The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF ►THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We inec rt in another column a letter from Kingston, in
Upper Canada, from a gentleman well known to us, a
eoung man Or education and property, a native Of the pro-
vines., who has travelled through various parts of Europe,
and whose fortune would afford him the means of residing
in any country be might prefer; but who, after marrying
in England, has returned to pass his days and rear his family
ut his native land. His letter we publish as an interesting
document, and we request any readers of the MO nin,b
Chronicle who may have given even partial credence to the
statements so unscrupulously advanced at the Crown and
Anchor meeting on 'l'hursdsy last, to consider whether the
.pinions of such a man as we have described be not entitled
to more weight than those put forth by the hireling agent
and advocate of a Canadian faction, pretending, as we
believe unwarrantably, to speak the sentiments of the
whole French population of the lower province, and who,
In their now openly-declared rebellion, will, rve also be-
lieve, find themselves followed by still fewer dupes
than they expected. In England, notwithstanding
the generous sympathy always felt for the weaker
arty, especially if that party have any ground for complain.
tog of oppression, we trust the real merits of the Canada
questioa are beginning to be generally understood, and we
refer with great satisfaction to the documents ordered to be
laid before Parliament, and from which we continue our
extracts, as in every point corroborating the question which
we have all along presented to cur readers. By the way,
we observe that in Mr. Roebuck's tour of agitation from
Westminster to Marylebone, be is not in his itinerancy
followed by the Parliamentary joints of the tail which he
flourished so successfully at the Crown and Anchor. Is it
that Messrs. Leader and Grote have begun to discover that
in supeorting his anti-national interests and connections in
Canada sZiey are likely to lose the support of their own
constituents ? If not yet, we think it likely that these
gentlemen, and every other Member representing a corn-
nierciel constitcency, will, in due time, find that they
are considered to 'be acting in disregard of the in-
terests of the trading commenity, and that these interests,
as well as those of the holders of property, will be against
them. Mr. Roebuck, at the Circus meeting, sneered at
the signature of " No Traitor" adopted by a correspon-
dent c. f one of our Contemporaries, and says that a more
true dee;;nation would be that of " A Canadian Merchant
in danger' .?1* bankruptcy." Well, and what then ? Are
Canadian merchants to be exposed to the risk of bank-
ruptcy in order i..4at Mr. Roebuck's salary from the Ca-
nadian House of Ai_temblY may be paid? A Canadian
merchant is a British suble'et, employing British shipping,
purchasing British manufactCres, end giving employment
to those very working men to wieetu Mr. Roebuck's sneer
was addressed. It may be true that pert of the commerce
with Canada is protected by impolitic duties on Baltic tim-
ber ; but there is a wide difference between the legislative
removal of impolitic restrictions, and the w2.'olesale destruc-
tion of property occasioned by the interruption e'f the indus-
try of flourishing provinces, and the devastation neces-
sarey attendant on civil war. While the Tory Papers are yeii's-
leg against Lord Gosford for his forbearance towards the
French Canadians ; on the other hand, a portion of the
Radicals, ind away by false analogies, and the ambiguity
of general terns, seem disposed to reprobate the recourse
which has, tholieh not till the last extremity, been had to
coercive measures. Had coercive measures been resorted
to at the period when the Tories think that vigour ought
to have been displayed, !he whole of the French popula-
tion might have been alienated, Papineau and his party
would have been only in appearance checked, and when the
favourable moment came, they woliM have been supported
by an exasperated people, by the sympathy of the world,
while the Government at home would have been paralysed
by the strong displays of public opinion in their behalf. If,
however, which we believe to be the ease, an ungenerous ad-
vantage has been taken by the Papineau agitatorsof theigno-
rance and credulity of a generally well-disposed population,
and if, after all, the habitans have only been inveigled into
insurrection in the Montreal district, the forbearance of the
Government can hardly fail to produce a good and a
lasting impression on that kind and single-minded race.
Were the French race generally determined on indepen-
dence, we could look forward with no satisfaction to the
continuance of a state of things in which the Government
could only be maintained by supporting the minority against
the majority, while to leave the parties to themselves would
be to ensure a desolating civil war. Forbearance is preg-
nant with hope, but the unavailingviolence committed by the
Tories would have excluded all possibility of beneficial Go-
vernment. On the other hand, had Government remained
with their arms folded after Papineau hadraised the standard
of rebellion, it would soon have spread throughout
all the districts ; and instead of the attempts which
have been put down with little difficulty, and at no great
sacrifice of life, the British settlers would have had to
contend for their very existence with the whole French po-
pulation. That portion of the Radicals who have been so
unthinkingly led to adopt the views of the partisans of
Mr. Roebuck, will, we trust, become now sensible that if
Ministers had deserted their duty at so important a crisis,
to the well-disposed of the French Canadians and to the
British settlers, the consequences would have been cala-
mitous beyond calculation. Humanity would have had to
deplore numberless sacrifices in a sanguinary civil strife,
and the memory of mutual cruelties would have laid the
foundation for irreconcileable feuds and animosities. We
have always contended that the revolt in Lower Canada
is rot consecrated by any great principle pervading society
—the only justification of resistance to Government—but
a partie? attempt of a part of the population only, for pur-
poses equally condemned hay wisdom and humanity.—
elforning Chronicle.

Without entering at this moment upon any general or
elaborate review of the official papers relative to the affairs
of Lower Canada which were laid upon the table of both
Houses of Parliament at the close of the last ante-Christ.
mas session, and have just been delivered, there are one or
two points which call fur immediate, however, brief, remark.
The tendency of any one political theory, when it gets ab-
solute possession of the mind, to defeat and wholly super.
sede the use of a man's natural senses of sight and hear-
ing, with regard to all objects passing bodily before his
eyes and ears, is here apparent. There is Lord Gosford,
who went out upon a "conciliation" scheme to Lower
Canada in the spring or summer of 1835, who totally
and even ludicrausly failed in every attempt to soften
the rude and fierce moroseness of his " liberal" friends in
that " most loyal" province ; who, at the very outset
of hie embassy, had the King's Commission of Inquiry
flung in his face by the refusal of that grand potentate,
M. Papineau, so much as to recognise its existence ;
who, in return for a course of cringing supplication unwor-
thy of a Royal Commissioner. or of a British Nobleman,
was in •very instance frowned upon, sneered at, and in-
sulted ; who knew that, instead of complying with any one
of the moderate and humble applications made by him
( Lord Gosford) in the name of the Imperial Government,
M. Papineau and his myrmidons in the house of Assembly
had resolved to act in all things upon tlio spirit of that pa-
triotic advice transmitted to them from London—namely,
to " concede nothing, but do what they could to harass
the King's Government ;" who saw, in defiance of huma-
nity, good faith, public principle, political morality, and
common decency, the officers of the Civil Government left
to starvewhile the publicchest was full of money; who found
that measures were proposed, secret practicescarriedon,and
denuneiationsutteredwhichcouldnootherwisebemadeintelli-
gible, bu ton the hypothesisthat a revolutionary movement was
actually designed by the Canadian " Liberals ;"—here, we say,
is Lord Gosford, with all these rubs andscratches fresh upon
him—with all these mortal mementos as it were burnt into
him—who could not discover during two whole years, nor
before the month of September, 1837, that the proceedings
of the Papineau gang " bad evidently a treasonable ten-
dency"—that " to attempt any thing of a teinporizing
character would be weak and jiaile !—that we could now
make no terms with M. Papineau, whom we must either
put down, or submit to let Lim put us down, for that there
was no halting between two opinions." Why, then, what
bad been the whole genius and character of Lord Gosford's
mission but a " temporizing," " weak," and " futile" mission
--a mission for" making terms with" M. Papineau—ay, for
kissing his feet,—a mission not " halting between two opi-
nions," but not having a single opinion of any kind, or on
any one subject, to limp upon,—a mission willing, not to
make terms with M. Papineau, but to accept any terms that
he might vouchsafe to grant, if public opinion here in Eng-
land, and indignant and wounded feeling among the
British colonists in North America, had not rebuked the
subservient imbecility of Lord Gosford, and stopped him
on the brink of that precipice down which M. Papineau's
contemptuous and wily malice would have rolled him ?
In a despatch, dated the 6th of November last, a little
more than two months ago, Lord Gosford makes the
notable discovery that move troops were wanting, and
a:ates that he and Sir John Colborne, after stripping the
uppar piovitice of " as many troops as possible,"—that is
through Sir F. Head's somewhat chivalrous generosity, of
every soldier it contained—had written to Sir Cohn
Campbell of Halifax, for first one regiment, and then a se-
cond, to make battle, if they could, against the faction of
Papineau Loyalists in Lower Canada, where it ap-
peared moreover that he had found it necessary to arm
the Attorney-general with instructions how to dispose of
certain " foreign" (French !) " military officers," who had
been for some time drilling, organising, and preparing
for active service those loyal habitans on whose fidelity
to the 13:itish Government the simple Earl Gosford
bad a few ese.eks previously reckoned, averring that he
" did not expect any serious commotion !" He concludes
the dispatch in question by stating, that "the grievances
which were at first put forward by the leaders of this party
would seem to have been mere pretexts to clothe deeper
and (Luker designs. The mask has now been thrown
aside, and the people are excited to disaffection and re-

