The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

MOUNT EGMONT, FROM THE NORTH
SHORE OF COOK'S STRAIT, NEW ZEA-
LAND.

We have here another of Hullmandel's litho-
graphic illustrations, which represents a fine
expansive landscape in one of the most romantic
parts.of New Zealand. In the front-ground ap-
pear one or two huts, near which are grouped
some of the natives, who are busily engaged in
burning off wood for potatoe grounds; in the
middle distance a thick, leafy copse, here and
there broken into little sylvan glades or alleys,
stretches far and wide, affording exeellent shel-
ter for birds and beasts; and in the'remote dis-
tance soars the lofty, eminence, Mount Eg-
mont, its summit clad with eternal snow, . and.
rising abruptly from a vast level plain. The
scene is one in which beauty and grandeur are
combined, and might vie, in either respect. with
some of the most celebrated landscapes in
Switzerland. The varying tints of the luxuriant
copse—which bears a strong resemblance to an
Indian
jungle—here catching the full blaze of
sun-light, and there wrapped up in deep gloom,
are disposeil with great art, and exhibit a spirit
and vividness that never could have been im-
parted to them by the old, and somewhat tame
process of lithographic engraving.
The print is
one that would show to considerable advantage
in a neat, plain gilt frame.

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In this large octavo volume is comprised the
whole of Mr. Lockhart's Memoir of Sir Walter
Scott, originally published in' seven volumesi
the work is beautifully printed, is embellished
with a half-length portrait of the biographer, and
not less than three likenesses of the great novel-
ist, taken at different periods of his life—that ls!
to say, in boyhood, manhood, and age•
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the likenesses, the most expressive is decidedly
and
marble,. .
the bust, executed by Chantrey in
the original.
presented by that great artist to
The volume considering its extreme elegance, is
singularly cheap in price.

FATHERS AND SONS, 3 Vols.
CoMuni, London, 1841.
Our notice of this work, which was the last
written by Mr. Theodore Hook, may be soon
dispatched, for we have already given au opi-
nion of it, when it appeared from time to time
in the numbers of the New Monthly Magazine.
It is an amusing, story, but is decidedly not
among its authors best specimens of fiction.
The first volume contains a brief biographical
Eketeli of Mr. Hook, accompanied by a portrait,
apparently, some years before his death.
taken,

CORONER'S-INQUEST.—On Tuesday night an
inquest was held at the Windmill public-house, Clap-
ham-common, Surrey, on the,ody of George Trigg,
aged nine years. It appeared, from the evidence ad-
duced to the Jury, that between nine and ten o'clock on
Mcmday morning, a number of boys 44
ventured on the

MORNING SUN

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1 ice on what is called the " Long Pond," on the Common.
The deceased was amongst then), and was very active
in jumping about and daring his companions to venture
as fax on as he did, when, all at once, the ice, which was
very insecure, broke underneath him, and he -in-
stantly went down, but he rose again to the surface, and
for a time supported himself by resting his elbows on the
edges of the ice. A ladder and a rope were prOeured ;
but they were not of sufficient length to reach the de-
ceased, who, after a protracted and distressing struggle,
disappeared. George Souter, aged 17, a groom in the
service of a gentleman residing in Brummel's-road, Clap-
ham, in endeavouring to rescue the deceased, fell through
the ice, and would have perished but that he was got out
by means of the ladder and rope. On recovering him-
self a little the intrepid lad, although he bad all his wet
clothes on, and a watch in his fob, again rushed into the
water, and, being an expert swimmer, made great efforts
to get hold of the deceased ; but was obliged, by the ex-
treme coldness of the water, to be again dragged to the
bank, when he became, for a considerable time, entirely
deprived of sight from the effects of the cold. The
body was got out after it had been about three-quarters
of an hourin the water. Verdict—" Accidental death."
The Coroner said the humanity and courage of the lad
Souter deserved the strongest commendation, and be
hoped he would not go unrewarded. The deceased was
the son of labouring parents.

