The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-14 00:00:00

THE SUE, LONDON, FRIDNY, MAY 14, 1841

Ministers had given great satisfaction to the mercantile
world. 12 anticipation that the motion would be lost, he
recommended an equalization of the legacy duty.
Mr. G. PALMER alluded to the imputed divisions on
the Tory side to deny them ; but if they
do not now exist, it is quite clear that
they will soon arise. Sir R. PEEL will never be able to
divide th e spoil equally amongst the plunderers he
takes of& :e to support, and the protected gentlemen
will be as ready to devour one another under
his Gov eminent as they are now. Protection
is nothin: G more than one man plundering another, or
trying to plunder a third, instead of the two labouring
to increa' ie their store, whereby all would gain and all
would be enriched. Mr. CLAY showed that West Indian
sugar coi tld compete with slave-grown sugar.
Mr. A.. CHAPMAN believed the CHANCELLOR of the
ExcEEQI (ER's measure would destroy shipsy'colonies,
and corn coerce—the cuckoo cry that has accompanied
every prc position for taking off a tax. _
Sir E. L. BULWER made a short hustings speech, vot-
ing for 3 Einisters, but objecting to so low a duty as Bs.
on wheat..

Mr. IP ;ME made a long speech, full, as usual, of statis-
tical fact s. The Hon. Member demonstrated that the
present d incriminating duties on sugar took 3d. from the
consumer on every pound of sugar, to put it into the
planter's pocket. He showed that the consumption of
sugar, in relation to the number of people, had
material; r fallen off ; and whereas it had been 281bs. a head,
it was la• ;t year only 141bs. He demonstrated therefrom
that the ; revenue, with the proposed reduction of duty,
would g: tin more than the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER. had calculated, and that had the measure been
adopted :;ome years ago, the increased consumption of
sugar w ould have supplied more than all the defi-
ciency cif the revenue. The Hon. Member spoke out
boldly. He denounced the Corn-laws as a curse, and
he laid tt) their door the poverty, misery, and starva-
tion of the people. He boldly accused the Parliament
and thib landlords of causing these great and
immea atrable evils, and when he was interrupted by
something like yells and groans, he boldly told
the interrupters that their consciences smote
them, and testified to the truth of his accusation

He stigmatized the Sugar-tax and the Corn-tax as
plunder, and plunder more enormous than was ever
before rapaciously seized. A great good has been
obtained by such words having been spoken in
Parliament, and in the face of the oppres-
sors. :air R. PEEL'S sophistry will not be able
to apply any balm to the wounds which Mr. Humes
words, echoing the public voice, inflicted on the bread
taxers. The barb of truth has entered their souls, and

it is now the duty of the people to drive it home, and fix
it there, till they give up their prey. We never have
despaired of the cause of truth, of justice ; we despair of
it now less than ever ; and if the people be only true to
themselves, they will again make England the abode of
free, contented, happy, and prosperous millions. Through
deep national distress and rankling discontent, through a
failing revenue, and the loss of their authority—for who
honours the decisions of the selfish monopolists—through
a great multitude of facts, the voice of GOD is now
speaking to these men, and commanding them to be just.
With such help, success is neither uncertain not distant.
Mr. HUME concluded the debate for the evening, which
was again adjourned to this day.

One of the stock phrases of the Chartists and
the Tories, and of all the antagonists of Corn-
law abolition, is, that the advocates of the aboli-
tion wish to break down the condition of the
English labourer to that of the Continental la-
bourer; that they want to introduce the produce
of cheap labour from abroad, in order to beat
down wages here to the Continental level. That
is a standing argument, continually repeated
in the Tory Journals, urged in letters signed
" Working Men," and strenuously dwelt on at
public meetings. We have before stated in The
Sun, that wages on the Continent, generally, are
not lower, and the condition of the labourer not
worse, than in England, but just now it seems
advisable to repeat and enforce the statment.
The working classes of England have long been
gulled, by fine names, to bear in patience perhaps
unexampled misery, if not unexampled oppres-
sion. They have been continually told of our
glorious Constitution, but they have been ex-
cluded from all its advantages. They have been
called free, and no people in Europe are worse
enslaved. They have been sent on crusades
against oppression abroad, that they might be
more effectually tyrannised over at home. A
maudlin sympathy has been expressed for the
blacks by men who impressed their white bre-
thren without remorse or compunction. The
horrors of the middle passage were fully equalled
by the horrors of the press tender; but the men
who overflowed with compassion for foreigners
encouraged the Government to steal our seamen.
They raised a great outcry about wild Africans
being forced into a civilized country, and they
tore the sailors of Newcastle, Shields, and Yar-
mouth from their wives and their homes, and
sent them to perish amid pestilence and battle.
While all this was done and doing, the English
were flattered by being told that they were the
freest people on the globe, and they considered
it the height of human grandeur to be flayed
alive in the army and navy, provided the flayed
man did not eat frogs and wear wooden shoes.
We might go through an immense catalogue
of grievous oppressions, such as an unpaid and
irresponsible magistracy administering the laws
in cases in which they were personally, or, from
class feelings, always parties; such as the Game-
laws, by which those magistrates can imprison a
man in a loathsome dungeon for months or
years, for knocking a wild bird on the head ;
such as the limitations laid by the gentry on
the amusement and enjoyment of the poor, so
that their six days' continual slavery in the week
was unrelieved by one day's freedom and case ;
such as the dominion claimed over their hearts,
minds, and feelings, by an arrogant, ambitious
priesthood; such as a complete monopoly of le-
gislation by one narrow class of men, who have
continually prostituted the grave name of law to
the vilest purposes, and passed enactments only
to fill their own pockets. We might go on through
an immense catalogue of great grievances inflicted
on our people, who have all the time been cheated
into submission by the continued assurances of the
priesthood and the aristocracy, that they were a
-great, a moral, and a free people; but we have
said enough to remind our readers of the manner
in which they have been, by their pretended be-
nefactors and friends, continually deluded and
betrayed. Such having been the general nature
of the conduct of the ruling classes towards the
working classes, they will probably begin to
suspect that the notion which has been so sedu-
lously inculcated by the Tories of late, that the
condition of the working classes in England is
superior to that of all other European nations, and
that those who demand the repeal of the Corn-
laws want to degrade the English labourers, is
only one of those tricks by which they have
heretofore been beguiled out of their liberties,
and flattered into misery and patient submission
to slavery.
Is it a fact that the condition of labour-
ers on the Continent is much worse than
the condition of labourers here? Do they
work harder and fare worse than the Eng-
lish ? We have lived some time on the Continent
we have traversed a large portion of it on foot—
and our itlipression is, that the bulk of the French
working classes, out of Paris, are surpassingly
ignorant and skilless; they labour much less than
our people, and do not live worse ; that the bulk
of the Germans, amongst whom, common day la-
bourers (Tagelohner) are comparatively few, are
a great deal better off for food, and clothing, and
warmth than our people ; that even the serfs of

