The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-25 00:00:00

GREENWICH.

Yesterday, agreeably to advertisement, a meeting was con-
vened at the Greyhound Tavern, Stockwell-street, Green-
wich; but the room long before the hour when the chair was
to be taken became so crowded that George Borett, Esq.,
President of the Greenwich Association, came forward and in-
formed the meeting that the Committee had been very hand-
somely offered the use of Mr. Metzler's Reading-room. The
meetinf, adjourned thither accordingly. On the platform we
observed Capt. Napier, R N. (who. on his appearance, was
greeted with immense cheering), Capt. Feed, R. N., Col.
Fead, of the Guards, Thomas Lewin, Esq., Barrister, and
others.
Mr. BORETT rose and stated the meeting had been called in
consequence of a resolution of the Reform Association. Care
had been taken that the Members for the borough might have
been present, and in the course of the evening their letters
would be read ; but, however, they had declined to preside, in
consequence of which he ( Mr. Borett) had to propose another
gentleman to the chair, and when he named that gentleman he
was sure his proposition would meet with little opposition, as
be had paid more attention to the subject than any other man
of his acquaintance. He concluded with moving that Joshua
Hargrave, E-sq., should take the chair.
Mr. GEORGE SMITH seconded the motion with pleasure, as _

Mr. Hargrove had paid more attention to the subject than any
other gentleman whom he knew.
The motion was carried with acclamation..
The Chairman (Mr. HARGRAVE) said the Corn-laws had
been existing for many years, but they had dore no good, on
the contrary, were ruining every class of the community.
Mr. LEWIN rose to move the first resolution, which was to
the purport, that the present system of Corn-laws, without
benefiting the agricultural interest, inflicted most serious in.
jury on every other portion of the community except the land-
owners, and that they clashed with the interests of the manu-
facturers to a very great extent, by which they were driven
from foreign markets by the competition of foreign manufac-
turers. He did not wish to offend any one when he made the
comparison, but he considered labour as merely a market-
able commodity.—( A voice, " Certainly it is.") That
part of the resolution which represented the Corn-laws to
clash with the interests of the manufacturer in particular,
that every one knew to be true. There was Prussia
would not take many articles from us, because we would
not take from them their corn--( Hear, hear)—and besides,
they had now arranged to manufacture for themselves.
He believed that every protecting duty was injurious, because
no trade could be protected without injury to another class ;
because every protection must injure all other classes as much
as it benefited one. It had been said the landed interest
was more taxed than other classes; then he would say, let all
be taxed equally—that was the right way. Let the landlord
make out that, and then let it be removed.
Mr. PAINE rose to second the resolution. High prices of
corn did not bring high prices for labour in the market, con-
sequently the Corn-laws inflicted very serious injury.—( Hear,
bear.) The Czar of Russia would gladly let us have corn
from Odessa, but he could not for the prohibition of the Corn-
laws. Was it not, therefore, absurd that we should not avail
ourselves of the many adrantages we possessed of iron, of
coal, and all the elements for manufacturing, seeing that we
could not raise as much corn as to supply our population. He
believed that last year there had scarcely been an average crop,
and with the present restrictions, it occasioned in the moneyed
class a spirit of monopoly. The foreigner did not know whe-
ther to bond his corn or to sell, and as long as the Corn-laws
existed the evil must exist.
The CHAIRMAN was desirous to impress upon their minds,
that whatever might be the protecting duty—whatever article
it might affect, the consumer always was the one that paid the
duty.

Mr. BURT proceeded ingeniously to show how the Corn-
laws operated, by making corn, which could be had for ss. or
65., to be raised to the price of Ms. or I Is., and illustrated
his argument by citing a steam-engine he had seen valued at
1,5001., and tracing the labour and the increased price of
wages through all its stages, showing how much the artificial
price;of corn, occasioned by the Corn-laws, had enhanced the
value of the engine. He alluded to the fact of the 41b. loaf in
France being only whilein England we must pay for the
same loaf I Id.

The resolution was put from the Chair and car•icd unan
mously.

Mr. JONES said it was obvious the reason why the laws had
been originated, and why they had been preserved.—( Hear.)
There were 658 Members in the House of Commons. They
had entered into a conspiracy to maintain their own interests
as landowners at the expense of the welfare of the country at
'large. They would not be induced to remove the incubus
until the strenuous and unanimous voice of the people was
raised. He begged leave to move the resolution that the,Corn-
laws be abolished.

