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London, England, 1838-12-01 00:00:00

FREEHOLD PROPERTY FOR INVESTMENT,
IN BRIGHTON.

Producing 5001. a-year.
iuit. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to
Dec. 8, at Twelve, in several Lots, by Order
SELL by AUCTION, at the Old Ship Hotel, Brighton,
Ori
of LOWING. ELIGIBLE PROPERTY. The first in
importance is
BELLE-VUE HALL,
theS Proprietor, oNr
THE FO

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known‘ 'from its charming position on the East Cliff; formerly occu-
pied one mansion, but now divided into
Two DELIGHTFUL ABODES,
in a situation at once securing all the advantages of a marine resi-
dence, commanding extensive, andpicturesque views of the Downs,
the Ocean, and the surrounding country. These residences are
admirably arranged for family accommodation, replete with every
convenience, large gardens on either side, and in front coach-
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--OWe is let to David Bowman, Esq., at the very low rent of 701.
a year and the other has been generally let furnished. Also,
SIX PLOTS OF VALUABE FREEHOLD LAND,
for Building on in Bakers Bottom, and St. George's-road, also ex-
cellent Freehold Property, comprising
THIRTY-SEVEN MESSUAGES AND HOUSES,
more particularly suited to the small capitalists who may not object
to devote a little time and attention, and thereby secure a much
larger rate of interest in return, viz. :
TWO HOUSES WITH SHOPS, IN SUSSEX-STREET,
leading from the Grand Parade, being Nes. 18 and 19, let to Mr.
Terry and Mr. Allen, at 371. r. year;
ELEVEN HOUSES, IN CARLTON-ROW,
leading from Carlton-street, near the Grand Parade, being Nos.
22 to 37, inclusive, and Nos. 42, 43, 48, 49, and 52.
TEN HOUSES IN CARLTON-COURT,
leading outFo trofßßecdofoTrdr-sAtrGeeEt,sfrloNm
adjoining, from Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive.
SIX OF THE CRESCENT COTTAGES,
leading out of Montague-street, from Nos. Ito 4 inclusive. Also,
ou the west side of the Parade, JNAo se
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st
NlO inc ulvs i e .
FOUR HOUSES IN FREDERICK'S-PLACE,
being Nos. 12, 13, 16, and 26, near Trafalgar-street, and close to
the

PROPOSED TERMINUS OF THE BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.
The entire Property is capable of producing
A RENTAL OF ABOUT 5001. A-YEAR.
The several Houses may be viewed, and particulars had, by ap-
plying to Mr. Edwards, Agent to the Proprietor, No. 130, Lon-
don-road ; also at the Old Ship, and Libraries, Brighton ;of
Messrs. Harrison, Solicitors,
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane ; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden, London.
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Mr. PAULTON then came forward and was received with
much cheering. He commenced by recapitulating the topics
of the lecture delivered on Monday evening, in his endeavours
to prove that legislature had beeh but an apology for the sys-
tematic plunder of this country ; after which, be proceeded to
point out the way in which thespoor man was defrauded of the
just fruits of his industry, in'ortler to support a heartless and
oppressive system. He referred, in the first instance, to the
heavy exactions levied on the labouring classes, in the shape of
sugar bounties, and coffee, duties, in order to support what was
called the West India interest, satisfactorily den migrating the
itijusirSus effects of high prices on Conga ;i90.„ Tke resultof
the Alit. -tin - sat was - fire-el—Simi ''-ii sirejearda the
Id
East India. monopoly, for, after the t e had been thrown
open,' the consumption rose in two years from thirty-
one to forty-nine millions of pounds weight; while
their manufactures exported to China increased in value from
800,0001. in 1834, to 1,326,3881. in 1836. By the opera-
tion of the Corn-laws there was, in every branch of industry,
considered with reference to the market for its produce, a su-
perabundance both of capital and of labour. The competition
of capital produced low profits and the redundancy of labour
had a constant iendency to reduee,wages; liut'let them once
take off the pressure from both—let their legislatoi-s•give them
the' world for their workshop, and its inhcipitancs for their
customers, the profits of the capitalist would increase with the
markets for his produce, wages would rise with the increased
demand for labour, and as long as an acre of land remained
untitled in any quarter of the globe, the, British operative
might laugh to scorn the emigrative projeclts of their Corn-
law pauper breeders. The lecturer next adverted to the mi-
series entailed upon the labourer, whether mechanical or agri-
cultural, by the fluctuations in the, price of wheat. Every
shilling, he observed, added to the price of a quarter of grain
in this country, was equal to an annual tax upon the people
of 2,600,0001., and a rise of ss. would take from the con-
sumer a sum sufficient to maintain the whole land and sea
forces for a twelvemonth—upwards of 12,500,000/. !
