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• ; z ~~ r~ 4102 :7 • • • :47*---,,Lp 141 : --y; or \• • cc • • A , . - .'s . " - • , ft , fr 1 , - - US) - • p 0. • • -- • '4;74 , A,. .*, ? filb Wl4) 11)))))11 1 1 „ , -U 0 T h ' tot , • Imo . . t;374., . . - i ìì çìì / t0 .. 4 _,,,,,, , H , s , ,---- - -" I V + r . , ~., , • ..' g I , . ~ . No. 14,477. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 30, 1839. PRICE sd. • CORN LAWS. T A PUBLIC MEETING, Convened by tht le MASTER CUTLER by Requisition, held at the Town ", and by adjournment in Paradise-square, SHEFFIELD, SAMUEL HADFIELD, Esq., the Master Cutler, P ro in the Chair, P c led b WILLIAM IBBOTSON, Esq., seconded by Mr. EBENEZER I, a ELLIOTT, and carried by an immense majority, t this Meeting views with alarm the great decrease in the de r7dfor our mann fact ured goods in foreign countries, and the unnattt :9nereae of manufactories abroad, both which are caused by the i21 1 1!t and impolitic system of our present Corn-laws, which, whilst o ltt a ray.. the manufacturing part of the population, are naproductivc any beneficial results to the agricultural portion of the community. i!.the.se evils call for a total repeal of all taxes on c orn, . and an 'n of all restraints on free trade, and that a petition be pre ancod to Parliament praying for the total abolition of the Corn-laws. pe ' t :,f all other restrictions on the freedom of trade, and that such contain a prayer to be heard by Counsel, and to produce "ses at the Bar of the House ; and also a prayer that the peti and may he heard and discussed, and not be disposed of in the hasty to %satisfactory manner in which the petitions of the people are * treated. CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF. DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT SER VICES SOMERSET-PLACE, JAN. 29, 1839. P r I F , COMMFSfONERS for EXECUTING UNITA° OFFICE ° a LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the to h ere , KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, notico, that on THURSDAY, the 21st of February tsi - ",_`fine o'clock, they will Ito ready to treat with such Persons 4 (1 4 be willing to Contract, for supplying (under separate Con an such quantities of Iltas • FRESH BEEF st • th — e Y.be demand e d f or the use of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels 0114 Tellowing places—from the let of . April, 1839, to the 31st Chajirch, 18 40 —both days included, viz.:— Co r k " Kingstown and Dublin Ili„, a n,d Kinsale Leith, Leith Roads, and Frith 'hame s , from Deptford of Edinburgh beat tenth, both inclusive Milford and Pembroke ?alman:l D on - ns Portsmouth Gua r h Plymouth 11 0 ;j j ' i T , and Jersey Sheerness. 4 , All 'vely t li r ues about to tender are particularly desired to read atten tt thi s e Conditions of the Contracts, which niay be seen either tu t % t~llic e , o r o n app li cat i on t o the Superintendents of the Vic tnotltinle e stablishments at Deptford, Deal, Portsmouth, and Ply jelikth ' the Sup er i n t en de n t s of her Majesty's Dock-yards at L'hg it arn Sheerness, and Pembroke ; the Agent for the Victual 'kith K utilbowline •' the Secretary to the Postmaster-General at t he ot li e ; or to the Collectors of his Majesty's Customs at each of r places .v.ver y T ender must specify the price i words at length, and e /i d er be received after One o'clock on the day of trim i ti i ne r Inv noticed unless the party attends, or an Agent for Y authorised in writing. %top er ? Tender must be delivered at the above Office, and be ac- So a r n i ' ed .4 3' a Letter addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty istieeerset-place and sigrd by two responsible persons, engaging ,fer t i l sr ''t bound , with the person tendering, in the sum of 1,5001. i ', o e rtsZt!? performance of the Contracts for Sheerness, Chatham, " other "n, and Plymouth ; and in the sum of 5001. for each of , r , TO COMNIERCIAL GENTLEMAN. ill 7 °, 8 . BASNETT begs most respectfully to k in -o,se T ALn in Commercial Gentleman visiting SHRE V' SBURY that e t slo rt "PT HOTEL is conducted with every attention to their °T2 se • w niell so extensive an establishment affords; and the Ptir s4 :: likewise as commodious and Convenient for commercial esiii ! . e - as, perhaps, any the kingdom, being situated in the very I s aiiil i nd t he town ) . ; , , it i„ is "e greatest possible attention, with moderate charges, ...._ 444l ced i c : l° l 3 ed, secure the recommendation of those who may be tlve it a trial. — ` 4 IESTER AND BIRMINGHAM Notice i s E XTENSION , RAILWAY COMPANY. to nerelsv given that the BLACK SCRIP issued by the E Pa c n 'al°o loitger available, and it is req . nested that the same lintinue . NGED for RED SCRIP, which the Company will ist F eb t° ssue to duly authorised parties until, and including, the N om nia ry next, but not afterwards. lat er est Q but the Red Scrip will, after that date, confer any right or in the Company. ROSS and ASH, the Company's Agents, No. 6, Great Winchester-street, London. Ja n l iary 22(1, 1/330. •......_ HE UNION B Capital 3,000,0001., ANK OF. LONDON. ix Shares •f 501. eaeh. mu EcTous. !it Peter Laurie, Alderman. Thomas Meux, Esq. 44ro w Spottiswoode, Esq. A. Cockburn, Esq. "torge Webster, Esq. David Skaiffe, Esq. Pim Barnes, Esq. Benjamin Boyd, Esq. iiW. Sutherland, Esq. Peter Laurie, Esq. li .X. Nurse, Esq. James Farquhar, Esq. l lor-Gen. Archibald Robert -' W. P. Craufurd, Esq. • -- - - . lion. E.I. C. S. John Connell, Esq. 1, 4 1 : 1 \ t • e Directors give notice that it is their intention to commence 1* ( La on MONDAY Next, the 4th of February, at their Tempo .. 1 1 7 1 tees, No. 8, Moorgate-street, Lothbury. %114Vieations for Shares, accompanied by a deposit of V. per l e 40' acsordance with the Prospectus (Copies of which may I.,Zed) continue to be received as under : Li.Z , ----Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings. 1 14 1 ,7°0—Liverpool Commercial Bank. Ed;" t ' l lgham—Birmingham and Midland Bank. i'urgh—N a ti ona l Bank of Scotland. t 1 a of Scdtland r , s ,,Ow—Western Bank D of Scotland. A e e-- en Easternank of Scotland. ; "North Bank. tond kfr ies—Seuthern Bank of Scotland. cin LJanua r y, 1839. e °NT RACT for WATERING STREETS, t; n qt A ' e v e hereby given, that the COMMITTEE for PAVING, l LIGHTING the PARISHES of ST. BLOOMSBURY, st a will meet in the Vestry , Room of D' l li ett,: t B E -I rt . hc-F!'eltis, TwEsn . tY, the sth day of February I , o o l.os,Pen o clock in the rerenoon precisely, to receive IA - 6, - -- -ALS fr - oin such Person or Persons willing to CON s for WATERING, 8 r i A with proper Men, Carts, and Horses, 1 45 a9(l - ' II ES, STREETS, and PLACES usually watere d in eadparishes a list whereof, and full particulars, may be It th: n r „ d _espy of the intended Contract seen, en application Vials to ‘derles bffice, 01, Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square. of the be for three years, determinable at the option of the ter(C"'ee only, at the end of the first or second year of the oti th ecl nmencing on the 15th day of March, and terminating ir: sth (lay of October in each year. Security to the sa th:°') of the Committee will be required for the performance Per s ,;, C ontract, and the names, places of abode, &c., of the lir o ,;'',to be offered as sureties, must be delivered in with the thel: w a ' s • The Committee will not bind themselves to accept tend est Tender, and the persons sending Proposals must at trattoat the , • Vestry Room at the time of meeting. The Con °nth; t° Pay the expenses of his Contract, &c. The . Com /1,1 will find water from the pumps, and keep :hem in repair. e Contractor will receive prompt payment. By order of the Committee, .....Lisnu ir) , 17, 1 839. R. and R. F. FLN NIS, Clerks. INSANITY. THE shortening of the duration of this disease is Th e the great object in the treatment of insanity. n difference in the duration of the treatment makes the differ , IL, th e expense between the different Asylums. 