The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,, TRUBSD AiY. MA V 20; It.

to do some part of our business for us ; we must stick
to principle, and do our business also for ourselves. And
times were coming which he believed would be very
favourable to those who would stick to their principles,
and who depended upon the people to support them.
The Whig Ministry had not the power to offer us the
instalments they spoke of ; nor was he•one of those who
would sanction the calling out for instalments, when he
had a just debt to claim. The Whig Ministers had
not the power to offer it ; but they say,
." We'll fight
alongside to enable you to get it ?" Were the lapilowners
likely to give it us ? Had the Duke of Buckingham or the.
Duke of Richmond said, " We'll give you an Bs. fixed
duty ?" No ; and on the very day that this was..pro-
posed by Ministers; corn was payini, 235. Bd. a quarter
duty at the Custonis at Liverpool.—(Hear.) That was
the -law that the Duke of Blickingham and Sir James
Graham would stand by, and they and their order
were stronger than the Whig Government ; therefore.
we were not in a situation to accept this instalment ;
but we say to our debtors who dispute the debt, " We
will go on proving our debt before the .people of Eng-
land ; and, if we work as we ought, we shall not only
get an Bs. fixed duty, but 20s. in the pound."—(Cheers.)
We were as much entitled to immediate repeal as to an
Bs. fixed duty. They talked of " protection ;" but he
wanted to ask what protection that labouring man had
got whom he saw before him ?—(The Man—" None at
all, Sir.")—What protection have twenty millions of the
people of this country, who depend, and whose families
depend, upon their daily labour for subsistence ? He
would subscribe 1,0001. to the Manchester Infirmary,
if any one of those noble bread-taxers could prove be-
fore an impartial jury that the labourer of this country
had, or could have, the slightest legislative protection.—
(Hear, and cheers) " Protection !" whenever they
heard that word again, let them remember what was
said by Col. Thompson, who found out those things years
before us,—" Protection always means the robbing of
somebody else."—(Laughter.) Ay, and in our case in
England, it meant the robbing of the labouring classes
for the benefit of the landowner—(Hear)—the taking out
of the pockets of the poorest of the poor, to put into the
already gorged pockets of the richest of our landed
aristocracy—(Hear) the slicing off one-third of the
bread-loaf of the poorest widow and poorest orphans
in this town—that was the meaning of " protection."
(Cheers.) The man who had already his estates, which
never could be stolen from him, was not content with
his acres, but must dip his finger into the cupboard of
the poor hand-loom weaver.—(Applause.) They would
tell the people that the object of those who wanted to

repeal the Corn-laws, to put downthis bread-tax, was

to reduce wages. He would, jnst ask . the working men
present—had the bread-tax kept up their wages ?
—(" No, no," and great cheering.) If it had not kept up
their wages, then how had it protected the workmen and
labourers? No—they had no protection for their labour;
they sometimes had been foolish enough to ask for it ;
thinkinc, that, because the landowners had protected
themselves, they would protect the working men. He
remembered petitions being presented to the House of
Commons from the hand-loom weavers, praying the
Legislature to regulate their wages, to give them a
higher rate of wages, or to prevent them going further
down. And what was the answer they received ? The
Noble bread-taxers treated their petitions with scorn ;
they laughed at them ; they said, " These poor igno-
rant people know nothing of political economy—
(Laughter)—we cannot keep up the rate of wages ;
we have no power over the rate of wages ; that is re-
gulated upon totally independent principles, by the
laws of supply and demand." And yet these were
the very men who had passed a law to keep up the price
of bread, to protect themselves, at the expense of those
very labourers, when they confessed they had not the
power, at the same time, to keep up the rate of wages.—
(Hear.) Was there ever so mighty an injustice as that ?
—(Great cheering.) His friend Mr. Smith had truly
said that the monopolists were hanging together—mo-
nopolists in sugar and timber, and coffee and corn, would
all hang, and, he hoped, would all be hung together.—

