The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-22 00:00:00

No: 14,491.

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS
SITRANCE AND
DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
67, New Buildings, North Bridge, Edinburgh ;
36, Westmoreland-street, Dublin •
South Castle-street, Liverpool ;
And 9, Clare-street, Bristol.
Capital, 500,0001..
ESIFOVVE:ED BY ACT OF EARLIASIENT.
PATRON—His Grace the DUKE of SOMERSET, F. R. S.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
Col. Sir Burges Camac, K.C.S.lGeorge Lungley, Esq.
John Elliotson, M.D. F.R.S. K. F. H. Alackenzie, Esq.
C. Farebrother, Esq., Aid. 'John Rawson, Esq.
H. Gordon, Esq. (Joseph Thompson, Es,.
Robert Holland, Esq., M. P. I

AUDITORS.
Dr. Olinthus Gregory, KR. A S.
Professor Wheatstone, F R. S.
PHYSICIAN—J. Elliot,on, M. D. , F. R. S.
SuitcEoN—E. S. Symes, Esq.
ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woollious,., Esq., F. R. A. S.
BANKnts—Mussrs. Wright and G-., and Messrs. Ladbrokes,
Kingscote, and CO.
STANDING COUNSEL—W. MiIbOUTDC James, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Webber and Bland.
SECRETA RY —F. Ferguson Camrour, Esq.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
The new principles on which this Society is founded, bring
the benefits f Life Assurance within the •each of all. It pro-
vides against the contingency of misfortutne during life, as well
as against the isk of death ; and even affords to the Assured a
fund out of his premiums on which he can at any time operate,
as his circumstances may require. It thus affords to the pru-
dent of all classes, the greatest facilities and most powerful en-
couragement to lav up a certain provision for the future.
Among other advantages the ssured will enjoy the follow-
ing

I. Moderate rates of Premium consistent with security; be-
sides the g iaranteq of half a million of capital.
2. No entry-money.
3. Power of converting the policy at any time into a payment
in cash, a new policy, or immediate, 07 deferred Annuity.
4. After five years, two-thirds of payment on elapsed policies
returnable at death.
5. Tho Assured, on complying with the conditions of tha
office, may, at any time, borrow two-thirds of all previous pay-
men s and the amount of any declared WOW,. -
h. Two-thirds of the entire profits on the Life Assurance,
and on the investment of the (acarantre Fund, divided an-
nually among the Insured, and at their option paid in cash,
added to the policy, or ap lied in reduction of future pre-
miums.

7. Great facility in effecting Insu ances. Premiums payable
by one payriv nt, or annually, hill-yearly, quarterly, or monthl),
or on the increasing or decreasing scale.
8. Females assure at one year less than their actual ages.
9. Relaxation of restrictions on travelling beyond the limits
of Europe, except to places srcially enumerated, and a policy
in force seven years not forfeited by suicide.
SPEVIMEN OF ANNUAL PREMIUMS TO INSURE £I 0.
Age I Age '25.1 Age 30. I Age 35. I Age I Age 45. I Age 00.

X. s d. X. s. d. X. s. d. s. d. X. 3. d. X. s. d. £ s. d.
I IS (; 2 4 4 2 II II 2 1$ $ 3 !I 4 4 4 2

DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

By the operation of the same new principles, the Society is
enabled to afford to the public a plan of DEFER RED A N N IIITI Es
far more advantageous than any hitherto offered, whereby an
individual, by the contribution of a very small annual,
monthly, or weekly saving, may secure either a comfortable
provision for himself in advances age, or at his option, a large
sum of money, or a policy to his family at his death.
The industrious classes, hitherto obliged to resort to Savings'
Banks and Benefit Societies, will find in this scheme a far safer
and more profitable application of their savings. This Society
is enabled, by judicious and accurate calculations, to afford a
Deferred Annuity of a much greater amount than has hitherto
been offered, beside the option of exchanging this annuity
when payable, for a large sum in cash, or a still larger Policy,
payable without premiums at death ; while, by giving to the
purchaser, at any time preceding the stipulated term of the
Annuity's commencement, the power of borrowing two-thirds
f all previous payments, it removes all risk of forfeiture from
inability to continue premiums, besides affording an ample re-
source during sickness and want of employment ; and, should
the purchaser die before arriving at the stipulated period, two-
thirds of his payments will be returned to his representatives.
The purchaser has also the power of converting, on equal terms,
his deferred into a prese .t Annuity.
The following tables are a specimen of the great and vane
advantages which the judicious application of a small saving can
secure through the Society.

