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were in the borough 1,781 empty houses, and that in order
to get the rates, they had been under the necessity, since
the 15th of last March, to issue 167 summonses.—(Hear.)
Had the families who had quitted the houses, now
empty, left the neighbourhood ? No : they were con-
Fregated three or four together in one place, to the in-
jury of their health, morals, and of all social order.—
(Hear.) Bruce, the traveller, speaking of the trade
of Tyre, Sidon, and Egypt, said that " War disperses
wealth in the very instant it acquires it ; but commerce,
well regulated, constantly. and honestly supported, and
carried on with economy, is the only thing that ever did
enrich kingdoms ; and 100 hands employed at the loom
will bring to a country more riches and abundance than
ten thousand, bearing spears and shields."--(G reat ap-
plause.) Their acclamations satisfied him that they
agreed in the truth of these observations. It had been
said by another eminent writer 50 or 60 years ago, that
folly, infatuation, and vice, formed the principal revenue
of every country. But here bread was taxed. The pre-
sent tax was 235. Bd. at the present price. Government
proposed a tax of Bs. Some Peers in the House of
Lords exclaimed against this, as a tax upon the bread
of the poor, while they supported the present law,
which imposed a tax of 235. Bd. He called upon them
to be united, and repeal all these laws.—(A voice, " And
the Poor-law.") And the Poor-law too.—(Applause.)
Repeal those laws, and the Poor-law would be a dead
letter ; as they could then help themselves.
Mr. IVm. LOCKETT moved the fourth resolution, and
said, that having been overseer two years, in 1834 and
1835, and being at present a Poor-law Guardian, he saw
the difference in this short time, in the condition of the
working classes ; those who had been able at the former
period to pay their taxes, he found now reduced to pau-
perism. Last Friday, there were 118 applications for
relief to the Board of Guardians—(Hear, hear)—
and there must be some cause for this.—(Applause.)
He had examined into the condition of the agricultural
labourer. He had taken from the 6th volume of the
Poor-law Commissioners' report, the account of ten agri-
cultural counties, the population of which, according to
the last census, was 289,960. Of these, the number of
paupers receiving relief was 17,032, being 74 per cent,
or 1 in every 13 inhabitants ; the cost of maintaining
them was 2s. 3d. per head for each pauper, most of whom
were kept in the workhouse ; and the expense per head
per inhabitant was Bs. 84d. This was from Christmas
1838 to Christmas 1839, at a time when corn was high,
and when, according to the Corn-law people, the agri-
cultural people ought to have been prosperous. He con-
cluded by moving the resolution.
Mr. Moaiiis seconded the resolution. He was no po-
litician, and belonged to no party ; but, like Mr,
Gardner, would go with that man, of whatever party,
who would do us most good. He got his bread in a
cottton factory, and knew the situation of the trade at
this moment. It had been said that the manufacturers
were not suffering ; but he would tell them, both master
and man were badly off. Mr. Aaron Lees had one mill
within three miles of Manchester, which cost 120,0001. ;
and when he failed three years ago, his creditors were
offered 75,000/. for the premises and machinery, and
they refused it. For the last six months they had had
that place under offer at 40,000/. and they had not had
a single bid. Now, if manufacturing was so good a
trade, he was quite satisfied money might be found some-
where, for somebody to go into it, in this mill.—(Hear.)
He (Mr. Morris) had called his overlookers together last
week, and put it to them whethar they would work short
time, or go to lower wages, as other manufacturers had
done, and they agreed to drop wages. They dropped
from 12s. 4d. to l ls. 4d. for a pair of looms ; and was
he benefited by that reduction ? No ; but three-fold
worse. Some time ago, he (Mr. Morris) had repealed
the malt-tax and the spirit-tax for himself—(Hear)—
but he could not take off the bread-tax.—(Hear.) In
union was strength •, let them be determined to have
honest men in Parliament, and none else, and then we
should be secure.—(Applause.)
Mr. JAMES BARROW, a working man out of employ-
ment, said, their superiors had been longer in feeling the
distress than the working classes had ; but they would
feel it when there was no work for the people. He did
not want to pull down machinery, but to extend it, while
he stood by and watched it. They could not see s many
American flour barrels flying about as there were a year
and a half ago ; but, if the Corn-laws were repealed, we
should have plenty.
Mr. CHARLTON, in proposing the fifth resolution, for
a memorial to her Majesty, said that he heartily con-
curred in its prayer ; and he had no doubt it would re-
ceive that kind attention which her Majesty had ever
evinced towards the wants and wishes of her people.
He would tell " the farmer's friend" and the Earl of
Ripon that there was a torrent of free inquiry which all
the hypocrisy and power of both Houses could not stem.
Already the sun of the abolition of these laws had begun
to gild the mountain tops.—(Applause.)
Mr. DILWORTH seconded the motion.
Mr. DUGAN said that the meeting was all wrong.
There had been a majority of the Irish Members voting
for the repeal of the Corn-laws—(Applause)—and next
election they would have eighty-four Members from Ire-
land to support it. In conclusion, he proposed three
cheers for the Queen and her Ministers, which were
heartily given.
The motion was then passed unanimously.
The proceedings terminated at two o'clock. The meet-
ing at one period comprised as many persons as the Hall
could conveniently accommodate.
The following petition, incorporating the resolutions,
was unanimously adopted :
To the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland.