Hungary are more plentifully fed than our la-
bourers ; that in Holland the people are altoge-
ther in a superior condition ; and that nowhere
in Europe, except in the States of the
Church, or in some of the Italian States,
are the bulk of the people so wretchedly desti-
tute as the agricultural labourers of Kent and
Wiltshire, and the manufacturing labourers of
Manchester, Bolton, and Carlisle. We say no-
thing of the Irish, who have the advantage of
Corn-laws---who will be ruined, say the Orange
journals, if the Corn-laws be repealed, and who
are undoubtedly the worst fed and worst lodged
people of civilized Europe. The assertion that_
the labourers of England are comparatively well I
off, is a Tory assertion, made for the. purpose of
deluding the labourers into hearing with patience
the heavy burdens laid on them by the landlords.
England is overrun with labourers from '

Ireland, because the condition of the la-
bourers here, bad as it is, is superior to
that of the Irish labourers. But no la-
bourers from any part of the Continent flock
over to England in the same way. The only im-
portations of that kind we have, are a few broom-
girls from the Upper Rhine, a few organ-boys
from Savoy, and a few sugar-bakers and tailors
from various parts of Germany.
At the same time clerks, merchants, and manu-
facturers come here in great numbers from France
and Germany. The condition of our trading
capitalists is superior to that of the Germans,
and consequently many middle class Germans
come hither. The labouring classes do not come.
On the contrary, our labouring classes go abroad.
There is a continual exportation of workmen and
artizans from England to various parts of the
Continent.

Why do they go? Because they are better
paid abroad than at home. If they are better
paid abroad, how can any person say that wages
abroad are worse than at home? But we have
some facts on this subject, to which we beg the
attention of the working classes, who still believe
that we, who demand the abolition of the Corn_
laws, wish to degrade the condition of our la.
bourers.

First, as to the number of artizans who go
abroad, not to the United States or to America,
but to Belgium and France: Mr. WITHERS, who
was examined by the Committee on Machinery,
and resides at Liege, in Belgium, said :
" I have had as many as 300 English families from dif-
ferent parts of this country in Belgmm.—Are there many
English artizans in France ? A great many in different
parts.—Are they going still from this country ? They
keep going every day.—You say the best workmen are
going out of the country—have you any facts to illus-
trate that point ? Yes ; I stated them yesterday. I
have fetched out of England some hundreds myself. It
has been invariably my practice."
Now, what tempts these men to leave Eng-
land who are amongst tha best paid of our work-
men ? Higher wages abroad than at home, is the
answer. Living is not cheaper. Mr. WITHERS
said that all the English families told him they
Could-live cheaper in England than in Belgium
Let us quOte some proofs as to wages : Mr.
M‘GREGon declared in his examination before
the Import Duties Committee that—
" The real wages of labour in this country are much
less than in Saxony."

Before the same Committee Mr. HENRY HIL-
TON stated that—.

" I think we pay as low wages for plain cloth in Man-
chester as they do in France."
The evidence given before the Machinery Com-
mittee now sitting, is to the following effect :

