The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-27 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY,- 'EVEN ITION, -FEB RUA RY 27, 1839.

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CONFINEMENT OF THE BOWELS.
W. PINE respectfully recommends persons who habi-
tually take Opening Medicines, to abandon the injurious prac-
tice for the gentle yet instantaneous operation of a little plain
water, applied by means of Dr. Scott's APERITIVE FOUN-
TAIN, which having been filled from the toilet jug, may be
conveyed, unperceived, in the pocket or in a lady's reticule,
to any appropriate place; conferring upon the use of the Lave-
ment every convenience and comfort that can be w'shei for by
the most infirm invalid or timid female, espeeially of excluding
air

W. P. begs also to announce that he has supplied more than
10,000 deaf persons with Dr. Scott's CORNETS, which, to
meet the convenience of all classes, are constructed of the
smallest size to which philosophical principles limit the utility
of practical acoustics ; and below which, no art or contrivance
is of the least service ! They may at any time be fixed upon the
ears in a moment, and as easily removed. Hats, caps, and
bonnets may be put on over them, which permits. of their
being worn abroad as well as at home ; and they are therefore
available at church, public assemblies, and places of business,
ensuring the perpetual enjoyment of hearing to the deaf, through
all the varied pursuits and pleasures of society.
To be procured only of Mr. W. Pine, Superintendent at Dr.
Scott's Medical Repository, 369, Strand (three doors from
Exeter-hall), London.

SIR FRANCIS HEAD AND JAMES
STEPHEN, ESQ.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUiV.

Lieutenant-Colonel Wells presents his compliments
to the Editor of The Sun, and requests he will insert
to-morrow morning the following two letters, which
have passed between Mr. Stephen and himself :
" Sir—ln reference to the conversation I have just
had with you, on the part of Sir F. Head, wherein you
stated to me that in your letter, published this morning
in the Morning Chronicle, you had no intention what-
ever of imputing falsehood to Sir Francis Head, I feel
it necessary, on the part of Sir Francis head, to request
that you will be so good as to inform me whether or not
this statement of my interview with you this morning is
correct.

" 1 have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" J. N. WELLS.
James Stephen, Esq , Colonial Office, Feb. 26, 1839."

" Colonial Office, Feb. 26, 1839.

" Sin,—ln answer to the note which has this mo-
ment been placed in my hands, I have to state that you
are perfectly correct in representing me as having said
that I had no intention whatever of imputing falsehood
to Sir Francis Head, in my letter published this morning
in the Morning Chronicle: I must add, that the letter
does not appear to me justly susceptible of that inter-
pretation.
" I have the honour to be, S:r,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" JAMES STEPHEN.
" Lieut.-Colonel Wells."

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 22, 1839.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
BOROUGH or CLONMEL.—David Richard Pigot,
her Majesty's Solicitor-General for Ireland, in the room of Ni
cholas Ball, Esq., who has accepted the office of Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in Ireland.
COUNTY OF CAVAN:—The lion. Somerset Richard Max-
well, of Arley-cottage, in the said county of Cavan, in the room
of Henry Maxwell, Esq. now I.4:rd Farnham.
. BOROUGH or DEYONPORT._Sir George Grey, of Eaten-
place, in the county of Middlesex, Bart.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the
Right Honourabb• Gilbert Earl of Minto, G.C. 8., Vice Ad-
miral Sir Charles Adam, K. C. 8., Rear-Admiral Sir William
Parker, K.C. 8., Captain Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge,
Bart., Captain Sir Samuel John Brooke Pechell, Bart., and
Archibald Primrose, Esq. (commonly called Lord Dalnaeny),
her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of High
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging.

' WHITEHALL, FEB. 26.
The Queen has been :pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed Under the. Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire and unto the
following gentlemen, and the heirs niale of their b,xlies lawfully
begotten, viz.:—
Philip Crampton, of Merrion-square, in the city of Dublin,
M.D., Surgeon-General to the Forces, and Surgeon in Ordi-
nary taller Majesty in Ireland ; and Henry Marsh, of the city
of Dublin, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to her Majesty in
Ireland:

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the
County of York, and of the City and County of the City of
York.
2nd Regiment of vgest York Watt to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Sharpo,:ieealsed, Dec. 29, 1838 ; N. Brown,
Gent., to be Ensign,

