The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-05 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

idENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
Fel' the Week ended Sept. 'lg, iS:I7, made up from the Returns of the
inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat sgs. 6d. I Oats
Barley '9s. sd. I Rye
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF Tux SIX WzaKs
PRECEDING.

Wheat s7s Oa. f Oats
Barley 2£B. 7dßye

DUTIES ON FOKEIGN CORN.

Wheat. Scl (hts
Barley l9s. 10d. I Itye ... 19s Ild. 1 'ease 153. 6d

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

Li AY MATtKET S.—( At per Load of 36, Trusses. )
CUMBER] ND .

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay„,
New Meadow Hay X 4 10 to gel 15
00 0 0

...... .
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay. 5 5 5 8
Clover Hay
Oat Straw .£1 IS to 12 6I Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2
SMITHFIELD.

Cease heavy Lowland Meadow Hay — 24 5 to £4 10
Now Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 4 10 4 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clever Hay (extra fine 40 • Generally
Oat Straw £1 IS t• £2 0 I Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2
WHITECHAPEL.

Coarse Meadow Hay .£4 0 to ..£4 5
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 4 1 i 4 15
Fine Upland Mea4ow and isiye.grass Hay ' 5 • 5 5
Clover Hay 5 i ii 5
Old Straw . $1 IS to £2 01 Wheat Straw

COAL MA
I. 4

KET.—Oct. 4.

Per Ton

Adair's 22 U

Per 1 ou. a. d
Walls End Riddell's . 22 0
Walls End Belmont
Walls End Braddyll's Hettou 24 0
Walls End Haswell { 23 9
Walls End Hetton ' 94 0
Walls End Larnbton
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Hartlepool 93 9
Walls End Butterkuowl
Walls End Adelaid.• 22 3
Walls End Deanery. l9 6
Walls End Gorden 9l 11
Walls End South Durham 22 0
Walls End Tees .9'2 9
Walls End New Toe,
Walls End Victoria Tees Ol 0
Walls End West Helton Ol 9
Last market-day, 7

Senshani

--.....
arr's Hartley 2l 0
Chester MAin
Dean's Primrose l6 6
Holysvell 2O 0
Lease's Main
.... ..

(ird's Redline)
Picton

. 18 II
IS 0

Russell's High Main l3 I
Townley l9 0
Willington 2l 1
Wylarn
Walls End Clark and Co 29 0
Walls End Gosforth

Wall, End Heaton 22 6

Wails End Ilild,

21 6

Ships arrived since

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN

G THE WEEK.

The CHAIRMAN, on rising to introduce the first toast,
said he was very glad indeed, to have, on this important oc-
casion, the pleasure of meeting so good, so firm, and so true
a band of patriots as the gentlemen composing the assem-
bly. And being such, he did not know that they could be
better employed than in paying, as they
_would, in the course
of the evening, a proper tribute of respect to one of the
best and most presevering of the numerous Reformers, now
happily to be found in the Borough of Stockport.—
(Cheers.) If he were to be asked for a proof of their
loyalty, he did not know that he could direct the enquirer
to a better exemplification than that of a number of gentle-
men professing Reform principles, assembling to honour
those principles.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen who wished, not
to destroy the Constitution, but to conserve all the benefits
which thit Constitation had within it.( Hear, hear.) And
when lie invited the company to charge their glasses, in.
order to celebrate the toast with due honours, he did so
because there never was a time in the memory of man
when Britons were more devoted to their country, or more
loyal to their Sovereign, than the present, when the throne
was occupied by a Queen, young, beautiful, virtuous, and
liberal—(Cheers)—a Queen who' was guided by the advice
of a ministry in whom the people had confidence.
The toast was drunk with four times four, and with loud
applause.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Sussex, and the Li-
beral Members of the Royal Family."—( Three times three.)
" The people I" (Four times four.)
The VICE-PRESIDENT gave " Her Majesty's Ministers."
This toast was received with deafening applause, which
lasted for several minutes.

