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that the lawn were a grievance to them and to the commu-
nity, and that would justify them in pressing for their total
abolition. He had much pleasure in moving the adoption of
a petition to both Houses of Parliament, founded on the fore-
going resolutions.
The CHAIRMAN thought the Coffee-house Keepers had
much to do with the other parts of the community. They
were the stewards of the Corn-laws to the poor. They knew
that the poor were now obliged to work twelve hours a day,
and pay nearly a shilling for his loaf. The foreigner got his
leaf for 6.1. So that, unless something was done, they
would have to bring themselves to work 24 hours. That was
not a likely thing, and therefore they must do all in their
power to abate the cause.
The draft of the petition was unanimously agreed to.
THE COAL TRADE.

Mr. Haas said their trade were interested, not only in corn,
but also in coals, They were not only large consumers of bread,
but they were very considerable consumers of coals. Every
one should do as much good to the community as he could.
The Lord Mayor, since he commenced his Maycralty, had
done much to break down the frightful monopoly which had
so long existed in the coal trade. He had there:tire risen to
move that the thanks of the meeting were eminently due, and
were given, to the Right Hon. Lord Mayor for his zeal, and
assiduity, and firmness in combatting so stoutly fur the benefit
of the community. He bad exerted himself nobly in
breaking up the coal monopoly, which was second only to the
obnoxious bread tax. The tax upon coals, by the monopoly,
was not only an injury to the consumer of ten tons, but it
pressed even more heavily upon the poor, who bought them in
their basket, and did not know whether they got weight or not.
—( Cheers.) All were aware that his Lordship had nobly at-
tacked a body of men that few of his predecessors would have
dared to meddle with, and therefore he thought he was en-
titled to the thanks of all London. He had much pleasure in
movin the vote of thank
Mr.g s.
FORUES seconded the motion. He thought such a
vote came well from such a body as them. They had tried
themselves to do what the Lord Mayor had nearly accom-
plished, but the body was too strong for them.
Mr. HoLmEs had considered that as a public meeting, and
had attended to assist them in their laudable endeavours. He
was not at all acquainted with, or connected with the Society,
but as so interesting a topic as the coal trade had been started,
he hoped they would allow him to give them some information
upon it. He wished merely to state that a Company was being
now formed, and was in a forward state, by which he trusted,
by the power of the Press and the patriotism of the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, great good would be effected for the
community at large. They were aware that any ship going to
a wharf would meet with no obstruction, but might discharge
immediately; but those who said so forgot to tell the public
that that was a boon of no value whatever—it was
literally good for nothing ; for no wharf near London
bad accommodation for discharging a ship. The coals
must be put into barges, and so the old expense was incurred.
The objects of the Company he had alluded to was to form a
Depot for Coals ia the Isle of Dogs. They proposed to have
a mile and a-half of wharfage, where the ships would be dis-
charged by machinery at much less cost than they were now.
No ship would be detained more than three days,
for they proposed to discharge even the largest
ship in one day, where they now took seven. When the
coals were discharged the Company would provide large ware-
houses where they would stow them, at 3d. per ton per month.
It was exvected that gentlemen who were such large consumers
would purchase from the merchants and remove them them-
selves from the warehouse, and so get rid of those dreadfully
oppressive charges which pressed so heavily upon the public.
It was a moderate calculation to suppose that there would
be a saving of 6s. a ton, which in one year would amount
to the trifling sum of 900,000/. in London upon one article
alone—upon the single article of coals. He was only sorry
that he had known of the meeting so late, as he would have
been better prepared, but if he was furnished with a list he
would take care that each member should within one week
hare a prospectus of the Company. The shares were only
201., and p-obably not the half of that sum would be called
up. He had taken a journey to Newcastle upon the husiness;
he had seen the coal-owners, and an extraordinary set of men
they were most certainly. They said they sold the coals to
the ship, but that was not true. He had seen the ship-
owners also, but they said they could not charge
less freight, because they had so many ships. The
great coal aristocracy of Newcastle and Durham had said
that they could not lower the price of their coals, because
vessels could not make on an average more than eight voyages
a year. What, he would ask, was the average period of a voyage
from Newcastle to Durham ? Why, only three days ; hut then
they lay in the river waiting high prices. When Sunderland
coals were at 225. a ton, 40 ships were only allowed to enter the
port of London ; when they were 235. 50 ships were allowed to
enter ; and when they were
.245., then seventy ships migl t
enter. So that the people were fed exactly according to the
demand.—( Cheers.) The combination in the north was only
to be broke up by bringing coals from other ports in the
kingdom. For instance from Wales. It was true that voy-
ages could only be made eight months in the year there, but
if there was a depot, sufficient might be stored up to serve
for the remaining four months. By this means the patriotic
people of Newcastle, could be kept down. He could not
see why coals could not be brought to this country as cheaply
as Aberdeen granite; for that only Os. a ton was charged,
while 7s. was paid for coals from Newcastle. —( Cheers.) He
would transmit to the St.ciety a detailed prospectus of the
Company, which, he was sure, would meet with their support,
as it would have the effect of reducing the price of an article
of such importance to the public.
After a few observ,,tions from Mr. DEACON. the resolution
was put to the meeting, and declared by the Chairman to be
carried unanimously.