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN and JOSEPH NOBLE, coal merchants, Adwalton,
Birstal, Yorkshire.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
FRANCIS FIDLAR HAND GREEN, woollen draper,
Tottenham-court-road.
BANKRUPTS.
EDWARD LLOYD, printer, Broad-street, Bloomsbury,
to surrender, March 1, at half-past one, and April 9, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, Official Assignee; Til-
son, Sqrance, and Tilson, Coleman-street,
JOHN SIMPSON, picture dealer, Carlisle-house, Carlisle-
street, Soho-square, March 5, at one, and April 9, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, Basinghall-street, Official
Assignee ; Hill, Ely-place, Holborn.
JAMES MORRIS, innkeeper, Leominster, Hereford, March
5 and April. 9, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Leominster.
Smith, Chancery-lane, London ' • Hammond. Leominster.
THOMAS BENNETT and PETER FISH, joiners, Fleet-
wood, Lancaster, March 19 and April 9, at twelve, at the
Town-hall, Preston. Appleby, King's-road, Bedford-row,
London ; Liddell and Whiteside, Poulton, Lancashire.
HENRY CHARLES SMITH, carver and gilder, Camber-
well, Surrey, March 8, at one, and April 9, at cloven, at the
Court of Bnnkruptcy, Basinghall-street. Turquand, Coptball-
buildings, Official Assignee ; Hodgson and Burton, Salisbury-
street, Strand.

GEORGE TAYLOR, currier, Bury, Lancashire, March 8,
and April 9, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton-le-
Moors. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ;
T. A. and J. Grundy, Bury.
RICHARD BRYAN, hop-merchant, Knucklas, Radnor-
shire, March 11, and April 9, at eleven, at the Radnorshire
Arms Inn, Preateign. Green and Peters, Knighton, Radnor-
shire ; Richardson and Talbot, Bedford-row, London.
WILDING RICH, Wigan, and WILLIAM RICH,
Leigh, Lancashire, joiners, March 12, at eleven, and April 9,
at one, at the Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors. Adlington,
Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Gas-
kell, Wigan.

RICHARD ROBINSON, innkeeper, Manchester, March
15, and April 9, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms,
Manchester. Lever, King's-road, Bedford.row, London ;
Aekers, Manchester.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall. street.
C. Odlin, Jun., mercer, Stamford, March 21, at twelve—
.l. Austin, builder, St. Mary Magd len, Hastings, March 21,
at one—B. Bradley and R. Cattell. vine merchants,White Hart-
court, Lombard-street, March 21, at half-past one—J. Hill,
woollen draper,- Cheltenham, March 21, at two—J. Burchett,
market gardener, Tooting, March 19, at eleven—J. Munday,
artificial flower maker, Wood-street, Cheapside, March 19, at
twelve. •

In the country.
J. Llewellyn, draper, Carmarthen, April 5, at twelve, at the
Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen—W. and H. Worth, linen
drapers, Totnes, Devonshire, March 27, at twelve, at the
George Inn, Exeter—M. WoodlifFe, victualler, Pontypool,
Monmouthshire, March 18, at twelve, at the King's Head
lon, Newport—l. Levers, corn dealer, Manchester, March 21,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES—MARcx 19.

R. Tuck and R. Beck, hairdressers, Poultry—J. Vii. Ains-
worth, saddlers' ironmonger, Birmingham—B. Challinor,
colour manufacturer, Derby—AL Richardson, innkeeper,
Chelmsford—J. W. Davis, draper, Hertford—W. Bartley,
money scrivener, Liverpool—F. L. Schwind, merchant,
Liverpool

