The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

CURIOUS CHARGE of IMPOSTURE.
(Abridged from. the Cheltenham chronicle.)

At the public office. Cheltenham, on SaturJay, the
9th instant, Mr. Wiliams said he had a else of great
importance. to bring before the ncf,ce of the Magi.t rates.
There was a man in this town, under the name of Rem-
brand, who called himself a chiropodist, and professed
to kill corns. He extracted from those corns what he
called roots, and charged 55. for each of those roots. It
appeared, in point of fact, that instead of extracting any
thing like a " root," he put a pair of pincers to the corn,
and apparently took out something, but, instead of
taking out something, he took out nothing, and showed
to the person upon whom the operation was performed
something like a fibre, which, he pretended, was the
root of the corn, but which was in reality nothing but a
piece of bristle. A gentleman who was present had ac-
tually paid him 8/. 155., at the rate of ss. per brisee.
A lady, who had a -similsr operation performed upon
he, had a number of these bristles in her possession,
and a gentleman in Court had ant ttler. Mr. Williams
then proceeded to call the attention of Vac Magistratei
to the following clause in the Vagrant Act, which he
thought would reach a vagabond of this description ;
" Every person pretending to or professing to tell for-
tunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by
palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any
of her Maj .sty's subjects." Ile (Mr. Wiiliams) would
suggest that ore of the gentlemen who had been im-
posed upon should go with a policeman and bring Mr.
Rembrand before the Bench.

Mr. Henney said he was decidedly of opinion that be
ought to be brought up.
A policeman was sent, and returned in a few minutes
with a foreigner, dressed in the pink of fashioo, who
gave his name as Lee Rernbrand. He was followed
shot tly after by another gaily-dressed young man, whose
face was adorned with a pair of bushy whiskers and fine
black moustachios. He said his name was Nieman.
Mr. Rembrand—l vant to know vy I come here ?
Mr. Wdliams— You are brought here for imposing
on these gentlemen.

Mr.. lierribrand—Who is the gentleman who vill
stern' the conseconce for taking avay my ciaractere, by
sending policemen to my residongs?
The Rev. Charles Parker, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire.
stated—l came to Cheltenham on Monday last. Being
very much pained with corns I called at Mr. Beavan's,
chemist, High-street, to ask him if he could recommend
me to any chiropodist. He showed me an advertise-
ment in one of the papers, which directed me to 138,
Hieh-street. Tire terms of the advertisement v.:ere—
fee, 55. rer corn. I went accordingly, and called upon
Mr. Rembrand, who was engaged at the time. I saw
the taller one (Nieman) and went into his room and
took cif my boots. He cated a young man (Rem-
brand), who came in to operate on my foot. He began
to touch my toe, and after he had got my foot in his
hand he said, "you will fled there is more than one
corn in this toe, and my charge is ss. for every corn ;
but I shall perform a perfect cure, so that you will not
know that you ever had a corn, and your feet will be as
complete as though you had never been tormented with
one." Rcmbrand then began to operate, and with a
pair of pincers Le pinched my ei.ro, and seemed an
draw a point from it, vvi.h which he pricked
my hand, and said, " There, sir, that is one
corn." He put it in my hand, and it op.
peered like. a piece of bristle. I took very little
notice of it, taking for granted what he said, and blew
it off. It is the same sort of thing as that produced
by Mr. Clarke. I spoke once or twice while he was
operating, and the other person (Nieman) observed
that ho (meaning Rcmbrand) did not speak English ;
for though he had been in England soma time he had
mede no use of his time, and had not learrie.!, the lan-
guage. He went on, appearing to take out several of
these thingr, and showed each of them to me. lii
called each a corn. I forget the number he pulled out
of the first corr. He then took a great many from a
soft corn, between the toes. I think he appeared to
take twelve from that. When he bad finished the ope-
ration Nieman said he thought he must look at them to
see how it was done. lie said, "This is thoroughly done;
new, Sir, you will never be troubled again." When it was
finished he said, " The charge is Si. 155., being after the
rate of ss. for each of these roots." There were 35 of
these extracted from the three corns. I said " I have net
so much as 81. with me, but I will give you 5/. new, and
if I find myself perfectly cured I will gve you .5/.
more." He took the note, and desired me to write
my name upon it. There was some conversation be-
tween them, and an apparent reluctance to receive the
51., but they subsequently took the money. After this
they preserved me with a book, in which there were a
number of statements of cures performed by them, and
in which they wanted lee to write my name. I said I
could not do so, as I did not know that I was yet
cured. They put a little plaster upon each of them,
which they said :could smooth the skin, but on gaming
out I found exactly the same pa'n as I felt before. I
then went to the Montpaer Baths, and mentioned the
circumstance to the man who attends the baths, and
who is a corn cutter. He looked at my corns, and
said that they had not been cut at all, aid, to con-
vince me, pinched up a piece of the corn. He said
they were impostors, and had taken in a lady Vie day
beforesin a similar manner.

