The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-20 00:00:00

HE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

The • CORN EXCHANGE.
i ari ivals of ]ha Corn small, but the prodigious sup-
yof r; . . .
tract • °reign W'heat ing caused an utter stagnation in the
Price; riu specific terms could be stat de. Barley sold at lower
.s• Other Grain as last reported.

hate.
1,(120 qtg.

Wheat.
2,740 are

ARRIVALS,
Barley.
I 4,910 Irs.

Flour
2,740 acks

tnelish
Irsh ........
ro„; .......... I - I
•4rl ........ 7SO -
NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.
8u 1'
Iv PP lies very good, but the trade was dull and prices a little
p3riaels3:ll.
;e Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. ; Mutton, 2s. 81 to
aeitlte.rteod.-Is. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. 6d. to -.s. ; Irish, 3s.
6(1. Game and Poultry in good supply, but trade dull ;

5,71)0

br 12

CITY FISH MARKET.
Supplies good and trade lively; prices as last quoted.

BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 15.
3,A,!-lALP•PAST THREE.—Though it appears that the Ministry is not
as'acempletely formed, people seem to be confident that it will soon,
-44" that the composition of it will be as has been stated. The
Toarket has been brisk. For the Account the Three per Cents.
°Pen ed at 79f. 75e rose to 79f. SOc., and closed at the opening
Price, being a rise *Of sc. The Five per Cents. opened at 10Sf. 65c.,
lure to insf. .7
,oe., but declined to 10Sf., 60c., last price, as on Sa-
turclay. For money the Three par Cents. are 10c. higher ; and the
Five per Cents. unaltered. The Bank of France Shares have not
varied. The Lallitte
their previous
Belgian Iresohfares have been stationary at
I,ooof. are 2f. 50c. better.
The
per
the Account -Of• on Cents, unaltered. The Three per Cents. for
ti ' a • --e, an improvement of 40c. The Spanish Ac-
-veas on Saturday. The Portuguese Three per Cents., for the Ac.
count, 22. Railway Shares are becoming more in favour. The
c!. Germain are 51'.; the Versailles Right Bank are 22f. 50c. ; the
ersailles Left Bank, 05f. ; and the Orleans, 10f. better. For the
(count the Versailles Left Bank, 035 ; the Rouen, 960 ; the St.
41ain' 657 50. The Orleans, however. are but 447 50, and the
ailles Right Bank 547 50.
First Highest Lowest Last
Franm, Price. I'rice. Price. Price.
•-" .Per Cents(ex. div ) 118 55 ... lOS 65 ... 105 50 ... 103 50
4% per Cents ...... •
IN 50 ... 101 50 ... 104 50 ... 101 50
r
4 per Cents 101 ... 101 ... 101 ... 101
Rauk of Fiance
Latii 2630 ...9630 ...e ...230
Trine Rank I,I'CXII. Sh
l
Ee r(10,1f ,I ..
5215 ...52 5 ...5215 ...5215
'wee 5 per Cents lOl% ... 1011,1 ... 101% ... 1.0.1%
8 Ran
'44441 Ac ive .l ... 211, ... 21 ... 2114
as"i ,e 5 ... 5 ... 5 ... 5
litn - ' ICO ... 10'J .. 100 ... 100
"weaan
102 ... 10.2 ... lO2 ... 102
St n RAILWAY SHARE!!I..
• ....e,,, •
Ver. .....am
'2411e1, rt. 8........ .......... 6'40 ..• 660 •.. 64'1
Rouen L. 33 ..-1
... 225 ... 220
riean;
trasbu . ......................
rig to Bale :140 ... 345 ... 340
8e„, e
vas 1 , A ASPH A LTES AND BI 1 U AiI:NS.
1-61oncel) ................ .
0...
... AUSTRIAN FUND.S.VIENNA, MARCH S.
Five per Cens. Metalliques
Fos; Per Cents.
Three par Cents.
Ilank Shares
1481%
Aligemeine Zeitung, March 11.
S'

▪ 6'15
655
... 225
• 9io
... 457 50
.- 345

t ake oir Thomas Harvey will proceed immediately to
the command in the West Indies, in the Winchester,
and
Ca
ptain John Parker is appointed the flag Captain.
:"OVER, MAitcit 19. ---Marshal Clause]
arrived here this afternoon from Boulogne, attended by a
Ivlsehcretary and two Aides-de- Camp, and proceeds to London,
ere it is understood he means to make some stay, and
probably to visit other parts of Great Britain.
ADULTRATIoN OF BEER.-1n the Excise
Fast
yesterday John 1-Inustone, a publican, in Lower
East Smithfield, appeared upon an information for Navin.
adulterated his beer with sugar, salt, and water. Mr. Gol-
ding Bird proved the case. On making the detection he
told the defendant that he must have put at least six lbs.
of sugar to twelve gallons of water, besides a large por-
tion of salt, into each butt of beer, upon which the defen-
dant said,
of sugar You are not quite right, I only put five lbs.
to four pails of water. If you take any notice it
nady of 201. ru'r._ me." The Court fined the defendant in the pe-

ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES.