6d a 23 at the ptiblic sales of 523 bags Grenada and Trini-
dad. 60 bags Bahia and 75 bags African at auction were
all taken in, the former fine red at 40s, and the latter of ord
quality at 355.
TEA.—Today there were two public sales, these were
the first under the new system, and consisted of 2,234
chests Congou, 642 chests Hyson, 213 boxes Cowslip
Hyson, 925 half-chests Young Hyson, 100 chests and hall=
chests Imperial, 136 chests Gunpowder, 465 chests 400
boxes Caper, 31 chests Ning Yong, 215 chests Souchongs
207 chests Fokicn Bobea, and 48 chests Orange Pekoe.
The prices obtained were as follows :—Fokien Bolles, sub-
ject to is 6d duty, Is 64d to is 6id, Orange Pekoe 3s .o}d
to 3s 11d, Congou but mid rather strong little burnt and
and mixed blackish leaf Is Id to Is 2d, ord coarse and new
1s 04d to Is oi-d, Hymn Is 7d to 2s Id, Young Ilyson is 42-d
to is 6d, Imperial 24 4,1 to 2s Iod, Gunpowder fair to good
2s Sid to 4s sd, Caper but mid mixed Is to Is 311, Ning
Yong but reid.mixed blackish leaf is 2d to Is 2id, Sou-
chong but mid blackish ,strong Is 2d to is 3d.
SPIOES.-For. Pimento there has been a steady demand,
and 150 bags at public sale found buyers at full pi ices ; ord
brought 30, mid to good mid 31-cl to 31d, good 3,id. All
kinds of Ginger are held for advanced rates. 1,514 pock
ets Bengal at public sale sold at full prices, good bold
at 22s 6d to 235. Mace--a part only of 24 casks dark
red at auction, found buyers at 3s 10d to 4s Id. In
Cloves and Nutmegs no change. In Cinnamon late rates
have been supported. For Black Pepper no further improve-
ment in prices can be quoted ; at auction, 2,000 bags were
all sold; Sumatra and Batasia light rather duty at 3,1,d
to 4d, and half heavy Penang 4d. Cassia Lignea held
for prices higher than buyers are inclined to`pay.
film-3,943 bags Bengal, and 2,000 !sags Java Rice
were offered at auction ; of the former only a few lots were
sold at is decline, 16s being accepted for middling white;
the latter was taken in at 14a for mid quality, and good
Bengal at 16s to 16s 6,1. The operations in Carolina
have been limited ; the makers have not reduced the price.
The arrivals of Paddy continue lucre. This afternoon
2,300 bags Madras at auction sold at full 6 prices, ord yellow
brought 13e a 13s 6d Fer cwt.
Ort.s.—ln the prices of common Fish Oils little varia-
tien has occurred since our last ; 30/. has been accepts('
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TALLOW—The transactions in P. Y. Candle on the
spot have been extremely limited, at the reduced rates of
47s 3d to 47s 6d for first quality ; for delivery in April a
few small sales have been made at 475; the price for the
last three months has fallen to 465. Town Tallow cheaper.
INDIGO.—The home and export demand for East India
has been limited. For Spanish there are not many buyers ;
and 60 serous Guatemala at auction sold heavily, ord and
mid descriptions 21 lower; sobres went at 6s 6d to 7s, and
tortes 4s 3d to 6s 3d per lb.
SALTPETRE. —Rough is held firmly, and there is nothing
of common quality to be purchased under 27s 6d. British
Refined as last quoted. This afternoon 2,068 bags were
offered at public sale, 1,503 were taken in, refraction, 34
per c•:nt, low yellow white at 26s 61 ; there were buyers at
275; the remainder sold at 61 to is decline, and went
at 27s for good mid grey, refraction 4 per cent.
SAGO.—At public sale 142 chests good Karl were taken
in at 25s per cwt.
Russ, BRANDY, AND LIOLL ANDS —ln Jamaica Rum the
purchases have been confined to 100 puns 32 per cent over
at 5 2d ; • holders having submitted to a reduction of id to
Id for Leewards, has occasioned a good demand, anti 400
puns have been sold, proofs at 3s 3d, 5 per tient over 3s 51,
10 over 3s 7d, 15 over 3s 91, 20 over 3s Ild, 25 over 4,3 d,
30 to 36 over 4s 9d to 4s 11d. For Brandy late rates hay e
beer. fully supported. Geneva at 2s 4d to 2s sd. British
Corn Spirits at late rates.

ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATION.

The indication of feeling contained in the Sad-
Ileworth resolutions, from which an extract was

yesterday submitted to our readers, arc echoed from
distant parts of the country. " Should our just
complaints not be attended to," say the men of
Saddleworth, " we shall have no choice left, but to
turn our attention immediately to those further or-
ganic reformi of the Constitution, which the course
of events will have proved to be imperatively neces-
sary." A letter from Glasgow says—" The feeling
here just now is that of despair of any good being
done by the present Parliament or Min;stry." A
letter from Coventry conveys this direct interroga-
tory :—" Had we not better join the Chartists in
demanding an alteration of the constitution of the
Houses of Lords and Commons ?"

" People are dissatisfied with Government, but do
lot see their way to the formation of a rational

liberal party. They cannot meet publicly to
ask for changes in the representative system, be-
' cause they would be met by the Chartists proposing
alterations which the vast majority of the middle
classes are not prepared to support. But the Corn
Question may be agitated by way of lectures—not
one, but several lecturers should be spread over the
country, in the agricultural as in other districts.
The way will thus be paved for a truly
.Liberal
Government, which must come some day or other."
Extracts might be multiplied from letters from all
parts of the country, expressing similar sentiments.
So powerful, it appears, has been the effect of the
refusal of Parliament to hear evidence regarding the
operation of the Corn-laws, that the pedantry of the
Chartists is at this moment the only strong barrier
in the way of an entire and beneficial revision of the
elective system.

Another hint in the letter from which
the above quotation is made is important—the
sending of lecturers into the agricultural districts.
Let not the corn monopolists build upon the sup-
port of the agricultural labourers, they know that
the Corn-laws keep up the price of their loaf, but
do not keep up the rate of their wages. A few
lecturers would soon demonstrate to them that the
Corn-laws keep down the rate of their wages.
I❑ this missionary field Colonel THOMPSON and
Mr. PAULTON have already broke groUnd. The
former was received at Bungay and Ipswich in a
manner that invites to a repetition of the experi-
ment. The latter has excited a ferment at Maid-
stone that can only find vent in a public meeting.
At Lewes the working men have followed the ex-
ample set them by the Chartists of Exeter, as no-
ticed in our last, and put down a hole-and-corner

meeting of the pro-Corn-law men.
The Aberdeen Herald, an anti-Corn-law
Paper, says, in reference to the state of that ques-
tion in the north :—" In this district the feelitig in
favour of the good cause, far exceeds our most
sanguine expectation. From almost every town
and village petitions, numerously signed, have been
sent off, or are ready to be sent; and what is
especially gratifying, the farmers, in many places,
have been the most eager to affix their names. The
practical agriculturists of Aberdeenshire know
right well that, whatever be the. case with their
landlords, they themselves have nothing to gain by
the perpetu-ation of the corn monopoly."

