The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-22 00:00:00

TO ME. H. VINCENT.

RESPECTED FRIEND,—The past and the present. as
regards your personal exertions in the cause of universat
liberty, convey ample cause for p!easing and useful race-

We look back to the early period, when your advo-
cacy of the people's rights in this neighbourhood called
forth the lethargic into the ranks of the industrious, to
the time when your mighty energies caused the besotted
to become thinking men, and when your astounding do-
quence made the passive slave blush for his insignifi-
cance, and the audacious tyrant to tremble for his
safety. We look back to the past, and trace still fur-
ther the accompanying results. 'We saw the iron hand
of injustice assailing you—we witnessed the struggling
contest in a court of law between the oppressor and
the oppressed. Wre beheld right overcome by might,
and we followed you mournfully to your prison cell.
We saw you, though captured, not conquered!—
though confined and manacled, free and unshackled!
elevated in mind, and raised into human grandeur by
your sterling virtues and manly independence.
We behold you once more, though beat and bruised
by despotic authority, neither beaten nor disabled, but
reanimated and rigorous ; fighting the battles of the
people with those moral weapons with which you are so
powerfully equipped, and laughing to scorn the puny
efforts of faction or force to impede your progress, or
the march of human enlightenment, or human emanci-
pation.
Tour past career conveys a useful and striking lesson
to one and all—to you, ourselves, and even to your base
and treacherous betrayers and persecutors. To your-
self as a convincing proof that, contrasting the state of
the public mind in the past, with that of its advance-
ment in the present, how much good may be achieved
by industry and perseverance in the space of a short
period of time, the contemplation of which must give
fresh impetus to your exertions for the future. To each
of us, from the conviction of the nece9sity and worth of
self improvement and self-denial of individual exertion
and individual patriotism. To your persecutors, as
showing the utter contempt which follows the fiat of
their vengeance ; that the more they assail the more
they lash themselves—the more they persecute the
more converts they make to the people's cause—that
the more they martyrize individuals so iu ratio does the
power which upholds them more and more wither and

die away.
We congratulate you on your release from the fangs
of your oppressors ; we hail once more your appearance
among us with feelings of the most acute sensibility,
with brotherly love, and the most welcome endearments.
Go forward, then, and prosper in the great work of
human emancipation. It is not the province of such
men as you to lie idle—propagate the doctrines of po-
litical and social improvement, dare tyranny to the
combat, and bid defiance to persecution. Deso!ation
stalks abroad, the cottage is beset—the dwelling paces
ofthe children of industry have been transformed into the
receptacles of want, disease, and wretchedness. Misery
has beset the man of labour, his habits have become
vicious through poverty and bad example. Go forth
and drag him from his haunts ; lay him naked
before the world's gaze! Force the man of
pleasure into sobriety, and drench the drunkard
with his own shame. Much has been done, much
is now doing, and yet a great deal more remains
to be done. Go you forward and do it : and whilst ba'-
tling with the evils which becloud the mind, forget not
to prepare the mind with food to nurture and console
it, whilst you denounce intemperance on the one band,
forget not to assail it on the other, Teach the sober
man to think properly by thinking for himselr. Attack
alike the vices of drunkenness in the individual, and the
fanaticism equally which enslaves him ; make him to
feel the high office which he holds in creation, to be use-
ful to others as well as to himself, to secure his own
household from invasion, and to protect the rightful
inheritance of others.
We are, dear friend, yours most sincerely,
THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF CIIELTENIIAM.

LECTURE ON THE CORN-LAWS

AT OLDHAM.

Mr. Paulton, the talented Corn-law lecturer, was in-
vited to give a lecture in Oldham on Friday evening
last, the 16th of April. The large room was com-
pletely filled. George Barlow, Esq., was caled to the
chair. Great interest had been excited in the town
and neighbourhood by the undcrAanding that the Char-
tists, or, in other words, " Little Loaf Advocates,"
would oppose the lecturer. There was a general muster
of them. The platform was covered by the principal
tradesmen of the town and neighbourhood, and of dif-
ferent political views, yet anxious to support the repeal
question by their presence.
It was announced that after the lecture, the sense of
the meeting would be taken on the propriety of peti-
tioning. Parliament for a repeal of the present Corn-
laws, and the lecturer was permitted to go through the
lecture without much interruption, in a very lucid and
clever manner, clearly demonstrating that the Corn-
laws were destroying our trade, filling the country with
beggars, reducing the commercial classes and workmen
to poverty, sapping the foundation of our manufactories,
sending our artizans to other States, and raising up
rival and successful competitors, reducing the value of
property, and hastening a fearful crisis.
The Chartist advocates took the ground, that the
repeal of the Corn-laws would not reach the terrible
evils under which the labouring community suffered,
that taxation was of that fearful and grinding amount,
that the Chatter could alone cure it ; that the present
House of Commons did not represent the feelings nor
the views of the toiling millions ; and it was agued that
machinery, by supplanting manual labour, was a curse,
instead of a blessing ; and the speakers would tax it for
the common benefit.
Mr. Paulton ably replied to the views put forward,
especially on machinery.
Mr. Alexander Taylor, an old staunch Reformer,
proposed a repeal of the bread and provision laws, but
he was assailed with the most indecent and tyrannical
opposition. An amendment was also moved for the
Five Points, amidst great confusion.
The Chairman declared the petition carried, the Char-