A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

IRELAND.

TIPPERARY COMMISSION, JAN. 18.
APPEARING IN ARMS, &c. &c.—.lohn Burke was found
guilty of appearing armed at a place called Bahaha, on the
7th of August last, and also for attacking the house of John
Dwyer.
SHOOTING AT WITH INTENT TO KlLL.—Daniel Kellti was
given in charge for shooting at, with intent to kill, Philip
Ryan, at Killeen, on the 21st of November last. The Learned
Judge, after the evidence was completed, told the Jury that the
indictment stated, in one count, that the pistol was loaded
with some destructive substance ; and, in another count, that
it was loaded generally. In order to sustain that indictment,
the Jury should be satisfied that the pistol was so loaded, and
that if, when fired, and if the shot had taken effect, that death
would have ensued, or that grievous bodily injury would be in-
flicted. The Jury retired for a few minutes, and brought in a
verdict of Not Guilty.
ROBBERY OF FIRE-ARMS.—The next prisoners given in
charge were 'limas Neil, Martin Kennedy, and Patrick
Flynn, for stealing a gun from Samuel Harrison, at Fort-
Mayne, on the 2d of December last. The Jury, after a few
minutes' deliberation, found the prisoner Flynn Guilty, and
acquitted Neil and Kennedy.
MURDER.—John Corkran was found guilty of the murder of
Patrick Goonery, who died from a fractured skull. The de-
ceased, it appeared, went to execute a Civil Bill decree on
Patrick Corkran, seized a caw, and received a blow from
behind, which proved fatal.
The Commission, we believe, concluded on Saturday after-
noon. The Court adjourned until eleven o'clock on Monday
morning, when the prisoners who were convicted will receive
their sentences.

There were, we b,?lieve, but two cases tried on Saturday.
One a trial for murder, in which no motive for the act was
assigned or ascertained. The other the trial of a person of
comparative respectability and s.ane education, for having
written a letter to Mr. Lanigan, the agent of Mr. Otway
Cave, with a view to terrify him into the resignition of his
agency, or to interfere with Mr. Otway Cave to reinstate the
prisoner in the possession of certain lands, of which he had
been deprived, as well as of his situation of steward.
The Corh Southern Reporter, in allusion to the proceed.
ings under the Special Commission, has the following obser-
vations :—" In the first case tried, Hickey and Walshe for the
murder of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Wayland—there was a capital
conviction, and no man who read the evidence could anticipate
any other result : nor can any one assert, or affect to believe,
that they do not deserve to meet the fate which certainly
awaits them, who is not for giving a license to murder to every
individual who has a real or fancied cause of complaint or
grievance against the individual whom he selects as the object
of his vengeance. That it was not intended to murder Mr.
Cooper detracts nothing from the crime of which these men
have been convicted. The mu' der of Mr. Wayland was
plotted and perpetrated, and it was in the attack upon him
that the former, who happened to be travelling in his com-
pany, was shot. The conduct of Wayland, or his father, to
his tenant Ryan, the approver, was far from kind, considerate,
or blameless ; but it is not to be endured, even if it were twenty
times more unfeeling than it was represented by Ryan himself
in his evidence, that he should be doomed to death by the de-
cree of those persons to whom Ryan related the hardship of
his case—whom he first excited and seduced to commit the
murder, and then, to save his own wretched existance, PRO-
SECUTED TO CONVICTION. Here is an instructive
lesson, adding another to the countless ones that have gone
before, teaching those who will not be restrained from the
commission of crime by feelings of humanity or morality, and
who enter into confederacies to perpetrate it, that there is no
safety in such inhuman leagues, and that the first to encourage
is almost in every case the first to betray."
MURDER OF LOkD NORDURY. —An equally incredible and
atrocious rumour has got into circulation to the effect that
Lord Norbury was murdered by one of his own family."
According to a letter in a Dublin paper, " the late Lord Nor-
bury had a:serious misunderstanding with his son, some three or
four years back, and in a moment of temporary excitement he
made a will, absolutely disinheriting his son, the present Lord.
God permitted this son to arrive in time sufficient for mutual
explanations and forgiveness, and he has the consolation of feel-
ing that his lamented father did not depart this life without
bestowing upon him the parental blessing."
It is said that the present Earl of Norbury has but an en-
tailed estate of 3,0001. a year, having been cut off by the
will alluded to above.

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The second son of Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., to
whom Mr. Errington, the uncle of the late Mrs. Fitzher-
bert, bequeathed his whole property, resided for a series of
years in the house next the Green Park, in the Stableyard,
St. James's, now the abode of Lord Berwick. It was in this
mansion that Mrs. Fitzherbert was married to the Prince of
\Voles.

'SELF RELIANCE.—BiIIs are placarded over Ports-
mouth, inviting petty officers and seamen to join the Powerful,
" a fine ship, commanded by Captain Napier, and in case of a
war, capable of taking her own part."