The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-08 00:00:00

OTTON MANUFACTURE.

The splendid mill erecting by Messrs. Cla.ke, Maze, and
Co., near Barton-bill, is rapidly progresaing, so far as the
building is concerned (and, we believe, also, as regards the in-
ternal arrangements) towards completion. The mechanics'
shop attached, for manufacturing the machinery, is expected
to be ready for active operations early in Pebruary, and
the manufacture of yarn will commence in the ensuing
spring. It is cheering to :witness the Ord is whi h this
intereatiag undertaki.q has been prosecuted, inasmuch as
it conalently ausures us that, if success be at 211 dependent
on activity and perseverance, the result aid be. no less
satisfactory to the wealthy and intelligent gentleman who
have boldly ventured on the speculation, than it will be
gratifying to thoa citizens at large, and full of hope to the
future t• axle cf our part. Within a few tnunths a structure
has ben nearly brought to co mph tion for its extent
and magnificence, as we are informed, will vie with any
similar establishment in the kingdom. If Manchester can
toast of a hundred such, it must be a splundial place indeed.
Viewed from the Bath road, at Arno's vale, it has a noble
appearance, and may be taken for some building of a national
character. The mill for the spinning dcpartment has five
fio's, 300 feet long by GO feet :aide; the large weaving_
room is 300 fact square 1 with an octagon chimney of im-
mense size and height—internal area at the base, about 73
square feet ; then there are a large but very neat building,
called the mechanics' shop, consisting of three floors, 130 by
40 feet ; a good-aizA school-room, ofliees, couuting-housas,
and a pay-ground. The whole, we enders': nl, has b:en
erected unds r the superintendence of one of the proprietors—
a gentleman eminent for his skill and success in the cotton
manufacture. The situation is admirably adapted for conve-
nience of transit, either by railroad or by aa.ar, being upon
the banks of the Avon. and upon the line of the Great Weatern
—from which, also, the !mat important results to our cite are
anticipated. What a proud day it will be for Bristol when
the two undertakings than be in active operation !—Bristol
Mercury,

MURDER.—The Evening Packet stAtes, that on
the afternoon of the 2d instant a uolicevaal, who wa; proceed-
ing with reports from an wAt-di.,tilet of f.ongford, was su,idenly
at:acked by fou7 erhaed man and murdered, It is alleged that
mothee policeman, :w accompanied him, wa.; " pemitted
escape by the rebels," because he was a Romart Catholic.
The statement is evidently grossly exaggei ated, and the fact
of the murder, we think, repti:es authentication.