fists, alias iattle Loafers, „insisting that the amendment
was. Towards tt)
close of the meeting, the interruption
and confusion were posh,:velY disgraceful.
As the Chartists appear ,termined to oppose any-
thing brought forward by any differing trom
them, would it not be better for such as mill-owners,
employers, villagers, and others, who feel an intjest in
the repeal, to get petitions filled up—say of 20, 30, or
even 50 names, and send them to some Member for
presentation ? if all the advocates would do this, (very
easy and practicable work,) there would be such en
array of public opinion, that the supporters of mono-
poly and oppression would soon be compelled to give
way, and the country be, instead of (as at present) a
land of mourning and ruin, a land of prosperity and
comfort.

SCOTTISH BANKING SYSTEM.
We understand that a numerous and respectable
meeting of Bankers, Managers, and Representatives of
the Scotch Banks, was held in the , Royal Hotel, on
Friday last, in consequence of a communication twin
the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee, now
sitting, that two witnesses from Scotland would he exa-
mined on the Scottish System of Barking ; one to be
sent by the Chartered Banks, and another by the Pro-
vincial Banks.
The meeting adopted certain resolutions, explanatory,
of the existing system in Scotland, which, eve under-
stand are to be printed and circulated. The gentle-
men present were unanimous in their Sentiments as to
the excellency of the present system, and the danger to
oi cuulldt u ral
ensue and
h interestslntroduocft
introduction
coofu natnr yy
tthheatagrir•by- the

ehFinge:
Considering the momentous nature of the subject
now under consideration of the. Parliamentary Com-
mittee, the meeting agreed that It would be highly
w
ex-
pedient to appoint a deputation of their number to
proceed iminediatelY
to L
ive suchto evidenceommunicate with
as may be
the Committee, and to g
necessery.
of establishing one Bank of Issue for
We are informed that one, if not the principal object
now under the consideration of the Select Committee,
the currency to the. United Kingdom. We
can hardly believe that there is any serious intention in
iawsci
supplyingtqt hiui e
acquainted
i eh
nxetpe
present
ewi es;t,
nehtY
the majority of the Committee of establishing such a
systemt h
e mustScottish bil raking, evident
appreciate yv ho are
Baak of lbsue, as the danger and impoliey of interfering
the benefits which the country has derived from it..—
.Edinburgh Advertiser.

POST-OFFICE DEL INQUENCIM—UntIer this
head the Dublin Monitor of Saturday evening contains
sothe most extrßordinary detail of circumstances in respect
6f robbery of newspapers by country postmasters, and the
1-'xtr:,:rne rind cirlpah/e. leniency eith which such " irrec,iula-
ratios 43 are tra ated by the heads of the establishment. In ad-
dition to the case of Mr.
_Moore and the postmaster of Comber,
we are ourselves aware of another in which a nobleman re-
cently appealed to the authorities in Dublin, and showed that
i .
his newspapers had not only been opened,read, and detained, l J Accounts front the Mauritius to the 23d o,
anuary have been received, and among other matters
but the stamp-date on the cover t.ds,fied to account for the
delay ; and yet we have not he:ird of the dismissal of the mentioned is the irregular conduct of the labouring po-
nor even of his 'laving been reprimanded pulatioe, who were unwilling to return to the plantations,
although the usual holidays had long expired. In the pie
isroreagcuclu:reidtY." It is no wonder that our table, in .
\ sent state of the plantations, the cane being very forward,the
common with those of our contemporaries,
wail complaints 11°111 subscribers of the non-arrival of consequences were most alarming, and notwithsi ending emi-
is daily loaded
1 gration was still suggested as the only remedy for the evil,
thelr paper:, if the Postmaster.. General and his underlings
, prekent results pmvedtbe attempt that had been made was
not only connive at, but almost encourage, such monstrous
__Dublin Evening 1, unsuccessful. The unpleasant feeling that has existed be-
frauds upon proprietors and the public.
Mail.nsiderably cooled the party
.7 l tween the French Gov2rument and ours was much dis-
i cussed in the island, but the latest accounts received out
The Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P.M
accompanied by Lady Peel and family, arrived in
hall-gardens, on. Tuesday afternoon, from Drayton NNVlah.nitr, spirit which existed between the people of the two cour.-
there from either quarter had c •
~ tries. The smallpox bad again broken out and was spread.
Staffordshire, ' J ~ ._ . . .
:.:- ~:..—. - - \ fag ritpidly.