hellion by the most artful and unfounded representations ;
and even if all the demands of the Assembly were fully
and immediately granted, they would, I begin to think (I),
lie insufficient to satisfy the views of those whose evident
aim is not to reform, but to destroy, the established Govern-
ment and British connexion." And all these things Lord Gos-
ford "begins" to suspect, after more than two years' close and
hitter i xperience of the machinations of this same rebel
and traitor faction. Why, was there a political schoolboy
in England that did not know, before Lord Gosford left
the country, what Lis Lordship now begins to imagine ?
Did Lord Gosford never bear before lie sailed from Eng-
land that Papineau wanted, what no British Government
could g7ant—coocessions which amounted to that very
free and sovereign independence of Great Britain," which
the talking and flying traitor Mackenzie, told the Re-
publicans of Buffalo, the other day, was the sine qua non
for which he and Papineau had seduced their unhappy
followers to rebel ? If Lord Gosford was incredulous or
perverse upon this subject, the Whig Ministers, who
tempted him with the gilt bait of a nominal Governor-Gene-
ralship over the Canadas, were no such blockheads, we can
tell him. Lord Aberdeen had projected a commis-
sion to redress grievances, having an eye to the
real interests of the people of Canada, but having
at the same time a wise distrust of M. Papineau,
if not a thorough contempt for him, and a determination
never to be influenced by his importunities. This com-
mission of the Conservative Government was also pre-
pared in utter indifference to the mischievous practices and
manceuvres of those English agitators of the Hume and
Leader school, who were perpetually dabbling with the f►c-
titious turbulence of the Canadian demagogues, and pat-
ting their treasons on the back." The policy of the Con-
servatives was to redress wrongs, not to coquette with
traitors ; whereas the Whig-Melbourne Commission was
no less sordid in its motive than ridiculous inits means. By
a make-believe show of conciliation, which the Ministers
themselves knew, though Lord Gosford might not, that
they could never realise, they bought the votes of some two
dozen democrats, who had wriggled their way into the
House of Commons, and thus added something to their
precarious tenure of a measuring cast majority at home,
while they made poor Lord Gosford their Punchinello at
Quebec, with M. Papineau to pull his wires. This was but
sorry treatment for the " conciliatory" Governor, who was
thereby made, not a messenger of peace, but a dry-nurse of
civil commotion.—Tinies.

When the opponents of the Ballot affect so much ab-
horrence of the duplicity and treachery which it would
encourage, by affording electors an opportunity of pro-
mising their votes on one side and giving them on smother,
they seem to regard the fulfilment of an illegal, unjust,
and unconstitutional private contract as imposing a greater
moral obligation than the conscientious discharge of a great
public duty. The object of the franchise is avowedly to
afford those to whom it is extended a means of express-
ing, through representatives in the House of Commons,
their opinions on public events, and on the principles of
Government and general policy. Any attempt to interfere
with, control, or pervert the choice of as elector, by cor-
-t or coercive agency, is a violation of the first and most
sacred rigs; of representative government. Every man
making or access:2" to such an attempt is a traitor to his
country and its ConsiituL"' Social relations even should
not be allowed any influence in the exercise of a function
in which are involved the rights and ii;:f rests of the whole
community. In fulfilling his direct contract w-;...h his land-
lord, and reciprocating any kindness he may receive from
him with respect and gratitude, the tenant discharges every I
claim which can be legally or morally made upon him. No
indulgence, kindness, nor generosity on the part of the
landlord can establish for him the least right to direct
the tenant as to the manner in which he shall bestow
his vote. The franchise is the essence and emblem of
public liberty, and he who exercises it at the dictation of
another is a slave—more degraded even than ho who
is not admitted to the suffrage at all, as he becomes a
party to his own thraldom and debasement, while the
other has never been admitted to the rights of a free-
man. The electors of Great Britain are as sentinels and
guardians of the public interests, and to argue that if
under pressure of circumstances any of them should be
tempted to promise to desert his post, therefore every
means should be taken to exact and enforce the fulfilment
of such promise, is as much opposed to every principle of
morality and justice, as it would be to give a soldier over
to the vengeance of an enemy, because, after making a pro-
mise under undue influence to betray his duty, he subse-
quently found means to evade such promise, and faithfully
discharged his duty. It looks vastly fine on paper, and '
sounds very magniloquently in a speech, to dilate upon that
open, manly, and independent spirit which should ever
characterise Englishmen ; but these rhetorical flourishes
and artifices find but little corroboration in the corrupt, pro-
fligate, and debased traffic which is made of the franchise
in the polling- booths. These vaunters of English inde-
pendence are the very men most solicitous, by the prevention
of the Ballot, to preserve to themselves the means of bring-
ing every species of undue and corrupt agency to operate
on the electors. It is not the independence of the electors,
but their servile and base subjection to oligarchic domina-
tion, that those clamourers about the bold and open spirit
of Britons are most desirous to maintain. There cannot
be a more bitter mockery than to talk of independence to
men who are frequently driven to the poll like creatures
incapable of using their own judgment on subjects in which
their interests are most vitally involved. From this degra-
dation the Ballot is proposed to emancipate them ; and, as
if it were more demoralizing to vote in secret as one's own
conscience would dictate, than openly under the corrupt or
tyrannical direction of another, the Ballot is denounced as
tending, to debase the national character. A moro false
and slanderous allegation was never made. It is the public
prostitution of the elective franchise that is attended with
more bitter and shameless degradation than the most evil
ingenuity could possibly effect under the system of secret
voting.—Morning Advertiser.

On the 26th of December last an elderly gentle-
man was found strangled in the Champs Elysees. It was but
on Thursday that the corpse was recognised as that of an
Englishman of independent fortune, whose son-in-lacy has a
public establishment near Corbeil.

Lectures on Temperance have been delivered during
the past week with much success at the various villages around
Lincoln.