LONDON, 1, 111 DAY,-EVENING EDITION,-FEBRUARY 22, 1839

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND
LOAN COMPANY.

No. IS, King William-street. Mansion-house.
Sir JAMES DUKE. M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq.. Deputy Chrirman.
Advantages offered by this Office :
' Interest, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, iirjable half-
yearly to the Shareholders.
Policies granted as low as 50?.
Low Rates of Premium which may be paid annually, half.
yearly, or quarterly.
The whole of the profits equally divided between thee Assured
and the Shareholders.
Loans may be effected by parties assured with this Company.
Claims payable in two months after death.
Age admitted in the Policy.
Assurances may be effected daily.
By Order of the Board,
EDWARD BAYLIS, Actuary.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND
LOAN COM PANY.
No. IS, King William-street, City, London, 23d of
January, 1839.
At a Special Meeting of the hoard of Directors, held this
day—

It was Rewired--That, in consequence •f the increasing
business of the Company, a call of One Pound per Share be
made on the Capital of the Company, and the Shareholders are
requested to pay the same on their respective Shares, on or be-
fore the 21th February next, into the Banking-house of ?Messrs.
Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., N•. 50, Cornhill.
Interest, at the rate of Four per Cent. per Annum on the
Capital actually paid up, will be receivable at the Office
of the Company, half-yearly, on the 10th of July and 10th of
January. The first payment (calculated from the date of the
payments of this call) will be due the 10th July next.
By Order of tlae Board,
EDWARD BAYLIS, Actuary

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obtained gratis, and of all other Booksellers in Town and
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SPECIMENS OF DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

THE CHURCH. WHICH CHURCH ?
We often hear of the Church, but to know what tike
word means we have always to ask—which Church, the Old or
the New Church of Christ ? There have been, for a date pos-
terior to the death •f the Apostles, two Churches, as distinctly
and indelibly marked by their oracles and nomenclature as by
their doctrine. Of the one, the manual of faith and worship is
the written word of God; of the other, tradition. The God of
•ur Lord Jesus Christ is the God of the One ; a God of Three
Persons, 'yclept Trinity, is the God of the other.

OTICE is hereby Given, that the GENE-
RAL ANNUAL MEETING of the COMMIS-
S OiTERS of the METROPOLIS TURNPIKE ROADS,
NORTH of the THAMES, will be he!d at the Commission-
ers' Office, No. 22, Whitehall-place, on Monday, the 25th day
of March next, at On• o'Clock in the Afternoon precisely.__
By Order of the Commissioaers.

I. L. PANTER, Chief Clerk,
Metropolis Roads Office, February 21st, 1539.

ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, FEBRUARY 13, 1839.
IHE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE
LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS for the
AFFAIRS of CHELSEA HOSPITAL, do hereby give
Notice that they are ready to RECEIVE TENDERS from,
and to Treat with, such persons as may be willing to contract
for Victualling the In-Pensioners of
the said Hospital from the
let April, 18:39, to the 31st March, 1840, both days inclusive,
for the following ARTICLES of PROVISION, and for the
supply of other Articles hereinafter mentioned, viz., Beef or
Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Oatmeal, Salt,
Cocoa, and Sugar, at per head, per diem, for the whole
Ration, according to the established Allowances of the house
as specified in a Form of Tender.
For Milk at per quart.
" Candles at pee dozen lbs.
" Yellow Soap,
" Soft Do. t
at per Cwt.
Pearlash,
" Potherbs, at per diem.
" Onions or Leeks at per lb. For the Supply of Oil, Cotton, &c., and for Lighting a por-
tion of the Hospital Lamps.
Forms of Tender for the several Articles required, and fur-
ther particulars may be obtained upon application at the Office
of the Sei.retary, any day between the hours of 10 and 3
o'clock, which Tenders must be filled up, and delivered, Scaled,
at the Board Room of the said Hospital by the Party or Parties
tendering, or by an Agent appointed on his or their behalf, on
WEDNESDAY,the 27th Instant, at One o'clock, at which time
their Lordships will be prepared to receive, and take the same
into consideration.