Showeth,—That, viewing with the deepest apprehen-
sion and alarm the intense misery and suffering of the
labouring population, consequent on the continued and
unparalleled prostration of the trade of this district, your
petitioners earnestly call upon your Honourable House to
adopt such measures as will afford prompt and adequate
relief.

That your petitioners attribute the existing commer-
cial embarrassment and distress chiefly to the operatioi,
of those unwise and unjust laws which deny the right of
the people to exchange the produce of their labour for
the productions of other countries, and which sanction
the iniquitous monopolies in corn and other food.
That your petitioners rejoice that the attention of hei
Majesty's Government has been directed to the modifi-
cation of our restrictive laws, and that it desires to ren-
der our customs' duties subservient to the revenue of the
country, whereby our commerce will be extended, and
our industrious and productive classes supplied with
every necessary of life.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that measures,
thus leading to the removal of the great evils under
which this community is so deeply suffering, may not be
obstructed ; and that your Honourable House will not
pause in the career of amelioration in our commercial
relations until all protective duties and all monopolies.
especially those in corn and other food, are abolished.

BANGOR AN TI-CORN-LAW
MEETING.

In pursuance of a requisition, addressed to the Church-
wardens, this meeting took place, at the Ebenezer Cha-
pel, on Friday, the 14th instant, the use of the National
School having been refused. The attendance was highly-
creditable to the good feeling of the inhabitants. It was
in fact the most numerously attended public meeting that
has ever been witnessed in Bangor, an both Whigs and
Tories heartily joined in the cause. The Ministers have
earned golden opinions throughout the country by th,'
liberal commercial policy developed in the Budget, and
should a dissolution take place they will no doubt be
nobly supported by the people. Mr. B. M. Griffith was
called to the chair.

Mr. R. PARRY moved a series of resolutions.
The Rev. ARTHUR JONES translated the resolution:
into the Welsh language, and seconded their adoption.
The CHAIRMAN asked if any one objected to the reso-
lutions, or had any amendment to move; and no objec-
tion being made, nor amendment moved, they were
unanimously, and with one acclamation, agreed to.
Mr. 0. 0. ROBERTS congratulated the meeting upon
the spirit manifested by the inhabitants of Bangor, and
hoped they would continue their exertions in so good a
cause. The Corn-laws, he stated, were injurious to every
honest class of society, but more especially to the agri-
cultural classes. He heartily congratulated the meeting
upon having, through the kindness of the Rev. Mr.
Jones, a place to meet in to further so good a cause.
They had been refused the use of the National School,
which, upon all occasions, was at the service of every
tramper that came across the country with a fiddle at
his back. They, thanks to a Dissenting Minister, had
a door opened to them, to advocate the cause of the poor,
the naked, and the hungry.
The Rev. A. JONES addressed the meeting in Welsh.
upon the subject which had called them together, in a
most forcible speech, which produced a great effect upon
his hearers. He pointed out the unscriptural nature of
the Corn-laws, as oppressing the poor, and restricting
commercial intercourse between nation and nation; and
called upon every one to join heart and hand in getting
them blotted out of the Statute-book. He emphatically
put it to every elector that he should be satisfied, before
giving his vote, that the candidate was for a repeal 01
the Corn-laws, the abolition of Church-rates, and a sup-
porter of the Vote by Ballot. The Reverend Gentle-
man, at the conclusion of his address, was most cordially
cheered; and the meeting separated, highly pleased with
the proceedings, and fully determined to give effect to
the resolutions ;idopted.
The petitions were most numerously signed, and form
a curious contrast, in that respect, with the generality of
petitions lately got up in Bangor.—Carnarvon Herald.

ADELAIDE GALLERY.—THE TERPODION.--
-A highly respectable and numerous audience attended
at the Gallery of Practical Science, Strand, on Saturday,
to hear a performance on this new instrument. Mr.
Bushmann, the son of the inventor, and his lady, played
several airs from " Masaniello," and other favourite
operas, which were loudly applauded. The sounds pro-
duced combined the qualities of the bassoon, violoncello,
and the molian harp. The touch of this instrument is
different from any hitherto invented, although a pianist,
with a little practice, would soon accomplish it. As an
opportunity is afforded at the Gallery to witness this
piece of mechanism, the ingenious will, without doubt,
be highly pleased with its construction, and the lover of
combined and beautiful sounds will derive great pleasure
on hearing the melody which it is capable of producing.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has,
we hear, postponed- her intended journey to the Conti-
nent in consequence of the prolongation of the sojourn of
their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leinin-
gen, who have been so much gratified by the splendour and
gaieties of the British Court and high life at this animated
period of the London season as to induce them to re-
main in this country. some weeks longer than was at first
contemplated. Their Serene Hignesses will, we hear,
accompany their Royal relative the Duchess of Kent to
Germany.—Sunday Paper.
We are authorised to state that Sir Robert L.
Dundas was prevented by severe indisposition from at-
tendinz in the House of Commons and voting in favour
of the Government ti,.,,,ainst Lord Sandoz resolution, on
Tuesday last, the 18th inst.