The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-26 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF SEVEN YEARS.
LONDON REPOSITORY for the CA BIN ET-3I AK ERS'
SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI-
TURE, and UPHOLSTERY done in the first style of
elegance, from a Cottage to a Palace.
FEATHER BED and MATTRESS MANUFACTORY,
No. 71, CORNER of LEADENHALL-STREET,
Opposite Aldgate Pump.
rilllE SOCIETY of CABINET-NIAKERS
1. . respectfully inform the Public that they still continue
the above Establishment for the benefit of industrious and in-
genious Mechanics who have large Families, by offering those
manufactured articles in the Cabinet line, of the best workman-
ship, and cheaper than any house can do in London, there be-
ing no other profit required on the goods but the warehouse
and other expellees ; being sufficiently satisfied with having
constant employment for themselves and families.
The Committee of this Establishment return heir sincere
thanks to the Nobility and Public in general, for meat ige-
nerous and liberal patronage bestowed on the Socie y during
the last year, and hope still to merit, by humble endeavours,
their future favours. On their seventh Annual Meeting, which
took place on Friday, the Ist day of last July, the Committee
have the pleasure to announce to the Public, that after deduct-
ing for sick, printing, and other incidental expences, the divi-
dend for each member amounted to 2/, 10s., which was paid to
each on the above day. Forty new members were received
into the Society last year, and the Committee still hope through
the public favour, that they will be enabled to increase the
number this year.
The Society and their families beg leave to return their sin.
cere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto
honoured them with their orders and recommendation, and shall
always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction;
at the same time solicit a continuance of their benevolence.
The following Articles are inserted as a Specimen of the very
Low Prices, all Warranted of good Workmanship and Dry
Wood.—Ready Money only.
Full-size mahogany 4-post lath bottom Bedstead £4 4 0
Full-sized Tent Bedstead - - - 1 6 0
Ditto with Furniture - - - 315 0
Bordered straw Mattrass to fit - - 1 1 0
Ditto doe-hair Mattrass to fit - - 1 1 0
Feather Bed free from dust or smell . - 310 0
Three ft. 6 in. feather Bed ditto - - 212 0
Four ft. 6 in. bordered horse-hair tick Mattress 2 10 ti
Four ft. 6 in. ditto of the best elastic horse-hair in tick 3 3 0
Four ft. 6 in. flock Bed and Bolster - - 110 o
Six japanned Chairs, in oil, of any colour or description 1 7 0
Best japanned ditto Dressing-table with drawer 0 16 0
Ditto ditto Wash-hand-stand ditto - - 0 1 0
Common japanned Wash-hand-stand - - 0 3 0
Common ditto Dressing-table - - - 0 8 0
3 ft. Chest of mahogany Drawers, solid Drawers 3 10 0
3 ft. 6 in. ditto - - - - - 412 0
Mahogany 2-step Bed-step Night Convenience - 1 6 o
Ditto 3 ditto Night Convenience - - 114 0
Ditto Bidett and Pan - - - - 1 6 0
Bed-room Easy Chair - - - 3 0 0
Bed-room Sofa Bedstead with 3 Matresses to fit, with Top 3 8 0
Ditto - - - - 4 4 0
Handsome Mahogany Wardrobe - - 13 13 0
Ditto - - - - 15 15 o
French Bedstead in Oil of the best description 3 3 0
Bamboo Tent Bedstead - - - I 12 o