The landowners, however, not only denied cheap bread,
but they positively prohibited by express statutes,
every kind of foreign fresh meat. They absolutely
went so far as -to prohibit the importation—except
on the payment of a fixed duty, of a few luxuries flit• the middle
classes, such as live eels, sturgeon, oysters, &c. ; while turbot,
lobsters, and green turtle enjoyed the aristocratic distinction of
being imported .free of duty. Since 1835, the price of wheat
had fluctuated from 365. to 84s. a quarter; the average of the
year 1835 was Only 395. 4d., while this year it would probably
be 665..0r 675. per quarter. The consumption of wheat in
this country was stated to be 13,0(10,000 of quarters. :The
consumers therefore would have to, pay in the coming year
nearly 17,000
.000/. more tlian in 1835 ; 'and the poor. "man
would be thus compelled to, pay nearly 90 per cent. more fur
his food at the present time,
,while he did . not receive te,.., far-
thing more money in the shape of wages. The despotic teen,-
laws shut out his productions from 'Other countries, and,denied
to hiin the produce of the granaries of the world; and if, they
allowed their foreign commerce . (the -safety-valve of their
'country ) to be any longer tied' down by, the merciless bread-
tax df the landowners, the, whole machine would irievj-
tably go to atoms. Let them repeal the torn-lawS, .slid
they at once relieved capital from the pressure of a Con-
slant glut—let them give industry but free scope, and
it world shortly open an exhaustless field of production,
the population would inerease'and multiply, and they would
find the table of the world wide enough to admit a brother-
hood of commercial nations to the feast of plenty. As an ha-
dubitable proof—if proof were wanting—of the rapid increase
of manufactures in other countries, the lecturer mentioned
that America not only manufactured a large proportion of her
own consumption, but absolutely exported in 1836 3,000,0(10
dollars worth of cotton goods. Even Russia had become an
exporting country, and in the year 1831 she exported cotton
goods to the amount of 5,700,000 rubles. Since the Prussian
German"Lea4ue came into practical operation, in 1834, the
cotton manufactures of Saxony had more than doubled, and
her cheap hosiery had not only secured a monopoly of the
German Union, but had also shut out almost wholly from the
United States of America the manufactured goods of Not-
tingham. A single manufacturer at Kcmnitz, in Saxony,
had 1,500 hosiery looms at work, the whole - produce
of which, notwithstanding a land carriage of several
hundred miles, was shipped for the .London market, and
after paying a duty of twenty per cent., was at that
Very moment selling in Manchester at a cheaper rate than
the hosiery of Nottingham. But they prided themselves on
the superiority of their mechanical improvements, and flat-
tered themselves with the hope that other nations would not
easily outstrip them in this respect. It might not, however,
be generally known that the exportation of tools and ma-
chinery was now going on to a very considerable extent, and
from 1830 to 1835 machinery was openly exported from this
country under the sanction of the Board of Trade to the
amount of 1,053,0001., independently of the large quantities,
probably as much mote, which were annually smuggled to the
Continent. The Prussian Government gave a bounty of 50
per cent. on the value of all model machinery, and defrayed
the whole expense of freight and insurance upon every machine
or manufacturing implement smuggled into her territory.
She had some of the first artizans and engineers in the world
in her service, and she employed a great number of dextrous
draughtsmen to transmit from this country drawings and
models of almost all the mechanical inventions and improve-
ments as soon as they were made. In Saxony there were
some of the largest machine manufactories in the world. The
Americans were likewise not only supplying their home de-
mand, but were enabled to commence the traffic, and now ex-
ported annually to the amount of not less than five million
dollars of machinery to Egypt, while in Belgium the
machine and iron works of Mr. Cockerill extended for
nearly a mile along the banks of the Meuse, and gave
constant employment to three thousand seven hundred men.
