The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord Foley had an audience of the Queen on
Wednesday at Claremont, and resigned his Gold
Stick of office as Captain of her Majesty's Ho-
nourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Lord
Forester had afterwards an audience of her Ma-
jesty to kiss hands upon his appointment of
Captain of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms. His Lordship received
ftorn the Queen his Gold Stick of office.
The Earl of Surrey had an audience of her
litUjesty on Wednesday at Claremont, and re-
signed his Gold Stick of office as Captain of her
Majesty's Yeomen of the Guard. The Marquis
of Lothian had afterwards an audience of the
Queen, received his Gold Stick of office, and
kissed hands upon being appointed Captain of
the Yeomen of the Guard. _ _

Lord Forester, as Captain of her Majesty's
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, has
appointed Sir Benjamin Smith his Secretary, and
yesterday- presented him with his stick of office.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the
' Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck,
arrived in town yesterday from Kew. Their
Royal Highnesses honoured with a visit the
Gallery of the new Society of Painters in Water
Colours, and in the evening, attended by Lady
Auusta Somerset, left Cambridge House for
Kew.

His. Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, ac-
conipanied by Mr. Salame, her Majesty's Orien-
tallnterpreter, visited Sir Robert Peel yester-
day afternoon, at his residence in Whitehall-
gardens.
Lord Ashley and the Right Hon. Frederick
Shaw visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday after-
noon, at his residence in Whitehall-gardens.
Several of the Cabinet Ministers paid visits to
the Right Hon. Baronet in the course of the
414 Y. Sir G. Clerk and other official gentlemen
also visited the " Right Hon. Baronet at his resi-
dence in Whitehall-gardens.
Earl De Grey and Lord Eliot had an inter-
view with Sir James Graham yesterday, at the
:Foreign-office.
Mk: Colville had an interview with Lord Stan-
-10.47i-psterday, at the Colonial office. • -
Mi. Sergeant Jackson and Lord G. Somerset
liact's interviews with Sik James Grahamyester-
day; at the Home-office.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Conn-
._

eil, gave a dinner to his colleagues last evening,
at his residence in Curzon-street. Among the
Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke-of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Earl of Haddington,
Earl of Ripon, and Lord Ellenborough.

BIRMINGHAM CHURCH-RATE.
EXPECTED ROW.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Committee appointed to " watch over and pro-
tect the interests of the Inhabitants at the Vestry Meet-
ing of Friday," after laying before the public the opinion
of her Majesty's Attorney-General, to the effect, that the
occupiers of property whose landlords are rated to the
relief of the Poor, are entitled to vote in Vestry, &c.,
inform the inhabitants of Birmingham, that all persons,
male or female, who occupy any house, shop, land, or
other tenement, in the parish of Birmingham, are en-
titled to be present and vote in the Vestry to be held on
Friday, whether the Poor-rates be paid by the landlord
or tenant. The Committee, therefore, trust that every
qualified inhabitant will be present at the Town Hall, at
ten o'clock on Friday morning, in order to exercise the
right which he legally possesses.
The Liberal party, including the Dissenters, are de-
termined, we are informed, in consequence of the opinion
of the Attorney-General, to enter the Hall, in spite of
the churchwardens' prohibition, and as there are about
13,000 male knd female inhabitants liable to be rated, a
collusion is expected, and the town is in a ferment.

LAW AND CRIBBAGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—Seeing a report in your paper of the 7th of
a charge against a young man of the name of Roberts,
for destruction of Mr. Godbold's property, and that this
charge was dismissed without redress, because the pro-
prietor had been induced to play at cards, I cannot for-
bear asking you if such a case can be faithfully reported.
Good God ! is it possible that the act of playing at
cribbage or whist in a man's own house or warehouse,
not being a public-house, is a crime which debars a man
from obtaining justice ?

Is .it come to this ? Are we to have a City functionary,
rested with a little brief (annual) authority, take upon
himself to limit or prescribe to us our amusements on
pain of forfeiting our rights as citizens to the protec-
tion of the law ?