Do. in Oil, French Top, with Rods for Furniture to draw 2 10 0
Bamboo French Eliptic Top Bedstead and Drapery,
Furniture, Fringe, &c. - - 8 10 0
5 ft. mahogany 4-post Bedstead and Furniture, with
French Draperies lined all through, silk Fringe 14 14 0
5 ft. ditto with Cornice • - - 16 16 0
5 ft. in. ditto - - - - 18 18 0

5 ft. 6 in. ditto with Burnished Gold Cornices, ele-
gant Draperies - - - 22 0 0
Mahogany Dressing Table . 1 4 0
Ditto - - - - 110 0
Servants' Drawers - - 2 2 0
Eight mahogany Chairs, 6 and 2 Elbows, covered in
Horse-hair and brass nails - - 6 15 0
Mahogany Pembroke Table - - 2 0 0
Ditto Dining Table - - - 3 10 0
Mahogany Sofa or Couch, covered in Horse-hair to
match Chairs - - - 6 10 0
Ditto - - - - 7 10 o
Ditto - - - . 8 10 0
Ditto - - - - 9 10 o
Ditto - - - - 10 10 0
Cellaret Sideboard - - . 6 15 0
Ditto - - - _ 7 7 0
Handsome Pedestal Sideboard with carved Back 10 10 0
Ditto - - - - 12 12 0
Ditto - - - . 15 10 0
Ditto - - - . 18 10 0
Ditto . - - - 22 10 o
Set of 4 ft. Mahogany Dining Tables, 11 ft. 6 in. long 15 10 n
Ditto - - - 17 0 0
4 ft. 6 in. ditto - .. . 17 10 0
4 ft. 6 in. ditto - - . 19 10 0
Small Dining Table on Patent Principle . 810 0
Ditto . - . . 910 0
Ditto - - - - 10 10 0
Ditto - - - - 12 12 0
Mahogany Pillor and Claw Table - 3 15 0
Ditto - - - - 4 4 0
Mahogany Tray.stand . - 0 8 0
Butlers' fray - . - 0 12 0
Patent Sandwich Tray, Brass Lock . 1 8 0
Mahogany Music Chair, inlaid with Brass - 2 0 0
Music Stool covered in Morocco - . 1 6 0
Music or Chair - ,- 0 8 0
8 Mahogany Chairs., 6 and 2 elbows, covered in
Horse-hair - _ . 7 0 0
8 Trafalgar Chairs, Loose Seats, Brass Moulded 10 10 0
8 do. Best Spanish Wood - - 12 12 0
Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, branded in
Rose-wood - - - - 8 15 0
Set ditto on Pillar and Claws . - - 14 10 0
Ditto - - - . - - 15 15 0
Ditto - - - . - 17 15 o
Ditto, the Best that can be made - - 20 10 6
Elegant Dining-room Window Curtains, cornished,
lined and fringed . - - - 6 6 o
Ditto ditto - - - - 7 7 o
Ditto, the Best that can be made, gold cornish, silk
fringe, &c. - - - - - 10 10 o
Drawing-room Couch - - - 3 5 0
Ditto , - - - - - - 6 10 0
Ditto, (the Best that can be made) - .. 7 7 0
Drawing-room Trafalgar Chairs, each . 1 0 0
Ditto inlaid with Brass, do. - '.. 1 2 0
Ditto, ditto, do. - - 1 5 0
Best Horse-hair Cushion - - - 0 5 6
Common ditto - - - - 0 4 6
Real Rosewood Drawing-room Tables, iii two Card
and Sofa, - - - 19 0 0
Ditto ditto - - 21 10 o
Ditto, French polished, Carved Lion' Claw _ 26 5 0
Elegant Drawing-room Curtains, each - 6 6 0
Ditto - - - - 7 7 0
Ditto - - - - 88 0
Rosewood Tea-Caddies, of all kinds of Fancy, from 10s. to 28s.
Imitation Rosewood Canterbury - - 1 12 0
Mahogany ditto - - 1 12 0
Chimney Glass - 41. 18s., 71. is., and 10 10 0
Japanned Rosewood ChefHoneer, Silk Front 2 10 0
Ditto, do. - - 3 10 o
Ditto, do. - - 715 0
Ditto, do. - - 610 0
Lady's Work Table, Mahogany - - 115 0
Ditto, with Silk Bag and Fringed, 3/.35., 4/. 45., and 5 5 0
Pair of Pole Fire Screens inlaid with Brass - 33 0
Pair of Screen Tables - - - 210 0
Foot-Stool of any description - - U 7 o
Japan Book Shelves - - - 07 o
Rosewood do. - - . 0 10 0
Mahogany do. - - - 1 0 o
Rosewood Loo Tables, 8/.. 10s., 9/. 10s., 101. 10s., &12 12 0
All Feather Beds warranted free from dust or smell, or the
Money returned. W. THURNELL, Agent.
