The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-04 00:00:00

PVITSTN'G ETITTTOW. :1 e ; ,more objectionable, namely, that by which the Re. Of Dublin was still permitted to retain his seat 11:idnal House. H e h a d no o bj ect i on to allow that Hon. Learn e d G entleman to enjoy that privilege, but he h oped v th e Noble Lord would introduce a provi;o topre eat any futur-a Recorder of D u bli n f rom h av i ng a sea t i that House. Mr. ROCHE eutertained very considerable doubts Whether the Bill, as it now stood, ought not to be re- Jeet ed by-that House. h GRATTAN moved that the House disagree owlitlretlhaenda-Tleieudment taking from the Lord Lieutenant p . power of appointing the holding of Ses sions i n nublintheLord MORPETH did not see any good reason for amendment, but acting in the spirit of peace he hoped bi T g Hon. F r i en d wou ld not press hi s mot i on . 'he B;11 would be tried, and if in the case of Dublin it was , fouran that the state of the gaols in that city re quired it, it would become the duty of the Government t .,`", ask th e P arliament to legislate for that case alone. uPon such an understanding he hoped his Hon. Friend would allow the Bill to although he maintained Ills ow n opinions. proceed , a R;Celonel PERCEVAL defended the character of the gilt Hon. the Recorder of Dublin. It' he was to be excluded from Parliament, let them take the manly ti:Ourse indicated by the Noble Lord, and not exclude „, lr a by a side-wind: as the clause as it originally stood " a uk! have done. He was only sorry that the amend ments made by the other House wore not more extensive. Lord JOHN RUSSELL disavowed that there was anY intention to exclude Mr. Shaw from the House When the Clause in question was originally framed. The 4° Putation h a d falla.n not only from the Hon. and Vlant M em b er, b ut f rom a man the most eminent of *u° Present day. He was glad to have the opportunity of altogether disclaiming the imputation. His opinion as to th e s i tt i ng of the Judges in that House was well k nown ; he thought it was a great loss to the House. gut when they had excluded one Judge by Act of 'olianient was it consistent to turn round and say, be ;4aBo an Hon. Member sruks for and acts with a par 'e'aar party the House would not care for the manner ' ll which his judicial functions were performed ?—( Hear, hear.) The ease must again become matter for the consideration o' the House. Mr•GRAWAN withdrew his motion, and the Lords' amendment was agreed to. The other amendments were amended, and a Com mittee named to draw up reasons for their dissent from some of the amendments of the Lords. The Report of the Dublin Police Bill was brought up. WAYS AND MEANS. T:re. Order o f the D ,, y for going i nto a C omm i ttee of Ways an d M eans having been read. AA , LION BY rose to b ring forwar d hi s mot i on a l?! an a dd ress to her Majesty on the subject of' e oegation t contained in the petition of Mr. c Fcargus th OConnor. I.;10._uJI:11. RUSSELL suggested that the Hon lem her should whs o Postpo his motion till Wednesday next, i e ' l , l PPortututy should be afforded him for bring n. torment. :The motion w as t h en postponed till Wednes d ay. eer L ta o i r n d sA N.DoN then rose to state the case of Polish refugees who had lately come into that e l 4 trY• Th e H ouse was aware that many of these ;tohr:jur unite individ ua l s h a d come to t h at coun t r y, no t th e own good will, b ut h a d b ean d r i ven th e re by persecution of another Government. In 1834, a :alter f f 10,0004 was passed by that House for the —4 " oabout 466 P o li s h refugees. I n t h e f o ll ow i ng Year the number was 476 ; and in the following year sh was 462. Th e events of Cracow, in 1837, ra i sed e number of Polish refugees very considerably, and parliament and the country exercised its liberality by raisi r ig the gra n t t o 15 , 00 0 1 ., an d i ncrease d t h e num b er f hPensi oners to 6 46. S ince then upwar d s o f 160 ad left the country or died, and what he asked of theß „'"i'ict Hon. Gentleman ' was, that he would allow 52 tile unfortunate men, who were now in a state of starvation in that country, without any means of sup !on, to be placed upon the li s t, being in the propor so" of one to every t h ree w h o h a d d rop p e d o ff. Th e .tight Hon. Gentleman bad taken a vote of 13,000/. f ar the present year, and he did not ask him to increase t he amount of that vote, but to allow these 52 unfor tunate individuals to avail themselves of the benevo lence of Parliament and of the country. He trusted 1 . 6 House w ou ld sa nction his RightHon.Fnin, to of t Friend in departi ng f rom the resolution fresh that had been n L °t. Piecing up on the any 'ad been agreed to. He had no personal interest in t he matter, but he thought it was a case in which the 1.4,er Ilt . of-a British House of Commons might . be tairly xe ercis , d. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 'lid if a certain number of persons were added to the l ist the na tur a l co nsequence would be to increase the t4 Pcnse, and he,was not prepared to do that without A !he sanction of a vote of the House. vote had been t aken with the understanding that it would be applied t a the relief of a certain number of persons, and it Wo uld be a breach of faith to add a certain number of el • t a tunnta upon that score. in 1834 a vote was taken, "tlit was distinctly stated that it would be only for one : `,;7* The application was renewed the following year, vertai n number of persons were stated as being pensioners upon the grant. In 1838 the House was a gain called upon, and gave way for the purpose of ad mitting the C racow re f ugees . I t was now as k e d to that an additional number, and it appeared to him hilt it atv really necessary ' that the line should be h a somewhere or these applications would never that 5,1 end.—(Hear, hear.) He had no doubt at other means would be found by appealing the benevolence of the public to afford assistance to these unfortunate men. The Noble Lord had w -r the d Is the vote a miserable sum, but he really thought ...men' the vote was now a permanent tax upon the c fi o n u an n : t "Y and considering the heavy claims upon their es 'thet he would not be justified in sanctioning any furtheru grant. zJia.rLA cIaimsNGuDALE thought the Poles had very tie tomport thepo ra n o t t h io a n t . country, and he should cer t; air, DIJNCOMBE said he had presented peti i the rem several Poles of distinction, who stated that . tl • c ! had been struck off the list for their political opt ar,Lns' He believed that there had been a very unfair wrilt?°Priation of the funds by some parties connected iiitrinidurnoptatphioetrtteLneintietryary Association of Poland, and if ho had it was his intention to have moved for a r t s aoedinary of I nqu i ry upon t h e su bj ect. Th ese men committed no cr i me , an d h e t h oug ht it mos t ex that th e y s h ou ld h ave b een s t ruc k o ff th e Irt th without investigation. He trusted the Chancellor eu e t e lebequer wou ld t urn hi s a ttention to the jeet. d e The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER un of;')ed that the rattles of these parties had been struck !" Misconduct. Seven had been struck off for polvl4 presented forged passports, and one for writing ennirtieal articles of a very inflammatory description, not re,4 e ted with Poland. As they bad all been recom to eh ed bo r nhe Society in question, he could not object _ e r ir Mr. g struck eff by that A ' ssociation.—(Hear.) d 4 , 4 • B RISCOE said that if the Noble Lord had e le4 f or an increase of the grant, he would have felt n a r u i d to oppose it. But he understood the Noble e to state that there was an actual surplus of the grant ah eadeasi nn _;i made this year—that this snrplus was cc the e " by a reduction of the number for whose relief ethe a „ nt ,wae made—and that there were a number of th e i r " 'vat) had come to this country utterly against s uch will. and were actually starving in our streets. In n et a cage, surely, the Right Hon. Gentleman would to jinfuse, when he had considered the case, to afford that 'se men soma relief, from the surplus of the money si t ai , e ,atlY been voted. 1 4 0 F R ANCIS BURDETT (who was evidently eredarmi: under severe illness) thought it would be dis til, r , lt4 ble to the country if, under the circumstances, sal ted "Im/eminent should refuse to give the assistance b y t for to those men who had distinguished themselves a' tile most noble conduct. He hoped the Chancellor t h e b e 1 0 .1 . - 'sehequer would reflect that much more would P e r u ! It In char ac t er t h an cou ld b e save d i n money , by eb o si ng the miserable pittance which was required for li o se fi fty brav e an d su ff er i ng men—espec i a ll y w h en t h e 01 use had already voted more than was required for e k t'urPose tt,;; r • ROBERT GORDON said he did not think yeti that sum of 78,0001. which had been given for the ta n _ of the Refugees could be called a miserable p.it a,.2;!: He would ask the Hon. Member for Wiltshire the the grant to be perpetual ? Would it be said that i t m e e lpieo a is tont was always to be kept up ? It was . quite i oerea %le, on account of the conditions upon which the of the grant was voted by the House, that the by r<quired for these fifty persons could be granted Lae Government without a fresh vote of the House. give n . SANDON in reply observed that the sum wor ' c L to each Pol e cou ld only be designated, as in the a raise° tablhie ll Hon. F r i en d the Member for Wiltshire, as Th _ pit tance. wan conversation then dropped, and the Committee Tr and Mean s was postponed to Wednesday. "q nether Orders of th e D ay were t h en di spose d o f, use adjourned at Half-past Nine o'Olock. I/ -.:oltor\lElt'S IN QUEST.--SUDDEN DEATH.— iSesterday an innuest was held at the Workhouse, Parish-street, lt. ()lave's, before Mr. Payne, on the body of Thomas t p ear ", aged 36. The deceased was discharged from the ne . _ ancras Infirmary, on the 17;h of July, having been there m A At' eIL ri ot lik, h Th omas's Hospital, and seas admitted on the ground that f ,,_ had stricture of the urethra. This statement proved to be . ,`,.'e and beinn, afflicted with the itch, a com_plaint nor, IT ?"3ved into t he ' hospital, he was discharged. Ile was pubse ,iiNenattluyrtaalken to the abo7e workhouse, but at five o'clock the '.ext. morning he was found in his bed quite clead.