To all such cant and humbug I beg to subscribe myself
AN INVETERATE FOE,
And I am sure that you are equally so, or I could not
read your papir7

‘ COBBETT AND THE FUNDHOLDERS --ig If
I were a fundholder I should hear with no very pleasant
feelings these voluntary, and vehement protestations
against touching the interest of the debt. Ido not like
to hear the thing called sacred, and to hear the touching
of it called a breach of faith ; or, rather, I do like to
hear this, for I am sure it indicates a great deal of
thinking about the matter. When your wife, without
anything seeming to call for it, flings her arms about
your neck and makes vehement protestations of fidelity,
' it is time for you to look sharp. What a wise man will do
in such a case it is not very easy to describe with great mi-
nuteness. The cases differ ; but, generally speaking, a
sharp-sighted husband will, by such unaccountable
blandishments and marks of everlasting affection, be in-
duced to prepare to cut and run ; and, without irreve-
rence
I hope, be it spoken, this is what I should do, if
I were a fundholder hearing these uncalled-for protesta-
tions."—Cobbetes Register, vol. 38, page 763.
The parish of Kilmore, county Meath, met on
Tuesday, and voted addresses, unanimously, to the Lords
Fortescue and Morpeth. The Protestant and Catholic
pastors, Rev. Dr. Tighe Gregory, and Rev.• T. Flood,
conjointly, in the chair. This is as it should be.—
Limerick Reporter.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—This Court '
will sit on Tuesday and Wednesday next to hear bail
cases. Two days have been found requisite in the short
space of a fortnight to hear applications for bail. On
Tuesday the Court will take country bail, and no feWer
, . than 53 applications appear in the cause list. On the fol-
i lowing day there are 52 town cases appointed, making,
)1' with those hoard a short time back, no less than 232
sit i? applications in little more than a fortnight—showing,
0
he 1 certainly, no diminution of business since the passing of
AO,. the present Act. Cases will be heard on the 27th inst.,
1
i i 1,0 and the days are full to the commencement of the second
011, ',O adjournment on the 14th October to the 30th of thesame
ei, j, , month. Orders for hearing have already been issued for
salt' December, and those prisoners who cannot obtain bail
CY , have before them anything but a pleasing prospect forthe
next three months.
3.V;The whole Tory camp of Ireland are up in
ov arms at, the Irish appointments, particularly the Secre-
t tary ; and not one single Irishman, Lord or Commoner,
400 selected for office. Splits are already beginning ;so Sir
.
Sa',o: R. Peel will have no bed of roses. This shows the es-
1V hi timation he holds his Irish friends in, and what a nice
0.13 set he must think them.—Limerick Reporter.
. i
e'v jc;: THE EAST ESSEX FARMERS AND SIR R.
On', PEEL.—The announcement of Sir Robert Peel of his in-
be ' tention to propose an alteration in the sliding scale of
~ duties for the importation of foreign corn, was the sub-
he , ject of much conversation amongst the farmers in this
ark' . - market on Saturday, and some alarm was excited by it;
011 . but much reliance was placed on the ten Members for.
oils, , the county anany
d its boroughs opposing alteration in
s/, ~, ; - - !the corw.laws without regarding the quarter from which
i s.''l? it might eman'ate."—Chtlsford Chronicle.
A HYDROPIIOBIA.—A child, son of Mr. M.
• ii :
ii Mean, who a fortnight ago was bitten by a mad 'dog at
oli I diMariansleigh,- which had also bitten several cows, sheep,
le' 1,,,
and pigs, which died in a rabid state, has been overtaken
ffo
by the symptbms of this horrible malady, and his deadh
l'' is expected every hour. Three bullocks of Dlr. Median's
.11e5k7j, ' -have since died from the same cause. About a month
;"I,lf ' • since 21 sheep belonging to Mr. John Walker, of Brad-
'',
,fr ri, worthy, were bittennight, some of them being
i3Ar • Licerated in a most shocking manner, by a dog of t e
~ S3ll. Newfoundland species, and the animal exhibiting symp-
r, ~,y toms of madness, was shortly afterwards destroyed. On
1:1111 ~ Monday last one of the sheep died mad, and on 'ruesday,
i4lr' three of them showing symptoms of the same disease,
)P'' were shot, and it has since been found necessary to de-
pcir ' stroy nearly the whole number that. were bitten.—
ea le ti?, , ''','' - Western Lumi.utiy.