" I gave," says Mr. Withers, " to Englishmen 12 francs
50 cents., for doing that which the -Belgians did for
8 francs and 7 francs, and the 12 francs 50 cents. man was
the cheaper. He produced more work and a better
quality."
" A great deal has been said about hand-labour, but, as
I said yesterday, we must not calculate because the
Frenchman receives three francs for a day's labour, and we
pay in England four shillings that the French labour is
cheaper than ours. I think on the contrary, that an Eng-
lishman does a great deal more in proportion for 4s. than
a Frenchman for three francs, I have known Englishmen,
week after week, and month after month, to get 31., 4/.,
and 5L per week, working at the same prices as French-
men, who did not get more than 18 or 20 francs, that is to
say the Frenchman got 20 francs a week, working on the
same material, and at the same prices as the Englishman
who got 31. and 41. per week.
" I got more by the man to whom I paid 51. a
week, than to the man to whom I paid only eighteen or
twenty francs."
A Mr. MARSDEN who was examined before
the same Committee said,—
" If I were to take an English and a French work-
man, and pay them at the same rate, the English work-
man would earn double the wages which the Frenchman
did. I gave the English workmen I took over with me
425. a week, to induce them to go. I could have
got French mechanics for about 20fr: a week, but I
prefer the English workman at 425. a week to the
French mechanic at 20s.—Are their wages greater
than they get in England ? Yes, what I gave 425. for
in France I should have given 28s. or 30s. for in Man-
?hester. The temptation for English workmen to go
is great, to live cheaper, and get more wages."
Now these quotations prove distinctly that the
rate of wages is higher both in France and Bel-
gium than in Eng-Wad ; that the English are
much more skilful and better workmen than the
others, and more industrious; by which means
their labour, even were it paid at a higher
rate than that of the others, is really cheaper to
their employers ; that the foreigners idle more
and play more than our people, and hence,
though the rate of their wages is higher, they do
not earn so much. Now, when the harder work
of the Englishman is considered, his steadier
habits, and his greater skill, together with the
rate of wages, it is obvious that he is not so well
paid as the foreigner, and that his condition
would be improved, not deteriorated, by being
made like that of the foreigner. This is true of
the skilled and best-paid artizans of the empire ;
and it is ten-fold true of the wretched lumper-
fed Irish. The stock assertion, therefore, of the
Tories and the Chartist antagonists of the aboli-
tion of the Corn-laws, is a false assertion. It is
contrary to the fact, and is a mere invention
to cheat the public.
At the same time, those who advocate the
repeal of the Corn-laws, seek to procure for
the English labourer the advantages of the
Continental labourer, and preserve his own. We,
at least, desire that more food and more wages
shall be given as the price of his work. We
know ourselves to be perfectly disinterested in
this matter; we flatter no prejudice, we aim at
no leadership, we solicit no subscriptions. We
only ask the labourers, whether Chartists or
not, to examine the matter for themselves, and
we believe they will conclude that, if they had
a Parliament of their own to-morrow it could
not by any possibility, by any one act, confer a
greater benefit on them than to abolish the
Bread-tax. Our artizans are the hardest worked,
worst paid, worst treated, and at the same time
some of the most intelligent and patient men ( f
the world. Let them know themselves, and act
up to their true worth. They have now an
opportunity of obtaining redress, and one
long and strong pull altogether will abolish the
Corn-laws, demonstrate their superiority to the
Parliament, and prepare the way for many
other legislative improvements. Hurrah then,
one and all, for the abolition !

The arrival by express of the Moniteur of
Wednesday, in time tor the publication of the
news brought by it ir. the. Afternoon Edition of
Thursday's Sun, enabled us to anticipate the in-
telligence contained in the Paris Papers received
this morning. The election of ESPARTERO as
sole Regent of Spain—the arrival in Paris of
Queen CHRISTINA—the defeat of the Bulgarian
insurgents—and
the mcssacre of Captain Mut:
LER and his little band by the Arabs near Al-
giers, are the
principal recurrences noted in the
Journals of Wednesday, and these have already
been recorded in our columns. In addition to
the disastrous news from French Aftica, pub-
lished in The Sun of yesterday, we find the fol-
lowing in the Journals before us :---
ALGIERS, MAY I.—The farm of Baron Vialard has been
completely ravaged by four hundred Arab horsemen, who had
burnt the materials proceeding from the demolition of the house.
Consternation is stamped on every face. This evening the
gendarmes have scoured the environs of the Sahel to put the
settlers on their guard, and to provide them with muskets and
cartridges. Some of the horse militia have been sent off with
orders to the neighbouring camp.
At the moment I am writing this, arms are being given to
all the felons, even those in irons. This will raise about 1,000
men, who are to be sent towards the model fa! m, Bukdim, and
Delz Ibrahim.
Orderles are seen in every direction, and great bustle pre-
vails at the staff and Arabian offices. The company, of grena-
diers of the 3d WWI( n of the militia
which does duty to-night,
has bran reviewed by Colonel i‘larengo, and their muskets
have been attentively examined.
MAY 2.—Orderlies have been coming in and going out all
Light ; artillerymen have been sent to the two gates of the
town, and cartridges have been distributed to the posts that
were not sufficiently provided. The felons went off last night.
The telegraph is in constant motion, and every now and then
the report of cannon is di,tiric:tly heard.
An army surgeon who has scoured the whole line, from the
model farm to the Maison-Carree,
Al A v_3. —Ye3terday, at 8 P'in.
that large bands have been perceived in the plain, and that the
firing of musketry washas just arrived. He states
incessant in several places, particularly
in the direction of the Fort de l'Eau. The report of cannon
. cA,r,raisbtsannria,st
ihnsvcie
was also heard occasionally in the direction of Coleah.
Several deserters have brought in word that a. regular batta-
lion had crossed the Chiffa, in order to effect a diversion.
was.er'ded• The sound of the tiring of cannon was plainly
:andha;e! the Place de Gouvernment
hea d in the direction of the -Arratch. It appears that the
as the ford -was
guarded, and provided will artillery. It is said that we have
lost a few men in that direction. ,
v oduoruebdotoe
s: s c, r ofarsiltehdr liver at the ford Of
We expect to be continually dishubed by Den-Salem until