The report of- observations on the temperature
kept at the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's-park,
gives the following as the minimum temperature of the
last • few days. It may be observed, that the task of
hourly recording the external temperature depends upon
the keeper whose turn it is to watch the different build-
ings at the menagerie during the night. Yesterday.
morning, at four o'clock, the thermometer was 25 deg.
F. ; on Tuesday, at four o'clock, it was 22 deg. F. ;
Sunday at midnight, 29 deg. F. ; and four o'clock in the
morning, 22 deg. ; and Saturday morning, at four o'clock
the lowest point of temperature for the season was 18
deg. F. The gardens at the Regent's-park are in one
of the most exposed parts of the metropolis, but the
temperature has only been 2 deg., on the average, over a
thermometer kept at hackney, and 3 deg. above one kept
in Aldersgate-street.

We grieve to observe that the distress in Paisley
is still on the increase. There are at present above
13,000 people dependent on the supplies of charity for
subsistence. This is a state of things truly lamentable,
and the worst feature of it is, that there are no immediate
prospects of a change -for the better. The warehouses
of the manufacturers are filled with goods, and so para-
lyzed are the few capitalists which the general wreck has
left, that they have neither the spirit nor the energy to
attempt any new branch of industry.—Ayr Observer.
The keeper of a house of entertainment near the
new snspension-bridge over the Isere, at Vienne, being
somewhat pot-valiant one evening last week, walked over
it, although the planking was still unlaid, and the pas-
sage extremely dangerous. Proud of his feat, he
entered the house, and offered to make a bet, with
any one of a party who were drinking, that he would
go over again, and the other dared not follow him. A.
waggoner accepted the wager, and they went out to per-
form it. The landlord again got safe across, but the
waggoner had not gone far before he staggered and fell
into the river, and was drowned. He has left a wife and
two children.

The Bordeaux papers mention that, on Satur•
day evening, the buildings of the Fish-market in that
city fell down with a tremendous crash. Fortunately
nobody was in them at the time. Tlie cause of the acci-
dent is not specified.
A lady, who died lately in a village near Mar-
seilles, had in her possession an old fashioned escritoire
which she had purchased at an auction, and which con-
tained a secret drawer. A friend had repeatedly urged
her to have this drawer opened in order to see what was
in it, but she pertinaciously refused. After her death,
a short time since, her heir, upon the recommendation
of the same person, had it explored, and, on its being
opened, was found to contain 10,000 f. in double Louis d'or.
The Chamber. of Commerce at Metz has come
to an unanimous resolution to promote the communica-
tion of the town with Germany and Paris, by means of
a railroad from Sarrebruck running through Metz to
Sedan, Mezieres, and Reims, and joining at Compiegne
the grand intended line from Paris to Lille.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND NARROW ESCAPE
or THE INMATES.—Wednesday morning, at five o'clock,
a destructive fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Smith,
watch and clock maker, St. 'John-square, Clerkenwell,
which entirely destroyed the stock, furniture, and pre-
mises. The inmates were removed just in time with only
their night dresses on. The fire commenced in the shop,
but in what manner it originated no idea can be formed.
The late Lord Monson, by his will, proved in
the Prerogative Court, has left an annuity of 2001. to his
faithful valet, who travelled with him in his frequent
tours to the High Alps, Italy, and Germany. Burton
Hall, in Lincolnshire, is entailed on the present Peer
and his issue. Gratton Park and estate, which the late
Lord purchased from Sir Mark Wood is left to the Coun-
tess of Warwick, his Lordship's mother.
_ _ _

The mails and stage coaches, which arrived in
the metropolis in the course of Wednesday morning from
all parts of the country, were heavily laden with geese,
turkeys, and other Christmas presents.
The poor upon the estate of Viscount Comber-
mere, in Cheshire, are (in addition to the annual dona-
tions of beef, clothing, &c.) to be regaled with good
Cheshire ale, to drink health, long life, and prosperity to
the infant Prince (Earl of Chester, &c.),, at the villages of
Audlem, Wrenbury, Arton,Newhall, Burlcdam, &c. &c.
The town of Sydney was for the first time
lighted up with gas on the 25th of May last, it being the
first city in Australia, or in fact in the Asiatic world, to
which this important invention of modern times has been
applied.—Sydney Herold.