—Verdict, Death." 13RITISH N A VY.--It will be consolatory to our r- k , e t ti a r t .r 3 at t e o s ) know, that independent of the three flag-ships which might be manned from the ordinaries, and 'ea in a week,nay in twenty-four hours, were the occasion Zgh`l!'gent, we have now—five first-rates, one second rate, and e, third -rates, in all fourteen sail of the line, and about a 7 , 1, On heavy frigates, with every article of their furniture o(ltlarrnarnent provided. These w , th the ships in comuli§- th_ are sufficient of themselves to give a,good account of all "e navy France ,possesses afloat —Aiwa/ and Mditar,y Garotte DINNER TO MESSRS. LOVETT AND COLLINS. A dinner was given !o Alvsrs Lovett and Collins yes terday, at White Conduit I - I,use, for the purpose of con. gratulating them on their release From their imprisonment in Warviick Gaol. Tire Chair was takes by THOMAS WAKI.EY, Esq., M.P., on his sight sat Mr. Lovett, whose apoearance showed that his health had been greatly injured by the confinement and treatment he had undergone, and on the left of the Chair was Mr. Collins, who, though much thinner than before his confinement, did not appear to have suffered so severely from it as Lovett. Mrs. Lovett and her daughter were also present, as was Mr. Thomas Dun combo, M. P. for Finsbury, to whose great exertions in their cause were to be attributed, in a great degree, the abatement of the rigours of their confinement. Upwards of 1,200 persons sat down to a most excellent and substantial repast. The entry of Love' t and Collins was hailed with the most enthusiastic cheering and affectionate demonstration of respect and esteem, the ardour of which was, however, damped by the evidently ill state of health and acute suffering of the former. The dinner having been des patched, and the cloth removed, Mr. WAKLEY proposed the first toast, and was received with the most enthusiastic applause. It was a great gratification to him to pronounce the word Ladies in addressing a public meeting in thia country. He deeply re gretted that they were not more frequently present to grace and ornwent, and soften, their proceedings. He knew not why they should be exeludr I from such assemblies, as he knew whenever they happened to be present they cast greater pleasure and happiness upon the cause they were met to advocate. He was proud to see them there, be cause in a meeting of the Aristocracy they would not dare entrust their wives and daughters among them. On an other occasion of this kind he would invite the Aristocracy to come there and see how they conducted themselves. There was nothing among working men so rude or ill. be hayed as to render it necessary to exclude females.— (Cheers.) The business of the meeting at the present moment was not an idle and useless ceremony ; they had not come there as a mere matter of form to attend a public festival, but for the execution of a solemn national duty. which was divided into two parts—First, To pay their re spects to men who have sincerely advocated the i r cause, and had been martyrs to it.—( Cheers ) Secondly, To hold out to the British people an example in these persons, which was evr,rthy of imitation —( Cheers.) The first toast he had to propose was one which related particularly to themselves. It was one in which ail felt a deep inte rest, for, in point of fact, it was the toast of the people. —( Cheers.) That was a fitting toast for such a meeting as the present, and one which, at all meeting- of English men, ought to be drunk with enthusiasm.—( Cheers.) It was not the t,ast of party or faction ; it was not the toast that embraced only the section of the empire, but it compre hended the entire nation. If they assembled to advocate any principles which related to less than the whole nation, they would be unworthy of the good opinions of the coon try.—( Cheers.) It was not their wish to detract from the welfare and happine.ss.of other men.—( Cheers.) He had therefore to propose the toast of " The People, and the full measure of their rights."—( Great cheering. ) The toast was given amidst the most enthusiastic ap plause. Air—The Marseilles Hymn. Mr. WAKLEY then rose to propose the next toast. They would not suppose for a moment that the Ladies were not present.—(Laughter.) The present was a very peculiar epoch in the history of the country. Men were in the habit of declaring their conten tions. One nation doubted another. Millions con tended against millions, and the most powerful nation on the face of the globe-was at the present moment under petticoat government —( Laughter.) Did he, for one, deplore that ? Not at all ; it was the best of all kinds of government ; and if men would but be ruled by their wives they would seldom do wrong. —( Laughter.) Thei e was a little wife in this country who was then President, and the Stewards were anxious on the present occasion that her health should be drank. He was sure that toast would meet with the approbation of every person present. It was a splendid position to occupy the throne of so great a country as England, but it was more splendid still for the possessor of that throne to inherit a heart that felt for the distress of the people. If the President of the na tion forgot her duty she ought to be told of it. She was surrounded doubtless by persons who, basking in the sunshine of courtly corruption, seldom, for their own purposes, let her hear the truth.—(Cheers.) But they would not allow her to be blinded as to what was passing, and she would see, in the public records of the day, what the desires ansl feelings of the people were then at meetings of the present kind, where Englishmen were enthusiastically congregated for the purpose of pay ing tribute to private worth, and the defenders of public principles, and the people should' tell their Presi dent what were their feelings with regard to that President's public duCes. In proposing to the present meeting the toast of " The Queen" there had been an ad dition made to it which, he honeyed, all would deem to be of importance. —( Cries of " No, no.") He agreed with the person who said a No, no," and he would be the last to propose the toast of the Sovereign of the country if the conduct of the Sovereign had not been such as to ob tain his approval.—(Great confusion, cries of " Off, off," and " Hear the Chairman.") All that be asked of the meeting was to hear the toast, and if they would not his duty was ended.—( Considerable confusion—amid which Mr. Wakley said,—Suppose it is proposed—( Increased confusion)—only hear the toast, and then determine for )ourselves, whether you will adopt it or not.—(Cries of " No, no ; no health of the Queen ;" and considerable confusion.) If they did not support him in the discharge of his duty, he must abdicate his seat.—( Long and continued cheering.) A toast had been put into his hand by one of the Stewards—a man whom he had known for many years, and he believed that a more respectable man did not exist ; and he believed that the toast had met with the approval and general concurrence of the stewards, —(Cries of " No.") If such was not the case, then let the stewards that were opposed to it hold up their hands ; and if it was decided against, he would not put it.— (Great confusion.) He only asked the meeting to hear the toast before they condemned it ; it was—" The Q u een and Prince Albert, and may they soon, as parents, feel sympathy for those, who, having children, are confined in prison for political offences."—(Great cheering.) He thought the meeting would not dislike the toast, when they had heard it. In every nation there must be some ruling power, some ono who should be selected as their guide. He was there as their direction post, and when he pointed they ought to obey. The toast was then carried, only 12 bands being held up against it. The CHAIRMAN said the next toast he had to propose was with regard to the subject that had brought them there that day—'e The healtlrof William Lovett and John Collins, the uncomplerrising "'friends of freedom."—(Cheers.) Among the men who had struggled hard night and day for the establishment of Liberal principles was Mr. Lovett— ( Great cheering.) rie had had the pleasure of knowing him for many years, and Mr. Lovett had known him, though not perhaps with equal pleasure, because he had not gone on several occasions so far as Mr. Lovett bad done— ( Cheers)—in upholding the principles that he advo cated.—( Cheers.) It was true that be had not gone so far, and he taken care not to do so, for the truth was, he had no fancy for Warwick Gaol.—(Great laughter.) He had no fancy for the dreadful punishment he had under gone, or the horrible and undeserved persecution he had endured.—( Great cheering.) He (Mr. Wakley) had endeavoured to keep out of the clutches of those harpies, who would feel as much, if not more pleasure in feeding upon his fat body, than upon Mr. Lovett's thin and attenuated one. However, notwithstanding all this, he could assure them that there was not a more sincere advo cate than himself of the people's cause, and he had yet to learn that lie could best support the cause of the people by being immured in the walls of a dungeon.—( Cheers. ) Mr. Lovett had suffered, not for his own offences, but for the misconduct and folly of others, together with the mis. taken zeal of many most excellent men—men who, he would venture to say, were prepared to sacrifice their lives for the benefit of their country.— (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Lovett was known to nearly the whole of those who were presont ; he was one of the Na tional Convention of the working classes ; and, nine or ten years ago, he had resisted, even to the sacrifice of all he possessed, rather than obey a law in the making of which he had no participation.—(Cheers.) He was drawn in the militia, and for refusing to serve he was taken be fore the Magistrates ; they said they would make him serve ; he refused to do so, stating that he would never be the man to cut throats by hire.---( Cheers.) If a foreign army came he expressed his readiness to fight if the quarrel was just ; but he was the last man who would cut the th-oats of his countrymen, because they demanded their rights.—(Great che,.ring.) When the Magistrates found they had so determined a man to deal vv:th, they were glad to get rid of him, and desired the officers to turn him out. Off he went, and so did his fur niture too; for immediately after he disappeared from the police office, his furniture disappeared from his house.