The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT

BRIGHTON.
(FROIL OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
BRIGHTON, Ju NE 25.—The result of the public
meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday, is
highly favourable to the Liberal cause. The ob-
ject of this meeting was to prevent the wanton
expenditure of the . Tories in reference to parish
affairs, and the meting naturally, in the present
excited state of. the borough, took a political
tone. Allowing for the peculiar bias of the
feelings of the Chartists, the sacrifices they have
made to agree with the more gradual Reform-
ers, are such as do them the greatest credit; and
the Liberals have come forward in such numbers
and energy as completely to paralyse the miser-
able attempts of the Tory party; and the two.
combined have at one meeting placed beyond
refutation that the town of Brighton is in the
inehnendent position it ever ought to hold. All
the Liberal resolutions were carried, and the
Tories and Monopolists, not daring to show their
faces, are at once consigned to the most humili-
ating but proper position. Capt. Pechell and Mr.
Isaac N. Wigney are eminently entitled to the
support of the constituency of Brighton, and
this support they have obtained and will continue
to deserve. The latter gentleman is the well-known
opulent banker here. He has ever been a resi-
dent in Brighton, where he has won the regard
of even his opponents by his liberal character,—
a character liberal. in the fullest acceptation of
the term. Mr. Wigney possesses a very large and
wealthy family connection, who, from the position
they hold, and their kindliness a disposition, are
deservedly respected throughout the borough, the
interests and prosperity of which they are ever
watchful of. Although Mr. Wijney's return is
next to a certainty, it still behoves his Committee
to be upon the alert, while the most cor-
rupt trickery is in progress to make the wrong
appear the better reason. The constituency
of Brighton possess too high a character for
probity to allow themselves to become the tools
of some few politically-intriguing dowagers,
urged on by the rabid faction of the Carlton
Club; and although Tory intimidation has been
most unsparingly used, its use has but aroused
the honest and conscientious inhabitants of the
borough to additional .exertions in the cause of
those who are with them hand and heart. The
services which Captain Pechell has already ren-
dered his constituents are such as call imperatively
for the support of this straight-forward and gal-
lant.naval officer.

ANTI-CORN-LAW TEA PARTY.
Yesterday evening, upwards of 800 persons assembled
at an Anti-Corn-law tea party at Manchester. The
chair was taken by Mr. CREWDSON, a member of
the Society of Friends ; and the meeting was ad-
dressed in very eloqueht terms by Mr. G. Thompson,
the lecturer againat slavery ; by Dr. Bowring, Mr.
Brofrherton, Mr. M. Phillips, and several other in-
fluential gentlemen. A considerable number of ladies
were present. The room was decorated with banners
bearing appropriate mottos, texts from Scripture, quota-
tions from the Prayer-book, &c. The meeting was en-
thusiastic in the good cause.

TORY DiscnEPexciEs.—We quoted, the day before
yesterday, a sentence from the Times, affirming that Legis-
lative measures cannot provide full employment and
cheap load for the people. Every sensible person
knows that the people must do that for themselves ; and
all that they require of the State, is to protect them
while they do it. How a parchment regulation; made
by the ignorant noodles who assemble at Westminster,
and still more the ignorant gentlemen who assembled
there years or ages ago—can provide food and employ-
ment for the very hard-working people, would puzzle
any Tory to explain. Nevertheless, the great leader of
Toryism, who does the malignant politics for the Quar-
terly Review, lays it down positively that it is the duty
of the State to provide for the subsistence of the people.
What humbug ! Just conceive, gentle reader, her ilia-
jesty the Queen, with all the pink-gloved dandies, male
and female, who haunt the Court—all the curly-headed,
tight-braced gentlemen,—gentlemen in long white hose, of
the Upper and of the Lower House, who constitute the
State, providing the subsistence of the horny-handed ar-
tizans and ploughmen of England ! Fudge I fudge !
fudge ! The fact is, that the horny-handed tribe pro-
vide for the subsistence of the State, as the taxes show,
and provide for the subsistence of all the lords and
ladies ; which they would not care much to do, if the
lords and ladies would only allow them, at the same
time, to subsist themselves. But the curse of the matter
is, that the State, which is so generously subsisted by
the horny hands, insists in return,. instead of being
grateful and generous for opulence and ease, on actually
starving the horny hands, their great benefactors and