The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-06 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY-FORENOON MEETING.

Early on the morning of Wednesday the streets pre-
sented an animated appearance, owing to the anxiety
evinced by our fellow-townsmen to obtain a glimpse of
those apostles of reform who had the manliness to come
forward on behalf of the poor, and wrestle with a re-
luctant Legislature and a heartless Government for
the repeal of a tax that at once enhances the price of
the poor man's loaf, and depreciates the wages of the
poor man's labour.

At ten o'clock the Members met at the Guildhall,
attended by a number of friends and well-wishers to
the cause.

On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Griffith, Baptist
minister, of Carnarvon, seconded by Mr. Williams,
ironmonger, Griffith Evans, Esq., of Maeyspandy, Me-
-1 rionethshire, was appointed Chairman of the day.
I The Rev. J. W. MAssie, of Salford, after regret-
ting that be had not the gilt of tongues, in order that
he might make himself understood by his Welsh audi-
tors, proceeded to state that ha stood before the
meeting, not only as a minister of Christ, conscious of
the deep responsibilities that attached to the ministerial
office, and determined to maintain that office inviolate
in his own person, but also as one persuaded that the
course he was pursuing was calculated to elevate the
character of the ministry rather than depress it, by de-
claring his full conviction that they did not fill their situa-
tion, nor fulfil its duties, unless, like Christ and his
apostles, they stood forward fearlessly and man-
fully on behalf of the poor and the oppressed.
It was to the poor that the gospel was more em-
phatically sent ; and the presence of the poor was spoken
of in Scripture as a blessing to the Church, and a mani-
festation of its utility and prosperity. This might not
be a pleasing doctrine to those so-called respectables,
who deemed the lower classes as having no claims to
their sympathies acd regards ; but it was, nevertheless,
the plain doctrine of Holy Writ. The good things of
the earth were not sent merely for the landlords.—.
(Hear, hear.) It was the intention of Heaven that all
the children of his hand should be fed, and clothed,
and blessed ; and whoever interposed to prevent this,
interposed between man and his Eternal Parent. He
trusted they would seize the opportunity of transmitting
a congratulatory address to their beloved Sovereign on
the birth of the heir-apparent (long might he remain so,
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and aright his kind-hearted mother live and reign till he
grey-headed man), and he trusted that in their
address they would embody their knowledge and their
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occasions temporary hardships and difficultiescases the
upon different classes, and that in all
more unfortunate received the sympathy of his class
but the misery which had now brought them together
was spread universally over the land, and appertained
to all classes. The oppressive action of the Corn-law
was upon every consumer of bread, and upon every poor
man : it called, therefore, for a general sympathy.
Even the farmer could not free himself from its effects.
The CHAIRMAN concurred : no one could prove that
the repeal of the Corn-law would injure the farmer.
He had been all his life practically conversant with
agriculture, and knew, by experience, that the present
law was injurious to that class.
The conference at length resolved itself into a com-
mittee, when resolutions were prepared for the approba-
tion of the meeting.
AFTERNOON MEETING.—The Rev. T. EDWARDS,
Ebenezer, in answer to the questions which had been
been put to him, stated that he lived in the vicinity of
the slate quarries, and though the labourers were at
present in full employ, yet, from the scarcity of orders,
they lived in daily fear of being thrown out of work.
The high price they paid for their bread contrasted
painfully with tile rate of their wages (which varied from
1 Is. to I:3s. or 15e., but did not advance with an ad-
vance in the price of bread), and many of them were