The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

Trillium Peelszilortli was charged with having de-
frauded his employer, Mr. Wood, of Lad-lane.
George Ha'ford, managing clerk to Mr. Wood, de-
posed that the prisoner was employed as a bookbinder,
and that part of his duty was to pay some of the work-
people for sewing books and marbling, the money
for which purpose he received from witness. In
the book kept by the prisoner there were weekly entries
of from 2s. to Cs. per week, which had never been paid.
The sum really paid to one old woman was 2/. Is. 7d.,
for which the prisoner had charged 5/. 15s. 10d., and
received the money.
The prisoner was remanded in order to afford time
for further inquiry, it having been stated that there
were several other similar cases against him.
IRREGULAR ATTENDANCE.—CompIaints have fre-
quently been made of the delay occasioned by the irre-
gular attendance of the Magistrates at this office.
This morning a formal complaint was made by Mr.
Crouch, bookbinder, who sometime ago applied for the
discharge of an apprentice from his indentures. He
stated that he had attended day after day, and taken
out a great many summonses, which he believed had
cost him not less than 20s. In fact, the officers were
so ashamed of the case that they had declined making
any charge for the last two or three summonses. Yes-
terday Mr. A klerman.Humphery went away, and there
was no Alderman present for more than an hour, and it
was almost impossible to get two Aldermen together.

BOTV-STREET.
Yesterday, Mrs. Wood, pawnbroker, of High-street,
Bloomsbury, appeared upon the information of Birch
for taking one halfpenny more than she was entitled to
upon 2s. 3d. pledge.
Mr. Humphries, who attended for the defendant sub-
mitted that the information should mention the minimum
penalty as well as the maximum, which was 101.
The informer handed in the Police Courts' Bill, which
provides for such an objection, as the Magistrate can
impose a lower penalty than is specified by the Pawn-
brokers' Act.

Mr. Humphries said the circumstance occurred
through the ignorance of the person who acted in the ab-
sence of the defendant's son.

Mr: Thomas Wood proved that he was in France
when the information was laid, and on the day he left
home a young man took his place. He knew Birch to
be a common informer.

Mr. Humphries—Then it would appear he has laid
the information for a moiety of the penalty, and not for
the public good.

Mr. Wood'added that his assistant had not been in
the business for the last two years.
Mr. Humphries said that such interest had been
taken for the last forty years, and it was only since the
decision in the Court of King's Bench that the altera-
tion had taken place.
Mr. JARDINE having referred to the 34th section of
Police Courts' Bill, said, that as the offence was corn-
mittA through ignorance, he would avail himself of the
power granted to him by the Bill, and inflict a mitigated
penalty of ls. with costs.
The informer having pocketed only sixpence by the
job, sneaked off with his witness, who was not asked one
question upon the subject.

AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT
EPSOM.