its dishonour ; that he said it was a hard case, as he held
another bill for CV., and he must swear that he (Cliffird)
then showed him the bill. Witness was to go to the office
of the attorney, to be subpcenaed ; they were to meet
again to arrange all their plans at a coffee. house
in Newcastle-street, Strand; he met Clifford there
on the 28th of January. %Vitne.ss said as he was
to swear to the handwriting of Gibbs, he ought
to know what sort of a person he was. Clifford gave
him a description of him (Gibbs), and said he had written
down the evidence he (witness) was to give—he then gave
him the paper (the one formerly alluded to). Mr. Jenkins,
a friend of his, was present—he was in the next box, and
the witness held up thepaper so that Mr. Jenkins could see
it. The witness read it over three or four times loudly, so
that he might also hear it. Clifford begged that he would
not read it so loud as there were other persons presfmt.
Mr. PLATT.—NIy Lord, I can support this case no fur.
ther. I must submit, in the name of my client, to be non
suited.

The Plaintiff was then non-zuited, and upon the applica-
tion of Mr. KELLY, his Lordship ordered the bill to be
impounded in the hands of his Marshal.

PROFESSIONAL RECORDS; OR, MARRIAGE MEDI-
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N MARRIAGE—its Intent, Obligations. and
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A RATIONAL EXPOSITION of the TREATMENT
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Prostate is liable at all periods of life. The whole being illus-
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Messrs. Murray, Tattersall, and Murray, Surveyors and Land
Agents, 47, Parliament-street.

NORWICH PROVISION AND CATTLE MARKETS
AND TOMBLAND FAIR.
TO BE LET BY AUCTION,
BY MR. W. WILDE,
By order of the Council of the Body Corporate of the City of
Norwich, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th day of MARC/I,
1139, at Four o'Clock in the afternoon, at the Angel Inn,
Market-place, Norwich, in Lots,
rrHE STALLAGE and DUES to arise from
IL the following MARKETS and FAIRS, viz.:—