THE YOUTH OF SHAKSPEARE.—III this new
Work, by the Author of " Shakspeare and his Friends,"
every individual of any celebrity has been introduced
whose name was connected with that of his distinguished
contemporary. Of Shakspeare's Stratford associates here
will be found a goodly group, composed of his mother (the
heiress of Arden), and his father (the High Bailiff of
Stratford), the blooming Anne Hathaway (whose ripened
womanhood made the youth a poet and a benedict before
he was eighteen), John A'Combe, the usurer; Sir Thomas
Lucy (the " Justice Shallow" of his plays); his school-
fellows—young Burbage, Tom Greene, Hemings, and
Condell (afterwards fellow players with him) ; and the
elder Burbage (afterwards manager to the company to
which they belonged, at the Globe on Bankside) Whilst
of historical personages there are brought forward with a
satisfactory prominence, the courtly Earl of Leicester and
Sir Christopher Hatton; the chivalrous Sir Philip Syd-
ney, and his accomplished sister, the Countess of Pem-
broke; the more truly. illustrious Edmund Spenser; and
the play writers, Robert Greene, Kit Marlowe, Lodge,
Nash, Chettle, and Kyd ; besides a variety of other cha-
racters, chiefly imaginary, necessarily introduced to render
the work a perfect picture of the times it seeks to
pourtray. -

• „„.
MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL, " THE CABI-
NET MINISTER."—We are requested to state that the new
novel entitled " The Cabin& Minister," by Mrs. Gore, Au-
thoress of " Mother and Daughters," "Stokehill Place," &c.,
is published this day by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street,
and may now be had of all booksellers, and at all the Libraries.

THE SOLDIER AT HOME.—We are glai to
see announced as forthcoming a new work called " Home
Service," by Mr. Benson Hill, whose " Recollections of
an Artillery Officer" were hailed as replete with interest
and amusement. The title of this second bouk threatens
nought foreign or warlike, but promises still more of diver-
sion than its predecessor afforded. The Artillery Officer
who coald jest at New Orleans is not likely to have been
less merry in British quarters.
MICHAEL ARMSTRONG, THE FACTORY
Boy.—We tire requested to state that Mr. CoNun. of
Great Marlborough-street, has this day published the First
Part, price is., of Mrs. Trollope's new work, " The Life
and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy,"
to be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, printed and
embellished uniformly with " Nicholas Nickieby," &c.
Mr. Colburn has also published this day " The Idler in
Italy," by the Countess of Blessington, in 2 vole. Bvo.,
with afine portrait of the Authoress, after E. Landse.er, it. A.
Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin-
burgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin.

PRICE 5d

NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Rev. Dr. WADE in the chair.

Mr. Bailie CRAIG handed in 17/. 10s. rent from
some male and female associations in the district which
he represented.

The Report of the Committee for Disseminating
Politie4l information among the Industrious Classes was
then read.

Upon Mr. NEESOII moving, and Mr. KNOX second-
ing its adoption,
Mr. BussEr moved, as an amendment, " That the
consideration of the objected passages should be taken
into consideration by the whole Convention in Com-
mittee."

This amendment passed, and Dr. WADE having. va-
cated the chair, the members went into Committee, and
went over the whole address ; and finally passed it
with some amendment. •
The Committee ordered that the folowing gentlemen
:.mould proceed on Monday next to agitate the
country :

Mesrs. Hadley, of Birmirgliam.
„.. Salt ... do.
... Douglas ... do.
... Col!iiis ... do.
... Pearce ... do.
... Muir ••• Glasgow.
... Lowrip • • London.
... Vincent ... Bristol.
... Cardo ... London.
... O'Brien ••• Leigh.
•-• Duncan ••• Dumfries.
... Bussey ••• Yorkshire.
... Gill ••• Sheffield.
... Burns ... Dundee.
Billie Craig Kilmarnock.
...

In our summary 4, this day we have to say that the
multiplicity of speechea-matie zn this occasion was such
as to exercise the most exemplary patience. Mr.
Feargus O'Connor ONLY spoke thirty-five times, and
Mr. Douglas forty-six times.
At five o'clock the meeting dissolved.

CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

A meeting of the above Society was this day held, ,at
one o'clock, at Willis's Rooms, King street, St. James's-
street, the Earl of TANKERVILLE in the chair.

