The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-07 00:00:00

No, 15,210

LONDON, MONDAY, J UNE 71_1841

COMPENSA TI ON OFFICE,
12, Manchester-buildings, London, June 5, 1841.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the
CLAIMS to COMPENSATION, remaining unawarded, or
unadjudicated upon by the late Commissioners of Compensa-
tion, that they do forthwith, by themselves or Agents, make
application at this office respecting the same ; and do proceed,
without delay, to prosecute and establish their rights and in-
terests in such claims, before the arbitrator appointed by the
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, pursuant to
the provisions of the Act, recently passed, of the 4th of Victoria,
ch. 18.

11,0YAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
TION.

a Magistrate, to say, " Kick him out of doors," but if such a
case did come before him, he should say, " The provocation
was great, and the fine ought to be small," if they did serve
such a fellow in such a manner.—(Laughter and applause. )
One word in favour of the present Ministry. They had not
shown on all occasions that sympathy with the people valid]
they ought to have shown. That was their fault and the
people's misfortune. But they had now come forward ; they
had said, " There shall be no class interests in future—all
classes shall be fairly represented ;" and the people ought to
give them power to do that which they had promised to per-
form. If the people did not give them that pewer, the mutt
was the people's; if they did, and the Government failed to
avail themselves of that power, he hoped that they might
suffer for it, and that the country might be convulsed if they
were not true.—( Hear, hear.) Yes, he said it advisedly. If
the Ministers were not true to the declarations they had made.
may a revolution be the consequence. He (Mr. Rathbone)
had something to lose, but he would be in the ranks if they
forfeited the pledge they had given.—( Hear, hear.) They
were all now in a drowning condition. Let them require no
influence to induce them to do their duty to themselves and to
their wives and children, and the God of heaven would prosper
their andertakings.—( Cheers. )
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said that the next speaker, Robert Jones,
though a man well able to express his views on this great ques-
tion, was linable to read, and he (the Chairman) would, there-
.... 1 6
Under the beef was written, " de b ***** b * beef, *****
The price paid for this loaf to day • fere, move the resolution for him. Before doing so, he ob-
served that had former Governments done their duty, the great
There was also a substantial rib of mßuuengos Ayrean beef exhi- mass of the population would not have been kept in ignorance,
per lb."
bited. The meeting was one of the most numerous ever as-
and that if the people did theirs, the parties who were willing
sembled in that place, the square being filled on all sides, with
to vote 70,0001. to build stables for the Queen, would not dare
exception of the space behind the Chair, and the condemnation
tol refuse 30,0001. for the education of the people.—( Ap-
of the bread tax was unanimous, for the slight interruption
Is rise. )
: He then read the second resolution, which was as
noticed in the report could hardly be called an exception.
oows " That these laws, which wring from the wants of
Besides the members of the Operative Anti-Corn-law Com-
1h l e
poor, in order to support a monopoly to the wealthy, are
mittee, we noticed the following gentlemen on the platform :
cruel, unchristian, and unjust; alike opposed to the Word of
William Rathbone, Esq., Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Christo-
God, and the happiness of man."
pher Rawdon, Esq., Mr. Alderman Shell, James Mulleneux,
Esq., Robert Harvey, Esq., James Harvey, jun., Esq., Rec. ROBERT JONES, in moving the adoption of the resolution,
Soon after the hour appointed, it was proposed, seconded, and said that, like some hundreds, if not thousands of them, all
carried unanimously, that Mr. Kelly, a working man, should the property that he had in the world he had with him—all
the estate that God and his father had left him on the earth,
take the Chair.
and that English landlords would allow him, he held up to
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the evening, said
this was a meeting of the workingselasses more especially to them (holding up his hands.) These were all his property,
take into consideration how they could most effectually obtain and he found that, in consequence of the Corn-laws and other
the object they had in view by a unanimous effort wicked laws, he was robbed of so much of the produce of his
of their own,
to procure the abolition of the abominable Corn-laws.—
estate, that he and his children had to rise many a time from
(Cheers.) The major part of the speakers would belong to
the table with half-filled bellies.—( Hear, hear.) This was
n
the working classes; and, in his humble opinion, the question not a cause of party or faction—it was the cause of the whole
human family—it was the cause of justice and truth—and the
was one which required very little consideration, because
cause of God and of humanity.—(Applause.) As to those
the question of the Corn-laws was one which came home to the
who had votes, he neither asked them to vote for Whig, Radi-
feelings and interests of every poor-man.—(Hear, hear.) As
cal, or Tory' he asked them to give their votes to that man
a working man he had no objection to state in that large as-
that would take the tax off the bread of the working men of
sembly that he could not afford to give his children sutfittient
food.—(Hear.) If he could procure it cheaper he could in-
Liverpool ; he asked them no t to support the man that by his
crease the consumption of food in his family by at least a third votes would rob the poor. When they heard the sigh of the
more.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He appeared there in another widow or the voice of the orphan crying for bread, and when
capacity also. He was not one of those to whom their they knew that there was a law in existence, supported by a
miserable minority of monopolist landowners, which robbed the
opponenls could say " Lay out your money to the
widow and the orphan of their fosd, was not that Enough to
best advantage and you will have enough for your family to
make every man possessing the feelings of humanity come for-
est." He had done so ; for the last five years and a half he
had not spent a farthing in intoxicating drink, and yet with all ward and endeavour to repeal that law? A tax upon bread I A
t
his exertions, and notwithstanding his total abstinence for five tax upon life itself—a tax on the very existence of the working
man—a tax on eternal justice, and on the providence of God.