'esterday a meeting, composed of upwards of 200
of the most influential gentry, farmers, and others inte-
rested in agriculture, residing in the western division of
the county of Surrey, took place at the Spread Eagle
Inn, Epsom, for the purpose of celebrating the tenth
anniversary of tile Surrey Agricultural Association.
This Association has, since its commencement, been
productive of very great advantage to the county, and
has been the means of greatly ameliorating the condi-
tion of the labouring population. During the present
year there have been one hundred and fourteen claims
from agricultural servants for lengthened periods of ser-
vitude and good conduct, and the Committee have
ascertained the cheering fact, that there still exists
among the labouring classes, notwithstanding the many
trying difficulties they have to encounter, a large body
of honest and deserving men, who have not only con-
tinued in the same service for periods varying from 25
to 60 years, with unimpeached characters, but have
been enabled to bring up large families without pa-
rochial aid.
In the early part of the day a ploughing match took
place, in a piece of land belonging to D. W. Lewers,
Esq., near Epsom. The healthy appearance of the la-
bourers contending for the prizes, and the ardour with
which they struggled for supremacy, were most gratifying.
The company afterwards dined together at the Spread
Eagle. Among them we noticed John Trotter, Esq.
(Chairman); I'. L. Hope, Esq., M.P. ; Capt. Perce-
val, M.P. ; C. Barclay, Esq. ; Hon. T. G. Howard ;
Hon. T. P. Courtney ; Sir John Reed ; Captain Lem-
priere ; J. H. Tate, Esq. ; H. Gosse, Esq. ; D. Bar-
clay, Esq. ; J. Bonsor, Esq. ; Captain Barrett ; John
Cressingham, Esq. ; L. D. Maydwell, Esq.
The CHAIRMAN, when the cloth was removed, pro-
posed the health of her Majesty, which was received
with the utmost enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the
Queen Dowager, and in so doing observed, that in
whatever station that illustrious lady had been placed,
whether as the Queen Consort, or when the cares of
Royalty devolved upon her, she had always conducted
herself in a way to entitle her to the love and affection
of the people of England.—(Cheers.)
The next toast was the Army and Navy, which was
responded to by Captain Percival and Capt. Parrott.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the Lord
Liontenant of the county, Lord Arden, a Nobleman
who had always been anxious to do all in his power for
the interest of the county, and who was a staunch
friend to agriculture. With that toast he would couple
that of the Magistrates of the County.
The Hon. Captain PEacrvne returned thanks on
behalf of his father, and assured the meeting that al.
though he was prevented from coming among them that
he was a very great friend to the institution, and wished
it the success it deserved for the patriotic object for
which it had been established.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Gossx, in returning thanks on behalf of the
Magistracy, observed that they were all agreed that
meetings of this description did a great deal of good.
It was at all times beneficial to bring diffrent
parties together in friendly and cheerful communion, and
it tended to soften down those asperities and feelings
of unkindness which so frequently existed. Meetings
of this kind, however, had a nobler object—they were
met together to reward the merit of the honest and
industrious labourers of the county—and thereby induce
them to see the value and importance of persevering in
habits of industry and integrity.—(Hear, hear.) The
poor man had many difficulties to contend with, and it
was the duty of these who were placed in a higher sta-
tion of life to encourage them to surmount those difficul-
ties, and nothing gave him more pleasure than to see
those honest men receive the prizes to which they were
entitled. He loved to see their honest pride at being
raised above their fellow-labourers, as he was sure it
would be the incentive to further exertions. He hoped
that this excellent Association would continue to flou-
rish, and he was quite sure that funds would never be
wanted for its support.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the
Members for the western division of the county, and
said he regretted that Mr. Denison was prevented by
illness from being present that day.—(Cheers.)
Capt. PERCIVAL said it was at all times a painful
task to return thanks for such kindness as that with
which the meeting had been pleased to drink his
health. He regretted that the absence of his
Honourable Colleague was occasioned by illness,
and he should have been glad that he had
been present to witness the manner in which his
health had been drunk, as it would have shown him
that the course he had pursued with regard to one
measure that had been introduced during the last Ses-
sion had given the greatest satisfaction to his consti-
tuents.—(Hear, hear.) It was hardly necessary for
him to say that he alluded to the attack which had been
made upon the Corn-laws. The same agitation ap-
peared to be again rapidly gaining ground, and he there-
fore felt it to be his duty to state that his (Captain Per-
cival's) opinion remained totally unchanged ; lie should
continue to oppose any change in that system, and he
would not give his support to any measure in any way
affecting the Corn-laws, which would not give the agricul-
tural interest a greater share of protection than they at

Q UEEIV-S QUARE.
LETTING OFF FIREWOIIKS.—Henry Cox and Ed-
ward dllag.,g, two mechanics, were placed at the bar,
charged with letting off fire-wl)rks in the public streets.
The charge was made under the 15th section of the
54th clause of the New Police Act.
James Webster Jones, police-constable 50 B, stated
that he was on duty in Grosvcnor•place, between the
hours of eight and nine on the previous night, when he
observed the two defendants standing under the Palace
Gardens' wall. One of them had a cracker in his hand,
which the other held a lighted cigar to until it exploded.
A carriage was passing at the time, and the horses were
somewhat startled by the explosion. Witness did not
then take defendants into custody or caution them,
thinking that as they must have seen him watching their
actions they would not attempt to repeat the offence.
The defendants had not proceeded many yards before
they stopped again and set fire to a blue light. He
then took them into custody. The defendants had a
little boy with them at the time. He searched them,
but found no more fire-works.