The lecturer, after dwelling with much force upon this part of
his subject, grappled in a masterly manner with the leading
objections brought against a repeal of the Corn-laws, which
objections resolved themselves into three, viz.—that the home
market would be destroyed by the ruin of their best customers;
secondly, that the farmers would be ruined by the low prices
of grain, and the quantity of land thrown out of cultivation,
and thirdly, that for a nation like England to be dependent
upon foreigners for food, would subject them to the constant
possibility of having their supplies cut off by indifferent crops
or the caprice of foreign Governments. Having disposed of
these objections, seriatim, the lecturer proceeded to demon-
strate the mode in which the restrictive laws were un-
dermining the staple manufactures of their town. The
disproportion in which their manufactured hardware
had increased, as compared with the exportation of the
raw material, must have convinced them at once that
the Corn-laws, by preventing them from exchanging there
wares for the natural products of other countries, were
taking their trade out of their hands, and forcing other nations
to manufacture for themselves those very articles which the
Birmingham merchant could supply to them at a much cheaper
rate. The whole exports of manufactured hardwares and
cutlery front the country in 1826, amounted to 12,285
tons, while in 1836, they amounted to 16,275 tons.
This was art increase of only thirty-three per cent.,
while the raw material in the shape of castings, and bar
and pig-iron, which, in 1824, amounted only to 34,591 tons,
in 1834 amounted to 101,467 tons, or an increase in the same
period of at least 300 per cent., whilst the average reduction
in the cost price of almost all Birmingham hardware goods
had hen at least 65 per dent. between 1812 and 1832. It
was clear, therefore, that had no impediment existed to the
free exchange of their commodities for the natural productions
of caller soils, this amazing decrease of price would have led to
a corresponding increase in the foreign consumption of hard-
ware goods. The great increase in the exportation of the
raw material showed that the manufacture of hardware goods
was rapidly advancing in other countries, and would shortly
give them such a facility ire the mechanical acts of fabrication,'
as to supersede to a much greater extent than at present the
foreign consumption of British hardwares. It was incalcu-
lable the immense loss sustained by the artizans of this coup_
try in this shape of wages paid in France and other parts Cif the Continent upon the eonversiontof their raw material into
hardware manufactures. In order that the meeting mighte
enabled to form some correct idea upon this subject, the
lec-
turer
stated that a Fingle bar of iron wrought up into agricul-
tural
implements was raised, by the wanes paid in the work.. manship, from 1/. to 31. 10s. in value; into musket barrels,
from ILWeapons,o to 9/. 2s. ; into military
t. 2 ...1;rom 11 to 161,
if converted into steel cutlery, from 11. ; and if cast
into steel razors, to 531. 10s., and so on in the
° same or a much
other Not description of hard.
than 106,467
greater ratio with reference to every
ware or steel cutlery manufacture.
tons of bar and east iron were annually
manufactured state from this
theepoouontti,,exalz)i°drtetl in
atethaet ,uirilig,
amount of money paid in wages u
-taw mate-
pockets to foreigners would almost totallyishnallaiess poefne into the
pockets of the Birmingham and Sheffield hardware workers,
but for the ruinous policy of their res‘tsretive laws. The lec-
turer referred to the reventhuee
Corn
urns in order to prove the
alarming extent to which
limiting pea markets of Eu Troop and Timber Laws were
e for the exportation of their
hardware nd cutlery.
Belgium, Russia, France, Germany, Holland,
the Continent, with a
psi "r°
and other civilized countries. on
mpu ation of at least eleven miii:.ons.
the whole of their hardware and cutlery exports, is, declared
value in 1836,
nted only to 208,0005, whilst to the
United StAtes of America, with twelve mil:ions, the declarer' 'a population of only
amounted in the ,
plated go- ii," -
~,k OP iii 8 0001 • of the
Value of their hardware exports
year to upwards of 1,31 , • ,
' nmingham and Sheffield the United States

took to the value of 67,0001. in 1834, while in the same year
the whole of Northern Europe did not take half that amount.