The CHAIRMAN acquainted the meeting that he had now
risen to present the two pieces of plate. He said :—Mr.
Alderman Brown—l am deputed, this evening, on behalf
of the subscribers to and Committee for preparing this testi-
monial, to present it to you as the inscription very truly
says, as a mark of your " independent, liberal, and patriotic
conduct in the great cause of reform," and especially of your
exertions in the Ward of Heaton Norris during the late
p.uliamestary contest. I am not here to praise you on my
own account, because I would rather do that when you
were absent ; but I must not spare even your feelings, when
a service may be done to the cause of Reform. I have, indeed,
no right whatever to consult your feelings, when by your
example, amelioration may be rendered to our institutions,
and when the cause of our country bids us stand forward to
fight the battles of the people.—(Cheers.) I must, there-
fore, with no disrespect for the feelings of my fellow-towns-
men say, that I believe there lives in this borough no one
more honest to our cause—more independent in his acts, or
who has done more good in his private capacity than, Sir,
you have.—(Cheers.) We are by this present honouring
ourselves as well as you.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, allow me
now to propose the health of " John Brown, Esq., Alder-
man of the Borough of Stockport."—(lmmense cheering.)
Mr. Alderman BROWN, evidently much affected, rose to
acknowledge the distinguished compliment. No language,
he observed, that he could command was at all adequate
to the expression of his feelings. Deeply did he regret
that the exertions of the Reformers had not been more
successful. We did not, (said Mr. Brown) return two
Members to represent our feelings and principles in the
Reformed Parliament ; whilst one of our Members is in-
voking the spirit of freedom—the spirit of liberty ; the
other will be advocating the rights of despotism. Much do I
regret the result of the last election ; but I hope, that never
again will our efforts be unsuccessful, or rendered useless.
Ireland, awakening from the lethargy of an age of misrule,
had entered the arena of science with us—her hardy sons,
accustomed to the coarsest fare, and satisfied with the re-
ceipt of wages barely sufficient to keep together body and
soul, would soon trench upon the comforts of the English
artizan ; America, unbiassed America, was in active com-
petition with us ; Russia, with its millions of serfs, in fact,
all the kingdoms of Europe turn their attention towards our
manufactures, the source from whence we had derived our
wealth and glory.—(Hear, hear.) It was full time, then,
for us now to take care that bur commerce take not its
flight from this to other more favoured countries ; and if
our ports be no longer crowded with merchant-ships from
the four quarters of the globe—(Hear)--if the population
of this country should be starving, if our houses should be
empty, our cities deserted, future historians would not have
to record the ravages committed by the Huns and Goths ;
they would not have to relate that our cities were sacked,
our fields laid waste, but that it was owing to the enormous
armies we are compelled to maintain in time of peace—but
to our colonies, which instead of being a benefit to us, were
a positive loss by the expense of the army required to de-
fend them and the sums of money they required, because
they were convenient places for teen who were too idle or
too proud to work, and who were ashamed to beg. It
was then of the utmost importance that a Reform Govern-
ment pledged to the removal of every abuse—pledged to
carry on the Government as economically as possible, should
be supported in opposition to a Tory one. More convinced
was he now than ever of the necessity of the Ballot, to give
the people an opportunity of recording their real opinions
in an election. We are met, continued the Alderman, by
the cry that the Ballot is un-English ; and certain parties
state that they will never consent to it. But can we have
a worse state of things than the present, when bribery is
openly practised—when voters are openly bought and sold
in the market, and when head-money notoriously exists ?
(Cheers.) Is such a system as this English ?—(Cheers.)
If we hear not the clink of our own fetters—if we have suf-
ficient liberty—if we may sit under our own vine and fig
tree—if we may receive from our own ministers the consola-
tion of religion, without being branded as aliens from the
Parliament of these United Kingdoms—it has not been so
with our sister country.—(Hear, hear.) Will not the cry
of " justice to Ireland " find sonic chord responsive in our
hearts, and awaken us into some exertion ?—( Hear.) May
I (said the worthy Alderman in conclusion) at the end of
a long life still stand as high in your estimation as 1 have
the honour of being at present, and may your and my exer-
tions for the welfare of our fellow-countrymen, and for the
promotion of the great cause of civil and religious liberty,
be crowned with success.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Brown
then sat down amidst general cheering from all parts of the
crowded assembly.
The CHAIRMAN wished the company, in the next instance,
to join him in taking an opportunity of doing honour to an
Hon. Gentleman, whom he was very glad to see at his right
hand :—" Our highly respected and liberal representative,
Henry Marsland, Esq."—(Cheers.)
Mr. MARSLAND said—My friend on my left (Mr. Alder-
man Brown) has expressed a hope that the issue of the
nest fight may be very different from what the present has
been. In that wish 1 cordially join—(Loud cheers)—and
whoever may be the combatants on that occasion, I trust
that every sincere Reformer will be found true to the cause
he has espoused.--(Cheers.) I trust there may be no feel-
ings of jealousy upon that occasion ; I trust there will then
be no splitting of parties, but that the cry of every Refor-
mer will be " Union !"—that all may recollect that in that
little word consists the secret of our eti ength.—(Cheers.)
We have all seen the effects of bad government ; and I
would appeal to the Hon. Gentleman who comes from the
sister country (Mr. Wyse), whether that injustice which we
from time to time have inflicted upon his unhappy land is
not now recoiling upon ourselves, and causing us a wasteful
and useless expenditure of the public money. I trust that
injusticer
from
may
now
state ; cease—thatand
support Ireland may
tthe Ministry
rescueda
n
fm her degraded t
so much for what they have done in England, as for what
they have done in Ireland.—(Clicers.) They have gone
upon the plan of sweeping out every abuse, and removing
every one in that country who has rendered himself obnox-
ious to Liberalism, and hateful to its principles.—(Hear,
hear.) I wish the same kind of conduct may be adopted
in this country, but whether it is or not I will support that
Ministry so far as I can, consistently with my own princi-
pl,s—a Ministry who have done so much to remove that
stain and disgrace under which we have so long remained.
—(Great cheering.)
The CHAIRNIAN then save " Richard Cvhclen, Esci., and

