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CITY TORONTO CORPORATION.

City Council, Monday, June 9, 1834.
Mr Gurnett, seconded by Mr. Dennison, moves, " That whereas a
certain document has lately appeared in several of the journals of Up-
per Canada, dated Bryanstone-square, 29th March 1834, signed " Joseph
Hume," and purporting to have been written by the representative of
the County of Middlesex, in the Imperial Parliament, in which docu-
ment, the writer expresses an opinion that a crisis Is fast ap-
proaching in the afnirs of the Canada:, which will terminate in the in-
dependence and freedom from the baneful domination of the mother
country : be it therefore resolved, by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com.
monalty of the City of Toronto, in Common Council assembled, that
this Council feel themselves called upon, on their own behalf, and on
the behalf of the inhabitants of the City which they represent ; as
well, as they confidently believe they may:do, in behalf of the people of
Upper Canada at large, to disavow in the most unqualified and decided
manner the sentiments expressed in the above quotation from Mr.
Home's letter, and to declare that whatever difference of opinion may
exist among his Majesty's subjects in this Colony relative to political ques-
tions of a provincial or local nature, there is no portion of his Majesty's do-
minions, the inhabitants of which, as they have uniformly avowed and de-
clared, are more ardently attached to their Sovereign, and the institu-
tions of their mother country, than the people of Upper Canada, or
who would more sincerely deprecate or more firmly resist any and all
attempts to sevrr the existing connection between this colony and the
empire to which it is related.."
Dr. Monnison, seconded by Mr. Leslie, moves in amendment, that
all be expunged in the whole of the original resolution, after the word
moves, and the following inserted :—" That it be Resolved, that forced
and unfair constructions have been attempted to be put upon the letter
of Joseph Ilume, Esq., dated Bryanstone-square, 99th March, 1834, by
those who are hostile to the correction of the abuses in the administra-

tion of our Provincial affairs.
" That the Electors of the County of York fully deserve the com-
mendation bestowed upon them by the great Reformer, for their con-
tinued
firm and constant support of their representative upon his re-
peated unlawful expulsions from the Commons of Assembly, whose rash
and unconstitutional conduct betrays a want of common sense and pru.
dence, being a sacrifice of the greatest public principles, and an in-
vasion of the rights of the whole body of Electors in the Country.
" That Mr. flume justly regards such conduct on the part of the
Legislature, countenanced as it was, by the Crown Officers, and other
Executive Functionaries in the Assembly, and unredressed by the
exercise of the Royal Prerogative, as evidence of baneful and tyran-
nical domination, in which conduct it is both painful and injurious to
find the Provincial Officials systematically upheld by the Minister at
home against the pepple.
' " That Joseph flume, Esq., in desiring their independence and free-
dom from all such misrule, has no where expressed a desire to withhold
from the people of this Province that protection from the mother
country, which he has for years generously laboured to secure for
them upon the principles of good Government and enlightened policy,
and that he has evidenced the sincerity of his intentions by frequently
repeated appeals to the Colonial Minister and the British House of Com-
mons for the redress of existing grievances.
" That Mr. Hume's opinion of the Provincial Executive is justified
by the solemn declaration of the people of this province through their
representatives in a late Parliament, when they unanimously addressed
the present Lieutenant-Governor in the following language, viz. :
We feel unabated solicitude about the administration of public justice,
and entertain a settled conviction that the continuance about your Ex-
cellency of those advisers who, from the unhappy policy they pursued,
have long deservedly lost the confidence of the country, is highly inexpe-
dient, and calculated seriously to weaken the expectations of the people
from the impartial and disinterested justice of his Majesty's Govern-
ment.'