O'CGNNELL'S COMPENSATION

FUND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
sia,_lll contributing my share to the En: iscorthy O'Con.
nell Na anal Cempensation Fund for 1836 and 1837.1 brg
to send a few remarks, etas: if their dulness should amount
to a tex im tl.e oth r incloeure. The pacers of last atrorner
were full of expectation that our youthful monarch would %fait
Kiliarnc'y, and it may still be hoped she will do-so be tbo
fine weather returns. A few miles hoyoati migbt pint*
her stooping at the threshold of a " mountain hut, cligniflidb?
the name of Darrynane Abbey t"
testa subihant,
Pauperis Erandri't thee; ingait) !Willa Victor
Alcides "What, Ince Want tekle eapitt
No ono has visit !Poland lately without adraiif3gsk gven
eobbetet prOtil,foits intellect was turned Bnn:. his
dieesi boa avig role into elogiseeree. areal& :0,
rupittna soteneeinto music, andl most ho
been, he would not, if he had hundred hAto. oh.
tered a word but If to O'Connell, the g.neftur,
tint
passinnatniallint-, tit
yoke renew with time, Rho has taketl
a hapof attortitsy to defend Lis country. Not thtt
one has seen the whole case ins Cobbett did : too many go
there far the pureose of tnonev-making, or of book. snaking,
to collect arrears of resit, or, like Lord Stanley, materials, for
a new sews:inane. S: there arc Englishmen who will never,
till 'ley give in their last account, find words to express tne
lessons of patience taught them by the much loved, the mesh
injured, the most unhappy Irish.
We cannot d eibt the Queen would be recensed with seen.
sports of welcome.. Amidst the worst snnral spasms of that
country, no lady ever was harmed. Vet'l can imagine a case
in which, without impeaching her aunnants allegiance, and still
less her ovsa eilmirab'e qualii en her royal progress might ba
lighted througnout by the glare of incendiary fires, supposing
simply the price eareat fell a shilling or two per bushel.
As an occeseonal correspondent of the Wexford Inders4rat,
I endeavoured, four years ago, to draw attention to tuts effect
of fluctuating prices in Ireland, but in vain. Such things aro
too true to be new; if a Member of Pa-niament took for his
device; silver standard, one pound. ee half-pound notes, and no
corn-law, the statists and eseonomists would find him anything
but clever ; or if he said, " Plenty of bread, plenty of money,
assd nartn Li:l:idle to -O'Connell," he wound be uttering dull
'7...tsrris; he woull be premature. At present people say but
little on these subjects, but, like Lo.d Burleigh, deity think the
more
It is extraordinary that money consn:lerations. should be so
seldom reverted to its causes of misfortune. Madame de Stael
showed most ingeniously, that the conduct of Circles I. was
the opposite in every point to that of Louis, yet they had ya-
belle and ship money in common. If Napoleon' bad been
-paid his stipend at Elba, he would never have landed at Can-
nes: if Louis XVIII. had not been paid, there would have
been no restoration. So an omnifarious indirect taxation in
England makes the question of Universal Suffrage inevitable,
ta'sing up an Autocratic branch, which. overshadows King,
Lards, and Commons, and completely stultifies the Executive.
Monetary errors have made this a serious evil, ann they will
coetieue till the press condescends to popularize the currency
question, and put the many headed au fait.
To find out how soon a prejudice will disappear, we should
consult Sir -Robert Peel's speeches as a criterion. At Tam_
worth, July 24, he said, •* The only way to lighten the interest
of the public debt, is to increrse the number of shoulders Ow
bear it, hl- increasing manufacturing and commercial prospe-
rity." (Tins might be addressed to the Tamworth railway,
hut it bindles much better to a steady expansion of the cur.
rency). " Let them not be deceived by the false friends of
sericulture into a belief that, by the exclusion of foreiga pro-
duce, or by an increased bounty on their own, they could have
permanent prosperity." This looks as if Sir R. Peel, having
made the best speeches against tie reform of criminal law, and
the best in favour of it; the best for and against the penal Ca-
tholic cede ; the best agaisst the reform of the Commons'
House, and the best for the sufficiency of the Reform Bill,
having been recalled from his Secretaryship in Ireland to
speak for the measure of 1819, which goes by his name, May
now deliver the best of all his speeches, giving their true vahres
to corn, curt-nes, and common sense : this much is due to his
immense wealth and respectability, and to the dignitT of a
" public man " Hear Mr. Matthias Attwoed, in his evidence
before the Aglicultsual Committee of Lords, in " A
member of the Committee of 1819 stated in the House of COM_
mons nine years after, that in his belief, the chaiman and
every member of the Committee were misled by witnesses per-
fectly uninformed ; that neither he, nor nay other member, nor
the chairman, knowing the eharaseer of the measure, would
here recommended it. —roe chairman was Sir Robert Peel ?a—
Yes, he wins Present, and made no answer to that statement : it
was Mr. Bankes made that stat meat,"
Before the same Committee Mr. M. Attwood decided, that
" even for periods so short as five years, corn rarely has varied
greatly, except when alterations have taken place in the
standard of value by which it is measured." But variations
year by year are much wore fatal to Ireland, and these we owe
to the cost laws. Silver is very level, as Rothschild told us,
that is, in different plaees ; and as to different times, the supply
and demand of silver varies es that of corn in an extraordinary
manner. -The ruinous fitretuations since the war have been
owing to the ackneniedged errors of the Pi ivy Council, in
1816, Ft ,;(1 of the Parliament, in 1615 and 1319. The Coun-
t:l decreed a gold standard, and moreover a totally crooked
