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The Deputation now in town for the purpose of repees
senting to Government the present awfully d'.ste, •
condition of the working population of me - .essed
soliciting aid for their support, called a and
.
to be held in the London Tavern an public meeting
Soon after one o'clock, on th- ,eaturday.
Esq., M.P., Mr. Sheriff Re motion of A. IrASTIE,
In doing so he wish ;Ens was called to the Chair.
placed in that • to explain why it was that he was
situation. The deputation from Paisley
rightlya: cr
_lesidered that it was a tribute of respect due to
_great city,7Ahat they,. shoold ask the Chief Magis-
trate to preside Sven that occasion.' They waited upon
the Lord May6ke Who met them with that urbanity and
kindness which alsevs eharacterised him.—(Hear, hear.)
He assigned
.suffielent reasons for his inability to take
the Chairs but most kindly offered to
.head a
•
subscription, should. thee ,meeting deem it prudent to'
enter into one. -OshoPMeniefrittes were applied to, but
their 'engagements prevented them from acceding_ to
the request. He thought it necessary to state those facts
in justice to himself, and'to show that
_he had not been
presumptuous in putting himself in the Chair. He
wished his official capacities were greater, but that was
an occasion in which the abilities of the Chairman would'
not be called into Operation ; the subject, if clothed in a
few, ebrief words, would speak most feelingly 'to the
hearts of all. The distress in Paisley and throughout
the country was unfortunately too well known, arid there-.
fore required. no description from hire, In Paisley
distress existed, in its most appalling form. The
-,-
ex-
tension and isinProvemente in our machinery had led
to vast'extension of production, even beyond all cal-
-culatiort,•*While -the friction of our machinery was les-
sened there still remained the heavy friction of restriction
of our laws.—(Cheers.) Our necessities cried " Pro-
dUce, produce," while our restrictive policy answered,
" Restrict, restrict." Our necessities and our restrictions
had filled this country With goods, which other people
were willing to take in exchange for the food whieli
they could not consume—(Heer, •hear, hear)—but
in stepped our restrictive system, and prevented that
interchange which would benefit both. The distress iii
Paisley was -Very great, and it was greatly aggravated
in Scotland by the want of a Poor-law. That lawdn
Scotland considered livery man who was able to work and
did not, as a vagrant—it was never intended for such a
state of things
.as now existed. The people of Paisley
had nobly acted in the spirit of benevolence, and not in
the spirit of the law, otherwise thousands must have been
starved. He felt bound to say that the people of Paisley
had shown that "their hands were. open as day
to melting charity." But now their local means were ex-
hausted, and they appealed to their fellow-countrymen
in London to assist them. . The Deputation looked to
them for means to keep their fellow-townsmen from
starvation, and he (Mr. Rogers) was sure they wsuld not
be denied. Our working population were the back-bone
of the country—our whole social system depended upon
their welfare, and he was sure the citizens of London,
enlightened as they were, would net refuse to
give that relief which 'was now claimed of them.-..
(Hear, hear.) He would not detain them from hear-
ing the statements which the Deputation had to lay be-
fore them. That Deputation consisted of a high Divine
of the E_tahlishment, of an eminent Clergyman of the
Secession Church—of one of that benevolent body Ihe
Society of Friends, and one of the magistrates of 1:;lis-
ley. Surely the distress which . united those
who entertained so dissimilar opinions must be
of no common kind. He would only observe,
that he hoped the gentlemen who would address the
meeting would refrain from introducing any topic which
might tend to weaken the efforts of the Committee. He
called upon Dr. Burns to .address the meeting.
Doctor BURNS said their excellent Chairman had
stated, and stated correctly, that there was no Poor-law
in Scotland on the same principle as that in England.
That statement was correct. At the-time the Poor-
law was made there was no idea of Scotland being a
commercial or manufacturing country—it had no foot-
ing and could have had no foundation. Hence
the Poor-law was adapted to the then existing
circumstances. These were totally changed, and now
they felt the necessity of rePairing what they felt to bb
a great deficiency. At the same time, even it they had
the way clear for an assessment for the poor, it would
not meet the difficulty. A large proportion, a great
majority of their operative population, were in great dis-
tress. They were placed in a situation which should
not be allowed to exist in a civilised country, and
the idea of precipitating that respectable body,
the operatives of Paisley, upon a poor fund
would be revolting to their feelings 'shit that of the de-
putation.s- (Hear, hear.) They 'could not find their way
to it without a lengthened legal process, and whatever
the Government might do in the way of air improved
system, still it must be the result of a lengthened investis
gation, and of the legal decision of competent Courts:
It was necessary therefore to make an appeal to the bene-
volent feelings of the country for present rellefi They
had, however, a substitute for a legelllted Poor- rate, and'
that had hitherto in a great measure borne them
out. He recollected in 1825-6, when great dim:
tress existed, they raised froth kit= oW'n
resources 10,0004 In 1835, Witell they last appealed to
the benevolence of the people of London, they had raised
from their own funds 7,000/. They had now raised
2,0001. ; and whence the falling off ? He stated these
facts to show the meeting that there were causes in opes
ration which had borne down not merely the etafre of the
operatives, but the ability of the iiidnied classes
to give them relief. GreitteD eeorts, he was aware, would
yet be =del and he trusted they would not be wanting
in that self-denial which the circumstances of the town
might require. In the meantime they felt it imperiously
necessary to make an appeal to, the charity of the em-
pire, and especially' to the charity of London) which had
not failed them in times past, In 1837 they paid a visit
to London) and they were grateful for what had then
been done, which had helped theta wonderfully.