" That Mr. Hume justly recognizes in the proceedings of Mr. Stan-
ley, particularly his reinstatement into office of those who had been dis-
missed from the Provincial Councils by his more liberal and enlight-
ened predecessor, a disposition to encourage the enemies of reform in
that ruinous policy, which mischievously tends to weaken the con-
fidence of the people in the justice and honour of the British Go.
vernment.
" That the wise suggestions of Mr. Flume, drawn from the fatal
policy of the Parent State in unjustly attempting to tax the late Ame-
rican Colonies without their consent, and maintaining against them a
system of misgovernment in spite of their repeated and humble re-
monstrances, are calculated, as they are by him generously intended, to
secure for this Province exemption from the continuance of similar
grievances and misrule.
" That while they admit the great difficulty, if not total impractica-
bility for any stranger 4000 miles distant, to direct the affairs of this or
any other country without being betrayed into fatal errors and misdoings,
yet it is due to the Earl of Ripon and Lord 1-lowick, to recognize the jus-
tice and impartiality which distinguished their conduct before they were
unhappily removed from the Colonial Department, and to declare the be-
lief of this Council that the people in no degree participate the contempt
which was poured upon the former nobleman by the public functionaries
in a late Session of the Provincial Parliament ; which contempt is appa-
rently countenanced by the reinstatement into office of two of those
public officers by his wise, prudent, and conciliatory successor—and that
copies of this resolution be transmitted to Mr. Stanley, Mr. Hume, Mr.
Ellice, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Roebuck, and the Earl of Ripon.
The resolution proposed by Doctor Morrison was adopted 12 to 7.
All the members of the Corporation were present for the first time.
The Mayor neither voted nor took any part in the discussion ; of con-
sequence he concurred with the majority, so the Council may be con-
sideted as 13 to 7 as far as politics are concerned.
For Dr. Morrison's resolution ♦oted, Messrs. Joseph Cawthra,
Leslie, Bostwick, Arthurs, and Jacket, Tims, Wright, Drummond,
Morrison, Turton, Doel, and Harper.
Against it ♦oted Messrs. Denison, Gurnett, Craig, Armstrong,
Munro, and Trotter.

MEETING OF THE RADICAL

ASSOCIATION.

Last night a ♦ery numerous and highly respectable meeting,
of the Radical Association of Marylebone,,cor.vened by hand-
bills, was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Circus-street, for
the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons, that
Duncan M'Neil and Patrick Robinson, Esqrs., advocates for
the cotton spinners, be heard at the bar of the House in arrest
of judgment in that case. At half-past seven Mr. Feargus
O'Connor entered the room, and was greeted with hearty
cheers, after which that gentleman was unanimously called to
the chair. He opened the business in a speech of consider-
able length, pointing out the reason why the people of England
should not rest satisfied with the verdict, or rather the opinion
of one individual of a jury, that the men were guilty.
He held Mr. O'Connell up to the mcst contemptuous scorn of
his audience, and raised so strong a feeling against that gen-
tleman that the room resounded with groans at the mention of
his name. Mr. O'Connor said, this is not a Whig question,
it is not a Tory question—it is a money question. Mr.
O'Connor stated several facts connected with the trial, which
seemed to create a great feeling in favour of the Cotton Spin-
ners ; he strongly, and at considerable length, deprecated any
application to the House of Commons for the appointment of
a Committee to inquire into trades' associations; he said that
it was a trick of the little middle class, who wished to appear
with the people, but would join the big middle class; it was
concocted by some fellows who wished to have an op-
portunity of substituting a political trickery instead of the
substantial protection which trades' association afforded to
trade. He said that the people may have Wakley for Chair-
man, but one swallow did not make a summer, that not a
single virtue of any association would appear in evidence,
while a blot, the slightest blot most remotely connected,
would furnish a justification, for a stringent code of laws, to
suppress combination. Mr. O'Connor spoke at considerable
length upon the state of trade in Dublin, and concluded an
able and powerful appeal amid long-continued cheering.
Mr. Savage then came forward to move that the
following petition be signed by the Chairman, and adopted
as the petition of the meeting. That room, he said,
had been the place where wholesome agitation had
commenced, and many an eloquent speech from the Chair-
man had been allowed to echo through the street, but
could not find its way to the press. He fully agreed with
the petition, and therefore moved its adoption. The Chair-
man then read the petition, which was received with great ap-
plause. Dr. Webb, in a short and pithy address, seconded
its adoption, which was unanimously acquiesced in, after which
it was moved and seconded that the petition be sent to Mr.
Wakley for presentation, and that Sir S. Whalley and Mr.
Hall be requested to support the prayer. Thanks were then
voted to the Chairman, accompanied with hearty cheers, and
the meeting separated much satisfied with the proceedings.

To the Right Hon. and Hon. the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament as

cembled.