one, and ;rase a coinage of Likens, because some shillings had
been clipped 20 years previously. The Parliament, guided
by futile Losic, attributed the depreciation of batik notes, not
to subsidizing, ant to filling with gold the military chests of
the Coalition, but to a suspension of cash payments, which
preceded the supposed effect by eleven years, and then rush-
ing with adveese haste in'n an immense d'evelopcmetit of cauN-
lity, rein ice the evi. three lerrs after it heti ceased to exist,
by falsifying co ,tracts and increasing the pub!i: debt, the
places and pensions, one-third. So at the meeting of Parlia-
ment in 1825, Lord Liverpool expressly alluded to the sound-
ness of the currency, the first time such an allusion had been
made be a British ',Minister ; -yet soon after, " sn3a.ll went the
country banks, consequent runs on the London, a dozen ba-
ronets failed in one morning, Portland-place deserted, the
nreek Loan disapeeared like a vapour in a storm, all the new
American States refused to pay their dividends," &e., and no-
thing saved us but the little persecuted 1/. notes.
Amidst the studied obscurity of the subject, parties legislate
far themselves. The rent-receivers siting in both houses, all
honourable men, but connected with the agricultural interest,
hoist the prices of corn. to a great height, thOugh they Cannot
keep them there. In like manner, so are we all honourable
when judges in our own cause ; tile money dealers or
exchange merchants in or near the Bank parlour, obtaining
gold cheap when it is dear' on the Continent, and selling it
dear alien cheap elsewhere, export our gold when we want it
most. Then, having none left, in their feigned capacity as
Directors, instead of bringing it back at their cm n expense, as
the Bank of France does, they "redress their cash," redress-
ing, in fact. your cash and mine, they shake the ground under
every body's feet, and; above all, plunge Ireland into a baptism
of blur d, by hauling down the price of corn ; yet neithet bakers
nor lerdlords reduce their profits, because they hope the Peers
will give them a lift shortly.
Thera is no possible quarter ou which the Bank have not
shifted the blame. Sometimes it is over production, and the
original producat terra, is twirled down ccntemptuously on the
parlour table; sometimes otter trading, or the immense variety
of productions which miserable mortals will consider as food,
raiment, or medicine, and will procure as such ; sometimes
the country batiks, so they are eestroyed; then the joint-stock
banks devised as as improvement on the preceding ; then tho
Lill-brokers, who discharge impartially the duties of the Iltink ;
enn lastly, the Arnelican merchants, who have merely shown
that ev, n a fan- gold currency is fatal. In the Irish panic a
year a.,fo, at the very moment when the Bank, through its
talkers:was urging on the House of Commons the propriety
of compressing the circulation everywhere by all means at the
same inne, se as to manage the exchanges properly, having.
themselves raised mercantile tilseoutits to 5 per cent., whet
stocks at an per cent. ; at that very moment the Bank of Ire-
land, their correspondent, lowered discounts to 3i per cent.,
in a comery where 6 per cent., is ordinary and legal interest,
.in the fond hope of starving joint-stock banks out of profit.
While in England, the very first houses were refused assist-
ance, ne quid detrimeLti , on the other side, the most indiffee
rent credits were stamped as good as gold,.for the nonce.
Hut is ibis the couticil whose spirit should inform the Orbis
Britanuicus, the maritime centre of twp hemispheres? What
is it but a caucus of partial men, with their judge-made
law pro re neta, varying in every case, and always unjust,
failing, like a peewit humour, on the weakest part of
.the
empire.
The jealousy of academicians and of graziers in the reign of
Charles I 1., gave rise-to laws against Irish oxen and Irish scho-
lars, such as sae legal-minded Coke had pronounced null and
loid, ipso facto. The money clauses of our Constitution have
been nailed into the Irish, its generous and cordial remedies
neutralized at pleasure ; but, happily, the rich mast's law can
never be the law of the land, nor ere received by the children
of the soil. It was so with Van Sittart's gold standard, and
the same Minister's corn-law of exclusiOn, for it is demonstrable
that the agrarian miseries since the war have proceeded from
them.
The late Mr. Inglis, who was as good at taking facts as be
was ill at finding their causes, laid it down that the poor Irish
had been growing poorer fur mciy years, and that the rent was
always calculated for the most favourable seasons--I must add,
for the highest prices also. Of course, when a farmer had
little capital, when he could get no price for his crop, he could
not pay, he would be ejected, he would unhappily procure
from his star-chamber a revenge on the succeeding tenant, this
would be the general rule. Assuming also, as history always
does, that a law against a practice is evidence of such a prac-
lice existing, it would follow that whenever a law wan passed,
against midlight legislation, we should find there had been a
great fall of prices that same year : such has been the ease du-
ring fifty years. In 1792 there was a proclamation (as good
as law) against the armed Defenders, " who talked of being
relieved from hearth-money, titbe, cogs, and of lowering their
rents." In 1798, " the Rebellion" broke out : in 1803,
" Emmett's Rebellion:" in 1807, • 1814, 1822, according' to
Sir Robert Peel's statement in introducing the Relief Bill,
the " Insurrection Act" was brought in and passed, enabling
the Lord-Lieutenant to suspend the trial
it a transportable offence for a man to be found out of doors
between sunset mid sunrise: in 18 ,the Coercion Bill passed.
In each of these years, 1792, 1798, 1803, 1807, 1814.
laen, aril 1833, there was an unconsionable fall in prices of
grain.