Mr. BURRELL asked the defendants what answer they
had to make to that charge? The defendant Cox said
the two fireworks had been given to the child but a few
minutes before, and the boy having importuned them to
let them off they did so, thinking they committed no
offence.
Mr. BURRELL said that letting off fireworks in the
streets was a very mischievous practice, and he should
fine the defendants I Os. each, or commit them for seven
days in default. The fines were paid.
GR

,EENWICII PUBLIC-OFFICE.
THURSDAY.

SHEEP-STEALING EXTRA ORDINARY.--•-..Mr. Jacob
Waterhouse, hitherto looked upon as a respectable
butcher, residing in the Trafalgar-road, Greenwich, was
placed at the bar, charged with having stolen two ewe
sheep, the property of Mr. Edward Garner Coulderey,
also a respectable butcher, in the same street. In con-
sequence of the party accused being very respectably
connected, the most intense anxiety prevailed, and the
office was crowded to suffocation.
After the examination of a number of witnesses,
whose evidence differed on some points,
Mr. Suter, Solicitor, who attended for the prisoners,
after the evidence had been read over, observed there
was no doubt from the evidence which had been ad-
ducer], their Worships would deem it necessary that the
inquiry should be carried further, but as there was great
discrepancy in it in many parts, he hoped the prisoner
would be allowed bail, which, from the respectability of
his connections, he could procure to any amount.
The Magistrates consented, and Mr. Millington said
they would commit the prisoner for trial at the next
Central Criminal Court, and would accept bail, the
prisoner in his own recognizances of 2001., and four
sureties of 50/. each, or three in 100/. each, 48 hours'
notice of bail.

This investigation has created great excitement in
the trade, as many respectable butchers in the neigh-
bourhood have recently lost sheep in a most unac-
countable way.

HARVESTING IN BAD ‘VEATIIER.—III South
Lancashire we have seen adopted with success a mode of
saving tarn in unsettled weather, that we recommend to
our farming readers. It is this :—After the corn has been
cut fir about a week, and got well weathered, to take the
shocks carefully together, and to make the sheaves into a
small shock, containing about a quarter of an acre of corn
each; with the heads all enclosed, and the bottoms of the
sheaves outside, running the little shock up to a point at
the top, and covering the top with the raking of the corn
cold, so as to protect it against rain. This practice has
prevailed in the northern parts of Scotland for some years,
and is found extremely useful in wet seasons. A stack or
hut of this kind, as it is called in Scotland, may stand for
a month, even in bad weather, without injury to the corn,
and will be ready to carry to the stack-yard as soon as
the weather becomes favourable. Care should be taken
to prevent the shedding of the grain. There is
another precaution which may be adopted with advan.
take in years like the present, when corn is. often
put damp into the stack. It is to construct the corn
stack with a free passage for air at the bottom of the
stack, with a funnel from bottom to top, thereby to allow
the moisture to evaporate after the corn is put together.
The funnel is easily made by placing a narrow sack, filled
with chaff, or any light substance, in the centre of the
stack, and building the sheaves round it (the bottom part
of the sheaf being towards the funnel, and the corn inside
the stack), till they come nearly to the top of the sack,
and then pulling up the sack, and continuing to elevate it
from time to time, till the stack is complete, arid the sack
withdrawn—thus leaving a chimney all the way up for
evaporation. We know farmers who have adopted this
measure for years in all seasons, and who declare that they
never had a sheaf of grain injured in the stack. In gene-
ral this precaution is perhaps unnecessary, but in wet har-
vest seasons it may be adopted with great advantage, In
thatching the stack, care must be taken to leave a small
opening at the top for the warm air and moisture to escape.
—Leeds Mercury.
WORCESTER MUSIC MEETING.—The receipts
for admission amounted to 2,820/, 18s. The receipts in
1836 were 2,684/. 13a. Consequently there is an increase
on the resent year of 1361. ss. The aggregate of the
three drys' contributions to the charity was 900/. Bs. 2d. ;
donations since received, 15/. ; making a total of 9151. Bs.
2d , and thus exceeding the amount contributed at the
Festival in 1836 by 92/. Is. Bd. We regret most sincerely
to learn that the receipts have fallen short of the expen-
diture by about 8001., of which deficiency one half will
have to be maie good by the Stewards personally, and
the remainder will be forthcoming from the guarantee fund.
Notwithstanding this pecuniary loss, we rejoice to say that
an abundance of public spirit has been shown on the sub-
ject among influential parties connected with the city and
county, and it has been determined that, so far as Wor-
cester is concerned, these meetings shall continue.— War.
cester Herald.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 25.—The owners of the
Gil Blas, which the Ostend pilots lately found at sea
abandoned by the crew, have made an agreement with the
latter for a sum of 25,000 francs, which was immediately
paid to them. The Government desisted from all its
claims to salvage on the Gil Bias. The Gil Blas left
Ostend on the 18th in the same condition as when it was
brought in.