Country Dealers supplied.—Goods Packed fit for all parts of
Great Britain and to the East and West Indies. Captains fitted
Out, and Merchants supplied with Cabinet Goods for Exporta-
tion. Apartments Furnished at a few. hours notice, and !louses
in two or four days.
C-.. 5. All Goods for the Country must be paid for on Delivery
at the Wharf.

All kinds of Drawing and Dining Room Curtains and Bed
Furniture* of every description Made-up and Re-cleaned fur
Town and Country, by sending your own Cotton.

J. C. L. CALCIUM Esq. appeared with the Resolutions
and said—Gentlemen of this County, I think it my duty, in
the present state of our affairs, to propose to you a few short
Resolutions, which, if you adopt, shall form the subject of a
petition to be presented to Parliament in the course of the en-1
suing Session. I shall now read these Resolutions :
__

"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that dis-
trict meetings should be formed for the express purpose of pre-
paring Petitions to Parliament, in order, as far as possible, to
prevent the Importation of Foreign Corn, on the payment of
Y•
Resolved, That we have every reason to believe that the
country does at present produce more Corn than is necessary
for our consumption—and that if the British Farmer was only
properly encouraged, a much larger produce would be oh
tained.

" Resolved, That no duty which can be proposed would be
a protection to the Fanner, equal to that which is afforded by
securing to him the supply of the market in the existing situa-
tion of the country."
GEORGE CHAPLIN, Esq., of Touthwell, seconded these
Resolutions.

Sir R. HERON, Bart. M.P.—There are those who think this
Meeting premature, and who doubt that the ilinisters seriously
intend to discuss the Corn Laws in Parliament next year ; and
such persons say your Meeting is unnecessary, and will create
an alarm which is not wanted. But it was not the people of the
county of Lincoln who began these meetings ; they had already
been held in London, and were recommended to be called to-
gether in various parts of the country. Who knows what is
the intention of the Ministers ? perhaps they do not know
themselves ; and why should we wait while we know that a
member of the Government (Mr. Huskisson), who has a seat in
the House of Commons, a gentleman of great talents and know-
ledge of legislature and commerce, has already given notice,
that, early next Sessions, he will move for a Committee of the
whole House, to take the Corn Laws into consideration. Un-
der these circumstances, you are, I say, called upon to meet,
and if you did not meet, you may rely upon it, the greatest
advantage would be taken by your opponents, of your silence.
It might then be said that you, who composed the largest agri-
cultural interest in the empire, had expressed no opinion, be-
cause you felt no alarm from the prospect of foreign competi-
tion. I lament that an opportunity was denied to an Hon.
Member (for Boston) at the late meeting of your Agricultural
Society, to explain his vote of last Session on these Corn Laws,
and to consult those best able to give an opinion upon the
course which ought to be taken at this crisis. I will not trouble
you long in the delivery of my sentiments, as the weather is
unfavourable to your being kept in the open air, but I hope
you will allow me to give you a short recapitulation of the his-
tory of the Corn Laws, for unless you know that history (and
it is not generally known), you will be unable to comprehend
the bearings of the subject as you ought to do, before you dis.
cuss it. Until the beginning of the reign of the late Geo. 111.