— Cries of " Shame, shame.") It was a shame, but it was a still greater shame that they allowed it.—( Cheers ) Notwithstanding this, Lovett was not to be intimidated, but joined the union of the working classes, and aided in the support of every principle that had for its object the welfare of the people.—(Cheers.) They knew what he had lately endured in consequence of the support of his principles, and he (Mr. Wakley) thought, if any thing was wanted to show the necessity of an alte• ration of that representative system, it was to be found in the treatment which the political I offenders had lately received.—( Cheers ) The Spanish Inquisition was a treat compared with it.—(Cheers.) There persons were killed in a short time; but the treat ment political offenders receiv-d caused a lingering death —such a death as a poor Coroner like himself notimself ( c c ou h l e d ers. ; take cognizance of after it had taken place.—(Cheers. With respect to Mr. Collins, he had not the pleasure of knowing him before that evening—though a brother in principle, he was a stranger to him in per son till that time. He thought that Mr. Col. lins must be a marvellously good man, for up to the present hour the tongue of slander had not fixed one blot on his good name; he had only been guilty in the eye of corrup tionists, of advocating the cause of the people; for that he had been imprisoned, and whose release for that imprison ment they were then met to celebrate. What was it they preached? Was it murder, robbery, rapine, or bloodshed ? They preached no such thing—their motto was, " Live and let live—(Cheers)—and happiness to the greatest nu mber."—(Continued cheering.) In raising themselves to a higher position, they never were desirous to step upon the necks of others ; they knew what it was to work and gain their daily bread by toil, and all that they wantea was to humanize those who k new not w h at toil was. r-- (Cha,lrs,) Was there any man there, he would ask, who woi.d.l be ashamed to-morrow of what he had done that day'?--(Cheers.) Was society in such a state in England that it was impossible to p a y respect to two deserving men It might be so to somn hungry ruffians who surrounded the Court, but it could by no disgrace or stigma to honest Englishmen.—(Cheers.) He was proud and delighted to he there that L day, and 4 gave nine him nut t o h r e h greatest is i nfe r n a pleasure e n t o ; see and. N it lr g . av? oi , h e i e o ci n u z I h m t th to at b p e o a o s r !.asure to s„heearl:crt.el.Casolmlinr.s.LovHetet, teevtehdonhu estimable «. ittig nt be ea Oil n distr resa alder' order s Bit 9. gr. le vial hop ° I their to th° ,f the the , e the from 3d If; ;how" v i.ion rico,' Art and Efl" Dil l ation Li& - . Pars LOWDMitry TrPSDA-Y3-AtrarsT 4, MO._ lE MT' Finsbury was likely to be placed in the Black Book, for though be had looked to the right and to the let, he had been unable to discover, with the exception of his worthy colleague and himself, any other Members of the House of Commons present. Some of the Members of that House, he was bound to say, had advocated their cause with great zeal. Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Warburton, and Mr. Hume—(Cheers)—had supported the motion of his worthy colleague on the subj.,ct of those who were in carcerated, and his worthy colleague and himself ought then to be in the House of Commons, as Mr. Aglionby that night intended to bring forward the case of another individual who was imprisoned, not that be believed their two votes could do any good, but he, for one, would like to be there to have his say.—(Loud cheering.) The truth was that they never could carry any motion in the House of Commons that bad the good of the public at heart, they were in a miserable minority, and so they would be until the principles they advocated were suc cessful.—( Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by proposing the toast of " Wm. Lovett and John Collins, the uncompromising friends of freedom."—(Great cheer ing.) Air, " A Man's a man for a' that." Mr. LevETT then came forward to address the vast assemblage, amid the most deafening cheering. He was delighted to be once more surrounded by ge nerous and warm hearted friends, instead of the wretched victims of misgovernment and crime, with whom his friend Collins and himself had been compelled to asso ciate during the last twelve months.—( Cheers.) He was delighted to share their cheerful welcome, and receive their honest congratulations.—( Cheers.) Those who had not experienced the monotony and misery of a prison could scarcely estimate how wholesome and refreshing were the grateful blessings of freedom.--( Cheers.) Not withstanding these feelings, be would say, Welcome once more the starving imprisonment cf Warwick Gaol, wel come ; again all the misery he had suffered, rather than the right of public meetings should be prohibited.—( Cheers.) It had ever been a maxim of his during his political career to speak and act as he thought just, nut caring for the consequences, feeling convinced that if a man stopped short for considerations of personal safety he would do little to advance the freedom of his country.—(Cheers.) True it was that in acting up to this maxim he had suffered in person and property, as all must do who endeavoured to oppose injustice on the part of those who were supported by power.—( Cheers.) Lfe at best was but storm and clouds, with x few spots of sunshine ; but it was a source of congratulation, after all, to know that you suffered in a righteous cause.— (Cheers.) For what, he would ask, had he been punished? For telling the truth—for not allowing truti.•i to be converted into falsehood, in order that Whiggery might be placed upon a more secure foundation.-- (Cheers.) He was still as convinced as he ever was, that most of the vices and crimes with which the country abounded were to be traced to corrupt and exclusive legislation, and he was equally convinced that the passing of the People's Charter into a law would lead to the formation of a Parliament composed of good men of all classes, who would at once put an end to the evils of poverty and oppression, and devise means by which prosperity would gladden their fruitful land.—(Cheers.) While he was ,the advocate for those changes, which he believed would ultimately take place, he was not the advocate for violence or destruction—( Cheers)—for, notwithstanding the insolent assertion of Lord John Russell, that he bad endeavoured to excite the people to overturn the laws, be had ever been, and ever would be anxious to guard against anarchy on the one hand and corruption on the other.— (Cheers.) Those men were the promoters of violence who were most strenuous to uphold injustice.—(Cheers.) He was most anxious to preserve all that was good in the institutions of the country, and to throw away that which was bad. He did not mean to say that the Radi. call in the pursuit of their object, had not expressed them selves strongly, and in many instances acted improperly ; but while he scrupled not to say such conduct had taken place, and was calculated to do injury to their cause, and drive some of their brighest ornaments from their ranks, he could not conceal from his recollection the numerous heart-rending tales of misery he had heard, and which, in many instances, he was afraid were too true. It was to be hoped that the m-jority of the Radicals by the present time, saw the necessity for substituting ergurnent, in the place of empty charges and violence.— (Cheers.) A great deal had been said about a reorgani zation. He hoped he should not be considered presump tuous if be expressed a hope that shortly he and his perse cuted friend Collins would be able to put forward their views on that subject; for though the imprisonment of Warwick Gaol had injured his health, it had not tamed his resolution.—(Cheers.) He was not constituted to bear the fatigues of public meetings, but the abilities and the strength he possessed should be devoted to the cause they had so much at heart. Of all the information he had received since his Incarceration, none had given him greater pleasure than to hear of the exertions made by the people of London to erect Trade Halls, and he trusted, lie should be instrumental to some extent in promoting that object.—(Cheers.) He had been led to hope that one brneflcisl result would arise out of their treatment, namely, that Parliament would be induced to rake a distinction between libels and seditious offences, and other misde meanours; but in this he had been disappoin►ed, though the law as it at present stood reflected little credit on the Legislators of the 19th century.—( Cheers.) As the law at present existed, two men, in two different counties, might be committed to pri.on by the same Judge, and under the same Act for precisely the same off,nce, and yet owing to Magisterial regulations, the treatment of the one man might be ten times more severe than that inflicted on the other ; the one pets in's diet might be poor and scanty, and the silent system might be en'orced, while on the other the imprisonment might be light. The Magis trates, therefore, by their regulations, had the power to neutralise law.—( Hear, hear ) In their case, one of the Visiting Magistrates, the Rev. Mr. 'Larder, informed them that the Magistrates would have been more disposed to pay attention to . their wants, had it not ben for the highly coloured petitions they had presented, so that they -had been punished more for the expressions in their petition than for libel.—(Cheers.) Every alle gation in that petition was true, and when Parliament, upon the motion of Mr. Hume, applied for the rules and regulations of Warwick Gaol, an old dietary table was substituted for the one their in use—(Cries of " Shame") .---by which a half pound of meat a week and two quarts of soup were allowed, whereas, from that time the iet had been very far different. He would give them the whole details of this at some future opportunity. He would now conclude by returning his grateful thanks to those who had exerted themselves in various ways in their behalf, more especially to their kind friend, Mr Duncombe, for his noble and manly conduct in their behalf—to Mr. Warburton, Mr. Hume, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and in short to the whole 29 Members who vated for Mr. Duncombe's resolution.