The petition of the Great Radical Association of London, unani-
mously adopted at a full meeting of that body, sheweth, that your peti-
tioners learn with sorrow that a sentence of seven years' transporta-
tion has been passed upon the Cotton Spinners of Glasgow, for offences
many of which were committed antecedently to some of the accused
being members of the Association, generally charged in the indictment as
illegal. That Trades' Associations will at once and for ever cease,
when the necessity for their existence shall be determined by an Act of
the British Legislation, making the House of Commons, instead of the
Trades' Committee Rooms, the place of representation of the whole of
the people of this empire—that Trades' Associations have been esta-
blished in order to oppose the dominant power which the representatives
of capital have acquired in your Honourable House, and that they will
necessarily be continued so long as a monied qualification remains the
test for judging of representative fitness. Your petitioners further beg
to direct the attention of your Honourable House to the following

facts, ruirtiefi; that the fury filiWiF in Scotland difror from those
of every other tlettien of the vast dOmitiloas under the controul of the
British Legislature, and that, inasninch as the majority of a Scottish jury
decide the queition of guilt of int-toe:ince as regards judgment, we,
your ileflfA4ners, cannot avoid feeling some jealousy at the fact of the
,pinners being don l'lCteci,. by a mere majority of one of a Jury consist-
ing of fifteen persons, and seletted from a list of sixty-five persons, five of
whom addressed applications to the law agents for the prisoners, request-
ing (13 lie eveused as jurors, in consequebee• of the prejudice which the
public presti had created in their minds. Your petitioners further beg
]cave to remind youir Honourable House, that for many months the
Pregg circulated opinions as to the guilt of the spinners, especially with
regard to the Murder of Smith, of which they were unanimously ac-
quitted by the jury ; and that such reports were very much calculated to
thpfive the prisoners of an impartial ttial, Your petitioners also beg to
remind ;kir Honourable House, that barristers are not frequently ifs
the habit of interfering with their clients after judgment ; but
that ten of the most enlightened and distinguished advocates of
Ike Scottish bar, together With seven of the jury, have signed
an addivot to her Majesty, praying for an arrest of judgment in the case
of 'the spinnell, That the trial lasted for eight days, during which long
period seven of the jUrOrs saw no reason for finding the prisoners guilty
.ireu any one of the many counts on which they stood charged—
that tha majority of the jury evinced gross ignorance, by con-
victing the' prisoners upon the tenth count in the indictment, and
acquitting them tipaa the fifth count ; in both of' which counts
the crime; charged were the Fame, but differently coloured ;
the prisoners were charged in the Indictment with acts spread over a
period of nitre than twenty years, some of them not being thirty years
of age; and the peOplc of this country cannot be reconciled to the
justice of the sentence, which has been passed, not upon a deliberate
Vertliet, but upon the opinion of one man. This meeting de-
' flies the dspersions so lavishly heaped upon Trades' Associa-
tions generally, While they admit, that there is a rabble of the trade,
as there is a rabble of the Lords, a rabble of the Aristocracy,
bkt your petitioners do sot say that there is a rabble of
your Honourable House, to whom your petitioners now pray
that your Honourable House will be pleased, in order that
the ends of justice may be attained, to hear Duncan 111'Neil
and Patrick Robinson, Esqs., Advocates for the prisoners, at the
bar of your Honourable House, with a view to have an impartial
I.oaring of the whole case, so that those wh• now doubt the guilt of the
prisoners may be satisfied that your Honourable House is really that
tChunal to which the people should look fur a proper construction of
your own laws. Your petitioners further pray that your Honourable
House will be graciously pleased to assimilate the Scottish Jury laws to
the Jury laws of England.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT, FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
A Public Meeting of the Great St. Marylebone Radical Associations
was held last night, at the Matanics' Institution Tavern, Circus-street,
New-road.
FeAntas.,s O'CoNNoR, Esq., In the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN stated that they were assembled to petition the
House of Commons in behalf of flee cotton-spinners of Glasgow,
who, after a trial of seven days, had been convicted by a majority of
only one, out of a Jury of fifteen, of illegal combination to raise
their wages, and were now in the Hulks at Woolwich, doomed to work
in chains to their waists in water for seven years. The people of
England were ignorant of the real facts of the case, from the garbled
reports of a hireling press. The people of Scotland, who had a great
horror of the crime of murder, had been prejudiced by reports that the
men were murderers, and then they were tried by laws supported by the
bayonet, and not by the will of the people, and that was tyranny.
On the Jury there were seven good men who voted for an acquittal,
and eight ignorant ones who found them guilty. He begged leave to
say the majority were ignorant, because even the Judge was compelled
to acknowledge their stupidity and, in part, annul the verdict, which
found the prisoners not guilty on the third count and guilty on the
tenth, when, in fact, the two counts were identical, only being techni-
cally varied.— (Hear.) He had sat in Committee with these men, who
were as respectable as any of the people of England—as any of the work-
ing classes whose cause lie had long advocated. By the people of
England he meant the producing millions—the men of bones, sinews,
with fustian jackets, whose hands were hardened and blistered by their
ill-requited toil; and yet five of these men were coademned by eight
prejudiced capitalists, out of a Jury of fifteen.—(Shame.) He had a
right to speak warmly on this subject, for he had travelled from York-
shire to Edinburgh, from Edinburgh to Lancashire and to London, to
souse I he people in defence of their oppressed brethren whose cause had
cost him at least one hundred pounds out of his own pocket—(Cheers.)
and it was to prevent the necessity of such sacrifices he called npon them
to exert themselves, and support a petition, very mild in its language
and merely praying that two Scotch Barristers should be heard at the
Bar of the House of Commons, in behalf of the Glasgow Cotton-spin-
ners, before their sentence is carried into effect—(Cheers.)