may din next election for the Borough of Stockport repay
him and us for our late disappointment."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. COBDEN commenced his address amidst loud cheers.
With true old English feeling, said he, you fancy me as a
man that is down, and here you have lifted me up ! But
I am not down in Heaton Norris, for Heaton Norris has
returned me to Parliament.—(Cheers.) Here, at least, I
stand amongst my friends, and here I claim for Reform a
good majority.—( Hear.) When I find gentlemen amongst
us like the honourable and enlightened Member for Water-
ford, I feel delighted, and hail his presence, for he may now
see and understand what are the principles, not of obscene
ignorance and besotted avarice, but the principles of the
mighty masses, of the great majority of this community,
and I will venture to toll him, and through him, the Mem-
bers of the House of Commons, along with your excellent
representative, whom I have watched closely, and who,
I know, has never given a rash vote, what we want,
and what are the interests of this industrious and grow-
ing community.—(Cheers.) We want perfect liberty
of trade.—(Hear, hear.) Trade without restriction,
without favour, without privilege. We want to do what we
like with the produce of our industry. We do not, for in-
stance, wish to be forced to buy our corn at one shop ; we
want no exclusive dealing in timber ; we want to buy our
coffee from what port we please ; and we claim the right of
sending the fruits of our industry to whithersoever the wind
can carry them.—(Cheers.) But we want something more.
We want political liberty--(Cheers)—and above all we
want a consistent government.—(Continued cheers.). I wish
it to be known—for I speak as the representative of Heaton
Norris—that nineteen-twentieths, forty-nine out of every
fifty inhabitants of the borough at large, are of my opinion,
and say—" We want consistency in the government, and we
will never be content until we find the affairs of this coun-
try are administered with some regard to prudence and the
comment sense which we all are obliged to exercise in ourin-
dividual concerns if we would make them prosper."—( Hear.)
I have heard something to-night about " justice to Ireland."
Let us not deceive ourselves. We are now receiving jus-
tice from Ireland.--(Cheers.) We have a majority of To-
ries in England and Scotland, and it is from Ireland, from.
the efforts and independence of Ireland that we are indebted
for our freedom et this moment.—(Loud cheers.) This is
matter of reflection to us, and it will be a subject of reflec-
tion for the Whigs ; let them look well to it.
The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the worthy
Member for Waterford.—(Cheers.) With the name of
that. Hon. Gentleman he would couple a subject to which
he had paid great attention cause of which he was the
earnest and indefatigable advocate—national education.
Mr. WYSE commenced by observing that he need scarcely
say how deeply sensible he was of the honour just paid
to him—not for the individual praise that had been con-
ferred upon him, but for the reception of the sentiment with
which his name had been connected. That was an all im-
portant subject to him ; it was one of which he had for
some time been the humble, and in some particulars, he
hoped the efficient advocate.—(Cheers.) No doubt, it was
gratifying to an Irishman, alone in the midst of his fellow
subjects in England, to meet from them with one unanimous
mark of a conviction that they at !cut had not been par-
ticipating in the crime and guilt of oppressing his country.
—(Cheers.) It was a wise and just retribution of provi-
dence—one of those dispensations which prove above all
things the existence of One all just, all wise, and all good
Being—that in nations as well as in individuals, crime never
went without its recompence ; and as Ireland had been
for years the victim of Tory misrule, and to all Europe had
exhibited signs of misgovernment unparalleled in the his-
tory of nations—so the time had at length come—late in-
deed, but at last, when feeling the fullness of her strength,
and deeply impressed with the solemn duties she had to
perform, not only to herself but to her fellow-subjects of
England and Scotland, she had manfully engaged in the
cause which united us to night, and as she had battled well
so she would conquer too!—(Cheers.) He had been a
witness of her struggles and had partaken in them ; and if
there was any one circumstance during that eventful contest
that could give satisfaction to himself and the meeting it
was this—that the struggle was not merely a rush of
popular impulse or feeling, but one of sterling principle ;
the cause demanded sacrifices and they were made ; it
was the spirit of independent men giving up their
all when their country was in question.—(Loud cheers.)
It was also a consolation for him to be able to say, that
not only was he sincere in what he then did, but that the
great, the wholesome portion of the Irish representation