4 05 a,,; most efficient Asylum is the one into which all cases of gr ea - V , curable or not curable, are admitted, and where the s AA ' t 'lumb er of patients are cured, and the smallest number die. Wi/VUEL MILLARD, RESIDENT PROPRIETOR of the PORAPTURCH LUNATIC ASYLUM, near ROSS, HERE lisit,--THIRE, receives ALL CASES of INSANITY. The Pr e ° I the friends of the patients he admits at all times without 4vuula notice. t t he Whitchurch Asylum there have been— Patients cured l4 in 36 died 2 in 36 bith - average duration of treatment for ea ch patient has been ~ero twenty-two weeks and three days. R e t e h f e or r d e . turns - a re deposited with the Clerk of the Peace , county of Extract from The Sun, Jan. 18, 1839 : "Meetin g of the Middl esex M ag i s t ra t es —County Lunatic Asy- Hire, The Report of the Visiting Justices was brought up. It gated that 325 p a ti ents h ad been admitted, that 33 were cured," ' &c. Neither the d ea th s nor t h e average durat i on of treatme n t are gated, NETTING and BUNTING for FRUIT TREES AT IRENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S MARQUEE, TENT, and RICK-CLOTH MANUFACTORY, 208, Viceadilly, opposite Air-street. Pilot Coats, Flushing, Pea, and Monkey Jackets. Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. .BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. CAUTION. th e & T. 'BETTS and Co., for the protection of th e rublie and nselve s , d eem i t expe di ent to state , t h a t their Only Establish ment b a nt for tho Pat e nt B r andy i s alio Distillery, No. 7, insithield 11 , leading to St. John-street. P a m Price 18s. Per Gallon. tt Chem ists s.,eti in 1829, under the sanction of m an y eminen n "ttl, by whom it was analysed, and declarosl to be a more p ure and ......_wholosom o spirit than the finest French Brandies. IiARFIELD'S DIAMOND PLATE POW DER, warranted not to wear the plate. It instantly clears tarnish and dirt, and magically produces in,rsst inl'Per, imitabl and e Psnak eolish s British upon Geld Plate, Si,lvZinc, er, Plad Goods, Brass, 4in ' C an te d Pewter, look as Chao as the best Silver. ~', Sold, w h o l esa l e an d reta il , at B a ll e t an d Co.'s B r iti s h Pl a t e r ectory, 41, L u d gate - street. 'sateman, Chemist to the Queen,lPoole, Manchester. No. 8, Castle street, Leicester 2 Holbrook , 115, Grafton-street, ,squar e . Du b l i n. 9.,_ . Chappell, 84, Lombard-street. Parkinson, Birmingham. Filson, 87, Fenehurch-street. Nettleship, Lincoln. Warren and Son. Carmarthen. Bloomfield, Poole, Dorset. 411 , Nevrpert, Isle of Wight. And at the Manufactor: AGENTS WANTED for N-B. —Plate Cleaned with this 92, Feneburoh-street. every Town in the Kingdom. povrder will not again tarnish REDGE'S HEAL-ALL, or celebrated Em brocation, has long been known throughout the West of gt l l'land, as the most Oho .c.otts Remedy for Rheumati sm, L um b ago, ins in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections, Ce.Ach,qi Sprains and Bruises, uises , rr ruises, Bus and Sc.,lds, Spasms an d C ramp , Sti ffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken. It is likewise an intMhble Cure fn. that dangerous disorder the Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to fail after a lew hours' application, tiserye—That none cm) be Genuine unless the. Stamp affixed to each bottle contains the name and address of Barclay and Sons, No. 95, Far t_ingdon-strect, ho have purchascti the Propot ty this valuable article from the I xecutors of the loventot Dretbze, late of Wishford, all Retail price, Is. 1i„ d, anti cr botle; and sold retail, by reel'actahle Medicine Venders in Town and Country, PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, price 6d. ATEST for the BALLOT, drawn from the Principles of Democratic Government, in a Letter to a Lib!, al Member of Parliament. James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly. LORD WESTERN ON THE CORN LAWS. Now ready, price Is., THE MAINTENANCE of the CORN-LAWS ESSENTIAL to the PROSPERITY of the EMPIRE. By LORD WESTERN. Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. Also, 1. LORD WESTERN'S PRACTICAL REMARKS on the IMPROVEMENT of GRASS LANDS. E. LORD WESTERN'S LETTER to EARL SPENCER on IMPROVING the BREED of SHEEP. Now ready, with a Portrait, 8•o., 14a. SIR JOHN BARROW'S LIFE OF LORD ANSON. 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A statement having . appeared In the Newspapers that the District Bank have written off a loss of 375,0001, in consequence of the stop. page of. two firms, Taylor, Son, and Gibson, and Brown and Powell, the latter consider it a duty they owe to themselves to put their friends in possession of the leading facts of the case, as affoc•ing them. On the Sth October, 1836, the Bank required B. and P. to furnish them In the course of the day with a statement of their affairs, and which was prepared on the instant. On that slay Brown and Powell were indebted to the Bank about 57,100/., and the Bank held securities on their freehold property, and one hundred Bank Shares, valued by Brown and Powell at 51,8601., and by the Bank at 40,0001. The. Bank on that day resolved to pay off all the outstanding accept ances and engagements, and to take the entire control of the concern out of the hands of B. and P., requiring them to devote the whole of their time and abilities, in further carrying on the business, for a remunera tion of 250/. each per annum. In February, 1837, in furtherance of the above arrangement, the firm of Brown and Powell was, by the direction of the Bank, dropped, and the new one of" The Grove Mills Co." substituted. The Bank directed that a Stock Account should be taken on the 18th August last, and it appears from it, that the amount due to the Bank from the estate on that day was Less by monies in the hands of the Bank, by payments from the Spring Vale Printing Company 38,940 12 1 Total debt £9.49,443 16 2 Deficiency 111E - Nf.