Mr. Richard William Clarke, chemist, Cheltenham—
I neat to Mr. Rembrand this morning, at the desire of
Mr. Parker, to have some corns extracted. He had a
sort of sharp instrument like a penknife, with which he
cut some small particles on the surface of the corn.
After he had cut it, he put some liquid on the corn.
He then took a pair of tweezers, and appeared to be
squeezing very hard, as if using great force, but I felt
nothing on my foot more than the pressure of his hand.
After using this force he took the tweezers from the
corn. The tweezers had something between them with
which he pricked my hand. He then told me " I wish
you to understand that this is a corn." I told him I
had no intention of paying him for every such corn.
He then endeavoured to persuade me to have more
taken out. He then went through the same pro-
cess, and I observed that there was nothing on
the corn. He showed me another larger. I asked
him for i#, and he then pulled it out of the
pincers. It is the same as I uow produce. He
wanted four pounds for the cure of both feet. I agreed
to gave him one pound for the cure of one foot. After
this one pound was agreed upon no more fibres were
produced. He merely scraped and cut the corns. I
produce the corn so called, which I took from the
tweezers. It appears to me to be a bristle. It seemed
to me very improbable that it was ever in my flesh.
He said he would show me the orifice where it came
out of. After the operation was over I asked him to
show me the orifice, upon which he said, " I have cut it
out."—(Laughter.) I paid him the 1/.
Mr. Clarke cross-examined—When I went to these
eltlenlen I was not fully convinced that they we.e
imposters. If I found out that they were impostors I
certainly went there for the purpose of bringing the case
before the Magistrates. When I took the piece out
of the pincers I imagined that it was not taken out of
my corn. I agreed with him to cure my corns, and
they called the small thing that I produce a corn.
The Magistrates committed thorn to Nortblcach for
14 days.

MENTAL DERANGEMENT FROM

INTOXICATION.
The drunkard injures and enfeebles his own nervous
system, and entails mental disease upon his family. His
daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak,
wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure
of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the
ordinary calls of duty. This heritage may be the result
of a ruined and diseased constitution, but is much more
likely to pro,:eed horn that long-continued nervous cz-
c.lement, in which pleasure was sought in the alternate
exaltation of sentiment and oblivion, which exhausted
and wore out the mental powers, and ultimately pro.
duced imlecility and paralysis, both attributable to dis.
ease of the substance of the brain. How far the mono.
mania of inebriety is itself a disease, nod may be more
Vie development, the consummation, than the corn-
rnenetnent 'of a hereditary tendency to derangement,
this is' not the place to point out ; but there i. every
reason to believe that it not only acts upon, and renders
thetn deleterious.:. whatever latent t lint may exist, but
vitiates or impairs the sources of health for several gene-
rations. That the effects of drunkenness are highly
iaimie.al to a permanent Beal. by state of the brain, is
often proved at a great distance of time from the course
of intemperance, and long after the adoption of regular
habits. Some time since, I was called upon to treat a
remarkably fine boy about sixtem years old, among
whosn relations no case of deraogenaent could be pointed
nutvand for whose sudden malady no cause could be as-
signed except puberty and a single glass of spirits. His
father, however, had been a confirmed drunkard, was
subjett to the delirium and depression following inebriety,
and died of delirium tremerie. The bey recovered. His
case presented many points of interest. His head increased
rapidly, and the two hemispheres ware of unequal size.
The disease W,:,s intermittent ; the f ieat passing a week
iii furious incoherent madness, and the succeeding week
in perfect tran.quiltity and consciousness. These states
wereund ssleepeapraotrelletohargry, connected by a short and pro-
i
differing altogether from the
p:tient's ordinary sleep, and recognised by him as the
Culminating point of his disorder. At present I have
two patients who appear to inherit a tendency to un-
he l!hy action of the brain from mothers addicted to
chinking; and another, an idiot, Whose father was a
druukard.—Dr. Brown on Insallity.