a,
~, , now ( '
att oi5,,) .. ,2ti„
y I noon an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the
te'',ll9,
3, .Queen's /lead, High-street, Poplar, on the body of Cap-
i , , tain Henry Howell, aged 41, late commanding the 'ship •
00 Favourite, of London, now lying in the West India
01,11, Import Dock. Maud Peters, chief mate of the Fa-
valio
(ill, irOtrite, said that the ship arrived the previous day
froin Cionstadt, with a load of deals. On the 30th ult.,
~re, :I'
about half-past two P.M., the deceased, who had through-
Irvitil fV
veil „) out the voyage complained of illness consequent upon
'',,,ri,& . , a fevcr with which be had been attacked whilst in the
r 3.9; ,1 Havannali, having hold of the topsail brace, said to him,
to yg; ;41, " Peter, I'm going to have a fainting fit." He took him
obt in his arms, and having called up the steward to his as-
. . '"'-' listance, they succeeded in lowering him on to the deck.
atit' '"''''''..Be never spoke swain, and shortly after became insen-
-00,-0P • bible. ,Vinegar was applied to his head, but with no
i'o" t° et , ettivt ; he died in a few ofsnutes after. The deceased
bad had four fits during the v4yaze, two between lia-
;01 vannah soul Honduras, and the laSt fa)1034 twenty. five
bu:, , miles south of the Maze of Norway. The damaged had
. ' s taken his dinner, but had ate very little. There was no
~)-er• -' • at •
I,4}tirgeon on board. Verdict—" Natural death."
0 'l'''P` '..4•'.-TAuNTON.—The Orohala Portman Hop
firtThe truant:l,s near this town are now in uncommon luxuri-
-00 - ' Faice of mature growth. The crops will ho caingplarly
eas''' , ,...,,t
'c' Ifs Ifslii picking will commence in about a week.—
• 1
,i 1 1 4Slerb.9rne Joamai.
;:%11)Pvi$4 bi
,fts. There w, perhaps, no figure to be found so
-0s"
.4 *WI% as that of Curran, *hen declaiming against the
En. ,0 spies, brouZlit up, after the rebellion of 1798, from pri-
atin;.-r",Thoseeib!‘e9Uilis of living death where 43e v/TPPII,
of that is buried a man, ''c's till his heart has time to fester
AT'anand dissolve, and is then dug ul7.
informer l"
There is now growing • "Arden of Mr.
ri,u'ri in time
65. '-' Wilkiarn :Middleton, of Hermon, • t.,'
edHeilileoe.rne,twhehipihrisil of
Gosforth, a-.dahlia of the kind called
6s• Bfl '
Oci• ' '''-"Ave,fvfttisiic,inehes in height, is seven inches
is.
s''
ts94ll,ll43.tifewer than one hundred andtirvoeunnty-five
4
Carlisle Journal.
!own flowers upon it.—

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MESMERISM, BY LAFONTAINE.

The Professor, whose lectures and demonstrations at
the Queen's Rooms, Hanover- square, we have already
noticed at some length, gave yesterday his first exhibi-
tion in the " City," at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street. The visitors were not very numerous, certainly
not exceeding eighty persons ; but from the number of
ladies in the company, and from the presence of seve-
ral leading merchants, we must infer that unfavour-
able reports from the West End have not succeeded
yet in sending the curiosity of the East into a Mesmeric
sleep. The proceedings of the evening were commenced
by the interpreter (Mr. Sinnot) reading an eloquent and
somewhat detailed account of the history of Mesmerism
from its first introduction into Germany, by the half-
enthusiast, half-philosopher, whore name- (Mr. Sinnot
says) it improperly bears. The readers of The Sun are
already acquainted with all the important facts, which
Mr. Sinnot's discourse communicated ; but, in abstaining
from a fresh relation of them, in a report of his lecture,
we must say that they seemed to be heard with wonder
by a majority of his audience, and that he was, much ap-
plauded at the conclusion.