years and a half, he had not one shilling to spare.—( Hear,
hear.) If the working classes could obtain more food at a—( Hear.) God sent untaxed rain to-water the earth ; God
cheaper rate, they would be enabled materially to encourage brought untaxed corn out of the earth ; God had spread a
the home trade; if they could save to the amount of 2s. a bountiful table for the whole family of man on the face of the
week, and that was laid out in encouraging their fellow-
earth, but man put his avaricious hand on the bread, and
tradesmen, would not that increase the home trade of the coun-
snatched it from the hungry lips of the people of England.
try very considerably? He contended that it would.—( Hear, ( Hear, hear.) And would they give their votes to men who
hear.) If their resolutions denounced the Corn-laws as unjust
told them to their very faces that they would never vote for the
and anti-Christian, and if any one thought that they were not repeal of the Corn-laws ?—(No, no.) He called upon them
unjust and anti-Christian, let him come forward and move as as fathers, he called upon them as citizens, he called upon them
an amendment that they were just and righteous, and then
as men and as Christians, never to give a vote to any man un-
they would give him a fair hearing; but let him not attempt
less he would pledge himself to vote for the repeal of the Corn-
to meet them by any side-wind resolutions.—( Hear, hear.) laws, and all other taxes on the food of the hard working men
He had authority, however, for saying, that a deputation from of England.—(Loud cheering.) In the first place let the
the Chartist committee had waited on the Operative Corn-law Members of the Church of England mind to whom they gave
Committee for the purpose of coming to a fair understanding their votes. The Church established by law taught them to
and setting themselves right with the public, and they declared pray for their daily bread, and yet these fellows said, "If thou
that they had no hand whatever in the factious opposition gets thy daily bread the Church will tumble to the earth."
offered of late by an individual at the Amphitheatre meetings, What a Church that must be which was supported on the
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and that they not only discountenanced that opposition, but
were decidedly opposed in principle to the Corn-laws.—
( Cheers.) After a few further observations, the Chairman
concluded by introducing to the meeting
Mr. AMBLER, another operative. He conceived that by the
repeal of the Corn-laws the interests of all classes in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland would be most in support of a law which took away the bread of the widow
materially benefited.—(Cheers.) First, because the prin- and the orphan?—(Hear, hear.) And as to the Catholics, he
ciple of monopoly was an evil in itself.—(Hear, hear.) Mo- would ask them, in the name of four millions of Irish Catho-
nopoly meant, simply and plainly, that one man or a class of lies, who were scattered about to the four winds of heaven—
men possessed that to which they had no right, and, con- sent from their own homes through hunger—in the name of
sequently, it followed that they had rol,bed some other three millions more, who were common beggars in their native
portion of the community of what they possessed.—(Hear, land, and knew not in the morning where they would lie at
hear.) They might say that they were protected or sane- night—in the name of two or three millions more, who were
tioned by the law in holding those possessions which they did working at fivepence a day, and paying for the taxed bread of
hold, but this, instead of decreasing the guilt, increased that the British landowner—he asked them, in the name of millions
guilt, and also attached some guilt to the people at large for of their fellow-countrymen, would they give their votes to men
suffering, for one single moment, any part of the population who told them that they would support such a system as that?
of any commonwealth to retain any such privilege. He then —( Hear. ) They were told, and they believed it too, and it
read the resolution, of which the following is a copy :—" That just showed their ignorance, that if they got free trade they
the misery at present existing among the masses of the people would all fall to ruin directly.--(Laughter.) Many of these'
in this country is clearly traceable to the operations of the Corn- fellows said, " Let them read the Bible." It would be a great
laws, the effects of which are to lessen the demand for labour, blessing to the working men of England if they all had a Bible,
and increase the price of food." It might be objected, that and if they would act by the Bible. Now, the first movement
because the Corn-law was not the only monopoly existing in toward free trade in England was abolishing the monopoly of
this country, all the misery, all the evil and destitution could the Honourable East India Company ; and what were the con-
not be clearly traced to the Corn-laws ; but let ;hem examine sequences? They were told that the ladies would not get their
a little. Now he contended that this Corn-law was the sove- tea if the monopoly was abolished, but what were the conse-
reign of all monopolies, and if once that great monopoly, which quences ? According to their own return in the last year of
was full of evil of all descriptions, because it detracted from their monopoly the exports from England to China and the
human happiness, and especially from that of the great East Indies were only 1,872,000/. and five years after the
mass of the people—if once that monopoly were de- monopoly was done away with the exports from England
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stroyed, a great many more would follow.--( Loud cheers.) amounted to 4,600,000/.--( Hear, hear.) And this was just
He was himself a Radical or Chartist ; he was one in heart
and mind ; he himself was on the bloody field of Peterloo, and
had a bullet shot through. his hat when the people were assem-
od::menbe
hne:
bled to petition for the repeal of this very law.—( Hear, hear.)
alluded to other similar cases. ) He looked upon all monopolies
Yet he was told by individuals who were with him on that
field. that because the middle classes who had now come far.
a.e the most foolish things in the world. They reminded him
ward to support them in obtaining a repeal of this law did
not support them then, he was now to stand against that right of the monkeys in Exeter 'Change. Every one of them had his
for which he contended on that cla Hear, hear.) Now own share in his own dish, but like fools, instead of eating out
y.—( ,
of their own dishes, each set about stealing
laws, were they not right in doing so now ?—( Hear.) Hefrom his neighbour,