•
(Laughter.) But the most wonderftit thing-was-, that the
bread-taxers had all at once been seized with qualms of
conscience, and had become the most religious men on the
face of the earth.—(Laughter.) Oh, no ! they could not
hear of our eating slave-grown sugar. Why, he (Mr.Cob-
den) was standing in slave-grown produce; his hat was lined
with slave-grown produce ; his pockets contained slave-
grown produce, in the shape of gold and silver ; and he
had a snuff-box in his pocket, filled with slave-grown
produce. He was literally crowned, clothed, and his
pockets lined with slave grown produce ; and so were
these noble monopolists; yet they said, " We can't think
of the poor people of this country getting their sugar 2d.
per pound cheaper, for fear they should promote slavery."
—(Hear, hear.) This sudden conversion of these bread-
taxing monopolists to the cause of religion and humanity
reminded him of the distich—
" When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ;
When the devil grew well, the devil a saint was he."
—(Laughter.) And so with these bread-taxing monopo-
lists—when they found a heavy battering-ram dealt right
into their middle, by little Lord John Russell, they
turned sick, and were seized with a sudden fit of sancti-
fied morality—(Laughter)—but if they should ever be-
gin to feel themselves safe as to their bread-tax, we should
hear no more of their religion or their morality, he would
be bound.—(Laughter.) We must set up for ourselves
the standard of free trade, and we should have the Whigs
flocking to our standard, if we remained true to our
principle ; for they knew that they could not fight with-
out the people, without whom the Whigs could not carry
even their Bs. fixed duty. lie believed, if we were to lay
down our righteous principle of total and immediate re-
peal, we should be as powerless as the Whigs ; there-
fore, let us be true to our principles, but never let us
commit the folly which some would fall into. of kicking
those who are advancing towards us. He was not dis-
posed to quarrel with those who would help him over the
-st impediment in his way ; he saw a distant summit
which he wished to crown ; and he should be all the
better able climb it if he could get some stout, sturdy
fellows in the meOtime to help him along the road. Let
Manchester make a demonstration ; the people in London
did not really understand our feelings or wishes; they knew
nothing of the suffering here. Why, let a man walk the
streets of London, and see it thronged with the equipages of
these bread-taxing nobles and commons in this gay sea-
son of May—how could these people know any thing of
the distress here while living in that state of splendour,
and when the only persons they, came in contact with
below their own rank were the rich, fat, and pampered
menials waiting upon them ? Let Manchester make a
demonstration that would show to the people of Eng-
land at large, and to the Government, and the aristo-
cracy in particular, that they were in the deepest state
-4. suffering ; that they knew the cause of their stiffer-
in.., :sad that they were determined that that cause
should be immediately removed, Let us hoist the
eiand immediate repeal of all mono-
'll of " robber and let us tape care