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W. STREET.
.Marlin Smith Metcalf; publisher of the Morning
Chronicle, was yesterday brought up by Goddard for final
examination, charged with embezzling several sums of
money the property of his employers.
Mr. Ashurst conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hem-
phre)s appeared for the defence.
Mr. Easthope. M. P., on being sworn, said-1 am pro.
prieter of the Morning Chronicle, the office is in the
Strand, and the prisoner was employed by me in the ca-
pacity of cashier, bookeeper, and registered publisher of
the paper, at a-salary of five guineas a week. His duty
was to receive cash, and to enter the amount in the cash-
bock produced; and it was also a part of his duty to pay
such cash into the banking-house of Messrs. Cox and
Co., Charing.crose. In consequence of some informa-
tion I received, I sent for the prisoner to r. y house
on the 2d instant, and after questioning him
respecting the 'amount cif his delinquencies, be gave me
the account produced in his own hand-writing. In respect
to the sum of 171. received from Messrs. Betts, ho said he
had received it by a cheque, but did not account for it ;
and as to the sum of 6/. 14s. from Messrs. Sutton, he
made a similar acknowledgment, together with "a third
sum, which appeared by the ledger, and which he had not
accounted for. The prisoner also said that perhaps the
sums mentioned by him were not exact, but they were
nearly so. On the Ist instant I received the letter pro-
duced,dated on the 31st January, in the hand-writing of the
prisoner; and on examining the book I have found the
MUM mentioned therein not credited to or accounted for
to the establishment.
Mr. Humphreys submitted that as the prisoner was some-
thing more in the establishment than a cashier or book-
keeper, which rendered him liable to all the conacquenres
arising from the publication of the paper, he could not
come within the meaning of the statute as a hired servant
but as a partner.
Mr. Aahhurst contended that as he had received a
weekly wage he could be considered in no other way.
Mr. Alissittaa, considered the prisoner came strictly
within the meaning of the Act.
Mr. George Jones, clerk to Messrs. Sutton and Co.,
medicine-vendors, Bow Church-yard, Cheapside, proved
that on the 17:h of November his employers were indebted
to the Morning Chronicle in the sum of 61. 145., and being
applied to by the prisoner for the amount of the bill, he
paid it and got the receipt produced. Witness believed he
saw the prisaner write the receipt, the amount of which
was for the insertion of advertisements in that paper.
Mr. Thomas Mitchell, clerk,to Messrs. Betts and Co.,
Smithfield-bars, rectifiers, proved that his employers were
indebted to the prosecutor's establishment in 17/. for ad-
vertising which sum he paid with the cheque produced, on
the 28:h July, to a person who signed T. Nicholson, to the
paper produced, and the cheque in question came home to
the fits, paid.
Mr. Nicholson, ironmonger, stated that in the month of
July, he was clerk to 'the proprietor of the Morning Chro-
nicle, at which time a clerk of Messrs. Betts called and
paid the amount of the cheque produced for 171. which was
due by that firm. Witness put the cheque into the till,
which in the course of business would have passed
through the prisoner's hands. After having re-
ceived it, he acquainted the prisoner with the circum-
stance, as it did not appear to have been accounted for on
the books, and the prisoner upon this said he had never
seen the cheque, but witness subsequeetly satisfied himself
that it had passed through the hands of Cox anal Co., who
were bankers for the establishment of the prosecutor.
Mr. George S•evens. clerk to Messrs. Thompson, Ad-
vertizing Agents, 6, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, proved
that his employers were indebted to the prosecutor's esta-
blishment on the 31st October, in the sum of 521. 2s. 6d.,
which he paid on that day by a cheque on his firm to a
person over the counter, and on that or the next day, the
prisoner gave him an acknowledgment for the amount.
The cheque came back to the firm paid, from the banker's.
Mr. Chas. Evora, Cashier to Messrs. Hopkinson and
Co., bankers, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, proved
having paid the amount of the cheque produced.
Mr. Nicholson identified the handwriting of the prisoner
on each of the receipts.
Mr. Miststsou.sisked the prisoner if he had anything to
say, and being answered in the negative, the witnesses
were bound over to prosecute, and he was fully committed
on the three separate charges.

Lot. 1. The Dues and Stallage payable to the said Body
Corporate arising and accruing from the PROVISION and
VEGETABLE MARKETS, its the said City of NORWICH,
in respect of Stalls, Peds, and Standings of every kind.
Lot 2. The Durs and Stallage payable to the said Body
Corporate arising and accruing from the CATTLE MARKET
on the Castle Ditches, namely, for Sheep, Pigs, Horses, and
other Cattle (except Bullocks, Cows, Calves, and Neat Stock),
and for Auctions, Stalls, and Standings of every description,
together with the Buildings used as a Hurdle-house.
The Hirer of this Let will be required to keep and leave
the Sheep and Pig Pens in repair, and to take the present
Stock of Hurdles at a valuation, being repaid for the same at
the end of the term at a like valuation.

It is further to be observed, that the Contractors will he re-
quired to find Security for the due performance of 'their several
Contracts, and that no Tenders will be received after the hour
above- mentioned.

DINNER AT THE MANSION-

HOUSE.

The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress entertained a
large party at dinner on Wednesday. There were resent,
besides several Aldermen and their ladies and the Sheriffs,
Colonel and Mrs. Tweedy, Sir George and Lady Carroll,
Sir Henry and Lady Richardson, Sir Matthew Wood, Dr.
Scott. Dr. Croly, Dr. Birch, Dr. Giles, Mrs. and Miss
Bitkheck, Major Wm. Arthur, Captain Petty, Deputy-
Master of the Trinity House, &c.
The coals which were burning at the Mansion-house
were the subject of general admiration.
Sir MATTHEW WOOD, after dinner, alluded to the exer-
tions which the Lord Mayor was making to secure to the
public a cheap supply, and said that he was himself burning
the same sort of coals, and that 223. was the price he paid
for them.

