The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-17 00:00:00

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' CLAY tY. _ ROCS. Crt.EAT' LEAGUE MEETING. the w The Weekly M eet i ngs of the League future he held ou I) =CESDAY In place of th e Th urs d a y E ve nings as heretofore. No: ne xt WEEKLY MEETING of the LEAGUE will take Feb in COVENT-G A.RDEN THEATRE, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, 'WITT 21st - GEOIO - 1 : —E WILSON, Esq., Will take the Chair at Seven o'clock. a be at e : eeti ng be addressed by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., ; c arci W ilsell, Esq., and other gentlemen. letter of admission to the Stage and Upper Circles of Boxes may n u Personal application, at the Central Offices of the League, Fleet -street, during Monday and Tuesday ; no application by call be attended to. t.,prevent inconvenience from tile great pressure at the front en- T ickets the Theatre, the Council has resolved to limit the issue of eat „ ef adulission to the Dressed Circle. to the precise number that taeilVeNieMently accommod. th will be numbered, and each number represent and Tick e t . e seat in each box to be occupied by the bearer of the The Entrance to the Dress Circle will, in future, be at the Private ,rl-,2e2r en the Queen's Side, in Ilart-street. the Ply of Registered Members and only, will, as heretofore, admit to Gallerie s o f the Theatre. No. 16,072. LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING S.T4 FEBRUARY 17, 1844. - 9 PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, i n Ti me f or t h e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS, and a THIRD EDITION a t SEVEN O'CLOCK, f or POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, th ere by insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. GUILDHALL LONDON, JAN. 26, 1844. oTicE is hereby N ' given that the BONDS of th e V 1 PERSONS having become BANKRUPT or having TAKEN ,S NEFIT of the INSOLVENT ACT since their ADMISSION as of the CITY of LONDON, have thereby become VOID,, sig ne r 511 s uch persons are di squa lified to act until they shall have kleat t .,°ther Bonds with sufficient sureties, and shall have been re by Isf0 bythe Court of Ald ermen. r „„ Nes uttion of persons acting as Br o k e r s w ithout b e ing readmitted ' , ted, that they may be prosecuted. S.ICRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL. On FRIDAY EVENING Next, February 23, 1844, will be performed HANDEL'S CORONATION -ANTHEM- 7 " lily Heart is Inditing." PUBLICATIONS. CATHERINE PULESTON, LION HOTEL, SHREWSBURY, takes this opportunity of returning her most grateful acknowledgments to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general, for their very liberal support s!tice entering upon the above Hotel, and hopes by an unremitting att •ntion to the duties connected with every department of her new undertaking to merit a contin uance of the same. PUBLICATIONS of the SOCIETY for the EMANCIPATION of INDU,STRY. MENDELSSOHN'S PSALM—" As the Hart pants." And HAYDN'S SERVICE—No. 16. PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS, Miss Rainforth, Miss Poole, Mr. Manvers, and Mr. Guibilet, Now Ready. AN ESSAY ON MONEY, ITS ORIGIN AND USE. By JOHN TAYLOR, Author of " Junius Iden lied." Third Edition, revised. Price 2s. 6d. The Band and Chorus will consist of above Five Hundred Performers. Tickets, 3s. each ; Reserved Seats, 55., may be had of the principal Music-sellers ; of Mr. Bowley„s3, Charing-cross; Mr. Mitchell, 39, Charing-cross ; and of Mr. Ries, 102, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall. THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec. AN ESSAY on the STANDARD and MEA SURE of VALUE. Second Edition. Price 2s. 6d. IURRENCY FALLACIES REFUTED, and PAPER MONEY VINDICATED. Second Edition. Price Commercial Gentlemen are respectfully informed, that she has fitted up Apartments solely for their accommodation, and trusts that those who may please to honour her with their patronage, will find them replete with every comfort of home. Shrewsbury, February, 1844. MEREWETHER. rat C. S. 2s:Gti, CATECHISMS of the CURRENCY and EX CHANGES. A new Edition, Enlarged. Price 4s. cloth; or, separately, The Currency, 2s. ; Exchanges, 2s. WEEKI,I 7 [CVS' ) ANTI-CORN -LAW LEAGUE GITILDH ILL, LONDON JAN. 26, 1844. N..,nc E is hereby given 'that the COURT of rI ALDERMEN have DISCHARGED the undermentioned par -I.ol,TtohNepOvirr.lCE or EMPLOYMENT of BROKER of the CITY THOMAS DOUGAN. BENJAMIN MENDES DACOSTA. CHARLES PEARCE CHAPMAN. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE DOWSON. CHARLES EBSWORTII. JOHN GRIFFITH. WILLIAM ANSON HANN. WILLIAM THOMAS HODSOLL. JOHN INMAN. WILLIAM POOLE. • FRANCIS WAKEFIELD. CFIARLES VARNHAM. JOHN COCKRELL. ALBERT WILLIAM JONES. DANIEL ALDER. JOHN HENRY SAUNDERS. WILLIAM VIRGO. JOHN HENRY BARLOW. CHARLES TERRY. JOHN MACDONALD. MEREWETHER. BROTHS, avird tiri , ift a very short tim, ' , DLS to their Corresponde t2S,,,,,bIVIDENDS OF t 3,70 418,1 100, £9,000, £5,0 0 0, t3,G0 0 ,to London, bublin ,f3,6bn'4800, £70() to Edinburgh, "4to Beverley, :l to rb ilifax, • tOO-"?tt°7orthleaven Harbour, oPoei D °°' £ 7OO , £6OO to Li to •4401, RIM, to Newcastle-upon-Tvne, 1 4 4 -Ito bel l, , t .° CALL ATTENTION of those desirous to obtain ,ItYti—'oNEY DIVIDENDS to the APPROACHING TWEN bISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, GUARANTEED by the _ s,„'• LE NT. ,distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than ovrin."vy upo n One Share. 14i proi t° t ile great number of Money Dividends contained in this tv t ll and unrivalled Distribution, IC TW ENTY-TWO SHARES OBTAIN TWENTY-ONE Er EBY MONEY DIVIDENDS, and N't o of laa F ONE SHARE has a CHANCE of TWENTY AVOR t - o ONE (ONLY ONE) AGAINST HIM, t, as Share, recoipt of a Money Dividend. , 014. 8h 0f One £l ; Two Shares, £2 ; Three Shares, £3 ; t 7; ; Five Share s , .£5 ; Six Shares, £6 ; Seven Shares, biheifortutlbares, £8 ; Nine Shares, ; Ten Shares, £lO. tillares, WITHOUT DELAY, to en EINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. tiDo i 311,:, Pro ' spntus, H with particulars, may be had , 1114 — P"ing a line o H aII BEINE ROTHERS, at LUBECK.GRATIS 1, 1844. IS, having REMITTED Ha very large amuunts of MONEY ants in Great Britain and Ireland ; DIVIDENDS OF £9OO, £6OO to Manchester, £7OO to East Batton], Notting hamshire, £lOO to Cohie, Lancashire, £7OO to Ryde, Isle of Wight, £6OO to Cork, £6OO to Bradford, £6OO to Bideford, 1.£300, £3OO to Lisbellaw, Ennis killen, „CENLINE OLD HAVANNAII CIGARS ! !! ,GIFFORD, TOBACCONIST, &c., 121, -,130 RN - -InLL. grateful for the patronage hithertoon. Itiv — ',„"LOoPectfullv announces he has constantly cm Sale the 4t,z;,.A11 ClGARimported, viz.: Cabana s, I illon's, 411cC4'8, WoodvWe's a, Regalias, Kings, Queens, Prin- Ao Most other esteemed brands. sied a t he real Government Manillas, Bengal Chceroots, fine old . tVer Y description of genuine Tobacco and Snuff, carefully In thLand in the hi g h est condition. -seoLoeir e , solic to it stll ing more notice to his very choice Stock, A. K. G. ge t n h e . rally known that his terms are advan y the especial attention of all seeking to P ost trul Y fine qualit or ” eetice.orders faith fully y executed, on remittance, or approved re- ext the Bull Inn, 121, HOLBORN-lIILL tal % . - „V eH rS ELEGANCIES for PRESENTS, 11 .„, t ZZT ~- " actured on the Premises, No. 4, LEADENHALL - ear the I n di a House, London , Wholesale, Retail , and *oo,, 4ort • L adies and Gentlemen's Dressing-cases, in leather, axi, 2s " Papier mach6, from 100 guineas down to 255. Writing el down to 12s. Work-boxes, 20 guineas to 10s. 4,2 . 1a1t 2 , 11 _ et,and Jewel-cases assorted ; Tea-caddies, the most 2474 w oi :t t e . world , 121. to 6/. each, down to 7s. 6d. Ladies ' papier tow eard. ho b ?zes, 10L each down to 31. Netting-boxes, 30s. to le t ....‘eas" Zs , 5/. ss. to lls. Set of Tea-trays, 20 guineas to Si. r3ti - aa, th '• each. Companions, 21. 10s. to 10s. 6d. each. Poll eaehß, 40 8. to e pair. Hand-screens, 50s. to 265. the pair. Card top, % gat 2 , 58 - Per pair. Note and Cake-baskets, 50s. to 20s. eue-tables 101 . lOs to 31. 103. Leather Writing-cases, to`qPittjeta.,,enniplete Dressing Apparatus, 151. 10s. to 51 . 10s. Pearl 21 2/. ,ard-cases, 3/. 10s. to 10s. each. Ivory Hair-brushes, 41. 10 8.2 r: Per pair. Splendid Cases of Seven-day Razors, 101. to t o 38 .. e set, Ivory-handle and other highly-finished Strops from ii 4 gers, a l eac l• Wharncliff Penknives, Sporting Knives, and fancy ees e; to ss. each. Splendid Case of Agate, Pearl, and Ivory k nety ."'vta and Table-knives, from 421. to 4/. 4s. the case. A rich -stakklr' Plate, Bronze, Gilt, and Papier Mackie and Table Ink tiZte 9nritycz 64. each ' . d a l Pl ' generally. of Mechl's Manufaetarea-the elegance of Of h 4 very , Ina the rare combination of excellence and economy, ti h extensive choice of Stock-will amply repay the trouble Depot, 4, Leadenhall-street. 