The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-11 00:00:00

AT a MEETING of REFORMERS, held at
the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross,
on Thursday, the 4th day of January, 1834.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS TULK, Esq., in the Chair.
The Reformers assembled at this Meeting have witnessed with
Zegret the existence of a confederacy, haring for its object the col-
lection of a Fund, designed to frustrate the exertions of the Liberal
Conatituenciee at the late General Election. This eonfedoracy is
enly the continuation of a system avowed by the Tory Press, and
acted upon by the Tory party during the late Elections, of contest-
ing seats, not with any expectation of success, but with the single
object of involving the popular party in enormous expense, and
laying the grounds for future vexatious petitions.
The defense of the seats thus vexatiously assailed, to be effective,
will necessarily require a great expenditure. This Meeting, with-
out hesitation, aid confident in the success of the appeal, calls upon
British Reformers to aid in resisting the attempt to break down
popular Constituencies, and, by unconstitutional means, to gain a
Majority in the Commons House of Parliament.
Resolved unanimously—That this Meeting, although deprecating
the principle of public subscriptions for prosecuting or defending
election petitions, especially the Spottiswoode Subscription in
England for wholesale attacks on the Irish returns, deems it abso-
lutely necessary, in self-defence, and to uphold the Liberal Cause of
the United Kingdom, to institute an immediate and active counter
subscription, strictly and solely to maintain the seats of Liberal
Members of Parliament, now endangered by Tory Associations and
notorious public subscriptions.
2. That on these grounds of necessary self-defence this meeting
urgently ealls on the Reformers throughout the United Kingdom to
promote subscriptions.
3. That the following gentlemen constitute a Committee of Ma-
nagement, viz.—Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., William Ewart,
J. E. Blunt, Esq., J. E. Hovenden, Esq., John Melville,
-c•"1.9,* with power to add to their number.
3. That circulars be immediately sent to the Reformers and
Liberal Associations throughout the United Kingdom, requesting
their zealous co-operation in the object of this meeting.
5. That subscriptions be received at Messrs. Prescott, Grote,
and Co., 62, Threadneedle-street ; Messrs. Ladbroke, Kingscote,
and Co., Bank-buildings ; Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph, 43,
Charing-cross; Messrs. Boaverie and Co.s 11, Haymarket.
(Signed) C. A. TULK, Chairman.
J. E. HOVENDEN, Hon, See.
and Chairman of the Committe of Management.

ST. PANCRAS, MIDDLESEX.
AT a PUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants
held on Wednesday, January 10,
_lB3B,

The CHUROHWARDENS presiding,
Resolved unanimously-
1. That the policy to be pursued by any Government in reference
to its Colonies, should be one of conciliation, securing to the people
all the advantages, rights and liberties of an independent local Go-
vernment.

2. That notwithstanding the grievances under which the
Canadians labour have been long known to the British Go-
vernment, and to a great extent admitted some years since by a
Report of a Committee of the House of Commons, no remedial
measure has been conceded to them, while the Resolution proposed
by Lord John Russell, and adopted by the two Houses of Parli-
ment in April last, authorising the Receiver-General to apply the
Revenues of the Province towards the payment of the arrears due
on account of the established and customary charges of the Ad-
ministration of Justice and of the Civil Government of the Pro-
vince, is an act of tyranny in so much as it is in violation of a
constitutional privilege exercised by the House of Assembly when
it resolved on stopping the supplies until their grievances should
be redressed.
3. That this Meeting views with regret the indifference shown
by her Majesty's Government towards the redress of admitted
grievances under which our fellow subjects in Canada labour ;
thereby causing the people to fall back upon the only resource left
—that of self-defence against oppression.
4. That petitions to both Houses of Parliament be preparvde
calling utJon the Legislature to make provision for redressing th
grievances under which the people of Canada labour, by acceding to
such changes in their constitution as may be suitable to the intelli-
gence of the Canadian people, and according to their wants and
wishes ; and that such petitions be signed by the Churchwardens
on behalf of the Meeting.
5. That the petition to the Lords be confided to Lord Brougham
for presentation, and that to the Commons to Sir S. Whalley, and
that Mr. Hall be requested to support the prayer thereof.
JOHN AP GAHEY, Vestry Clerk.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
NOTICE is hereby given, that WORKING PLANS and
SPECIFICATIONS of an IRON BRIDGE, intended to bo
erected over the Regent's Canal, and of certain other Works con-
nected therewith, may be INSPECTED on appliCation to John
Braithwaite, Esq., the Company's Engineer, at their offices, No.
4, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, any lawful day after the 11th
inst., between the hours of 11 and 4, and that the Directors will
meet on Tuesday, the 30th of January, at 12 o'clock noon, to receive
tenders for the execution of the said bridge and other works. The
Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender, and
will require security for the due execution of that of which they
may approve. By order of the Board,
J. C. ROBERSON,
Company's Offices, Adeliade-place, London-bridgTe. Sec.
Jan. 4 1838.