--We regret to say that there have been several
failures in South Lancashire since our last, of various
degrees of importance, amongst them that of a Liverpool
house to a very, serious extent.—Liverpool Times of
Tuesday.
BOAT SUNY.--FOUR LIVES LOST.-- On
Thursday se'nuight a Garraris yawl was sunk nearly op-
posite Newtown Head, in a heavy squall of wind and
rain. She was returning from Tramore Bay, which is
about two miles to the north-east of Garraris. Four men
(some say five) sank to rise no more, and none survived
to tell the sad tale.— Waterford Mirror.
HUNGRY is understood that the
names of upwards of 500 applicants are already on the
list lbr the first vacancy of Sub-Inspector (formerly high
constable) of the Police Force.—Dublin Evening Mail.
ST. LEONARD'S.—It is reported that the Queen
Dowager, as soon as she is convalescent and able to re-
move from Sudbury Hall, will take shelter at Hastings
from the bleak winds of the end of winter and the early
spring.—Brighton Gazette.

Ax ODDITY.— On Friday week, Johnnie
Turner, an eccentric character in the parish of Irongra),
was buried on one of the:wildest of the hills of the
parish, in a grave which, under the permission of the
late Mr. Lennox, of Dalskairth, he had dug for himself
out of the rock, with the most patient care. He was
about sixty years of age when he died. With all his
eccentricities and somewhat miser-like habits, Johnnie
was generally considered a man of worthy principles,
and the public readily indulged his whim in burying him
in his chosen self-made grave.—Ayr Obsover.

THE BUYERS AND SELLERS OF BARGAINS.
—During the past week the trading community of Lon-
don have been unusually excited, .by the examination of
a bankrupt linen-draper, before Mr. Commissioner Hol-
ei before Il 'e havehad
Hol-
royd. If the allegations made by the bankrupt turn out
to be true, nothing can be more humiliating to the cha-
racterheard ofof 3
uourch
'Tisv never v true
transactions,
but
the details so fully given. We Very much fear that
those disclosures form only a part of the system which
Sacrifice"—.. 50 per
the cupidity of John Bull has called into life. " Bank-
rupt
like announcements meet
rriynicoe'C°Brnert"rf thileclslreet ; and the purchasers that
rupt Stock"—" Tremendous,Cent.
tuisndftetrevle)
should gain
crowd to these places seem anxious, - not that the vendor
purchasers, should get as
an honest living, or that the manufacturer of
the articles vended should do' so but that he or she, the
ranch' of the
as possible, without any consideration. it is this
property of both
want .of honestythe ofthe thousands of buyers,
much on part
that is more to be censured than the craft
and trickery of the hundreds of sellers. Who ever
heard of a purchaser that had declined to purchase at a
shop of this kind, a silk, for instance, because it was too
cheap—because it was known that the price asked could
not pay the cost of manufacturing ? And yet this buy-
ing too cheap, under other circumstances, is held to be a
proof of buying, knowing to have been stolen. At the
Old Bailey, the low price which receivers pay is consi-
dered as indubitable evidence of a guilty knowledge.
how indignant would some of our fair purchasers
it were even insinuated that the rich brocade, purchased
at a cutting shop for two-thirds its value, was the pro-
duct of a
op
bargain made between folchng.doors, with the
buyer and seller
hid from each other. .Or fancy one of
matrons, detailing to her ' family her
our respectable . _
andin the dif-
ference' scenting a bargain, exulting
prowess.
iiinpsrice between honest Mr. So-and-so's over the
and
the price she paid, being gravely accosted by
way, • d ~ Madame, these things could not
' some sober tri• en ,
have been manufactured for the price you have paid for
somebody has been robbed, are you content that
yt'lwoumr,children shall participate.in the dishonesty ?"--Thsk-•
Non-conformist.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER YESTERDAY.--..
As the Duke of Sussex steam-packet, on her way from
London-bridge to Ramsgate, had entered Greenwich-
reach, she was run into by the Princess Victoria,
bound from Antwerp to London, by which her bulwarks
were stove in, and the cooking-house, which is situate aft
on deck, was swept into the river. The stewardess, who '
was in the cooking-house at the time, was thrown over-
board by the shock, and saved with some difficulty,
THE DISTRESSED PEOPLE OF C
--,PITAL-
FIELDS.—The Lord Mayor has received the following
sums in aid of the distressed people of Spitalfields :
P., 10/. ; the Rev. Deacon Worrell, 101.; E. B. 51.• Mr.
George Sutcliffe, Bridgewater Hotel,Worsley, 51, ; b.B._
IL; I'. Gosling, 51. • a Widow Lady,. 1/. ; Hon. miss'
Arden, 51. ; First Subscription of a Penny a Week Sub-
scription, at the George, in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, to be continued during the winter months,
11. Bs. 7d., an example recommended by the Treasurer to
the 5,000 publicans iii the metropolis and its suburbs, as
likely to be extremely productive to the charity, without
putting the contributors to any inconvenience.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
steamer,-London Merchant, Captain Valentine Laker, on
her passage from Newcastle to London on Saturday last,
fell in with the schooner Susan, of Guernsey, 'on fire,
with.her hatches battened down, and the crew with the
long boat prepared to leave her. She was taken in to*
by the London Merchant, and brought to the mouth of
Sunderland harbour, where a small tug was employed to'
take her in, and by assistance from the shore the foe *sr
I got under.
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MEETING AT BATH.