A month after that trade had revived, but
it was deal' that Paisley had not prospered, in
the true sense of the word, during these four years.
There had been four years of doubtful and suspended
animation. Debts then contracted remained still unpaid,
and pawns then obtained were still unredeemed. The
situation of the working classes had seriously deteriorated.
What had occurred in that sown during the last three
months ? Of eighty manufacturing houses, fifty had
become bankrupt—two-thirds of their trade, 'many of
them of old standing and highly respectable, were still
willing, but unable, to afford relief, having become
insolvent. The consequences were two-fold—a prodigi-
ous number of the working classes were thrown out of
work, and the abilities of the master were greatly dete-
riorated. _ 'With regard to the number at present out of
work, he would give them the result of a most minute
investigation made just before the deputation left cot
land. It had been made from actual Survey by confiden-
tial Committees, specially appointed by the authorities
and the Relief Committees. The number of loom-steads
altogether.in the town was 5,746, of which only 3,156
were employed at all; and he begged to remind them that
if they, supposed all that were employed were able to
obtain a comfortable subsistence, they would draw a
most erroneous conclusion. The number of looms unem-
ployed was 1,717, and the number of shops without looms
at all, was 871, because the possessors had been in most
instances compelled to sell their looms and materials for
subsistence. That proved, beyond question, the depth
of the destitution, and it had been proved by the most
exact calculation, that the :number of persons
devolving on public charity, was little short of six
thousand, risen, women, and children.—(Hear, hear.)
The number of retail shops shut up amounted to 100.
This was a state of things calling for investigation, and
such an investigation would doubtless take place, but lie
mentioned them as broad facts, proving the existence of
deep distress. There were 4,200 persons receiving
charity before he left Paisley, that number had since been
increased by 1,400, so that distress was evidently making
rapid progress. Now, how had the Committee proceeded
to relieve the unemployed? to some they had given work,
so far as. they could get it, paying them at the rate of
9d. or a shilling a day—to some they gave provisions—
to another class they made weekly allowances, varying
from 2s. to 3s. a Week. But all that was given was net
sufficient to support life., It was merely enough to keep
soul and body together, andscarcely sufficient to do that.
That was a state of things which ought not to con-
tinue, and they appealed to the patriotic benevolence
of the country to remedy it.—(Cheers,) It was a ftscti
that all the unemployed were not receiving charity; and
that was another reason why they should have it helping
hand extended to them.---(Cheers.) That could be ex-
plained by the fact that those who abstained from apply-
ing for relief were the most independent, spirited, and
the most moral men, men beloved by all who knew them,
who constituted the most valuable elements of society.
These men, although suffering deeply, were of such an
independent spirit that their feelings revolted from
making appcation to the Committee for charity. 'They
revolted even from
.the comfort of the soup-kitchen.
They were still making a desperate struggle to preserve
their independence, and those were feelings whitth ought
to. be cherished. It was the duty of every one to stretch
forth a helping hand to those people, and not t 3 suffer
bg he
d t againto arrive, when these poor
such a noble spirit of independence to be destroyed.
He
nt rpuesrtietcilvtehsaitv
out he
dtime
enabled
enjoy, not only the neces-
saries, but some of the simple comforts of life. He had
that day received a letter from a brother clergyman,
which stated that the distress was still increasing that
the manufacturers were suffering severely, that the
number of unemployed hands, and the demand upon
the charity funds had been continually increas-
ing, while, at the same time, their means had
been crippled. The writer went that there was a prospect of the greatest on to
miryb state
efore
them, and referring to a former letter which had been
published in the newspapers, lie went on to state
that he had again visited the family referred to
in that letter, • and that, in addition to that, in the
same house there were two other families—three families
in one house, consisting of 17 persons, in the most dread-
ful state of destitution, The apartment occupied by them
was damp and uncomfortable—they had no bed to lie
upon, except some straw or some shavings of wood
they none of them possessed one inch of blanket, and
were obliged to lie down in the same rags which they
had worn during the, day. The operatives of Paisley
had been taught in the school of adversity, and had
learned to suffer without murmuring. They had shown
no disposition to murmur or quarrel, or disturb the
peace—
(Hear, hear, hear)—and men of all political and
of all religious
opinions had united to bear witness to the

exitr, stene-'
of the distress, and to devise means for its relief.