Lot 3. The Dues and Stallage payable to the said Body
Corporate by the Occnpiers of Shows, Exhibitions, Stalls, and
Standings of all kinds, and by Venders of Goods, &c., upon
and for the Ground on the Castle Ditches, Tombland, and other

.••,
Places usullly occupied at " TOMBLAND FAIR," and other
Fairs, and on other occasions.
All the above Lots will be let for a term of Two Years, com-
mencing at Twelve o'clock at noon of the 25th day of Alarch
next, and the respective Hirers are to find sureties, to the sa-
tisfaction of the Market Committee, for the payment of the
rents in advance, and for the performance and observance of
the several Covenants, Conditions, and Regulations specified in
the Draft of a Lease of each Lot, which may be inspected at
the Town Clerk's Office, and the Hirers are to adhere to the
Scales of Dues and Stallage fixed by the Corporation, or here-
tofore customarily payah'e.
Further information may be obtained on application to Air.
J. It. Staff, Town Clerk, at his Office, at the Guildhall, Nor-
wich.

The LORD MATOR said that he was attacked right and
left, and in every direction, in the most slanderous manner,
by persons wh3 imputed to iint all sorts of motives, except
those which were dictated by an honourable feeling. lie
had ascertained in every instance, however, that the attacks
came from ship owners, coal owners, factors or some per-
sons inten-sted either in the keeping up the high prices of
coals, or in supporting the combination. The malevolent
feeling which had sprung up is consequence of the deter-
mination to which he had come to benefit the public by
routing the monopolists, were only additional proofs,
that the public were found to he seconding his exertions.
Such unworthy modes of veng,eance tended more than
anything he could do to make the great body of consumers
look about them and inquire who were in the right, those
who set an enormous price upon the commodity, or those
who told the public that they were charged a great deal too
much, and besought them to have mercy on their own
pockets. He had not yet met with any person who had coals
at 225. per ton from the pits, where his coals were produced,
that did not express his admiration at the quality. They
burnt stronger, they burnt longer, they made more cheer-
ful fires than what were absurdly called best coals, at 3t3s.
per ton !—( A laugh.) fie had received evidence of
several persons having received coals at 245. per ton
which turned out to he the veriest rubbish, but which
were supplied merely for the purpose of misleading and
imposing upon the public. The coals he used were in no
way connected with what was in cant phraseology called
best coals. They were quite distinct from those under
the dominion of the expiring combination, and he called
upzn all those who were desirous to see it soon at an
nd to pay no more than 225. a ton for the coals they
consumed, and assured them that the very best would in
a short time be under that price.

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ANTI-CORN LAW DELEGATISS

The Delegates met yesterday at 3 eicloAc at Brown's
Hotel. The attendance was very numerous. Amnog
tha Members of Parliament present were Mr. Villiers,
116rAlawes, Sir G. Strickland, Mr. Scholefield, Mr.
H'ndley, Mr. Baines, Mr. C. Lushington, Mr. Ward,
Mr. P. Ainsworth, Mr. G. W. Wood.
Before the proceedings began, Mr. O'Connell en-
tered the room, and was engaged in conference with
the Delegates.

Lord NUGENT brought forward his motion for ap-
pointing a deputation to confer with the Agricultural
body. He was aware that it had been suggested that
the De!egates adjourn this day. He would not attempt
to break the harmony of their proceedings ; and if the
adjournment was called for by the general voice of the
Delegates be would not press his motion. Whether
they adjourned or not, however, he wished to
have on record his strong recommendation for
some endeavour at an amicable adjustment of the
question with their opponents, to be discussed by
their constituents when they should have separated. It
could not be said that this was out of the province of
the Delegates, for they had been appointed to take all
honourable and constitutional means for promoting the
total repeal of the Corn-laws ; and surely, if that ob-
ject could be effected by amicable adjustment with the '
agriculturists, it would be most desirable ; but even if
they failed in that object, they would convict their op-
ponents of unreasonableness. The Noble Lord read
the following extract from the first address of Earl Fitz.
william :—" Any material change in a part of our
laws deemed by a considerable branch of the commu-
nity conducive to the prosperity of the country, must
be rather carried into effect by the zonsent of that branch
of the community, than in the form of a triumph over it.".
If they intended to succeed, they could only do so by
one means, and that was by Converting the minority in
Parliament into a majority. He apprehended they wure
notadvancing towards that by discussing the truths at
which they had arrived amongst themselves, b►tt it must
be done by communication with others.:—( Hear, hear.)
He sincerely trusted it would not go firth to the public
that their proceedings had been weakened by dissen-
sion ; and that any resolution which might be come to,
would be come to unanimously. Whatever their opinion
might be on the question of adjournment, he should vote
in unison with tie rest of the Delegates. If they de-
termined to adjourn, he would withdraw his resolution.
firmness untill thay had attained their object.
The CHAIRMAN said that at a meeting of the Dele-
gates, held this morning, they had decided to adjourn.
Lord NUGENT thought the question was now to be
discussed, but as it had been decided, he would at once
withdraw his resolution.