if they were right then in petitioning for the repeal of the Corn-
never dreaming of the slopping and waste that they were mak-
was not surprised to find the Ministers of the Gospel, and i‘ng.—(Much laughter.) It was just so with the monopolists.
' I' rob one,—thou shall rob another; ' and so they went. on
especially those of the Established Church, absent from their ll
ranks—because it was a Minister of the Gospel, the late vicar stealing from one another.--(Much applause.) Then they
had the monopoly of the coffee and sugar,—a most tremendous
of Rochdale, who led on the yeomanry at Peterloo ; he was not
monopoly, and he looked upon it in little better light than the
surprised at the inconsistency between their practice and
monopoly of corn. Last year they sent a petition to Lord
their professions, because in nine cases out of ten these men
Sandon, for the repeal of the . Corn laws, and he said, " Here's
had their livings presented to them by the aristocracy,
a petition from Liverpool,—the place that I represent. It is
and the best of the church livings were in the gift of sonic
signed by about 40,000 people, but I really cannot agree with it.
great landowner.—( Hear, hear.) They had indeed a duty to
I know better than they do. They are a parcel of ignorant,
God and to their flocks to perform, but their duty and their
stupid fellows, and I am sure that I'm a Lord.—(Laughter. )
interest were two different things, and they had an easy way of
I was born a Lord, by the mere accident of birth, and I must be
satisfying their consciences. They said "We have done those
things which we ought not to have done, and we have left un-
wiser than they are. I know very well if these Corn-laws were
repealed it would be their ruin, and I must speak against their
done those things which we ought to have done, and there is
wishes to be their salvation."—(Laughter.) It was the same
no help in U 3," and then they were out of the scrape.—
thing with sugar.—(" We won't send him again.") If they got
(Laughter and cheers.) Though many charges were made
the Corn-laws and the Sugar-laws repealed he did not care if
against the present Government for not bringing forward mea-
they sent a donkey up. A man might have a skull as thick as
sures to ameliorate the condition of the people, yet they had •
a Jackass and yet be born in a palace ; he might be born a Lord
brought forward many measures which had been destroyed by
and yet have a skull as thick as . that cart shaft. Men
those who were now bent on setting the people against the
middle classes.—( Hear. ) Nothing had been done because the ought to raise themselves by their own merit, and such men
ought to go into the House of Commons. Now, as to the
balance of power was equal ; and why was it so ? Because
sugar laws, hundreds, if not thousands, of those present,
the working classes were divided amongst themselves.—( Hear.)
knew what their effect was. There was sugar at that moment
Mr. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, in seconding the resolution, said
he was called out that night as a working man to do his duty—
in Liverpool which could be bought at 1/. 4s. per cwt. if the
he was called out by the voices of his children crying for bread monopolists would let them buy it ; but they had to give
—he was called out by the conviction of what he had suffered. 7d. a pound for their sugar though they could buy it at 2d.
--(Hear, hear.) But what did Lord Sandon say ? 0, they
of what he saw and heard, that the Corn-laws were, to all
were all fools, and it would be the ruin of them to have their
intents and purposes, grinding him down to the face of the
sugar at 2iek a pound.—( Cheers and laughter.) Then came
earth—he was called out for the purpose of trying all that lay
the West Indian monopolists, and they were a very grand set
in his power to bring the working men, who were the back
of men to prey upon the Working sons of toil in England.
bone and marrow of the nation, to join in one solid and
He was one of those who said that all the wealth of the country
united effort to get the Corn-laws repealed.—(Loud applause.)
came out of the hands of the working men, that labour was
He had never yet seen in Liverpool any system brought for-
the foundation of all the riches in the world.—( Hear, hear. )
ward for the benefit of the working men that the working men
Therefore he said, that the working men of England had to
themselves were not the first to cry out against it. It was a
give to those fellows—Gladstone and Co.-251. a head for
belly question, and there was no contending against hungry
men.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Let them be united in every man, woman, and child, to set them at liberty, just to
this cause. As long as they were divided one against make them knock off a pair of chains from the legs of the
black man and his family--( Hear, hear)—and now these
another they could not do away with this tax, but let
them unite in one great effort, and it must be repealed. fellows said, "If you don't give us 565. a cwt. for our sugar,
He did not look to his wages in the bulk—he did not look at a instead of giving the Brazilians 245. for theirs, it will be a
piece of money because it weighed heavy—he wanted it to fetch robbery of us, and only look to the destruction of your trade."
—(Laughter.) Now the highest value of the exports to
the West Indies was three millions worth of goods in a year
a large weight out of that brick building (pointing towards the
market). What was twenty-five shillings a week if he only
—and the Brazilians had taken, year after year, seven
"
got employment for three days in the week ? Or, as his friend
Robert Jones said, what was the use of having 5/. a week if it millions worth of goods more than the West Indies
sugar of the Brazilians, because it was the produce of slave
would not fill the cupboard?—( Hear, hear.) That was the —(Hear, hear.) They were told that they must not take the
way he looked at it, and all working men should look at it in tie
same way. If his bread now cost him 6s. a week, and he could labour—and yet Lord Sandon and his friends were smoking
get the same quantity for 4s. it the Corn-law was repealed, he cigars, and putting snuff up their noses every day, though it
should have 2s. a week to go to the shoemaker or the tailor was grown by the slaves of the United States—and because
the poor man wanted cheap sugar, they said, " Oh, no ; that
that he never had before. That was the way he looked atsit,
would be horrid in the sight of God, and in the sight of human
and in this way he would have 2s. a week more to throw into
nature. You mustn't encourage slave labour."—(Much
the labour market than he ever had before.
WILLIAM RATHRONE, Esq., came forward to support the
laughter.) Oh, the hypocrites ! Need he ask them again if