there was a rigid prohibition of the importation of foreign corn :
however, the Government was always ready, in times of inter-
nal dearth of grain, to issue, upon their own ministerial respon-
sibility, a proclamation which opened the ports, according to
circumstances ; and this was, in my opinion, the soundest way '
to act ; it kept corn from being too high in price, and averted
the chief mischief of fluctuation. In the seventh year of the
late King's reign, this old and good plan was altered, and
bounties (a most expensive and inadequate system) were insti-
tuted, and kept active for many years, probably owing to the in-
' disposition which prevailed, to touch upon any popular subject
while the American war, and afterwards the French war, were
in full and vigorous progress. It was afterwards determined
that importation should be allowed when the price passed 80s.
the quarter, and in the year 1822 it was regulated that impor-
tation should be allowed at seventy shillings, with a duty
of 17s. the quarter in the first three months, and only 12s. for
ever after. Do you know what is theprice at which the foreigner
can buy his corn and bring it to your market? In Odessa it
can be had for 13s. per quarter, and in Ponierania and Poland
at 16s. But supposing it to be even 20 or 305., how could you,
with your expence of cultivation, meet the foreigner in the
home market ? The price may grow higher when the ports
are open, but be assured, the foreigner will always take care to
undersell you in your own market, whenever he has the privi-
lege of competing with you therein. You have burdens far
beyond what any foreign grower has. You have poors' rates
and heavy taxes, which he has not, and you must therefore
have a protecting remedy against him. I would prefer the old
remedy, as before the late King's reign, which was, an abso-
lute prohibition of the import, and I have no doubt we are
capable, with Ireland and Scotland, of growing enough for our
own home consumption, even with our increasing population,
for centuries to come ; and shall we, in this state, be called
Upon to see ourselves undersold in our own markets for our
own produce ? Such a course of things ought never to be
suffered. I avow myself, nevertheless, an advocate for free
trade; but it is where there is a reciprocity, and not where
whole classes are borne down by fiscal regulations. There
is no reciprocity here ; we give the wealth, and our return
is to be poverty. We afford- employment, and they would
take from us our only occupation. We pay the great
bulk of heavy taxes, and they would deprive us of our
means of paying them. We give the trades our labourer
youthful and healthy, and he is returned upon us old and de-
crepit with his children, to be provided for out of the Poors'
Rates, which we are called upon, to furnish. This will not do,
unless the whole internal condiiion of the country is altered,
and if you think with me, you will agree in this petition,
which I shall now read to you. The Worthy Baronet then
read the following petition, which lie commented upon as he
proceeded.
" TO THE HON. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.I.
" We, the inhabitants of the County of Lincoln, duly assem-
bled by the authority of our Sheriff, beg leave humbly to repre-
sent to your Honourable House, that we have heard with deep
concern it is intended to propose, in the next Session of Parlia-
ment, that Foreign Corn should be admitted into these King-
doms, at all times, on payment of a fixed, and, as we appre-
hend, an inadequate duty.
" e cannot forbear expressing our conviction, that such a
measure would endanger the ruin of the Agricultural popula-
tion, and even of the Constitution itself, of which we believe
that portion of our population to constitute the firmest support ;
inasmuch as it is utterly impossible for this country, under its
present burthens, to compete in the corn trade with the rest of
Europe.

" We think it a most dangerous experiment to suffer other
nations to under ell our farmers in their own markets, thus dis,
couraging the home production of the necessaries of life, and
rendering their attainment precarious and dependent on the will
of foreigners. _

" We, therefore, earnestly entreat your Honourable House
that such protection may be afforded to our Just claims, that the

landed and agricultural interests, and the welfare of the coal.,
munity may not be sacrificed to theory and speculation.
" And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c."
Sir Was. Eani.E MELEE, Baronet, seconded the motion.
Sir Wm. INGLEnv-, Bart.—" If I cannot second this mos
tion, I shall at least third it--(a laugh)—for lam one of' those
who are fully aware of the necessity of properly protecting the
agricultural interests of the country; and I shall always partite
cularly advocate those of the county of Lincoln. I will not
advocate your starving others with high prices—on that son
may rely, for I wish all classes to thrive by their labour; but I
will not have you to take back your own corn unsold, while
the foreigner is allowed to pre-occupy your own market. There
is now corn enough for seven years of your consumption in'
this kingdom if it is let in from the ports of the Baltic alone.