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graceful riot and tumult, in consequence of a field
preacher haying indulged in the expression of senti-
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'reeitla.eisners of his who hissing the speaker, but as he persevered in his line of
argument his hearers lost all patience and commenced
sur-
rounded his rostium. The preacher in turn healed his
supporters, and stick in hand turned upon his assailants,
A general skirmish ensued, in the course of which many
heavy blows were exchanged. The fight assumed a
serious appearance, when the police eauie in view and dr:
two belligerent parties fled.

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STEAM ENGINES IN FRANCE.
(From thtz Monileur In

If intelligence be, as it is asserted, the distinguish-
iag characteristic of our population, we must confess
that good sense is a quality tor which we are less re-
markable. By the term "good sense," we mean a
just appreciation of that which is gsod and uajul ;
which stops not at the present, but seeks to penetrate
into the future ; it is, in our opinion, the quality most
desirable for a nation to possess, for it is the source of
ninny- others, and the surest guarantee of prosperity
and strength. Good sense is a slfeguard against the
influence of prejudice, which has done, and still con-
tinues to do, so much mischief in France. _ _

It has been the work of many years, and of great
efforts on the part of our most distinguished manu!a2-
turers, to make the French people believe that it is
to construct steam engines in the French
manufactoriet.

Ttie government and public administrations, who in
general e;cape, with difficulty from being affected by
the common prejudices, have hitherto ordered from
England the engines which they required for their
steam vessels ; and up to a very recent period our lar,;e
establishments, slthough prepared to contend with the
foreigner, solicited in vain a share in their construction.
Our readers will recollect with whit energy and con-
stancy we have sustained this national cause. At length
we have reason to believe we ha►e gained our point.
In ordering engines from England we are obliged to
submit to onerous condition•, and to delays without end.
The English manufacturers, profiting by, or rather
Awing, the infatuation which exists amongst us on this
subject, but which, it must be confessed, has sonic
grounds in the superiority of their work, impose their
own laws upon the purchasers ; so much so, that the
orders which are addressed to them partake more of the
character of requests.
The orders given to our own manufacturers, and
given as an act of grace, have been, on the contrary,
surrounded with the most rigorous conditions. The
fillowing are our remarks on this subject on the 2,1 of
Feb., 1840 :