—The freehold securities and Bank shares which were valued by B. and P. in 1836 at 51,8601., arc in the above ac- count estimated by the Bank in August last at 22,516/ 4s. On the 3d October last Brown and Powell were called before the general Board of Directors in Manchester, (Mr. Crossfield being the chairman;) and informed that the Bank had determined that their affairs should be wound up and closed; and subsequently B. and P. applied for their release, to which they were entitled by the conditions of the Deed of Inspection. On the 25th of October they were served with a notice that an at& davit of debt 60,0001. had been made by the Bank Manager, and filed in the Court of Bankruptcy; also embodying a demand of payment within twenty-one days, as the foundation of an act of bankruptcy. In order to prevent their being declared bankrupts, they petitioned the Court of Chancery for an injunction. • • - Upon the 13th of November last an arrangement was made at the Bank, in Manchester, by the solicitor for Brown and Powell, and the solicitor for the Bank, and respectively signed by them, to the effect, that the Bank should take possession of all that Brown and Powell had in the world, and discharge all the trade as well as the private debts, liabilities and engagements. Not Withstanding this, on the 10th of December a fiat was issued and opened on the 15th De cember; but on application to the Court of Review, it was annulled, on the ground that the agreement of the 13th of November was con clusive. In pursuance of that agreement, on the 31st December last, Brown and Powell assigned every thing they possessed in the world, and received from the Bank the release, which is conditional that it is absolutely void if Brown and Powell shall conceal and withhold any property to the amount of 501. Manchester, Jan. 211, 1839. The herring fishing is still continuing in Lochfine, and to all appearance bids fair to last the whole year round. The alteration in the construction of the nets used in the herring fishing in Lochfine now, as compared with those exclusively used a few years ago, is almost as great as the travelling by railroads is over the French diligence system of turnpike road travelling. The nets used now are draw-nets, having a large bag in the centre, and wherever the herrings make their appearance the fisherman shoots his net, and con fines the fish till the tide recedes, and the fish arc taken with very little trouble. The nets are called poaching-nets, and have attracted the attention of some of the fishery officers, who consider it a system of fishing that will prove destructive to the herring fishery. In the mean time, the fishing is prose cuted with 'great advantage by a few individuals, who have made several hundred pounds to the good since the regular fishing was finished.—Glasyow Chronicle. AN ISLE OF WIGHT CHEESE IN ANIERICA.— Sile CKING ACCIDENT, TWO MEN KILLED !!—Captain White, of the ship Potomac, on his arrival out from England, pre sented a valuable Isle of Wight Cheese to his old friend Mr. John Adams, of Vermont, who found that though it was small, it was desperately hard, for it appears that these wary Islanders secure its valuable contents from the rats with which their Island is very much troubled, by a thick coating or rind, which honest John found proof against his attempts at cutting in the common way, he therefore placed it edge ways on his breast, and taking a sti ong Bowy knife, on put ting his right hand on the handle and his left on the back near the point, he pulled with all his might, the knife slipped from the flinty surface of the cheese, cut John in halves, and also his son. a lad of eighteen, who from fear got be hind his father ! !! Vermont U. S. Gazette. A PROOF OF INSANITY.—A young man was on Monday brought before the magistrates at the Kensington Petty Sessions to be paned to Hanwell as a pauper lunatic. llk answers to questions put to him appeared rational enough, arid among others he said he disliked going to the asylum because restraint did not agree with him, and he wished for his liberty. Sir John Scott Lillie remarked upon this (ac cording to a report), that the young man's distaste to the place in question was a great proof that he was insane. Ultimately the poor fellow was sent thither. STEAM.—If the wild tribes of Lake Huron were even at this moment to be told that the white man's recipe for conquering the waves of the great lake before them was to take up a very small portion of it and boil it—if, sixty years ago, Dr. Johnson had been told (as, exhausted by a hard day's literary labour, he sat ruminating at his fire-side, waiting for his favourite beverage) that the tiny volume of white smoke he was listlessly gazing at, as it issued from the spout of his iron tea-kettle, was a power competent to rebuke the waves, and to set oven the hurricane at defiance—the red children of nature would listen to the intelligence with no greater astonishment than our venerable lexicographer would have received it On salt water as well as on fresh—reeking and fuming under the line, as well as freezing in Canada—on crowded rivers, as well as on those whose shores are desolate—on large streams as well as on small ones—in bays, harbours, friths, estuaries, and channels—on the small lakes of Ireland, Scotland, and Switzerland—on the large ones in America—on the Red Sea—on the Black Sea —on the Mediterranean—on the Baltic—in fair weather, in foul weather—in a calm as well as in a hurricane —with the current, or against it—this power, when tested, has most successfully answered the great purpose for which it was be neficently created ; and it is impossible to reflect on the thou sands of human beings who at this moment are being transported by it; it is impossible to summon before the imagination the various steamers, large and small, which, in all directions, in spite of wind and weather, are going straight as arrows to their targets, without feeling most deeply that after all there is nothing new in the discovery that " the spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters."