The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAWS.

PARISH OF ST. SEPULCHRE.
Last night, at seven o'cicck, a numerous and highly respect-
able meeting of the inhabitant householders of the parish of St.
Sepulchre, Middlesex, was held in the Governer 's Room, at
the Workhouse, to take into consideration the propriety of pe-
titioning the House of Commons in favour of the Government
measure for an alteration of the duty upon corn. Mr. .1.
Tongue, churchwarden, in the chair..
Mr. GOLDWORTIIY, in proposing the first resolution, " That
a graduated scale of duties upon corn injures the country, ope-
rating as a prohibition, and necessarily causing high prices, and
a great amount of gold to be sent out of the country," said that
the question before them centred upon this—whether they
should have cheap bread and an extension of their Manufac-
tures, or dear bread and the destruction of their commerce with
the world.—( Hear.) Ile was glad to see the progress that.
public opinion had made upon this subject. It only remained
for the people of England to respond to the call of the Minis-
ters, and support them in the cause.—( Applause. )
Mr. DRAPER seconded the resolution.

Mr. BRADEN moved the second resolution, to the effect
that the meeting approved of the measure proposed by Go-
vernment, as tending to promote commerce and give an im-
petus to trade, which has been seriously injured by the unjust
operation of the existing Corn-laws.
Mr. PYE seconded the motion.

Mr. TANSLEY, in supporting the resolution, said that this
was but the beginning of a series of meetings upon the subject ;
but by a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, he was
confident of final success.

Mr. COATIS next moved, and Mr: Puxox vec.onded, the
adoption of a petition to the House of Commons, founded upoa
the resolutions.

The petition and resolutions were agreed to unanimously ;
and it was further resolved that the Borough Members present
it to the House of Commons; when thanks were voted, neae.
con., to the Chaiiman, and the meeting broke up.
HACKNEY.

In accordance with a requisition, very respectably signed, the
Churchwardens have convened a meeting of the itshabitauts at
the Parish-house, this evening, at six o'clock. Some of the
most influential gentlemen in the parish havesignified their ie.
tention to take part in the proceedings.
PADDINGTON..
. _

The churchwardens of this parish have convened a public
meeting of the rate-payers and inhabitants of Paddington,
which will take place at the Vestry-room, Paddington-groot,,
this morning, at eleven o'clock, in support of the proposition of
her Majesty's Ministers for the alteration in the Corn-laws and
the Sugar and Timber duties.
. BETHNAL GREEN.
At a meeting of the members of the Bethnal-green Reading-
room and Mutual Instruction Society, held at their rooms,
the following resolutions were, after an animated discussion of
three nights' duration, unanimously agreed to.
Moved by Mr. Joux Duce, and seconded by Mr. Samosa.
SULLY :—" That any law which gives exclusive protection to
one class, at the expense of the people, is unjust in principle,
mischievous in its effects, and incompatible with the interest
and prosperity of the country.
" That the laws which restrict the fr:e importation of the
first necessaries of life have in their effect diminished the de-
mand for labour, erected obsta,Aes to free intercourse with
ether nations, and are destructive to our commerce with t
he
world ; therefore this society is of opinion that all such laws
ought to be repealed, more especially the Corn-laws°
HULL.
(Abridged from the Hull Gazette of Saler-le/0
A special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
havinm been called for Thursday, about 22 of the members as-
sembled in the Exchange soon after eleven o'clock in themorn-
ing, when
J. K. WATSON, Esq. was called to the Chair.
that he Mr. SQUIRE addressed the meeting,
and 11'3.S quite sure the proposed
enter-
tained none but the most friendly agricul-
turists,feelingrt3eilnvag3r(rlts,,th:.ouldnot
injure them, but prove beneficial to all
resolution to the effect,
country. Mr. Squire then moved a
•, the present scale of
Inticieuinterests in the
modified for the be.-
.. That, in the opinion of this meeting,
differential duties ought to be altered •
nefit of the revenue and tfhtei
that a general revision o .geecneursatlonta,e
dreusttises.ofwtahse.nceocue..entar4;;
and also that the present duty
o°1:: bcoesitnoww,iansghatigii;l)adleiliqurualtoe"btco.
;with that a moderate fixed rate of ditty
nefit on the agriculturist
and afriendly intercourse with all as-
ought to be substituted,
tions kept up."
Mr. ThoursoN• concurred in the observations which h 4
fallen from the last speaker.
Mr. WADE thought
there was one point in which the ques-
tion affected
ibis town particularly—he meant the alteration in
the duty o
would be ,
the last to advocate a
mea-
sure,
if were one calculated solely for the benefit of a single
locality .
it
bnu
er.
but when advantage to such locality was combined
with benefit to the nation at large, it then became their boun-
den duty to use every effort to obtain it. Liverpool had keg
been called the turnpike-gate to America, and just in the same
way would Hull be called the turnpike-gate to the Baltic, pro-
vided the measures under consideration were once passed. Be-
tween three and four hundred cargoes of wood came here per
annum, two hundred of which were deals. Let gentlemen re-
flect on that. Then as to the sugar duty, it had been said that_
by taking that produced in Brazil they would he encouraging
slavery ! This was sheer nonsense and hypocrisy. Under the
circumstances. therefore, he seconded the motor,.
Mr. LEYETT should vote for the petition with great pleasure.
Mr. FOSTER remarked that it had been asserted that if a
free trade in corn, or a trade approaching to free, were once
established, we should be dependent on other nations, and
such a thought had influenced Lord Wellington and others
similarly situated; but what were the facts? Why during
the contests in which he and others were engaged, we con-
tinually got corn from the Continent.—(Cheers.) There waS
no fear, therefore, need be entertained on that head, fur
some part of the continent would always be open to us.
Mr. krxxxsox cordially agreed with the sentiments et.
Pressed in the petition of Mr. Squire which they had heard read.
It was then moved and carried, That a petition founded
upon Mr. Squire's resolution be prepared, submitted to the
members of the Chamber of Commerce, and then trans-
mitted for presentation to the Houses of Parliament.
The CIIAIRMAN would jurt remark that the measures pro-
posed by Lord John 'lessen were the wildest measures ever
proposed by any man in any country. Nothing but madness
could have induced him to bring them forward, knowing, as he
must have done, they could not pass.
Mr. TuosieSOK regretted the Chairman had not given ex-
pression to his sentiments before the debate was closed, for one
of two things must be true—either Mr. Watson was mash, or