The Delegates met yesterday as usual at Brown's
Hotel, at 3 o'ciock.r. J. B. SMITH, Esq. in the Chair.
Among the Members of Parliament present were Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Denistoun, Mr. Hume,
Mr. Villiers, and Mr. G. W. Wood.
Dr. Boss-RING said that the Delegates had yesterday
appointed a Sub-Committee to investigate the conse-
quences which were apprehended to the revenuein con-
sequence of the introduction of the free-trade principle.
The Committee had met this day, and although they
were not in a situatien to make a report, yet ono fact
was obvious, that under the present prohibitory system
for every 100,000/. which reached the Exchequer, four
or five millions were taken from the pockets of the peo-
ple. The Committee were paying the greatest attention
to this question, which was a most important one, be-
cause the public were scarcely aware of the extent to
Which legislation interfered with the food of the people.
In fact, almost every article of consumption was taxed—
beef, cattle, fish, except turbot and lobsters, which
were consumed by the Aristocracy ; in fact, every arti-
cle of food was either highly taxed or entirely prohi-
bited.

The CHAIRMAN said they were ail aware of the re-
sult of Mr. Villiers' motion lust night. After the Legis-
lature had refused to listen to the prayers of 400,000
petitioners, and had refused to enter into the considera-
tion of the question of a repeal of the Corn-laws, it was
evident they had nothing to hope from the justice of the
Legislature.—( Hear.) They had therefore determined
to appeal from the Legislature to the people. They
had determined to send lecturers into all the villages
and rural districts. It should be made a labourer's
question and a farmer's question, and both labourers
and farmers should be convinced that they were robbed

by the Corn-laws.—( Hear, hear.) lie believed that
the speech of Mr. O'Connell had placed this in a
better point of view than any other. An Address had
been drawn by the Committee on this subject, which
the Secretary would read to the Delegates.
The Secretary then read the following Report :
REPORT.

The Delegates appointed from the principal towns of
the empire, to endeavour to procure the total and imme-
diate repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws, think it their
duty before they separate to make public an account of
their past proceedings, and to announce the course they
intend in future to pursue.
Roused by the dangers impending over their interests,
the manufacturing and commercial bodies had prepared
evidence to prove the ruinous tendencies and results of
the Corn and Provision Laws; and they presented
petitions, signed by upwards of 400,000 persons, to the
House of Commons praying to be heard at the bar of
that House. They were prepared to prove that not only
had they been supplanted by foreign competition, in certain
neutral markets, but that proofs of the successful rivalry of
other nations had been brought home to their own doors';
—they were ready to show that their manufactures were
excluded from the most extensive markets of Europe,
because they were prevented from taking in exchange
the staple products of those countries ;—they were pre-
.

. .
pared to prove that their skilled artizans were
seeking enxploymelit in other countries, whilst the
hand• loom weavers and the labourers were suffer-

ing from went of employment at home ; and they
offered to show that the employer himself was carry-
ing his capital and skill to more profitsble fields of enter-
prise. The petitioners were prepared to prove these facts
and to declare upon oath at the bar of Parliament, their
unanimous belief that the Corn and Provision Laws were
the great cause of their manifold evils. Their reasonable
prayer to be heard was nevertheless rejected by a very
large majority.

Again-an appeal was made to the justice and wisdom of
Parliament to take the subject of • the Corgi and Provision
Laws into consideration. The merits of the case were
ably explained by Mr. Villiers and those who supported
his motion, which waa brought forward independently of
the Delegates, did not propose total and immediate repeal,
nor did it go for a moderate fixed duty; it merely asked
the House of Commons to consider the question of the
Corn-laws : but even this appeal was rejected.
Among those representations of the people who voted
against the entertaining of a question which involved the
well-being of the industrious population of the Empire,
were many who had previously been believed to be the
decided advocates of popular rights. Henceforth what,
ever their political opinions may professdly be, it
is hoped that the electors will in the exercise
of their constitutional powers, refuse their support
to all those Candidates for Parliamentary honours who
withhold from the people their right of exchanging the
products of their labour for the food and productions of
other countries.

Confident in the righteousness and ultimate success of
their cause, conscious of the vital importance of the object
they have in view, and of the great public interest felt by
this and every commercial country in the struggle—and
solemnly convinced that, upon their success, it depends
whether an increasing population shall find employment
and the means of comfortable subsistence, the Delegates
turn undismayed from aatribunal which has not only refused
to redress their wrongs,-but has decided against even listen-
ing to their prayers ; and they appeal to their fellow-coun-
trymen.