GEORGE EDMONDS TO THE TRADES'
UNIONS, OR WORKING CLASS ASSOCIATIONS.
As long as " Combinations" of capital and of professions are
permitted by law, Combinations of Labour and of Trade must be
allowed. Attorneys " combine," by Act of Parliament, not to
take more than " two" apprentices, nor less than as. Bd. for fees
of attendance ; Surgeons, 55., &c. ; Bakers " comiline" not to
take less than a certain rate:for bread, ice. By taking oaths, and
acting secretly, however, a handle is afforded for misrepresenting
your lawful acts by the general odium and distrust attached to all
secret proceedings. Avoid the unnecessary, and therefore the
wrong. It is not enough or right to say, the Masters of this or
that place have reduced wages " tyrannically" to the amount of
6s. or ss. The preceding point which, by examining the profits of
the trade in question, at the place in question, we must ascertain
k._.' Ca* th• emplena, as a body, live, or carry on trade, without
the redueticw pro,)osed ?" Are the employers, "as a body," in the
particular place living in increased luxury; while you are dying in
increasing misery? Then must you cry " tyrants." If not, then
employer and employed mast " combine," and insist on investiga-
tion of the distress by the Government. " Deciding" that the
French majority is quite justified in armed murderous attacks on
our fellow countrymen, the British minority in our Canadian con-
quest is wrong ; we have not yet sufficient evidence of the merits of
the question. To support revolt spitefully, right or wrong, with-
out evidence, is acting towards the Aristocracy as you accuse the
Aristocracy of acting towards you—that is from prejudice and pas-
sion, similar to the present prejudiced Aristocratic attack on your
lawful combinations. See the " Democracy" judge without evi-
dence, will your foes exclaim—The " workmen" in Glasgow were
not right in hastily deciding about Canada, Therefore will the
cunning say, the " workmen" rust necessarily be wrong also about
combination. Be just—be just—be just. Next Monday I write
again.

SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RE-
LIEF of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS,
throughout ENGLAND and WALES, established 1772.
PRESIDENT—The Earl of ROMNEY.
Lord Kenyon •ICE-PRZSIDENTS.
Sir Francis Burdett,T3art.,M.P.
Rightllon. Sir R. Peel, Bt. M. P. Charles Edward Pigou, Esq.
Ta.aAsuann—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F. R. S.
AUDITORS—John Pepys, Esq. and Colin Mackenzie, Esq.
At a MEETING of GOVERNORS held in Craven-street, on
Wednesday, the 3d day of January, 1838, the cases of 114 Petitioners
were considered, of which 81 wore approved, 12 rejected, 10
and 11 deferred for inquiry.
Since the Meeting held on the 6th of December, 1837, ONE
lIUNDRED and FORTY-NINE DEBTORS, of whom 121 had
Wives and 334 Children, have been discharged from the Prisons of
England and Wales ; the expense of whOse liberation, including
every charge connected with the Society, was 5941. 1 Is. Id., and
the following
BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE LAST REPORT:
John Richard Baker, Esq.
2 0
The Reverend C. B. Charlewood A
Samuel Gurney, Esq
20 0 0
A Lady at Richmond,
per Treasurer
0 0
Robert Herries, Esq.
Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co A 5 5 0
Crowley Millington, Esq
Thomas Sergeant, Esq.
Joshua Watson, Esq A 2 2 0
John Moore, Esq., per Messrs. Hoare and Co.
Andrew Macklew, Esq., ditto 4. 2 2 0
Mrs. S. C. Cholmeley, ditto
J. S. Caldwell, Esq., per Messrs. Coutts and Co A 2 0 0
Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the
Treasurer, No. 1, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following
Bankers :—Messrs. Cocks, Dorrien, Drummonds, Herries, Ham-
tnersleys, Hoares, Whitmore, Veres; and by the Secretary,
Craven-street, Strand, where the Books may be seen by those who
are inclined to support the Charity, and where the Society meet on
the first Wednesday in every Month.
JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary.