You will find me, in my place in Parliament, deliver these seri,
timents ; and I came here to hear what you have to say on the
subject, that I may profit by your argument when the subject is
debated to in the House of Commons.
J. CisAPLrec, Esq., the senior County Member : I assuns
you, my friends, that I am glad to attend the Meeting of this
County, which is only second in size in the kingdom, among
all the other counties generally, and decidedly first as an agri-
cultural interest. I am also the advocate of the sentiments
which you have heard this day expressed respecting your right
to be fairly secured in tile possession of your own markets,
which ought to be specially reserved for you. Not that it shall
go abroad, that the fanners of Lincolnshire want high prices at
the expence of the other working classes, for that would be
wrong and oppressive. On the contrary, all they want is what
they are willing to give, a fair price for honest and just labour.
Land is the onlything that can be so well found, for particular
taxes, for tithes,.poors' rates, road making, and such matters,
and therefore it is so heavily incumbered with imposts of every
nature, that it requires particular protection for its produce;
and what else do we ask ? lam no enemy to free trade, and I
rejoice at last year's arrangements in this respect, for this in.
creased the revenue one million sterling, and gave commerce
and manufacturers a lift; but I caution you against state
nostrums like Mr. Huskisson's ; they are really like giving a
man a bottle of physic for a broken leg, as if it was only a slight
cold he had got outriding-(A laugh).—l am very anxious you
should adopt this petition, for it really conveys the proper opi-
nions which it is incumbent upon you to express.
Colonel SIBTISORPE, M.P. for Lincoln—The day is cold,
anti I regret to find you have a good deal of fever raging
amongst you ; and there is nothing more likely to aggravate
these disorders than keeping you, such a day as this, standing
in the cold. Keep on your hats, then, my friends, and so
shall I, then we shall all stand a fair chance together. I merely
occupy your attention, to explain my conduct at the last Meet-
ing of the Agricultural Society, to which Sir Robert Heron has
alluded. It was a happy day, as all convivial meetings ought
to be ; and, being in the chair, I was, as any of you would
be, desirous of promoting harmony. I only prevented the
Honourable and Worthy Member from then making the
speech he had prepared, because I was afraid he was going
to introduce politics and stop the bottle, and the company
supported the chair, and did right ; for if we let in either
politics or religion, away would fly the spirit of harmony
and conviviality. He (Sir Robert Heron) says we were
afraid to hear the speech of the Worthy Member. I never
felt fear in my life, and was nut afraid of any thing that could
be said. 1 dare say the Meeting was equally fearless, and
only averse to politics at their Agricultural Society, where
the round of the bottle ought to move in its proper sphere. They
were afraid of interruption to real business, by speculative
theories of opinion upon extraneous matters, and I think they
were perfectly right. On this question of the Corn Laws, lam
not, perhaps, the best man to address you ; for of late years my
professional habits had been different from those of agriculture,
and there are many more competent than 1 can pretend to be,
to give you the requisite information. It is, 1 think, quite
clear, that things ate going on well now, and happily for the
1 country. Why not let them stay as they are ? is what I say,
and what you will, 1 hope, any also. We praise his Majesty's
present Administration, because they have borne the country
through the storm, and will do so again should it arise. They
have our confidence, and they deserve it—let us leave it with
them, and say, do not touch the Corn Laws.
Sir ROBERT HERON explained.