TILE OYSTER FISHERIES.—At the East Kent
Quarter Sessions last week, a case of much importance was
decided relative to the Milton Fisheries. The title to the
fisheries has already been established both in law an equity,
and various injunctions have been obtained at the suit of dif-
ferent lessees against the Milton fishermen to prevent them
trespassing on the beds. The oyster fishery is of great im-
portance ; a capital of 10,0001. being employed in stocking
and storing the grounds with young oysters and brood. Since
these injunctions have been granted, they have been several
times infringed upon by fishermen using trawls, an instrument
not fitted for oyster beds, but which might be used for other
kinds of fishery, though very injurious when applied to oyster
fishing. The proprietors, therefore, were compelled, in order
to protect their fishery, to indict Richard Thompsett, and three
other fishermen for unlawfully using the trawl, all of whom
were, after a very lengthened investigation of the case, found
guilty, and were each sentenced to two month's imprisonment
in the gaol of St. Augustine. It is reported that the result
of this struggle betweon the occupiers and the dissatisfied
fishermen will put an end to the injurious resistance which for
a series of years has existed against the proprietors of the
fishery.

On Friday night, three prisoners effected their
escape from York Castle, under circumstances of an extraor_
dinary nature. Their names are Ellis Nicholl, late of Halifax,
charged with committing a burglary at Southowram ; John
alias Joseph Hutchinson, a native of Kirton, in Lincolnshire,
and late of Sheffield, charged with robbing a warehouse at
that town; and Wm. Mason, a labourer, of Sheffield, charged
with horse stealing. The former prisoner was transported
for seven years ten years since ; and had a cut on the back
part of his head and ulcers on his right leg. Either through
real or feigned illness, these men were placed in the hospital,
by order of Mr. Anderson, the surgeon, as sick prisoners, for
whom the new or women's prisons are appropriated. The
men were in one room ; and at eight o'clock they were locked
up for the night; but early the following morning it was found
that they had escaped. The walls of the building are of
brick, three feet thick, which they had forced through by
great and persevering labour, and thus obtained an entrance
into the yard. Previous to this they had torn the quilts of
their bed into shreds, which they had knotted together, and
having fastened a brick to the end, one of the prisoners had
scaled the stone wall, which is of great height, and assisted
his acecomplices in the hazardous undertaking. When they
arrived outside, they must either have crossed the river Foss,
or gone round by the banks near Castle Mills Bridge, both
of which must have been 'exceedingly dangerous.—Halifax
Express. . _ _

A most extensive robbery was committed a few days
back, at Hooton, the residence of Sir Thomas M. St inley,
Hart., when cash to the amount of 1,2001. was carried off
under the most singular circumstances. The baronet, it ap-
pears, who had been out hunting, deposited, on his return,
his silver wine flask (his usual companion in the chase) toge-
ther with a sum of money in the drawt-r of his escruitoire,
which, locking, he placed the key in his private apartment.
On the following day, finding that the keys had been removed
and left on the chimney piece, he searched the escrutoire,
and found that four hundred pounds in bank notes; had been
taken from one drawer, and that four hundred pounds also in
notes, together with a large sum of gold and silver, were taken
from another. Lady Stanley, being informed of the robbery.
b- came apprehensive, and hurrying to her boudoir, found that
her desk had been broken open, and cash to the amount of
one hundred and fifty pounds taken away, Information was
immediately given to the Chester police, and on Wednesday,
a woman who had previously resided in Sir Thomas's family
fur five weeks was taken into custody. No one else, as yet,
has been apprehended, although many persons are strongly
suspected as having been implicated in the transaction. The
flask on one side bears, engraver, the crest of the family, a
stag's head, the name of Sir Thomas M. Stanley is at the
botton ; the top of the flask when taken off forms a cup.

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES,Sze. &c. &c.

LONDON,. TUESDAY, JAN. 9.
Number Dividend Prier
of per CANALS. per
'Shares. Annum. Paid. Share
1,706 7 per cent. Aalston and Oldham.... Average 971. 151 s. sh. 135
1.082 4!. Ashby-de-le-Zoucli leverage I 13/. s li. 65
1,260 Basingstoke 'OOl. eh. 5
1,005 5/, Brecknock and Aberg,menny 151 y, sh. 100
5,000 1-10 sh. 91.65. Uirmingliara, 1-16th share Si'. & 71!. 220
4,000 Ditto ar,cl Liverpool Junct...1251 oh. 10!i pd 2i)
600 ts/. Bridgewater and Taunton -.IDOL sh. all I'd 64
400 4/. Chelmer and B:ackwater 1001. eh. 102
300 481. Coventry '";01. oh 7(0
4,545 c,roydon
2,1519 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. eh. /3
600 7!. Derby lOW. sh. C's
20000
3,574 31. Elle,mere and Chester Average 1231.8 k. 77
'231 401. Erowash 1001.00. '7OO
1,297 28/. Forth end Clyde Average 1t0.2.180. to. 610
11,900 12!. Grand Junction lied. sh. 225
2,849 i 11. Grand Union li el. eh. 25
1,50 n Grand Surrey ........
_.,
'lO,OOO/. 4/. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOO/ 70
3,696 Grand Western
600 /31.124. Sel. Glarncrganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230
749 10t. Grantham 150/ sh. 28.1
1,231 V. Os Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 37
100 Kensington lois oh. all pd. 10
25,3'23 11. 55. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. lbs. 10d. sh. 24
2,197# 201. Leeds and Liverpool 100/ sh 6411
54.4 131. Leicester l4O/ sh 225
1,897 41. 101. Leicester ATM Nortkampton...Aver 13/. !Os. 91
2,400 101. Monmouthshire lliOLsh. 29,
150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. •h. 200
SOO 251. Mersey and Irwel I lOO/ sh. 165
MOO 11. 10e. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 52
247 17/. Neat h 100/.0. 325
1,766 301. Oxford 'ON. oh. 530
2,400 i/. Peak Forest Avenge about 781. sh. 104
1,418 12s. Ilezent's (or London) Ayer. 331. 16s. PAL sh. 16
6,669 1. per eent. t.ochdale Nverage 841. eh. 111
500 8/. Shropshire.- )25/. sh. 138
800 IL 10e. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 151 i
3,600/. 4i percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10e. s 4. (li
700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. ah. 710
500 81. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 1.50
300 91. Stourbridge 1453. eh. 3.30
5,647 2f, i•s, Stratford-on- Ayt:ll ...Average 791. 9s. bd. eh. 50
533 121. Swansea 100/. sh. 23)
3,762 11. 15e. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av. 351. sh. 26}
2,60ci eh. 32!. Itts. Treat and :Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. 560
8,14/4 Thames 121,1 Medway...Aver. 191. M. Id. eh. 2
11, .
000sh1
15L Warwick aid Birmingham 100/.lh 05
;ah,
980 I It. Warwick and rapt lOO/.0. 183
6,000 4/. os, Worcest sr and Birmingham-A.4.781.85. sh. 714
1,000 255. Wilts an.. Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. •...2
100 31. Wyrley and Essington 195/. ah 75
/se Wisbeach
905 1,. Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 221
DOCKS,
2,600 k ISp. a Commercial OOO/. sh. 56
1,065i5h
498,66711. 6 per ct. East India Stock 107
3,238,310 V. 565. p. ct. London Stock 53}.
Ditto Bonds 951