London, Sept. 27, 1839.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the Per cwt.
average price of British Plantation Mus-
covado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at . . 40s. 21(1.
The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 24th instant, accord-
ing to the returns made upon oath by the West India
Sugar Brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parlia-
ment, and on which quantity the above price is com-
puted, consisted of 889 hhds., 74 trs., and 145 brls. ;
and not of 1,200 hhds., as estimated in the market.
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falling market re-selling their bargains ;or that the
importers have for mercantile convenience been
removing some of their sugars under bond to
the out-ports. A removal of this character is si-
milar in effect to taking the hogsheads from one
bonded warehouse, and placing them in another, and al-
though the number of hogsheads removed in this manner
would appear on the lists of the docks of this port
amongst those really sold and delivered to buyers, yet
the sugar shipped in bond by the importers either
to Liverpool, Bristol, or Glasgow, still remains in their
hands. Both these causes may have combined to
swell the account of deliveries beyond the sales made on
behalf of the importers ; the first has probably con-
tributed most to bring about this effect, for it is noto-
rious that sugars held on speculation, the sale of which
was recorded at the time of purchase, have recently been
re-satd at a shilling per cwt. below the Market quo-
tatinns.
The immense arrivals of sugar practically disprove
the malicious calumnies with which the negroes have for
the last twelve months been aspersed by their employers.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that each
packet which has arrived within that period from the
West Indies has teemed with accounts accusing the la-
bourers of a reckless determination not to cultivate
the cane for a fair remuneration, of a stubborn indo-
lence, which would bring down ruin on the planters, by
occasioning an alarming scarcity of Colonial pro-
duce. The friends of Emancipation will, therefore,
be delighted to learn the decisive answer, in the
large quantity of sugar made and shipped, given by the
blacks to the unfounded libels which have been un-
sparingly heaped upon them. Last week upwards of
4,000 hhds. were landed -- there are now 6,000
hhds. in the docks to be landei, and the post each
morning brings intelligence of further arrivals of sugar
ships in the Channel.
Foreign sugars, raised by free labour, may be quoted
at about 17s. per cwt., quality for quality, cheaper than
VlTcst India sugar.
The falling off in the delivery at this port of West
India sugar for consumption, since the Ist May last
to the present date, as compared against the like period
in 1838, is 17,500 hhds. and trs.
The market is extremely dull, and the few hbds.
sold have been at easier prices.

And yet we do not undervalue the importance of a
Repeal of the Corn-laws. They are pernicious in prin-
ciple and in effect ; admirably adapted for the main-
tenance, political and social, of the aristocracy ; but
highly injurious, not alone to the manufacturing interest,
but to the whole of the middle classes. It is in no spirit
of revenge, or even of resentment, that we have com-
mented upon the enormous impudence of these latter
persons in calling upon the people to come forward,
and, if need be, to shed their own and to spill
others' blood for an object in which they have no
apparent--at all events, no demonstrable interest.
Talk as they will of their moral shows and exhibitions,
they are bent upon wresting the Repeal of the
Corn•laws from the aristocracy, if it be possible to do
so ; and they would have the people to do the physical
part of the business for them. For, let us inquire of
these gentlemen, who have hardly yet done exulting
over the prison fare and barbarous regulations to which
the Chartist victims have been sentenced, whether they
think that anything short of bloodshed and rebellion
would bring about the destruction of the Corn-law mo-
nopoly, whilst the present Parliament, or any future
Parliament elected under the present suffrage, exists ?
And, also, whether they think they are entitled to any
such "demonstrations" on the part of the people ; and,
likewise, whether they believe the people will be pre-
vailed upon to make them ?
To the working classes, we say, " Stand aloof ; move
not a finger on behalf of the middle class ; you can be I
of no service whatever to them. Moral force you have 1
none ; physical fo-ce you are not prepared to furnish for
any such object. A great cause alone—nothing less
than the redemption or the regeneration of a State jus-
tifies revolution. Wait awhile ; you do not suffer alone. 1
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. They will
offer terms by and by."