—(Cheers.) He was happy to think the course they had pursued had met with the approbation of their friends, and he could assure them that it would only be a stimulus to persevere in it in fu ture.--(Great cheering.) Mr. COLLINS then came forward, and was received with the most rapturous delight. He said he could scarcely command his feellings so as to address the meeting in any thine - like plain and intelligible language. The assembly bad been led to expect by the Chairman, and by his friend Lovett, that he would go more into de tail respecting their treatment in Warwick gaol. To him it awakened many bitter recollections ; but they would Rot be unmixed bitters, because when he recollected the indignities heaped, or intended to be heaped, upon them, he was also convinced of the justice of their prin ciples, and the rectitude of their conduct, that enabled them to endure those indignities, and to smile at the puny attempts that were sometimes made to crush their spirits.—(Cheers.) They had heard, and many of them knew well, what William Lovets had been previous to his incarceration in prison. They knew his firm attach ment to certain principles, and the noble manner in which be defended those principles, but he (Mr. Collins) had seen him in circumstances that could hardly be imagined, and certainly not adequately described. He had seen him languishing upon a bed—he begged pardon—a straw pallet—( Hear)—in his illness, with his imagination, AS the imagination of every father and husband must be, frequently carried back to the scenes of his own fireside, and he had seen him exposed to indignities, but he had never seen his spirit quail Wore the enemy.—( Loud cheers.) He had nevi heard an expression of regret from him for anything he had ever done or said connected with the cause of the people—(Cheers).—and the hope he had of that cause being speedily regenerated.—( Reiterated cheers.) Tne ules and regulatisais of the prison had, on a motion of a Member of the House of Commons, been printed. The Magistrate said that the petition which he and his fellow-sufferer Lovett presented was " highly coloured ;" but they could not contradict it in a single statement that was made. They published, as Mr. Lovett had told them, an old dietary table which bad been altered two years ago, and hence they deceived both the Parliament and the whole of the country. It would be his duty, as he was a little stronger in consti.ution than his friend Love t, to endeavour to undeceive them upon those particu lars.—( Hear, hear.) The Magistrates published in their dietary table that he and his follow prisoner had halt' a pound of meat twice a-week ; although they had stated, or the fact was, that they hid none for nearly six months, except three days when he ( Mr. Collins) was ill in the hospital; and on Christmas day, when they were al loved a bit o: meat by purchasing it themselves.—( Roars of laughter ) When they complained of it to the Magis trate they were told—" If you do not have the meat in a solid, you have it in a soluble state—) ou have it in the soup."—(Great laughter.) lie replied, " Whatever may have been put in the soup, there is no meat in it when it comes to us;" and, in fact, the soup was of that nature that he could not par ake of it—it made him ill.—( Hear, hear.) His friend Lovett having a great craving tar ani mal food, atteit.pted to force a little of it into his stomach, and was congratulating himself very much one Sunday when ho was taking his soup, and he ( 11r. Collins) his bread and water, that he had some animal food in it, but it happened to cause rather a different sensation Fpon his tongue than other kinds of animal food had done, so he must needs take it out to look at it, and it proved to be a very fine black beetle.—( Laughter and cries of " Shame.") So that, notwithstanding the great desire Mr. Lovett had for animal food, he could not take it in a soluble state any more.—(Great laughter.) Shortly afterwards two of the Magistrates, Mr. Gelkin and Mr. Bracebridge, visited them, and on their repeating that they had no meat, Mr. Gelkin became very rimer' excited, and asked if they meant to make that as an allegation ? They said they did, He inquired upon what authority ? They replied upon th e authority of the cook who made the soup—(Laughter, Hear, hear, and a cry of " And very good authority too")—who weighed the meat every day, and who saw the list hanging up with the number of prisoners in the goal.—( Hear, hear.) It was asked by the Magistrate, " Is that man, the cook, here now ?" He (Mr. C o lli ns ) replied, " No, Sir, his time is up, and he has gone out." —( Laughter.) " Can you give me his address ?" said the isiagistrate. " No," he replied, but I know where to Grid him when I want to proye it in a Court of Justice."_ (Great cheering.) The next day they were visited by Sir Eardley Wilmot, in company With the Governor. The Goveroor then admitted that there was only a Vb. of meat in the soup, the surgeon of the pr ison having given it as his opinion that half a' pound of meat made the soup ; too rich.__( Lau liter ) The Massistrates thus got them, selves into a dilemma. Tney were aware that evidence a idence could be brought forward t o prove they had published false dietary table and a false list of rules, so they were in :topes that if they gave the two half pounds per week all would be forgotten. There were many little annoyances, nawever, to which they were afterwards subjected, but which could not be entered into at a public meeting.— ( Hear, hear.) There was one other subject con nected with the discipline of W.,rwick Gaol to which he wished to allude, and although it was a mode of punish ment to which, in consequence of their good conduct, they were never subjected, yet th e y were li a bl e to i t every day. By an Act of Parliamen t any person who com mitted a breach of the rules of the prison, or used im pwrooupi edr notla n g a u t t a e g n e d , o ther : h i- e a p i e d i e m a i n g d h t r b e e f u l s u e e d k e t d o u w p o r i k u , t. h o e r solitary cell for any period not exceeding three days and three nights, and that, too, at the instigation of the Governor, and without any Magisterial investigation. In the winter, confinement in such a cell must be very dreadful. It contained an iron bedstead with wood bobsosh sufficient onceof gos l ieeecdri ni entire nongr e tfed, the circulation,rdb G i oo n dgmy water.o. excepti nt morningt Ta any hToe hhai coseknel to dt i dlm n ri e t tdtegt the meeting otevt r igiae n ne:d o cgehmn r l bit might,mi ots door straw, o r ohe a rooi wsroct, exercise oeg artherefore,inorc:nti instead of sacking. The prisoner was not allowed a mor y n sel amidst the frost and snow of winter, there not being sufficientbaen subjected e d ve o r f t; ofe openedtkeepore ad imagineu a t n n h l dy e that a man in such a situation must undergo the most in tense suffering. Mr. Collins then mentioned the case of a bay who was confined in Warwick Gaol before trial for having stolen a pair of bellows, value 3a., and who having quarrelled with another boy in the prison, was placed in one of these solitary cells. In consequence of this confinement the lad became so diseased that a bone of one of his toes actually became detached, which he sent to the turnkey as a present for telling the Governor of his quarrel. He was afterwards sent to the hospital; and notwithstanding all the suffering endured by this poor lad, he was after conviction sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment.—( Loud cries of " Shame, shame.") Ile (Mr, Collins) river saw anything on the part of the Governor that would induce him to make a charge against the Governor as a man--his object was to create a feeling against the law that would permit any fallible man to in flict such punishment upon say individual without Magis terial investigation.—( Hear.) If God spared his life till the next Session it was his intention to endeavour to bring the subject before the House, and see if the House could not be induced to make an inquiry into it with a view to some alteration.—( Cheers.) Notwithstanding all he had endured, he was not less a Radical than when he was first laid hold of by the myrmidons of the Government.— ( Loud cheers.) He was not less disposed . to lift up his voice and to denounce the unjust conduct of that individual who, instead of protecting the peoyle, exercised that power with which he was entrusted to oppress them.— j ( o C h h n e e R r s u . s ) s s Nll o o d t o h t e ab G ` they n h o a r d . i a n l w r h e i a e d h thhee state e t a t t t e e d r o thatf L or d e (Mr, Collins) had been convicted of an attempt to force the people to arms and bloodshed. That was not true. There was not a man in Birmingham, Whig, Tory, or Radi cal,attemptedd (t wh e ar could vvhen, say h h as hadn gtried ever all h eeoul ue oo h abtainthaincom fortable seat in Parliament for the Member for Birmingham, and had obtained the franchise for part of his fellow-towns men, he began to push a little for himself, not having hi. therto been thought fit to be entrusted with the elective franchise, the Government adopted the conduct of indivi duals who went to plays or places of public amusement. When there was a great crowd at the door they said " Push on, push on," but the moment they got a little inside they sing out " What the devil are you shoving at—can't you be quiet?"—(Great laughter and cheers.) No, he could not be quiet—(Cheers)--while he saw around him hun dreds and thousands of his fellow-men, honest, industrious and intelligent, starving in a country possessed of every facility for producing the comforts of life, he could not be quiet and would not be quiet.—(Cheers.) And y e t w hil e he could not be and would not be quiet, t he would b eg to tell the little Lord who had taken the liberty of slandering him in that letter, that it he had not the honour of an il lustrious house to support by his conduct, that he had too ouo n unjustly,peernen_ (Groans)—Vi s iti ng M ag i s t ra t es o f the county, or farms or bloodshed—( , hear)—th a t h e had too much love for truth to slander a fellow man, especially if that man was in a priso n an d un rmor u o c o h respect o Hear, fellow-men even to- a p pea l to un able to defand himself; and that he had t oo muc h and love for justice to be afraid of denouncing th e con d uct o f tyrannically,n men whoex whether theyercisedtheir power brutally, were London mem bers of her Majesty's Ministry.