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e had been
30 years a parochial minister, and had been
in the habit of visiting the poor. The yoUng - people
were desirous of education, but they had no means of
affording it to them. In 1837 they had established schools
to give education to the young people, and had employed
now there was a
the operatives out of work to
-give theta • education—but
M
11p, Formerlybu t now there a
all
Young population, growing up without
education through the want Ofeans to give them
education. The pawnbroking shops:were at a stand still.
cf.i.ltowthaisn'ggoanned_futTeiticilr(e4thoilrlagisvie,amsone3,
atsh
ex-
hausted. There had been during the year a rage for
emigration--450 persons had expressed themselvesL de- ,
sirous of emigrating, and had actually been obligA
to apply for charity to enable theta to do so. That
showed distress must be great. Hewes not an enemy to
emigration, but he grieved to thinleithat whilst coloniza-
tion must be encouraged, that theyeehould be compelled
to encourage it at the expense of tehrinee up the feelings
that ought to bind a man to his naiive land. Could their
expatriated countrymen look back to theirnative country
without having it foreihly pressed upon them that they
did not- leave,: that country willingly, for -those that
who sould have supported them tit flom'e would not
help them when at home, neither did they furnish
them comfortably t i leave it ; and as they looked back
upon that cotkntry the feeling could not be good—could
• not be friendly. Woe it right, was it safe, that this
feeling should be allowed to get
.eeistenoe in the breast
of human beings ? No, when. ;they feel themselves
yielding help to the suffering
Peiinha still let them re-
member the moral lesson taught them, that whilst
-they provided, for the'eteroper. ef. their wants, they
raised 14l
~ their strength_ eteeeteVeegy
.feelings in
those pour Men's breasts which- bound thein lt their
homes, to - the charities and noble institutions of the
lend of their fathers.—(Hear, hear.) There was a
very interesting class of sufferers to whom he had
not alluded,. he meant the females, The females-eethe
• depressed widows who Were pining in solitary wretched-
ness, and who ought to be visited and Visited again and
again at their own homes, before they could take
the guage of their wretchedness. Then there was a
class of interesting young females who
~were
'the constant attendants at their churches, and who filled
the situation of servants, and who had been deprived
cf their original industrious means of living, and many
of whom had devolved upon charities. He (Dr. B.) hoped
to see some means-furnished from the Indies of London for
this portion of the subject, oat he had hoped to have
seen many ladies present. It Wet probably not
understood that ladies were expected to attend. He
had hoped to see them, for he found in them a true feel-
ing of charity and of hope: Ile knew that there
were benevolent ladies in that great city who would
be found to contribute to a fund, especially for the
females of Paisley. He knew,in 1837 such a fund was
contributed by the ladies of the metropolis as enabled
them to raise a most effective charity, which enabled
them not merely to deal out provisions, -but to visit those
poor females at their homes. He. had stated the cause
of depression. He had stated the result of their
investioation into' the existing
.distress of the people.
They had been induced by this investigation. to strive to
obtain relief for that distress. He had stated the circum-
stances connected with the clothinge the education, and
the state of their families. He should leave to
his worthy friend, Mr. Baird, to take up the
subject which he (Dr. Burn) had not touched
upon at all lie meant the state of, disease.
He would conclude by 'reminding them . that the winter
was approaching. All was dark—they saw clarknees be-
coming darker. TheT were going into a. deep and dreary
tunnel, through which they mult pasts.. He called on
them to give him their help. Be that help little, or be it
much, they thanked them for it all, and it would be
gratefully received and carefully appropriated.
,That
charity would 'return, upon their own hearts a mute
pleasing voice, He was cure that the kindness that
had hitherto been to , theta tOticlOil ototild
still be extended. He thanked them from his heart
for what they had already done. Looking forward
to the winter, lie implored theta to stretch
forth their hands- in order to distribute their charity.
'The opening tiperell deVol'eed tipoh filar iii ctingetitiente
of his being senior minister present, as well as having
been the leader of the Deputation, and he had thought,
it necessary to go as fully as he had done into the sub-
ject in order to bring it before them, and he trusted
successful ly.—(Cheers,)
The Rev. Mr. Mean said he had listened with very
great pleasure to . the remarks which they had heard
made at the (Toning of the rileeting by then eidellent
Chairman, and he had listened with equal pleasure to
the remarks they had just heard from his excellent friend
Dr. Burns, with whom he was connected in the
year 1837 for the same subject. He should not touch
upon anything that had gone hew, although it were an
easy inatter. He would say that the statements
of the distt'esS had net been exaggerated.—(Hear.)