;
nn but the bread-taxing and
must hold no terms,
• by favour from
• -iigh wil-

polies," which were
we give offence to no m.
other monopolists. With them
and never think of getting anything
them ; but, if others, more in error than thr,
fulness, had obstructed us before, let no taunts lie use.
to them, but let us ask them to hell) us. With hypocrites
and monopolists we would keep no terms ; but war to
the knife with monopoly, which meant robbery. He could
not have conceived that the bread-taxers could sink
themselves lower in his estimation than they had done,
by seeking to profit from robbing the poor by means of
the Corn laws for the last twenty-five years ; but they
had sunk themselves lower still by their last ten days
exhibition. The Mahommedans had seven hells, and
gradations of torment for each particular crime ; but the
very lowest and hottest of all these hells was for hypo-
crites.—(Laughter and cheers.) He did not know where
the bread-taxers might go ; but the deepest of all places
of torment was assigned to hypocrites. But they had in
fact no bread-taxers in Mahommedan countries. The
Grand Seignior did not dare to impose a bread-tax in
Turkey ; and even Mehemet Ali, the tyrant of Egypt,
had not got a bread-tax. In fact, no country was blessed
with a bread-tax hut England ; and the men who passed
and who now support it were as vile hypocrites as they
were bread-taxers. We wanted but union, and let us
give a cheer for nniversal suffrage for the bread-tax.
—(Three cheers were given, and Mr. Cobden resumed
his seat.)
Mr. throws said it had been stated, that, if the Corn-
laws were repealed, it. would destroy Ireland, and sink it
into misery. Now, he would ask any Irishman there,
could Ireland be in greater misery than it was ? Go to
Liverpool, and ask the 120,000 Irish slaves who came
over here to seek a living; did the Corn-laws benefit
them ?—(" No.") In the county of Galway, bordering
on the sea, the rent of land had increased
from 1/. to 3/. an acre within the last three years..
Until within these three years, the people were
allowed to gather sea-weed from the shore to manure
the ground for their potato cftps ; but now they had to
pay 71. an acre for it. They then thought they might
go into the sea and take the slime and mud ';. but for this
they had to pay 3/. 10s. an acre. Now they were going
to try the effect of saline water, and he supposed that
even this they would be charged so much a gallon for.
An Irish landlord, the other day, went to one , of his
tenants and said, "I am very glad you are a teetotaller,
and you must now pay me 10s. more for my land."—
(Shame.) Why, there was not the smoke of a factory
in the whole land ; it was all agriculture ; but their
sufferings would cause them to join hand in hand with
us for the repeal of these laws. As to the proposition of
Ministers, he would take ss. in the pound, and look for
the rest afterwards.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which passed
unanimously.
Mr. WM. RATHBONE GREG, in moving the fourth
resolution, said, he was a West India Proprietor, and
the proposition of Government would cut off a larger
pwoirthtioount,ofbultiihs
eincomeNvasais tn
o ahamanhuefaccotuulrdern:l
but
fftasoord to do
strongly
did he feel that the repeal of the Corn-laws would
benefit him ten times more than the repeal of the Sugar
duties would injure him, that he was come there to sup-
port it. They had now an opportunity of getting the
Corn-laws repealed ; but if, from any prejudice or re-
mis
in the Corn-lows,
another. They were all aware, that the other day
,the Dneusksethey let this opportunity slip, they might never
INailrvesll.inftleo(nmdr.ecGlarte•egd)
hailedg ns against
haantyasalatehraaptipo3n,
snnen ; for they well remembered, that ten years ago
the Duke of Wellington declared solemnly and empha- •
tieally against another great measure, 'which the next
year became the law of the land, and he had no doubt
the same result would follow this.
Mr. THOMAS HOPKINS seconded the resolution. He
hailed the meeting of this day as the commencement of
another system, when they could call for those measures
which were calculated to relieve, and would, if carried,
give them relief, and enable them to command the Legis-
latnre. He did not wish to use the word command in
an improper sense. But there were two millions en-
agea in manufactures in the north; and had the as- '
;embly sitting in London listened to their complaints.
and were they disposed to grant them what they wanted?
He trusted that there was a sufficient amount of good
sense to induce them to go. on in a constitutional way;
but, if monopolies were persevered in, particularly in
food, was it to be supposed that this enormous P"Pu-