the return of the expedition, of which we have received no
news; but everybody is on his guard.
This evening gendarmes brought in eight prisoners, who
were made to quicken their pace by a few occasional strokes
with the back of the swords of their guardians.
MAY 4.—The Arabs for the last few days having been
scouring the environs of Algiet s, and almost the whole garri-
son of a block-house, situated near Delz Ibrahim, has been
slaughtered, osing to its having been drawn into a snare by
some Arabs. Fifty men out of the 60 forming the garrison
went out in pursuit, and 45 perished. The other five, being
rather behind, succeeded in getting back. We are constantly
on the qui vice—our steamers for the last few days have been
ready to go and defend any part of the coast that might be
attacked. Yesterday one went to the environs of the Matson.
Carree, and fired several shots. That post the night before
had kept up a constant discharge of musketry for several hours,
but I know not the result. Rossante was attacked at the same
time, and on the following morning 27 Arabs were found dead
beneath the wale.
" The African militia is in constant motion."

The Chamber of Peers met on Tuesday to
deliberate upon the trial of DARMES and his ac-
complices. The result of its deliberation was a
decree, of which the following is the substance :

That there were sufficient grounds for charging Darmes as a
principal in an attempt upon the life of the King on October
15, end Duclos and Con.itiere as accomplices in that attempt ;
that there were no grounds for charging the oth"r prisoners ;
ordered Borel to be discharged, and the rest to be left at the
disposal of the Procureur.Gmeral, to be proceeded agar st in
another Court; o ders that Darmes, Duclos, and Considere
shall be arraigned before the Court of Peers, and shall be con-
fined in such prison as the President of the Court shall ap-
point, and that the trial shall commence on such day as the
President shall aproint. 'lhe decree is signed by the Presi-
dent and 145 Peers.

The day for commencing the trial is not yet fixed, but it xvi:l
probably begin before the end of the month.
The news from Madrid is not of so late a date
as the accounts received yesterday.