they would vote for such a man ?—(" No, no.") The landlords
resolution, and was received with great applause. He said it
told them the repeal of the Corn-laws would lower their wages,
was always a pride and a pleasure to him to come amongst them
in support of anything that was right and just,—yes, in sup-
but the landlords knew very well that it would raise their
port of the rights and liberties of the people. But there was wages. The year 1835-6 was a year of prosperity to the
no fighting for liberty unless a man had a full belly. Starvmanufacturers, and they imported 30,000 men out of the agri-
e.-
cultural districts into the manufacturing districts of Lance-
he was at death's door? No one ; and this was the question, tion was the destruction of allliberty, for who could fight when
shire and Yorkshire to supply the labour market, anti they
knew that if the manufactures of England must be increased
a question of the grave, that was now before them.—(Hear,
hear.) He (Mr. Rathbene ) was suffering from the Corn-
they would not get a man in England to work for them (the
laws, but he was in the parlour. He might he crushed
agriculturists) at Is. 2d. a day. They knew this 'as well as he
down ; he might get into the kitchen and the cellar ;
did. Mr. Alderman Ross, of Carlisle, had taken the trouble to
but the man who was in the cellar already, where was h
calculate the whole amount of wages paid in that city at three
e
to go to ? The grave alone could receive him and his wife different periods. He found that in 1836, when wheat was 40s. a
and children.—(Hear) That was the receptacle where the quarter, the wages paid in that city amounted to 127,00)/. ; in
.
the year 1838, when corn was up to 70s. (anti when it was so
weary would rest from his labour; but was that a state
for happy England to be in Was that the state the people thousands of the working-classes were hurried into eternity by
?
us fever and other diseases, consequent up ;n want, bsfore
of Liverpool wished to be in ?—( Hear, hear, and •` No, no.") typh
Let him call on the people then to exert themselves for their own
salvation. A former speaker had said, that the middle classes their time,) in the year 1838, when corn was 70s. a quarter,
the wages paid in Carlisle amounted to 109,000/. ; and in 1x.40,
were behindhand ;to that he (Mr. Rathbone) said No' lie when corn was 78s. a quarter, the sum total of the wages paid
said that the middle classes of Liverpool, at least the reform-
in that city was 70,000/.—(Hear, hear.) Thus, when corn
ing classes of Liverpool, had been urging on the people for the was dearest, the working-men received upwards of .10,00/.
last fifty years to know their own interests; that they had en-
less to buy it with.—( Hear, hear.) When corn was dear they
could not buy a suit of clothes; they could ii e buy a hat, or a
deavoured to educate them, and to give them principles, so that
knowing what was right, they might do it ; but had they done
pair of shoes ; they could give no work to their fellow-work-
it ? If Liverpool had been polled within two years from that men. All their money was absorbed in food ; and the difference
time for the repeal of the Corn-laws, the majority would have in the price all went into the pockets of the landlords.—( Hear.)
Look at the state of the country under the operation of thii
been against it. He said that deliberately and without fear
law. In Manchester, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, the
of contradiction from any man who knew what he was speak-
potatoes, anti that
sum total of the cases taken into the Fever Hospital averaged
ing about.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The people had had a
400 a year, and in those years wheat averaged 40s. a quarter.
Y before them ; they had been told that cheap bread
upon potatoes,
beer, hurried into
In 1838, 1839, and 1840, when wheat averaged 755. a quarter,*
meant low wages; they had been misled by the Tories, and
consequence of nothing but
the average of fever cases taken into that hospital was 1,300
like fools—he bogged their pardon—but he must say, that
every year for three years.—( Hear, hear.) It was as plain
like fools they had believed it. Now one word for t Li-
before
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berals ; had the people of Liverpool enabled the Liberals t
do their duty ? Had they sent Representatives who weroe
friendly to cheap bread, cheap sugar, and free trade in tam-
the operation of the Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear. ) It
ber ? Let them answer that, and tell him whether the hadwas as
'
clone their duty ?—(" No.' ) Robert Jones, who =poke Yfrom plain and simple a thing as could be to account for men being
thrown out of work b dear food. Its cheap years working men
his heart, and, therefore, what he said came to their hearts— could lay by something, say 2s, a week, for manufactures; bat
Robert Jones had asked them whether a man in the Merse
vhencorn was at 80s. all the wages of the working men were ab-
swimming fsr his life, would not exert himself more than ()Tie* '
thousandsaths e their ou
kl
graves bofe
sorbed in food; they could find no work far the spinners, and
who was merely seeking for a casket of riches ; hut if Robert
hence it was that thousands of persons were thrown out of em-
Jones were in the water, would he ask one of the middle ployment.—( Hear, hear.) They dare not lay such a tax as,
class to come forward and assist him without trying to save
the mill, or the oven, or the baker's shop; but they manae,ed
himself. Did they want a man in broad cloth, and with a few
by their Corn-law to extract fifty millions a year out of the
coins in his poeket, to ask them to do their duty to their wives
rockets of the working classes for the support of about 00,000
and families? If they did—if they required him (Mr. Rath- landowners. Th(ew was not an ether nation in the world where
bone) to call them forth because he had a few shillings more
such a thin; was trdone—and would they give a vett to those
in his pocket than they had—before they would be true to
who supported such a system? He was a workieg man him-
themselves and to their wives and families, they did not deserve
self, and he called upon them, as working
to be saved. Let them come forward and do theirduty; let men, never to let
this agitation fall to the ground until this abominable law was
them spurn the bribe and those who dealt in brib, dif
I blotted out of the statute book.—( Loud cheers. )
any man said to them, " You have furnished me with' goodsand
i Mr. M'ENTEEit, in seconding the resolution, urged abc elec-
honestly, arid I have paid you faithfully, and therefore I must \ tors to do their duty, and reminded the non-electors that they
have your vote," it would ill become him (Mr. Rathbone), as .