lation would go on submitting to it ? When justice
was refused to them there was danger, and great
danger, that it would give. rise to the thought, whe-
ther they could not provide for themselves. . They
might say, if the south, the east, and the west, the
agricultural parts of the country, were determined to
persevere, let us try what we can do for ourselves.
They might talk of having a legislature in Manchester,
as Mr. O'Connell taked of one in Dublin. He did not
mean to say this would be a good thing,, far from it;
hut.he wished to sound the,voice of alarin.at'an early pe
riod,.to prevent the people being driven to such a course.
Now these protective laws did not give this abundance,
.but obliged many to go without a sufficiency. This
was the fruit of the experience they had had. It
was said that experience made fools wise ; but
it had not made monopolists wise in • a national
sense. Did these protective laws give them full
employment ? Did they give general employment
even in agricultural districts ? and in the manufac-
turing districts had • they not thrown an immense num-
ber out of employment ? That being the case, it did
appear to him somewhat strange that no one thought
of making a proposal like this :—A great number now
were working only four days a week ; and suppose that
they could apply the remainder of their time to manu-
factures, to send it abroad, they might take two millions'
worth abroad, and bring back two millions in grain.
Here would be employment for these people. They would
take cloth, and bring back the very article we were in
need of. What prevented this ? These monopoly laws,
and nothing else. If these laws did not exist, there
would be plenty of individuals who would undertake to
bring the grain, and would not stop till the manufactures
were made. And what could be more reasonable on the
part of a number of people who were willing to work, and
could not get it, than to say—Let us seek work, that we
may get our food ? He read, in a Tory newspaper, an
account of the rate of wages in Odessa, which was written
for the purposes of showing that, if the duty on wheat were
repealed, there would be a low rate of wages. But when they
said that wages were low, which was a fact, it showed
that, where there were no manufactures, but agriculture
flourished in a high degree, wages were low. The
wages there were lower than in our country, notwith-
standing the monopoly. The argument went against
the agribulturists, because agriculture there did nothing
for the labourer. He hoped we should have many such
meetings as this ; for all the influence arising
~out of
union should be brought to bear against our powerful
opponents, who, taking forty or fifty millions a year out
of the pockets of the people,' would fight desperatel for
it. It is worth their while td spend money on elections;
as, for every pound they si)e-lici, they could get 101. or
201. from the pockets•ef the people. Lord John Rus-
sell's announcement was like a shell thrown amongst the
Members, and the Tories saw that it was the beginning
of a new system. He hoped, ere long, we should have
to throw up our caps in this hall, and huzza for " Free
trade."—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. C. DYER moved the next resolution, and
said this was the continuation of that movement
which began in the Chamber of Commerce, and which
gave rise to the Anti-Corn-luw League. When the
people of England are united, and determined .to
carry any measure for the general benefit, it was not
in the power of the aristocracy to resist their will.
He now heard an ominous voice from a high
quarter—a Minister of the Crown—at the eleventh
hour, avowed himself an advocate for the weakest and
least protected party—the great mass of her Majesty's
subjects. The stricken consciences of the monopolists
told them that this was true, and they did not dare to
gainsay it. All he would say was, that this Parliament
should be made to do its duty, or another called in its
stead.—(Hear.) He would read and move a memorial '
to the Queen ; and he believed from his soul, that the
Sovereign of these realms had the welfare of the country
at heart.—(Applause.) Hitherto, the aristocracy had
been too strong for both the Sovereign and the people ;
but he hoped a better time was coming. In conclusion,
he spoke of an extension of the suffrage and vote by bal-
lot ; and moved that a memorial to her Most Gracious
Majesty, the Queen, be adopted, and signed by the chair-
man, on behalf of this meeting.
Mr, SAMUEL STOCKS, in seconding the resolution,
said, that being one of the Anti-Corn-law League, he
should much prefer the total and immediate repeal ;
but he would take the proposition of Ministers as an
instalment. As to the agricultural labourers, what
was the average of their wages ? Scarcely 9s. a week.
Of that scanty pittance, 3s. !went for duties on food,
&c. It was desirable to take some steps to deny
the grand calumny, issued from both Houses of
Parliament, and echoed in some London prints, that
we, of the manufacturing districts, want to ruin and
oppress the labouring classes of the agricultural districts ;
than which Satan himself never told a greater lie. What
would be the condition of the farmer, farm-labourer, and
tho manufacturing districts if we had no foreign trade at
all ? We are bad enough, exporting to the value of fifty
millions sterling • then what should we be without it ?
We must deal with the rest of the world and what could
we give better than the produce of our labour employed
on the various raw materials ? England got more
from the labour employed on the raw materials than the
countries which produced the materials themselves.
Mr. Alderman BROOKS said, this being market day,
there would be very little to do on 'Change to-day (as
for a very long time past), for most of the merchants and
manufacturers were here. He would engage to find all
present with salt beef for three months at lid. a lb. if
they would get off the Corn-laws. He had traded to
Monte Video 25 year, and had never brought any beef
thence because of the prohibition. !The monopolists hail
been riding over us the last 25 years,and he wondered we
could sleep so quietly in our beds.; but John Bull was
now upon his haunches, and. depend upon it he would
" straighten up" with them.—(Applause.)
Mr.M‘GowAs, an Irish operative, next addressed the
meeting. He said, when the working classes were told
that cheap proviSions meant low wages, it was time fir
them to speak out. They would tell those men, under
whose directions many of the working classes were
guided, that they would no longer be led by the Will-o'-
Wisp of the North.(Cheers.) They might be told, that
having little to do, and nothing to eat, was better than
having plenty to do and plenty to eat, but it would be
difficult to make them believe that three loaves were not
better than two.