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY, insti-
tuted in the year 1785, fir Visiting and Relieving the Sick
and Distressed Poor at their own Ilabitations, in London and its
vicinity.
The Committee feel it their duty at this inclement season of the
year to urge upon the benevolent public the claims of the suffering
poor, for whose relief this institution is established. The past year
has been one of almost unprecedented sickness, cases of fever have
been very numerous, and in many instances whole families have
been laid aside by this afflictive dispensation.
The Society has now upwards of 800 cases on the books, and
Many others are daily presented to their notice; these are duly in-
vestigated by above 300 gratuitous visitors, whose chief regret is
that the means are so inadequate to the wants of their suffering
fellow creatures.
The Committee, therefore, confidently appeal to the friends of
cur common humanity in behalf of those who are suffering from
disease and destitution; trusting that as the Society has for 52
years shared the bounty of the benevolent, it will not now be for-
saken by its friends, or overlooked by those who may to the present
Period have been unacquainted with its existence.
The following subscriptions and
thankfully acknowledged, togethr
will appear in the annual report :-
ry Drummond, Esq. £lO 10'
..Jo.rlisn Moore, Esq. lO 0
1!,1 • Mary Tibbetts
Sidebottom Esq 2 2
wLord. George Sev;nouqr.l." 52 02
illiam Tidl
Jam, 1, scl
s s egler, Esq. 2 0
srs. Drummonds 5 0
3. 'adY, Per ditto ...
J.
‘Svteph.enson, Esq. ...
5 0
, • Gilbart, Esq. 5 5
?11.1,es I3entley, Esq.
vh Thompson, Esq. 20 0
L t llsn. . Grenville 5 0,
Ca Lad? Aldersonta.
In C. Paget .. 2 21
Treat' and Donations received by Thomas Farmer, Esq.,
52 over+ Gunnersbury, and 18, London-wall ; Mr. H. Clarke,
Cl:_ew Bond-street, and Mr. William Cooper, 104, Wood-street,
cier,pside, Secretaries ; Mr. J. Hiley, Assistant-Secretary, So-
SeP °lee, IM, London-wall; Messrs. Hoare, Bankers to the
fore, Fleet-strset ; Messrs. Currie, 2g, Cornhill ; Messrs.Whit-
,,,a;, \\rolls, and Co., Lombard-street ; Messrs. Harnmersley, Pall-
-1)41 Messrs. Drummonds, Charing-sross; Messrs. Williams,
street;cein, and Co., I3irchin-lane ; Messrs. Ashley and Son, Regent-
ebard Messrs. Saunders and Binning, Fleet-street; Messrs. Hat-
]) P‘c"dillY; and Mr. Nisbet, Berners-street.
have onors whose addresses are not knows, and to whom reports
!herefore not been sent, are respectfully Society's o make ap-
'atlon for them to the Secretaries; or at the office,

_ donations, recently received, are
r vsith a few smaller sums, which

Lady Buxton... ......... 0
Peter Grant, Esq.
Lord John Fitzroy
Rev. Robert Hall 5 0
F. Stephenson, Esq.
A New Year's Gift, by
Mr. Clarke
Countess of Kingston
Kinlock, Esq ... 2 0
Rev. G. Gore ... 2 0
Le soleil luit pour tout le
monde
The Misses Savage, a
♦aluable Donation of
Children's clothing,and 1 0