He felt that it ivotdd be harrowing up the feelings of
their hearts, were he to lay before them the present state
of the distress from his oWn obsetiOition: •ile had
knotore Of 6. peel' rhiiii;e *ill inhibits find Intelligent,
who, in, her confinement., possessed not a rag to cover
her nett born infant with, not so much as a small por-
tion of meal to make a morsel of gruel—yet,
so independent was she -of spirit, that she
would not even name her circumstances to 4 female. ne
Only uiptalunied this fleet to gire them a bird's:eye view
tit' the ilisleh..ls that Exletede Ind the iniitpeiidefiee spi-
rit under it. About two years ago, the people of
Paisley had goods, and could go to the Pawnbrokers'
shops ; but now there Was such a revul-
son among the manufacturers', that the ra7vn-
brokers could not dispose of their pawns. They
had raised for several months past subscriptions, and
they had hoped not to have had the necessity of again
appealing to the benevolence of Londonsee(llear, hear.)
lor three months back they had been compelled to feed
upwards of 3,000 souls from day.to day. Now they had
5,000 to feed, and many other thousands had not yet come
in, who must soon follow. They knelt that the unem-
ployed would be -doubled, nay, trebled, during the ap-
proaching winter. It was not the present amount of
suffering which led them to claim the sympathy of the
citizens of London ; it was the alarming prospects
that were before them. They had the certainty that
for three months' there would be no employment.
for the people. They knew that t 6 be a certainty, be •
cause of the peculiarnature of the trade of the town.
It was a fancy trade ; the goods that were to be sold in
the spring were made in the preceding winter, but as the
manufacturers did not see any prospect of a market,
they of course raised to produce -goods. Others did
so, but their manufacturers could 'not do so, for if the
goods were nut sold at the time they were
made for, they were • mere rubbish ; they were
useless; and would rain tthy one hirving anything to do
with them, because the fashion had gone by. The con-
sequence was, that in place of the manufacturers engag-
ing hands every one who came in with a finished web was
immediately discharged. In their `.own neighbourhood
they had made grttit efforts to meet the Urgency of the
emergency, but as there was no hope of any revival of trade
—as, on the contrary, those hopes had been dashed to
the ground-as the black cloud was deepening and dark.
coring into tenfold horror—therefore it was that they
claimed their sympathy and support. Unless the hand
of benevolence was stretched out from other quar-
ters, the people must perish of hunger and dis-
ease. These were the circumstances in which
they were placed ; their prospects were most
alarming in rethretice to disease, There hid been some
misunderstanding upon that point. He did het say that
the town of Paisley was in a state of disease. On the
contrary, it never was more healthy. There never were
fewer typhus cases in the hospital. They bad contrived
to get their people over that period of the year, but
in what a state were the constitutional energies
of the people, They had been fed so as to reduce them
to such a state as to lay theni open to disease, and to
unfit them for bearing the rigours of the coming winter
'The Rev, Gentleman detailed the number -of fever cases
in the hospital from 1838 to the present time, from which
it appeared, that in 1840 the cases during the last two
thonths exceeded those of any of the previous years, and •
that atuse ft'orn the *ilia of sufficient Ibott to enable them
to withstand the rigours of winter. So it. was not,-,' and
therefore the claim they made upon the citisteris Of London.
What was their position how They were in health,
but the people were like spectres j their trade was not
revived, and they had not even the prospect of that em-.
*Mid siit a cheering and beneficial
excitement to their. frames. Winter Was fluty teititt in;
and would, in all- human probability, be one of •
extreme suffering, connected with the appalling ravages
of disease and death. In making their present appeal,
they made it with perfect confidence in the benevolence
and the wealth of London. He was aware there were
many other localities in distress as well as their own,
but they knew that they might state their case to the
British- Government, and •to the benevolence of the
people of London, as well as others. They were of Scot •
land, but Widen was 'lnc lesa their metropolis than
that of the people of England. He recollected Well
when they had last visited London, a fine sentiment
which had been uttered by the Chairman of- the Relief
Committee, and a gentleman who had filled the office
of Lord Mayor of their city. He said, " Gentle-
men, we have more pleasure in giving you this
than you can have in receiving it, and we do it not with
the less joy and gratification that) ou are of Scotland."..._
(Cheers) Scotland ! Why London is the metropolis of
the empire. We know of no such distinctions as Eng-
lishmen and Scotchmen. These ancient lines of distine-
don are obliterated—ours is- not. a paper union, but a
union of fact. London is the metropolis—London is the
heart, and it must send its influence to the remotest part
of the empire.---(Cheers.) .
Captain ACKERLEY wished to 'kno* whether there
were any allotments of the poor lands in the neighbour-
hood of Paisley? Nottingham was in the same position.