Among those present we observed the following noble-
men and gentlemen :—The Earl of Tankerville, the Earl
of Euston, the Earl of Darlington, the Earl of Mount-
cashel, Lord Barrington, M. P., Sir C. B. Vere, Sir G.
Caley, M. P., Colonel Rus.hbrook, M.P., Mr. Hindley,
M.P., Mr. E. S. Caley, M.P., Mr, Ormsby Gore,
M.P., Mr. Eaton, M.P., Mr. Christopher, M.P., Cu!.
Sibthorpe,. M. P., Hon. Mr. Duncombe, M.P., Mr. Black-
stone, M.P., Mr. Harland, M. P., Mr. Pusey, M. P.,
Mr. Round, M. P., Mr. Ellis, M. P., Mr. Packe, M P.,
Colonel Con-illy, M.P., Mr. Packington, M.P., Captaio
1)w:combo, M. P. ; Colonel Rolieston, M P., the Cham-
pion Dyrneck, Mr. Spotti,woode and the Rev. Mr. Gwelt.
Ste C. 13. VERE having expressed his regret at the ab-
sence of the President. Sir Henry Rushbrooke, said, that
he was Livy to state that a Noble Lord, who had always
upheld the interests of a4ricultaie, had kindly consented
to take the Chair ; ha therefore moved that the Earl of
Tankerville do Like the chair.

The CHAIRMAN craved the indulgence of the meeting on
account of a considerable degree of deafness under which
he laboured. He would not take up their time at any great
length, but he could not but ellude to the recent agitation
on the subject of tile- Corn-laws. The agitators on this
subject ha*: forgotten that the National Debt amounted to
eight hundred millions, that the land was burdened to pay
the interest of this debt, which it was impossible it could do
if it were deprived of protection against competition with
these countries where the wages of labour only
amounted to one-half per day. The proceedings of the
manufacturers, as regarded this question, he regarded as
perfectly dishonest, and the menu* -r is which the question
had been brought forward in the House of Lords was liable
to the same charge. because it was there stated as one of
the faults of the present Corn-laws th At they had failed in
producing a uniformity of price. How could this be pro-
duced unlass a uniformity of seasons could be produced
• also ?—( Cheers. )
Mr. MARTIN then read the report, which stated that
since they hdd.laat separated an agitation had arisen, hay •
inn for its object the repeal of the Corn-lows; that Lord
Melbourne had stated that a majority of the Cabinet were
ix favour of an alteration of those laws ; and that Lord J.
Russell had said that he considered the time for making
some change in those laws had now arrived ; that the
Anti-Corn-law party which numbered among its Members
almost all the talented writers on the 'subject of free-
trade, had confessed that they sought by this agitation to
inflict a blow upon the aristocracy, which if it gave way
on this point would be forced to agree to still further con-
cessions ; that this agitation was owing, in a great measure,
to the present high prices of agricultural productions, and
that those high prices were occasioned by the Legislature
not having adopted any measure for the amelioration of
agriculture—it then congratuLted the Society on the
defeat of Mr. Vtlliers's motion, and urged the necessity of
not being induced by their success upon that question to
relax in their t fibres. It then expressed regret at the
present inadequacy of the funds of the Society, and depre-
cated any division among the agricultural interest.
The Earl of EUSTON said that he, as an agriculturist,
did not advocate monopoly in anything; that the objects
of the Society was the abundant production of food for
the benefit of the community at large, and the accumu-
lation of wealth in the hands of individuals. He was sorry
that commerce had attacked agriculture ; he wished to see
them both united. He concluded by moving the first resolu-
tion, which recommended the adoption of the suggestions
of the Committee as contained hi the report.
Mr. CIIRISTOPISER supposed he had boon selected
to second the resolution because he represented a
large agricultural district, from which no delegate had
been sent to the Anti- Corn-law Association. The desire
for a repeal of the Corn-laws was confined to a small
body of manufacturers, who were dependent for their
profits on the foreign trade. They had sent him a copy of
the proceedings of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
relative to this question, in which the case of the land.
holders had been completely made out. They had stated
that the trade of Manchester was in a most prosperous state
in 1620, at which period the protecting duty on corn was
much higher than it is at present. He was convinced that •
the more the working classes, both agricultural and menu-
factoring, became acquainted .with this subject, the more
would they be convinced of the unprincipled and reckless
neture of these attempts of the millowners to under-
mine not only the interests of the agriculturists,
but of every other class of the communityr—(Cheers.)
The effects already produced by the system of reciprocity
and free trade, introduced by Mr. Huskisson, should ope-
rote as a warning against carrying that system any further.
M:. ORMSBY GORE proposed the next resolution, con-
gratulating the meeting on the refusal of both Houses of
Parliament to hear evidence. He believed that so deter-
mined were the manufacturers to carry their point, that
t6y would endeavour to place the agricultural labourers
in opposition to their employers, but they would not suc-
ceed. He was glad to see some of the Irish Members
present, as they were so deeply interested in this
question.—( Hear.) They would recollect that in
their own country the growth of flax had at
one period been given up, in consequence of the growers
being deprived of protection ; and when we were obliged
to fetch our flax from foreign countries, the Sovereigns of
those countries had imposed a duty upon it as they would
upon Corn, if we trusted to them for the supply. He then
stated that the best feeling existed between this Societe
and the English Agricultural Society--the difference be..
twcen this being, that this was a political Society, and
that was not.
Mr. EATON in seconding the resolution said, be could
not understand how the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
could be considered as expressing 'the feelings of the
manufacturing interests generally.
Mr. CAI LEX urged them not to relax in their en-
deavours to get up petitions in favour of the Cern.
laws. It had been said by one of the Anti-Corn-
law Delegates, that these laWs were in opposition to
the prayer, " Give us this day our daily bread." Now he
considered that the operative cared not so much about the
price of bread as the rate of wages, and that if he were to
address the Throne on high, he would rather pray for his
daily wages than his daily bread. The [louse of Commons
did not refuse to hear evidence because they feared the
sophistry of the Anti- Corn-law agitators,\but because
their speeches and petitions bespoke a foregatie conclusion,
and it v-as too much to seek to deprive the agricultural
interests of their protection now that they bad just emerged
from their distress.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BLANCHARD stated that he had formerly been opposed
to the Corn-laws, but he was now convinced of their benefit.
It was absurd to attempt to prevent other nations competing
with us in manufactures. We had learnt to manufacture
for foreigners, and others would follow an example which,
_ the long peace had enabled them to do. Allusion bad
been made to Venice and Holland as depending upon
foreign nations for a supply of corn. Now the Venetians
had always directed their 'almost attention to maintaining
their people by their own industry, without begging pro-
visions of foreigners, and soon after Holland became inde-
pendent a combination had been formed among other States
to starve us, in which, althongh they failed at the time,
still they might have succeeded.
Mr. Aextesoete appeared as the representative of- the
handloom weavers of Spitalflclds. Their distresses ware
entirely owing to the system of free trade. He had Leer,
chosen by them as their advocate before the Commission
of Inquiry, and he was prepared to show that it was to the
system of free trade that all the evils they were suffering
were owing. They wished the agriculturists should
continue to enjoy all the protection they at present
enjoyed, but they also demanded protection for themselves,
Mr. Atkinson here entered into a long description of the
effects produced by competition in Datia, in India, andcon-
clundled rablyoTe. iege? that the competition principle was the wog
iin
propounded, and that alt the misery and
o
wrong with which the world was at present overwhelmed
were fairly chargeable upon this principle.
The Earl of DARLINGTON moved that the agricultural
bodies throughout the country be requested to communicate
and co-operate with the Society. The Noble Lord said
that the leaded interests were not the aeeressers in this
ee
question, hut were merely defending themselves from tire
attacks which had 'been made upon them. Mr. Villiers,
in his very able speech upon this subject in the