ART AS A MEANS OF SUPPORT.

The master limner (at Abbotsford) had a devoted
attachment to his (Sir W. Scott's) person ; and this
was not wonderful. for he in fact owed a prosperous
fortune to Scott's kind and sagacious counsel, tendered
at the very outset of his career.
A printer's apprentice attracted notice by his at-
tempts with the pencil, and Sir Walter was called
upon, after often admiring his skill in representing
horses, dogs, and the like, to assist his with his ad-
vice, as ambition had been stirred, and the youth
would fain give himself to the regular training of an
artist. Scott took him into his room, and conversed
with him at some length. He explained the difficul-
ties and perils, the almost certain distresses, the few
and narrow chances of the admiring and aspiring
walk. He described the hundreds of ardent spirits
that pine out their lives in solitary garrets, lamenting
over the rash eagerness with which they had obeyed
the suggestions of young ambition, and chosen a career
in which success of any sort is rare, and no success
but the highest is worth attaining.
" You have talents and energy," said he. " but who
can say whether you have genius. These boyish
drawings can never be relied on as proofs of that. If
you feel within you such a glow of ambition that you
would rather run a hundred chances of obscurity and
penury than miss one of being a Wilkie, make up your
mind and take the bold plunge ; but if your object is
merely to raise yourself to a station of worldly comfort
and independence —if you would fain look forward
with tolerable assurance to the prospect of being a
respectable citizen, with your own snug reprover your
head, and the happy faces of a wife and children about
you, pause and reflect well. It appears to me that
there is little demand for the fine works of the pencil
in this country. Not a few artists who have even ob-
tained high and merited reputation find employment
scarce, and starve under their laurels. I think pro-
fit in Britain is, with very rare exceptions, annexed
to departments of obvious and direct utility in
which the mass of the people are concerned ; and it bee
often struck me that some clever fellow might make a
good hit if, in place of enrolling himself among the future
Raphaels and Vandykes of the Royal Academy, he
should resolutely set himself to introducing something of
a more elegant style of house-painting.
The young man thus addressed, Mr. D. R Hay,
was modest and wise enough to accept the advice with
thankfulness, and to act upon it with patience and
steadiness. After a few years he had qualified himself
to take charge of all the delicate limning and blazoning
at Abbotsford. He is now, I understand, at the head
of a great and flourishing establishment, in Edinburgh,
and a treatise on the science of colour, which has pro-
ceeded from
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present enjoyed. He considered that in this country agri-
I'OETRY FOR CHILDRIN.—Verse for children
culture was of paramount importance, and that upon it should always embrace some substantial clement of poetry ;
the safety and welfare of the nation depended.— it should present what is poetic of its kind, however
(Cheers.) Foreign aggression might destroy the corn_ familiar. Contrary to whatrea tyhe
of verses
might su-
ygrwanritteedrs,
ioti
isvehrsensn or childrensh ap-
Thattnerce of the country, but it could not affect the soil. Poeaser,t:nmiliatvoe ‘tvalikaetnmfeanr
pear
or the most nakedly intelligible piecesrean ttheatmoarest
must ever remain, but if once that branch of the
national prosperity were destroyed the others would
speedily follow, and would lead to universal ruiunp.o\nl'hthene chosen and delighted in by children when left to make
he looked at that great meeting—when he reflected on their own selection. Children, in almost all cases, are the
most delighted with that which the most immediately
the capital that was employed, and lastly
employment afforded to such a numerous class of their quickens the conceptive faculty, and which leave's intieh to.
be done by imagination ; while that which is frigidly
poorer brethren, it gave him great delight to belong to exact, and merely true, does not arouse the mind and,'on,
so patriotic an Association as the present. He should the other hand, that which is gorgeously descriptive acid
always give his cordial support to such institutions, and highly coloured, fails entirely to attract a .child's ear...
should always be happy to be present at their meetings. Strange as it may seem, I think it is generally true that
his
lie concluded by thanking them sincerely for the kind
health, and that of children will sooner listen to what is purely didactic, if the
manner in which they had drunk