He was shocked to see that at a meeting in which Scot-
land alone was interested, none of the five of the largest'
Scotch landed proprietors were present. lle meant the
Marquis of Abercorn, the Duke of A!'gyle, Mr. Hold-
stole the greatest coal and cotton proprietor in the coun-
try, the R..rl of Glasgow, and Mr. Speirs. paisley
was
one of the thirteen canonries, and had large revenues for
the use of the poor, but they were diverted from
their proper channel..---(Cries of " Order, order.")
They must all fall back upon their position as cultiva-
tors of the soil—the soil fed their bellies, and to that they .
must go. He would .not go into the subject- further, but
to-motro* he should address c,413e thousands the Re-
gent's Park on the subject.

Lord KINNAIRD considered the subjects which had been
alluded to by the last speaker as too -exteneive to be
entered on at the present meeting. Their present object
was to feed those who were starving.—(hear, hear.)
Nothing that he could say would increase the effect of
what had fallen from those Rev. Gentlemen who
had so ably addressed the meeting, and he was sure
that those speeches must excite the deep sympathy of all
who either heard or read them.(Cheers.) He agreed
with the Chairman in the gratification which he had
expressed, in seeing the members of the Established
Church of Scotland joining hand-in-hand with
the ministers of other denominations, and sparing
neither pains, nor time, nor trouble to provide the means
of ministering to the, relief, of their starving fellow-
csuntryinen.—(Cries 'of " Hear,- hear.") 'lt was an
example *which he hoped to sec followed by the Clergy
of the Established Church of England.—(Loud cheers.)
It was a proper position for a Christian minister to oc-
cupy.—(Uiiecra.) He was gratified, as a Scotchman, to
see- the call of Paisley so respectably responded to by
the City of London, and more particularly was he
gratified by the kindness of the Sheriff in con-
senting to preside over the meeting.—(Loucl cheers.)
He would not go into any long discussion, but he was
afraid that the description which had been given of the
sufferings of the . people of Paisley might, with
few exceptions, apply equally to the in-
habitants of every manufacturing town.—(Hear.)
He bad long resided in the neighbourhood of a manu-
facturing town, and was perhaps almost the only person
occupying the station he did who was connected
with manufactures, and he felt convinced , from
his own knowledge, <of the state -of manufac-
tures, that the .preeent depression of trade' was
*norsofsaatempoeary nature:—(Hear, :hear.) It had
gone -on increasing ever since 1837. It had
not been occasioned, as had been stated, by over
spccsiation, or by the conduct of the joint-stock banks.
He would allow that in 1836 there had been some over-
spectilation, and that might have occasioned a part of
the depression felt in 1837. But now, when they saw some
of the oldest and most respectable houses of business
failing—when they saw old firms, in eonsequence of the
loss of their capital, obliged to close their establishments
—when they saw numbers willing to work, but unable
to find employment,—he must . say that it Was
not to over-speculation that the distress could be attri-
buted, but to the laws of the country, which prevented
the labourer from disposing of the produce of his labour
to the best advantage.—(Cheers.) He was a landowner,
-and possessed both rich and poor lands, and even if
he were to experience loss., that ought not to prevent his
supporting a repeal of those laws. He believed the
farmers would not lose, and that the idea of loss to
them, from a repeal of those laws was merely
a bugbear
held up by short-sighted persons, in charac-
terizing whom he would not make use of the term which
they deserved to have applied to them. The Noble
Lord then proposed the first resolution as follows :
" That beyond question there exists in Paisley and
its neighbourhood distress of a most appalling nature
among, the working population ; and that from ac-
counts received by the deputation since they left
Scotland, that distress is greatly on the increase :
several hundreds having come . upon the Relief
fund, in addition to upwards of 4,000 previously
upon it; and these receiving a most miserably inadequate
supply of the merest necessaries of life ; and that there
is reason, to apprehend a large increase of the privations
of the operatives during the severity of the approaching
winter."
• Dr. SLEIGH then rose and was proceeding to make
some remarks in defence of the Corn-laws, and to state
his intention to propose an amendment on the subject,
when he was called to order by the
Rev. Mr. Peendergasa and after a short discussion,
in which Capt. Ackerley supported Dr.. Sleigh, it was de-
cided he was out of order, and his amendment was with-
drawn.
The original motion having' been seconded by Mr.
Stephenson, was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. JOHNSON in proposing the second resolution—
" That the kcal resources are altogether inadequate to
meet a distres's so deep and general, that, in point of
fact, these resources are already exhausted, and that
therefore an appal tti the public in London - and else-
where has become absolutely necessary"---said, that he
had known Paisley twenty years, and could state
from his own knowledge that the distress was
not confined to the operatives, but had reached the
manufacturers themselves, and that those who had re-
lieved the operatives in 1837 were now in no con-
dition to do so, but were nearly as badly off as
their workmen. The operatives of Paisley had great
claims on the citizens of London, for they were
the manufacturers of fabrics, from the sale of which
many most respectable and wealthy houses in London
hnd derived a large profit ; and, if he did not mistake,
the citizens of Londoh would not be backward in holding
out a helping hand to those who were in need.