— Quarterly Review. Yesterday morning, soon after seven o'clock, a little girl, six years old, named Jane Edwards, whose parents live in Compton street, Soho, set fire to her clothes whilst blow ing the tire during her mother's absence, and before the flames could be extinguished the girl was so severely injured that she died shortly afterwards. CORN LAWS. PUBLIC MEETING AT SHEFFIELD AGAINST THE CORN -LAWS. (From the Sheffield Iris.) Monday, pursuant to requisition, the Town Hall was crowded to excess sometime before the hour of meeting, twelve o'clock, to consider the propriety of petitioning Par liament to repeal the present Corn-laws. Mr. WILLIAM FISHER, in moving that the Master Cutler should take the Chair, said that he rejoiced exceedingly tc see so large an assemblage, and so prompt in their attendance. The motion having been seconded by Mr. STEER, The MASTER CUTLER took the Chair, and stated that his first business would be to read the requisition requesting him to call the meeting. In consequence, however, of the Chair man being oppressed with a cold, which affected his voice, Mr. Palfreyman read the requisition ; after which the Chairman spoke as follows : Gentlemen,—The requisition which you have just heard read, having been presented to me to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws, I had the greatest pleasure in complying with that request. The question of the Corn-laws is one of the greatest possible importance to a manufacturing country like ours. Ido not think that agitat ing the question of a repeal of those laws, when the price of corn was comparatively moderate, as was the case two or three years ago, would then have been attended with any beneficial result, but the time for action is now arrived, and it has been taken up in Manchester, and many other large and po pulous towns, with a spirit and a unanimity, and a deter mination, that there seems no doubt whatever of ultimate success attendiO'g their united efforts of ridding the country of those most impolitic and unjust laws. How can the ma nufacturers of this country compete with those of other countries, where provisions, on the average, cost less than one-half what they do here? Even so recently as last week, we see that the loaf of bread weighing 4 lbs. cost in Paris qd., whereas the same loaf in London costs a difference of 70 per cent. But, Gentlemen, it is notorious that for years past the disproportion in the price of bread be tween the Continent and this Island; has been considerably greater than that just stated. Gentlemen, I will not detain you, but allow me just to state that a letter addressed to the Master Cutler, by Mr. Smith. the Chairman of the Man. chester Anti-Corn-law Association, was lately received, in viting me to attend at a public dinner in the Corn Exchange there, at which many M. P.'s had signified their intention of being present. The Manchester Committee had also deemed it desirable to invite the Mayor of every commercial and ma nufacturing town in the kingdom, and requested them to bring deputies with them, that as great a display of the feeling of all those interested should be made on this important occa sion as possible, but more particularly that the Committee might have the opportunity of availing themselves of the advice of gentlemen from • different parts of the country, as to the best course to be pursued, in petitioning to be heard by counsel and evidence at the Bar of the Houses of Parlianient. Gentlemen, the Cutlers' Company being aware of the importance of the question, did me the honour to nominate me to attend the meeting ; and with your permission I will read one of the resolutions unanimously adopted on that occasion, viz. :—" That this meeting cannot separate without expressing its deep sympathy with the pre sent privations of that great and valuable class of their coun trymen who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow —so many of whom are now suffering from hunger in tke midst of boundless fields of employment, rendered unproduc tive solely by those unjustrlaws which pa event the exchange of the products of their industry for the food of other countries. So long as a plentiful supply of the first necessaries of life is defied by Acts of the British Legislature to the great body of the nation, so long will the Government and the country be justly exposed to all the evils resulting from the discontent of the people. With a view to avert so great a danger by an act of universal justice, this meeting pledges itself to a united, energetic, and persevering effort for the total and immediate repeal of all laws affecting the free importation of grain." In conclusion, I would adopt the declaration made by one of the speakers in his address at Manchester, viz., that all we require is—.. Free trade, a fair field, and no favour."—( Cheers.) During the above address, and the reading of the resolution, several persons in the body of the Hall cried out for an adjourn ment; which was opposed by others who had been so fortu nate as to obtain good seats and standing places. Mr. PAL FREYMAN, for the Chairman, said two letters had been received, one from H. G. Ward, Esq., and the other from John Parker, Esq., the Members for Sheffield ; the former, having been already published, it was not necessary to read, and of the latter the following is a copy : " Dear Sir—l am sorry:that I cannot attend your meeting on Monday, the 28th inst. But I regret it the less from know ing that arguments and speakers cannot be wanting in a borough which has so long felt, and which, from the nature of its trade, has had so much reason to feel, the pressure of the Corn-laws. " For myself, having voted during the last six years for the several motions on this subject, which have successively been brought before the [louse of Commons, by Messrs. 'Whitmore, Clay, and Villiers, I have nothing new to say upon the subject, except to express my satisfaction that the great manu facturing community, of which Manchester is the centre, and Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Sheffield the most consi derable outposts, have at length taken up the question, beyond all others the most important, both as relates to the internal tranquillity, and foreign connections of the country. " It is a question in which commercial men of all parties can fairly and honourably join —one, too, in which a minority of the landed proprietors, who see that their true interests consist in dealing fairly with that commerce which enriches them be. yond the landowners of any country upon earth, will give us their support. But we must not deceive ourselves with the idea, that the struggle will be easy, or the burden light. It is ono, not against an oligarchy, as was the case with the Re. form Bill, but against a class, which consists of small as well as large proprietors, many of whom erroneously believe that the value of their property is at stake, and who will exert all the influence in their power by tneans of the counties and small towns, in the Legislature, against our claims. " It has so lon g --been the fashion in this country, favoured by the whole course of our legislation, to consider land as regu lated by other principles than those of trade, that out of the commercial districts it is not easy to find many who have ar rived at correct views of the subject, you will, therefore, have to apply yourselves in your subsequent proceedings to this portion of the difficulty, and by commingling each mass of facts with those about to be adduced from other seats of trade, you must give your case the character and dignity of one emphatically national'—and powerful as the landed inte rest is, both in the House of Commons and the Lords, I can not persuade myself, if a proper interval of preparation is al lowed to exist, and sufficient means are taken to inform the nation generally, both as to its hearing on our social condition here, our commercial relations with other countries, and