395, OXFORD-STREET. it ilte ,. A I CPORD and Co. have opened a GENERAL •ZCEIVI NG HOUSE as above, from whence Goods will be theb," 4 Ged with The same expedition and up on t h e sa me terms as at various City Offices. ts kiv Z4trance for carte In Chapel-str ee t , where all heavy goo d s are -, s ea. • urders to fetch in will receive prompt attention. GOODS DISPATCHED lui DAILY BY 8 0 1 dke, &c to Gil awl Dover Railway—To Dover, Folkestone, Ashford, Tun (llWestern Railway—T o Southampton, &c., &c. ..,,, dtWestern Railway—To Bristol, Bath, and the West of England. tta Itailivay or Canal —To Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Worces }ha, n ' ew sburY, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1, 1 ,—, and the Northern and Midland Counties. I,ktevwc,hole of the above conveyances are managed throughout by s'.o and Co., and by their own establishments. .. ,,,t1 _ nt strLeOetN;DON HECIEVING HOUSES. to %, N e t tle itn . 4 l ' n 395 , Oxford - street; Railway Stations, Camden .t., -n don-bridge ; Wharfs, 1 and 2, City Basin, City-road ; es 4 "°Gd'street, Cheapside tle ..,- ' ',God-street, Feb. 12ih, 1844. tl - IT ------------ ----------- 3 onILL [AM CALLENDER, at present and for I Lthe pari week Past, residing at No. 53, Edward-street, Limehouse, f ‘ til tn r ele'h" Saint Ann, and county of Middlesex, and previously h„, , e p i ,,,,Z Years residing at No 61, Three Colt-street, Limehouse, triter. ,:!!! of Saint Ann, and county of Middlesex, and being a u N t eyerh a nger. and house decorator,do hereby give notice, that Zr lt e l et, te.l4!esent a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingliall tlyet*tfeets, Condon, Praying to be examined touching my debts, estate, h it 4 Are ~,,,r to be protected from all process upon making a full I,rolll debts of such estate and effects, for it:7,N Matter of s PB3 l7 l at en th t e of ti m me and . I hereby further give notice, ihe at zi th e Low_ the said petition shall be heard, 14, ~, at ~ .../1 Gazette and in the Morning Sun newspaper, one is to be adver 't day oe Fe least, after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this W I bruary, in the year of our Lord, 1844. t°e 's. IL R. R oberts,lLLlAMou CALLENDER. .. 3G, F r i ar - s t reet, Sthwark. BN 1 1411! klonti? J ONES, at present, and for nine :1, 8 4, i ll The - Past, residing at No. 30, Devonshire-street, Queen °r ;td b e ?„ al ish of Saint George the Martyr, and county of Mid .4llaitot_ !co shoemaker, and previously for twenty years re ,411 alieorie p. ev onshire-street, aforesaid , in the p b ar i i , s , b , hi t % tol?rna n , do h alartYr. and county of Middlesex, and e to I c oo ,, _ __ereby give notice that I intend to present a pc . - Z e e e tsgt;exaioi.. nor Bat .ikruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, pray - 4eb or su *ern " si ng t ouchin g my debts, estate, and effects, and to be pray -4 ea:" P r oeees upon making a full disclosure and surren- C ti er 4 n or d ue7eband effects for payment of my just and lawful t IZ l°ll q..,_ th e said Y rur ther give notice that the time . when the er t 7-ette a -_, petition shall be heard is to be advertised in - ",ery - 7 the d,; ul nthe Morning Sun newspaper one month at the Wih; Year ulthereof; as witness my hand, this 14th day of Fe .r of our Lord,JONES. tet . ikutb: o l Zts, attorney for the insolvent, 36, Friar- SUBTENSION LATHS, "tietti 4 t inval o ' A W 3 , SOFAS, CHAIRS, and CARRIAGES. %it ea for threaebje invention has now stood the test of put,lic 111 t 4114 e t t t i n i re sPeltt ara. li ss rep ose e ppeod___Tully invites attention ••of parties furnishing to t oa _ed, ,„ Th e to the seat requisite for comfort and plea 'el* i 'nst by tTiPieasant warmth by feather-beds is entirely ob -41:14 tet ue aluedapplication of the Elastic Lath, its luxurious I t , H nen the mattress only is used. +ddiese‘.t!oalilnet and Chair Manufacturer, 20, Nassau spital. 1. 3 -Itr l' X _____ _ 4 .4, 4 Th, T E i s T SIVES A L E. l'o ,ll . p c ,alt R s , ll, t`cti - —tot —LE t I D IiTOCIS of FANCY' JEWELLERY, li e e : t v ar ' l StI F.LL - „ 'WATCHES SILVER PLATED GOODS, Ott , op et; of 0,, n ORKItOxEs , an d TE i cADDIES, and a ta.,et te „. Y Messrs. MORTON rhice; Other Fancy Articl'e; Ludgate ti an )t : te- ,l ..ssrs. E ve i N are a now ild C ' S O E ' , I. L ot l N 36 G , 0 F F , a t a .. 4 14 - -a fron t t . r ngton and Co.'s, in consequence of Mr. tiz it, maill the oe retail business. tl it, ° littl e h... opportunity like the present of pur kAtilt s t i, r l f goo n i n 7 1--.... O ne-half to two-thirds the usual cha , rge, . ei,._ d L a „,_ , _ articles now offered for sale—comprising Gen- Ib?1, 17 of ,--at'neGold and Silver Watches, of workmanship the tl.til Q‘a a. cY a nd ''' nee, Gold Neek and Guard Chains, Seals and fe,' 4 1.7". Sliv er otTrlting Brooches Rings Pins and Ear-rings, 'ttr is l.nd c„-.---„, Cnines, Scent ' and Snuff Boxes ; I also Silver ‘,;, kii lhes, •wa'i e te °et s , Candlesticks, Cruet Frames, Dish Covers, 81 Xlize! rkn ted the r i s ,', Ie beat 4,hemeld, n;a an i - s i.e r:. ;Table and Dessert n s Forks N Butter Coolers, Bread Baskets, I r•-•,,a4Z-k.":1" Soap °r i l a h-1 I n n : I va e d l a e a s n d Fortes Pa i l ;it V 45..p ri, , Arud ea,mia,m ---_____ ,,,(l!!.m4ewwke. o Je a' : P lr ar ve a g u d s ace:, g and nu b 4, TII 4"N E L f ah e ckkp A MPS AT HALF PRICE. h: 4 nd i , HINE L pc , litt m ondn e „, to 8 _ AMP produces a Light of extraordinary t t , t _Ak e . to an, the 6:-._and d escrip t ionco:,ea_ of Lamp pedestal or Gas-fitting. 'i. ` sa ilkin a CamaY... the Light being too powerful Gr . common ki t , °- are roti . • rtry• th arged i. t ' v elY selling the Camphine Lamps at one-half " t ciii deacrl e-ewhere. A really splendid Show of Lamps (of k ate'' "° at A.ts.amps atty._ Manufacturers' -" hePt bu Prtc4ia. One inspection will tic:pfti:Le:,,ocy.,:tlieilin:34:plard_cit lark to show - the different improve ""Sal.`l the A ddrea, . 35. Rd. imperial gallon. and Co., 447, West Strand, WI , i ts a IL; and C o. b ___ e. 00e Si,TD a tr n i ""e Invented an oh t • le m , Y elegant appears Opal Enamelled Shade, which "............y....,f1if e ki __•oulct purthence. - •unney, and a ,f-_ ,tll__ Camphine Lamps without the Nik e i t ,""tra z atoll __ to C. and Co. for their Improvements. 4 1 att () , s - 'I7M-'17....A. COU GHS. AND COLDS tittrix,„tatio • ... 4) 4kINCE of LINSEED is the most red for the relief of persona suffer , % hi? 14E1u48 rnifAv.V4cov et t, 44 l .streZ? z a . t.. \ * 14.0 tint ylittias)ive rt pe re r e a 4 v so e t F es n Co nt plet el y 4. 1 :th 0 2t. ca l q eo m „ . ' t i nt •ajoate! generally arrest the progress t- 4 °41 'I b 7 a er;'Preot4 (. N esl ias ue w nt elli l in adults, will te4 thn° Previon a l os es , and asthmatic !1s e e t , at ,_ Y had no'..been Mile to lie di' in bed, have st 4 4 sjAtc"47,lfit from th . ‘s4le of 'lilts t t 4t e;tI VI LLOII 4 h B ShNCE OF LINSEED, t 4, ti e,et i tho ,,, BY and Co., late B. G. WINDUS, cl, I . or 2a. id".o.l,rdon. and 411 Medicine Venders, in ...271iP . --,P° I.• vitt .d. t ,',o r pof ''' 99 • ••• gave -.... ..o• •" ' 23 ..... 32 ..... Ist ..:i. -C. ....f. --‘ al ,jO2l 18 , 43 jo o fi lo! OLIO dr o roil cat 00 Nif 4 rot' go " E. p cb Ait r be' 30° A ;t1; ;II" A. nee, 1 Grote' Rea . J. sticr el ' tool; of CsP t° r 0 g i g 01 14 1 ‘-" in I ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. POPULAR LECTURES daily, abounding in BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS. With the view to amuse the Visitors, as well as to afford instruction in CHEMISTRY, EXPERIMENTAL PHILO SOPHY, and other branches of Science, Dr. Ryan, Professor Bach hoffner, Mr. Goddard, and other Lecturers vary their subjects as much as possible, and have arranged so that each Lecture shall seldom oc cupy more than Halt an Hour—a List of which for the week is sus pended in the Hall of Manufactures. The first commences at a Quar ter past Twelve. The Apparatus; &c., used for illustration is of the most elaborate and perfect description, amongst which is ARM. STRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE (which is exhibited daily at Three o'clock, and at Eight in the Evenings), and LONG BOTTOM'S OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVER and DIVING-BELL, &c. &c. Conductor of the Music, T. Wallis, Mus. Doe. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORN HILL, LONDON. Capital .C 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. . . The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies— the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy on the profit scale a bonus averaging fitly-five per cent. on the amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to an equitable scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future premiums EXAMPLES. Policy. Annual Bonus Cash Prem. Entry. No. Age. Sum. Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced. £ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1837; 39 59 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 6 58 19 9 8 19 4 1838 ll4 56 3,000 175 15 0 296 9 7 123 0 6 16 9 7 Another Bonus will be declared in the present year. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered — every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. I6s. Gd., or 3491. I Is. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment— two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned to re presentatives in cases of premature death. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 34, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON. Established 1823. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. LOWER RATES of PREMIUM than those of any other Office that entitle the Assured to participate in the Profits. The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon average to 16/. per cent. on the premiums then paid ; and in 1839 a second Bonus was declared, amounting on the average to 311. per cent, on the premiums paid during the preceding rive years. Prospectuses and other particulars may be obtained at the Office between the hours of Ten and Four, or will be forwarded to persons resident in the country on application. CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary. THE MARINERS anii GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ... . . — Expressly established for Insurances on the Lives of Mariners, (whether members of the Royal or Mercantile Navy) and Military , tneers.—lt is to be noted that the Policies of this Company will cover voyages of every description and service in every part of the globe. The Lives of,Fishennen and Boatmen also insured. High rates of premium have hitherto operated against this kind of Assurance, but as the scale now adopted will be found as low as is consonant with the risk, it is believed that this fact, coupled with other advantaaes, will induce a great increase of insurers. ,Deferred Annuities to Mariners granted upon very moderate Premiums. The Premiums for General Assurances are based upon a new ad justed table of mortality. Ten pound per cent. of the profits to be applied in making a provi sion for destitute and disabled Mariners. Arthur-street, London-bridge. AVM. M'NIELL, Manager. G REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS SURANCE SOCIETY. 14, WARTERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. THE CHISHOLM, Chairman. WILLIAM 31ORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Brightman, Esq. I John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. Francis Brodigan, Esq. James John Kinloch, Esq. James William Deacon, Esq. Henry Lawson, Esq. Jonathan Duncan- Dew, Esq. Robert Power Esq. Alexander Robert Irvine, Esq. Rev. F.W.JohnsonVickery, A.M. AUDITORS—C. 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The usual weekly meeting of the League was held on Thursday night,io Covent-garden Theatre. The attendance was as large as on previous occasions. ,st seven o'clock the Chair was taken by the lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P., when the following gentlemen were on the platform : —W. J. Fox, Esq., Joseph Parkes Esq., W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ralph Ricardo, Esq.. J. P. Burnard, Esq., \V. D. Christie, M.P. , P. A. Taylor, Esq., Dr. Cooke Taylor, T. F. Gibson, Esq., .S. G. Hall, Esq., Patterson, Esq., Preston, Esq , W. S. Burton, Eq., Henry Keeling, Esq., William Clay, Esq., Arthur Pattison, Esq., W. T. Hodgkin, Esq., Pennock Tigar, Esq. (of Beverley), Jabez Johnson, Esq. (of llanchester), John Bell, Esq., M.P., Thos. Wakley, Esq., M.P., Charles Williams, Esq. ' Dr. Simpson, T. Mason, Esq., D. Aumonier, Esq., T. Ruston. Esq., J. Phelps, Esq., G. Ridout, Esq., Wynn, Esq., Sir Valentine Blake, John M'Leod, Esq., J. Cox, Esq., Dr. Hitchman, Summers Ilarford, Esq., F. Roe, Esq., M. Thackeray, Esq., J. Dyke, E sq ., W. A. Thomson, Esq., Wm. Edgar, Esq., George Lambert, Esq., Thomas Bateman, Esq., John Thompson, Esq., J. Anderson, Esq., George Osborne, Esq., Richard Lloyd, Esq., Samuel Drewell, Esq., Wm. Reynolds, Esq., Thomas Harbottle, Esq. ( Manchester), W. J. Scott, Esq. ( Manchester), C. 0. Boyce, Esq., John Yardley, Esq., John Burtt, Esq., E. Jackman, Esq., Grant, Esq., R. Harrison, Esq., Mark Perkins, Esq., J. D. Gaskell, Esq., Joy, Esq., Sir William Baynes, Bart., F. H. Toone, Esq., W. Roberts, Esq., John Chadwick, Esq., F. Scheer, Esq., N. Overbury, Esq. (Westbury, Wilts), R. Overbury, Esq. (Westbury, Wilts), W. H. Birchall, Esq. ( London), H. Birchall, Esq. (Leeds), M. H. Basnett, Esq., Michael Stocks, Esq. (Hali fax), Henry Edwards, Esq., Fullerton, Esq., Joseph Ro binson, Esq., Richard W. Cole, Esq., James Harmer, Esq., Professor Key, &c., &c. The CHAIRMAN on coming forward was received with re peated rounds of applause. On silence beieg restored, he ob served that his esteemed friend, Mr. Wilson, who commonly presides with so much ability at these meetings, was he re gretted to say, unavoidably detained in the country; and he had requested of him to occupy the chair in his absence, though he felt himself incompetent to discharge the duty with any thing like the ability of his esteemed friend. Yet he readily complied with the request, as he was unwilling to urge on others the discharge of those duties which he was not ready to perform himself ; and the time was come, when every friend to this great cause should come forward, and by all and every constitutional means, promote the views of this important, this necessary Association. The objects of the Nati.nal Anti- Corn-law League are, as they believed, identified with the best interests of the kingdom at large; but unfortunately a selfish interest, reps esented by adverse majorities in both Houses of Parliament, frustrates those beneficial objects, and therefore it became necessary for them to exert themselves the more ; for we live in times when the "force of enlightened public opinion is all-important, and the League represents that opinion."—( Hear, hear.) The gross misrepresentations of the objects of the League, which have been made by their oppo nents, exhibit at one and the same time the alarm of their op ponents in the wsakness of their cause, and the force and power of the Anti-Cern-law League in the soundness of their views and the « xcellence of their objects. The objects of the League at e to demonstrate to the people, and the nation at large, the benefits of those great principles applied to trade which have been recommended by the wisest and best minds, and which are now so loudly called for by the necessities of the country— principles which have been advocated and recommended by men of the highest eminence for talent and ability, and of the greatest praseical knowledge in this country. Therefore it was, that notwithstanding what their opponents may allege, he said that i• was for the promotion of these principles, and on these grounds alone, that the League claimed the support of all sensible and right-hearted men.— ( Loud cheers.) Since the last meeting of the League in that place, he had heard that a word now so common in stifling the cries of an injured people in the sister country—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear,")—he meant, " Conspiracy"—(Laud cheers)—had been applied to the meetings of that Association in that theatre.—( Laughter. ) How far the word was justly applied to their assemblages there he could not pretend to say--(Renewed laughter)--but certainly it was no wonder when they considered the objects they had in view that their opponents should be alarmed, for it stands upon the high authority even of an eminent Secretary of State, that the doctrines they contend for are the doctrines of common sense—and anything more likely to be dangerous to the power of their opponents than the prevalence of common sense he could not conceive. Whatever misapprehensions may have gone abroad regarding the proceedings of the League, it is certain notwithstanding, that the League is making great progress, and that common sense is about to prevail—( Hear, and laughter)— for something like common sense is required to oppose the views of the League, and to satisfy them that misery is not now increasing with increasing numbere, and that those evils are not fostered by those who have an interest in main taining them. When common sense sees that the progress of the League is opposed by vulgar abuse, when it sees industry denied its proper exertion and rewards, and the necessitous unem ployed, then will common sense prevail.—( Cheers.) When capital shall be entitled to its fair profit without the mischievous intermeddling of a one-sided law, when the rich and idle shall be content with their own ; when such doctrines pre vail, then will common sense and com mon h onesty prevail. —(Cheers. ) Then will all those in authority be seeure, happy, and content in the midst of a thankful people. These were the results they looked for, and therefore it was that he gave his humble efforts in promoting the objects of the League. As he had just seen one of their veterans come on to the platform, he would not , detain them longer. They would be addressed by one who was always at his post —ever steady at his gun—ever to be found when wrong was to be plat down and oppression opposed—he meant Mr. Hnme.—((;heers.) Mr. Hume, M.P., then came forward, and was received with great applause. He said, that however too complimen tary may have been the remarks of his Hon. Friend, he had stated one truth with respect to him—it was true he was a veteran in the cause—he had been for very man y years an anxious labourer in promoting the great objects the Anti- Corn-law League has in view, It was with great satisfaction that he and they must look back at the progr ess they had made, and the converts that had j o i ned them, for he remembered that l when he proposed a fixed duty on corn only fourteen years ago, out of a House of 600 Members, he could get but thirteen Members to vote with him. The present salutary change had been brought about by setting forth the objects of the League t and the more those objects were examined and discussed, the more would their views be promoted and adopted.