Such was the distress in Paisley that some of those per-
sons, who a few years ago could have retired with a com-
petency, were now in the greatest distress; and in one
case it had led to the loss of reason, and indeed no one
knew the depth of the misery and distress that was expe-
rienced before the parties would make any public admission
of it. He trusted thcineeting would throw the shield of their
protection over those starving and industrious people,
and prevent them carrying their talents and resources
to another country ; because if they escaped utter desti-
tution and death, they had no other alternative than to
emigrate to some other part of the world.
Mr. CARLISLE, as a native of Paisley, seconded the re-
solution. He believed the distress was not at all exag-
gerated. He had seen many of these unfortunate men
himself who had walked all the way from Paisley to
London, and who were literally in a state of the most
utter destitution as regarded food and clothing.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then read a list of the subscriptions
that had been received since the meeting had commenced
which included s. d.
Sir Robert Peel
Sir James Graham 25 0 0
Lord Kinnaird lO 0 0
Miss Kinnaird 5 0 0
A. Hastie, Esq., M.P.50 0 0
(In addition to 100/. previously given)
Alexander Rogers, (Chairman)
P, M. Stewart, M.P. • 25 0 0
(In addition to 2.51. previously given.)
C. Tennent and Co.
J. 3PVicar, Esq 2O 0 0
Lord James Stewart
John Rankins, Esq.
Carlisle, Pitman, and Co. 2O 0 0
W. Stevenson, Esq 25 0 0
Rev. J. Prendergast
Mr. HASTIE moved the following resolution :
" That the following gentlemen be appointed a Com-
mittee (with power to add to their number) for soliciting
subscriptions in and about London ; wand that with
this view they shall immediately print and circu-
late a short statement of the case drawn up by the
Deputation, and that the Committee shall hold their first
meeting at the rising of this meeting."
Mr. P. STEWART, M.P., seconded the motion. He
had studiously kept aloof from the proceedings of the '
Deputation, because the statement he had made in his
place in Parliament had been considered as much ex-
aggerated ; yet, in fact, it was even understated. He
was most anxious to lighten the distress of all, and
would do what was in his power, in his place in Parlia-
ment, to find out and obviate the causes of that distress.

---
On the motion of Dr. BURNS, the v names of Mr.
Hastie and Mr. Stewart were added, and the motion
was passed.
Mr. HENDERSON moved, and Bailie MURRAY seconded,
a motion of thanks to the Chairman, which was passed
with acclamation.

The CIIAIN3rAN shortly returned thanks, and the
meeting separated.

THE RECENT SNOW-STORM.

In addition to the violent snow storm— asiniular
n frontllg dtohaem
cool isteriyDn, es
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toisgwisnlpb-roheuaarldlh,
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dde
phenomenon at so early a part of the year—which took
ppirgoeveincaitaltphaeprs
burning
genoenrallitieeffmeettlyi nn
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tt
eof Addingham were capped with snow, and on Thursday
a heavy fall of snow covered the ground.—Leeds Mercury.
There was a heavy fall of snow last-night in the coun-
try, some miles from this city, and the Dublin moun-
tains are Covered with snow.—Dublin Evening Pest.
The Atather during the past week has been nearly
at unfavourable as it could be for the farmers, and we
fear that whatever corn is still in the fields, it has been
'seriously injured. The glass has been remarkably low
on some days, and the rain has fallen very frequently
and in large quantities, while the wind has been un-
usually high and piercing. On Wednesday night espe-
cially, there was quite a storm, attenclzd by lightning, in
this neighbourhood ; between six and seven in the even-
ing the rain fell in torrents, which were repeated at
intervals through the night. Thursday was changeable,
and in the morning a considerable fall of snow took
place.—Leeds Mercury.
WINTER.,—We have had, during the week, some de-
cided preMonitions of the near approach of winter. To
say nothing of the disrobing of the trees by the bluster-
ing winds, the moors in the direction of Bradfield
appeared powdered with snow on Thursday morning ;
and during Wednesday night the frost was sufficiently
intense to form ice, of considerable thickness, in, and
about the town, the fields being at dawn white with
snow.—Shellield Mercury.
This morning (Friday) the barometer had risen to
nearly 30 (fair) with a white frost, and sharp drying air.
—Norfolk Chronicle of to-day.
Yesterday we had a fall of snow in this town, and the
hills around were covered with it.—ShrewsburyChronicle.

DISTRESSING bIiIPWRECE. SIX LIVES
LOST.— On Fri 'ay morning intelligence was received at
Lloyd's, that on ),v ednesday afternoon, about five 9'clock,
during a heavy gale from W.N.W. the smack Josephine,
Capt. Gallien, from London for Cherbourg, in ballast, in
running for Rye harbour, struck on the bar; every exer-
tion was made by the coast-guard to get her into the har-
bour, but all their efforts proved ineffectual, and about two
o'clock next morning (Thursday) sho was abandoned by
tho Captain, a passenger, and part of the coast-guard.