1,380,000/. 411. p. et. West India Stock 95
2,0.09 'I/. 10s. Bristol
88,3241. M. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amoents ll3
1,352,752 41 percent. St. Katharine stock 10)
500,000 4i per sent. Ditto Bonds lOO
200,001 t er cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 9Ol
t Shoreham Harbour
2.200 ........ Deptford Pier .01. sh. 11/.
BRIDGES.
1,600 Ifs. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 221
7,031 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. C
1,700 11. 154. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. 'h. 141
5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh, 3
11,000 18s. id. Ditto, Old Annuities of u/. (101. pd 19
6,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40/. pd 161
60,000/, 54 per amt. Ditto Bonds III
6,941 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 103.1 d. sh. 18
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,008 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 501. pd $1)
1_ and 15s. Alliance,British A Foreign ISO/. sh. 101!. pd 13
1001. sh. 51. pd 61
501. sh. V. pd 131
14:0700000 r 6:
ipeP.epre;:sinhtt...l DAittitaos, Marine
1,000 fah. 14 Birmingham hire 250!. sh. 55/. pd 1071
20,000 Al per sent. British Fire 250/ sh. 501. pd 42
12,000 51. per cent. British Commercial 504 el.. 5/. pd 61
5,000 51. per rent. Clerical, Meth.. al, Sec. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 4
1001. sh 10/. pd 42
4,000 21 Ifs County
20,000 I. Eagle
300 [I P" sent.( liconorais like lOOO/. eh. 2504 pi 875
alai 501 be.
2,271 225. percent. Nuropean Li.o 001. sh. all pd 22
60,000 2s. Ditto, New ... 20/. eh. 2/. pd il
1,000,0084 71. per el. Globe Stock 155
00,000 M. Guardian lOO/. sh. 071! pd 33
40,000 Ss. 04. Hope
3,400 W. 7s, rid. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 1261.
7,.:09 Is. Imperial Life 1001. eh. 104 pd 10
123:0453 4/.3plerlocei sat. licnettm
Firenity Marine ...... ...... ...10054311..5ph...811.1
pdini
1129
.$4 Ditto Life 79
1001. sh. 10/. pd 251
10/00 #d6, Law Life
05/ sh. 124 l(W. pi! 151
251 sh. 111 10s. pd 151_
50!. eh. 2/. pd 111 Ss 041
001 sh. 0/. pd 17.011
1/. Provident Lite
100_,000 im. ?tock Life 004 sh. 14 pd
Stock„, t2l
30027b):,50g011 24/1; Pjple!Ceeennti. V'T:Lantddidet°7lt4P:TSlF.hiiii:t.
ei''4l/i 14 per cent. Royal Exchange
6,0041 4 per Pent. University Life lOO/. sh. Si. pd si
nte Kin lom Life 2l. pd
10 01T 4
60,000 4 Per 8130 t. I." ' CK BANKS
25,000 s percent AgriP.
4p/. sh. 401. •-
pd aJ
Austrahvi3 , ..... UP
,1)0f) 444 (..,-urorp, of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14
1100:0%8
11.0imerrcceennt.L
BBiarnmkinogfhlitaimrnmßinagnhk.llll4 tt05005C.5041011.h.
.104: pd
pd
11531
3;:oogoo :pperxx: 1,404124,,,,,.,..,..V.,-.emiarter...llooooll :,111..
2rl pd
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1001 sh. 10/. pd '2'3
T 5,000 piverpoet oor4
ern*
rso,ooo 71 per awn& MancheJfer 4.14 .. V r 1 1001. sh. 15/ pd 28
Discount o . ototottotr?::: ‘„,..„. „,,„ 7, 27
20,003 7 per cent. Manchester...is . , ~ 0?? ?V 7,:,,t P 0
20,000 Provincial Bank of Irefanse.„lool. sp. .44 pit co
20,(.00 National Bank of Ireland „,5°4 ph 1711. pd It:
10,00019000 it per crat. Yottuioc.esnaol Pr;toiviriencial Eng. -15000,1.
solhi., 31,(1,1:',41,d
3302
6,003 leper cent. Hampshire.„
GAS LIGHT AND 430 >Q COMPANIES.
2,500 11)3 6d Bath
5,000 British . . aut, sti. ilf, pd 21
504 {5l Be.wil.e 60ntl Ditto Provincial vaz. sb. 10 4 94
sro. sli. 08
VA 51106 Birmingham.?
4,2541 2/ Os Bristol ..„„ „ 2o' sh 36
1,500 3i 10s Brighton
750 31 105 Ditto, New
2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General .. 24,0 Pk 4ii 0 17
4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 42140 fOi)
1,000 101. City 01 London lOO/. eh, ail p 4 100
1,001 61. Ditto, New
1 !,000 41. 10s. Equitable .... 501. pd 301
10,1'00 24 per cent. Imperial 44,4.0” 5O!. sh. 45
800 5/. per cent, Isle of Thanet lf,l. eh, Pt pd
20
9,350 61. per cent. independent 3O!. 811. ei p 4 01
9,000 IL per cent. Plicenit ,„ , 51)1. sh. 39/. pd 2/1
1,600 4/. per cent. Ratchet' , lOO/. sh 80/ pd 54,
4,000 .4444,.,. South Petrupoittati
8,200 5/. per cent, United General 5Ol, sh. 461. pd 24
~..
240 24 per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50
400 10/. per cent Wakefiald 25/. sit; 421
12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000 125. Ditto New
800 Yarmouth 204 ph. 181. pd
WATER WJEKS.
4,800 9s. Birosifiiibun 25/. sh. 251 pd tli
1,414 6/. East Lontion „, 100/. sh. 145
5,500 21 Ws Grand Junction ....krerage 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. 54 -
:1,000 21. Kent lOO/. sh. 43
372 104 Li+vrpool Ilootle ''pi, sh. 3-6
1,500 2/ lOs New Kt.ar London Bridge Water Annuitias 58
8,488 11 156 Manchester and Nalford lOO/. sh. 53
1,000 4 per cent. South London lts 1004 sh. 97
4,004 41, West Middlesex ....Average i',;.14 12s. 911. sh. 88
1,360 1114 e Yolk Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 ph. 33
IRON IIAILWAYS.
6,000 Birmingham and Derby ...... 20/. pd ilrf
9,590 Birmingham and litooMter l2l/, pd 21
7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thais Junction ,°,l
15,000 Bristol god Exeter 10(1/. sh. 10 lid 'i
060 Calcutta :Lod Saugur 5O/. 41, 21. kt 01
7,500 ...... „• Cheltenham and G, Western...loo/. sh. 71/ 11
3,000 0.
12,000
8,000 Dubli,i and Kilkenny 1004 sii. 2i pd 0,5
80,000 Eastern C.,m.ties 254 sh. 34 pi 1
Grand Junction 1001. sh. 954 pd 181
Great North of England
25,030 Great Western lOOl ;h. 551. pd 603
2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1140/ 1,1 100
21000 Hull and 'elby 50/. sh. 10/. pd 5
0,000 Leeds and Manchester 1004 ph, 5/. pd 14
2,100 31 per cent. Leeds and Selby Ills ..V. 41
1,500 1/,;,p, Leicester and Swannington ....fill. sh, all pd 71!
5,109 10 per cent. I jverpieol and Manchester-10(41h. WO/. pd 19"
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 91
36,0491 London and Brighton sot. all. 51 pd 11
12,001 London and Blaciorall 5O/. sh 31. pd ‘'e
10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/, pip. 201. pd 1$
25,000 London and Birmingham -.1004 sh, in /A 161
Ditto Quarter Shares 51 pd VI
20,e00 ~.. ..... London and t.../nitliampton ....WI. sh. 50/ pd 114)
... ...... Ditto ditto New
.....54 pal 9
7,000 .4444..,. London and Croydon Trunk 20i. sh. 20/. pd 1 „
7,000 Ditto Scrip l4/. sti, 2/, Icl 8„
12,000 London Oriind Junction... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 04
10,001 Manchester and 111, Misiiham 70/.sh. 51. pd 41
North Nlidland,„ . 1001. oh. 25/. IA 241
Northesn and Eastern ~.• ..... 100/. oh. n/. lid 2!
2,600 Preston and Wyre 504 sh. 304 141
28,1i0orX00° 16/:..p..t..(..r...5.f.!nt.
I 00/. sh, lir,",
:S‘lYSsou'ar:ktki::aneoE:l;;;4:fiee:d: Eastern
t;Dirah'adnrdNiGil inDr: le: aetv;:nd: I 5c
(1)4
. 5'2010'1.. 2501i1h.:16°2/1.: illiddd I'6lll
1,400
6,000
MINEg.
~,
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8,000 .....
,000 11. Ls. A Iten 154 oh. 124 105 pd 144
111,001 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, Isis. 5/. pm.... 1004 oh. all pd
Oitto Subscription ....................... 0.51 poo
2,000
10,000 1411'0% BET.3l"znil(L'ii 1ni.;.11;2, 51. pm......1J3t1.:51hh. 41/1., iil 27(2/15
6,0 0
11,00 Ditto St. John Del Rey.... ..... 204 sh, 04 pd 31
10,000 BON var Copper Company 20/. sh. 201. pd 5
10,000 Ditto gcrj,,,,,, ICI. sh. 84 pd 3
241/40) British Iron 5Ol. ,h. 50/ pd 35
0,000 gritisli Cot per
Cats Branca
C.Wonga
10,060 11
8,500 .„
2.02,L51 31'
}(loC.'°:lPgr'litiemaisrlair:las;inilasi lg. sAl.ssPocini.ationi.:sso)-5`5,11.01/011E.I.ho.1:sish2:111:.1.1.:,1410!slii: 1 :41 5
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30,000
Polberou Ccnisols .i... 2
. 6,153
3,000
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sh.
a:i
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. 11,500
Dart. Scrip ......
Ditto Loan Notes ................ 14#
30,000
Lowl.::di
ttotton.
Nriwkteli7t hiSvNß'Sri 'oPrn .1
zie.:U.T.:1iiNt....5......" ........77.5g1.:5;1'. . is. ‘.ls.d.. .242:
LITER A:
1,000
1,500 London University 1004 sh. all pd 231
;00 Russell s
25 es. sh. p
King' College
MISCELLANEOUS. 1004 pd 26
10,000 15.4. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh '20.11. pd 4 1
6,000 4!. per cent. British American Land Company„ 911. li, 7-,„
10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 26/, /rid oi
200,000 SI per cent. Upper Canada Loan ....................... !).
City Bonds, 4 per cent ............... ..., ........ ,f 4
15,000 14 lis. Gersaral Steam Navigation _154 vi,:ti."o: t
mod 101. per cent. H11,15011#6 1317 Stock ......................... l'u 215
11. London Coin .Sateooms ......... Av. 'Xi .s
8,000 Caoutchouc Cpany ....,„...25/. 0... ,il.
r),1)1. 19
New Brunswick Land Comp:ivy .„ . 43/_ pd 1111
2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest Soc.-1001. sh, 111101, pa 12.„,
2,633 61. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 704 pa ge
4,000 1 hames Tunnel 50/. sh 11
• a Pd 6
10,000 Os, Van Die.ner.'s Land 1004 eh. 17/. pd 94
.