When they remembered that their exports of bar iron and
castings had increased in ten years from 34,000 tons to 106,000
tons, and that during the same year the quantity of coal ex-
ported to the manufacturing countries of Europe had increased
from 170,000 to 560,000 tons, and that coal from this country
could positively be purchased cheaper in the ports of the Bal.
tic than the coast of Devonshire or on the Thames. The
question of Corn-law repeal became a life and death affair to
the men of Sheffield and Birmingham, and they must either
vigorously set their shoulders to the wheel, or consent to
perish ignominiously in the ruts. The advocates of the
Corn-laws told them that their repeal would ruin the
farmers and the agricultural labourers, by throwing large
tracts of land out of cultivation. This, however, was
bet one of the numerous fallacies by which the eyes
of the people were sought to be blinded. By the last
Agricultural Report published, it appeared that in no county
in England did the agricultural labourer receive more than
les. a- week for the support of himself and family, and in some
instances the average ranged so low as 6s. or 7s. ; while the
increase in the price of wheat added to the misery of his lot;
yet men were to he found who had the hardihood to assert in
the face of facts like this, that the Corn-laws were a protection
to the agriculturist. As to the argument that the land would
be thrown out of cultivation, let them test this assertion with
the fact, that between 1811 and 1831 prices fell more than one-.
half. and yet in 1831 there was more land in cultivation by'
1,750,000 acres than in 1811. From 1831 to 1835 the pricer
of grain was still declining, and yet during those four
years fifty-six Inelosure Bills were passed, and 102,480
acres were added to the cultivated soils of the
country. As to the apprehended danger of making-
the country dependent on foreigners for food, this fallacy
in the Arst ,place, pre-supposed that they were to get alt.
their food from foreigners; and, in thc next, that theygere
not already dependent uponthdrii for that. without which they
they could get no corn either frouethe landowners of their own
soil or anywhere else. There was a mutual . dependence of
nations one upon another, which would prove a sufficient
guarantee thet neither would injure the other, for by doing so
they would eventually ruin themselves. With the range of
the world for their corn market, they would have food its
abundance, for they well knew that Nature would never so
far violate the uniformity of her laws as to curse at once with
sterility, or cover with blight the whole surface of the globe.
With a free trade they would avail themselves of Lies: soilsi,
the finest climates, most favourable harvests, on the earth.,..
their industry would till the rich soils of Australia, and people
the vast regions washed by the Ohio, the Wabash, the Mis-
souri, and the Mississippi; and .need they fear that nations
would be multiplied, when two mighty continents. had yet
scarcely heard echoed back from their forests the footsteps or
man. The Lecturer concluded: his powerfully argumentative
and eloquent address amidst the enthusiastic plaudits of the
meeting. From the length to which it extended, having oc-
cupied about two hours in its delivery,-the above notice 'l3 ne-
cessarily, imperfect ; but, enough may be gathered li'rcnn the
few detached facts, illustrations, and argumeAbe; selected to
show the ,mass,.of valuable information ytifich he brought to
bear upon the subject.
At the conclusion of the Lecture the Rev. T. M. MACDON •
NELL came forward for the purpose of moving a vote of thanks
to Mr. Paulton, the resolution also declaring the necessity of
the formation of an Anti- Core-lavv Association. He' had al-
ways, he observed, been of the same opinion with that gentle-
man in theory upon the subject which he had so ably advocated
and explained; hut he owned that be never before had so
clear an insight into the practical
smachi»ery of its tyranny as
lie had now received from his clear and irresistible deposition.
—( Hear.) He could not help asking himself, Is it possible
that ad these things can be true ? But he 'had no doubt of
their truth, for:they had been irresistibly exposed by documents
and facts deduced before them that night; and he was grieved
in a two-fold point !of view to think that men should'.have so
legislated for their own
,private interests, .rogardless of the
mass of their fellow-creatures, every one of whom • was equal
at least in, moral .worth. to any one of themselves.,-- ( Hear.)
lle was ashamed to think that a handful of men could be as-
sembled together in email room in that couetryeand that they
should legislate as if they• themselves alone constituted: the
nation, indifferent to the, vast mass of the population without
their walls, or, considering them
,only :as the instruments of
their aggrandixemetin who might be cast away when of no fur.