UNION OF THE CIIARTISTS AND CORN-LAW

RE PE ALERS.

A Public Meeting was held on Wednesday in the large
room of the Guildhall, for the purpose of petitioning Par-
liament for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. The:plat-
form was well filled, and the room was crowded by a
number of the middle and working-classes.
On the motion of Admiral GORDON, W. Hunt, Esq.,
called on to preside.
The CHAIRMAN, after stating the object of the meeting,
and dwelling upon the fact, that the interests of the land-
owner and manufacturer are compatible with each other,
adverted to the assertion used by every advocate for the
Corn-laws, that if they were repealed the country would
be inundated with foreign wheat. In answer to this, said
he, I will put two questions—Where is the wheat to
come from that is to inundate this country ? and what
would be the average price at which any wheat, in the
event of free trade, could be delivered in this country ?
With regard to the first question. The average con-
sumption of wheat in this country is about 18 millions of
quarters. Now it has been ascertained, that from the
whole of Europe we could not, consistently with what
they must grow for their own population, obtain more
than 2 millions of quarters, even supposing them to carry
cultivation to its highest pitch. Suppose to this we add
two millions more from America. Why, even with this
supply, we are yet left under the absolute necessity of
raising 14 millions from the land of this kingdom. With
what reason, then, can it be said that the abolition of
these laws would throw all our land out of cultivation, or
even half the land, or a quarter, or indeed any portion of
when increased commerce would occasion increased
consumption, and any land there might be to spare could
so advantageously be laid down in pasturage ? And the
lands being cultivated, the agricultural population is
engaged upon them ; and hence the notion of their being
driven to manufacturing towns falls to the ground, with
the assertion of all land thrown out of cultivation, as to
require no further argument to confute it. With regard
to my second question, as to what is likely to be the
average price at which corn can be brought to this country
free of duty—l say, hardly below 50s. the quarter, for it
has been ascertained that the average price at Dantzic is
about 345. the quarter, and that shipping, landing, ware-
housing for 6 months, and selling commission, and other
charges, may be fairly computed at 18s. the quarter ; so
that we may put the average price at 50s. Now, is the
British corn-grower able to compete with this price I
am sure you will say yes, when I tell you that, in a recent
statement from the Board of Trade, it was said that the
average price of wheat for the whole kingdom for the
last seven years was 525. 2d. the quarter. Here, then, is
scarcely a difference between a price which the landholder
does not pretend to complain of, and the rate at which
wheat could be imported when free of duty. Would our
landlords be at any disadvantage with competition of this
character, especially when the advantage of skill, capital,
machinery, and scientific research, would be entirely on
their side? The probability is that our landholders would
carry the day against the Continent, while a free trade
would open a hundred ports for our manufactures, and
plant a wedge in the German League now forming against
us, that, driven home, by the skill and industry of our
manufacturers, would split it into a thousand pieces.—
(Loud cheers.) After dwelling on similar topics often
discussed, he thus concludes :—Even if the Corn-laws
had any pretensions to sound policy, they could not be
maintained at the expense of happiness, morals, and lire
itself. The benificence of Christianity can never har-
monise with a systeni that strikes down the arm of in-
dustry, that limits the means and attacks the very right
of subsistence.—(Hear, hear.) The example of our
Lord, who fed multitudes in the wilderness, might
teach us how much the provision of bodily necessities is
within the scope and design of the Gospel ; and he can
never pretend to an imitation of that character, who, in