Mr. GEORGE HADFIELD referred to the
rirclueleaeerrtet:titssle r of D.
Robertson, on the condition of the poor in this district,
in which it is stated that the average amount of the fever
Ministers splendid
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about a quarter to
\Te have no hesitation' In declaring the meeting to
have been one of the largest ecsr assembled within the
Town-hall, There were net fewer than 2,400 or 2,500
persons present. The Chartl4o, egvugh at the com-
mencement of the proceedings, OCOP4tfigly vociferous
and noisy, were scarcely worthy of the nanw 0 4 decent
minority, so small a fraction did they in reality gOnSti-
tute of the numbers present. Judging from as careful
an observation (with the advantage of an elovatOd station
on the hustings), as we could make, we should say that
s, a the unim
the middle and the working glasse
the meeting was composed of about equal propora ntions
ity
of
which prevailed from the moment th= chartists dis-
covered their own weakness, was one Of the nolit, grii,7
ing and gratifying feelings of the meeting, Q expres7
sion of public opinion could have been moro Iflg(l4iYoeal,
unanimous, or decided, than that which we hAig BOY,'
recorded, of the first great collective meting of the iii,
habitants of the municipal borough of Manchester.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 20.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., firm
weather.
DEAL, MA Y. 19. —Wind S. S. W., fresh breeze. --.4triyel
the Lascar, Mackie, from Singapore; Emma, Buenos f yres;
Highbury, Falconer, Berbice Annandale, Burgess. JAI ale ;
Governor Read, Bermuda. 4Frived from the River, C'iftion,
for Sydoi, New South Wales; Fair Acadian, River St. Law-
n.nee, with loss of maintopliil-yard ; Theodore, for Qu, bloc ;•
her Majesty's ship Reindeer, westward.
MILFORD, MAY 18.—The Isabela, Reed, from tiveipool to
Algiers, must discharge to repair.
YOUGHAL, MAY 17.--lhe John Loyd, bound to Newport,
in proceeding to sea, got on shore at the enti ance of the har-
bour, and is in a bad position.
PORTSMOUTH, May 19.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes and
squally.—Westminster, from New York.
Cosecs, MAY 19.—Arrived the %Volga, Turner, Havannah,
DARTMOUTH, MAY P.—Arrived off, the Baros, 13orche•s,
from Batavia fur AmsterclaM ; Zeernanshoop, Dekker, Java ;
Anna, Goutter, Rio Janeiro, for Bremen; Caledonia, New
Orleans, for Havre.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 10.—Wind S.W —lt has blown a gale all
night from S.W. and continues.
FALMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind W. to N. W., fresh breeze.—
Arrived off, the Lavinia, Downing, from Sierra Leone for Clyde,
sailed March 18.
SCILLY, MAY 12.—Arrived the John Barry, Carter, from
Newcastle, leaky, and sailed lbth for Bordeaux. Sailed the
Argus, Vantier, for Portsmouth.
Duntis, MAT 18.—Arrived the Siren, Foster, from Leg-
horn. Sailed the Perseverance. Scott, Quebec.
CORK, MAY 17.—Arrived the Chamois, Comdr.', Buenos
Ayres ; Margaret, Bath, from Porto Rico. Sailed the Ann
and Mary, Cunningham, for Quebec.
SHIELDS, MAY /B.—Sailed the Oberon, Hiorth, for Rio
Janeiro.
Su NDERLAND,MAY 18.—Arrived the Francis, Lawson, from
Ceylon ; William Rotterdam ; Josephine, Dunkirk.
HULL, MAY 19.—Wind S.W. fresh breeze. Arrived
the Guide, Barflett, from Uddenvalia. Sai'ed the Carnation,
Richardson, for 'Quebec ; Harper, Oporto.
LOWESTOFFE, MAY 10.—The Alary Atkinson, Roape, in
running for the harbour this morning, Sot on shore at the hack
of the pn r; cargo discharging. Wind S.W„ a gale.
ALOBOROUGH, MAY 19.—The Primer, Ellegis, parted her
anchor off this bay 17th inst. Several others shared the same.
fate to-day.
RAMSGATE, MAY 19.—Arrived the Cog, Edet, London,
for Cherbourg, with loss of anchor and chain ; Clytha, Smith,
ditto, for Bristol, with rudder damaged.
LtvEßrooL, MAY 19.—Wind S. W., fresh—Arrived the
Whitehaven, from Jamaica; Protector, Bowman, Barbadoes ;
Helen, Hamilton, Maracaibo ;
Condor, Finney, Natchez ; Li-
verpool, Devon, New Orleans ; Harkaway, ditto • Olive
Branch, Savannah ; Ostsee, Stettin ; Sir Cohn Campbell, New
Orleans. Sailed the Acadia (steamer), for Halifax arid Bos-
ton. Arrived off the Isabel, from Antigua ; Medora, Barba-
does ; Diadem, New Orleans ; Wohington, Mobile ; Ford-
tattle, ditto ; Charlotte, Charleston ; New York, New York.