With a view to the further prosecution of the arduous
struggle, the Delegates recommend the adoption of the
follow ing measures, and they pledge themselves to use
their best exertions in their several towns and districts to
carry them into the fullest effect.
Ist. The formation of a permanent union, to be called
the Anti-Corn-law League composed of all the towns and
districts represented in the Delegation, and as many others
as may be induced to form Anti-Corn-law Associations,
and to join the League.
2. Delegates from the different local Associations to
meet for business, from time to time, at the principal
towns represented.
3. With a view to secure unity of action, the Central
Office of the League shall be established in Manchester ; to
which body shall be entrusted, among other duties, that of en •
gaging and recommending competent lecturers—the obtain •
ing the co-operation of the public press—and the establish-
ing, and conducting of a stamped circular for the purpose of
keeping up a constant correspondence with the local Asso-
ciations.
The Delegations have remarked that efforts have not
been spared to make the repeal of the Corn-laws appear to
be a question exclusively affecting the interests of the
manufacturing and trading bodies, whereas they are merely
he factors and agents to the community at large, whilst
it is upon the consumers of food, whether they be labour-
ers, farmers, shop-keepers, or annuitants that the whole
weight of the taxes ultimately fall.
Convinced that the great body of the agriculturists have
suffered as great moral and pecuniary injuries from the
Corn-laws as any other class, and that the support
hitherto given to those laws by the farmers and culti-
vators, is owing solely to mistaken views of their ope-
ration upon their own particular interest, the Delegates
recommend that the kingdom be divided into circuits, and
that to each of them one or more competent lecturers
be appointed, to carry, if possible, into every village
and hamlet sound information upon this vital question.
In seeking to destroy this and every other mono-
poly which prevents the free exchange of our
commodities for the productions of other countries,
the Delegates are so far from wishing to promote
the interests of one portion of the community at
the expense of the rest, that they are willing and de-
sirous that the protection given to home manufactures
should be simultaneously withdrawn, and that every one
of their countrymen should be at liberty to exchange the
fruits of his labour for the productions of all other
countries.

The Delegates rely upon the co-operation of all just and
benevolent minds in abolishing laws which, in their
operation, violate every rule of Christian morality—laws
which intercept the free circulation of the first bounties of
providence, intended for the benefit of all his creatures—
which prevent that interchange of the productions of dif-
ferent countries which, of all human means, is alone calcu.
lated to allay national prejudices, and substitutes the
blessings of peace for the horrors of war, and which tend
to put an unnatural barrier against the increase of our
species, thereby impiously opposing the first ordinance of
our Maker.

Mr. COBDEN moved the adoption of the Report

which had been framed strictly in accordance with their
fundamental rule of excluding politics.—(Hear, hear.)
They had bee❑ repulsed by the House of Commons,
and he believed it would be difficult to find in any one
mixed assembly 357 persons chosen by ballot from
among the people, or selected from any body of the
people, to come to such a decision. How it was, or
why it was that these gentlemen from all parts of the
country should have given that decision against them,
they probably ought not too rigidly to discuss, but that
the question would be asked throughout
.the country
when that decision was known there could be no doubt.

—(Hear, hear.) The plan to give information ou the
subject of the Corn-laws throughout the country should
be their first duty. He (Mr. Cobden) had himself ac-
quired much additional information by attending the
discussions of the Delegates, and the more he knew
the more he was convinced that all classes of the com-
munity were equally interested in the removal of these
laws. If there was any country about which any doubt
could be entertained—a country whose entire staple
of industry was corn and agricultural produce—
he meant Ireland : but if there had been any
doubt as to the effect of the repeal of the Corn-laws
upon that country, it would have been entirely removed
by the able speech of the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man (Mr. O'Connell) last night in the House of Corn-
mons.—(Loud cheers,) He thought their warmest
thanks were due to Mr. O'Connell for the manner in
which he had gone so far in advance of the intelli-
gence of the day in advocating their cause.—(Cheers.)
He wished the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would
furnish them with some little advice as to the best course
they should pursue for the purpose of conveying those
enlightened views to the people of Ireland generally.
They were willing to go to a considerable expense for
the purpose of conveying information upon the subject
to the people at large, and they would be happy to hear
Mr. O'Connell's views upon that point.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. KEasllaw seconded the adoption of the Report.
The CHAIRMAN inquired whether the Report should
be signed by the Delegates or by the Chairman on their
behalf.—(Several voices—" By the Chairman.")
Mr. O'CONNELL would not have presumed to
address them, having bestowed his tediousness
upon them on one or two former occasions, if
he were not encouraged by what had fallen
from Mr. Cobden and the Chairman, who in their
kindness had exaggerated what he had &Me ; the ex-
cess of their eulogium was a kind species of refresher
to use the language of his profession), especi ally as it
hgd been followed b 7 their flattering invitation to offer