the face of famishing multitudes, would obstruct a supply
of bread. This is the natural operation of Corn-laws, for,
by cramping our commerce, they diminish that demand
which creates employment, and thus cut off the indus-
trious man from the chance of that daily labour upon
which he depends for his daily subsistence. " Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself," is a command too plain to
be evaded or misunderstood: yet, what love can that be
which, for the sake of a questionable and remote advan-
tage, would suffer multitudes of our neighbours and
countrymen to languish in pauperism or perish for want?
—(Cheers.) Neither the laws of God or man can tolerate
such a course; and therefore it is, that if the Corn-laws
have been brought in in error, or for any exclusive inte-
rest, in justice to sound principles of commerce, in duty
to the interests and safety of the nation, and in obedience
to Him who is eminently the "Judge of the poor of the
people, and who shall save the children of the needy, and
break in pieces the oppressor," let us denounce the per-
nicious tendency of such laws, and earnestly petition that
they be erased from our statute-book for ever.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. THoMAs SPENCER, in moving the first reso-
lution, said he stood there as the advocate of free trade in
its largest sense—(Cheers)—and he maintained that this
country had no more right to be fettered in its commerce
than the Somersetshire man had to object to the Wilt-
shire man coming into his market ; or the owner of a
bad farm to apply to Parliament to tax his more fortu-
nate neighbour ; or to object to an interchange of corn-
rrodities between the butcher, the baker, and the grocer.
—(Hear, hear.) Towns were made up of individuals ;
nations of towns ; and the world of nations ; and the
sooner the whole world became interested in each other's
welfare, and were as one family of man, the sooner, he
believed, it would be better for all.—(Cheers.) He
would now answer some of the objections which had
been urged against a repeal of the Corn-laws, as, in his
opinion, there was more to be gained from argument
than from threats of physical force or of destruc-
tion of property.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") The
first objection which was generally urged was, that it
would be a bad thing for the country to be dependent on
foreign nations for its corn, especially in time of war.
But it was a curious fact, that none were now more
dependant on foreign nations than were the English.
The articles which furnished the rich man's breakfast,
his dinner, his mahogany, his wine, his gold and his
silver—for all these he was dependent on foreign nations;
and, in fact, there was scarcely anything for which he
did not depend on them. As to the danger in time of
war, the very danger of war at all arose from the Corn-
laws. If there were to be a war with America, would
most probably arise from wanting unfair terms. Was
there any tradesman who in his dealings had a customer
of 5001., from which he derived his profit, who would be
likely to quarrel with his customer? So it was with
nations; and if they wanted America—which was one of
the greatest, and would, probably, one day be the
greatest, nation of the earth—if, he said, England
wanted America to be her friend, let her send out her
100,0001. a-year to her for corn, and it was not probable
she would then fall out. Solomon was the wisest of
men ; and of him it was recorded, that when building
the temple, he sent to Hiram, King of Tyre, for timber,
—" and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures
of wheat for food to his household, and twenty mea-
sures of pule oil ; thus gave Solomon to Hiram year
by year." And.iu the very next verse it said, "and
there was peace between Hiram and Solomon."—(Loud
cheers.) They read also in Scripture of the people of
Tyre coming to Herod, and desiring peace with him,
" because their country was nourishe by the King's
country." And so it would always be ; when one
country was " nourished" by another it could not
afford to quarrel. He (the Rev. Speaker) wanted to know