—(Loud cheers.) He came in late to that meeting, but he de layed to see enter the House one who was indeed a veteran in the service of the people.—( Loud cheers, and cries of " O'Connell, O'Connell.") He assured the meeting that one of his great motives in coming there that evening, was to express his public opinion as to the principles on which those gentlemen in Dublin were put upon their trial. The same may be applied to this country, and no one is safe if they dare to push such principles.—( Hear, hear.) So it was most desirable to promote the great objects of the League, and it was therefore particularly incumbent on then) to see how other public meetings had been interfered with.— ( Hear, hear.) A great change had taken place in the opinion of their opponents ; formerly it was held tha t th e foodof the earth was for the benefit of the labourer, but their opponents seem to thing that it was only fit to be taxed to keep up their rents , but a great forward step has been made. They can now ask them, " What right have you landlord! to claim a greater protection and a higher interest on your capital than any other set of men in the community ?" It was for the people alone to say how long such an injustice, for injustice it is, will be permitted to continue. Mr. flume then pro ceeded to contrast Sir Robert Peel's recent declaration in re ference to the corn-laws with the Right Hon. Baronet's pro fessions on introducing the Tariff Bill, and deplored Sir Robert Peel's want of firmness in allowing himself to be dictated to by the monopolists, and the Honourable Member then went on to expatiate on the anomalous condition of this country, which, with such incalculable resources, still abounds with so much misery among the working popu latio n ; and the reme dies for such a calamitous state of things would, he contended, be found only in the exertions of the League—in the abolition of monopolies of every kind and description ; and he knew of no reason why every honest Englishman should not join them ; and so long as they violated rio law, use their most strenuous efforts to rid the country of these obnoxious monopolies ; and he knew n o reason wh y t he capital of th e landlord should have more protection than the capital of the manufacturer or the merchant, and he pointed out the fallacy of the doctrine that you are not to look to foreign importa tions, but to the home market alone, for the food of our great and increasing population. — ( near. hear,) And where, then, he asked, are you to get an outlet foru ofour manufactures which give employment to the great a f re e trade had, said, now become ' sr had thehe working populas tion I The qualm humblest the important question with the highest and th e in dividuals in the country, and he portended the greatest cala mities, if the principles of free trade were not soon adopted, so as to give emyloyment and food to the worki ng classes, and he deplored that the energies of s uch an enterprisi ng and indus trious people should not have an enlarged field and f ree scope. He called uneststbiss l'l-'''OPN be pr e p are d at the next I dissolution of Parliament to send 'n free-traders ; it was there the great battle was to be fought, and he apprehended but little good would result from th e p roceedi ngs of the present House .sf Coser i s oq , in ti ' t 0 e direction of f ree tra d e. He ti. issOuld sievee water,. when then said, he hoped the we should be confined to the produce of our own land, for the support of our increasing population, as it was most peeps:pry, es that population,. increased, to procure for them isicreased eF t ployFeq ad , 1 ,,CP,4 from abroad. At the same time, let no' man Pe_P,f F , ;at Ipe 'Veigri market in the best maart, for ; in spoimli 9, , It In ene senae s there niarket, If a for his goods at home, is no difference between the home aril foreig a man thinks that he will get more money he will dispose of them at home , and also , if he think s h e w ill tell them better in a foreign market; he will not yell them at twine: 'He (gr. 1-leme) helieved that it via:, for the interest of every usan'that the reei46r4s FOOSed - i 4 y ik•••,', 4iiii-con-livr League were constructed, and that there was wiser adopted a course more beneficial to ever) , class than that adopted by the League, and in that course they would continue.—(Clieers.) it was tise business of every. marl—there was no mein ' from the beggar'to the Peer, whose aitereets were not nivtilved In it; and he believed, ! in his conscience, that tine 'I A e A .ano e proprietors have suffered greatly, and will suffer more, by the continuation of these laws. He was informed that in iteland already the grating .sands were immense's, ressuceo, to eo t irseqisesiee 'of the Enklish not 'hating napital enough to 'purehase I , .'s qp.ei. cattle. There ought to be no prohibition to the fruit of the labour, inienuify; and industry of the Englishmen --s(Cheers.) The objent Of Site Antistorn .law League in seekiilg for a repeal of dig 'corn slaWs, 'Wde not only to Obtain a free qadesin corn, 'bit i to obtain free trade in everytilipg else; they put food Palm' in this instanee on account of its great importance, knowing well that free trade in everything else would speedily follow. He would express a hope that every person who was present listening to him would consider that it was for his own indivi dual interest that ha was seeking for free t ra d e i n corn, for in twelve month s afterwards they would have free trade in everything. Follow down even to the be g gar in the street, and 'they would find that they were l oo ki ng to his interest also. The time, he hoped, would come when all parties would agree on this subject ; at present their opponents were strong in wickedness, and they were strong in truth.—( Loud cheers. ) 'The Hon. Gentleman then thanked the meeting for the kind manner in which they had received him, and resumed his seat amidst loud and enthusiastic cheers of applause. Mr. VILLIERS then introduced to the meeting Mr. William Dougal Christie, the Member for Weymouth, and took occa sion to say that he was one of the few Members who during last session of Parliament had the courage to take an independent part on the subject of the corn-laws. After load cheering, Mr. CHRISTIE, M.P., addressed the meeting. He congratu lated the meeting on thefact, that againotthese meetings no Go yernment proclamation had yet been issued, no new-fangled line of conspiracy had yet been invented.—(Hear, and laughter. ) Two nights ago he had heard the Secretary of State for the Home Department utter a sentence, which he accompanied with his most significant look, and on the words of which much study had been evidently bestowed, which, if it was not intended as. a mere clap-trap, to raise a party cheer, or to insult by a dark insinuation what he dare not openly attack, must have been meant as a warning to the Anti-Corn-law League.—( Laughter. ) After saying that the altered circu nstances of the times re quired an alteration in the law of conspiracy, and quoting a maxim of Madame de Steel, which he and the Duke of Wel lington thought most profound, he said, that " now-a-days leaguers held their meetings in theatres, and conspirators build Conciliation Halls to disseminate sedition."—(Cheers, and laughter.) All that he could say in answer to that was, that the Anti-Corn-law League had not as yet frightened the Home office with any sham military proclamation ; the Council of the League eontineed to addi-ess in plain terms, men of plain understanding ; and Mr. Cobd en h ea d e d no Anti Corn-law cavalry.—(Laughter.) It was not from Sir James Graham that this declared, n against the Anti-Corn-law League might have been expected. The League without taking any par ticular trouble to ascertain his opinions, had had hitherto one reason fur thinking that they were honoured with his confidence and good opinion. —( Laughter.) When, last year, the League began to hold its meetings in theatres, tho se who conducted the arrangements unexpectedly found, that the police force which always attended the theatres when they were opened for the purposes of the legitimate drama, were not to be allowed to attend on the occasions when the League met there, in con sequence of a special order of the Home-office to that effect. ( Great laughter.) Mr. Wilson made particular application to the head of the metropolitan police for their assistance, but it was refused in consequence of the order in question, and up to that day there had not been a single policeman present at their meetings. From this it was to be inferred that he who presided over the Home-office was satis fied of the legal and orderly character of the meetings of the League.—( Great laughter.) The Government appeared to be exulting over the success of their proceedings in Ireland, but it would be better for them to wait to see that success, instead of boasting of it in the absence of that great man before whose power they quailed when they granted Catholic Eman cipation. Before they sung their song of triumph they should _wait for the final issue of their proceedings.