M. Lafontaine then produced in the youth (Eugene)
who had been the principal subject of his previous exhi-
bitions in London, the mesmeric sleep, insensibility, and
concomitant phenomena, precisely as we have already
reported them. There was, however, one variety. The
young man, having been for a long time in a state of un-
deniable insensibility, although sonambulist, was led
about the room by gentlemen from amongst the com-
pany, having no apparent connexion with M. Lafontaine.
and in the course of the progress he was repeatedly, and
each time instantaneously, rendered rigid and motion-
less by a gesture of M. Lafontaine, who stood at a
distance from and behind the patient. To us
the experiment was not new. But its effects
upon those who had not seen or perhaps heard of any
thing like it before, were very remarkable. Whilst we
say " remarkable," we must confess our poverty of lan-
guage, which does not enable us to express more ade-
quately the sentinient of admiration manifesting itself,
first in murmurs, then in applause.
A gentleman who gave his name as " Reynolds," but
whose address we did not hear, although he formed one
Of a party with the family of a most respectable physi-
cian, from whom we might have learned it, presented
himself as a volunteer subject. He stated that, until
four days previously, he had been a determined disbe-
liever in the reality of animal magnetism ; but having
submitted to an experiment, he felt sensations which
convinced him that the magnetic influence .did
exist. He came "forward 'now to experience in public,
whether M. Lafontaine could again produce upon him
the same effects. After a long experiment, however, the
professor acknowledged his inability to mesmerize Mr.
Reynolds effectually, and the. latter having stated that
he had on this occasion felt himself sufficiently affected
to convince him of the truth of mesmerism, promised
that he would at a future time again subject himself to a
public experiment.
Several other gentlemen were afterwards subjected
similarly to the manipulations, but without the slightest
visible effect ; and the experiment upon a boy, who was
subsequently placed in the patient's chair, proved
nothing in our estimation but the extreme naivete and
good laith of M. Lafontaine.
Before the company separated, Mr. GRANT, the
Portsmouth banker, stated some very curious cases of
mesmeric phenomena, (amounting to clair-voyance)which
had occurred in the neighbourhood of that town, to his
knowledge, and which were brought about by his friend,
an eminent physician, Dr. Engledue, under circumstances
which could admit of no suspicion. Mr. Grant was de-
sirouS of undergoing an experiment on the present occa-
sion, but he was dissuaded from doing so by the re-
monstrances of friends, who considered it unadvisable,
on account of the state of his health.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Western
District of the parish of. St. Pancras, was held last even-
ing, pursuant to advertisement, in Lawson's Assemby-
rooms, Gower-street North, for the purpose of forming
an Anti-Corn-law. Association for the district, and to
receive a deputation from the Central Association, con-
sisting of Sydney Smith, P. Harwood, and P. E. Tay-
lor, Esqrs. About half-past seven the Chairman, ac-
companied by the Deputation, entered the room, and
were received with great applause.
Josn. IvnuY, Esq., having been proposed and se-
conded, took the Chair, and proceeded to open the busi-
ness of the meeting. He said that that meeting arose
out of another that had taken place lately in the parish
of St. Pancras. Some of thegentlemen who were expected
to attend that evening, had sent excuses for their ab-
sence. Mr. Cobham, M.P., was in Manchester ; the
Hon. C. P. Villiers had a previous engagement ; but
Dr. Bowring was present. He believed their object was
first to hear. such arguments as might be adduced by
gentlemen hostile to the existing Corn-laws, and
who believed them to be injurious to the manufacturing
interests, and the
,country at large—(Hear, hear.)