ther use ; and he wee alSo grieved .to think that the people
had overlooked' all these gigantic evils; he was grieved; to
think that they, were blind. to their own interests, .while he
honoured Ode_ deeplY and .sincerely honoured them, for their
determination to stiffer mug' h ratter than plunge.soeiety into
confusion ; and Jhe s wished thoSe who considered them as their
inferiors would le'arn this lesson of political morality from men
whom they affected to despise.7-(Cheers.) But there was
something Which a man owed to himself and society, to his
family, arid those who were to come after him, and that was
to watch the progress of legislation, and endeavour to assist
the good while he did his best to counteract the bad._
( Hear.) He asked what was the fruitful source of misery and
crime in their country ? 'lt was not poverty; for a man
imbued as ith proper principles, would endeavour to submit to
the dispensations of Providence; but when he felt and knew
Shat his hands were like those of another man, that his body
was robust and healthy, that his'mind west Asigortureand active,
that he was 0411111g•iindltiletti eiork, but wad, not, by his
honest labour, support those who depended upon him for sub-
sistence, then, indeed, he was tempted to blaspheme the dis-
pensations of Providence, or, with ruthless depravity, he con-
sidered every man his enemy, and he determined by the bad
use of that right arm, the good use of which was unavailing to
'procure him food, to violate the laws of his country, and to
enter into the schemes of designing men, which eventually
ended in his destruction. When he looked back to the events
of past years, he found this to be invariably the case : for he
found that on all these occasions, the people became the dupes
of villains who trafficked in their blood. He now told the
men of Birmingham, that although he had joined them hereto-
fore in the agitation of political theories, and he was ready
again to join them in the attainment of those of which he ap-
proved ; but he would tell them again, that he cared not for
theories however perfect they might be—give him but the
practice, let him see the people happy, and he would be satis-
fied ; give him but that, and he did not care a farthing whether
they lived under the most perfect or the most imperfect politi-
cal systems.—(Cheers.) He owned that he had taken part
in agitation, because he had found the practical result of a bad
system, and he was determined to enforce a better one._—
( Hear.) Whenever they had a cause producing an effect,
there he went heart in hand. He saw the Corn_laws in a
spirit of bad catholicity everywhere doing mischief, grinding
down the manufacturers into a state of unnatural pall--
perism, bringing the masters to a level with their men, and
while all was astonishment and dismay their trade was slipping
though their hands and going to a foreign country, When he
saw the Corn-laws producing the universality of mischief,
frustrating also the designs of its authors, in the destruction of
the agricultural labourer, he felt called upon to lend his best
endeavours to eradicate the cause of all this misery ; while he
believed in his conscience that the villains who perpetrated
the injustice were about to reap the bitter fruits, which Provi-
dence in its inscrutable dispensation had reserved for them.--
(Cheers.) He saw here a great political evil resulting from
an intelligible cause, and although he did not wish to interfere
with the agitation of particular theories, yet when he found
it producing such misery throughout the land he thought he
was evincing the best practical wisdom in endeavouring to
destroy it. He could not bear that philosophy which told them
amidst the general wreck of all they held dear that more men
must be sacrificed—that more women must be made widows,
and that more children must be reduced to the condition of
orphans in order that those who were left might become exas-
perated with their wrongs, and thus be made the instruments of
a political experiment.—( Hear, hear.) He could not endure
this, and whatever might be the consequence he would never
participate in such a political injustice. The Rev. Gentleman
concluded by reading the following resolution amidst repeated
cries of " Universal Suffrage" :
That this meeting, having been convened for the purpose
of receiving information on the subject of the Corn-l?.ws, re-
turns cordial thanks to A. W. Paulton, Esq., for his able and
instructive lecture ; and being convinced that among the:evils
which afflict the people of this country, the Corn_laws form
one truly gigantic, recommends the formation of a Society,
the object of which shall be to procure by every lawful means,
the repeal thereof, and thereby afford to the industrious labourer
the means of procuring, not only the necessaries but the corn
forts of life, by his own honest 'industry, without being reduced
to the degradation of seek 1t parochial assistance."
Mr. G. Emeoens hiving seconded the resolution,
Mr. T. C. SALT rose to move an amendment. tleman who had addressed them so ably upon th Theen-
ge C-laws
that evening had told the people, that
from the 14thorn century
the whole legislation of the countryv hadevil?