—(Groans and hisses.) His friend Lovett had alluded to a plan fora new organiza tion of the people. He believed it would put them in a better position than they had hitherto occupied, and he was convinced there was no hope of internal peace, happi ness, and comfort for the inhabitants of this country until the working classes had their interests represented in the Legislature. —( Cheers ) In conclusion, he begged to state that he felt extremely grateful for the sympathy which had been manifested, and although it was useless for him to repeat the names of those whom his worthy col league had mentioned as being entitled to their thanks, yet he felt no less grateful ; and he felt especially grateful to Mr. Duncombe, for the candid avowal he had made, that there was not one word in the libel fur which they had been prosecuted, that he was not willing to adopt as his own words.—( Cheers.) These things had cheered their hearts in the ,loom of the prison ; and he should endeavour to snow, by his future exertions to emancipate his fellow-men from their thraldom, that their kindowss was not ill be stowed, and was not undeserved.—( Continued cheers.) The following address, which it was intimated by the Chairman had ben forwarded from Aberdeen to the Com mittee, was recited by Mr. Westerton, and was most raptu rously applauded : With joyous rapture every bosom glows, .. . . _ .. To greet thee, Lovett, from thy gloomy cell— A martyr hero from the tyrant's grasp— A living triumph o'er our county y'e foes, But deep undying shame shall brand their brow, %Vie, gave thee f 1r Ph,. toil a dungeon, loathsome As the black malignity which filled their 11.-arrs, who nur , ed thee with the tender mercy Of relentless Algierene humanity. And what thy crime, but hatred of wrong, And quenchless love of virtue and of truth ? For ye had dared the oppressors of the poor. As terror-struck they trembled for their spoil, Till, full of ruthless rage, they rushed like famished Tigers on their prey, to crush and silence thee. Perfidious cowards 1 But, impotent as cluel, They've lost their prize ;—fir, by the mercy of Our God, he lives ! despite their bastile torture. Yes, Lovett lives ! His dauntless spirit Unsubdued, bath bravely stood the onset Of their frantic fury ; and, like tearless Traveller, athwart whose track the prowling Panther or the wolf bath come, he met them Front to front, till, 'neath his glance of scorn, The pale-lipp'd tyrants shrunk in dread dismay, as they rise to grapple Smote by the power which nerves an honest man, Hail 1 patriot Lovett 1 NI , elcom e to thy home ! y shall be a watchword and a spell By every British slave who would be free, By every friend of mankind, ansdniiyttea.lll Revered and cherished b a e n t d hy viflh p inorg i TNNhoE Henceforth, l n o g v l e a n t h a , e ts i h r y co u namentr millions, With the powers who rob them of their dearest Birthright, and who tax their children's bread; A Then, ndd e i r n i6 t i h a e n i r e impious b glee, e r. Victims, in their hopeless agony. Unconquered Lovett 1 while we o ff er thee The heartfelt tribute of our grateful praise, We swear before high heaven, and by our wrongs, Wall thee to win our country's liberty. Then be a champion of a righteous cause! Once more go forward in thy might of mind! Ai-sill corruption on his curse-crowned throne, With truth's resistless force, till justice triumph ; Till the blessing of a ransomed people, And the victor's laurel-wreath be thine. Then, on the brightest record of her fame, The voice of Albion's millions will approve it. England shall trace with willing hand thy name, Worthy of honour, HONEST WILLIAM LOVETT. Mr. WeTsoN rose to propose the next toast, and was s e ec insultir pricel es s g t heir worth, received with great applause. fie bad the pleasure to submit a toast, which lie hoped every person present NVere such would most heartily respond to, and he would at once read it. It was—" Universal Suffrage, and the other essentials to good Government contained in the People's g e e he c e o r n s ...ent to remain Charter."—( Loud cheers.) Though during the last twelve months in connection with the agitation for the Charter, there had been much to regret, he, for one, did not despair of its ultimate success.—( Cheers ) It was not a Whig, Tory, or Coaliiiim Government, that could Suffrage, and all the say to the people of England " You have rights o b f ut th y e o l u n s aii iii ( l i l i, n i on t e c t ‘x p e o r i c s i e se sa tl th e e m. s ' u '— ff,. ( a slaves ?--( Cries of " No, no,")—let them then by union, combination, wisdom, and prudence, show the m who had lately fi lled the gaols, that they would not dare to repeat such conduct.—( Cheers.) The p i eople must immediately essentials of governmmit• u of thi, country going they possessed Universal Suffrage would they return the eincompoods who now sat in the Ileiuse of Coininons._( Cries of " No They had met that day to do honour to Lovett and Col lins, but that honour would not be paid by merely cheer_ of agitation good for Unive a r ing them—there were the families of those now in prison to be looked to, and let them notseparate from that festive board and forget who had been the cause _ of all their s a talk -6. dis tress and misery. There was the working to war with France, but he hop e d good people of both countries had too much an _sense to assist in any such war, which was revolting of (I ,, al)minahl e to every humane feeling.—( Loud cries to see He a r, hear.") He believed the people began , that it was not _ in %i,ar. Ile ex sre for their interest to engago ,• . , [ ssed a hope w ho wag entitled to the f • ‘l' . - that every working man ; • i anc ds.e would not fail in becoming reg istered neglect to do g reat injustice had so. Ile thanked been committed by their 'leg ation with 1 • thorn cordially for the attention when they 7 w hich they had listened to him, and hoped that more substantial might have something ~to congratulate themselves upon.—(Che e r ) with tremend ous The toast was then dran k ocus cheering. next toast Dr. EPPS proposed tNirembers of Parliam'eT" S. Dun cumbe, Esq., and thoses Parliament who have best thanks generally assisted our friends — our. to them." of his remarks, observed, The Doctor, in the course . that s could boast of no borough in the metropoli s _ 0.. Finsb two such inde pendent Members as the boro T u h t goke was to y.—( Cheers.) It was rumoured that some in _ ,,insb come amongst them, but he would not take i hes and WuraYl;l--( Laughter.) They wanted more Du e 9 n Tb m ousands of e's in Parlia ment.—( Hear, hear.) by l i ttle were now disfranchised, m i g ht ind ustry, o btain do so.—( Har, hear votes—let them strive to till *) It was of no use talking ; they might talk never doomsday wo uld about flee cliailer, but the Charter they something t get until they, the Chartists, helped to do 3 return Members to Parliament --(Clteers') was Mr. CLEAVE before the toas t drank, begged to per form of Br ight on, who had a duty to the people ~ _ . done Lo yea and Collins the hOnottr of sen ding two delegates to that meeting, and also sent an - address - whielrlie thought it was desirable that large assembly should be made ac quainted with. It was a sample of the sympathy felt by the workinc , men in every part of G reat B r i tain. ( Cheers ) 'The address was from the Brighton Radical and Registration Association, and was as follows ; " When good men are cruelly persecuted, for no other crime that. a bold alvocaey of the claims o! justice and the demands of humanity, it becomes an imperativ e duty on the part of the people so to support and honour the per secuted, as shall not only prove to the Government in bow hateful a character their tyrannous proceedings are re garded, but also show that the time is past when the cry of liberty could be stifled by iniquitous cruelties, and the indignant murmurings of the oppressed, could be hushed in the locked bosom of unwholesome dungeons. " There is not a corner of the kingdom, but should know what is' Chartism,' and not a working man but should be eager to testify to our incarcerated friends the honour in which he esteems them, and Lhe gratitude he owes them. " Imbued with these feelings, the Chartists of Brighton, in common with others, have looked forward with great anxiety to the period when their friends Lovett and Col lins should be liberated, and be enabled once more to mingle with the thousands to whom they are endeared: " The public dinner about to take place for the recep tion of the above ill-used friends of the people, affording a prominent opportunity for the general expression of attach ment to them, it is resolved that Messrs. Morling and Land sell be deputed from this Association, to be present at the above public dinner, and to convey personally to Messrs. Lovett and Collins, an expression of our high esteem of those gentlemen, and of our sympathy towards them. (Signed) " W. WOODWARD, Chairman." He begged to return thanks to Mr. Duncombe for the part he had taken on behalf of political offenders, and had it not been for that Gentleman's exertions, he himself would not have been present that day to join in their fes tivity. There was one fact that had nut hitherto been mentioned, but which the meeting ought to be in posses sion of—it was, that Lovett and Collins were months ago offered their liberties on certain conditions; but, as indepen dent men, they rejected with scorn giving securities that would have prevented them attending that day to state the sufferings they had endured.—( Cheers.) One obser vation more. If the working men of London would only forego their pot and their pipe fa twelve or eighteen months, and drink pure water as he did, the Charter would be theirs.—(Hear, hear.) Let them spend their savings in diffusing political knowledge, and the damned system tha - , oppressed them would be destroyed for ever. —(Cheers.) The toast was then drank with all the honours. Mr. DUNCOMBE, in rising to return thanks, was most rapturously cheered. He thanked them not only on his own behalf, but on the behalf of other Members of the House of Commons, among whom they must include his excellent Friend and his Hon. Colleague in the chair—(Hear)—for the ki n d manner i n w hi c h t h e i r 'ser vices had been acknowledged with regard to political of fenders; and he was sure he was only speaking their sen. timents when he said that the kiud and flattering manner 1 in which their services had been recognised wore far be yond their merits. He wished that they could have suc ceeded altogether in the objects they had in view. He also bad to thank the meeting for affording him an oppor tunity of witnessing the interesting spectacle of that day. They were not there to receive thanks er applause or ap probation, but to pay a tribute of respect to two honest and conscientious patriots.