if the British farmer could not compete with a man
3,000 miles off, who had first to carry his corn an im-
mense distance to ship it, and then to transport it across
the Atlantic? Ile heard the other day of an American
house which owed a Birmingham firm 500,0001. which
they were unable to pay in money, but were quite willing
to pay in flour ; but they could not because of the Corn-
laws. He would ask, what did Birmingham want more
than the flour, and what more did the American house
want but to be enabled to pay its debt ? He met with a
gentleman on a coach the other day, who was a Conser-
vative in principle, and talked very freely of the then
Radical 3linistry and the distress of the country. It
was with some fear that he asked the gentleman his
"Oh !" he replied, '° they
opinion of the Corn-laws.
are at the bottom of it
There was another
objection, which was very popular with the middle and
lower classes, which was, that cheapness of food would
produce lowness of wages. Now, in America, where
food was very cheap, the demand for labour was very
great, and the wages very good ;—so great, indeed, was
the demand for labour, that there were those in the
Every unskilled
higher orders who worked at agriculture.
labourer got a dollar (4s. 3d.) a 'lay, while in England
wages were not more than be 6d. n-day. Yet there
ltd. a
bread was cheap, meat was cheap—pork lb., beef,
lid. a lb., and wages, 4s. The
3d. a day.highness or
lowness of wages depended on the demand for labour ;
and with free trade, with a demand for manufactures,
with railways to convey them at home, and steam vessels
to carry them abroad, every one could afford to keep up
wages, and the consequence of free trade would be cheap
bread.—(Loud cheers.) In conclusion, he would ask,
Who were interested in their maintenance ?-30,000.
Who were desirous of their repeal ?-26 millions. As
one who wished the greatest happiness to the greatest
number, he certainly preferred the majority of 26 mil-
lions to the minority of 30,000.—(Great cheering.)
He would advise his hearers to be united in what they
sought. So long as the monopolists saw the middle and
working classes pulling against each other, so long would
they be Secure. It was a law in mechanics, that two
Powers equal and opposing, destroyed each other ; but
when both were urged in the same direction, then the
entire force was the sum of the two. While disunited,
the monopolists would laugh at their opposition, but
firmly combined, no power on earth could resist them.
The Rev. Speaker concluded by reading the resolution,
which was condemnatory of the Corn-laws, and declar-
ing that they ought to be repealed, and sat down amidst
considerable applause.
Admiral GORDON seconded the resolution, and entered
into some statistical details.
The
resolution was then put, and carried by an over-
wh!ining majority, there being only four dissentients.
Mr. nk:NAY VINCENT was announced to move the
second resolution, and on presenting himself was re-
ceived with deafening applause. Before he proceeded
with proceed e
with the observations he should offer on the resolution,
he would congratulate the meeting and the liberal gen-
tlemen upon
the platform, upon the happy augury which
that assembly he d out of its being the precursor to a
better state of feeling between the middle and the work-
ing classes, the foundation of England's •
national glory.—
(Hear, hear, hear.) He entered upon the present dis-
cussion with feelings. of the sincerest nature, and he
would yield to none '
in a desire to see his country free,
and her people happy. There was a fearful and startling
truth running through the resolution which had just
been paised, that Government hitherto had existed for
itself, and not for the interests
of the governed, the Le
gislature taking care that laws should be made for their
own interests, and not for those for whose benefit all laws
ought tO exist. Now he (Mr. Vincent) maintained that
Government had no right to interfere with the commerce
of the country. Every man had a right to sell his own
labour when, where, and how he pleased. (H ear, hear.)
Every combination of men had a right to do the same r