The converse of the proposition is also true, and oyery fall
vices pro; need sue: a law, except in 1827, wham duo fall
‘k as not near so considerable, and when no such law was ; but this :single exception proves the rule in a strikinz
manner. The Catholic Relief Was approaching, the aseett—
dl:lcy w!ls ay good as dead, for Mr. Peel had evidently given
it over, and the Association made extraordinary efforts to
suppreis that demoralising war which had so long disgraced
thvma but, whose CZUSCS they ::earcely even knew. In thg

Annual Register fir 1828 we find—":Of this improvement
in the state of the country the Association t-ok credit to it-
self, and it was entitled to do so. The Irishman might be
brought so to conduct himself by moral influence, and that
the Association possessed, but it was not the direction which
big feelings and actions would naturally take of themselves; ac-
'cordingly the peasants of the soutleinstead of falling quietly back
into the reeks of society,continued to assemble in regular bodies
of horse and that, in number from 500 to 2,000 : O'Connell
had licciarcd at the Munster meeting, that there were serve
arms in Tipperary, which be wouhl make the peasantry gise
up—an engagement which he subsequently proved unwilling
or unable to fulfil ; and he had stated at the Clare election
ay:l-Tut:is of the diseased state ofahe couetry. These military
oeseinhlages could have but one object (not specified) : ail
reai,mable men asked, Why this display of military IA ce
phy there marchings in military array--and what was the
aer;;ority which directed the application of funds so appro-
priated ? It was Hunger, " eldest and strongest of the Pas-
si• ;" it as a convictien that their landlords were insensate,
were ,nsetiable, \V hat reduction could be expected of mort-
gagors, and still more of life-tenants, so universal in Irelaed,
the interest and insurance of whose debts had been vii toady
enhanced f.om 12 per cent. to 20? The ejectments were at
once gratuitous and irreparable : whatever the succeeding
tenant might p-omise, he could not with such prices pay more
rent than they had paid : then came the bitter question,
Impius hTe tern culta novella miles habebit ?
Barbares has segctcs ? En quo Discordiu cives
• Pertiuxit miseros, en queis consevimus agros ?
The present state of things c:osely resembles that in 1827
and 1828. The greet increase of police fore', the provisions
of the bill of 1:14, amounting neatly to a state of siege, or
martial Lori Mulgreve's sympathy, no trifle there,
O'Connell's punet+tai rood f4ith, base as yet prevented an
outt,r,ak ; but Lewd Denueghen re stated very lately, that a
me,Aing, of eighteen magistrates was hold:ng in that same
Tipperary, that armed parties were teaversing the country.
The simple fact was, that corn being cheap on the continent,
the :nett:bents expressed their fears that our own harvest was a
failure ; mice; rose., the duty fell, the foreign corn came
in by the ge:clueted scale, which adjusts supply
.to any thing
rather than demand, the ever srogume anticipation of god
drys was excited—so easily do the optics of the desparate ex-
aggerate a glimmering of hope—the farmers withheld their
torn, though (a least in a I,rge market town lat acquainted
with) it was repeatedly a Ivertised for ; the papers saia wheat
would rise to 60 shillings per leneel,—it fell to 27. Lo: d
Donoughenre mentioned the recent case of " John Madov,
an industrious rain, who came regularly to Tipperary for
the pur;ose of selling corn ; he took notes from the pur.
cha-ere, payable after the harvest, hut the way they have
paid hint has been by murdering him." The wretches could
not pay.
One had hoped that the London I.,•gislature would have
seen tho necessity of equalizing the pressure of various tax,...!;
lent is is certain that, in 1836, the estimate for the Ordnance
survey wee reduced 5,000/. ; also that they would encourage
investigation as to the cause of violence, but no criminal re-
turn 3 can be obtained higher than 1826; also that they would
faclitate the calculation of corn-rents, but there are no corn-
insuecters, and ao authentic averages.
Ia dealing with the Irish. a great respect to their territorial
rights as natives seould be, if not the statute, yet the un-
written law of custom and honour. As a general principle,
the land belongs to the tenant so long as he pays the tax.
If the prices are to vary, the rent should vary with them. The
subject is at first sight complicated, yet it would appear that
the relative values and cost of different sorts of grain being
well known, they may safely be reduced to the standard of
wheat only : such corn-rents aro very simple : the coloni par-
have preserved their own solvency and the wealth of
their laodlords, century after century. I venture to
fi!liggost, the easiest plan in many cases would be, to con-
sider the present rent as adapted to the prices of 1829-
30, answering to Bs. per bushel in England, which
was called the pivot price (I), to let one half of the rent be
still payable in money, to consider the other half as the quan-
tity of ,cheat which that moiety would have bought in the
above-mentioned years, and for that moiety substitute the
money value of the same quantity of wheat at the price of the
day. But it would be far easier to open the ports, and lock
up the Bank parlour, and so reach the seat of the complaint,
the unde maluni of society, than to induce gentlemen to grant
such leases.
Turn we to brighter hopes. Victoria, cherished, precious
being ! May she accomplish the heroic desires of her royal
father, and not countenance the oppressors, but the de-
fenders ! The counsellors of the monarch, whose wisdom
is still proverbial in the East, bowed before his youthful
heir, and said—" If thou wilt be the servant of this people,
and wilt serve them, and give them good words, they shall
be thy servants for ever." He, on the contrary, preferred
military valour, believed in the efficacy of compulsion, the
facility of throwing dust in the people's eyes. Perhaps he
recorded his contempt of " shop-keepers, and that sort of
persons," or thought the grand strategic problem was to cut
off the supplies, and bring the greatest force to bear on the
weakest point. The consequences—but our hearts reject these
fears: her Majesty would not owe to the forgiveness of the
Irish what she might claim by the justest title. Certainly, to
kneel at a widow's couch is a humiliation for a Queen ; to
dress a festering inveterate wound has something menial, some-
thing even sordid ; whoever freely undertakes the cause of the
wretched, and perseveres, will be made to feel the burthen ;
her Court may be less brilliant, her adversaries richer and
wittier, there may be flights of inuendoes and caricatures;
yet, if there is truth in the records of the past, or in our future
hopes, we can promise her a perpetuity of the happiness she
enjoys, a crown of amaranth, eternal youthfulness of mind,
wisdom to rule, strength to save, "goodness without effort,
greetnsss—without a foe." To believe in the natural equality
of. mankind is wisdom, but it cannot be doubted that just
princes, who have never despised the poor, but rather
thought it a happiness and an honour to serve them, will
be conspicuously blessed.