hisisenneersaebelereetealrleagyanude.—T(rCealsteuerresr?
W. EVEREST, Esq , sentiment and language be at all times within their' react,'
than to a vivid and elaborate description of natural'
then read the Report, from which it appeared that the scenery. The poetry which children choose is that whirli,,'
with light descriptive'brevet cbrinws the
a y, ,familiar aspects
condition, and that its
Association was in a flourishing of the visible world before the fancy, and that also which
is simply and briskly narrative, and which is enlivened by
Success to the Association, the health of the Chair-
numbers were rapidly increasing, turns atnednehdeesepeefnpeidty.tHjacsntie7ogrdani
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(Fromence,
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teer
The Morning Chronicle and the Globe say the time
is again come round when the
re-comm Corn-law " agita-
tion" must
Pected that the la-
bouring classes will co-operate with the manufacturing
r interest, and force from the Aristocracy and the Le-
gislature this great measure, which will be so nroduc-
Live of advantage, anct will so vastly conduce to the
welfare both of the manufacturers and the operatives.
In so many words have their organs .aid this.
▪ ' Now, can these expounders of middle-class wants and
wishes borrow effrontery sufficient to deny that they re-
quire the people to do the very thing for the Corn-law
L repeal which the middle classes and their expounders bal-
. looed on the Government to massacre the people for at-
• tempting to do for the Charter? Can they look the people
in the face—battered, as it has been, by policemen's
bludgeons—and tell them that they do not wish a phy-
sical demonstration for the repeal of the Corn-laws
They cannot—or if they can, they are liars as well as
rogues ; for they know full well that nothing less, nay,
that something more—much more of physical force than
was marshalled and ready to act for the attainment of
the Reform Bill—will be required for the repeal of the
Corn-laws. The whole aristocracy of England, Whig
and Tory, must be intimidated—coerced, before that
consummation can be brought about. Talk of mo-
ral force ! Pshaw ! The National Petition, signed
by a million and a quarter of the male adult popu-
lation of this kingdom, kicked out of the House of
Commons amid the insolent derision and the trium-
phant hootings of the middle classes ; therein—
in that degrading spectacle—was seen the moral
force of the people. The middle classes, then,
want so much physical force for a certain object—that
is to say, for Corn-law repeal. Let us first see whether
they have any modest right or title to expect it ; and
next, whether it will be worth the people's while, for
any advantage they may gain by it, to run the risk of
being imprisoned for sedition, transported for felony, or
hanged for rebellion.
We are not vindictive against the middle classes ;
but, we ask, do they deserve any,;aid, for any object,
from the people ? Let their conduct during the
Chartist agitation supply the " Yes" or " No."
With what vehemence of hostility did they array
themselves against that movement ? IVith what
eager malignity did they call upon Government to put
it down ; how delightedly did they chuckle when the
Chartistleaders where seized upon by brute power, hardly
deigning to wear even the mask of law ; and with what
grim satisfaction did they return instantaneous verdicts
against them. "Oh ! but they were so violent ! they
counselled physical force (which we want them to reserve
for Corn Law repeal)." Violent ! What violence:of lan-
guage was employed by the Chartist leaders half so
strong, or of half so physical a tendency, as was used
by the middle classes themselves during the Reform
agitation ? And for actual physical violence, deprecated
constantly by the Chartists before it took place at Bir-
mingham, and by the Reformers after it had been per-
petrated at Bristol—who will place the Chartist move-
ment and the Reform agitation in comparison ? And
what have the middle classes gained by their hostility
to the people ? What have they done ? They have
placed an increased military and a vast constabulary
force at the disposal of Government—for what ?To
put down all present and future Chartist excitement ?
Not that alone ; but to put down Corn-law repeal
agitation also. Yes ; these men, who arc constantly
boasting of their own exclusive fitness for the franciaise,
and contending that the people are too ignorant to be
entrusted with it—wanting to extort a measure of jus-
tice from the Ministry, have placed weapons in their
hands to enable them to resist it ; and, requiring as-
sistance from the people, have contrived to alienate and
disgust them.