last not least, when the real incubus is dragged out to public view, against which our diplomacy in vain struggles, when it has to combat the retaliatory measures of other States, am unwil ling to believe that common sense and justice will not have the same triumphs in this, as practically we have found to be the case in past struggles between freedom a n d mono p ol y. -- myrespectfulcompliments to the meeting , believe me, . V yours th very faithfully, «J. PARKER. " Treasury Chambers, Jan. 26, 1839. " To Luke Palfreyman. Esq." During the reading of the above letter , the cries for an ad journment were renewed ; severa l c a ll ing out that there were numbers in the passages wa iting for admittance. In o r der to obtain a decision on the subject , t h e Chairman put the ques tion fairly to the meeting ; and on a s h ow o f h an d s b e i ng taken, there appeared a majority in favou r o f rema i n i ng i n t h e Hall. This did not appear to give general satisfaction, and a second show of hands was taken, when the numbers certainly appeared to be more equal. The noise beginning to increase, it was thought best at once to adjourn, and the assemblage accordingly proceeded to PARADISE - SQUARE. There, in the course of a few moments, a dense crowd had assembled, which d to increase co ntinu duri ng th e mee ti ng; the speakers and others taking their station on the steps of the Freemasons' Hall. The number assembled might be esti mated at about 8,000. Mr. PALFREYMAN commenced by re -reading Mr. Parker's letter, as above ; after which WM. IBBOTSON, Esq., came forward to address the meet ing. He said he came to move the first resolution. He was sorry it had fallen to his lot to do so ; but he was one who never flinched front that which his friends imposed on him in cases like this. He should, therefore, without further pre face, read the resolution.—( See another column.) Some speakers presented themselves before a meeting with an end less command of beautiful expression, but a want of matter ; but he presented himself before them to-day without very great display or command of words, but his difficulty arose from an abundance of matter. He had, in fact, so much, that he scarcely knew where to begin, or how • to com press. Could he convey to them with his lips what were the feelings of his heart, they would find that horror, indig nation, and sympathy were commingled in his breast, when he thought on such a subject as the Corn-laws; horror to think that our glorious Constitution admitted of such a flagrant violation of our rights as Britons, and that by a paltry monopoly of eating idlers—of indignation, when he witnessed men, calling themselves respectable, who, for the sake of personal aggrandizement, could sacri fice the best interests of their country—and of sym pathy, when he saw the millions of fellow-men who were de prived of the necessaries and comforts of life by such a princi ple. He would only ask, what had they to expect from land owners ? On Saturday last he received a letter from an old friend of theirs, Mr. Buckingham.—( Cheers.) And it so happened that Mr. Buckingham gave his opinion on this ver) subject, and said, " I agree with you that the Radicals should have taken up the Corn-laws as one great question, and they would thus have carried a much greater force with them. If you carry the Commons, the Lords will still ' have to be moved ; and I consider them so blind and selfish, that I see no hope for that by ordinary means. Nothing but fear to lose their all will induce them to relinquish any portion of their gain; and, therefore, such agitation as will bring us to the brink of a revolution, without actually causing one, will alone move the Lords." This was the opinion of a man whom they respected, and who deserved their respect; and all the use he had now to make of it was to urge them to the necessity of doing their utmost to save the country. If they wanted to learn what the landowners were, let them look at what they had done. They were well aware that during the last twenty years of peace the landowners' servants, the tenants, and labourers, had been in a state of almost unparalleled suffering; and they were aware that a few solitary instances had occurred where ten or fif teen per cent. had been allowed on the rents, which had been exhibited in the newspapers, hut merely as exceptions, not rules. Then what was the condition of the tenants and labourers for the last twenty years ? why, for many years . the landlords had been declaring that they could not under stand what it was that produced agricultural distress; and they would also be aware that allusions to such distress had appeared in the King's speech, and Committees had been appointed to consider what was the cause of it, so as to take steps to remove the evil. Now in 1835 there was a pe tition presented to the House, among many others, praying that the Members would stop the supplies unless Government granted relief to the agriculturists; and in 1836, a Noble Lord came forward and proposed that the agriculturists should be relieved from taxes. In other words that they of Sheffield should contribute their mite towards relieving his servants.—( Hear, hear, hear, and cries of " Good lad.") He ( Mr. Ibbotson) felt so indignant, twelve years ago, at hearing the landlords talking on the subject, and declaring that they could not understand the cause of the distress, that he subsequently wrote a pamphlet, in which he told them that it was neither more nor less than high rents, and if they would only lower them to what they were in 1793, it would be presently cured. In that work he intro duced Ireland, hazing visited that country twenty years ago, and having found from inquiry and examination that the fault was nothing but the landlord eating up all that there was, and his taking to himself the fruits of the earth, and leaving the poor tenant, like the mole, to live on the roots. In 1833 he sent his pamphlet to many alembers of the two Houses ; but few condescended to notice it, but either forgot or put it away, I perhaps into the fire, when they saw it stated that high rents were the cause of the distress, according to his doctrine. However, in the Session of 1836, they got a Committee of Inquiry into the cause of the distress ; and it would never have been known what that Committee had learnt by their inquiry, and by the evidence brought before it, bad it not been for party strife, and this he thought was one of the very few instances where party spirit had done any good. But in this case, owing to party spirit, it came out that the evidence which had been given only proved that high rents were the cause of the distress.