---( Hear, hear.) At all events, if they now prepared another indictment against the League, and endeavoured to apply their new doctrine of conspiracy, founded nn Madame de Steel's maxim, to the altered circumstances of the times, why the League might call Sir James Graham and the superintendent of police to speak to their characters.—( Laughter. ) The apostate Baronet.— ( Loud cheers which prevented the remainder of the sentence from being audible.) The Anti-Corn.law League made it its object to act upon the House of Commons. It acted upon con stituencies by endeavouring to make them act upon Members, in order that Members might give good votes. If they were to be proseutei, so also ought their opponents of the pro-corn-law associations, whose strong speeches, signifi cant hints, and bold declamations were much more dangerous. Their opponents and the c ons tit uenc i es, j umped over the Legislature. aspired to keep the Government in order, to add to the riches of the wealthy, and compel the poor to pay a disproportionate contribution to the revenue. The pretext was proteetion to agriculture ; but where were the proofs that such protection had been afforded ? The corn-laws only served to— " Stun with false care what else would flourish wild, Or reek the cradle till they bruised the child."—( Laughter. ) I f humanity were to be the motto of any party it should be in scribed on the banners of the League. If any one doubted the ultimate success of their efforts in achieving unconditional repeal, the speech of Lord Morpeth, who declared that if the sliding-scale were not abandoned in a twelvemonth he would join them, ought to dispel that doubt. If, when his Lordship made that declaration, he doubted that the sliding-scale would be preserved another year, Sir Robert Peel came in oppor tunely to make a declaration of his determination to preserve the sliding .scale, thus dispelling in his Lord ship's mind all doubt as to his intentions for the fu ture.—( Hear, hear.) Other great conversions, other important declarations would undoubtedly follow. He did not despair of seeing the leader of the Opposition a convert to the cause of free trade. It would be just what might be expected from one who belonged to a family which was so great in the country's history. Their enemies called the League " a great fact," and the services which it rendered would hereafter cause the period of its exertions to be considered a great era, and whoever might carry the question in the House of Commons, the pioneers who cleared the way would not be forgotten. He could not conclude without expressing his conviction that no man who hereafter shall lay a plentiful meal before his children, could ever forget the skilful, the eloquent, and the high-toned advocacy of Mr. Villiers, any more than he could forget the exertion, the almost superhuman energy, that unison of true, simple, and manly character, with an intellect of extraordinary breadth and vigour, which have placed Mr. Cobden in the front rank of public men, and established him far beyond the reach of the calumnious and dark insinuations by which un scrupulous men have endeavoured to defame him.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. J. Fox then came forward and, after being greeted with tremendous applause, spoke as follows:—If there be upon the two Hon. Members of the House of Commons who have addressed you this evening the doom which used to be much more frequently on judges' lips than, happily, it is at present, and if they are about to be taken to the place from whence they came, I hope on their arrival they will report there that the Anti-Corn-law eague is still in existence—( Great laughter, and cheers)—for it was announced in that House no longer ago than last night, that since the declaration of Sir Robert Peel, on the first night of the session, the Anti-Corn law League had dwindled into insignificance. Yes, it has dwindled from a revenue of 50,0001. a year to one of 100,0001. It has dwindled from small local meetings' to such gatherings as I now behold around me ; it has dwindled from the humility of petitioning the House of Commons to the masters of the House of Commons—(Cheers)—and what a strange, what an imperfect, what a confused and ignorant notion must any man have of the Anti-Corn-law League, wh: supposes that the breath of a Member of the House of Commons, or of a Minister of the Crown, can cause it to shrink and shrivel up into insig nificance. Why, he takes it to be some petty intrigue, some party manoeuvre, something to which the Members of the House of Commons are much more accustomed than they are to the grand principles of truth and justice, and to the great movements of national opinion. And of all persons, too, one whose breath has so often blown hot and cold on this subject, who has aforetime denounced as destructive of the political Constitution and of the religious Establishment of these realms, the very measures which he has submitted to introduce, of all men his words are not the words before which such a body as this is to stand appalled, or at whose com mand it will shrink into annihilation.—( Great cheering. ) Neither on Sir Robert Peel, nor on any other leader of party, does this League depend for the success of those objects which are marching on towards their accomplishment.—( Hear, hear. ) It has been made a boast of late that even rich Whig Lords are joining the Anti-League movement. Let them join. S much the worse for the Whigs, but not for the Anti-Corn law League.--( Hear, hear.) Our atrength is in the prin ciples we hold. It is written down that free trade is an im portant step in the progress of nations. It is a fact that claims founded on eternal justice, as is the claim of industry to a free market for its produce, may be violated for time, but can never permanently be refused to the demands of hu manity.—(Loud cheers.) Their dicta, on whatever side of the House they may be, or whatever parties they may lead— their dicta stop the progress of this League, or prevent the accomplishment of its objects !---why we may as well suppose that the coming of the approaching spring will be retarded or prevented by the bellowing of the bull in Tamworth Park ! ( Great laughter.) But what monopoly cannot effect through the medium of ancient institutions anti legitimate fofirkg, it seems, to be effected by voluntary combination and effort. Not content with the great Corn-law League of the House of Lords and the House of Commons—not content with the command of the Cabinet an d o f its coercesispokesman—rat content with all this, w e fi n d a num b er or little " associa tions" springing up here and there all ever the country, cry, ing out as it were to these leviathan powers— " 0, let our little barks attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale," —( Cheers and laughter,) Being imitative bodies, these asso ciations, they have taken to copying from us. We have left off petitioning Parliament, and they are just going to begin. —( Hear.) I hope the cast-off clothes will fit thins? grape- fully.—( Renewed cheering.) They deriotinee our agitation ; the Duke of Richmond says that our agitation is immoral, and forthwith puts himself at the head of another agitation.-ma (Continued cheering.) In looking over the various resolu tions and proceedings of these corn-law meetings, I have endeavoured to ascertain what are their most important features, what they are driving at; and of the two things which stand ont most boldly in relief, one, I find, is hatred of the League.—( Hear.) They do not exactly knew what they are about to do, but they must oppose the League, they must stop the League, they must put 09 . yiv, the League. And so, to de all this, thoe begin to praise the very thing oi . which they have been compl a i n i ng ; they enlist themselves as supporters of the Prime Minister, by whom they have been betreyed ; they evince their consistency, scarcely knowing what else t o c loyp agreeing . _ to support "a. law which they have denounne'd, and a - Premier whom they despise.— ( Hear, hear.) And by declaring that we are liable to the penalties of the law, what do they but put themselves in a position to shield us, if there be any impartiality in time sdini nistration of the iaFy, cfo4l s . 4ch ? If : We hki l muchof -1 6re are they, wi`th`ihcir corresponding societies, mak ing their conspiracy not constructiv e , but open and apparent to all the world. Not that I care about that word.—( Hear, hear.) I should as soon, if not sooner, have addre;sed meeting by the term fell ow - consp i rators than by afiy 'othbi designation.—(f.otsd cheers.) It would be no 'disgrace, When the pit4u4 or is law lul object by lawful mead's can bring men under pains and pematies. And I must say that, whatever might be the business of the evening, I should have felt ashamed of myself and of you, if the privilege of free meeting and of free speech could be used here Tit out the OA pressiun of sympathy for those who are to punished for its Use in the s i s t er Loud '' and' long-eon tinuect applase, accompanied by 'cries of S' Bravo,")ss,y sympathy for' our own: sakes ; tzqt" theits, tor, 0,1 all men, I taite him to hate the feat fiee'd of sympathy, who, even in a dungeon, if he is sent to 'a clungeon; will rule in the thoughts, and hearts,' and devotion, of the nation whom he serves.