Mr. SAVAGE rose to propose the petition. He alluded to the efforts
he had made in the cause of the working.classes, and condemned
their apathy in not coming forward in greater numbers, and paying
the expences of the meetings that are held to promote their interest.
He condemned, in •ery strong terms, the indecent haste of the Whig
Ministers to carry into effect the sentence on the Dorchester la-
bourers, who were not yet pardoned.—(A voice, " They have not come
home.") No, said he, and they never will; and now these men, con-
victed only on the minor charges by a majority of only one, and
acquitted unanimously on all the capital and important charges, are to
be transported, while the Orange conspirators and traitors are al-

lowed to escape, and all prosecution abandoned.—(Cheers.) He
earnestly called upon them to support the petition, and, by contri-
buting according to their means, to indemnify the Chairman, who was
responsible for the expenses of the meeting, the room being given free
by their old friend and brother.workman, Mr. Goldspink, the present
landlord—(Cheers)—secure the opportunities of future meetings and
future exertions of their friends.—(Chscrs.)
Dr. WEBB said it gladdened his heart to be called upon to second the
petition. He did [IA partake of the desponding views of Mr. Savage,
when he recollected, and Mr. Savage ought to recollect, what had been
done in this parish by the perseverance of meetings a great deal smaller
than this. He was warranted in the sanguine hope that this assembly
would be a nest.egg for many more, and vastly more numerous. He
was doubtful whether he ought to take part in this cause, as the working
men had lately adopted a plan of censuring his order, and declaring
they would do their own work without any assistance. Even the Chair-
man had condemned all who were not working men, all whose hands were
not blistered by toil. He had always advocated the interests of the working
men to his own ruin disinterestedly, although he was not a workingman,
although his hands were never blistered, except by rowing his sweet-
heart about on the Thames when a boy.—(Cheers and laughter.) Ha
wanted them to be better oft' than himself, and to get their living as
easily ; for, by the aid of machinery and good laws, all the necessaries,
comforts, and luxuries, even of life might be produced for all, with
very little manual labour; and in advocating their rights he was, in
fact, advocating the interest of his own children, and therefore they
ought to get all the aid they could from the middle-classes, for their
interests were really the same.—(Cheers.) On the last meeting here a
combination was formed to prevent him speaking, but he did
not attempt it, as he did not care, well knowing that a fair
discussion would not be allowed—(Cries of " Question")—this is
the question. The Chairman has said the Canada question is a
question of labour; but he maintained it was a question of capital and
aristocracy, the aristocracy of Canada against the aristocracy of Eng-
land ; the state of the meeting proved it. The meeting was full of
tradesmen, and the hustings full of gentlemen ; but now they were all
absent—(Cheers)--because this meeting is to protect labour.—(Cheers )
He had not a bit of land as big as his hand to grow a potatoe in Eng-
land. The aristocracy possessed it all, how he need not say ; and the
Canadians wanted to keep all that land do themselves, and prevent the