I have the honour. &c.

H. C.

PUBLIC POLITICAL MEETING.

(From the Coventry Herald.)
A public meeting, was held in the County Hall, on Wednes-
day, for the purpose of establishing " a Political Union,
Lased upon Universal Suffrage." It having been announced
that the chair would be taken at eleven o'clock, and that
Muutz, Hadley, and Douglas," of Birmingham, would at-
tead, a numerous meeting was expected. At eleven o'clock,
however, and even up to half-past, very few persons were pre-
sent. Just after twelve o'clock Mr. G. Edmonds, Mr.
tiluutz. Mr. Hadley, and Mr. Douglas appeared, and soon
after tb' Hall was three parts filled.
Mr. D. BUCKNEY proposed that Mr. W. Mayo do take the
ckair.

Mr. MAYO expressed some reluctance, but on the sense o:
the meeting being taken, eventually complied
Mr. U. BucKNEY then rose to move the first resolution,
He sand the meeting had been called in consequence of the re.
sent declaration of Lord John Ressell against furthering the
esiab of Reform beyond the point it had already reached, by
refusing to give his assent to the Extension of the Suffrage
anti Vote by Ballot. That declaration had astonished all the
real Radicals of the kingdom, who were now determined to re-
sist, Mikistera. lie was happy to see around him some of the
most distinguished men of Birmingham, who had attended the
meeting fur the purpose of assisting and encouraging Oilmen
of Coventry to do their duty at this important crisis. The
present Ministers were elevated to office by the Reformers,
and now that they thought themselves secure they kicked the
Reormers from their presence. This was the situation in
which the Radical, were now placed, and the treatment which
they were now called on to resist. Unless the present Ministry
were immediately removed from office, there was no chance
for the people. He contended that whatever had been done
in the shape of Reform, there had been nothing done yet to
reach the real condition of the people. The Whigs and the
Tories were playing the game of each other; both were pro-
fessing patriotism, but both seeking plunder. He would play
off one- fac:ion against the other ; the people had the power of
expelling the present Ministry from office, and he hoped they
would do so; as to the Tories he feared nothing from theta.
It was only by the support of the Irish Members and O'Con-
nell dint the 'Whigs were able to retain office; and as to Mr.
O'Connell, he was glad that the time had arrived when the
dujcity and the political black-leggism of that gentleman were
seen through by the Reformers. Me. O'Connell never went
into any discussion on the condition of the Irish poor except it
was to serve his own party purposes, and he denied that he
was thu friend of the Irish people. There was a greet deal of
talk about education ; but the people waned first to have their
backs eothed and their bellies filled. He should therefere
say, give the people their political rights, and then if they did
not improve their own condition it was their own fault. Mr.
Buckney concluded by moving as the first resolution—" That
this meeting having lost all confidence in the present Govern-
ment, has Ito longer any wish for their continuance in office."
Mr. Rustteos seconded the resolution.
Mr. HADLEY said, he had strong feelings on the subject of
the r solution, and if the meeting would permit him, althoussh
h.. did not wish to intrude himself upon their attention, he
would offer It tlf a-dozen sentences upon it. He thought it
hi gh tin.e that the people were brought to their senses. The
higs had now teen in ot7see seven years, and great exer-
tions had been matte to place them there. He believed he had
dote something towards it himself, and he hoped God would
forgive hint for if. Ile had hoped at one time, howevcr, that
they would have acted on the principles they professed ; and
especially when the late King died, and some powerful impe-
diments were removed, he expected they would have carried
out their profs scions of principle, and have given to the people
political and relit pus libel ty. Those hopes and expeetatiens
however, were completely at at end, and the ques'ion now
sew:, would the people still stick to the Whigs, or would they
unite and resist them? Fur his part he weuld re silt them ;
tut it was only by the people being united for that purpose,
that the people would do anythine ; and though Mr. O'Con-
nell's conduct had Leen denounced, he must say that he should
like to have Mr. O'Connell with them, if he would advocate
British as well as Irish interests. Of Lord John Russell's
declaration he confessed he heard with joy; there was nothing
like as open foe. That declaration of Lord John showed at
oece what mettle. he was mode of; and let it be remembered
also, that it was not the declaration of an individual, but of
the whole Ministry. After this it would be delusion to expect
anything from them. He would say to the men of Coventry,
that until they had a voice in electing those who were to make
laws affecting their lives and property, their interests would
!lever be properly secured. Containing as Coventry did, a
wait body of intelligent men, it became them to demand a
faro in the Legislature of the country.
Mr, 0. EDMONDS said, he was not an entire stranger to
.(14nuntry. It was now pretty near twenty years since the
Renee me of Coventry held a meeting on Grey Friars'
Green. ta 'protest against the Manchester massacre, when
ate was present; He had no doubt that that meeting made