GREAT ANTI-SLAVERY MEET-
ING.—(THIS DAY.)
The Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign AntieS:a-
very Society took place to-day at Exeter Hall. Long before
the commencement of the meeting boys were stationed at
the doors of the building, who were busily engaged in distri-
buting the speech of Dr. Lushington in the House of Corn•
mons on Friday, and other tracts.
At eleven o'clock Mr. WILLIAM ALLEN took the
Chair, and having shortly addressed the Meeting-, and
stated that it had not been called for any particular pur-
pose, or for any particular occasion, he called upon Mr. Scobell
to read the Report. Pi eviou ly however, to doing so, Mr.
Scobell read letters from Air. Clarkson, Air. Buxton, and Dr.
Lushington, regretting their inability to attend the meeting.
The latter Right Hon. Gentleman stated in his letter that he
was prevented from attending in consequence of his duties at
the Privy Council, at the same time observing that if he could
possibly be present during the latter part of the day he would
do so.
'1 he Report was then read, from which it appeared that the
exertions of the Society in various quarters of the world had
been attended with success. From the financial statement it
appeared that the receipts of the Society amounted to
4,6731. 3s. Id., and its expenditure to 4,6261. 3s. Id.
SAMUEL GURNEY, Esq., in moving the adoption, printing,
and circulation of the Report, congratulated the Society on
the prosperity of its exertions, but regretted that its efforts
had been unavailing with those who employed slaves in mines.
He was sorry that those who were possessed of such property
should consent to be guilty of murder of the blackest dye. He
was sure that the markets of this country were the great main-
ta.ners of slavery in the United States, for while they Were
open to the supply of cotton it was almost impossible the
labours of the Society could be effective in the United Starr s.
The value of cotton imported into this country from the United
States amounted to fourteen millions.
The Rev. JOHN CARLISLE seconded the resolution, which
was mined unanimously.
The Rev. J. Buiteerr moved the next resolution, which
was to the following effect That whilst this meeting deeply
deplores the extensive prevalence and unutterable horror of
slavery and the slave trade, as sanctioned, upheld, and counte-
nanced by professedly Christian and other powers, they espe-
cially regard their existence in British India, and call upon the
people, the Legislature, and t he Government, by their influence
and autnority, to accomplish the immediate abolition of these
enormous evils, and declare henceforth every portion of the
British empire shall be the asylum and the home of the free."
The Rev. Gentleman then called upon the meeting to use
their best exertions for the suppression of slavery throughout
the world. Much had been already done by the generous
sacrifices of the British public, but there still- remained much
more to accomplish. The Crowned Heads of Europe should
be called upon, not only to suppress slavery in their own do-
minion', but to lend their aid towat di its extinction in the
slave islands. The only effectual means fur success in that
quarter would be to annihilate the slave markets, for there
weulit be no produce where there was no consumption. But
we could not make the proud hoist. that even in the dominions
of Great Britain the traces of slavery had altogether disap-
peared. Even in our East Indian possessions slaves
were bought and sold with the land at the pre -
sent day, under the name of servants. He eated
not, however, for the name ; the thing itself ex -
isted, and the exertions of British humanity should be di-
rected towards its removal. In 1833, the Government of Earl
Grey had attempted to introduce a Bill upon that subject ;
but that Bid had been lost in the Legislature, and in its stead
a Commission had been appointed to inquire into the matter.
The Cemmiseion had made no report, and the evil remained
unredressed to the present day. lie wished that the attention
of Parliament were again directed to the subject. It might,
however, be said, that by interfering in such a matteewe might
shake the stability of our Indian empire. Yet even though
,hat were to be the case, he should still tell them to remem-
let r the old Roman adage, " Let justice be done, though it were
to bring down the Heavens." But he had often seen justice
done, and yet the heavens had never yet fallen.—( Hear.)
The meeting presented itself that day in its opal aspect, and
if any one said that the poor at home were neglected he
would answer not by the Anti-Slavery Society, who while
they sought the freedom of the Blacks sought also the im-
provement of the Whites.—(Cheers.) With regard to India
he trusted the day was not far distant when she would stand
out in the glorious sunshine of freedom, an honour to her last
conquerors.—( Hear. ) He would beseech them to watch
every gentleman narrowly, to stimulate every man
in office until every official had done his duty, and until slavery
in the European countries should be thrown back into the re-
collections of history.—( Cheers. )
Mr. E. BUXTON, in seconding the resolution, said he had
come to the meeting at the desire of his father, to express to
:he Society his feelings that they were deserving of the thanks
of all the friends of humanity for the course they had taken
respecting slave-grown sugar.—(Disapprobation.) He would
slot enter into a political discussion, but he would say that if
the price of sugar was diminished by the introduction of slave
grown sugar, it would greatly increase the evils of slavery.—
( Tremendous hissing and groaning, with loud cries of " Oh
oh !" and groans; these were succeeded by a faint attempt at
a cheer, which was immediately drowned by his,ings and groan-
ings. ) No person in the room could more highly regard her
Majesty's present Ministers than himself—(Uheers)—and he
firmly believed no Minister who had ever occupied the Colonial
office had ever been actuated by more enlightened principles,
or had been more determined to carry out those principles
than Lord John Russell.—(lmmense cheering, mingled with
cries of " Why do you oppose him then?" The cheering con-
tinued several minutes, amidst the waiving of hats and hand-
kerchiefs from all parts of the hall. Several persons in the
body of the hall stood on the benches and raised a cry of
" Russell for ever," which was cordially responded to.) He
would not speak of politics—(A voice from the body of the
hall "Oh ! No, not at all, but do talk common sense." This
sally was well received and excited much laughter)—but he
could not forget which party it was that had abolished
slavery.—( Loud cheers.) With regard to India it. was dis-
graceful that when we had paid twenty millions for the abolition
of slavery, it should still exist among millions of our fellow •
subjects in India. He rejoiced to say that the subject had
been taken up by his respected and revered friend, Dr. Lush-
ington.—( Groans, hisses, and loud cries of " Oh ! Oh !" min-
gled with faint cheers, which continued for some time, and in
the midst of which the speaker oat deem.)
Before question was put, a person in the garb of a re-
spectable working-man, rose in the body of the Hall,
and attempted to address the meeting ;' this created
some confusion, which was aided by the Chairman desiring him
to come on the platform, which he did, and after the Chairman
had put the question, he insisted on his right to address the
meeting; he, however, at the desire of the Chairman, ulti-
mately gave way to Mr. Ashworth, who had previously been
in the possession of the meeting, on the understanding that at
the conclusion of Mr. Ashworth's speech he should be heard.
Mr. Am-molten' feared lest the influence of the Society
'hould be placed in jeopardy by a false political movement at
the present juncture. He had just, come from Lancashire, not,
however, with any intention of being present at that meeting,
and throughout the country, on all sides, he heard nothing
but expressions of dislike at the inopportune movement of that
day.—(Cheers.) It was 'one pregnant with consequences
which might peril the safety of the industrious classes of the
country.—(Cheers.) While they sought for the freedom of
the blacks they should not overlook the sufferings of their
brethren at home.—(lmmense applause.) Such a body
as that Society must necessarily exercise great poli-
tical influence, and they should beware how they used
it to jeopardize the safety of the people at home.—(lmmense
cheering. (Let the Society beware lest it should work into
the hands of those who had always oprosed the Anti-Slavery
cause.—(Ceeera.) For 25 years they had petitioned a Tory
Government, and what had they done.—( Continued cheering. )
The CHAIRMAN interrupted the speaker for the purpose of
again explaining that the meeting had been convened for no
political object whatever. He hoped that they would allow the
regular business to proceed, and that if they wished to hear any
one address them, they could do so.
A voice from the body of the Hall—" We wish to show our
detestation to our old opponents, the miscreant Tories.-
-(lmmense cheering.)
Mr. ASHWORTH then continued his speech. He said the
present was not merely a question of cheap sugar. The Bra-
zils were the best customers of our manufacturers, and if their
sugar was refused, the market of Brazil would be closed against
us, as our ships now were forced to go half round the world to
dispose of the Brazil sugar, instead of bringing it home to ex-
change it for our manufactures.
_Let them take care, lest while
they sought to advance the liberty of the blacks, they did not
throw down the industrial population at home. In many of
tee manufacturing districts the people had now only employ-
ment four days a week, and if the market of Brazil was shut
against us, those four days must be reduced to two.—
( Cheers.) It was obvious that the Tories were bidding for
what support that meeting could give them.—(Loud cheers.)
He would not desert Ministers, who had done so much for
them at a period like the present.—(Cheers.) If there was
consistency in advocating out of doors the political party who
I were now bidding for their support ; how could they fancy
their venerable President arm in arm with Dr. Fusey, canvass-
ing the electors of Newark ?—( Laughter. )
The CHAIRMAN thought they were travelling out of their
way, and had better go on with the regular business. `e They
all had their opinions—his was strongly in favor of free trade
and a liberal Government—
Mr. ASHWORTH here intimated, 'that he should conclude
with an amendment, but upon its being intimated to him that
it would have the effect of dissolving the meeting he declined
adopting that Course, upon the understanding that
when the regular business of the meeting was coneluded he
sti ould have an opportunity of bringing it forward as a substan-
tive resolution, in order to see whether the meeting would
a topt it.—(Here an indiviaual, named Martin, of Birmingham,
attempted to address the meeting, and the greatest con-
fusion prevailed. For some time his attempts wet e vain, but,
th,ough the interference of the Chairman and Mr. Scobell,
order was restored and the individual aqdressed the meeting.
In consequence, however. of his wandering from the question,
he was called to order, and met with cries of " Off, off," amid
which he retired to the back of the platform.)
One of the members of the late National Convention here
attempted to thrust himself to the front of the platform, but was
prevented by those around him, and by an inspector of po-
lice, from doing so. The appearance of the policeman caused
the greatest noise and confusion, and there appeared every in-
clination on the part of the Chartists, in the body of the hall,
to make a simultaneous rush towards the platform. The police-
men retiring, order was in some measure restored, and after a
few words from the Rev. Mr. Burnett, recommending order,
the resolution was put, and declared by the Chairman to be
carried unanimously.
Captain SAuerAuez moved, and Dr. VAt'GItAN seconded,
the fallowing resolution, which was carried unanimously ;....-
" That this meeting, in view of the manifest progress of the
Anti-Slivery cause in various parts of the world, consider
the gsate`ul and reverend asknowledgments are due to the
Most High for the measure of success with which He had
favoured it, and they take encouragement to prosecute with
renewed zeal and diligence its noble and Christian objects."
Mr. O'CONNELL then rose to move several resolutions, and
was received with great cheering. He could not help rejoicing,
the under existing circumstance, so much unanimity and good
temper remained among them. As lie was coining to the meet-
ing, one of his good-natured friends had asked him why he was
going to the Anti-Slavery meeting, at the seine time observing
that there were parties who differed among them, and that
there would be a split. To th she (Mr. O'Connell) answereel
that with respect to the anxiety to spreed liberty over the
whole globe there was no difference of opinion. If he differed
from his Learned and valued Friend Dr. Lushington, he was
still entitled to stand upon the same platform with him.—
( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was said that the business
of the Anti-Slavery Society was at an end ; that could. not.
be, for there were , yet six millions of slaves in the country.
—(Cheers.) This business could not conclude so long as one
slave remained in the world.—(Cheers.) With respect to
the question now before the House, he would vote for the in-
troduction of Foreign Sugar into this country, pi ovieed
no higher tax was placed upon it than upon that which was the
produce of the colonies of this country, and provided, also,_ it
was the production of free labour.—( Great cheering.) But
he had been told that he shouldinjure the West Indiaproprietors
by that. Indeed ! Had they not already had 20,000,0001. of
the money of this country in their pockets, and the.r estates
and property improved by it?
(The Meeting was proceeding when we went to press.)

SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES BERESFORD.-A
letter from Ha,tings, dated the 12th of May, advising the ar
rival of the Tigris there from India, states that Lord James
Beresford, of the 10th Hussars, committed suicide on the 27th
of April, ou board that vessel, being oahis passage to England.

EVENING EDITION.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURGII, APRIL 24.—Atta Ries Ibrahim
the Ambassador from Khiva, has already arrived at Oren-
burgh, where he waits for the departure of the carava 21, the
mission of the Russian Lieutcnanant, Aiton, who was taken
prisoner in the campaign against Khiva, is terminated. , It
is believed that he suffered himself to be mystified be- the
Englishman. Shakspeare, who had travelled from India. by
way of Boehara to Khiva, and thence hither. Shaksp earn
speaks only Persian, Aiton only Tartar, the Ambasss dor,
besides those two languages, speaks also Arabian. A free t rade
was spoken of between Cabul and Khivaand through that with
the other Turan Khanates. The Marquis of Clanricarde ►nade
him a present of a handsome blunderbuss. The war ar;aicst
the Circassians is to be carried on this year with great vigor,.
and the expedition to be on a very extensive scale. It will be
directed chiefly against the Abschasins, the Tschetschenzes,
and the Lesghinens. among whom the notorious fanatic
Schamil has again appeared; they are to be atta eked on
several sides at the same time ; the Ist of May is fixe, i for the
opening of the campaign. Experienced Generals dis approve
of the erection of forts on the Circasian coast of the 131 a ck Sea,
for they are nothing more than brick-houses, surrounded with
a rampart of earth ; as the garrison is obliged to live under
ground, a great part of it is ill, three-fourths of the men suffer
with opthatamia These forts cannot be ;defended, as wizen
hr.sttle fleet appears in the l3laek Sea, as the Circassiana direct
their arms chiefly against the officers (last year above a hun-
dred were killed), the private soldiers are now in the unibro,
resembling that of the officers. By an order of the day, just
issued, every officer must make at least one campaign, that
from May to October, against the Circassians.- —Hamburg&
Papers, May 11.