CORN-LAWS•
DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORKING-CLASSES.

The DISSOLVING VIEWS, by CARY, with appropriate
Music, at One o'clock, Half-past Four, and in the'Evening, ,a
Quarter before Ten. The FIRST EXHIBITION and LEC-
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ing up. The PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, MICRO-
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Working Models, and other Works which display eminent art,
science, and ingenuity. The Diver and Diving Bell, Popular
Lectures, and Experiments.
Opens at Half-past Ten o'clock. Admission, One Shilling.

( Abridged from the Liverpool Mercury.)
On Wednesday evening last, at half-past six o'clock, a public
meeting of the working-classes, convened by the Committee of
the Operative Anti-Corn-law Association, svas,held in Clayton-
square, to expres.:, their opinions, and petition Parliament on
the subject of the bread-tax. A little beforit the hour ap-
pointed, the anti-bread-tax-cart of the Association was placed
a few yards in front of the Clayton Arms Hotel, furnished with
a seat for the Chairman and a desk for the reporters, and on
each side of it a lorry, for the better accommodation of the
speakers and Commitee. The cart had several texts of Scrip-
ture, denouncicg the oppression of the poor, painted on its
sides. Two handsome silk flags were sported, one on each
lorry, and besides these there were numerous flags and ban-
nerets of smaller size, pink and green, red and blue,—the
hostile colour at our election contests, symptomatic, we sup-
pose, that the question for discussion was one apart from mere
party politics, and involving the best interests of all classes of
the community. But what excited most attention were a large
loaf stuck upon a pole, and a piece of beef similarly exalted.
Under the first was this inscription :

HENRY HILL, Secretary.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of
LONDON EXHIBITIONS at the GARDEN.
The next Exhibition will take place en Saturday, the 12th
of June. Subjects for Exhibition must be at this Office on
Friday, the 11th, or at the Garden before Half-past Nine
o'Clock A.m., on the 12th.
The gates will be opened at One r. at. Tickets are issued
to Fellows at this Office, price ss. each ; or at the Garden in
the afternoon of the days of Exhibition at log. each ; but none
will be issued without an Order from a Fellow of the Society.
21, Regent-street.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY,
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.

No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
lIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE 3IURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R. S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

S. d.
This loaf, if we bad no bread-tax' would cost... 1 0
Landlords' tax

THE KREMNITZ WHITE LEAD
WORKS, BELVIDERE-ROAD, LAMBETH.
The Proprietors of the above Works beg to offer to the
Consumers of WHITE LEAD a very superior article in co-
lour and quality, at the following low prices, for prompt pay-
ment, via.:—
First Quality, Ground £24 0 0 per Ten.
Second Ditto, Ditto 22 0 0 per Ton.
Third Ditto, Ditto 2O 0 0 rer Ton.
Dry White Lead 24 0 0 per Ton.
The White Lead is made up in kegs, to suit Shippers and ethers.