The CHAIRMAN then read the following letter, which
had been received from Lord B. ougham, in reply to the
vote of thanks which had been passed by the Delegates
for the manner in which he had brought the question
before the House of Lords :

" House of Lord;, Feb. 21, 1839.
" GENTLENEN,— I have had the honour of receiving the
Vote of Thanks passed at your Meeting, and I beg leave
to express my grateful sense of your unmerited kindness
towards me upon this occasion.
" I should be extremely sorry if it were supposed either
that your most respectable body is answerable for my Par.
liamentary conduct of the cause, or that I am responsible
for, or controlled by, any proceedings out of doors, now
much soev,r I may respect the parties to such proceedings.
" As I understand that two of your number have df-
fered with me upon the course which I pursued, I trust I
shall not he deemed wanting in due respect for them, if I
add, that while at the bar, I never once in my whole pro-
fessional life submitted my own judgment, in conducting
any case, to the wishes or opinions of my clients. How
much less am I likely to consult the views of any
individuals however respectable with respect to the mode
of conducting a question in the discharge of my Parliamen-
tary duty ? I have the satisfaction to find that my manner
of bringing forward the case meets with the distinct ap-
proval of nearly the whole of your body. But lam alone
answerable for it ; and I am bound to follow my own
opinion and to act as my long Parliamentary experience
dictates. 1

" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
•' BROUGHAM.
"To the Petitioners against the Corn-laws."
The CitAinmaN called upon Mr. Cobden to read the
Report which had been brought forward and agreed to
at a Special General Meeting of the Delegates this
morning.