Great Britain had a right to do the same ; but it was
going a step too far for the Legislature to say what mar-
kets they should have, and what they should not. Let
them see what such a system of Legislature had done. It
had not only passed a Corn-law, but it had denied that the
world should be thrown open to the produce of their
labour. How had the world been degraded by legislation
intended for the interest of the governors apart from the
governed. From the page of history and of Scripture
they learned that all Governments had over-taxed their
people ; and when they had awokei from their oppres-
sion, and endeavoured to enter nto fraternizing combi-
nations with other countries, their governors had set
them at war, in order that they might butcher each
other.—(Cheers.) There never would be security for
the peace of Europe or the world till the interests of
the governed were made equal with those of the gover-
nors. And it was on this broad principle that he came
forward that day with the greatest possible pleasure to
give his protest against all class legislation, not merely
against the Corn-laws, but against every species of ill
which distressed, and divided, and desolated the -na-
tion.—(Applause.) He most cordially supported the
preceding resolution ; but the one he had to pro-
pose followed it up ; and, while denouncing the
Corn-laws, it was too honest to allow those who passed
the Corn -laws to escape without censure. They
would tell Sir Robert Peel that they required something
more than speeches in Parliament—that they wanted
honest and practical statesmen—that they wanted deci-
sive measures to promote the glory and happiness of the
people ; and they would present their respectful compli-
ment to Sir Robert Peel, and tell him that if their re-
quests were not complied with they would lay the axe of
democratic freedom at the root of the corruptive tree.—
(Cheers.) His resolution spoke of the full, fair, and
entire representation of the people in the House of Com-
mons. But let them look at those who now sat iu that
House—at Colonel Sibthorp in the Commons, and the
Duke of Buckingham in the Lords—(Hear, hear)—
and then ask themselves if they expected the prayer
of their petition would be granted ? If they did
they had forgotten what Dean Swift had said,
long ago—" Blessed are they that expect nothing,
for they shall not be disappointed."—(Laughter.)
When Parliament met there would be plenty of peti-
tions for its consideration. There would doubtless be a
large one from the Anti-Corn-law League, and he knew
there would be another large one from the party to
which he belonged. But what would be their reception?
Why, Sir Robert Peel, who was well known as a prac-
tised and wily dog, would rise up and say in the kindest
manner, " Mr. Speaker, all who know me will believe
that no one more sincerely sympathizes with the dis-
tresses of the people than myself ;" and then he would
wind up by declaring, " But, Sir, evils such as these
cannot be relieved by legislation ; Parliament cannot
reach them." This accursed law would continue till the
Anti-Corn-law League would come over, and declare for
a full, fair, and entire representation of the people
in the Commons' House of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.)
Let them look at the power that would repeal the Corn-
laws. If an agitation could be got up, such as produced
the passing of the Reform Bill ; if, as then, a Commit-
tee of gentlemen sat at Charing-cross, with twenty non-
commissioned officers enrolled among their number ; if,
as then, large meetings, such as the present, were pre-
sided over by Lords-Lieutenant of counties ; and a
great fermentation were created throughout the country;
then the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel
would hold a consultation on the matter, and ,say, Lest
they destroy us altogether, let us concede part of
what they ask. But if the non-commissioned officers
were to proceed by railway to different parts of
the country, and, backed by the people, to offer
an open resistance, then the Corn-laws would be re-
pealed to morrow. But these measures need not be re-
sorted to. Mr. Vincent proceeded at great length to argue
for the identity of interest which existed between the mid-
dle and working classes, calling on the former to give up
their prejudices, and on the latter to fit themselves for
the exercise of political power. He stated his concur-
rence in the guarded manner in which the resolution had
been framed, at the same time expressing his interpreta-
tion of a " full, fair, and impartial representation" of the
people to be nothing short of Universal Suffrage. His
speech, which was attentively listened to, was loudly
cheered at its conclusion.

The resolution was seconded by Mr. PHILP, and sup•
ported by Mr. W. P. ROBERTS.
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J. EDIUDGE, Esq., proposed the adoption of a petition,
founded on the resolutions, to both Houses of Parliament,
which was seconded by Mr. BOLWELL, sen.
A vote of thanks to the Mayor, for the use of the Hall,
and to W. Hunt, Esq., for presiding on the occasion, was
moved by Mr. ARCHARD and seconded by Mr. G. Cox ;
and Mr. Hunt having acknowledged the compliment, the
meeting has dissolved.