--( Cheers.) After the treatment that the tenants and labourers had experienced from the landlords, he was sure they bad no right to expect that reason would produce much effect upon them ; and be therefore quite agreed with Mr. Buckingham that nothing but fear would move them. Not that he should recommend that they should take the sword, except it were the sword of the spirit and sword of truth. They did not make swords there ; and he rejoiced to think that they broke them into pruning hooks. But they had a moral power there, which, on being exercised on any subject, produced the expected effect. All they had to do was to come forward in support of the great cause ; and I-e was quite sure that if the people of Sheffield did their best, it would have an effect on other towns? and if those other towns acted in concert, a mighty result would be the consequence. Was it just that the landowners should have a monopoly in corn ?—( No, no.) At the peace in 1315, they dis covered that it was just ; and he ( Mr. Ibbotson) would ac knowledge that he was then misled by the arguments. But he had since learnt, by fearful punishments, that it was a sad mistake. He had learnt by carefully studying the subject, that it was a great delusion, and he was now convinced that it was so. The landowners, because of the National Debt, wanted a duty on the importation of grain. Now some years ago he had calculated that the people of the manufacturing towns paid by far the larger proportion of the National Debt ; and that, therefore, any protection which was to be given ought to be given to the manufacturers. In other words, that they ought to have a premium on their exportations. Mr. Ib botson here alluded to the able speech made by Mr. Johnson, at Manchester, who said that he had 1,700 persons in his em ploy, and that they paid to Government the sum of 8,4671. 10s. per annum. He also said that he was the owner of land pro ducing 1,0001. per annum ; and reckoning forty persons upon it at the same rate, it would show 1701. paid to Govern ment per annum. Now his (Mr. Ibbotson's) little manu factory, at the Globe Works, was upon three acres of land, which, if well worked, would pay to Government more revenue than some of our noblemen's whole estates. Ho wished them to understand and consider this. From the ar guments he had adduced he thought they must perceive that there was no need whatever for a protecting duty on corn ; and he was sure that if it were unnecessary it was also im politic. The landowner must remember that we cannot im port from abroad a quarter of wheat but it costs 14s. ; and surely that was a protection for him, without requiring a pro tection of 205., or, in other words, 20,000,0001. a-year in fa vour of corn. This was unjust and impolitic. He had a few days since received a letter from a foreign country, in which the writer said that the native manufacturers were fast super seding English goods, and that cheap goods would not regain it ; it was only the quality that could save us, and then they would be too dear. Now, if this were true, they must consider themselves as fairly cut out. What would be the effect if all those who were working for foreign markets were to leave the country? Why it would be that we mightsend the corn after them. And the landlords must know that the trade of England was fast going to foreign countries • and that this would soon be our doom unless the Corn-laws were crushed. He was himself a corn-grower ; and as a corn-grower he would tell them fearlessly that this country could grow corn with any country in the world, if they were only allowed to take it as it was grown. Suppose, now, that every man present had his wages increased is. per week, what would they spend the money in? Why in agricultural produce to be sure, either for the belly or the back. Twenty million people at ls. per head was fifty-two millions a year, and he had calculated that to get corn for the demand it would require ten thousand ships to bring it from different parts of the world, and sixty thousand seamen. Were they ever likely to get it ?—( Cries of " Yes, yes.") He wished they might. He never took up a religious subject but as a religious man ; he thought this was a religious questioe, for the Almighty had declared that the greatest temporal blessing he could bestow was an abundance of corn, and wine, and oil.—(Hear, hear.) The Duke of Wellington told them ten years ago, that he considered the cause of the agricultural distress was owing to three or four good harvests ; and so the poor crea tures were starved because they had too much.—(A laugh.) He would close his remarks by giving some quotations from a man who he knew many would respect ; he meant the late Dr. Adam Clarke, a pious and learned man. That gentle man said in his comments upon the Scriptures :—" We can never bring ourselves to believe that the bread on which alone mankind can subsist is a commodity of which any go. vernment have a right to make merchandize ; and in its pas sage from the hand of the subject to his mouth, to seize hold of a large portion for themselves and their retainers." Another quotation from the same Learned Doctor was the following, being a commentupon Proverbs xi. 26. "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him." " Yes," said the Learned Doctor, "and GOD shall curse him also; and this curse shall be a canker in his money during time, and a canker in his soul during eternity." Mr. EBENEZER ELLIOTT said,—Master Cutler and Fellow townsmen,—Poor dupes of palaced thieves ! If Corn-laws are good for farmers, why don't they keep them to them. selves? Why nut confine them to the agricultural districts, and let the manufacturing districts have a separate legislature ? Let the farmers keep their Corn-laws, by all means ; but let London, South Wales, the West Riding of Yorkshire, the county of Lancaster, and the district of Glasgow, buy food with their goods where they can buy it cheare,t, (that is to say, not of the British farmer), and I will venture to say, that before the end of three months, every landlcri in the nation will demand a repeal of the Corn-laws. So much for their justice. If Corn-laws are blessings to man u f a ctures, how happens it that you, who maintain twice your number of agriculturists, are in danger of starvation ? Oh, you have not land enough. Perhaps not ; but if you had no land but what you stand on, if England were a barren rock, or covered with paving stones, you ought not to be in danger of starving, while yon have goods to offer for foreign food—as I will now prove. The territory of Hamburgh, twelve miles square, furnishes only three quarters of an acre to each of its inhabitants, and they have only two means of living, namely, horticulture arid commerce, yet there is little poverty in Ham burgh, only casual poor, chiefly foreigners ; while here, though our territory furnishes three acres to each individual, and though you have four means of living, namely, horticulture, agriculture, commerce, and the greatest manufactures in the world —constantly increasing poverty and crime cover the country from sea to sea.----( Hear, hear.) What is the cause of this difference ? Want of land cannot be the cause, and want of industry cannot. The cause is bad Legislation ; and we are met to enquire, whether you are to hove fair play, or die like flies ?