OFFICE OF THE GAS-LIGHT AND
COKE COMPANY,
19, New Bridge•-street, Blackfriars, London, 7th June, 1841.
I do hereby give Notice, that the following Proprietors,
viz.:—
_ _

JOHN SLOPER, Esq.,
GEORGE GREEN, Esq., and Directors,
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq.,
have, pursuant to the Bth By-Law of this Company, severally
given me notice in writing of their intention to offer themselves
for re-election as Directors, at the Election which will take
place at this Office on Saturday, the 19th inst.
By Order,
CHARLES BURLS, Secretary.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE GAS-LIGHT AND
COKE COMPANY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
AS our situations in your Court of Directors,
will become vacant in the next month by efflux of
time, we take leave respectfully to solicit the favour of your
Votes and interest to reinstate us in our seats in the Direction.
The Election is fixed for SATURDAY, the 19th day of June
next, at this Office, and trusting that our past conduct has
merited your approbation, we beg to assure you, that should
we be again the objects of your choice, we will not fail in our
endeavours to prove, that we are worthy of the situations we
are are solicitous of obtaining.
We have the honour to remain,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With the greatest respect,
Your very faithful and obedient servants,
JOHN SLOPER,
GEORGE GREEN,
BENJAMIN HAWES.
19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriar's, London,
May 25, 1841.

STEAM at LIVERPOOL for GLASGOW
Every TUESDAY and FRIDAY.
The Spendid New and Powerful Steamers PRINCESS
ROYAL, ROYAL GEORGE, and ROYAL SOVE-
REIGN, sail from Clarence Dock, Liverpool, as under—
Royal Sovereign... Tuesday, Bth June, at 3 Afternoon
Royal George .... ..... Fliday, 11th do. at 6 Evening
Royal Sovereign ....Tuesday, 15th do. at 8 do.
Royal George Friday, 18th do. at 9 do.
Princess Royal ... Tuesday, 22d do. at 3 Afternoon
Royal George Friday, 25th do. at 6 Evening
Princess Royal Tuesday, 29th do. at 8 do.
Apply to James Brebner, 20, Water-street, Liverpool.

TO PAWNBROKERS.
TO BE LET, with immediate Possession,
A good CORNER HOUSE and SHOP, in a crowded
neighbourhood, admirably situated for a Pawnbroker, there
being only one within a great distance. It has just been put
into thorough repair. Premium and House Fixtures 401.
Rent 401. No Business Fixtures. A Lease may be had if
desired.
Apply to Mr. Plant, Plinnber, near the Admiral Keppel,
Chelsea.

BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, Marquee,
Tent, Flag, and Rick Cloth Manufacturer, 2, Duke-
street, London-bridge, and 208, Piccadilly.
" Every hour, every minute of Lord Snowdon's time was
now occupied in preparations for the reception of the Royal
arty. Gunter was forthwith called into council ; Edgington
was summoned in the tent and marquee department."—Love
and Pride, vol. ii., p. 77.
Marquees and Tents, withboarded floors, and tastefully lined,
suitable for royal and noble parties, or fetes of the most exten-
sive and brilliant character, may be had at the above esta-
blishment.

A Warehouse at 208, Piccadilly.
Address at full length, Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street,
Southwark..

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also, women as well as men, had an influence which they ought
to exert at the coming election. They would be false to them-
selves, and false to their country, if they did not mark as an
enemy the man who supported by word, or deed, or vote, the
bread tax. They were en the eve of a general election ; they
should remember the agitation and popular enthusiasm that
made men ashamed to b such base and sordid wretches as to
sell their birthright for a mess of pottage, and they should re-
flect that the power which arried the Reform Bill could carry
a mightier Bill than that—the food Bill.—( Cheers. ) The
present Parliament had sate for nearly five years. Supposing
that a man had got 901. for his vote at the last election, and
that he had avi ife and six children to support. On a calcu-
lation, which he believed to be very accurate, such a man
would have to pay 10s. 6d. a week more for food than he would
have to pay but for the present corn and provision laws. That
was what he and his family suffered from the present system.
It was equivalent to about 261. a-year, and this would amount to
considerably more than 1001. from the time Parliament had sat;
so that in reality when aman got 201. for his vote the landowner
robbed him of 100/., to say nothing of short and uncertain em-
ployment.—(Hear, hear.) Those who were determined to
traffic in their votes ought, at all events, to consider what they
lost by the system, and each of them demand to be paid 1001.
or 1201. instead of 10/. or 201. for his vote.—(llear, hear.)
This was not the last meeting they would have. It was in-
tended to invite the working classes to bring their wives and
children out in a great and mighty procession. to show the feel-
ing of the working classes of this great town on the subject,
and he hoped that the demonstration would strike terror to the
hearts of the enemies of the people, and make them quail be-
fore the public voice which once before wrung from the oli-
garchy of England the Charter of the Reform Bill.—(Loud
cheers.)

LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., spoke at some length in
support of the resolution, which was carried unanimously.
Mr. JAMES HARVEY moved the following resolutian:—
" That a petition grounded on the foregoing resolutions be for-
warded to Thomas Thornely, Esq., in the House of Commons,
and Earl Fitzwilliam, in the House of Lords." He said there
was one plain question which he wished to put ; he should like
to ask the landowners of England by what tenure they held
their lands? They held them of the Queen, as the repre-
sentative of the State, and what was the State ? There was
only one answer to that question—the people were the State,
and the State was the people. The landowners originally held
their lands, and every lawyer would tell them so, upon condi-
tion of their defending the State.--( Hear, hear.) They had
now overthrown the condition, and yet they kept the land. Let
them be cautious ; they were stimulating the people to in-
quiry, and that inquiry was more dangerous to them than to
any other class of the community. They were putting them-
selves in opposition to the large towns of London, Liverpool,
Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
Dublin, but let them beware.—( Hear, hear.) In the history
of Europe there was an account of a great league, called the
Hanseatic League, which was a combination of the large towns
to stop the depredations of the surrounding Barons.—(Hear,
hear.) Let them beware. Between those barons of old and
the landlords this difference draw,—they robbed by fire and
rapine,—these by law.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He believed that
those laws, unless they were repealed, and repealed soon and
totally, would lead to this,—they would make every street a
battle-ground ; they would make every house a castle,—they
would bring father against son and son against father,—they
would make every lane into an ambush,—for the people were
getting into that state of mind that they believed a short and
sarp struggle better than the continual fever of agitation, dis-
content, and privation.—( Hear, hear.)
WILLIAM HIND, a working man, in seconding the resolu-
tion, said that he was one of the white-faced slaves of Lan-
cashire. He had bread enough, and his family had enough,
but he had come that morning by the railway from a place
where they had not, half nor a quarter enough. —( Hear, hear. )
The article which he manufactured now, and sold at 6d. or
7d. per lb., in 1814 cost 6d. per lb. in wages alone, and the
beautiful protection of the Corn-law had protected it down to
3d. per lb. There was protection for them? He was amused
the other night at the Amphitheatre by a man who cried out
for a tax upon machinery. Now, in the article of which he was
speaking, he could tell Mr. Dix, if he were present, that neither
needles, bodkirs, nor goose had been added to the machinery,
it all ran through the fingers yet, just as it did when it cost
sixpence a pound net workman's wageA.—(Hear, hear.) In
Lamentations, fourth chapter, ninth verse, they read,—" Better
is he that dies by the sword than he that is clammed to death ;"
and he could tell them that in Bolton, at the present day,
there were people gathering potato peelings out of the streets,
and washing them and eating them.—(Cries of " Hear, hear,"
and " Shaine.") That was a fact, as true as that hand be •
longed to his body. And he had seen people running after the
carts as they came from the breweries, and stealing the grains
out of them and eating them.—( Cheers. ) Let them remember
that God helped those who helped themselves.—( Hear, hear. )
What, then, must they do? They must make a determined
effort to help themselves, and then God would help them out.
—( Loud cheers.) They must clap their own shoulders to the
wheel, and then it was sure to go forward. Some of their op-
ponents said it was too late, but it was never too late to do
well.—( Hear, hear.) If it was too late for those who had
come to years of maturity, it would come in well for their
children.—( Great cheering. )
The CHAIRMAN having put the motion, which was carried
unanimously, said that the petition would not be sent to Lord
Sandon for presentation.—(Cries of " God forbid.") This
meeting would strike terror to the hearts of their opponents.
Mr. Rathbone, who had been in the habit of attending pub-
lic meetings in that square for thirty years, assured him that he
never saw so large an assemblage there before.
Mr. Alderman 4SFICIL then came forward to move a vote of
thanks to the Chairman, and was received with much applause.
He said that he had been in the habit of attending meetings in
that square, and he never saw so many people assembled there
on any previous occasion.—( Cheers.) He had heard them ad-
dressed by working men in terms which it was impossible for
any men in the community to surpass. Sound doctrines, just
principles, and the most correct views of the true interests of
society had been laid down, and if they followed the advice
of the intelligent and honest working men who had addressed,
them they could not fail to succeed. When the people were deter-
mined on gaining any point—and that point was founded on
justice and equity—no power in this or any other country was
capable of withholding it.—(Loud cheers.) If they did not
achieve what they wished to achieve, the fault rested with them-
selves and with nobody else. It was not the fault of the Legis-
lature, or of the middle classes, but their own, for they alone
by the power of numbers, and by the force of their voices,
could make the members of the Legislature who insisted on
this detested monopoly give it up. Tha middle classes might
petition and pray to them and endeavour to carry conviction
to their minds, and it was their duty to do so ; but they would
never accomplish their object until the working classes achiev-
ed justice by the force and loudness of their remonstrances.—
( Hear, hear.) He had great pleasure in moving a vote of
thanks to the Chairman who had so ably presided over them,
and who must feel it a great honour and happiness to have pre-
sided over one of the greatest meetings ever assembled in
the town.

The motion was carried by acclamation, and the Chairman
having briefly returned thanks, three tremendous cheers were
given for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and, at about half-past
nine o'clock, the immense assemblage quietly dispersed.