;t get rd
3 I been e
ve n,iasone series of
as3n'sdtetnhtuastipcutplaunndeenrd;atanotni
afibrso s
lute delusion to talk of the benefits that woult
once,
to so,
h y n
oafpuitrea,t
els.' result from the
repeal of the Corn-laws. He admitted that they were bad ;
but of what use would it he to the people, supposing every
granary in the country was filled with, grain, if they had not
money to purchase it ? If their legislators abolished the
Corn laws they would take care, while they made wheat
abundant, that they would make money scarce, and would
compel the people to give so much labour for their
money, that the wheat would be dear at any price.
There was, however, another reason why he opposed
the agitation of the Coro-laws, and that was, that the plot
thickened so fast. The gentleman who addressed them that
evening proposed to take an ounce off their backs when they
were sinking beneath the weight of accumulated evils. Now,
he would warn the wealthy, that it was time they were with
ttliheatniapproaching
Gazette, and that
n tthoeyfewclotuilide
would; hewsowuledepwtahroninthienmto that
ile a convulsion was
feel it as much as they had made the ppoort_mema
that • 'there
weight of their oppression. He warned
year,
he could tell them
never, before come upon this country; a
would come, in the spring of next dsuchh a panic as had
this of things. He would himself
in bringing about state
of
why' he knew it. It was because he would have a fair share
joihnstheornwnthermpedeoieptlieonw.oultdf.
they (the wealthy classes)
assist in being
:lid
rnot
thefulifilii
kof their own. They would withdraw their money from
withdraw their money from the banks—they would establish
a beak
the Savings Banks, and they would not let their rulers have
it to play with as they had hitherto done.

After -some further remarks, Mr.-ALT (whose sentiments
were loudly applauded throughout) concluded by moving the
followipg amendment:—

I,i Thai the history of the Oligarchy which has governed
England is one unbroken series of cruelty and fraud, demon-
strating that there is no safety under its dominion, and no
hope from any appeal to its justice or mercy. That its mis-
rule, more fatal to the power, happiness, and prosperity of;
England than the united hostility of all her enemies, has dis-
sipated her resources, though incalculably great, broken het
power, filled the country with bankruptcy and poverty, and
burthened industry with restrictions and taxes, which are,Ta..

4t
'!l.Pr%

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

pidly breaking it down before foreign compeiition. That the
breaking down of our trade, under its present burthens, warns
us of the swifter destruction that must overwhelm us when
the whole of the burthens shall come to press on a diminished
trade exposed to the increased competition of foreign skill.
That this meeting, convinced that the remedy for evils so nu-
merous and fatal can only be found in taking the Legislative
power from the exclusive usurpation of the money lender, the
land lender, and the lawyer, and restoring it to the possession
of industry, do hereby resolve that it is the bounden duty of
every man to give his support to the National Petition, which
seeks, by universal representation and universal justice, uni
versal protection."
The amendment was seconded by Mr. COLLINS, on the
ground that he considered the establishing of a particular So-
ciety, like the one proposed, would have the effect of dividing
the energies of the people. He contended that the Corn-laws
were not the cause, but the effect of the system by which they
were governed, and of the evils under which they suffered.
It was the natural tendency of power to corrupt its possessors,
and he would not have come forward to support the amend-
ment for one moment, if its design was to transfer the Govern-
ment from one section of the community to another ; but it
was for the purpose of putting the exclusive right of reprc-
sentstion into the hands of the people ; for, if they had done
this before, these evils would never been suffered to exist.
On the suggestion of Mr. P. H. MUNTZ, that part of the
resolution, thanking Mr. Poulton for his admirable lecture,
was thrown into the form of a distinct motion, and put to the
meeting. It was carried amidst enthusiastic cheering.
Mr. Poulton having returned thanks, a warm and lengthened
discussion arose on the question involved in the remaining part
of the resolution (the formation of a Corn-law Abolition So-
ciety), which continued till midnight ; and after much per-
sonal recrimination between the advocates for Universal Suf-
frage on the one side, and the supporters of the Corn-law
Abolition question on the other, Mr. Salt's amendment was
put to the meeting, and carried by a large majority.
