirty years, that the people had only to be unani mous in order to succeed.—(Hear, hear.) If, from a Parliament of High Churchmen, the repeal of the Test and Corportion Acts could be obtained—if, from a Parliament of Orangemen, Catholic Emancipation could be wrung—if, from a Parliament of borough- mongers, schedules A and B, and many others, could be gained—if, from a Parliament of West Indians, negro emancipation could be obtained—from a Par liament of landlords they would get a law abolishing the corn-laws.—(Creat cheering.) Hiving said thus much about corn, would the meeting tolerate him for a few moments if he said a word or two about sugar? —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He did this with some reluctance, because on a former occasion when .the state of his health did not permit Mm to be there, a speech had been delivered on that subject by a gentle Man whom, on such matters as that, he was scarcely worthy to foll ow , so infinitely superior was he, as the 'exponent of a question like that, to himself. He referred to one who, unostentatious as he was, and unseen as he generally might be, was one of the most effective labourers , in their cause— Mr. James Wilson.—(Cheers.) But there were several reasons why he wanted to say a word upon sugar on that occasion. First, because there was an honest difference of opinion on that question.— (Hear, hear.) He said, an honest difference of opinion: He was sure it was honest' on the other side ; he hoped, he believed, it was honest on that side.—(Hear, hear.) Again, he wished to speak upon this question, because it was a very important branch of the subject which would have to be- discussed i Parliament; and the discussions there, at least their results, would be controlled very much by the state of public opinion out of doors.—(Hear, hear.) Again he wished to do so because he had better means than some around him of knowing what were the scruples of their friends on the other side of this question, seeing that he had been long identified with them, an was still one with them, with - regard to the object which they were pursuing, though differing from them, and he was pained that it should be so, upon this particular aspect of this great question. He knew that these opinions were sincerely held. He knew that they would not give them up without a reason— a reason which would be strong enough to overcome their feelings, but he thought it might easily be shown that their feelings of humanity would be equally gra tified by the accomplishment of the object of the League. He went with the anti-slavery party because he believed that their cause was righteous. He went with the free traders for the same reason. Two righteous principles could not cross one another, could not conflict with one another; they must run parallel with one another to eternity. He had felt it his duty to attend in Exeter Hall on Friday last— had he consulted his own feelings or friendships he would not have been ther e . Il e wou ld have been silent on that branch of the question had he not thought that his friends had been in error. He was not willing that they should unintentionally do in jury to a just cause, by putting arguments into the mouths of their opponents in order to enable them to practise a gross fraud upon the House of Commons. Ile wanted monopoly to stand forth in the House in all its natural odiousness, filthiness, and selfishness.--(Loud cheers.) He did not want to enable the advocates of monopoly in that House to put into their pockets 'those ;arguments which re futed themselves, and which must disgust all who heard them. He did not want to enable them to, lay aside all those arguments in order to make use of the argument of humanity—(Cheers.) He had attended that meeting, and he had succeeded; but he did not so much rejoice in the success which had attended him in carrying the amendment, as he re gretted that there were so large a number of persons in the minority.—(Cheers.) They had so voted be cause they were honest—(Cheers.) When their minds were convinced they would be with them— (Loud cheers)—and all that integrity, all that in flexibility of :purpose would then be exerted in the cause—would then be their own.—(Loud cheers.) They would then persevere in carrying out the prin ciple to which they now took exception in one parti cular case, and they would carry it out universally. —(Loud cheers.) He had received many letters from different friends expressing surprise that he who had hitherto been the untiring advocate of the abolition of slavery, should be now found engaged in a cause tending to the promotion of slavery. -He protested against such an imputation.—(Cheers.) No man was the promoter of slavery because he ad vocated the doctrines of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) Those friends were in error who supposed that he was a promoter of slavery, because he struggled against the false opinion which was sought to be pro pagated, that slavery would be; promoted by free trade. Why, the abolition of monopoly would lead to the abolition of slavery.—(Cheers.) Slavery was the spawn of monopoly.—(Cheers.) Slavery was be gotten by monopoly—it was nurtured by monopoly —it was fed and continued by monopoly. The death of monopoly fifty years ago would have been the cer tain extinction of slavery, without cost, without cruisers, without treaties, without protocols, without costly agitation, without the payment of twenty mil lions.