Mr. HARTNOLL, Editor of the Greenwich Patriot, in se-
conding the resolution, stood there as a convert. There had
been two reasons of great importance that had influenced him
when he was not an enemy to the Corn-laws. He took into
consideration the immense wealth produced by the land.
Taking the calculation of one of those who had addressed
them, there were produced annually 50,000,000 quarters of
corn. Taking the quarter at 21. in value, they would have
nothing less than 100,000,000/. of wealth annually. There
was a weighty consideration in that, and seeing the prosperity
the country had so long enjoyed, he thought they ought to be
tender with respect to interests of such magnitude. The
second idea which had ruled him when he was not unfriendly
to the Corn-laws, was the idea of national safety, and the
opinion that this country, especially as it was so isolated,
ought not to trust to foreign countries for its food. But lie
had changed his opinion, and he now candidly confessed it,
considering there was nothing worse than persisting in a
wrong opinion.—(Cheers.) He was a " repentant sinner."
—(A laugh.) He was first induced to conversion when the
gentlemen of his own opinion began to put forth arguments.
He saw such arguments were untenable, and he saw the
pressure of the question owing to the distress that bad spread
itself, and he saw that all other considerations must give way
to the one of giving food to the community.—( Loud cheers. )
One of the Corn-law supporters had said that these laws were
excellent, because the moment you stood in need of food you
could have it. When they called for the corn, would the corn
come ? They might not have enough corn in the country for
more than a week, and they would be placed under the most
disastrous circumstances. He had calculated the amount of
bread in physical dimensions requisite to supply this country
for a week. A column of loaves twenty feet high and twenty
feet broad, extending to Shooter's-hill from where they then
were, was what would feed this country for a week. He
would undertake to say that the corn imported into this country
in a week would not fill all the snuff-boxes in it.—(A laugh. )
Captain NAPIER then rose and said, that connected as he
had been, and hoped still to be, with the borough of Green-
wich—( Loud cheers)—he would say a few words. It did not
appear to him safe to repeal the Corn-laws totally at present.
Let them have a low and fixed ditty for the present.—( Cries
of" No, no—Repeal, repeal.") All great changes were dan-
gerous• He doubted whether they would carry the country
along with them if they made such large demends, because the
members of the Legislature were, as they well knew, land-
owners almost exclusively.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. STEVENS, Editor of the Greenwich Gazette, rose to
move that the petition which had been prepared by the Corn-
tnittee of the Greenwich General Reform Association, should
be presented to the House of Commons, and that it should
he presented by Mr. C. P. Villiers, Member for Wolver-
hampton.—( A voice, " Why not by the Member for the Bo-
rough ?") Ile proceeded to read the petition, which showed,
in strong language, the evils of the Corn-laws, and prayed
for their total and immediate repeal.) He would tell them
why the petition was not proposed to be entrusted to the Mem-
bers for the borough Qf Greenwich. They had both been re-
quested to attend this meeting, and they had both declined for
various reasons.

Mr. HALLEY seconded the motion. Our manufactures were
greatly depressed, and such a state of things should not be al-
lowed to continue. We were exporting by 7,000,0001. value
less than we were exporting a very few years back.
Lieut. HICKMAN moved a vote of censure on the Members
for the borough for not attending.
The motion was not seconded.

After a desultory conversation,
The CHAIRMAN was desirous to state an historical fact—
namely, that when Bonaparte issued his Milan decree he de-
termined to shut every port against us ; but it was most re-
markable that we never had imported more grain than we did
at that time.

A number of voices now called for thanks to Captain Na-
pier, and a motion to that effect was moved, seconded, and
carried unanimously. It was followed by three hearty rounds
of applause. _

The Gallant CAPTAIN returned thanks, and the meeting
separated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TA TTERSALL'S_ Y
ESTERD/ Y-
Tll E DERBY.
A very thin attendance, and not a dozen bets made. The fol
lowing are the latest quotations :-
3 to 1 agst John Scott's lot—offered -
6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot
7 to 1 agst John Day's lot
11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—offered
15 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh
17 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dev of Algiers
21 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim
28 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian—taken
28 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus
30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor
30 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Bulwark
40 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—taken
40 to 1 asst Duke of Grafton's /Ether (Pastille colt)—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti—offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Brother to Quo Minus—taken
2000 to 30 agst each of Scott's lot, 17 in number—taken
1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt
1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo
1000 to 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Oronooko
300) even between Dey of Algiers and Erin-go-Bragh—taken
200 even Oronooko agst Chimborazo—taken

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.

DERBY BETTING.
I is 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton
15 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau
16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh
200 to 11 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus
CHESTER TRADES' CUP.
I I to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole—offered—take 12
100 to 9 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren—taken
100 to 13 agst Colonel Peel's lon—offered
18 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Modesty—take 20
18 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway-20 taken
20 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Topham's The Drone
20 fp 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Eaglet
20 to 1 agat Lord Stanley's Ole Bull
20 to I agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Heron—taken
25 to I agst Mr. Allan's Percy—taken freely
200 to 10 agst Mr. T. Walter's Vertumnus—taken
500 to 20 agat Lord Normanbv's Gipsy—offered
11'0 to 3 agst Mr. Buckley's Dick—taken freely
200 to 7 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph

On the evening of Sunday week two prostitutes,
named Martin and Donald, residing in Craven-street, Gray's
Inn-road, quarrelled while in a state of intoxication, and
fought. Donald was severely beaten, and, as is alleged,
kicked by her opponent, and has since died. The Coroner
having been informed of the circumstance, a Jury was sum-
moned yesterday afternoon, but the inquiry was adjourned to
have the body examined. The woman Martin is in custody.
On Wednesday afternoon a woman Denham, in an ad-
vanced state of pregnancy, slipped off the foot-pavement in
Eyre-street-hill, Leather-lane, as a hlewer's dray was passing.
One of the wheels of the vehicle went over her legs, crushing
them in a shocking manner. She was removed to Bartholo-
mew Hospital without hope of' recovery.