—(Cheers.) These two gen tlemen had suffered severely in the cause of the people.— ( Hear.) They had all heard their sentiments and the opinions they had expressed, and he must say that ad dresses more eloquent, or addresses more distin guished for good taste, could not have been heard within the walls of St. Stephen's.—( Cheers.) Well, then, why were these two men, taking them as samples of the working classes, to be deprived of the elective franchise ? Mr. Lovett had told them toot he had suffered in consequence of the state of the law of 'libel. No thing could be more true than that. Then, ought the law of libel to remain as it was ? What, after all, was libel, such as Mr. Lovett had been guilty of ? Why, it was libel to day, and truth to-morrow, because it entirely cepended upon the individuals who constituted the Jury at the time. ( Hear.) It was no offence against the laws of the coun try. Libel was not to be found defined in the written statute law of the country ; and if he had been on the jury (and he had stated as much in the House of Com mons), he would not have found these individuals guilty of libel.—( Cheers ) He should have been ashamed of him self, feeling that be concurred in the sentiments of the reso lution addressed to the people at Birmingham, if he had not stated in Parliament that he concurred with these two gentlemen who were then the victims of prosecution.— There was no instance on record of any individual found guilty of libel, who had been treated like those two highly respectable individuals. No, the secret was this--it was found the Charter was gaining ground among the working classes of England, nd it was .thought necessary to make an example of some of the leaders.—( Hear, bear.) But not satisfied with merely making an example of their leaders, they wished—he would not say they wished to kill those individuals—( Cries of " Yes, they did, they did") —he would not accuse the authorities of a wish to murder any man, but they certainly did not intend that these two individuals should come there on the 3d of August, a week after their release, and be able to address that assembly as they bad done that day.—( Hear, hear.) Feeble, indeed, was the voice of Mr. Lovett—better was the voice of Mr. Collins; but he had heard from those who were acquainted with these two individuals, that they were very tar from being what they were before they went to prison. They were punished more after all for what was nothing more or less than an expression of opinion.—(Cheers.) Nu moral stain attached to their character ; if there had been he should not have been there to greet Mr. Collins and Mr. Lovett.—(Cheers.) He had told them some time ago that he believed some good had come though not so much as he could have wished, from the motion he bad made in the House of Commons, with regard to political offenders, and as a proof of that, he would refer to a letter he had received that morhing-from Mr. Vincent, not on his own account, but that of Shellard and Edwards, who were confined in ,Oakharn gaol. The Hon. Member then read a letter from Mr. Vincent, in which he expressed his firm conviction of the innocence of Shellard, and stated that among the parties who had given evidence ag ainst him, was an indi v id ua l w h ose ne i g h bours had placed over his door—" Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour;" and a policem an w h o state d that he saw the ball coming out of the pistol, and stooped down to prevent its hitting his head. The reading of this part of the letter caused considerable merriment, The letter also stated that the rigor of the treatment Vincent and his fellow-prisoners received was considerably mitigated in consequence of the exertions of Mr. Duncombe. Another part of the letter stated that Vincent believed Lord Normanby to be well ac quainted with all the facts of the case of Shellard. If he was not, Mr. Duncombe observed that he would take care he should be.—(Cheers.) He rejoiced that they bad drank the health of the Queen and Prince Albert, ac companied with the sentiment, that they would feel sjrn pathy for those who, having children, were confined in prison for political offenees.—( Cheers.) He trusted that when the time arrived that her Majesty had an heir to the Throne, the Ministry would advise her to take that opportunity of issuing a proclamation—( Hear, hear)—an act of amnesty to all political offenders upon so joyous an occasion, for joyous it would be, be cause it would extinguish the hopes of Hanover.---( Great cheering,) He would tell the Government that there might be rejoicings in the palace and among the aristocracy, and there might be illuminations in different towns, and the bells of the churches might ring merry peals, but they might depend upon it there would be no rejoicings among the working classes, so long as their relations and friends were kept in the prisons of Northallerton and elsewhere.—(Cheers.) There would be no rej *icing unless the prison doors were set wide open.—( Loud cheers.) In conclusion, he had only to beg that they would allow him to join them in their congratulations to Messrs Lovett and Col. fins on their safe return from prison ; although they came there damaged in health, they had seen that day that they did not stand lower in the estimation of their fellow-citi zens. He trusted that in future they would have a happy and prosperous life, and would never repent having struggled for the rights, liberty, and happiness of their fellow-men. —( Great cheering. ) The CHAIRMAN then said it was a source of deep regret to him that he was under the painful necessity of asking permission to depart, but he had other duties to perform, and he did not choose to give his enemies tle power of saying that he neglected his judicial duties to attend a Chartist dinner,—( Hear, hear.) His principles were with the people, and wholly and entirely in favour of democratic government.—( Cheers.) His Friends Lovett and Collins, and his Hon. Friend and Colleague Mr. Duncombe, had I forgotten to inform them what it was they had been impri soned for, and subjected to a system of dietary that amounted to little short of starvation, for Lovett was only the sha dow of what he had been. Did they not remember him with his herculean frame and stentorian voice, when he could make 10,000 men hear, whereas now be could scarcely make one hear ? Why was that ? The Warwick Gaol gruel had lessened his energies; and that atrocious, that infernal, that barbarous system which had been pursued id Warwick and other gaols, must be obviated, or their rulers should have no peace.—( Loud cheers.) He had stated in the House of Commons, that a more important discussiOn could not take place. What, in the name of God (ex claimed the Hon. Gentleman), do they mean i Is it their intention to deter men from the expression of their opinions by the fear of gaols and du.ngeons?—(Cries of " Hear. - ") Are we to have our sentiments checked and our voices stifled, because we shall be apprehensive of the tortures they will inflict ? Why, what was their own conduct ten years ago ?—( Hear, hear.) What was the language they held at public meetings when they moved forward the working classes in their ranks, and when they besought the friendship, the feelings, and the aid of the bone, the marrow, and the sinews of England 1—( Cheers. ) Was there any delicacy of expression to be observed then ? —(Cheers.) No, the exclamation then was, " The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill," and " Down with the Tories." More than that, the means were unscrupulous that were to be used—you were to pump upon them and pelt them with brickbats ; aye, and fight ing men were to come up from Kent to the extent of hun dreds and thousands. But now that the men who held those doctrines were quietly ensconced in their seats, what is the language they hold towards those who advocate an exten sion of the suffrage ? Water gruel, and nothing but water-gruel—put them into stone jugs—into gaols—into dungeons—restrain them by every means in your power, so as to prevent other men from declaring what are their prin ciples I Gentlemen, I, for one, will not submit to this treatment.—( Loud cheering.) I say that in the whole history of England, throughout the entire history recorded in type, a more infamous abandonment of principle, a more infamous specimen of tergiversation, has neger laeea manifested in the entire history of the world.—(9b a !" .) Our principle was this, not the 'principle of th: , L .erorm Bill, but the principle of the lion representatio n of the people and we said are content m to take that will as 4 first step ; but if we find t hat the people are n o t represente d by it, then we arc at liberty to go on,an4 ad vance unt il t h e o bj ect we have at heart 7 . 1 - . ,„,1 be attained .—(Cheers.) 1 as k you. ;; ;pat object at tained? Nc'a 91 . 99tirae it 'You have a worse ni not. House of C ommons t h an you ever had ; and the I Reform Act has wholly failed.—(Hear, bear.) You have got in the House of Commons now two sets of men—the landlords and the mill-lords—tbe landlords and the manu facturing lords; ,end the object of the two sets of lords is to raise themselves at the expense of the working people. —( Hear, hear.) Wel! then, what I want is this— and don't talk to me of Universal Suffrage, or that or the other Suffrage—but what I want is the faithful representation of the people, and I will never be content until I have got it. I want to knpr why an in telligent man should be deprived of the suffrage, and I would vote for any thing that would have the effect of procuring a faithful representation of the people in the House of Commons.