A vote of thanks was afterwards voted to the Chairman, and
the meeting broke up soon after twelve o'clock.

DUBLIN, Nov. 29.
THE PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—THE ENGLISH RADICALS.

An adjourned meeting of the Precursor Society was held
this day at the Corn Exchange, Augustus Callaghan, Esq., in
the chair.
Mr. Purcell, after an appropriate introduction, in which he
dwelt upon the services and successes of Mr. O'Connell.
moved a resolution, calling upon the country in the name a
the Precursor Society, to give to the collection of the O'Con-
nell tribute precedence to every other measure, until it shall
have been effected in every parish of the kingdom in a man-
ner worthy of the claim it prefers.
Mr. John Redmond seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously.
Mr. O'Connell shortly after entered the room, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers. He proceeded to correct some errors
into which the Newspapers had fallen in reporting his late
speech. He was made to say that at a Radical meeting at the
close of the last Session he appealed to the Liberal Members
whether Grote, Warburton, Molesworth, and the other
Radical leaders had shown sufficient sympathy with Ireland.
What he had said was, that he had done so at a meeting of the
Reform Club at the commencement of the Session.—(Hear,
hear.) He had been invited to be present at a Polish meeting
in London that day; be would not be present in person, but
he was in heart. It was a disgrace to Europe that Russia
was suffered to inflict upon that country the nuisance which she
daily made her endure, to which the worst tyrannies of Oliver
Cromwell in Ireland were not to be compared.—( Hear,
hear.) One of the barbarities which I mentioned on the last
occasion was a conscription of 500 young unmarried women,
by the orders of the Czar. It was mentioned in the Goritz
Gazette, published in Galitzia. Five hundred young unmar-
ried women, some of them perhaps betrothed, were torn from
the arms of their parents, of their brothers, and of their des-
tined husbands ; and were condemned to be the wives of men
sent to cultivate a military colony in a wild and savage desert !
What barbarity. The Hon and Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to the business of the day, and read the following ad-
dress to the English Radicals, which was listened to with the
greatest attention:—
It is our earnest desire to treat you and your address with the
utmost courtesy and respect. We respect ever your mistakes
and errors ; and for ourselves, as fellow-men and fellow-citi-
zens, we can entertain no other sentiments than those of kind-
ness and regard.
Your address meets our warm approbation, as far as it indi
cates a determination to act with energy and perseverance in
the endeavour to ameliorate existing institutions, and to ad-
vance the working out of the great principle of democratic li-
berty—a principle, when accompanied and guided by the
moral influence of religious sentiment, is alone capable of
being made the safe and certain basis of perfect liberty and
social happiness.
At the same time that we applaud your avowed inten-
tions, there are matters in your address which we deeply
deplore. We deplore the manifest ignorance which it ex-
hibits of the state of the Irish people ; we deplore also the
distinct want of candour and sincerity, which ;breaks out in
more than one of its paragraphs ; and, above all, we cor-
dially regret that you should have omitted so favourable an
occasion of disclaiming, and, indeed, of denouncing, not in
general terms, but emphatically and by name, the men who
tarnish and stain your cause and the cause of Reform, by
threats, menaces, and exhortations, which are as foolish as
they are wicked, exciting as they do to violence, to bloodshed,
and to revolution.
We take these points in detail:—
The first—Your ignorance of the state of Ireland. You
are not aware, we perceive, that the Parliamentary returns
show that there are more children in Ireland, in proportion to
the population, attending schools, and receiving education,
than in England, or even in Scotland.
You are not aware of the opinions deliberately formed by
an overwhelming majority of the Irish people in favour of the
greatest possible extension of the suffrage. We do not think
there is any magic in the words " UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE," if
the thing can be substantially attained, and, therefore, one of
the principles on which the PRECURSOR SOCIETY is formed is
expressed in these words—
" To give every legal and constitutional aid to obtain for all
parts of the empire the greatest possible extension of the
Suffrage that can practically be obtained."
It is, therefore, quite needless to have set forth in your
address, so many paragraphs of plain and obvious truisms, in
eider to induce us to join in all legal and constitutional ex-
ertions, to procure the greatest possible extension of the
suffrage.