some impression on the Government of that day ; and he
hoped the oressnt could operate equally on the Ministry of
this day. He had suppoi ted the \Vhigs, but he c .uld do so
no longer; he hid hoped that on the commencement of a
new reign they would have done something for the people ;
but they had given evidence that nothing of the kind was now
to be expected from them. When he heard so much of the
Queen, he could not but reflect that there was a people also,
ma le by the semi God and suscet tibie of the same feelings as
the Quo n ; and looking upcn the people with the know-
Isdge that they were calobie of enduring happiness and suf-
fering upon the same principle as the Queen was, he consi-
dered that the promotion of the people's happiness was the
first duty of Government. He did not agree in all which
his friend on the left (Mr. Buckney) had said against Mr.
O'Connell; he waa not quite willing to condemn him yet.
Mr. O'Donnell was the professed f, lend of Ireland, and he
looked at English affairs through Irish grievances ; those
were the spectacles through which he viewed us. lie recol-
lected, however, that not a very long time ago Mr. O'Connell
attended a meeting at the Birmingham Town Hall, when he
named a list of measures which bad been brought forward
by the Whigs, and, as he said, they were successively cushion-
ed. Mr. O'Connell had again recently told the men of Bir-
mingham that they had been cheated and humbauged by the
Whigs. He ( Mr. Edmonds) still believed, however, that
there were many honest \Vhigs in the country whom he
could not include in the observations which he applied to the
Ministry, and to such he would say come out and join the
Where were the friends of the Ministry in Coven-
try ? Why were they not at that mcering ? He believed
that their absence might be attributed to that sickness at
heart which arose from hope deferred. If the Whigs acre
to grant all the measures which they had ever proposed, they
would fall short of the wants of the people. He was woo-
hi died that Mr. O'Connell should adhere to the Ministry
rasrely for the sake of retaining Lord Mulgrave in Ireland-.
Lord Mulgrave might die or leave office any day, and he would
still leave the principles of misgovernment in Ireland un-
touched If it could be shown that the government of Lord
Mulgrave had given to the poor of Ireland a single extra po-
tatoe he would say something to it ; but it had not. Mr. O'Con-
nell might go on talking upon the abstract question of Irish
Title s for ever; but until he gave the miliions their rights,
all such talk we; useless. Those rights he believed would
never be obtained under the present system of representation,
for he was convinced that until the people retureed paid
agents to Parliament they would never have their rights and
interests well attended to. He hoped therefore that the peo
ple of Coventry would think on this great subject, which was
about to be brought before them ; he had been the advocate of
Universal Suffrage for twenty-five years, and had always
found it opposed bath by Whigs and Tories, but it was stid
dear to hint. As had been observed by Mr. Hetherington, he
wanted to see working men sent to Parliament; let a man go
into Pari:amant with his apron on, and he would frighten the
Lords and the Aristocrats away in a moment. If the interests
of Lite people had been well attended to, there would never
have been twenty millions granted, not for the emancipation of
the slaves, but to create a good fat job for Commissioners.
Of that twenty millions ho believed that one single Member of
the House of Conn-nous, Mr. Gladstone, had pocketed one
hundred thousand pounds. The interest of that twenty mil-
lions alone would have given one-fourth more of the comforts
of life to all the poor in the workhouses of this country for ever.
But while this twenty millions was given for the emancipation
of the slaves, they were, in fact, worse off than ever. After
such acts as these, he would say, " Don't be humbugged by
the \Vhig Ministry any longer." To uso Ito expression of the
Scripture, he would say, " There shall be no peace for the
wicked." He would turn out one Ministry after another every
day, till he found one which would be honest to the people.
But he supposed it would be said the Tories must come in.
He begged of them to be frightened by this bugaboo about the
Tories no longer. The people could turn out W lugs and
Tories too, one after another ; and until they did so, and ob-
tained a Ministry of their own choice, they would never have
the benefits of good government,