— (Hear, hear.) But now we have no chance of carrying any motion that has the benefit of the people for its object. The thing is treated with an aristocratic sneer, and they wonder how my -Hon. Friend and CoAeague, who is about the most honest man in the House—(Cheers)—and who, in all respects, is a trump of the first water--( Loud cheers and laughier)—they want to know how he can be sincere, connected as he is with the Aristocracy, in proposing relief to the Chartists,—( Hear, hear.) It de lights me to see a motion come from him on the subject-- that is the quarter it should come from—it is just the i thing that now perplexes and annoys them. The source is unpleasant—th e y say " It is exceedingly i. agreeable. What the devil is Tom Duncombe at again—what does he mean ?"--( Roars of laughter.) Of course they don't know that his motives are pure. In fact there never was a man who intended more good to the people, and who hated corruption and oppression more than he does.—( Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman then alluded to the severe treatment Lovett and Collins had re ceived, and compared it with the leniency shown to Sir F. Burdett, Sir John Hobhouse, and Mr. Cobbett, and con cluded by expressing regret at being obliged to leave the meeting. The Han. Member, accompanied by Mr. Dun. combe, then left the meeting. Dr. Ergs was voted to the chair. The following toasts were then drank ; The imprisoned victims of political and religious tyranny—may they be speedily liberated. Air—_ ,, Those we we've left behind es," - Frost, Williams, and Jones —may they be restored to their homes and families. Air--." The Exile." The Ladies who have honoured us with their presence— may they be ever forward in the cause of liberty. Air—" Let the toast be dear woman." And the hilarity of the day was COnCluded by a ball. IMPROVEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS We see by the Bill brought into the House of Com mons for improving the metropolis (No. 2), entitled " A Bill to enable her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Wo.ks and Buildings, to make a new street from Coventry -street, Piccadilly, to ' Long-acre, and for making and completing other im -provements in the metropolis," that it is intended to make the following alterations :—One street is in tended to be commenced from or near to the east end of Coventry-street, Piccadilly, and to extend front thence to the west end of Long-acre ; another is in tended to commence from the north side of Long-acre, opposite Bow -street, and to run from thence in or nearly in a north-west direction to Charlotte -street, Bloomsbury ; another to commence from the east end of Oxford -street, and to run from thence in or nearly in a direct line therewith eastward into Holborn, at or near the south end of Southampton -street, Blooms bury ; and another is intended to commence from or near to the London Docks, and to run front thence into Leman -street, and from thence in a north-west direction, nearly in a direct line with Leman -street, to the west front of Spitalfields Church. Moreever it is. proposed by the Bill to appropriate 25,000/. out of moneys to be borrowed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to assist the Corpora tion of London in completing the new street which has been begun from Holborn-bridge to Clerkenwell-green ; 80,000/, towards making a broad line of street between Southwark and Westminster-bridges, on the south side of the Thames, to be carried on to London-bridge, and provide a ready means of communication between the terminus of the Kent and Sussex Railways, and all the west end of the metropolis, including also the termini of the two great South and Western Rail ways ; and a sum not yet named to make and complete a spacious and convenient communication between the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, pass ing through a district in the City of Westminster which is now very insalubrious, by reason of the want of a sufficient drainage and for other causes, which would be thereby removed. All these are great and neces sary works, and after the late descriptions supplied by Dr. Southwood Smith and others, of the con dition of these several parts of the metro polis, of the terrible diseases which continually prevail in them spreading mephitic contagion in the adjoining regions, they will meet, we should suppose, universal approbation. The great street to be made at the east end of the metropolis, from London Docks to Spitalfields Church, will pass through one of the most neglected, ill-drained, and, we believe, uhhealthy parts of the metropolis, and be a noble improvement. The same may be said of the streets which will unite Long acre to Charlotte -street, and Oxford-street to Holborn, running right through the worst part of St. Giles's. A broad street to connect London, Southwark, and West minster Bridges, on the south side of the Thames, is also much wanted, and will be of great advantage in carrying off a portion of the immense traffic which passes along the main line of streets north of the Thames, besides draining and opening . a densely crowded neighbourhood. All these new lines which penetrate places now blocked up by masses of houses built in a disorderly fashion, will tend to promote a circulation of air, and contribute to the health as well as the beauty of the metropolis. Most of them have long been recommended, which makes it the more creditable to those who have now undertaken to complete them. Somebody, we forget who, lately complimented the department of Woods and Forests as being the best conducted under the Crown ; these improvements, which are all to be carried into effect by that department, in conjunction with the Treasury, the Bill having been brought in by Mr. Stanley, if as judiciously executed as they are skilfully planned, will add to its well-deserved reputation. The whole sum to be appropriated to the several purposes is 300,0001., and this cost is to be paid by the produce of the tax on wines and coals imported into the Port of London, which is to be continued for four years. These improvements will certainly contribute to the health of the metropolis, in which the poor will hc...ve their part, but we cannot omit to remind out readers, that the principal cause of their diseases is want or poverty, and we therefore should have preferred, as we strongly reprobated at a former period the tax on coals, seeing the means of carrying these improvements into effect obtained without continuing a tax on fuel, which is felt in severe weather to be most onerous by the poor. That, however, is the object of the Bill which was brought into the House of Commons, after a resolution which Mr. Hawes opposed on Wednesday evening, and which will irost likely become a law, All such openings and improvements enhance the value of the property in the vicinity of that which is purchased for the new streets, and we are not sure wtether the property ought not in equity to be made to contribute the prin cipal share of the cost of 0 ..1e improvement. We learn, however—and if anviling could reconcile us to this con tinued tax it is tliisl-that no part of its produce is to go into the bands of the Corporation of the City of London, but the whole of it is to be expended on im provement, which will contribute to make the metro polis airy, healthy, and a city of palaces. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The settling for Goodwood Races took place yesterday after noon at Hyde-park-corner, and was very heavy; it attracted a large attendance, nevertheless it was net quite so full as it ought to have been, some parties having neglected either to show, or to take any measures for the adjustment of their ac counts; this practice has often been complained of, leads to great inconvenience, and is highly reprehensible. towards the evening a few engagements were made on forthcoming events. Launcelot, Gibraltar, Broadwath, and Maroon, were in considerable favour for the St. Leger. The prices of the first two and the last were intelli gible, but we cannot speak with certainty as to the actual odds against Broadwath ; we saw 17 to 1 booked in two or three quarters, and we heard as little as 12 to 1 offered in reply to the inquiries of those wbo were disposed to lay out their money the same way. We believe, however, that 14 to 1 may be received as the average laying price. Crucifix was backed for a trifle at 7 to 1, and for a hundred at 8 to 1, as stated below, which odds were offered currently at the close. A few small bets were laid against St. Andrew and Viceroy, and the backers of the Saint would have gone on at 30 to 1. The Derby betting was not sufficiently heavy or interesting to claim any other notice than what is given below. Latest quotations : THE ST. LEG ER. 3 to I agst Launcelot-13 to 4 taken 8 to 1 agst Crucifix—take 10 to 1 9 to 1 agst Gibraltar—taken 10 to 1 agst Galen 14 to 1 agst Broadwath 20 to 1 agst Maroon—taken 27 to I agst St. Andrew—take 30 to 1 1.000 to 30 agst Viceroy—taken 800 to 100 each agst Gibraltar and Crucifix in one bet taken DERBY, 1841. 7 to 1 agst John Day's lot—taken 30 to 1 agst 31argellina colt—taken 50 to 1 agst Monirnia colt—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Falremon—taken OAKS. to 1 agst Virago filly—taken. LATEST BETTING AT GOODWOOD. ST. LEG ER. 7 to 2 agst Launcelot--taken 7 to 1 agst Crucifix 9 to 1 agst Gibraltar—taken freely 9 to 1 agst Galen 25 to 1 agst Theon 30 to 1 agst Viceroy—taken 1 2.7.10 w, 1841. 25 to Prince Caradon—taken '6O to 1 agst Escort —taken 30 to 1 agst Mustapha 30 to 1 agst Morning Star —taken 30 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—taken DERBY, 1842. 