House of Commons, had only showed that the profits or
certain of ourmanufacturcrs were not so great as tl3y had
formerly been. But the statements that our exports were
diminishing were satisfactorily dispraved, and the conti.ary
proved to be the case, by Mr. Wood, the Member for
Kendal.—( Hear ) Could the manufacturers expect now
to realise the same enormous profits which they had retied
as a time when they had the monopoly of the manufacturing
skill of the world? Now, that peace had for twenty years
and upwards prevailed in Europe—now, that Continental
nations had become manufacturers for themselves, arid
formed their own machinery, was it to be expected that
for any concession about the Corn-laws they would sud-
denly abolish their manufactures, and give to ours again a
monopoly ?—(Hear.)
Mr. ALLNUTT seconded the resolution. As the -repre-
sentative of a large body of the farmers of the country, he
could assure the meeting that they were beginning to eons_
bine together on the principle of self-protection, thon;„,,h
they had too long remained, passive under accurnelened
woes. The Corn-law question, after all, was easily to be
apprehended in a common-sense view. Culc-1 the
heavily taxed farmers of this country compete with the
untaxed corn-growers of the Continent, if ior,i„-,
corn was allowed to be brought into our ports duty frea?-..
( Hear, bear.) A vast deal had been very glibly said as to
the inferior lands of England being easily thrown opt of
cultivation if the Corn-laws were repealed; indeed it less
said that they ought to be uncultivated. But did
such shallow, flippant reasoners remember that these
pourer lands gave employment to the greater num-
ber of agricultural labourers ?—( Hear, hear, hear.)
' Those labourers were in some degree the ad.scriptce glcebe.
They were attached to the poor lands ; they were free in-
dependent Englishmen; they could not be removed; they
must be suported by some parties. Would the manfactur_
ing capitalists support the millions of those cultivators of
the interior lands who must he thrown out of employ. if
the Corn-laws were repealed?—( Hear, hear, hear.) It had
been said that the manufacturing capitalists assembled
at Manchester possessed more wealth than all the aris-
tocracy of England. If so, where d:d they get it ,
( Hear.) In England; under that very Corn-law system
which they now were exclaiming against as destructive to
their interests.—( Hear, bear.)
The Earl of MoustTeastitt supported the resolution,
observing that he thought the interests of Ireland were
more concerned in the maintenance of the Corn-laws than
any other part of the country.—( Hear.)
The resolution was carried.