There had been a great religious movement on the sub-
ject, and the evidence of ministers of almost every per-
suasion had been brought to bear on this subject, and by
that it 'appeared that the present Coin-laws were also
injurious to the moral and religious condition of the
people.—(Cheers.) Upon these grounds. they had come
to a determination of forming an Association against the
present Corn-laws. He apprehended that at the present
meeting they would firstve to determine whether they
were convinced that these laws were injurious to the
nation. This was not at all a political question ; he
therefore hoped that the meeting would not have political
feelings,- but simply ask themselves whether those laws
were just or not.—(Cheers.) With these observations,
he would propose Dr. Bowring, M.P., to the meeting.—
(Great cheering.)
Dr. Bownwc, M.P., then came forward amidst great
cheering. He said he had been called upon very unex-
pectedly, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Smith, to •
address that meeting on topics of the deepest interest.
He rejoiced to have occasions like that of addressing
portions of the community, and to contrast the honest
feelings which were excited, with that resistance to all
improvement—that deafness to the public complaiuts—
which he had too often the burden of witnessing else-
where. The public mind was at last being awak-
ened to the great public question which had then called
that meeting together ; and if nothing else would force
it on the attention of the people, it would be the great
suffering which those laws had brought about.—(Cheers.)
They had been reasoning and reasoning long in vain.
They had argued to show that the honest artizan of this
country had a right to go to the markets of the world,
and bring home the productions of the world, as the re-
ward and payment of his labour, but they argued
in vain. Our laws had been made for centuries by mono-
polists—monopolists of power, monopolists .of religion,
monopolists of law, monopolists of civil rights—(Cheers)—
and the law was as might be expected from such legis-
lation. He did not forget that the power of legislation
was still in their hands, and nothing would wrest that
power from them but the increase of knowledge and in-
creased experience of the people.—(Cheers.) He should
not, on that occasion, go into the question of politics,
but he did not hesitate to declare that he bel7eved that
radical reform was necessary to satisfy the people.—
(Cheers.) He strongly sympathised with those sorrows
which were the result of our monopolising laws ; and he
should not hesitate, on every occasion to declare that
idi-
portant radical changes must take place in our Constitu-
tion—thorough searching reform—before the people of
this country could rest in peace, and legislation be
directed to its proper end—the comfort and happiness of
the people.—,(Cheers.) The prospects of the people of
this country were dark and gloomy—(Hear, hear)—
dark in the House of Commons, and dark outside
of the walls of that House.—(Cheers.)—He had; been
called upon to represent that portion of the community
who .at that moment were suffering most.—(Hear.)—
He had seen with his own eyes much of the wretched-
ness, the recollection of which filled his mind with
gloom. A responsibility had been cast upon him—
that of endeavouring to the utmost of his power to remit
that weight of suffering and sorrow, and with this
object had he been again sent to the House of Commons.
They had failed for the present. The seats in the,
llouse of Commons which were filled, by the 'friends of
the people—(Cheers)—were now occupied by their
enemies. Tne Conservative party had an immense
majority—while the multitude—the many—had lost some
of their best, their wisest, their truest advocates.—
(Cheers.)—But was that any reason why they should
despair ? They must remember the beautiful line of
our great poet—who by his blindness was shut out
from the sight of everything-6' Consolation is
found in those that alone serve—who stand and
wait." They stood and waited, they stood firmly,
they would wait patiently, but they were ready
to, act.—(Cheers.) It had been said that it was a great
calamity for one nation to be dependent upon another,
but so far as his knowledge went, the intercourse be-
tweenman and man was the great source of human
,tl:eEmureoapnee,s
andt
ikAticaaroaunndd
Ahimmerhiecacobualdd
not happiness. but feel I
that
contributed to his comfort, he might_his
say to necessity.