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—The electors of this.
borough had generally come to a resolution to support:
Sir Charles Napier at the next election. The Gallant ,
Officer has signified his intention of acceding to their
wishes, and we have little doubt will be returned trium-
phantly. He is one of those men who succeed in. almost.
every thing they undertake. As a proof how fortune
him, •
delights to honour he captured at the firs.; onset
Don Miguels' fleet, with fearful odds against hint ; with
the same rapidity and success, he seized all the strong
fortresses on the Syrian coast, and concluded his glorious
career in that quarter by insisting, and successfully too.
on honourable conditions for the brave old Eg:lptittn.
CORN-LAWS AND IRELAND.—The Orange papers of
Ireland are all extremely violent in their opposition to.
the Ministerial measure for modifying the Correllaws..
They declare that it will be the ruin of Ireland. How
the lumper-fed Irish can be more ruined than they are,
not to be wholly annihilated, surpasses our imagination
to conceive. We wonder only that they are not am
hilated, ruined, root and branch, by the prese at
law. Lord Stanley demonstrated on WednesclEty
evening, on the authority of a commercial letter, the it
the proposed tax of the Ministers of eight shilling
per quarter on foreign. wheat would be no pr rteci- .
Lion whatever to the Irish agriculturists, because ;'-heir
wheat is so very inferior to foreign wheat. "It Tv. ould
be," said the Noble Lord, " so far as Ireland is conee,e3ed,.
completely a free trade." Very curious this, that our
scale of duties must rise in proportion to the badness of
the produce. Very curious is it, too, that this eirct..ni- ••••
stance is only now found out. For if it holds vod
against the Ministerial plan it mist hold eq tts By '
good against the present scale, and the Irish in ust
be entitled to a protecting duty at least Bs. higl ier
per quarter than the Englis agriculturist. They .:.:are
very badly treated, are the Irish landlords, by not having
such an additional protection allowed them. They are
clearly as well entitled to, a duty of 305., as the Eng,-,-
lish landlords are to a duty of 225., and hey ought t
demand justice for Ireland, or else they ought to with- r ,
hold the supplies. Lord Stanley has long been a great'.
friend of Ireland, and he showed his regard for it onl,
Wednesday by demonstrating that justice will not be
done to it unless the protecting duty be raised at least
Bs. higher for Ireland than England.
FREE-LABOUR AND SLAVE-LABOUR.—The Tories-in
the House of Commons, particularly Jr.T Gladstone and
Lord Stanley, have taken great pains to show that the •
production of sugar is exclusively adapted to slave-
labour, while the production of coffee and ,cotton is pro-
per for free men. Women and. children can be em-
ployed, said Mr. Gladstone, in the latter ; aird, while the
cultivation of sugar had been given up by ti to Haytiens
since they had gained their liberty, they ha d extended
the cultivation of cotton and coffee. How extremely-
benevolent and kind, then, it is in these gel itlemen to.
stimulate the cultivation of sugar, which is 10 exclu-
sively fitted for slaves in our West India islam. Is by the
large bounty they insist on giving on that produ etion, in •
the
,shape of a discriminating duty ! Plain • common
sense, of which the Tories almost claim a mono-
poly, would at once conclude that the be t way
to encourage slavery, was to give a large b ninty
on that production which is peculiar to sla very,
and that no greater injury can be done the popul Lion
of our colonies than thus to make them produce • vbo •
is the proper produce only of slaves. The hi ut
Tories, in the name of humanity, insist on giv inf,' 1'
bounty on slave-labour, and the Anti-Slavery St cietY
join with the Tories. Our high sugar duties stir Ante •
slave-labour and stimulate the slave trade. They I wise -
the price of sugar in the market, by the whole am( 'nut
of the discriminating tax, and stimulate that cupid .ty,
which is stronger than the navy of Great Britain. r-ilr
Tories actually tax the suffering people of England inn,p ies:
name of humanity to keep up slavery and the slave tr
They are throughout co,r,ltstent humbugs.
r,
. TIIE FLUCTUATIONS IN TILE PRICE OF SUGAR "
those in the price of corn, and arise from the same caw icy
Ole limi.atioo of the tit4d of supply. We are confined tO
the empire for corn, and the consequence is that witl Lig
three years the price has risen from 36;1. to 88s. fer
quarter. Who can regulate his business succmsfullv, when
he his t) buy and sell by varying measures.. whi'cl-1 IS iu
fact what the Corn-laws actually cause ? -.We arc e."--d-
-fnel to our own colonies for our supply of sugar, an
the fluctuations in the price of it are nearly 'as' great %5
in the price of corn. In January, 1840, the price .
375. 11d. ; in September of the same year it w as 58
rise of 67 per cent. in eight months ; at preset a it has
again fallen to 365., and probably will fall, as time cropscome to hand, if they answer expectations; and the con-
dition of the people continue to be as depress acl, ofaS
present, to 28s. The fact is at present that the price
this almost necessary of life has varied nearly 7o per,
cent. in another eight months. Grocers and ilea lers 0,
all kinds, as well as consumers, must suffer mu c." 11 bY
these continual and great fluctuations. The only remedy.
' for which is to admit foreign sugars at a low aid y, 3'14
to allow the price to settle down to the cost of pl'odne'
tion. The Tories refuse to assent to so rational a pro"
position.

