The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

LONDON; WEDNESDAY, SEPT.EAI BER 29, 1841.

SYRIA.

A MEETING will be held on THURSDAY,
1-31- Sept. 30, at 2, r. At., at the Thatched House Tavern, St.
James's-street, Hon. W. F. COWPER, M.P., in the Chair, to
Form a SOCIETY far AFFORDING MEDICAL and SUR-

GICAL AID to SYRIA, by sending out one or more Medical
Men of professional character and acknowledged piety, to be
'stationed at and about Bey rout. Persons friendly,to this object
are respectfully invited to attend.

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL. '
Capital £500,000.
--. Empowered by Act of Parliament. ~.
DIRECTORS,
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. 1 John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. . Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. •

A UDITORS.

Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. ! Professor Graves, A.M. F. R. S.
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SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Suttee, Ewens, and °lnman-
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THE CORN LAWS
AND COMMERCIAL REFORA

On Monday night, at eight o'clock,
ST. .MARTIN'S-I.NT-THE-FIELDS. .
a special meeting
of the St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Registration Society
was convened at the Cambrian, Castle-street, Leicester-
square, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of presenting a memorial to her Majesty, pray-
ing that she would not- prorogue the Parliament, until the
question of the Corn-laws and the distresses of the
country. have been taken into consideration. Mr. Skegg
was called to the chair. .
Mr. GUACAN, is moving the first resolution, stated
that they were assembled that evening.partly inconse-
quence of one Of the churchwardens of the parish, having
thrown a difficulty in., tine way of-giving the parishioners
an Opportunity to express :their opinions upon the Corn-
laws, though a requisition had been presented to .him for
that purpose, and which had_ been most numermisly and
respectably signed.—(Hear, hear, hear.) -It was neces-
sary that they should promptly address her Majesty ;
the Society therefore resolved to give the inhabitants of
this populous and wealthy parish their assistance in for-
warding the object they all had so much in view.—(Hear.)
He then proposed the following resolution :—" That this
meeting views with great alarm and anxiety the dis-
tressing accounts from nearly all the manufacturing dis-
tricts, which clearly show the frightful increase of com-
mercial distress and want of employment."
Mr. BATEUAN seconded • the resolution.. •
Mr. AUSTIN, a solicitor, moved the second resolution,
which was follows That the distress now expe-
rienced by all classes of tradesmen, mechanics, and la-
bourers is principally to be attributed to the high price
of food."
Mr. Hoax seconded the resolution.
Mr. SOAMES moved the third resolution, praying the
Queen not to prorogue Parliament until it should have
given full effect to her Majesty'
„..s.ainmendation.
Mr. MORGAN seconded thelesolution, which, ho
remarked, was of the greatest importance, as distress
now pervades all classes, with very little prospect of im-
provement, and the great portion of the working classes
are in want, of the common necessaries of life.---(Hear,
hear.) The circumstances of the country were- such,
that there were many whe'tvere in want of bread be-
cause of its high price.
Mr. BALL moved, and Mr. numPunEY seconded a re-
solution, that a petition founded on the preceding re-
solutions be adopted by the meeting and presented to
her Majesty.
The resolutions and petition :were, agreed to unani-
mously ; and it was 1-esolved that -Mr. Shiel, as a privy
councillor, should be requested tn.present the memorial.

MARYLtBONE.
A meeting of the members of the Trinity and All
Soul's District Auxiliary Anti-Corn-law Association was
held last night, at the Horse and Groom., Portland-street,
for the purpose of forwarding the memorial adopted at a
former meeting, addressed to her. Majesty, praying that
no dissolution of Parliament shall take place until the
Corn-laws are fully discussed. During the course of the
discussion a valuable statistical document connected with
the close' relation found to subsisti,hetween the advance
in the price of food and the progress of pauperism, as
appeared from the accounts of the parish of Maryle-
bone, was laid before the chairman. From this state-
ment, which was produced by Mr. Frost, one of the
auditors of the parish of .Marylebone, it appeared that in
the year 1836, when the contract price of flour per sack,
as paid by the parish, amounted to frOm 28s. 6d. to 395.,
the number of persons relieved amounted to 3,222 ; in
1840. when the contract price of the sack fluctuated from
455. Bd, to 50s. 9d., the number of persons relieved was
upwards of 4,100, showing an increase of not less than
878 individuals. A public meeting of the inhabitants of
the district is to be shortly summoned for the purpose of
promoting the repeal of the-Corn-laws.

ST. MARY'S, MARYLEBONE.
An adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of this parish
took place at the. Harcourt Arms, Harcourt-stroet, on
Monday evening last. The meeting was very numerously
and respectably attended.
Mr. WictcatAx, on behalf of the Central Association,
urged the immediate formation of a district society, for
the purpose of advocating, and by every legal means
promoting and advancing, the principles of free trade in
the parish.

Resolutions with this view were unanimously passed.
A memorial to her,bitijesty to the same purpose as the
many getting up in every part of the metropolis was then
agreed to, and very numerously signed.
A Provisional Committee was named for the purpose
of watching over the affairs of the societyond for imme-
diately taking steps to call together a meting of the in-
habitants of the district on a larger scale; _•

KENTISH TOWN.
A public meeting, for the purpose of memorialising
the Queen not•to prorogue Parliament until the Corn-
laws shall have undergone the fullest discussion, will be
held in the Assembly-rooms, Kentish-town, on Thursday
evening next, at seven o'clock.

that he read his declaration " that he (Sir R. Peel)
wanted time to consider." He would ask, how could the
Honourable Baronet have waXtted time when he had been
de jure, thought not de facto, the Minister of the coun-
try for the last twelve months? He would ask, wap Sir
Robert Peel the only man in the country that was not
aware that the late Administration was out of office at
the time he trought forward his " No-conlidonce vote?"
Was the course the Right Hon. Baronet had adopted
honourable or manly; and that at a period %. hull such
terrific distress existed throughout the country?
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The Address to the people, in conformity with the
above resolution, was then read and agreed to, and the
meeting separated.