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
DEC. 15. 1837.
BANKE4.

4500,00 U. 0/. p. et. Flan': of Scotland 93/. as (41. sh. 411 pd Igo/.
1,000,0X1. 5t p. ct. Royal of Seotlar 't lOO/. sh. all 1,.1 jag
500.011. Sp. et. British Linen Company 100/.5h. ;,111x1 -.3,4.
3,000,00(1. ed. p. et. Couamercil 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 17.5
i/.
. i.
.sfoosak • . ri. '.., lions! . lOO/.sh. 101. pd Id/.
3,00,1,0001. 11 p. ct. Glasgow Union 'sol. sh. 504 pd
1,000" W. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland .•.,....2001. Ph 30/. pd sgi.
INSURANCE COSIPANIEIi.
25(1.0005h di p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1/. pd ,1,
-,5011 04 p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 13/ pu.
1110,1100 ap. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd fq F,
50,004 .(i p, ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd It L
1 /n 1 sp. et. ,C.:Jefionian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd le/5r
5,0u0 ep.ct It hiutiraip, ; 4;-.;
... lOOl. sh. 10/. pal 14/10.
100,0011 3! p. et. West of Scotland ''
,n,,t,1! 1,f,11. pd i, 08
_ 511SCELLANEUTIS."' ' r

4,810 „„,„„ F.clin. 2111 i Was Un. eanai 50/. uh. all pd 2.1/.
Mr Vocated 91,/. sh. all pd 65/.
5,400 5 pas' Aent. . ,b„ 04-8 I*#i.:4 Water 25/. sh. all pd :41
C4lAn UT!? C.C9Vicel ?rtrt sh. all 14 434 1,0003 h 15 per cent. Shotts lion F051P.01.2. '•iprt x. :sr
i 0,000 S per cent. Edinburgh & Leith ufass . an. ' a ),(, 8,1.
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. alt pd 1.114,
4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas ~54 sh. all pd 61/
750 7! per cent. Leith Coal (las 20!. sh. all pd 451.
1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so4 sh 551.
3,000 5 per pciah PoiNblelzp Company.4sl. sh. 91. IA 101.

CANADA.

PUBLIC MEETING AT EDIABURGII.