—" To be, or not to be, that is the question."— (Cheers ) lam old enough to remember, when the duty on foreign wheat was 6d. per quarter, and the average price 555. Nobody then, called the landlords palaced thieves, but agri culture and trade flourished together, as they have never done since, and may never do again ; for, thanks to the Corn-laws, twenty-three years of peace have converted ur customers into r i va ls. When I came to Sheffield, about twenty years ago. you had no rivals, for the prohibitory Corn-laws were only commencing their operation. Your cutlery was ~t hen the best in the world—it was made of "GL steel ; but the pressure of those laws, in a few years of peace, forced you to use worse materials, steel made of Grid, or St, , enboek ; then you came down to " S," then to " CCND,, then to common Swedes, then to British ; and now you can hardly sell a pair of scissors unless you make them of sotv.metal.— (Laughter.) Don't you think your rivals will soon make the sow-metal? The Germans, I am told, are making mill-saws of good steel, for half the price of yours, made of Low Moor Slab. -As the cotton-spinners are sending abroad the best _thread and the worst cloth, so you are sending abroad the best steel and the worst goods.—( Hear.) Don't you think your rivals will soon make the steel ? They must do ao ; the Corn laws tempt them, force them to do so ; tempt them, by raising the price of your food, and lowering theirs ; force them, by refusing to take their food for your goods, while you want the food, and they the goods. Your merchants, it is said—like so many owls, staring from an empty barn, after the very mice have begun to eat one another—arc beginning to open their eyes, the wisest eyes that ever peeped. A Mr. Quick quart, I think they call him—a sort of a half-bred, seem ingly, something between a cock lawyer and a general— ( Laughter)—has been persuading them that effects are causes ; so, with the philosophic Thomas Deakin at their head, they have determined to establish a Chamber of Commerce, on the good old John Bull principle, of lockirg the stable door after the horse is stolen.—(Cheers.) Let them knock their thick heads together by all ineans—sparks of some sort will come out of them ; but if they don't make haste, " a closet of com merce, a cupboard of commerce, a band-box of commerce. will be big enough to hold your transactions." So said the ruined merchants of Holland to Napoleon, in similar circumstances. " Your blood is water," replied the insolent tyrant ! ignorant that, under the frown of God, his Berlin and Milan decrees, which had ruined Holland, were about to hurl him from his throne into that famous grave, which ought to be for ever a beacon, warning all nations of the fatal tendency of restric tions on trade.—( Hear ' hear.) Like Buonaparte's Bernal and Milan Decrees, Lord John Russell's landed awn-. dancy is based on the public ruin : so was that of the French nobles before the Revolution ; is Lord John Russell prepared for the consequences ? After a sufficient number of Frenchmen had been starved or killed, the remainder seized the land : by the revolution they won their country : they were a nation of beggars, they arc now a nation of free holders.—( Hear, hear.) I shall never despair of my country while the madmen who deny you freedom of trade allow you freedom of mind. Some of you will see better days. But if you wait till two-thirds of you die of starvation, though the remainder may become landowners, as in France, will that circumstance raise the dead ? Can it meal to life the myriads of unfortunate beings who in the meantime must perish ? It cannot. Why, then, do you endure laws which exist only to ruin tenants—to convert customers into rivals—to drive out of the country pell-mell the men and the capital that you cannot spare—and to pamper in wickedness the very men whom you could best spare, 30,000 insolent, ignorant, utterly useless, all-destruc tive land annuitants?—(Cheers.) What are landlords but annuitants ? Who does not know that when an annuitant dies there is a merry funeral ? And who can be ignorant, that if farmers had no rent to pay, they would be so much the more able to improve the land ? Now God made the land, and the farmer the improvements. Yet the landlords convert their property into a curse to all mankind, and seem resolved to force you, in the extremity of hunger, to devour them alive. They have only left you two other alternatives— to sweep away the whole food monopoly, with all other mono polies, or perish. They wish, and they intend, by a fixed duty (,0 says Lord John Russell) to lower you gently down to Irish fare, and Irish insecurity—for, thank God, these things mean each other I—(Hear, hear.) But they cannot do it gently. Neither the New Poor-law, nor the old one, will enable them to do it. If the Corn-laws destroy your trade, all the work houses in the land will not bold the tenth part of the tithe of the applicants for admission, and there will be no rate-payers I You will die by tens of thousands, not in your beds, but in the streets—bowling and grinding your teeth like wild beasts— beneath clenched hands and glaring eyes—amid the shrieks and groans of horror and despair.—( Hear.) Yet you listen to men who tell you that when food is dear wages rise, and that when food is cheap wages fall. But what do your bellies say ? Have you found it so ? Three sears ago bread was Is. 61. a stone. Were your wages low then ? No, never higher. Now bread is 3s. a stone. Have your wages dou bled? No, they are sinking. Listen, then, if you will, to men who tell you that a sixpence is better than a shilling, but you cannot listen long, for famine is in the pantry—death is at the door—by and by Saturday will bring no wages—" and the wages of the poor are his life," says a book which I fear is sel dom read either by the landlords or their parsons.—( Hear.) In conclusion, if I might advise you, I would say carry tilt: war into the territories of the enemy. Consent to no fixed duty on corn—to no slow fall to potatoe-peel—but sweep away the whole food monopoly, with all other monopolies, and then demand a tax of fifty per cent. on the rent of land for ever ; because the food monopoly has cost you more than the land is worth, and you have a right to repay ment—because it is high time that landlords began to pay taxes—because if you force them to bear a fair share of the burdens they have imposed, they will all turn Radicals, the best Reformers that the world ever saw ; " for lions," your friend Bywater says, " always roar loudest when they are clamming"—(Laughter)—and if you go a little beyond justice, which I don't advise, the Prince of Paupers, Chando% himself, will write odes in praise of Colonel Thompson.