—( isp plause. ) It is m ine to o'srselaes, it is due to the best and dearest right which the people Of' ihMa count'' y p?sseis.:Lthe' right of publicly' Meeting, and if it be . a great griOance, n4n b-sra proportioned to the gr e a t n ess of the grievance—(Crie s of " Hear, hear")—to declare their wrongs and to demand redress. That right should never be touched in any locality, or in the case of any party, without the protest, the strong and heart-felt protest, of every one who values public freedom, and the privileges of a nation, only procured by the boldness of its speech and by its spirit of independence. —( Hear, hear.) But to return to our associations. The eli mination of the League seems to be the first, great, prevailing object. This •is the most intense. feeling in their hearts, this the first idea to which they give utterance. And for what do they criminate us? Of all the petty, paltry charges ever scraped together, some of those which figure in the "very head and front" are the most pitiful. The first resolution of one agricultural meeting states it to be a most intolerable thing that the League sends paid lecturers about the coun try. —( Hear.) They charge it as a crime upon us that lecturers are sent to such public meetings—( Some interruption was here caused by some person in the meeting, and the [lon. Gentleman eon tintied)—but even they have not the impudence to charge it upon us, that in some instances ruffians are sent to disturb public meetings.---( Hear, hear, and cheers.) They forge .• too; that the great teacher and lecturer of the League is one that is not paid—and cannot he paid, by human agency. Its greatest and most efficient Lecturer is an invisible power--a missionary from Heaven, speaking to the heart of humanity—a Lecturer that speaks to the minds of th .se who listen, as well as with the voice of him 'who addresses an as .embly—an un dying power, but everywhere pledged to spread free-trade doctrines and to put down oppression, and the name of this ummidlecturer it the Love of Justice.--(Applause. ) A num ber of stories were told by them, amongst which was that of a man having forged to a petition, but they slid not accuse us of forging names to a monopolist candidate to come for ward and stand for the representation of a county.— ( Laughter.) Do they say this man entered a churchyard and copied a number of names • from the grave stones, for the purpose of attaching names toms Anti-Corn-law petition? Why, if the person whom they employed did this, there must have been some shrewdness about him, and had their perceptions been morally acute. I think they would have abstained from selecting this particular illustration of the charge from the graveyards of this country, for in those of both crowded towns and remote villages, how many of those senseless inhabitants are there who have been brought there—indirectly, hadeed, but not the less certainly—by the operation of those accursed restric tion laws.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Could they interfere in our transitory occurrences, they would have a right to petition upon this matter. They had been the victims of the system under which the living are yet suffering and 'writhing, and were their power to reach their inanimate dust, and could their old thoughts, and feelings, and reminis cences be gathered together, could they come from their graves, to which so many have been carried with but limited rites—the shortened removing—the little bell tolled heavily at the pauper's funeral—could they be gathered together from their resting-places—could they be assembled iu the neigh bourhood where that body met tolegislate:on life and death— oh, there would he such crowds, that the avenues of the Houses . of Parliament would be so choked up, that it would require a large army of horse and foot, with a Wellington at their head, to cut a passage through this multitude, and the result would be, that the chaplain of the House would preach his sermon on the occasion from the text, " Your brother's blood cries to me for vengeance."—( Loud cheers.) Next to this unwise disposi tion to vituperate, he found most prominent in the proceed ings of those bodies, wa s th e i mmens i ty of the professions of at tachment to the labourer. This was prominent in every string of resolutions and in all their speeches.—(Hear, hear.) The food of the labourer and the work of the labourer seemed to be their being, their aim, and their end—it would appear as if the landlords were only born in order that they might ex ercise their love for the labourer. (Cheers and laughter.) He did not suppose from such expressions that they would never meet again at their festivities, but that the toast of Church anti State, and its usual accompaniment of the glee of " A Jolly Good Bottle" then would follow the toast of the la bourer; and after a description of his Arcadian bliss, there would be a song in character, to the words of " What a Beauty he did grow." They love their labour so dearly, that they take care that the fine proportions of his form shall not be spoiled by too much rich or ample living-- that it shall not be obscured by too great an abundance of clothing.—( Laughter.) A curate, the orthodoxy of whose faith was doubted, once said that he could not be expected to believe very largely, for he only believed at the rate of 80/. a year, while the Bishop believed at the rate of 15,0001. a-year, and so it seems to be with respect to the great Lords and landed proprietors ; they loved their labour at the rate of their 30,000/., 40,000/., 60,0001., or even 80,0001. a year, while the poor labourer in return, stinted in his means, can only love at the rate of Bs. or 9s. a week.—( Cheers and laughter ) There has been nothing like this wonderful attachment since the days when King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid ; but lie did not first make her a beggar that he might love her the more ; and in this respect the re semblance does not hold good. We have often heard of the lass who loved the sailor, but what is that to the affec tion of the lord who loves the labourer ; they love the labourer so dearly that for their sakes he would even injure the rest of the community and degrade their characters— and pervert the powers of their station and their legislative Tune tions; they love them so dearly, that for their sakes they will take out of the pockets of the public any amount of rent which they can get by the taxation of food.—( Cheers, and laughter.) The labourers are told that they must have work, and if free-trade principles are to prevail, it is said, that the land will go out of cultivation anti the poor labourer must starve. Now, what is the meaning of all this? for even love itself—the love of the landlord for the labourer—must sometimes be sub ject to analysis.—(Laughter.) The owner of 50,000 acres says, that if one party prevails, his land will go out of cultiva tion, and England will become a desert. Does he mean that land itself will take wings and flee away? And if he can get any rent for it, does he mean that land will yield no produce to any one who may till it ?—(Hear, hear.) There it is, and no alteration in the law of the land can annihilate the soil, or blast the power with which Providence has endowed it, of bearing ample fruits in return for the seed which man deposits therein. —( Hear, hear.) And why let him throw it out of cultivation ? If there are 50,000 labourers' life on that property—if it is al together abandoned by him, there will be nice squatting there --(Laughter)—for those who remain.--( Continued laughter.) I think it will go hard but they will manufacture bread and cheese out of it.—(Laughter.) And since we hear that the hares and rabbits on some estates require a very considerable reduction—(Laughter) —they might live on them till harvest time came round.--(Great laughter. ) Thus, with a little in genuity, weuld those 50,000 be covered with industry, and persons would get food for their support, and would have some surplus to spare to find them selves in clothing. Thus, what becomes of the cant phrase of throwing land out of cultivation ? ( Hear, hear.) If this were to happen the labourer would think it the happiest day of his life when the landlord was " crossed in in love. '—( Hear, hear.) And if the thing went on, and the comfort of this little society increased, it is much to be feared that, after a time, the landlord would come back again. There would then be a repetition of the scenes which had so disgraced Scotland and Ireland. There would be notice to quit served on those who had taken possession of the abandoned property. There would he the horrors of a clearing, in which whole fa milies would be sent to lie down in the ditches, and have to find refuge from the pitiless elements to which they would be exposed by the equally pitile;s landlord—( Hear, hear)—and the enactment of a tragedy, too often performed, would end the farce of " The Labourers' Love."—Great cheering. ) When did this love commence ? What is tlel history of this most fond and affectionate care of one class for another ? How old is it? Does it belong to those anaient times in our history when slaves were fattened here anti sold in Ireland, to the litAritirent of the home market there, till it was glntteei With a surplus population ? Was it i n th e 14th tiry, when pestilence had ravaged the country—vehea. the number of those who tilled was so reduced, that they claimed as a right a higher rate of wages for their work—when the statute of labour was passed (which some have praised even in this qv day), enacting that they should be flogged to their work, at the wages they had before the pestilenc e came ?