( Abridged from the Edinburgh Observer of Tuesday.)
Last night a public raecting was held in the Cowgete
Chapel, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament, and ad-
dressing her Majesty against the further prosecution of the
war with Canada. The chapel was full but not crowded,—
there being probably 1,500 persons present. W. D. Gillon,
Esq., M,P., presided.
Mr. GII.LON, on taking the Chair, begged they would ac-
company him in a short retrospect of the history of that
colony to which their attention was now more particularly
directed. In 1791, by an Act of the Imperial Legislature,
constitutions had been granted to the Colonies of Upper and
Lower Canada. These constitutions were a mimic represen-
tation of the Constitution of this country. They have a Go-
vernor to represent the Kin ; an Executive Council to repre-
sent the Privy Council of this country; a Legislative Council
ire place of the House of Lords ; a Legislative Assembly in
place of the House of Commons; —and he begged of the
meeting particularly to observe, that the same control
over the public revenues of the colony was entrusted to
the Legislative Assembly as the House of Commons pos-
sessed at home ; and that further, by successive Acts
of the Legislature, especially the 18th Geo. 111. cap. 12.
and Ist and 2d William IV. cap. 23, they were invested
not only with the laying on of the taxes, but with the appro-
priation of the revenues when collected. In process of time
this Constitution, which, like our own, had been supposed to
be the beau ideal of all human inventions, was found not to
work quite so well in practice. The Legislative Council,
which stood in the place of a local aristocracy, was found to
consist of individuals who had neither the property, the cha-
racter, nor the station, befitting met, invested with such im-
portant duties—who were the mere tools and nominees of the
Governor, and, on all occasion, intercepted from the colony
the benefits of British legislation, whenever that legislation
was beneficently exercised.—( Cheers.) But that the meet-
ing might not take these matters on his single affirmation, he
begged to tefer to the words of Mr. now Lord Stanley, im-
mediately afterhis return from a visit to these colonies. [Here
Mr. Gillon read the extract, in which Mr. Stanley described
the Legislative Council as the root of all the evils which had
taken place in the colony for the last ten or fifteen years.]
These were the expressions of Mr. Stanley, then a Whig in
opposition to the Tory Government in 1629. It was not
his (Mr. Gillon's) business to account for the diffe-
rence of opinion subsequently entertained by Mr. Stan-
ley, the Whig Secretary for the Colonies in 1834, or by Lord
Stanley, one of the leaders of the Tory opposition in 1838.
( Hisses.) But, at the period to which he referred, that indi-
vidual had just returned from a personal observation, he must
be supposed to have been correct.--( Hear, hear.) It was
asked what were the grievances of which the Canadians com-
plained. They complained that the streams of justice were
poisoned at the source ; that the judges were appointed by the
Governor during pleasure; that they were mere tools for exe-
cuting his will ; and a portion of the petty and contemptible
clique who tyrannised over the people. They complained that
all useful reforms were arrested in their progress by the Legis-
lative Council; that Bills for purifying the administration of
justice, and for establishing national education, had been re-
peatedly thrown out; in fact, that every measure having for
its object the amelioration of the condition of the people, met
from them a steady resistance. They complained, that by
the formation of the British American Land Company,
valuable lands were disposed :of at an inadequate price,
and that the price which was received, instead of
being appropriated to the uses of the Colony, nad
thereby, as in America, exempting them from taxa-
tion, were by the Governor thrown into the military chest.
But the master grievance of all remained to be detailed. It
would be observed, that the Canadians had gone on petition-
ing the Legislature of this country in respectful terms during
a period of nearly 18 years. What was the consequence ?
Their grievances were admitted, but redress was withheld.
Tired out at length, they resorted to the admitted consti-
tutional privilege,—that of stopping the supplies,—a course
which, by the way, had becu warmly recommended to
them by Mr. Stanley.—(Hear, hear.) We were in the
habit in this country, of talking very big about stopping the
supplies, and he recollected in 1835, when the Peel Govern-
ment came into office, a proposition of this nature was
recommended by his friend Mr. Hume, which he (Mr.
Gillon) should have been glad to support,—(Cheers)--but
the Whigs who expected very shortly to come into office on
the strength of the Irish Church question, objected to
such a proceeding, and it was not adopted. The Canadians,
however, who were simple men, and unaccustomed to
the war of faction which goes on in this country did
adopt such a course. What was the consequence? The
Parliament by the resolutions of last spring, authorizod
the Governor violently to seize on the revenues of the
colony without the consent of their representatives.—( Hear,
hear.) He (Mr. Gillen) asked whether any ukase of a Rus-
sian autocrat, or mandate of a Chinese Emperor, could be a
more palpable insult to a nation calling itself free : or whe-
ther the pages of history exhibited an example of more open
and unmitigated tyranny ?—( Cheers.) He did not justify the
course pursued by the Canadians in resorting to arms. Per-
haps had they waited a little longer, the people of this country
—and it was only through the people that great and beneficial
reforms were ever accomplished—(loud applause)—might
have been awakened to a sense of the wrongs of the colonists,
and have demanded or the Government, to whatever section
of the aristocracy they might belong, justice for Cwnada,—
( Loud cheers.) It was said that the demands were made by
a portion of the population exclusively of French origin. This
!so a ow? attempt to delude the public mind. Thor.;,
were prelsebry seareely any individu living who bad ever bavn a
subject of France. For nearly 80 years had the Canadians b-en
the subjects of this country, and they only asked to partici-
patt, in the benefits of British institu'ions. But it was said
that the Canadians were weak and defenceless, and could
therefore be calmly put down. This was an argument which
he trusted would find but little response in British bosoms,
—(Cheers.) But on this subject we might learn a lesson
from exiorience. The same had been said nearly severity
yeare ago, when we first began to tax North American colo-
eists without their own consent. A long and arduous struggle
had ensued, which had resulted after the effusion of torrents
of blood, and the addition of one hundred millions to our
to
heard
it said h
na-
tional debt, in the triumph of North American independence,
and the establishment of that great and flourishing republic,
which now stretched its wide-spread dominions front the At-
lantic ecific,ar(ide knew notfromTexa with what to the St.t
uatr,i;orerni
teyes
He
had ,
that 20,000 men were to be added to our already over.
grown ;tending army. This would be, no doubt, a powerful
military force; but who was to pay for all this? He (Mr.
G.) was hopeful that the results of the meeting this night—
that the expressions of the sentiments of the citizens of the
most enlightened city in the empire—would be the means of
putting a stop to an unjust, unnatural, and expensive war;
and of settling on principles of strict and impartial justice a
quarrel in which, while defeat, or even prolongation of the
contest must be attended with disgrace, victory could bring in
its train neither honors nor advantage.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. TURNBULL proceeded to contend that, ac-
cording to the words of the resolution which he was requested
to move, that the present war with Canada was in opposition
to the dictates of humanity, the principles of religion, and the
true interest of the community ; and in oatablishinr,b those
points, he drew a forcible and etrecting picture of the horrors
of war, both in reference to the cruelties which it entailed
upon the body, and its deadening and withering effects upon
the mind.

Mr. CRUICICIIIIANK4, jun., George-street, seconded the
resolution.

Mr. BURTON, in proposing the seventh resolution would
start with the principle, more than forty years ago maintained
by Jeremy Bentham, that colonies were an evil to a country.
Much might be said as to the British colonies, about the evil
being done, there being rights involved which we must pro-
tect, and our colonies spreading civilization and christianity.
These were questions on which he would not enter, and would
content himself in the present case with restricting the prin-
ciple to this, that when a large colony:, such as Canada, ex-
pressed discontent, whether on good or bad grounds, with the
Government of the mother country, it ought to be left to
govern itself, or seek another protector.
Mr. RUSSELL moved the next resolution, that the petition to
the House of Commons be entrusted to Joseph Hume, Esq. ;
and read an article from a newspaper, which he stated was
from the pen of Mr. flume, strongly condemnatory of the po-
licy of Ministers with reference to Canada.
Mr. HowlsoN (of the Society of Friends), seconded the
resolution.
Mr. W. TAIT rose to move the next resolution, and said—
The attempt to coerce our former colonies, now the great
American Republic, and the present attempt to put down
public lihorty in Canada, are as much alike as any two cases
are ever likely to be. We endeavoured to tax the old colo-
nies without their own consent. We now appropriate, with-
out consent of the Canadians, the taxes raised by their Legis-
in fact, rob their exchequer deliberately by an Act
olaftucrue—ve
cur own Parliament. ls this proceeding less an infringe-
ment on the liberties of a colony than the former ?—( No,
no.) If there is any difference between the two acts, the laSt
is the worst of the two. While Ido not justify the Canadians
in resorting to arms in vindication of their unquestionable
rights, much less do I find it possible to justify the attempt,
on the part of our Government, to crush them by military
violence.—( Cheers.) However, civil war has commenced;
and the question now is. how is it to be ended ? What
is to be done? I concur, with all my heart, in the resolutions
which you have passed. Grant the claims of the Canadian;
govern them with their own consent ; or part company on as
titicable terms as may be.
Mr. TAIT then moved the ninth resolution, that the petition
to the House of Lords be sent to Lord Brougham, reminding
the meeting that, in that House Loid Brougham had stood
alone in opposition to the infamous coercive resolutions—that
he had given each of them an emphatic No—and had recorded
a solemn pretest against all of them.
ilfr, Tuomas IRELAND seconded the resolution.
Mr. Jonx SPITTAL moved that an Address to the Queen
be entrusted to Lord Melbourne for presentation at the ear-
liest opnortunity.
Mr, DARLING, W. S., seconded this resolution, which, like
all the others, were carried by acclamation.
Thanks were afterwards voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

Sir Thomas and Lady Munro left Farrance's Hotel,
Bel rave-street, on Snnilay, for Brighton.
Supliftimt,—This mighty lake iq the
largest body of fresh water in the known world. Its length is
480 miles, its breadth 141 miles, and its depth 900 fathoms.
Its waters are remarkable for their unrivalled transparency.
About 1,000 streams empty themselves into this lake, sweep,
ing in sand, primitive boulder atones, and drift timber, which
sometimes acellrillilate, so as to form islands ill the estuaries,

(ADVERTISEMENT. _ _
THE WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIA-

TION.

TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF EUROPE, AND
ESPECIALLY TO THE POLISH PEOPLE:—
BRETHREN,—In reply to the Polish Democrats who recently
addressed 115, ace beg it might be understood, not cnly by
them, hut by the working classes of Europe ; that while we
are zealously labou-ing to diffuse a knowledge of true princi-
ples among our own brethren, we are not unmindful of that
great principle of Democracy that " all mankind are brothers."
And though the perversion of truth and justice has called
forth the exclusive feelings of the few, to conspire and rebel
against the happiness of the many ; yet when knowledge shall
have expanded the intellect of mankind, they will assuredly
perceive that all the nations of the earth have, in reality, but
one brotherly interest.
Possessing this conviction, we feel persuaded that every ef-
fort that can be made towards eradicating those national pre-
judices and bieofteil feelings, which the selfish and despotic
rulers of mankind have implanted and perpetuated fur teeir ad-
vantage, will tend towards that great consummation of national
and universal happiness, when equality of rights shall be esta-
blished, and when " men shall love one another."
And we know no batter means of effecting this righteous
object, than by availing ourselves of those great rights and
privileges of humanity, our counts) men have achieved through
persecution and death, and which your oppressors have un-
justly deprived you of, or prevented you from obtaining—we
mean the right of investigating and inquiring through the
means of public meetings, open discussions, and the press
(stamped and trammelled as it is), which is the most desirable
form of government—the best mode of instructing the people
—the most economical mode of producing wealth, a id the best
means of its just distribution—and of causing all the corrup-
tions and anomalies of Church, State, and individuals, to pass
in review before the great tribunal of public opinion, from
which all power should emanate; and to which alone it should
be responsible.
True it is, that the friends of freedom, throughout the Con-
tinent, have just cause to remember etih feelings of execration
the base conduct of the Government of England, in secretly
undermining or openly opposing every attempt they have made
to check the inroads of despotism, or to advance the cause of
Democracy. But it should be remembered, that the same
rampant spirit of Aristocracy, which by a corrupt legislative
assembly, a hypocritical money-loving priesthood, and a stand-
ing army of soldiers, placemen, pensioners, and expectants,
keep the working millions in ignorance and subjection ; have
been, and still continue to be, the persecutors of liberty through-
out the world ; and not the reflecting portion of the people of
England.
But, brethren, we think we have discovered the great secret
of their power—it is our own ignorance of society and of go-
vernment, our prejudices, disunion, and distrust; and we feel
that our enlightenment, union, and confidence, will best dis-
solve this unholy compact of despotism.
Fellow- Workmen, have you ever asked yourselves by what
powerful spell are the productive millions of Europe held in
subjection to a puny, insignificant number of human beings ?
If you have not, begirt now to inquire ; and we think that
reflection will convince you, that the people themselves have
raised up and continue to support those few idols of wealth
and power, which constitute at once their fear and adoration.
The foolish aspirations after power, the lust of riches, and the
servile fear diffused throughout society, prepare mankind for
the concentration of their own feelings, in the power, pomp, aid
pageantry of a Crown.
Who—instead of questioning the choice and fitness for of-
fice are the first to bow before the antiquated name of royalty
—to admire the splendid show and littleness of folly—to swell
the slavish train of flatterers, who, by their cringing, make and
mould the tyrant ?—who but the giddy unreflecting people?
By whose labours are the citadels and fortifications of des-
potism erected, and all the waste and profligrtcy of courts and
camps upheld ?—The people's, who glory in the means which
keep them slaves. Where, but from the ranks of labour, have
the despots of Europe raised their fighting slaves to keep
their brother slaves in awe ? Who, but the people themselves,
form the warlike phalanx round their tyrants' thrones, and glory
in the privilege to wear their slavish trappings, and at some
minion's bidding drench the land with blood ?
Who, but the people, toil from birth till death, and thou.
sands pine in misery, to support these idle few in ad// their op.
pressions and debaucheries, and think it just to do so ?—nay I
bow before the hireling priest who impiously declares that God
has ordained it l
Democrats of Europe—you as.pire. to place liberty upon the
throne of justice—to establish the laws on the basis of equa-
lity—and to awaken the dormant faculties of mind to appre-
ciate the social and political happiness of our race—be assured,
that though the power of despotism can check the progress of
knowledge, it is the ignorance of our brethren which generates
and fosters the despot.
What thousand ineffectual efrorta of freedom have been
crushed by ignorance ? HOW many millions of generous hearts,
panting for liberty, have green sacrificed by the allied despots
of Europa l becleed up as they have ever been with the ieno-
ranee and fanaticism of millions ? When young freedom first
broke her bonds of servility in France, and proclaimed the
eternal rights of humanity, how few a her enthusiase'ic sons
could appreciate the blessing When in noble daring she
stretched forth her bard to emancipate Italy, to enfranchise
Germane, end to raise up Switzerland, from her political le-
thargy—what were the powers tt,ikkt paralysed her generosity ?
The ignorance and pNtitliecs of the masses; subjecting them
to be the slaves of priests arsdnobles, and the blind instruments
of the weatttl eed eitle.huntingv minions of despotism. The
4( altar toed the throne" formed the magic spell by which Eu-
repeau despots kindled the fie= of loyal fanaticism, and, the
blind confidence repn;ed 10 art' ambitious chieftain, rivetted
anew the cheine of kingoraft and priests:raft: Her subsequent
struggles for freedom have again been fruitless of benefits to
those who bled to effect it—the courageous few who broke the
dominion of legitimacy in France, and who sought to esta-
blish equal rights for all, were constrained by the prejudices of
the many in favour of royalty, to set up the idol of wealth on
the ruins of privilege.
The strange infatuation and foolish fears which cause the
present electors of Franco to support a soulless tyrant in
power, who despite of oaths and protestations, has sacrificed
one by one the liberties of their country, and now mocks them
with his boasted alliances with despots—afford another pre-
sumptuous proof that principles are sacrificed by ieno-
ranee ; or that conviction of mind has yet engendered de-
termination of purpose to expel such perfidious tyrant from
their soil.
The brave Belgians, touched by the electric spark excited
by the heroes of July, united in subduing one species of des-
potism to fall the disunited victims of another. Their pauper
King, by exciting_ national prejudices against Dutchmen, by a
corrupt press, and a system of German espionage, has suc-
ceeded in nullifying their revolution, and in keeping back the
tide of political improvement—the work he was set by Whigs
and Tories to perform.
In turning to Poland, the land of Kosciusko, what, let us
imquire, was the curse that withered the principles of her
ancient liberty, and hastened her downfall ? It was the curse
of privilege. It was the prejudice of caste, the offspring of
iguoraeee, she source of political and social degradation, that
peralized the enthusiasm of the generous few who sought to
free their country.
But it should also be remembered, that the nobility of Po.
land, by diplomacy, intrigue, and domestic despotism, were
the Immediate or accelerating cause of her subjugation.
Taking advantage of national prejudices, by holding the mil-
lions as property inseparable from their seal, they destroyed
the only effective energies that could resist the desolating
progress of Russian barbarity.
When the news of her recent struggle called forth the sen-
pathy ()revery friend to freedom, what was the reason assis:ance
was withheld them? The people of France had foolishly pros-
trated their liberties before their Citizen King—the prototype
of Nicholas himself. The English, charmed with their
Sailor Idol and his reforming Ministry, lauded and admired
their pacific policy their successors, very pacific when
despotism is crushing the liberties of a country, but vigorous
and warlike when liberty has the chances in her favour, (as
their present policy in Canada testify.) The Russian tyrant
thus secure, and openly encouraged by the despots of the
Continent, recklessly pursued his victim—not a voice was
raised to cheer, or an arm to defend her—Poland was even-
tu illy conquered—her sons have been persecuted and scattered
through the earth, and her daughters have become the reward
of her ferocious spoilers. Heavens I grant that her children
may gather such seeds of democracy in their exile, as at no
distant period may be planted its their cherished country, to
produce the fruits of national freedom and enlightened bro-
therhood.
Passing onward to the German and other despotic states,
what let us ask, has generated their iron system of injustice ?
Why are all the powers of each state (the laws. revenues,
Church, education, and the press) vested in one mail ? Evi-
dently because of the ignorance of the multitude; an enlightened
people never :would submit to despotism. Whence came their
soldiers, spies, and informers, but from the ranks of the
peOple ?—and who would consent to be such miscreant tools of
despotism, but the morally depraved and mentally ignorant ?
It has been the enlightened few in all countries whose gene-
rous efforts to improve their species have been frustrated
through the cowardice or servility of the masses; and Leen
Made to bleed on the scaffold, to pine in the dungeon or be-
come wanderers through the world, ,
Need we revert to Hanover, where the prejudice in favour
of hereditary sway has enabled a Tory chieftain to set aside
constitutional rights, and play the tyrant with impunity ;—and
shame to the servility of that country'—the conscientious pro-
fessors of Gottingen have been banished at the Royal roan-
date, because they would not break their oaths to enslave their
country. Think you, if the intelligence and courage found
emong the students of that city pervaded the multitude, such
infamous tyranny would escape the justice it so highly merits?
I-i Italy, where liberty has stamped immortality on her very
ruins—where every step recalls the greatness of the past to
mock the littleness of the present—the multitude (slaves to
priest or prince) are insensible to the lesser.. The ardent few,
who, brooding over their illustrious forefathers, catch the in-
spiratiens of freedom, are, by the supineness or treachery of
their brethren, made the victims of Austria, or oi the petty
princes who are the jackals of his power. Were° ITALY, like
the young in all countries, where knowledge has enlightened
the understanding, is virtuously resolved in favour of flirted, s
but the old sins of ignorance, prejudice, aill fairetieisits, dif-
fused among the masses, form
dilarr-Illi* theftprogressee.
a barrier to theie freedom,
Throessheet the Continent the efforts of democracy haee
ever been checked and blighted by the same retard'esg'eause.
The Greeks shook off the yoke of Terkey k the despots of
Europe united to give there a child to rule them, and England
the means to uphold Ilia despotism. The Spanish democrats
rose against the onion of priests and neblee, and proclaimed
the Constitution of 1812, and abolished that retarding curse of
just legislation, a privileged house of nobles—our rulers and