There were six left on the wreck, who could not leave in
consequence of the unfortunate swamping of the pilot-
boat—vii., three of the coast-guard, named James, Ne-.
ville, and Looira, two of the crew, and the pilot ; 00-6:
Rubie, belonging to Rye, who were all drowned.

steamer to LiVerpool had not quitted this city an hour,
before a gentleman called whose friend had that moment
arrived direct from Utica, which town lie left on Tuesday
night. As the Liverpool packet from this port is‘now
getting- under way, I avail myself of a . feiv moments to
giveylovutlw pith
wofhisiocone from Ohio,versattion i
Ile as on his
and intended to
come through Pennsylvania, but hearing so much of the
APLeod case, he thought he would slop a day or two at
Utica, and possess himself of the exciting news. lie
fancied that that town would present a scene of interest
and anxiety, without parallel in the Union for many
years, especially as the account of the secret "Hin-
ters Lodges," and of armed men had been so vividly
coloured. Imagine his surprise, there,to find very little
excitement, indeed not more than occurs cn ordinary
trials for murder in Philadelphia, and the great masses
of the popUlation attending to their business as usual.
True, something like • a stir existed in the infmediate
vicinity of the Court, and at the hotels where the prin-
cipal witnesses, reporters for the ,Presk MackenMe,
Sutherland, Theller, nowsrnongers and panic-maker§
were sojourning.
The evidence, it was generally understood, would -be
very contradictory, especially as some of the witnesses on
both sides were said to be without character. Still the
prevailing sentiment among the moderate and reflecting
was, that M‘Leod would be able to prove an alibi, My
friend asked him " did you hear much of the pa-
triots ?" "-No_,", he replied. " I heard little or nothing
about them; there_ are such, however, and they have
secret lodiges. In short, much. of the excitement that
lirevAilairi-tlic large cities on the subject, and many of
the alarming rumours that are _circulated, gathering in
magnitude as they go, like a rolling snowball, are little
better than humbug,."
I quote the very words of the gentleman alluded to,
who is one of our most respectable citizens, and a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends.
Most of the proceedings of the Patriots are doubtless a
profound secret-abut, founding an opinion on the infor-
mation of the citizen just arrived here from Utica, I am
convinced their numbers are much smaller than has been
represented. Still they must be considerable, and the
danger must bo, or must have been imminent, as the Pre-
sident of the United States, acting from official informa-
tion, issued his Proclamation on the subject, and de-
spatched troops to the frontier to keep the peace.
The frontier and . M`Leod excitement has had a de-
pressing influence on the Dloney Markets, from the im-
pression that so generally prevails of the intentions of
the so-called " Patriots ' to embroil England and the
United States in difficulties, if net war. Letters from
Savannah, Georgia, say that the United States Govern-
ment declines giving permission for a depot for the new
British mail steamers at Cockspur, in the South; on the
ground that they would probably injure the American
trading vessels in taking passengers and letters.—Chro-
nicie's7Correspondent

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROINI THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The only efficient mode of Church Ex-
tension has been at length put in operation ; and, judg-
ing of the harvest by the first fruits, bids fair to effect
incalculable advantages. By an Act passed in the
last Parliament, in pursuance of the Fourth Report
of the Eceesiastical Commissioners, certain canon-
ries and prebends in several cathedral and colle-
giate churches were suspended, and their revenues
devoted to the purpose of augmenting the amount
of stipend derived from ' poor benefices, especially
in populous parishes—thus obviating the necessity
imposed on the clergy for holding more than one
cure, in order to obtain a sufficient amount of
income. An Order in Council, bearing date the 6th
inst., is now before us. By this it appears that, under
the provisions of the above Act of Parliament, nearly
100 poor benefices, which combine the largest amount
of population with the smallest amount of endowment,
have been augmented by grants from the funds thus
derived, in sums varying from 1261. to 61. A gross sum
of 126,8001. in Three per Cent. Stock has been thus
distributed. When it is remembered that the Act has
been in operation but little more than a year, it cannot, '
fail to gratify the friends of religion generally, and the
members of the Establishment especially, when they
find the absolutely useless and unsightly appendages
to the Church separated from the structure which they
so long disfigured and weakened, and their revenues
applied to a purpose which eves y honest heart will op-.
prove—that. of affording to the working clergy sti-
pends somewhat commensurate with the labour they
take, and thus diminishing their anxieties respecting
worldly things, which corrode and distract, and enabling
them to give undivided and devoted attention to the
duties of their spiritual calling. We are not of the
number of " levellers, who wish to see the incomes of
the clergy equalized." On the contrary, we think it
absolutely necessary that the heads of the Church
should be supplied from the revenues of the Church
with funds adequate to the stations which they occupy,
and to the exercise of the virtues that should adorn
them, among which enlightened beneficence and unos-
tentatious hospitality are not the least.