" Toe English manufacturer on the day on whieh the
order is given, receives a third of the price agreed on.
The French manufacturer receives nothing and has t
give security. The signature of the former to the con-
tract is dewed sufficieet, whilst the latter, if he wishes
to be accepted, must be provided with the signature
or security of a respectable banking-house."
It is but just to acknowledge that matters are al-
tered. Notwithstanding the many grounds which they
hid for discouragement and disgust, our principal manu-
facturers, having a knowledge of their powers and con-
fidence in the future, have at length succeeded in van-
quishing these absurd prejudices, as far, at least, as be-
ing admitted to the honour of a joint execution of the
work with the English contractors.
Our readers may have seen in our Journal of the
26th of last month the announcement of the receipt of
the engines furnished by Messrs. Schneider, Brothers,
of Creuxot, for the steam-boat Piuton. A Commis-
sion, composed of Navy officers and engineers, and
named by the Vice-Admiral, Maritime Prefect of Brest,
devoted thrce sittings to the examination and proof of
these engines, and came to the following conclusions :
" Ist. That all the conditions of the agreement. had
been faithfully fulfilled, and that all the forge-work and
castings had been executed with remarkable care.
" 2d. That the power of the engine was superior to
that of the English engine in the Veloce, the model
prescribed.
" 31 That in testing its full power outside the road-
stead of Brest, the resu:ts of the experiment had been
most satisfactory, the engines having constantly worked
with the greatest reguiaritj-, and with an ease of move-
ment which proved the perfect adjustreeet of its diffe-
reet parts."
It has been pretended for a long time, with that want
of reflection and obstinacy of prejudice which show the
absence of good sense, that we should never attain this
perfection of adjustment which distinguishes the works
of the hest English minufacturcrs. Here is a recent
and wcll•authenticeted answer. We could c;te several
others, less important it is tree. But what a difference
:7;13 there then in the tools of our estehlishments I

Our principal engine manufacturers are now provide]
ts.th all the tools which arc used in the most important
of the EogUsit workshops. But in addition to this, they
have improved upon them and invented other instru-
ments. Tce foremen and workmen of our manufac-
tories me on the road to improvement. The courageous
sacrifices of the master manufacturcra theniselves,io the
midst of so many difficulties and obst ides, have at
length naturalized in France this powerful and magnifi-
cent branch of industry, so little appreciated, so mis-
takingly judged of during the first years of its introduc-
tion. The success already obtained will be the source
of new successes ; and s.ve are happy to think that Go-
vernment will no longer hesitate to afford the manufac-
ture that protection and encouragement which events
may render neces ary. We hope, also, that the spirit
of association better enlightened, sod recovered from
the injuries caused by a false industry, will bring new
energy to the manufacture of large engines for steam-
boats.

If we have not spoken of locomotives it is not that
we do net attach to them also a very greet importance.
But the proverb is well known, qui peat le Alas peut le
mains (who can do more can do less). Tne perfection
in the workmanslip of copper and of wrought and cast-
iron, obtained by our principal establishments, can
leave no reasonable doubts respecting the power to
construct excellent locomotives. The great line of
railroad from Strasbourg to Basle is very well served
by French locomotives.
The Ang'omania, which we know influences the
engineers and English stokers employed on our rail-
roads, has assured, up to this, a p:eference for English
locomotives ; when the least accident is heard of it is
immediately conjectured that the fault must lie in a
French locomotive, whereas, it is more frequently to
be attributed to one of English construction. We
ourselves, can hear testimony to this.
The prejudices to which we have alluded were con-
tracted at an early period, and the grounds for them
cc ise to exist. Soon, perhaps, we shall hare occasion
to judge them more severe!y, and to those who will
confidently assert that the French locomotives cannot
sustain a comparison with the English, it must be per••
'rated to us to say that this opinion is neither just nor
national.

POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE DE

VALOGNES.
(From L'Audienee, Paris Journal.)
Esther Lelandais, Paul Leboulanger (her husband),
residing at Bricquenec, and Anne Flambard, of Barne-
villa, were all placed on the bane des prevenus, on a
charge of practising sorcery.
Esther Lelandais is.a woman of great knowledge and
science ; she consults the cards, and she is acquainted
both with the future and the past. To those who con-
sult her she predicts, first a few reverses of fort une,
which are generally to ba followed by great happiness
and good fortune. But her power does not stop here.
Does a poor mother fear that the chances of the
drawing of the recruitement will go against her son, she
goes to Esther Lelandais, who will secure to him a
"lucky number." Has another an absent child, whore
return she is anxiously awaiting, Esther Lelandais
will give her consolation. A young maiden has been
deceived, and is a mother; she is poor, and consults
Esther Lelandais, who puts her en train to bring the
faithless lover to book. An old maid wants a husband,
Esther Lelandais finds her one ; or has another been
seluced, Esther Lelandais will bring the delinquent to
book, and make hint marry the mother of his child. Has
this girl quarrelled with her lover, or that desponding
one been vanquished by a rival, Esther Lelandais will
restore the lovers to etch other's arms in the one case,
and make the rival an object of hatred in the °Vier.
Elms a woman complain of a bad husband—Esther
Lelandais will change the man's character, and render
him the most attentive of devoted husbands; and
should there be a hidden treasure in an old house, this
" cunning woman" will convert it itt a a " treasure
trove."