.:---(licar, hear.) And
what was that but the result of
intercommunication ? There, were places where the
inhabitants could not consume the production of the
soil, and
there was another country where the industry
of the industrious labourers produced the articles which
• turists required
thq apicaland desired to consume, and
was it not intolerable that there should be a law stand-
inn between the working Englishman and the industri-
ous
labourer of America, and when they desired only to
interchange that which each of them required to con-
&tine 9 The resolution he had to propose was " That
the existing Corn-laws are oppressive" and intole-
rable, and ought to bewholly
d promtl
repealed." He y
justice to the resolution
thought it would be doing
justice consider what were the
ar-
guments of the opponents to
the repeal of the Corn-laws,
which was, that the public
burden pressed heavily on
the land of this country. That argument came to this,
that because they had an enormous amount to pity forlt
taxes, therefore they must p.ty a great sum
seemed to him that the more they had to pay to her
Majesty's treasury the less they contributed to the public
burdens.—(Hear,hear.) But it was not the fact that
the land of this country supported the public burden.
TED tnith was, that no land in the world, inhabited by
as this-
a civilised com,pnnity, was so little burdened _
He had moved in the House of commons for a return
of
44
rta
the taxation of different nations, in nrdef to see • •
the proportion this country bore to others with respect
Ci? land supporting the burdens of the State. About
150 years agp the land of this country supported one-half
the burden of theCoUntry, ntqw it was not one-fortieth,
although land had increased tenfold in value. n France?
nearly one half of the taxes were paid by the land. What
did the land pay in this country ? Only one million
and a qii,rter, That state of things was intolerable.—
(Cheers.) Whgii this fact was spread amongst the
people, there woiildki'sncli an outcry amongst them that
Parliament would not be able to resist their all."' His
.honest belief was, that if the 00111-411..weFe to' he re-
•
it would be a benefit to the labourer. What did
.-41 ants do when they accumulated for-
" " -'hhurtou, who had accumu-

peaieu,
their great melt._
tunes ? What did Loru 4.

fated millions in traE.e—what did he do with his for-
tune ? He purchased estates, and every day increased
their value. So with Mr. Morrison, who had been termed
the'Napoleon of shopkeepers. He (Dr. Bowring) wanted
to see the poor man is landholder. He considered the
law of primogeniture to be an unjust one. There were
countries where the pc or man could pass the evening of
his life, and end his • days; under the shade of his own
vine, and sheltered by .1 ')is own roof. The poor 'man in
England could not be ithat way till the corn monopoly
was abolished. They had heard of the burdens of the
national debt. Day after day, and week after week, the
newspapers were tilled with accounts of the burthens
of. that debt, but they had been paying indirect
taxation greater than that deb'.—(Hear, hear.) When
that fact got into the public mind, it must produce
something, and he hoped that the time would come
when every farthing that Was taken from the people
would be accounted for to the Treasury.—(Hear, hear.)
He apologised for troubling them so long, but he was
happy to lend an effort to the accomplishment of their
object. The public mind was at last turningits attention
to the subject. Property would be in terror unless the
safferings of the people were relieVed. While the own-
ers of the land were oppressing—and many are oppressed
—they had been taught to look up 'to our common
Father, and pray to him for that daily bread which our
s denied to man.—(Cheers.) All this was waiting
for redress, and the only course was for. the people to
combine'and demand that redress.' (The Hon. Gentle-
man
sat down amidst loud cheering, and soon afterwards
left the meeting, to attend the one held in Finsbury on
the same subject.) •
Mr. HOW DEN rose to second the resolution. He said
it was not a very pleasant task to follow a man possess-
ing so much ability and energy as the Hon. Gentleman
who had just sat down, but he would try to follow him
in his great exertions.—(Hear; hear.) He called on those
who had listened to Dr. Bowring, not only to .heat the
truths' he had stated that night, but' to disseminate
them.—(Cheers.) The Corn-laws were almost the last
remnant of a feudal time. It was almost unspeakable the
misery they produced,' and the happiness they frustrated.