Poor of England getting a handful —(Cheers.) That was the question.
Had justice been intended they would not have called a hired agent to the
chair. Had they meant justice they would not have invited Mr. Roe-
buck to attend, but have selected an impartial Chairman. To re-
turn to the immediate business. He recollected the horrid murders
that took place at the Old Bailey, some years ago, for the blood-money
of forty pounds, when that reward was given, on capital convictions;
and knowing what human nature is, he thought a great deal more might
be done for 600/.—(Hear, hear.) The jury too, was partial. England
had a character for justice abroad, because a foreigner had the choice of
being tried by a jury of half foreigners, and half English ; but they'
treated these men worse, they were not tried by half workmen, and halt.
masters, but by all capitalists ; otherwise they must have been acquitted,
as there was only a majority of one against them. He knew the tyran-
nical nature of Scotch Law, but did not think it could range over a period
of twenty years. If this system continued, his sons might be hung in
1858, because he was at a Radical meeting in 1838. But he hoped,
their efforts would be successful, and obtain for labour the full share it
was entitled to of the wealth they produced. He cordially seconded the
petition.—(Cheers.)

. . ,
It was then moved and carried, that the petition be presented by Mr.
\Yakley, and the Members for the Borough be requested to support it ;
and after the thanks of the meeting had been voted to the Chairman and
he had returned thanks, the meeting separated.

LICENSED VICTUALLER'S SCHOOL.
GRAND BALL AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR.

Yesterday evening a grand ball took place at the Crown
and Anchor, for the purpose of increasing the fund for the re-
building of that splendid and unrivalled edifice, the Licensed
Victuallers' School, in Kennington-lane. The Governor,
Trustees., and Committee of the Incorporated Society of
Licensed Victuallers met at an early hour for the purpose or
making the necessary arrangements ; and soon afterwards the
company bagan to arrive in numbers infinitely beyond their
expectation. The cold and inclement weather which has lately
prevailed, naturally tended to prevent a greater assemblage
than that Which was witnessed; but the hundreds who were
present testified, lo the most ample manner, their earnest de-
sire to forward the benevolent object for which the ball had
been instituted. A great number of the past Chairmen and
Trustees were present, as also the first Governor of the Incor-
prated Society, Mr. Corby—and we have no hesitation in
adding, that we have never seen a ball conducted with greater
propriety, or attended by more respectability, than that of
which wel now take notice. The ladies were handsomely
dressed—the gentlemen equally so—and the dance went its
round, not only to the satisfaction, but to the pleasure of all
parties.
Mr. Besse]] was the Master of the Ceremonies, and ar-
ranged the quadrilles and contre-danses in the most admirable
order.. Mr. Wallis's quadrille hand was in excellent humour,
and gave infinite satisfaction to all present.
The ball room was admirably lighted—five splendid chan-
deliers were suspended in it; and it is but justice to the pro-
prietors to add that every comfort, in the shape of refresh-
ment, was afforded by them.
The merry party did not break up till a late hour; but har-
mony and good feeling prevailed from the first to the last.

HOUSE OF COMMONI ON MONDAY
The interest excited by the expected appearance of Mr. Roe-
buck at the bar of the Bouse of Commons, to plead the cause
of the French Canadians on Monday night, nas the most in-
tense ever witnessed since the debates on the Reform
Bill. Immediately on the doors being opened the gallery was
filled by " strangers" who had procured Members' orders.
Numbers were forced in, and the passages were lined with less
fortunate individuals who had also Members' orders, but were
not permitted to use them until some of the previous occu-
pants came out, for which they waited with long and anxious
expectation—but, alas, fruitlessly. The lobby was also full,
and gentlemen who were honoured with admissions from the
Speaker rapidly arrived to take their seats behind the bar.
Before the list was half exhausted the Westminster Boys came
pouring in, and having the privilege from being " Queen's
scholars," of an entrance to the [louse, they soon filled up the
seats which the succeeding applicants with the Speakers' per-
mission were politely told by the door-keepers they could not
take. It was "first come, first served." Peers and
Com-
moners in vain made application for their sons and friends. Sir
W. Gossett, the Serjeant.at- Arms, stood himself at the door,
to superintend the admissions. Among those who were success-
ful ly coming early might be seen—the Earl of. Aberdeen, the
Earl of Durham, the Russian Ambass,idor, with some queer-
looking attaches, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Falk-
land. Mr. Roebuck, before he spoke, was continually passing
to and fro with books and papers, and two gentlemen having
the appearance of foreigners were assisting him.