The second point which displeases us in your Address is
your want of candour, first, in the covert insinuations which
that Address contains, suggesting matters derogatory to men
who have long enjoyed the confidence of the Irish people.
If you had materials for accusation against them, or any of
;them, it would have become you to speak out distinctly, and
S's) state your accusation, especially as that mode of proceeding
ss, mild have enabled us to point out its futility and its untruth.
•,/lirdly—You deny that you, yourselves, have leaders;
you ought to blush for shame at such a denial—no popular
possibly be without leaders. The business of the
party can
public, though sanctioned by the many, must be done by the
few, and those who do the business, and who are sanctioned
and applauded in doing it, are necessarily leaders. But the truth
is, you have leaders, and you know you have ; but you are
ashamed to avow them, and you ought to be ashamed to give them
.any countenance. The Oastlers, the Stephenses, and the FearguJ
O'Coiinors, have their names inscribed upon your banners.
,'rt is literally so. They take the most active part at your pub-
lic meetings; they propose, or at least they support, all your
pub 'tic resolutions; they are applauded to the very echo that
appl,. tuds again. How then do you think we can be deceived
by h'
unfounded assertion that you have not leaders ?
ly—There is another and more glaring want of can-
dour jusi:suated in your address, and declared in your public
that the Whigs, as a party, are as bad, nay
meetings--that is,
some of you say worse, than the Tories.
Nothing was ever more unbecoming in friends of human
liberty (if such you be; than assertions of that unfounded cha-
racter, because, although b.he Whigs are indeed far from being
perfect, or from meriting the unmeasured confidence of honest
Radicals to work out the neces:
sary ameliorations in our sys-
tem, yet they are beyond any comparison superior to the
Tories. The one party are friendly u: clined to the cause of
liberty the other are the decided enemies of every popular
amelioration, and uphold despotism in every. consitry.
Take the following contrasts, which recent Eatory af-
fords :
First--The Tories stood by Gatton and Old Sarum, and
all the other rotten boroughs, with desperate tenacity. They
insisted that the clay mound at Gatton and the tree at Old
Sarum should have four Representatives in Parliament ; and
they pertinaciously refused to give one Representative to
,Manchester, to Leeds, or to Birmingham.
The Whigs at a single blow obliterated Gatton and Old
thrum, and altogether 115 close and rotten boroughs, and
Ih,,t excluded from Parliament two hundred and twenty no-
min et ‘s of Lords or Commoners, and gave Representatives to
the g
ar a t
wmanuefacturing towns.
11 that we do not say
theor insinuate that the plan of
k
was perfect.s ; but we do say and proclaim that the
conduct of .'he Whigs Whigs
thisin respect, as contrasted with the
Tories, is on. deserving the applause of every sincere friend
hat no man can be honest who, after this con-
of liberty, and t.
?England were
treat, endeavours to place the Wis and Tories on an equal
footing of public estinnation.
and corrupt.
a:idaciously
In the second plane, thecocrlpoosreaticoonms'
almost universally self-elected,
'The corporations of
by then all.
Tacked and plundering. The Tories stood
Scotland are still mor%!'
of public funds, to
!They did not even consent to controul the knavish corporal:"
0. f Leicester in its iniquitous expenditure
pt omote Parliamentary jobbing. The Whigs brushed away,
at one blow, the corrupt, the jobbing, the peculating, the self-
%elected. They annihilated the old corporations, and
they sub-
litit uted for them corporations under the influence, to a eon-
ei'derable degree, of popular controul.
You may say that the corporate reform of the Whigs is not
per feet. Let it be granted that it is not so—yet, how tran-
seen dantly does the Whig party eclipse the Tories,
of unmitigated corruption on the one hand, in this
andcon-
trast at least
znodel 'ate reform on the other !
We, therefore, again repeat, that no man can be honest who
both parties in equal estimation.
Nft.ces
s--ThirAy_Look to the slave question : and it any man can
.enture attain to compare the Tories with the Whigs, we can
a hest worts than eight hundred thousand living witnesses to
0 "pose and to deride the comparison.
For twenty years before 1806 attempts were made to abolish
th et most horrible of all human cruelties, the slave trade.
1,, 7 hypocrisy was added to Tory cruelty on this subject.