—(Cheers.) Ile had changed no opinion what ever on that subject. In the year 1839, long before he had ever spoken at a corn-law meeting, at a meet ing which had nothing whatever to do with the- sub ject of the corn-laws, he had spoken at Manchester on the subject of the abolition of slavery and the improving the condition and pro. moting the welfare of the natives of India. He had at that meeting made a speech, advocating the necessity of encouraging free trade with all parts of the world as the best means of promoting the aboli tion of slavery; he had then stated that although he should wish to see the time when every atom of cot ton wool worn or spun by the people of this country should be the produce of free labour, yet he would ask for no restriction, he would ask for no prohi bitory duties to prevent cotton, the produce of every kind of labour, from being brought into the market. All he asked for was liberty, justice, and impartiality, being convinced th a t if monopoly were done away with slavery wo u ld totter to its destruction.—(Loud cheers.) 'When had he delivered that speech? In the Friends' Meeting-house at Manchester, and his audience had been to a great extent made up of the members of that estimable society. What had he said on the following evening at a meeting held in the same place ?—that if they encouraged free labour by admit• ting it fairly into competition with slave labour, he was of opinion that other nations would so clearly see the advantage of free labour over slave labour, that they would be compelled to als o . lish slavery so successful would be the free labour of the East over the slave labour of the West, when they were brought into fair competition, (Cheers.) He adhered to those opinions now.— (Loud cheers.) He believed that these would be better than all the other means that could be employed to put down slavery. He did not say they were the only means that should be employed, but he believed that free trade would be one of the most effectual means for the suppression of slavery. If he were in error, he was in error with some of the brightest' names that adorned the anti-slavery cause. There was a time when he was intimately associated with that nob'e body which had secured the abolition of slavery in our colonies. / He had shared in the great triumph which they had obtained over slavery—he had been supplied by the Anti-Slavery Society with books, illustrative of the iniquity and impolicy of the system of slavery— he had looked into those books at the time, to supply him with facts which he might use in support of the anti-slavery cause. He looked into those books now, and what did he find in them? The first Isook to which he would refer was the work of Mr. Adam Hodson of Liverpool. That book was intended to show the superiority of free labour over slave labour. It was published in 1823, now twenty-one years ago, and had been circulated throughout the length and breadth of the land by the Anti-Slavery Society. What did Mr. Hodson say in speaking of slave labour? He said, " the nation would not much longer con tinue to submit to a wasteful system of cultivation which experience had pointed out to be the dearest that could be employed; and that the time vas approaching when the natio n wou ld de mand rapidly thatthe commerce with sixty millions of their fellow-subjects should be thrown open to them, and that the slave labour of the West w ou ld fall before the free labour of the East.—(Loud cheers.) There was another book from which he would quote what had been presented to him at the same time, and which was now full of the marks which he had made in it twelve years ago. He trusted those present would pardon him for dwelling on this subject. They should bear in mind that the audience he was addressing was not merely within those walls —there were those beyond those walls who would be acquainted with what passed within them. There were present then gentlemen whose ready pens would record with the utmost celerity the words then spoken. Those words thus written would be trans ferred to everlasting type ; and that which if left to the living voice would produce no effect beyond those walls—that which was said there that men would go forth to the whole world.—(Loud cheers.) He trusted, therefore, that he might bermitted to remonstrate with his friends.—(Cheers.)pe He loved them so well that he wished to Show could not do better than join their ranks.—(L oud tt them that they cheers.) The book from which he was als? t u _ o slave-labour produce i q t uo d t o e w h n ad as be a en pr p i r n i c n i t p e l d e it that at Birmingham, whenever sl a .a n vt d e oco e m x: because jn petition, slave-labour p and free-labour du p e r e od m u u c s e t c fa a l m l : b r was the cheapest, la what was the name of the author of that book perience proved that free la b r The name of the author was Sturge—(Loud cheers) —not Joseph Sturge, but his lamented brother Joh n , who had died too soon for his friends, and for that cause, the fundamental principles of whi c h h e h a d been the advocate.—(Loud cheers.) He had laid it down that no system of legislation for trade and com merce could be rightl4ut that which was in accords :once with the laws of God, which was not injurious to the rational creation, and was not beneficial to every body and class of men. It had been shown that the labour of the free man was cheaper than that of the slave ; and, therefore, in promoting r- -' .-~ . gY • 1 3