voted like him, and to their firm principle the people owed
the great charter of British freedom.—(Cheers.) He could
tell them, that what he had stated then, was not one word
beyond the naked truth--that, in short, there was, in Ire-
land, not the slightest feeling of hostility against England.
In speaking to the meeting on their means of education, he
hoped
of others obtain their ;
and
co-operationto
engagethem
in the
and
education
recollec-
tion that although their school was mighty and large, and
had been established with great efforts, it was, at the same
time, almost single in the country ; that there were other
less favoured districts totally without such means ; that
there were places in which the children were growing up in
mental and intellectual darkness ; and that as a necessary
consequence the nation was corrupted in many parts, in the
midst of wisdom and enlightenment many were living in the
darkness of ignorance. Now the power of the nation could not
be excited in a better cause than that of promoting the edu-
cation, and thereby the happiness of' the people. He
therefore called upon the meeting, and he felt they would,
by the reception given to his name, and the approbation
which his humble efforts on this great question had elicited,
promote this work. It was not of course by any man's
single and unassisted exertions that this 'yak could be ac-
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oboeu
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as
come for the people to call for this—not as a matter of
policy,
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lieved
than that
rural policy which education raised in the human heart.
—(Cheers.) One fact which he had heard to-day with re-
gard to this favoured population of Stockport was a con-
vincing proof of the efficacy of education ; a few years
ago this population which was now orderly, contented and
regular, was noticed solely for its insubordination. A few
years ago Switzerland was notorious for conflicts in the
very midst
of its Cantons ; now, it was remarkable for en-
lightenment. A few years ago it was not unusual for
the peasantry to rise in great numbers and break to
pieces the machinery under the impression that it would
destroy their trade, but what were the last accounts ?
Why that almost without a single effort even in the most
mountainous districts, the people were joined heart and
hand in diffusing education, and in aiding the introduction
of wholesome laws, to obtain communications between
them and other parts and endeavouring to develope the
intellect and the industry of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
Now there was no reason for supposing that the people
of England would be behind other nations in deriving
benefit from this great service.—(Cheers.) Mr. Wyse
proceeded in a most eloquent style to dilate upon the
advantages of national education, and concluded by an
earnest exhortation to the meeting to engage its it, being
convinced that it was the only means for the people to
secure and enjoy great reforms.
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Mayor of Stockport
and the other Magistrates whose acts have done so much
good for the borough."
Mr. MAISLAND thanked the company for the last toast.
He trusted the conduct of the magistrates had been found
such as would give satisfaction to every one in the borough.
—(Cheers.) He would take leave to propose the health
of a gentleman to whom the cause of Reform in this district
was much indebted for its present position—he meant his
friend Mr. Henry Coppock the Town Clerk.—(Cheers.)
Mr. COPPOCK having thanked the company, the Chair-
' man requested the company to drink the health of two gen-
tlemen, who were the only fit representatives of the county
of Chester—Edward John Stavley and George Wilbraham,
Esqrs.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. WYSE.--.I have been myself a witness of the exer-
tions of those gentlemen—exertions of which it is difficult
to convey an adequate idea, unless you had seen yourself
the variety and extent of ability in all their operations. I
therefore propose the health of the gentlemen composing
e The English Reform Association."—(Three times three.)
JAMES COPPOCK Esq., Secretary to the Association, on
rising to return thanks, was received with loud cheers. As
a fellow townsman, as one known to the meeting for years,
lie now stood before them on behalf of the English Reform
Association. As their Secretary, as a zealous though hum-
was
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had been a source of the greatest satisfaction to him to find
%eveetllinbgeing principlesvoolfl
being mutual
appreciated.f
was evidence of no small importance to the
fuof this town, that the profession and the
Thisetier teiyn
promotion of liberal opinions was neither unappreciated nor
would be allowed to be unseconded by that higher, that
most valuable kind of reword, the approbation and encou-
ragement of good and honourable men ; and never was
' °'O' e 4 tii aut Which uniQtt and mutual encouragement