These laws were the same as dividing Middlesex from
Yorkshire. He was an Englishman, and he did not
want to see such things here.—(Cheers.) He had
travelled much, and had been in many countries of Eli-
rope. He had seen wheat-come down the river at Dant-
zic so little valued that it was left open to the fowls of the
air. Was this a proper state of things, while the people
of this country were crying out for bread ? Was it pro-
per that they should be deprived4af -this -.corn which was
so plentiful in other countries? Could it longer remain?
No ; it would riot, nor it should not.--(Great cheering.)
He knew there were others more worthy their attention.
--(No, no.) He had had the benefit of 'more experience
than falls to the lot of most men. •He was approaching
his seventieth year. The' class and aristocratic interest
stepped in between the enjoyment and the comfort of
the people. It was only. a few days ago that a petition
came from the Cape of Good Hope in order that this
country should only import Cape wine at a low price.—.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Again, from the West.
Indies a great calamity had occurred, the negroes were
buying estates, and this must be stopped. _Again from
Canada, so that we might not have cheap timber. All
sorts of interests were thought of but those of the peo-
ple. He •concletded by seconding the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN rose to put the resolution to the meet-
ing ; but, before he could do so,

Mr. FARRALL, a Chartist, advanced to the platform,
and attempted to address the meeting, but was received
with great uproar, and loud cries of " He's a Chartist."
The CHAIRMAN said he considered that they came
there to hear any observation that might be made, and,
so long as he was in the chair, he would permit any gen-
tleman to offer his opinion.—(Chs.ers.) .
Mr. FARRALL again rose and said, he felt well
aware that the Corn-laws were laws that ought to be
repealed. But he would ask them whether it was not a
loss of their time to ask for a repeal of those laws from
a House of Commons like the present.—[Here there was
great uproar in the room, which prevented the speaker
from proceeding. As soon as silence was somewhat re-
stored, he proceeded.] He would say, that neither the
present House of Commons, nor any House of Commons
under the present system, would give it. How were
their petitions treated by that House of Commons ?
Had they not always refused to discuss the question
of the Corn-laws ? and they would do it again ;
and so they might petition that House over and over
again, but they would obtain no repeal from them.—
(Cheers and uproar.) If they wished a repeal of the
Corn-laws they must first reform that House—they must
go at once to the root of the evil..—(Cries of "Chartist,"
and " Reform.") It was no use taking bit' by bit re-
form.—(A voice "Physical force.")• Some gentleman
said physical force—he (Mr. F.) would say, what short of
physical force would wrench the Corn-law from the
statute-book?—(The uproar was here
,renewed with
greater violence ; and some person in the body of the
room cried out " Frost, Williams, and Jones.") He would
ask what had Frost, Williams, and Jones to do
with this question ? He would like any gentleman to
show him how he could "obtain any redress of grievance
under the present House of Commons, or any other
House of Commons 'chosen under the present system ?
He would say that the House of Commons, as at present
elected, had no right to take the Corn-laws into their con-
sideration at all.--(Uproar.) It was because the ques-
tion of the Corn-laws was one of vital importance to the
country, and there was no question that could be dis•
cussed of greater importance, and, therefore, he said,
without fear of contradiction, that it was a gross
injustice to the people of this country, that. class
legislation, through the House of Commons, shOuld take
such a question into their consideration. They did not
represent the interests of the people—(Uproar)—and,
therefore, they had.no right to take it into their conSi-
deration.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") A House of Coin-
mons chosen by the whole people—(Uproar ; cheers,
hisses, and groaning, and cries of "Who sent the Tories
to the House ?—The Chartists !") It was nothing to
him who sent them.—(Great uproar.) He would like to
know the difference between the Whigs and the Tories.
—(Continued uproar and groaning.) He would propose
an amendment to the resolution.—(Tremendous uproar,
groaning; hisses, and noises of every description.)
The CHAIRMAN—Let us hear what it is.
Mr. FARRALL said he wished they would hear the
amendment, and they would be able to judge of it.—
(Continued uproar.) He knew they would not have had
that meeting, but that they knew that the people would
be at a meeting at White Conduit- house.—(Great uproar,
in the midst of which Mr. Farrall retired, handing the
amendment to the Chairman.)