— . . (Cheers.) In the meantime your choice is free trade or ruin. Let it not be recorded in history, that the Reform Bill was a fatal mockery, passed by the Nobles to prevent a convulsion, which they rendered inevitable by postponing justice. Re member that you have nothing but mischief to expect from Government ; Lord John Russell having declared for a fixed duty, which signifies—workhouses without rate-payers. What a clever fellow he must be then. I second the motion, though it does not propose a tax on , rent.—( Cheering. ) Mr. ISAAC IRONSIDES rose to move an amendment. the men tion of which was received with some expressions of disappro bation. He said that the object of his amendment was more effectually to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest. number. He had examined the speeches of the gentlemen who. commenced this agitation at Manchester, and found that they all complained of the loss of their own profits, and not of the dis tress of the people. So long as they could obtain a profit by screwing down the wages of their work people, they were silent, but now they cried out. He argued that the labouring classes on the Continent were worse off than the British operatives, and the cause was, that they had less political power, and that to prevent any advantage being taken of the repeal of the Corn-law to deprive the working classes of the benefits it ought to ensure to them, Universal Suffrage ought first to be obtained. He moved an amendment to the effect— " That the Corn-laws were one of the fruits of the legislation of landowners, and that the people could not expect to reap , the benefit of the repeal, unless they also obtained Universal Suffrage." Mr. GILL (the person nominated by the Chartists of Shef field to be their Delegate at the National Convention), se conded the amendment, and contended, that unless Universal Suffrage were obtained before the repeal of the Corn-laws, the labouring classes would be deprived of all its benefits by the application of machinery, and by the monetary monopoly, which, be contended, taxed the people to the extent of fifty millions a year. He urged that the property of the country ought to bear all the burdens, leaving industry unshackled. Colonel Tnomesors was received with cheers, and said—. Mr. Master Cutler, and fellow-countrymen, I came here with great pleasure from knowing that I had to present myself before men whom I have always earnestly endeavoured to assist.. I presumed that I should see none here but friends.—( Cheers. ) I am further delighted to think that I stand in the place wbic.h sent to Parliament that able and worthy man, your la.te Member, Mr. Buckingham—(Cheers)—with whom I have been joined in some Parliamentary efforts which I will not detain you by detailing here, but which give groat joy to my heart whenever my memory recurs to them. Had he been here now, no man would have been more earnest to give you his services in the way of advice, and most particularly in pro moting union on this moat important occasion. —( Cheers.) You will bear with me if I say that I come here in some degree in the character of a mediator. I find two opinions, when I was anxious to have seen but one. Will you indulge me in endeavouring to examine how far they may seriously clash, and in endeavouring to discover some course on which we may be agreed. Allow me, as a man who has la boured much on this subject, to endeavour to give you a plain exposition of what I consider to be the state of the question. Supposing it were proposed to you that your town should be surrounded with a wall of brass, in order to cut off communi cation with the surrounding country from which you procure corn, and to confine you to the produce of the ground which might be within your walls. Something like that is the case now, and if you will try the various questions of your present position by the case I have supposed, you will find it useful to direct you. lam aware of arguments that have been addressed to the working classes on this subject, which I am happy to say I have seen no symptom of the appearance of 'here, and cherish the hope that you have got beyond those fallacies. One of them is, that if the price of corn falls, wages will fall with it. Now to a certain extent this is true ; they will fall; but the grand question is, will they fall in an equal proportion? I shall endea vour to prove that they will not. Supposing the town were walled in, and sonic person should say, " Shut the gates, and keep them close, that the price of corn may rise." Is there a head. I so thick as not to perceive that if the corn becomes dearer, it is because there is less of it? And if there be less of it, hem can wages rise so as to give you the same quantity out of the half as out of the whole? In like manner, if it should be said that if we open the gates corn would fall, and that wages would fall too ; the answer is, that corn would fall because there was more corn to be sold. It must either remain un eaten, or the working classes must obtain more corn or more Power of buying it than before. If there be any other fallacy, try it in the same manner. Mention has been made of taxa tion and the national debt. Suppose any imaginable amount of taxation in the walled up town, arising from a lowa debt or other cause, would anybody recommend closing the gates and shutting out corn to mend it? I am glad to suppose that these fallacies arc disposed of,, and that we are not called upon to meet objections on these grounds. Yet other reasons have been urged to keep tee working classes from uniting on this subject. One of these is that the ag itation against the Corn - l aws is a Whi g plot. I ace reason for doubting that ; especially, as during the last week, the Whig Minister has declared for a fixed duty. The Whigs then are against us, and we against them. Is it then probable that they made the plot? I think we need hear no more of that. I surmise that your affection for the political party that goes by that name, may not be great; mine I as. sure you is small. Will you, then, having seen it proved to demonstt ation, that the agitation against the Corn-laws is not a Whig plot, will you side with the Whigs, or give the prefer ence to us? For these two reasons I urge a general union, but I have a weightier matter behind. lam anxious for an Exten sion of the Suffrage.—(Cheers.) On that point let there be no mistake. If I might be allowed to speak of myself, perhaps it would be found that I was among the first, if not the very first, in these latter times, to lay down point edly and clearly the principle on which the working classes were bound to maintain their right to Universal Suffrage (Cheers.) I do not ask you to check your desires; but only to take the most reasonable way by which their attainment UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, VOTE BY BALLOT, ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS. 17 HE CHAR TIS T, A CHEAP PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, STAMPED, The Size of the Larger Daily Journals. Price Two-pence Halfpenny. Published, in Town and Country, every Saturday Morning. 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