yours, through the ignorance of the multitude, have intrigued
to re-establish it. Under the plea of fighting, against bigotry
and ebsolu'ism, our rulers sent tht it binds of ignorantassassins,
to enable at:other set of plunderers, worse even than the
former, to keep bAck the prog.es of freedom. And by their
well-organized s; stem of falsehood, too successfully imposed
the belief on popular credulq.- But the republican insurrec.
tiuns at Cadiz and all the principal towns in favour of the
Constitution of 1812 (which were suppressed by English soldiers
and sailors). give the lie to those who contend that they Were
sent there to tight in favour of freclom.

Similar deonstiatioos in favour of liberty have beet)
crushed in Portugal ; and that by similar mentis—provino,
that though the despots of the world may quarrel for territnry
or plunder, they are cordially united to keep the poople in.
subk.etion.

Fellow-producers of we.dth, seeing our oppressors are thus'
muted, WHY SHOULD NOT WE, TOO, HAVE OUR BOND OF
BkOTHERHOOD AND HOLY ALLIANCE? Seeing that they are
powerful through our ignorance, why should not we unite to
teach our brethren a knowledge 9f their rights and duties?
Perceiving that their power is derived from our ranks, why
should not we unite in holy zeal to show the injustice of war,
the cruelty of despotism, and the misery it entails upon our
species ?

Be assured, brother Democrats, that the success of our prin.'
ciples, and the consequent happiness of mankind, will best
delKnd on our union and knowledge. We must not rely on
the mere excitation of the multitude to condemn bad men or
measures, or to change one despot for another—we must la—
bour to diffuse- such political, social, and moral informatiots
among them, as shall enable them to found their institutions;
on principles of equality, truth, and justice.
And what man can look around him and witness the govern—
ments that any ways approximate to those principles of liberty,
and contrast the comfort and happiness of the inhallitanto,, witht
those founded on exclusive power and privilege, witt...out being,
prepossessed in their favour ?

Those of the Cantons of Switzerland, where universali
suffrage is established, trades, manufactures, and agriculture
combined ; in spite of foreign intrigues and persecutions are
blessed with intelligence and happiness in proportion as they
are free. The republic of America (cursed as it is with rem-
naats of royal dominion,) is a beacon to freedom, and even
the inhospitable shores of Norway bear witness in favour or
democracy.
Let us, therefore, .brethren, cultivate
.feelirtys of fraternit9
among nations, and brotherly union in our respective countries.
Let us not be so ignorant as to allow ourselves to be conve%-ted
into soldiers, police, or any other of the infamous to,ds, by
which despotism is upheld and. our brethren enslaved. Let us
be prepared to make any sacrifice in the dissemination of
truth, and to cultivate feelings of toleration between Jew,
Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter. Let us respect the con-
scientious belief and opinions of each other t knowing how
much depends on the education we receive, the books we read,
the conversations we hear, and the Government we live under ;
let ea leave persecution for opinions of every kind to despots,
and resolve that henceforth it shall not be found in the ranks
of labour.
The organs of Government, at this moment, are endea-
vouring to weaken our sympathies, by exciting our preju-
dice against the French Canadians. The prrty who seek to
keep Ireland in subjection, seek to excite oar feelings against
Catholicism from the same motives ; therefore, let u be as-
sured, friends, that all those are the enemies of the people who
seek to oppose that great Christian precept of " love and
charity,"
With the view of generating inquiry among the masses,
and stimulating the few to renewed exertions, we have stated
what we conscientiously believe are the great obstacles to
human liberty. But not let our enemies believe that we think
our brethren less competent to exercise their political rights
than those who now possess them. No we regard thp frax-
chise as Clebest of saoolmasters, and we point to the intelli-
gence of America and Switzerland as proofs of the correct-
ness of our opinions.
Wu remain, your fellow-labourers, in the cause of truth and
justice, the Members of the Working Men's Association.
Signed by the Committee in their behalf,
WILL Isaacs, Type Founder,
JOHN CLEAVE, Bookseller,
THOMAI. WHITE, Hatter,
HENRY MITCHELL, Turner,
RicirAtua CAMERON, Brace-maker,
Jams* LAWRENCE, Painter,
THOMAS IRELAND, WarebOUSCTIMII,
JOHN ROGERS, Tailor,
WILLIAM DIXON, Surgical Instrument-meter,
JAMES JENMNSON, Engraver,
ARTHUR DYtiON, Compositor,
ROBERT HARTWELL, Compositor,
HENRY HETHERINGTON, Treasurer,
WILLIAM LOVETT, Secretary, 6, Upper North Place,
Gray's Inn Road.

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