The first resolution was then put and carried,
Mr. W. TAUNTON rose to propose the next resolution,
which asserted the right of the people to Universal Suffrage,
Short Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot, Mr. Taunt in then
spoke at some length, and contended that as the eights of all
men were equal by nature, the civil rights of mankind ought
to secure their natural rights. He then addressed himself to
the subject of education, and contended that ignorance was
not confined to the producers of wealth. He then spoke of
the debt, and said that the revenues of the country had been
spent by the few to the injury of the many ; he also adverted
to the disputes in Canada, and condemned the conduct of the
Government. He next urged the right of every man to
choose his Representatives in Parliament, and read a state-
ment of the nature of the constituency and the present consti-
tution of Parliament, calling then upon the people to come
forward and turn out the factions. He afterwards descanted
on the Poor Law ; urged the abolition of the property quali-
cat;on for Members of Parliament; condemned the Ballot un-
less preceded by Universal Suffrage ; rejoiced at the recent
declaration of Lord John Russell, and said he had hard work
to refrain from getting intoxicated when he heard of it. Mr.
T. concluded a long and on the whole a good speech, by re-
commending the people to agitate till they got their rights.
Mr. CHARLES EYRE seconded the above resolution.
Mr. Muserz approved of the resolution, so far as it went,
but begged to move an addition to it that it include wages of
attendance for Members of Parliament. Men would never
work for pleasure so well as they would work for pay, and he
believed that Ballot and Universal Suffrage would do little
good without wages of attendance. He considered that the
franchise ought to be extended to all who were taxed, or else
that the taxes ought to be confined to those only who were
represented, and he thought the working classes would care
little which of these two changes they had.—(Mr. Buckney
dissented.) He (Mr. Muntz) was an advocate for Short
Parliaments, wages of attendance, Universal Suit, age, and the
Ballot, but he did not agree with those gentlemen who opposed
the Ballot unless accompanied by Universal Suffrage. He
thought they ought to go for all ; but if in the meantime the
Ballot could be obtained, it would operate well, even with the
present constituency, and the lower classes.—( Murmur of dis-
approbation.) Mr. Muntz begged to correct himself, and
would say the industrious classes. He hoped to see the day
when good government would be obtained, and when the
people would be well employed, well fed, and well clothed.
Good government, however, could only be secured by agita-
tion out of doors, and the union of the people.
Mr. DOUGLAS then spoke, and after alluding to the voila
minousness of the resolution, said, he thought it would be incom-
plate unless it inclnded the division of the country into Par-
liamentary districts. So long as Tamworth, fur instance, with
its small population, sent two Representatives, the same as
Birmingham with its large population, it would be impossible
to have a fair representation. Mr. Douglas then advocated
Universal Suffrage, by a variety of arguments ; first on the
ground of principle, hecause there was no sufficient reason
for ascribing superior fitness or better qualification to the oc-
cupier of a house of a certain rent, and in the next place, be-
cause Universal Suffrage was a measure which commanded
the sympathies of the great body of the people. As to edu-
cation, he thought it was absurd to hold that those who gave
evidence every day of their capacity to conduct their own
affairs and make their own bargains with good sense arid pro-
priety, were unfit to have a voice in choosing their Represen-
tatives in Parliament. Mr. Douglas also supported the pro-
position in favour of having paid Representatives, on the
ground that no merchant could afford time to devote to the
duties of a M tuber of Parliament. He recommended the
people to unite for the enforcement of their rights. Let them
tight with a strong moral force, and their enemies would then
be certain that they possessed -physical force if required. A
Political Union would not require much to support it; the
members of that in Birmingham paid Gd. a quarter, and
surely that would be sufficient for one in Coventry. After
some further observations, the resolution was put and carried,
I with the addition of wages of attendance proposed by Mr.
Muntz.