Mr. PAcKE, M. P., moved the next resolution, of "Thanks
to that distinguished portion of the Press which had advo-
cated tie agricultural interests. 7—( Hear.)
Sir T. PHILLIPPS, hart., seconded tiAc resolution,
was carried unaniaiousTy.
Mr. W. DUNCOMBE, in moving thank 3 to the Committee
and officers of last year, adverted to the admirable speech
f Sir R. feel in the late debate on the Corn-laws in the
House of Commons, and advised that the speech of the
Right Honourable Baronet be published by the Society, as
well calculated to place the question in a lair and just
light.—( Hear.)
The resolution was passed.
Major HANDLEY, M. P., moved the thanks of the moat.
ing to Lord Tankerville for his able presidency of the in.
stitution.

Mr. PUSEY seconded the resolution, which was passed
with great applause. . _

His LORD9IIIP briefly returned his acknowledgments for
the compliment, and the meeting separated.

MR. WAKLEY'S FIRST INQUEST.

Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Thorrns
Wel:ley, M.P. (the newly-appointed Coroner for the
Western Division of the County of Middlesex, in the rwin
of the late Thomas Stirling, Esq., deceased) entered up ~n
his most important duties by holding his firs• inquest at the
King's Arms Tavern, High Holborn, on the body of Mr.
Peter Spencer, aged 69, who was found dead under cir-
cumstances detailed in the evidence subjoined.
It is worthy of remark that the protect (Mr. W,.',-.ley's
first case) was held in the parish of St. George, Bioorns--
bury, in which he himself resides. The Jury, eighteen in
number, having been sworn,

Mr. kVAKLEY addressed them Upon the importancn of
the melancholy duty they were called upon to perform, and
the nee,2ssity of attending to the evidence, that th /11H,t,
elucidate the real cause of a fellow-creature's death. The
Coroner having accompanied the Jury to the residereside::c> of
the deceased, and entered into a strict external oxaltina-
tion of the body; the evidence was proceeded with a- toi-
lo:Vs, the depositions being tzken down by Mr. Bell, hoc
Clerk to Mr. Stirling, who fills a similar situation ;older
his sticcesscx.

Mr. William Spencer, of No. 133, high Hdl
feither and bedding manufacturer, deposed that dvcc
was his father. and usually tesided at Clieltcullail

about at a twelvemonth sinct; came to reside with wi

He usually enjoyed a good state of lii-alth,but for ttic
two or three days previous to his death, he cbinplaincd (if a
pain at his chest, which way supposed to be occasion, d by
an old asthmatic complaint. No medical aid ii.iti'eal!ed
as deceased objected to medical men altogether. • Saw
deceased last alive between eleven and twelve o'clock on

bl
Saturday night last in, bed, left him there, and
nothing more of him during the night. About (-I:zl.'
o'clock on Sunday morning witness was informed by
in his employ, that deceased was lying on the floor cf
apartment. Told him to take deceased up a cup of cofFo,
(which was the lad's usual custom). He did so, but imnic
diately returned, saying he could not wake deceased
Witness was in bed at the time, but instmnth