--. ( Hear, hear.) Was it in the 15th cen tury, when it was the law that if a man had been for fifteen years a labourer he must follow the drudgery fcr life, and net apprentice his sons in towns, lest the lr,edioree of the sail should lose the services of hi; s:.•rf.; i 3—( Hear, hear.) Was it even in the sixteenth century, when a man, catching any idle atrollor on his grounds, might force him to work, ~nd feed him with the offal of his table, and brand him, that he might be known to belong to his service Hear, hear.) Was it at the period wh i m manufacturing energy commenced—when the wages of the labourer, as measured by wheat, fell wore than one-half, and the price of wheat was more ihati double ? Was it under the old poor-law, or n,:v.• i,oei-law, which sometimes subjected the lallgliTer (.G the degradation of being mid big honestly:earned wages out of the parish fund, f,t, another time turning the screw upon him, telling him he is a late corner to natures table, and bidding, him, in l A ls ra gs an d s t arvation, be independent ?—(Hear l hear..) is it now that he is gifted with twentmenec a-day if the weather be fine, to lose it if the chiy be wet ? Wh ere can we fi nd the origin —where true the hietory—,where see the marks of that paternal care, which one special class now affirms to have.tahen of the labourers of this country—( Hear, hear),,sinee they had them` under their fond protection? If such be their feelings for the labourers, why do they not bestow more exclusively their attention to them? It is the tendency of the Legislator; of this class to meddle with any business rather than thew own ? They are very 4nalous about factories : where persons are paid higher by far than any which agricultural labourers receive hi the employ of tenant farmers. —(Hear, hear.) They are for making regulations about selionla they are for interfering with cotton, snd silk, and woollen manufactories ; but there is the labiatier, whom they love so well, the most unprotected, the boost unhel ped,i being in the country.—(llear, hear.) N ow an d then, perhaps, they 44y0 given him some sort of a prize for a twenty years'_ service in some family—(Hear)—but even this has been coupled of late with an gdmonition that he must not listen to persons who were given to change—(Laughter) --kw the si , l teachers that there must always be poor in the iand.—(Great laughter.) And what is the assumption of be ing agriculturists on the part of tba landed proprietory ? What is it but _ part et the same cant which we find "extended tbrbnghout the whole of their proceedings ? Why, the use of a man's property dues not affect his character or his occupation ; being the owner of a library does ecit mehe a man learned. As Mr. Cobden often pithily f,Ati a wan is not a sailor because he is a shipowner netther arts the owners of great estates entitle() tg 'not the hLuourablo appell a ti on o f agriculturi s t s . P ity are nei the cultivators of the round, tttey are only the recipients of its fruits, taki ng th e lions ?st.law of the pro fi ts." If this language were all owe d in reference to other matters; if it were to designate the csocupations of people by the use which they make r e f their property, it would follow thgt a Noble reember, of thls'League (the M arqu i s o f Wettitkater) is the' greatestbricknaaker in the country; that the Duke of BedfOrd is the most distingi.lizhed dramatist and mu sician ; anti that the clergy of Westminster Abbey are prOfessiirs of prostitution.—(Great laughter. l Mr. Fort then went on to say that the question spa,. whet* the landed proprietors were to be " nation," the entire nation? for that was the object kr - which they were (Lieu, and ' cheeri.) They' acknowlegjed it ; they;,oknowledged ; bet the i !ice one } l oose idfluencing another.—(l-lear.) They acknow ledged the manufacturi ng c l asse s , b u t t h ey AO 411 ftleW'poicer to oppress them ; th e y acknowlAge the working classes, but they tax the bone ;„i -- .4 sinew, of Fi t t l i a tn b il o o, u l rE they tax the very br?ad of their er,aterice.—( plause,l giaiiied that they w . ere there was a time when ' (he latOrd w,tts;*4l " S " %asq7Z nation; but r 'sviiat - sOi:i of time vs/a; it A time when t II F peop l e o f this country ware dogged, branded, arid sold . T h ere was a time when they were a nation, when they rode down Bog helpless opponents, and were only found caste of being put z V N Atq rty • 0 „ • , • hors de combat by being cracked likg lobsters in theje; ittiebi e —( Chee rs and laughter.) Yes, th e y were a natlikr," , hut ' 1 °'"-s`' when they were, it was a nation not worth living in • and to that time would they again bring the people back.--( ' Never.) They were not, however, he would tell them, the nation; but the hard-working, industrious, productive classes of the country were the nation.__( Hear, bear.) It had been often said, and there was much truth in the statement, that " Eng land was the paradise of landowners;" but her industrious sons, was not the land theirs? The landowners, however, called the land theirs, as if they were " the gods" who made it ; and were not content even with that.-4 A laugh. ) They talked of their estates; but they got them not by industry, hut rather by sword and rapine.—( Hear, hear.) They talked of the heavy burdens which they say are on the land, arid yet there was no property which was less burdened than this land. " Free markets" was the cry of Wat Tyler ; and the dagger which stabbed him then was still stuck in the arras 4f the City of London Corporation ; and the cry which was raised then was raised now. Yes, " free markets," not in England only, but in all the world.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) They demanded for al} markets the same freedom as they looked for themselves.—( Hear, hear.) They demanded "free mar kets"— free as the air of heaven, free as the billows of the sea, free as the aspirations of the soul of man.—( Great cheering, and loud cries of " Bravo.") What, he would ask, had not Oa wisdom and industry of man done for labour ? It was said in a newspaper, a fee days back, that the price of corn was only the same now that it was in 1791 ; but the fact was, that, while the price of corn was the same as in 1791, the rent of land in this country was double, and snore than double what it w as th en ; an d i t was that that crippled the farmer, and rendered him unable to compee with foreigners.— ( Hear, hear.) There were they (the Anti-Corn-law League) in their voluntary gathering, and yonder Here their oppo nents in their set meeting by Royal mandate ; there were they (the League) in their open proceedings, while yonder also were their opponents in their seclusion. There were they (the League) in the open way, and they took up the gauntlet which their opponents had thrown down, and hurled defiance in their teeth.—( Loud cheers.) "We advance to the conflict," eontioued Mr. Fox, " which they brave—the conflict of public opinion against power, break ing no law even oftheir making. In the spirit of that peace ful morality which they profess, and have made part and parcel of the law of England, we carry out this great cause, and we will win even for them deliverance from the curse wl.ich the oppressor brings on his own head; for ourselves, emancipa tion from the disgrace of being plun:lered and enslaved; and for our country, deliverance from the prospect of confusion, from the endurance of wretchedness, from anarchy, and from desolation. The age of feudalism is past, and the spirit of feudalism cannot govern this country. It may be strong in the prestige of the past; it may glitter in the splendour which it has won from the toils of industry ; it may fortify itself in the bulwarks of institutions ; it may surround itself with a servile multitude ; but the spirit of feu dalism must suceemb before the genius of humanity ; the spirit, the principles, and the power of feudalism, must stand by and make way for the rights of industry, anti for the pro gress of nations towards commercial, political, and intellectual liberty."—(Tremendous and long-continued cheering followed the conclusion of the above speech.) The CRATRMAN then stated, that Mr. O'Connell had ccu sented to attend the next weekly meeting, an announcement which was received with vociferous applause. '1 he meeting then dispersd. THE COMPLETE SUFFRAGE .MOVEMENT. The Council of the National Complete Suffrage Union met at Birmingham on Monday ; the President in the chair. Most encouraging accounts were read from different parts of the kingdom, regarding the rapid and. satis factory progress which the Supply movement is making in the public mind. LETTER FROM MR. W. S. CRAWFORD. Mr. STURGE then read the following letter Prom Mr. ' W. S. Crawford, which he had that morning received:— " London, Feb. 10, 1844. " Respected Friend,—l think it right to submit to you a few observations on the present position of the move ment, which has been commenced in the House of Com mons, with a view to pressing forward the consideration of grievances on motions of Supply. By a reference to the division lists you will find that 40 Members voted in sup port of that principle of action, taking the two divisions conjointly. Out of these 40 Members you will observe that three, who voted in favour of th e fi rst mot i on, voted against the second motion; but, eve.