In short there is 'lathing tao difficult for the clever-
ness of E&titer Lelindais I But all her power depends
upon this Pimple fact—that her patients give her their
looney or their valuables.

The public prosecutor had, however, looked with
jealous. eyes upon her talents, which he was illiberal
enough to regard as a system of '.eseroquerie," and she
and her husband had accordingly been apprehended.
The other prisoner, Ann Flambard, was not accused of
being an accomplice, but had been detected in sending
a fee of five francs to the renowned Esther Lelandais.
No less than thirty-four witnesses were forthcoming
on finding that the " witch" was trapped. Some had,
it appeared, become undeceived since they had paid for
their experience ; but the faith of others was un-
shaken. An unhappy mother whose son, in spite of
the sage's prescience, had found himself a sailor on
board the ship Friedland, drew btick with horror from
the bench on which sat the redoubtable prisoner, and
seemed to fear that she might be bewitched by the very
contact. On the ether hand, a young man spoke up
for the old beldame, and said that he had through
her interposition drawn a lucky nnmber and escaped
the conscriptier.
A woman, whose son had been drawn in 1839, de-
posed, " I had heard of the boasted powers of Esther
Lilindais, and went to Bricquenec to consult her.
Havizz dealt the cards, she drew the nino of
spade; and said,' Your son will be drawn ; however,
if you will give me five francs 80 centimes, I will
get you out of the difficulty.' I gave her the
sum she required, and she then addressed these
word:: to her husband. ' Put your shoes ou,
Paul, and go cff to Velognes with this letter
to my Monsieur d'Affaires.' On the next day I went
t•a her, when she told me her Monsieur d'Affaires re-
qui:ed two francs more. I complied with the demand,
and she then produced a paper, upon which was a
number, and told me to kneel down and say five paters
and five ayes for the souls in purgatory, adding that
she would be by that means enabled to change the
number.

Other narrat:ves of a similar character were made to
the Court, who seamed Esther Lelandais to five years,

imprisonment for her sorcillages, and her hush Ind to
three months' imprisonint.nt for participating in her
fraululent praetics.

SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR.
The half-yearly meeting of the Syno,i of Glasgow
and Ayr was held in the Tron Church on Tuesday la,t.

Mr.-Stewart of Erskine brought forward a memo-
rial, to the effect that, whereas the state of farm ser-
vants, male and female, as to education, religious habits,
and morality, is very deplorable, and is fast deterio-
rating in country parishes—and whereas, from the
migratory habits of this class, the institution of re-
medies likely to cure the evil does not lie with Kirk
Sessions and Presbyteries, whose jurisdiction is limited
to small localities, but with the Synod, whose jurisdic-
tion extends over a whole province—this Synod should
adopt such measures as they, in their wisdom, shall see
fit, to remedy the evils, and recommend the subject to
other Synods. Mr. Stewart supported the overture,
and moved that it be adopted.
Mr. M.Farlan, of Renfrew, seconded the motion,
which was agreed to ; and, after some discussion, it
was also agreed, that a Committee be appointed to in-
qtyre into the nature and extent of the evils referred to,
and the best remedy which can be provided therefor,
and to report to next meeting of Synod.
Mr. Fleming brought forward an overture, to the
effect that, while it is gratifying to observe the progress
of Church extension, and in providing for the means of
promoting a knowledge of the truths of the Gospel,
there is re ison to fear that personal and family relig'on
is not making progress with the means of grace—the
Synod should inquire how far this was attended to
throughout their bounds, and appoint a sermon to be
preached on the subject on any Sabbath convenient in
the month of Noveinher nest.