STANDARD.—'‘ The League" has at length cons •
mitted itself to the "total and immediate abolition" of
the Corn-laws. Qualificat:on• or delay is not now to
be entertained—nothing less than total and immediate
abolition will satisfy, or at least will silence, the con-
federacy. For this unequivocal declaration of the
designs of the miilowners the country is indebted to
our old friend Mr. Joseph Sturge, who has em-
ployed to that end the means which are proverbially said I
to" make the mare to go." Mr. Sturge, it appears, made
a promise of an annual payment of money (we believe
2001.) to aid the operations of the League—a promise
which caused the ee es of the Sidney Smiths and the Ac-
Jands to sparkle with peculiar lustre, and on the faith of
which " they raved, recited, maddened through the
land," unabashed by the groans and hisses of the mil-
lion, and unscared by even the broadest hints of proxi-
mate horse-ponds. All the while Joseph , Sturge was
on his travels in the United States, very properly exert-
ing himself to promote the abolition of negro slavery ;
but, as it is not uncharitable to suppose, now and then
resting his jaded philanthropy by a hasty calculation
as to the probable returns of the American harvest,
and their effect upon the market, with a view to a
different abolition of less certain merit ; for be it
known, Joseph Sturge is an extensive corn-dealer
of Birmingham and Mark-lane. Returned to England
with his stock of phi'anthropy pretty wed exhau feed,
but with an ample store of knowledge, useful in Mark
lane, our meek friend seems to have received a gentle
hint that the performance of his promise would bo
agreeable. " Nay," replied Joseph, "my promise was
conditional, and thee hest violated the condition. Thee
bast united thyself to an Administration that talks of a
duty of Bs. a quarter, whereas I contemplated total and '
immediate abolition." As to the scheme for extendThg
the slave trade, Joseph said nothing of it ; for, as we
have remarked, he had squandered all his philan-
thropy in the New World. For a time the League
seemed to demur to.the plea of a 'condition, and possi-
bly lawjers were consulted ; bat in the end they
struck, as all such men will strike, when money is lost
by obstinacy, or money gained by. submission. M
'owner Cobdep and Lecturer Smith declared themselves-
- " for better for worse,
Still ruled by the man who carried the purse ;"
and committed themselves to total and immediate abo-
lition, regretting, no doubt, that they could not, to
gratify their monied friend, go further than the total, or
begin sooner than the immediate.
COURIER.—We have attentively watched the re-
peal movement, if that which is confined to a small
knot of needy agitators congregating in the Corn Ex-
change can be justly called a movement, from its first
promulgation in 1831, to spite Earl Grey and his col-
lcaguee for the indifference and contempt they had
evinced towards Mr. O'Connell, to its exhumation last
year for the avowed purpose of embarrassing the Ad-
ministration whose accession to power was then
seen to be inevitable ; and we have no hesitation
in characterising it as a hollow, heartless move-
ment, neither formidable from the sincerity or
the numbers of those embarked in it. We
look upon it therefore with regard to its ultimately pro-
fessed aim, as supremely contemptible, being solely de-
pebdent for the few flickerings of life it has ever me-
nifested on the energy and influence of the ." bold,
bad man" with whom it originated, and finding sup-
porters and advocates only amongst the merest of his
creatures, and the meanest of his followers. The re-
spectable and intelligent of the people of Ireland, with-
out distinction of class or creed, knowing it to have
sprung from a spirit of heartless, sorilid selfishness, hive
studiously kept aloof from the Corn Exchange sedition,
leaving it to be monopolised by bankrupts alike in purse
and character. Even they, if there be any of that class,
who dream about the glory of Ireland, as a separate
and independent nation, have shrunk from the infamy
of an association with the refuse of Irish Radicalism
that flock to the Corn Exchange, not wishing to lend
themselves to a scheme for obtaining money under f
pretences—for that is the alpha and the
omega
Repeal project. But although, as we havegeoefet,h
it
finds no favour, yet it has produced a world of mischief,
and appears likely to produce more. In the first place
it has contrived to preserve
different sections
in unimpaired distinctness
the broad line of demarcation be
wthe penal laws, and to
of the community, first drawn b
the mutual
maintain in full and
lido that dividing line ;
vigtotreoruesy-raalignity
animosities:cherished i
and next, to divert moenn'tseo•minds and attention, who had
promote measures beneficial
the will and the power.
a consideration of its condition,
to that country, fron.l
the disheartening convction that, propose what
under
and exert themselves as they might in the
they would,
furtherance of wise and salutary reforms, there was at
-Work it principle of -mischief which would baffle and
counteract them all. 'lt is upon Ireland itself that the