Mr. COBDEN then read the following
REPORT

Of the Anti-Corn-law Delegation, appointed by the Principal
Commercial and Manufacturing 'towns in Great Britain to
meet in London, for the purpose of obtaining the Total and
Immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws.
The Delegates assembled in London on the 4th of February,
and after forming themselves into a General Committee, they
proceeded to the appointment of Sub-Committees for collecting
evidence, for superintending the correspondence, and for ma-
naging dio financial concerns of the Delegation. These Com-
mittees continued to sit and to report from time to time their
proceedings to the General Meetings of the Delegates.
The General Committee, as their first step, adopted and con-
firmed the whole of the Resolutions passed at the Meetings of
Delegates at Manchester; one of which declared that,
" believing the facts upon which their judgment, fatal con-
sequences of the Corn-laws, was formed were too little
known, and of such national importance as to call for their
disclosure before the people's representatives, they earnestly
recommend that petitions be forwarded from all parts of the
kingdom, praying to be heard by counsel at the bar of the
House of Commons in the ensuing session of Parliament."
Whilst claiming the right of exchanging the results of their
industry for the productions of other countries, the Delegates
published to the world the following demand for that freedom
for others which they were anxious to secure for themselves :
" That this Meeting, whilst it demands of the Legis-
lature as an act of justice the total and immediate
repeal of all laws imposing duties upon, or restrict-
ing the importation of, corn and other articles of sub-
sistence, is prepared to resign all claims to the protection
on home manufactures, and to carry out to their fullest
extent, boils as affects agriculture and manufactures, the true
and peaceful principles of free trade by removing all existing
obstructions to the unrestricted interchange of industry and
capital between all nations."
Every subsequent effort of the Delegates has been animated
by the spirit if this latter resolution, and directed towards
giving the fullest possible effect to those resolutions which were
adopted at the Manchester meeting.
The Evidence Committe having, with the knowledge and
sanction of the General Committee, engaged a Parliamentary
Agent, and retained two Counsel, they issued circulars to the ,
agricultural and manufacturing districts for the purpose of
collecting evidence and of obtaining intelligent witnesses. The
prompt manner in which applications were responded to from
all parts of the kingdom, affords satisfactory proof of the deep
and wide-spread interest which is taken in the labours of the
Delegates, whilst the facts communicated by traders and agri-
culturists, all prove beyond even the previous impression of the
Delegates, the ruinous effects of the Corn-laws on all the great
interests of the country.
In conformity with the suggestions of eminent Parliamentary
lawyers, a petition, in the form least liable to technical objection,
was prelim ed and s.gned by the Delegates, and presented to
the House of Commons.
This petition was adopted by Mr. Villiers as the basis of his
motion.
However convinced the Delegates might previonslyhave been
of the importance of obtaining an opportunity of proving their
ease at the Bar of the House of Commmons, that conviction
has been strengthened since their arrival in town, by the
ignorance of the operation of the Corn-laws, which they have
found to prevail among the Members of both Houses of Par-
liament.
Believing the examination of witnesses before the assembled
Parliament, with the eye of the nation upon its Representa-
tives, to be the best way in which our legislators could be
brought to study the question dispassionately, the Delegates
laboured incessantly to obtain an opportunity of proving their
case at the Bar of the House of Commons.
So reasonable a request—so respectfully and strenuously pre-
ferred by the Delegates, and backed as it was (iti so limited a
space of time) by an almost unprecedented number of peti-
tions from all the great commercial and manufacturing districts
of the kingdom, could not, it was hoped, be refused.
The Houses of Lords and Commons, however, have decided
that they will not hear evidence at their bar.
Possescing the power to judge a matter which involves the
welfare and existence of every class of the community, they
have decided that if they do entertain the question, it shall be
without receiving evidence in that form which the Delegates
believe to be indispensable to their arriving at a correct judg-
ment of the case.

The Delegates have, moreover, to deploro the fact, that a
spirit was manifested by certain Members of both Houses of Par-
liament during the debate,which was designed to produce a feeling
of hostility between the capitalists and the labourers, two classes
which are mutually dependent upon, and necessarilyliving its the
closest contact with each other, and whose interests are indisso-
lubly 'sound together. Whilst lamenting the discontent which
prevails amongst the great body of the labouring classes, the
Delegates would not perform their duty if they failed to warn
the Legislature and the Government that the sufferings of the
working classes have the same origin as those evils, which this
Delegation have met to expose at the Bar of Parliament, and
they feel called upon to express their deliberate conviction, that
this wide-spread discontent cannot be allayed by any other
means than by a repeal of those laws which impose an unjust
tax on the food of the people.
Under these lamentable, unexpected,and, it is believed,unprece-
dented circumstances, the Delegates feel called upon, after mature
deliberation, to put themselves in personal communication with
their respective constituents, that they may decide on what
further steps should 'be taken, in order that they may again
submit their grievances to the consideration of Parliament.
The CHAIRNIAN then stated that at the meeting
this morning the following resolutions had been una&-
mously passed :-
Ist. 'that the Report of the Committee be adopted, and that
the Delegates be requested to communicate the result of their
mission to their constituents ; and that this meeting be
adjourned to Manchester, at a time to be fixed by the Anti-
Corn-law Association of that town, and a week's notice to be

given.
2cl. That at the conclusion of the business of this day, no
further meeting of the Delegates take place in London until
after the meeting at Manchester.
3.1. That Dr. Homing, Messrs. Ewart, Weir, and any other
delegate in town, be a Committee of reference, to whom the
Secretary may apply (in case of need) in anything relating to
correspondence ; and that a continuance of communications
from all parts of the country be invited and encouraged,
addressed to the Secretary of this Delegation at Browne 's
Hotel, or to the Secretary of the Anti-Corn-law Association,
Manchester.