6 to 1 art John Day's lot—taken 50 to 1 agst Ela.us---taken 1,000 to 200 agst The Velocity Colt—taken 10,000 to 200 agst Cestus colt—taken 10,000 to 200 agat Miss Cravea's clata—tikt% RVEMI! G EDIT/0. LITERATURE. COL 0 NIA I IciA GA 7, INE. Those who are interes.ed in colonial matters of information, will find much to gratify them in this periodical, which is almost exclusively devoted to the subject of the British colonies. Iu the present Number, we perceive an able and well digested article on the question of free trade with India, and some interesting sketches of Van Diemen's Land, in which the writer relates many strange anecdotes relative to a famous band of bush-rangers who, the year 1826, kept the whole island in a statie of incessant agitation. Here is an extraordinary ac count of an escape from Macquarie Harbour, made by a convict named Pearse, and several - other felons, with a view to join the bush-rwagers in another part of the settlement of Van Diemen's Land : " Notwithstanding the sea of jungle which barred a passage to the main land, attempts at escape were fie itu,letsutw.as t One hat a o f f the Pearse. earliestand This tu rn , o n s ; t w ho it r h rib s le eve ih a o it t s hc r r e s: in 1822 or 1823, resolved to encounter every haeard. Having possessed th emse l ves o f a cou pl e of boats, with a small portion of provision, equal to a week's consumptio4 l , at the rate of two ounces a day per man, they were'seceess , fel in flying the settlement. Their scanty stores exhausted it appears they quitted the boats, rebinding witiAn sight of Macquarie Harbour. They then lived for eight or nitre days on the tops of tea-tree, which they boiled in tin pots to extract the juice. Having entered the tremendous bar rier of jungle, where nothing capable of sustaining life wes to be found, and the propriety of casting lots havi , g been discussed, three of the - party separated privately from the rest, two of whom it is said regained the settlement, where they shortly thereafter died, the third perishing on his re turn. The party, now reduced to five, lived for two or three days on wild berries and their kangarooeskin j , cle t o, which they roasted. At length they reached the Gordon river, which they swam across, but their difficulties and privations were as great as ever. The remorse less la byrinth seemed interminable, for, like birds withqu the net, they found themselves enclosed within its faill meshes. Lamed, exhausted, famished, they streg : _fted vainly on—every step but added to their despair. Freniy possessed their hearts. The vulture in their jaws must,be appeased, and a victim died that his more misera e fel lows might live. Another and another fell, a matt named .Greenhill appearing, invariably, to have been the execu tioner. At last Pearse and Greenhill aid e remained, Without the power to go forward—unable to retrace their steps and surrender to the authorities, they madly sought to extricate themselves. The scene that followed was horrible. These sole survivors. the dismal relics of a die mal fate—each viewing the other with agonizing doubt, with indescribable terror, their eyes glaring with fiendish light—scanned each other's movements with nerves strung to maduess. Sleep, that carried doom, was the object of anxious avoidenee—'t nature's restorative," so much re• quired, was wildly endeavoured to be repelled. The her culean constitution of Pearse bore him victor through the inhuman contest—raging with hunger, Worn out with watching, reduced to the veriest extreme of huMan hope lessness, despair in his soul, exhaustion in his frame —the fated Greenhill sunk, overpowered, to earth. A spring..._ a half laugh, half shriek—and a swift-descending axe to'd the rest." ASIATIC JOURNAL. Miss Emma Roberts, whose history of the two rival Houses of York and Lancaster we retnember reading some years ago with great pleasure, contri butes to the August Number of this Journal, some Notes of a Journey through France and Egypt to Bombay," which evince descriptive ability of no mean order. Next in. interest to this article is a sketch of the " Manners and Customs of the Ja panese," from which we would fain make an extract or two, but space and time forbid. LONDON MAGAZINE Contains several sprightly communications both in prose and verse, and a humourous engraving from the pencil of an artist named Leech, which represents a young extatic Scotch poet reading his first printed lucubrations in the columns of a minor magazine. PRUSSIA AND THE EASTERN QUESTION. We have the following from Berlin, under date of the 11th of July : " It is well known that after the revolution of Ju'y the king of Prussia contributed in the most efficient manner to the preservation of peace, by testifying his goodw',ll to wards the Orleans dynasty. His Majesty adopted in all its objects the policy of Count Herzburg, by the operation of which Prussia and France became natural allies. " Since the death of William 111. it has been frequently asked whether that event would lead to any change in the line of policy towards France, previously adopted ; and if the new 'Sovereign would not more closely ally himself with a certain Northern Power, in conformity with his own tendencies and sympathies. Were we allowed to hazard an opinion in the matter we should declare, relying on au thority deserving credit, that no change whatever will take place, and that the interests of this country, and indeed. of all Germany, will be preferred to any foreign inclinations, Prussia, front her geographical position, must nPeessasily be compelled to take part in any struggle on the Rhtntk or beyond it, in order that her own interests may not be com promised in any way. Therefore it is that she will make (Irons to prevent any contest of this description, which must impose upon her certain sacrifices, and leave her bat a poor chance of recompense. It must also be admitted rar°'afford a g that the extraordinary abilities of the man who h as b een able to found a new dynasty under circtunstanceP_ of such difficulty,uara,itee that the gsetti so many of dispcoo p d ul will b u e tbre destroyed, :4s and, and id above all, that the provocations of ague giddy h ea d s w ill turn out to be only vain. The quesiion of th e E ast will ams not be without producing its influence on our conduct to wards France, although rye have no direct interest in it. The turn which this affair of the East may take will raise the policy of Louis Philippe to a still higher degree of elevation. Let the issue be determined by the French Cabinet one way or the other; it must always be manifest that this CPoinet avoided a settlement contrary to its own interests, until a time at which the vicissitudes of human affairs. should be productive of advantageous results. " France will gain considerably by the independence of Egypt, and will moreover, in all probability, secure her position on the Rhine. If Egypt should establish an in dependent monarchy, the Sclavonian element which threatens to invade Asia will meet with a check, and F.ogland will not be able to open a way for her com merce across the countries which she has conquered or which she exclusively rules by her influence. " Let Russia and England carry their forces into the plains of Asia, and a scattering abroad of their forces must be inevitable, while France, mistress of Algiers, and Protector of Egypt, having her forces more concentrated will be enabled to balance the other two Powers, pro vided she be at pence within herself, and without anxiety regarding the Eastern frontier. France would never again rotas 'ridiculous pretensions to the Rhenish frontier at a mrment when a war on the subject would compromise her position with that foreign Power, which must of no cessity be the case if her relations, hitherto pacific with Germany, should experience an essential change. " Thus, although the inhabitants of Egypt do not in spire us with any close sympathy, we cannot but regard with pleasure the prosperous condition of French interests in that country ; and the party to which France lends her protection remaning masters of the field." COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and four, shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, to honour the Earl and Countess of Albemarle with their company at the Stud House, Home Park, Hampton Ccurt. The Royal Suite followed in three open carriages and four, and consisted of Colonel Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie in the first carriage; the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, and Lord Byron, in the second carr iage, and the Earl of Surrey, Mr. George Anson, and the Hon. W. Cowper in the third carriage. After partaking of a dejeune, her Majesty and the Royal party drove in a pony phaeton to Hampton Court Palace, and afterwards returned to the Stud House. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal suite, returned to Buckingham Palace at seven o'clock last evening. The Royal Dinner Perty included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Earl of Erroll, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Charlotte Duadas; Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse GFlrds altended at the Palace during the evening. Her Majesty did Mr. Hayter the honour to sit on Satur day for the whole-length portrait destined for the Gold smiths' Hall. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr.lAdtred Ma T ti h id e a Dvisuictehdestshoef D Gloucester of K a e n n f d . E. Chalon with a s i tt i ng on Saturday. yesterday,ncaetssinSgoe:stbrilea House. the Pri The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday from the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia M at ild a , an d the Duke o f Cambridge. The following was issued yes terday ; " The Princess Augusta has passed a very good nigl.t, and her Bo:al Highness is better. " Clarence house, Aug. 3, 1840." A Deputation, consisting of Earl De la Warre, Mu. slutrs Cavendish, Darby, Shelley, God lee, Monk, John Fames, jun., and Thomas Berry, and Lord Cantilupe, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street. NEW MANUFACTURE.—An entirely new spe cies of tissue tapestry has been invented or discovered. Some coverings of chairs and tapestry have been especially ordered by her Majesty for the palace. It bears so strong a resemblance to silk of the best kind that it is difficult, without a minut e examination, to discover the difference. The material of which it is composed is the fibre of the banana, aloe, and other t rees which are plentifully found in our West India islan . ds, and by very accurate experiments made by ord er of t he Trench Go. vernment, they have been found on an average to exceed the strength of hemp by one -fourth. The experiments were m a d e at Toulon , upon cordage which had been six months exposed to the open air, and an equal time immersed in th e sea. T he F. ench .Nlinister of Marine has introduced ropes and cables made of this material into the Royal Navy.—Sherborne w I a l : h C e i l i d E ot T T E: rs -- (1 a T y l h as e Atsford Jul fair, y cur were sheep and lambs L ions: in consequence of the scarcity of feed' at the early part of the season. The whole averaged at 2a. per head higher than at the late Overton He on Of m at con- Douro mere len" ; and thes ng to ht of ,port• Jose be no ne Oa 13 d ed. mach ;e UP r yo u 'so 0 irN 6 t 1, 0 6 viso state , son) er words, Ws olio% dc' In on' he in" ~,, 10 la ja gelve 6 pre' ty ily r for Y the Y ,pd who' I 00 0 tb• C re' ►rr o" don; ,II I