ROYAL MARINES.—By an order in (xi--
sin Cit
dated the Bth inst., an addition of 1,500 is to he made 0 the
Marine corps, with a corresponding number of officers.
Cita:les Kean appears for the first time this Ae
son at the Haymarket Theatre on Monday next. as Ma. Oct"'"
in which character he made so great an impression last ys'sr'
Miss Ellen Tree also makes her first appearance on the PO
evening.
THE FIRE OF DRONTHIEM.—The Sleet--
State Gazette announces that the value of the three Sius-4,e-red
.
and fourteen houses, anal thirty-nine warehouses, burnt at donethtie
thiem, is estimated at 566,800 species dollars, exclusive of nt
loss of furniture and merchandize, the amount of which
yet be estimated. The King sent a messenger on the silo,
the High Bailiff at Dronthiern, with directions to assist
sufferers from his Majesty's private properts. 111
It is very generally reported that his fte
Highness the Elector of Hesse contracted a few days ago am° "
ganatic mariage with the Countess of Reichenbach Lessonitz.
BRUSSELS, MAY 12.—We have hitherto beery
unable to give an extract of the proceedings of the foist;
general meeting of the Rhenish Iron Railway Company, -,of
at Cologne on the 4th of May. It is, however, an event d,
great importance, to which we called the attention of our reao
ers, who will see that the time is at hand when, thanks to 3,
iron railwa3s,Be.eium will possess the transit trade tlaroTo
Germany. At the end of the meeting Mr. Hanseemann,
ag
name of the Directors, said—" Though it is delicate to 5.Pe t-
with certainty of the future, I can, however, assure the
_reeat
ing, that all necessary measures have been taken, all" :the
orders have been given to the engineers.on the sections t na: the
rails may be entirely laid down by the Ist of August s'rrnos
latest and that in consequence the opening of the lit le
ors
Cologne to Aix-la-Chapelle has been fixed by the DLT'-'t
for the Ist of September next at farthest. •
We regret to announce a rumour which' 11,a.tis
reached us, that the extensive cotton-mills of R. J. Peel.-B
Sc
at Burton-on-Trent, are likely to be closed after the ',Aht
of another week. By this stoppage no less than ~.`'sse
hundred hands will be thrown out of employinentll,u 'oby
grieve to contemplate the certain consequent distress.
Reporter. I' bra -.ed
The Earl ofi'Leieester's birth-day was ce e,ot ni,
on Thursday last at Holkham Hall, and at Derehamt
ham, &n., his estates in Norfolk. There were grand dor. nti u
also at .ongford Castle, Derbyshire, where the .Earl.o Pb
Countess are staying. The venerable Earl completes:lll4-01
year, on that day.
ACCIDENT TO MR. CLARKSON IN HYDE
PAILK.—On Wednesday evening an accident, which had ilk 11
been attended with serious consequences; occurred to 10:'
Clarkson, the barrister, while returning from town to Ws'rel'i
dente, No. 12, Leonard-place, Kensington. It appears- 113,4.'
while proceeding on horseback along the green-ride leading"
the Kensingtoti-gate of Hyde-park, his horse, which was v dd
fresh, leecame unmanageable and ran away with the Lear' ie.
Gentleman, who, finding himself unable to controul the a 32P.
mal, to avoid coming in contact with the trees, unhorsed hi !.'n
self, and, falling with considet ab'e torte on the grass, &sleet
his right shoulder. He, hoe ever, managed to walk to the s' at:
gery of Messrs. Merriman, in Kensington-square, where it s fa-
reduced by Mr. Itorham, and Mr. Clarkson ; he then
ceed learn ed home, and we are happy to lea, is doint
,well.
EE YEARS IN PERSIA.—The in-wolfl3
part which Persia has recently been playing in the great. istre
sf Eastern politics, and which she will continue to elaY7s:,..
some time to come, must excite strong interest towards
Fowler's work, intitlerl " Three Years in Persia;" deserit'iZ
as it does in their minutest details, the domestic manners, tie,
moral and political condition, and the personal character Of
actual living inhabitants of that singular country, forts .it
Slab on his Throw., to the peasant in his mud-ilusiee
Novel. Alr. Fpoeur-sleiar:shalveenggthi,eennedhirme,aidednecgree,
degree of
extf4 1
journsyings in
knowledge on these maters scsrcely possessed by of prae's-af
our countrymen—certainly by none who have recently clic
to make the public partakers le their knowledge. His
adis
ventures in Koot &sten, his Tartar gallop across the desert,
impri-onment in the fortress of Malix lihira, his receptions
the Shah, Abbas Aleerza, and, above all, the curious discleso,,e
he makes re:Teethes Russian diplomacy in connectione Z".
Persil, will cause his book to he read with the greatest int:_s),
A AIACK'S.—The first ball of the second
point
any others,oo
seripton took pia, e on `Veda. sday night, and in P°,_in
uutnbe rs, there being upwards of 400 penes-rages of rantai;ed.
sent, eels very well attended. Weippert's band was ate
'I he Couutess of :lessee was the only Lady Patroness
tendance. The next ball is fixed for the 26th ins.tant-
TIIE SPITALFIELDS BALL. —lt IS r:11.110"ai
that the dress to be won on the above occasion by h that
Highness the Duchess of Kent, is of so costly a f of it,
it has employed several operatives in the manufactutare_r the
night ant day, fot the last month.. The arramteruen fd it it
forthcoming ball are of the most splendid description.e,efe,ost
expected that the assemblage of rank and fashion WM,
considerable. The Queen e ill appear in state. , ._ssf the
RAPID PA SSAGE.--The schoonet/L'axod at,
this port from Lisbon on the sSlt instant: aftrexi,",
151.6 i, of I.kissoli Casessin Wtsiseisoe sista'
to 5- days:—./3ristal tlqu _at( -
nishing ..saissasgsi of 4