Mr. R. BAMPTON then moved a vote of thanks to the Gen-
tlemen of Birmingham for their attendance at the Meeting.
Mr. JOSEPH BRADLEY seconded the motion, which was put
and carried.
Mr. MENTZ returned thanks, after which he, in company
I,vitli Messrs. Hadley, Edmonds, and Douglas, left the flail.
Mr. JOSEPH TAILOR condemned the manner in which Mr.
O'Connell had been censured by some of the speakers, and
and contended that he had been used ill by the English people.
Mr. Taylor afterw :rds proposed the following Gentlemen as a
Provisional Committee, to prepare riles and regulations for the
Coventry Political Union : —Mr. John Turner, Mr. T. W.
Gill, M:. Mayo, Mr. Backney, Mr. John R,binson, Mr. Ro-
bert Bampton, Mr. Joseph Bradley, Mr. C. Eyre, Mr. W.
Taunton, Mr. John Warden, Mr. James Peters, and Mr.
Joseph Rushton.
. The same having been agreed to, the Chairman left the
Chair, which was then taken by Mr. R. HAMPTON.
Mr. D. BECKNF.Y then proposed the thanks of the Meeting
to Mr. Mayo for his impartial conduct in the Chair.
Mr. MAYO returned thanks, and the Meeting dissolved.-

• Since our last, several examinations of the prisoners
in custody at Halstead for the fires in that neighbourhood
have taken place, and by the indefatigable exertions of the
Magistracy, their clerk, and the po;ice, we understand a yo .
luminous body of cvidet:ce has been collected, tending to
velope the perpetrators of nearly all the wanton destruction of
property. As the inquiry proceeds, the surprise increases
that neither the set:se of principle nor the temptation of the
large sums off. red by way of reward operated as an induce-
ment for the mmy who, it now appears, were aware of the
guilty parties to come forward, and by furthering the ends of
justice, st,iy at an early period the hands of the incendiaries.
Durin7, an examination on Tu: sday, a young woman, named
Charlotte Amer, of Notlev, was committed for perjury. A
month pr.,11:11,1y elai•se before the committal of Fl teller
ar,d Itayn,r, additional evidence almost daily traniA:ing.—
Citelnixf rd Chronicle.

In the beginning of last week a disgraceful scene took
place during the ceremony of an interment in the churchyard
in the W,:terloo. road. As the clergyman was reading the
burial service over the body of a man nicknamed " Glass
Eyes " well knowa in Lambeth, a number of low vagabonds,
chiefly journeymen butchers, got over the pallisades, and, ap-
proaching the grave, interrupted the solemnity of the occasion
by indecent conduct. One of the fellows, trking a shilling
from his pocket, flung it into the grave, exclaiming at the
same time—" There, Glass Eyes, is a shilling for you; it
w,ll buy a dinner for you in the other world." This the fel-
low followed up by shovelling the earth into the grave, in which
he was assisted by several others, who kept throwing the
earth at each ether. The clergyman was compelled to quit tie
ground before the completion of the service, and the bl,lck-
guards mustered in such numbers that the authority of the
beadles was of no avail, and the police were called in to put a
stop to the scene. Unfortunately, however, the ringleaders
escaped on seeing. the policemen.