The CHAIRMAN then read the amendment, which
was as follows : That this meeting, from the
past conduct .of the Corn-law League and their
supporters, cannot' place the slightest confidence -in
them, as they have invariably opposed the interests of
the working classes ; and this meeting, feeling fully
convinced that the only means left them to destroy the
monopoly in corn, and all other oppressive monopolies,
is, by first destroying the monopoly in legislation by
such a reform of the present system as shall give to
every soul of full age and sane mind a voice in choosing
the Members of the Commons House of Parliament.
The Chairman then read the resolution. He said the
amendment he did not think a strict one, but he would
still put it to the meeting.
The amendment was then put to the meeting, and
about one-fourth were for it. The resolution was then
put and carried.
_ _

Mr. SYDNEY SMITH rose to propose the next resolu-
tion, but the Chartists present kept up a continued
interruption throughout the Hon. Gentleman's address,
frequently calling out " Paid agent," &c. He said that
after the decided public opinion of approval which they
had been pleased to pass in favour of the exertions of the
Anti-Corn-law League, it required no justifications of
his to vindicate it from the aspersions which had been
cast upon it by the individual who had first shown such
a contempt of the House of Commons, and attacked it
with such vehemence.— (Hear.) They were told that
the Corn-laws were passed for the purpose of protection,
to the agriculturist. The landowner was not the agri-
culturist. He absorbed in rent the interest of the
agriculturists, which would otherwise be laid out in
the production of the soil, and would give additional
labour to their fellow subjects.—(Cheers.) There was
not one fortieth part of the agricultural population that
there was before the passing of the Corn-laws. Here
was a proof that they did not benefit the agriculturists.
Mr. O'Connell had stated that the population of Ireland
should have increased at least one-fifth during that time,
and what was the case ? It was only five per cent.
Hero was most convincing evidence taken from the census
of the present period of the agricultural population,
where there was not machinery to give reel a handle to
say that the march of machinery has been the cause.
Yet-in this country, where there was nothing but agri-
culturalists from one end of the land to the other, there
is a greater amount of misery than in any other part
of this country. lie had been taunted as being a paid
agent of the Corn-law League, and by a man professing
the Charter, one of the points of which was,• that every
public man should be paid.—(Great cheering.) He
rejoiced at his having called their attention to that point,
for it showed to the people of this country that he was
worth paying—an honour they did not seem willing to
confer on the gentlemen who had thus taunted him.—
(Cheers and laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded
amidst great interruption by reading the resolution :
" That the natural effect of these laws has been to destroy
them.balance of the Constitution; to depress the power
and check the legitimate influence of the third estate in
the councils of the nation; to increase, immediately and
illegally, the privileges of the territorial aristocracy, and
thereby enable them to arrogate to themselves the pe-
culiar office of the commonalty to regulate taxation•, and
to confer upon the Peerage a preponderance in the State,
dangerous equally to the just rights of the Crown, and
the acknowledged prerogative of the people."—(Cheers.)
Mr. DYKE seconded the resolution, without any
remark.
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Mr. HAREWOOD proposed the next resolution :
" That, for the purpose of carrying into effect, and ob-
taining a public recognisation of the principles embodied
in the foregoing resolutions, this meeting hereby consti-
tutes itself into a society, to be entitled the Saint Pan-
cras Branch of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation, and that a Committee of the inhabitants of this
parish be formed, with power to add to their numbers,
with instructions to open a book for the admission of
members, who shall, as soon as practicable, be celled
tngPthpr for the purpose of electing office-bearers and
enacting laws to receive and canvass for subscriptions
and donations in rid of the funds ; to call public meet-
ings, frame and procure signatures to addresses to the
Queen, or petitions to Parliament, for the total and im-
mediate repeal of the Corn laws, and generallyto
trans:
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liownEri then briefly proposed a vote of thanks
to the Chairman, and the Chairman having shortly re-
turned thanks, the meeting quietly separated.