Colonel JOHNSON—I ant sorry to say, that there are some
points upon which I am likely to have a different view from
that which others of my Honourable Friends near me have ex-
pressed, and on that account I owe it to you to deliver my sen-
timents openly and above board. I entirely agree with you,
when you say that England, Scotland, and Ireland, acting and
growing together, are perfectly able to produce corn enough
amply for their own consumption, that the people can grow all
that they want for themselves. But I tell you boldly (and there
is my point of difference from some of you) that it is not the
corn laws which regulate the price of grain in your markets, as
some of you think, but it is the amount of your circulating
medium which regulates that price, and nothing else. If the cir-
culating medium is superabundant, the price of corn must be
high, if not superabundant, the price must decline. The natural
consequences of the last two years, with an active circulation in
the money market, naturally went to open the ports in the due
course of affairs. On the contrary, if the cash payments now
provided, as the law stands, be persevered in, and that the Bank
of England goes on in its payments in the precious metals,
then I assure you, that you will soon find, that in the year
1826, your corn will bear a much lower price than it does now.
The Honourable and Gallant Colonel then gave a long calcula-
tion of the prices of corn within the last few years, and showed
that these fluctuations depended on the quantity of paper which
the Bank had issued. Ni.hen Mr. Peel's Bill game into opera-
tion, although the crop was not remarkably abundant, owing
to the withdrawing of bank notes, to prepare for the operation
of the cash payments, the circulation became tripled, and down
went the prices. The heavy shock which the credit of the
country had received within the last fortnight, will, rely upon
it, have its operation in due time upon your prices, do what
you will, and have whatever corn laws you please ; and the last
fortnight's shock will, sooner or later, send your prices down
from five to ten shillings a quarter. I am therefore not for
petitioning, as some of you are disposed to do, for a mere
corn bill. Our petition I had rather to go at once to the re-
duction of tire taxes, and the diminution of the public burdens.
There's the rub ; there's the evil ; and as long as you have it,
it will be in vain for you to seek refuge in any system of corn
laws, for all will be in vain as long as you have an overbuy,
thened and unnecessary public expenditure. I voted for Mr.
'hitmore's motion in the House of Commons, to inquire into.
the state of the Corn Laws, last April, because I think we
must meet the subject; it is a vital one, and must be set at
rest ; therefore, as I am always a man to meet dangers face to.
face, wherever they arise, I am for settling the point of dans
gers all at once. The Government should have done so last
Session • and Mr. Iluskisson, instead of giving notice of what.
he intended to do next Session, ought to have done the busi-
ness in the last Session. Until he does so, no man who hat
land, or any other comimxiity, either to buy or sell, will know
what he is about. Every thing gets an artificial value, and
therefore we ought to have the point settled, so as that we
can see our way through the management of our own affairs.
I am quite ready to leave, for further consideration in Par,
liament, all the details of this very important question;
but there is one thing to which I altogether object. I would
have no protecting duty. It is a had and inadequate ex-
pedient, and I would have the farmers called together,
not in County Meetings, which it may be inconvenient for
them to attend, but in district societies, where each
could communicate his own situation to his neighbour.
This is the plain business-way of going to work, and I
would have you adopt it. We have not a large Meeting here
this day—indeed, it is very thin, but I can tell you the reason
-the information of this Meeting was only partially given. I
saw it not in my friend Mr.l)rakard's valuable Stamford Paper;
why was the omission I cannot say, but it sufficiently accounts
for the notice of the Meeting not having been so general as it
otherwise would have been. The other County Paper, 1 dare
' say, had the Sheriff's requisition, and gave the information as
well as it could to its own readers, but then the notice ought to
have been more extensively given, and we should have had a
better attendance here this day. I shall trouble you no further at
present, but wait for the regular time of discussion iii Parliament.
Sir R. M ELB Y said, that he supported this Petition, beCause,
in his decided and conscientious opinion, it was very well calcus
hated to attain the object they desired. He had no objections,
besides, to have Meetings in the districts, and some were al-
ready announced.
IV. lim.Y, Esq. said that he was present at the late Meeting
in London, which was attended by the most respectable feigners
frosn Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buck-
inghamshire. The business went on very well, and would go
on equally so, if they acted with unanimity.

Colonel Jtittxsok moved a Resolution for conver•ing district
Meetings, which was carried, and so was the I'etition to rarlia.
meat.—The Meeting broke up at three o'clock.