n! up

stairs inehis night-clothes, and discovered decea-ett
on the floor by the side of the bed, endeavoured to rous
him, hint life appeared quite extinct. -Sent for nu heal
aid immediately. A surgeon attended and opened veias in
both arms, but with rio effect. Found no cup or plii4l in
the room. Had no reason to suspect he bad taken Tolson.
The Coroner's Clerk questioned the witness as to de-
ceased's general habits with regard to sobriety.
The witness, who, throughout his evidence, was much
affected, said that he was not sure that he was temp:lied
to answer such questions.
The Clerk disclaimed any intention of wounding the
witness's feelings.
• Mr. %VAKLEY considered the question strictly relevant.
They had assembled to inquire into the circumstance: at_
tending the death of the deceased; and it was impw.sible
for the Jury to deliver a conscientious verdict without bear-
ing all the evidence that might possibly relate to it.
The witness in answer to several questions pit by the
Coroner, stated that the deceased had such an abhorreucc of
medical men, that if he knew one was coming to sei. hirehe would conceal himself. He ate stewed eels for his din-
ner on Saturday, and took gruel for his supper. About 7
o'clock on Saturday evening, deceased took a spoonful of
" Powell's Balsam of Anniseed," and afterwards rubbed
his chest with hartshorn and oil, after which lie complained
of the pain being more intense. He sometimes complained
that he could not get sleep towards morning.
The Coroner inquired if the Jury wished to hear any
farther evidence ; there was, in his opinion, nothing before
them to shew the actual cause of death, whether by break_
ing a blood-vessel, or a disease of the lungs, in fact they
ought to know the ordet of a disease to return a proper ver-
dict ; he, however, was willing to leave the case in their hands,
and abide by the decision they thought prover to come to.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict
of " Natural Death, by the 'Visitation of God."
Ma. \VAKLEY said, before the Court broke up, be was
desirous of offering a few observations with respect to the
important subject of medical evidence. The object of law'
generally, was not in his opinion formed so much for the
thatdetethatits
Coroner's recurrence. q \t'ew'i,,ttas
crime,he w a
seled
toto prevent
believe,
from their first institution were of the first importance, in a
ectoionnvicotfior,
moral point of view, as regarded the administration of cri-
minal law. In his opinion, even with respect to the case
they had just decided upon, a port mortem examinetion was
truly desirable, although there was no discrepancy in the
evidence. It might transpire that an individual, heir to pro-
perty, might wish to get rid of a second person who stood
between the former's speedy possession of it, and for that
purpose administer to him morphiate (the principle of
opium), and cause death. To detect if such had been,
done, it was' necessary in all cases of sudden death thee a
post mortem examination should take place ; but not. vc
much so, in cases resulting from known accidents or pal.:
pahle instances of suicide. He-intended to put the cotter
to as little expense as possible—but he should feel it
his
duty when no judgment could be fairly formed front an ex-
ternal appearance of a body always to order a post mortem
examination.—(hear, hear.)
The Jury having expressed a desire to "drink" Mr.
Wakley's health, this being his first inquest, %r. Waklcy
presented the Foreman with two guineas, remerking.
That as he wanted to be an old horse, he styposed he
must be first coltcd."

Sedentary occupations, close application to husi
cress, continual reading and writing, colds, fevers, ner-
vousness, use of bad and improper spectacles and ear-
trumpets, and intense study, all conspire to injure those
best of natilre's gifts, the human sight and hearing. It,
will, however, be a solace to individuals who, from either
of the above causes, are labouring under deafness or weak,
and defective eyesight to know that the skill, and long (lA_
tensive practice and experience upon the sight and I).eat•-
ing, of Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle.
street, Piccadilly, have enabled them to construct a new
form of spectacle lens, which will be found to enable aged
as well as young persons with weak and imperfect vision,
either by day or candlelight, to attend to the most minute
employment with the greatest case and comfort. The
Alessi's. S.'s Operative Voice-Conductor, for deaf persons,
are the size of a seven-shilling piece, fits into the cavity
ovnot
h;
eo ol:aa least
t perceptible, and the faintest
assembly
is heard with distinctness.
c IOPE.—The Cominerciai
whisper itshple r ear,
:E' '
or publicta
Advertiser, a Cape of Good Hope paper, to the 23d of
December, informs us that a steam-boat had arrived there
and was anha
plying between Table Bay and Sald Saygreatly to the convenience of the colonists. A consider-
able number of the emigrant farmers had returned, or were
about to return to- the colony. No farther intelligenceti4d
been received from the main body of these unfortura ~
people in the Zoola country. The colonial revenue fr,;;„
arriveginagt
a with
f o; t theuil
a 00l
- t
the great increase of trade and other causes had, for 187,7-8
far exceeded that of any former year. A body of ceerrn
chkn
emigrants, fifty in number, had arrived. They are i'
artisans or tradesmen of the most useful clas,,,es, and for
whose skill and labour there is at present the
greatest de-
mand at the Cape. They come out on tt‘eir oan resources,
cfroenesiadnedrabialedespuns nideonft;mmonaenyy.ofTthbe7 bringing e
time for themselves and the colony.

-ientnrubrorndieedl f 4
than a
anboounte
toweblel
...
We trust it will be one whic,, will
thepublic the full benefit of that valuabll
cure to p
and i.
se -Ctutional force.—United Service Gazette.
assuredtitat theby Militianlre
truly con., "
Cur\rVecapaonrcdent,
I
A considerable change for the better, kuperin. :1
An.t'spreaseP:t°eGotirr,,,,t:n.in
under a new footing.
Xi
duced by a late complaint of the measles, has taken illaN) i
in the state of Prince George of Hanover's eyes. 11 t
ups
are entertained of a probable ultimate cure,
clo'tßtoAnDtrEaTe,
this town, there are many mills working aQi • t,
great
...lon time, We
the more regret this, as it will subject the operatives to
great pi.ivations.--Preston Observer.