* if we are to suppose that these gentlemen are:no longer to be included in our lists, still there remain 37 Members, and there are some Members whose support might be expected. It should always be kept in mind in this movement, that a minority cannot be justified in any course which would indicate a determined opposition to a majority, unless it is based on the position that the minority do truly represent the people, and that the majority do not ; and this can only be evidenced by the constitutional expression of the people's voice in the form of petition, and by the com munication of the sentiments of constituencies to their respective representatives ; but in such communications allow me to add, that it is not right to ask them to sup port the detail of proceedings which any particular Member might suggest or adopt ; but the constituencies should insist on the principle that the complaints of the people should be inquired into before the/Supplies be voted, and that each Member should make such mo tions and take such steps, as in his judgment would be most effective for the purpose. " I had written so far before I was aware that notice " had been given by the Governinent to bring on the Army and Navy Estimates in Committee of Supply on Friday next. This is, I believe, a rapidity most un usual, if not unprecedented. The estimates are not yet delivered, and cannot be in the hands of the Members for some days. It is obvious thit by this course any possible expression of public opinion on the subject of the movement now commenced will be fore stalled ; but if, it be supposed that the fixing of this early day was done with that object, it will be a proof of the importance of the movement, and a stimulus tc) greater exertion in carryine. it forward. In order to • meet this proceeding of the Government, I have this day given notice that I shall on Friday next a move an amendment on the motion of' Supply, to the effect that the consideration of the estimates be postponed ;' this motion will of course be lost, but it will be a stronger foundation for a contest on the estimates, if the Members representing popular constituencies feet so disposed, In the meantime, I shall, as an individual Member, keep up the system of ro ceeding to such ex t ent as prudence and utility shall seem to me to warrant. But I must remind you that there is an obstacle to a single Member, or a few Members. pushing a proceeding of this kind to any great extent, without a sufficient weight both of internal and external support, lest it might be made a plea by the majority.to swamp those privileges of the Commons which are in tended as the best securities of the rights of the people. At the same time, I am convinced that if a body of Members, to the. number which the late divisions show were determined to act together, and were backed by a sufficient power of the public voice, no Government could, stand against them for any length of time and refuse re dress of grievances ; and I am equally convinced that there are no other means in prospect by which that re dress can be obtained. " Believe me, with the highest respect, your Friend, " WM. SHARMAN CRAWFORD. " To Joseph Sturge, &c. &c." Mr. STURGE expressed his high satisfaction with the prudent and persevering exertions of Mr. Crawford.' with the conduct of those who had supported him, and the healthy state of public feeling on the subject. He traced the history of the movement, and expressed his anxious wish that the friends of the cause would feet that the good work was but a beginning, and that they would continue to agitate until the opinion of the majo rity of the people were distinctly known. Mr. J. C. PERRY moved, and Mr. W. MORGAN se conded, the following resolutions, which were passed unanimously.-- I, That this Council congratulate the friends of com plete suffrage upon the remarkable success which has attended the introduction into Parliament of the pro posal for redressing the grievances of the people before voting the:Supplies, and they derive great encouragement from the fact that forty Members have recorded their votes in favour of that proposal. 2. That this Council have read the letter of Mr. Shar man Crawford to their President, dated the 10th inst., with great interest, and beg to assure that gentleman of their unabated confidence, and the deep gratitude they entertain for his faithful services in the cause of the people, and advocacy of their claims, and they rejoice that an instrument for enforcing those claims is now in the hands of the patriotic Members of Parliament who really represent the people. 3, That this Council look forward with the deepest anxiety to the discussion about to • take place on the Army Estimates, and in anticipation of the amendment of which Mr. Crawford has given notice being defeated b trust that the friends of the people in Parliament will use every means which the forms of the House will per. mit to resist the grant of Supplies even for a limited period, until an assurance be obtained that the master grievance of non- representation shall be considered, with a view to its complete redress. FIRE IN LAMBETH,—On Thursday afternoon an extensive fire was discovered in the melting department, be longing to Messrs. Ogilvie and Co., tallow-melters, Paradise street, Lambeth. From the premises being very nearly situated to many poor families who were severe losers by the late fire which occurred a few months ago, the greatest excitement for some time prevailed for the safety of the neighboiu'hood; however, in a short time, Barrow and Hamhleton, with the West of England and Waterloo road engines arrived, and a good supply of water being sup plied, the fi remen soon obt a i ne d the mastery ov er the flames, not, however, until the roof of the melting-house had been destroyed, and other serious damage done. STRANGE O CCURR ENCE.—MiSS ---, whose death appeared in the Mercury of Friday last, was cousin to her employer, Mr. —. Confinement had wrought so unfa yOUrably upon her health that last summer she went to the country. Having been there some time, she received a letter, stating that unless she returned immediately, her situation would not be kept for her. She did return, and gradually grew worse. On the day of her death she appeared to be labouring more severely than she had before done under the influence of her malady. Her cousin desired her to go homes ' but she was too unwell, and died in her clothes. Her mottim a poor woman, was sent for. She wished the corpse to remain there until a coffin could be obtained, but Mr. would not consent, saying, "Do you think I would have a, corpse in my house?" "Well," replied the distressed mother, " let me go first and inform t n ir , people I lodge with o f poor —'s death." and scarcely had s h e en t ere d t h e house, _ l e d out, "I than a 'ev cab stopped by the d oor , an d t h e ca b man and opened have a passenger for when He then descended cj the door of the cab, a sight presen ted itself which made The corpse him " blush ibr them," to use his own words. much disfigured had &lien from the seat, I t its nose wa ben cut open, to all ow th e poor girl breeth;ngroo m , The front part of the di whenand the corpse was s een i n the cab, She dress, from above to the waist, had dropped down, so t h at the upper part was literally naked! Thud unfeeling wretch re/Wed to assist the poor mother with the loan "of t . ee means to bury her, although the poor girl 1.44 B ry-ided for that before hand, 'but the party who had the money was not in town at the thue. And she was heard_ to say, "I can die happy, because I know I have money to buryime with !"-7,116 tibove has been communicated freen a highly respectable party, but we think It only justiw say that we have heard a somewhat different statement of the same case, though, we fear, the main incklgat is only too true.—."-Lieerpoo/ Memory, t'5i...,............_ ._______. WILLIA3u r A k t..LI.I.4 vz..u. ..' ''' B • Roberts 36 Friar-street, South wark. e• 41i „,„ ti'ghtelUEL NICHOLLS, at present, and for rti, - -te r ,, in _n Months past, residing at Wellington Cott t age, Ken -litt 'X, and ,tae Parish of Saint Luke's, Chelsea, and coun yof 3 a ild: ":Lto p ~,,Ing an excavator, do hereby Bankrupt notice tit t i;g l . 'taq'eet, z; 3 7nt a petition to the Court of y, i 4 4: t ett, a , s 'fl°n. praying to be examined touching my debt i s o ß , g e as s a ta ftu te i ttty i 'tire 7' ' 0 be protected from all process, upon mak th, ast ~,, ,-, s urrender of such estate and e ff ects for payment of Le h ole 4 tawkl debts ; and I hereby further give notice, i tha o t 1 1P r ei r v Erti sod lt the Matter of the said petition shall be . heard e s w t s. 14 4 ,I', mo n n th t he London Gazette and in the Morning Sun n nt , ' -1 4 7th , 4 ‘ . at the leaSt after the date hereof ; as witness 3 Ili tnt s' a Y of February, in the year of our Lord, 1844. IS, J ohn SAMUEL NICHOLLS. ~._ attorney Chisholm. 3, Cook's -court, Lincoln's Inn, insolvent's