After the Rev. Gentleman had stated his reasons for
bringing forward the overture, a lengthened discussion
ensued as to whether the overture was not too indefi-
nite, personal and family religion being the subjects of
ministrations at all times. In the course of the dis-
cussion, Mr. Brewster inquired whether the overture
referred to family worship, to the mere form and pro-
fession of Christianity, without its power and spirit.—
(Interruption.) He heard some " chickiog" in the
body of the meeting. So far as his observations
went, he found that the Pharisees of our Lord's Day
had their counterpart in our own day.—(Cries of
" 0), oh.") He proceeded to inquire whether by
personal religion they implied that they were to use
their utmost endeavours to procure bread to every
human creature, and to obtain a repeal of unrighteous
lam!. The speaker was here interrupted by numerous
calls 'of " question." Alter a good deal of confusion,
the Chairman interpose.' his authority, and order was
restored. It was agreed that the Synod should recom-
mend to ministers to be especially diligent and faithful
in promoting not only personal, but also family religion
and worship, and iu enjoining on heads of families the
important duty of taking all care that their servants and
children shall be duly instructed in the Shorter Cate-
chism, and other etaldards of the Church.

On Wednesday the Synod met at eleven o'clock,
when a report was presented by Mr. M‘Farian of Ren-
frew, Convener of the Committee on Sabbath Desecra-
tion, against the running of the mail by railway on
Sabbath, or the use of railway trains on the Lord's
Day for any purpose whatever. After some discussion,
it was ultimately agreed to petition Parliament and
memorialise the Postmaster-General on the subject.
Mr. Stow then introduced a memorial in favour of
the Glasgow Normal School. He supported the claims
of that institution upon the Synad at considerable
length, and it was ultimately agreed to recommend that
collections be made within its bounds for the benefit of
the schocl.

Mr. Brewster entered his dissent against the pro.
posed recommendation, on account of the distress which
at present prevails in Paisley. He thought the mem-
bers of that Court should appropriate any funds at
their disposal to the relief of the starving operatives of
the country, before they implied them to any other pur-
pcsl whatever.
Ile papers were read in the cage of Mr. Brewster,
as to preaching in the Chartist church on a Sabbath
in May last, and Mr. Brewster was heard on a preli-
minary objection, and was answered by a member of
the Paisley Presbytery. 03 the motion of the Rev.
Dr. Buchanan the whole case was remitted to the
Presbytery of Paid, y.
The Synod adjourned till seven o'clock evening,
when they took up another case from Paisley, in re-
ference to a quarrel between Mr. Brewster and one of
the Superintendents of the Poor within his parish.
Parties were heard, Mr. Brewster speakini: upwards of
three hours on the point. After which the decision of
the Presbytery of Paisley in the case was isfErmitl.
The Court then adjourned till the next half-yearly
meeting, in April.