OPINION OF THE SCOTCH PRESS
ON THE VETO QUESTION.
(From the Glasgow Herald.)
The General Assembly has taken the course which was anti-
cipated, and which, indeed, the dominant party were bound,
in consistency with their previous procedure, to follow. They
have pronounced sentence of deposition on the seven ministers
of strathbogie, and deprived Mr. Edwards of his license.
As to the practical consequences of the sentence of deposi-
tion, as regards those against whom it has been pronounced,
it is manifest that it will be wholly inoperative. They have
applied, as in former instances, fur protection to the Civil
Court, and interdict has been granted, as a matter of
course, against the Assembly's taking any steps to carry
their sentence into execution. The interdict was served on
the Moderator and other office-bearers on Saturday, and it
is certain that if the matter be contested in the Civil
Courts, the only result will be that tho interdict will be de-
clared perpetual. The dominant Church party may hold
their own views as to what ought or ought not to
be law, and they act consistently with the maxims they have
adopted in proceeding even to the last sentence in their
power against these of their brethren who differ from them
in opinion. But the Civil Courts must be consistent also.
They have solemnly declared the Veto Act to be illegal. They
have held that rio one can be allowed to suffer injury for obey-
ing the law, which it is their province to expound. They must,
as a matter of course, protect to the full extent of their power
those who are threatened with penalties, simply because they
have rendered civil obedience. As they set aside the Assem-
bly's sentence of suspension, they must set aside their sentence
of deposition pronounced in the same case and on the same
grounds. As regards their protection, therefore, from all con-
sequences of the sentence, the seven brethren are secure. At
the same time they enjoy the countenance and support of a
large section of the Church who refuse to acknowledge the va•.
lidity of their deposition, and Openly approve of all that they
have done. To them the sentence is harmless. It is to the
Church itself that the consAuences threaten to be most se-
riously injurious.

( Fro*.n the Scotsman.) 1
The violent proceedings of the Church have disgusted sober I
men, and will drive many from its communion. They are, in
truth, so utterly indefensible upondificl any
principle of common
sense, that it is exceedingly.t to understand from what
possible motives so many educated
individuals have concurred
in them. It is plain that, as the, law stands, the Assembly is
no match for the Civil Courts.' It must be worsted in the
dispute, unless it gets some Government as foolish as it-
self, to pass an Act sanctieni
the Tories the Non-Intrusion faction its
preposterous claims. From
expect ; and, as nuV. aetion has nothing of the kind to
....go some
countenanced its wild 1 Members of the Whig Ministry have
the advantage of their schemes (little, in our opinion, to
the chiefs of the Governmnue.nritpsa).r.vi), the Church knows that
ing on the subject. The moss) ,rink from the task of legislat-
Church is sacrificing its • :, rational conclusion is, that the
been misled into a toolisbm' ,crest to its pride ; that, having
headed counsellors, course some years ago by wrong-
quences, and ha • wit,hcr at a distinct conception of the conse-
quences, LI
what it had achieved pasted and vapoured immeasurably of
cede from the dange and would achieve, it is ashamed to re-
blunders on from eous position it has taken up, and thus
misgivings, howet ,er,
' • e ne false step to another. That it has great
on Monday, wli is evident from the 6th resolution passed
Church as,
e• :ch speaks of the present circumstances of the
lure for h ' :ideal' and " alarming" and calls on the Legisla-
N'' . Its prayer cannot be listened to.
(From the Edinburgh Advertiser.)
lied
The /'—' .gh hand with which the Non-Intrusionists have car-
Ma4..ters against their opponents, is we believe without
rile' i in any period of the Church's history since the Revo-
lution ln ten days they have deposed ten parish ministers.
A"/ if the dominant party act consistently, the work of depo-
sjt..on must sto on a great deal further ; for they ought to de..
125 c 'se not only the 1 who voted for Dr. Cook's motion on
,3,
ihursday, but every clergyman who signs or adheres to the
protest and declaration tendered by that side of the
I 'louse, disallowing the validity of the sentence of the
1 Assembly against, the seven brethren of Strathbogie, by re-
, solving still to r, gard them as members of the Establishment.
On this groun d the majority, to be consistent, ought to
lar.nch their al iritual thunder against one half of the Es-
tAblish.ed Mini sters ; for most assuredly the crime of disobe-
diem, s to the decrees of the Supreme Ecclesiastical Judicatory
is as.justly chargeable against them as against the seven sus-
pended ministers. We defy the Non-Intrusionists to escape
from this dilemma.; but the truth of the matter is, their sen-
tences of deposition, in eight cases out of the ten, are no better
tivin waste paper.
(From the Scotch Reformer's Gazette.)
It will. be seen that the rampant majority of the General
Assenab' .y have actually proceeded to depose the seven minis-
ters of Strathbogie. It now remains to be seen whether the
law of this land will do its duty, by striking in and energeti-
cally • protecting these men from one of the most cruel pieces
of ele 'teal tyranny ever perpetrated in a Christian age or in a
civil :sed country.