John C. weir, Esq., Atvqnt of the Roval Naval
nospi'al at ilaslar, been allowed by the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty to retire, after long public service ;
and Mr. Hallilay, the agent for the Victualling at Hanlbow-
line, has obtained the appointment.

GERMAN 0 PERA.LJARY--A.NE.

Last night's performance of Figaro's Hoclizett affordit.! an-
other protif, if proof were wanting, that an English- audien, e
will enjoy, and do justice to Mozart's music. A more than
ustsa ly crowded house received this beautiful opera with en-
thusiastic applause, and we cannot give the performers a higher
meed of praise than by saying that they did justice to the
c,mposer. This was evi,leritly the opinion of the audience
generally. The overture, Figaro's great aria in the first act :
" Dort vergiss leises Wehn, susses Wirnmern,'°the duet Le-
tween the Ceuntess and Susanna "Wens die st4n4en Ahen-
dlufte " and the. concluding-aorus, were all encored. There
were, in fact. too many repetitions for an opera, which at all
events draws largely on the powers of the singers; the more
so as the promise given in the bills, that all the music
written for this opera was to be performed, was
fiithfully kept. Cherubino's air in the first act, " Tha, di?
ihr die Triebe des Herzes Kt nnt," Figaro's recitative and air.
as also Susanna's, both in the third act, have been generally
left out when the opera was rerformed in this country. most
likely for the best of all possible reaserts, that the singers were
not sufficiently vigorous or skilful to unde.rtake these additional
exertions. Last night justice was done, mere or less, to all
the music. Heinefetter and Staudigl stood out boldly in their
now acknowledged excellence, as Susanna and Figaro. Mad.
Schodel and Herr Mellm,ger, as the Count and Countess, were
neither of them very well fitted for their parts; the former,
if she be intended as a substitute for Madame Von
Hasselt, who was promised us in the beginning of the season,
and whose reputation as a good singer stands deservedly high
in Germany, is by no means a sufficiently good one. She is,
we believe, an excellent musician, and has good taste, bet
nature has denied her the one great requisite for a prima
donna at a theatre like Drury-lane; the volume of sound
which issues from her throat is. notwithstanding her most•
painfully evident exertions, insufficient to fill the house.
She is exceedingly well calculated for a singer at chamber
concerts, but can never satisfy the audience at Drury-lans.
We were pleased, nevertheless, to perceive that she was
received with great kindness, and had the advantage of
the most perfect quiet during her great airs. To
any lady, the singing and ' acting with Heinefetter
must be a severe test, and, accordingly, the inferiority
of Madame Schodel was most perceptible in the duet which we
mentioned above. Mellinger, as Count Almaviva, rung as well
as usual; but he has no idea of the character which he under-
took to represent. His German straigtforward honesty totally
unfits him for the representative of the wily, dissolute, gay. se-
ductive Italian, and, therefore, he wanted that vraisemblance
which is irrdispensible to good acting. Madame Schamann,
ever the favourite of the public, sang beautifully, but her
acting wanted that seductiveness which ought to characterise
the scapegrace Cherubina, and she was not well dressed. No
one could ever for a moment have taken her for a boy, arid yet
some attempt there ought to be to create an illusion. All the
subordinate parts were well performed, and the whole went off
with eclat. The Royal box. was empty.