CORN-LAWS AND THE CHARTER.
(From the Manchester Times of Saturday.)
A meeting of the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly As-
, sedation took place at the Corn Exchange, Hanging
Ditch, last night, when Colonel Thompson was to be
present to address them, and the public were invited to
attend. 13y half-past seven o'clock, the time announced
for the proceedings to commence, there could not be
less than 2,000 persons present, aid the Colonel, on
his entrance, was greeted with loud cheers. Mr. Hol-
lend, surgeon, wag called to the chair. Colonel
Thompson was received with loud cheers, and listened
to throughout, with a few interruptions only from the
Chartists, who on this occasion had aesetnbled again
to play their old game of interruption. Speaking
of the agitation for the Charter, and that for the re-
peal of the Corn-laws, Le said much difference of
opinion existed as to which ought to be sought for first.
He said, boldly, that he wanted to obtain the Charter,
and therefore he came here to advocate the repeal of
the Corn-laws. He quarrelled with no man for holding
a different opinion on that subject, but he said the way
to carry an important fortress was to advance upon the
weak point first,and not upon the strong one. He knew
there were those who said, "carry the Charter, and then
we should be able to carry every thing else." Now hear
his feelings on the subject. He had already said that
the policy of a skilful general was not to attack the
strongest point of the enemy's fortification, but the
weakest. Now he had some doubt for that reason
whether they ought to seek the Charter first. The
story that if they got the Charter first they should be
able to secure the repeal of the Corn-laws afterwards,
reminded h m of a story he used often to bear when a
youth—about the way to catch birds. The way wes
by getting near enough to put a little salt on their
tails —(Laughter.) Nlw he stood not there to deny
that fact, but simply to ask how they were to place the
salt on the birds' tails?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He proceeded to argue that the Corn-laws were the
weakest point of attack, by a comparison of the
strength of the two patties (the Chartist and anti-Corn-
law) in the House of Commons ; and observed that
while the Chartists had only about 39 supporters in the
House of Commons, the repeelers mustered 200, or
more than five times as many.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Birch, a mem-
ber of the Association, addressed the meeting in an
able speech, and moved—" That this meeting views
wish disgust the conduct of Sir Robert Peel aid his
associate monopolists, in advising her Majesty to pro-
rogue Parliament, without considering the destitute
condition of the labouring classes; but that fully con-
vinced of the necessity for the total, immediate, and
unconditional repeal of the corn and provision mono-
polies, we pledge ourselves never to cease our efforts till
we have attained that object, and the obnoxious laws
are swept from the statute book.
Mr. CULVERWELL seconded the resolution, and read
some statistics taken at Coventr3, showing the eff tag
of high price of food in increasing reortelity—the in-
crease being at the rate of from 77 in 10,000 in the
years of plenty (1833-4-5) to 121 in 10,000 in the
years which had succeded 1836.
At the conclusion of this address, when the Chair-
man was about to put the motion, the Chartist, Chris-
topher Do3le, accompanied by Leech (the 'two men
who disturbed the meetings at the Town Hall), ad-
vanced to the platform, and Doyle insisted upon stating
his sentiments, and proposing an amendment.
The CHAIRMAN assented to his proposition, and ex-
pressed his willingness to allow full scope to free dis-
cussion.
A great part of the meeting, however, expressed their
disapprobation, and Doyle stood a considerable time
amidst a storm of invectives, vainly striving to get a
hearing.
VINCENT, of Bath, and LEECH, both came forward in
turn to request the meeting to listen ; hut the
answer was, they would hear them or anybody
but Doyle! Doyle, however, persevered, and at
length succeeded in uttering a few sentences and read-
ing his amendment, which was in favour of the Charter.
LEECH seconded the amendment, and asked if the
middle class and working class interests were the
same, as had been stated, why did not the former
come forward and give the working classes a just
particication in the fruits of their labour? If there
were so many more Members in the Commons for
repeal than for the Charter his remedy 1 I:as to sweep
the House away altogether.—(A. voice—How would
you do it ?" and laughter.) He admitted that was a
hard question, and the way to do it and the applica-
tion of the means must be put in force at the same
time. He then proceeded to argue that the cause of
the pee ple's distress was machinery, and denied *at
Colonel Thompson's advice to operate upon the Legis.
leture by agitation at the elections would have a bene.-
ficial result.
Mr. FINNIGAN came forward to answer him amidst
great cheering, and said that he thought, when an
amendment was put to a meeting, it
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stringent rules of the factories, where a man, when
he should be at work, was not allowed to read ; but
admitting it to be true—was that a reason why the
aristocracy, for their own benefit, should tax the food
of the hungry and starving operative ?—( Loud cheers.)
But Mr. Leech bad said the House of Commons, with
200. =ohm for it, would not give Repeal; thou from