The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

MORNING
_SUN

MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR.

,-:Yesterday evening a meeting of the working classes
of London was called at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand, pursuant to advertisement, to congratulate Mr.
F. O'Connor on his discharge from York Castle.
Shortly after eight o'clock the Chair was taken by
Mr. FUSSELL, when the following resolutions were put
from the Chair :

The first, proposed by Mr. WATKIN and seconded by
Mr..PARK2R. was as follows :
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the incar-
ceration of l'eargus O'Connor,Esq., was unjust to himself,
and an insult and injury to the oppressed millions whose
cause Le had so nobly advocated ; and that we hail his
re-awearance among us at this important crisis with joy
ant', gratitude as a favourable omen to our cause."
The second resolution was moved by Mr. WHEELER,
ttnd seconded by Mr. 'WALTON :
That this meeting is of opinion that until the Charter
becomes the law of the land, no justice can be expected
by the working classes, nor any relief from the exces-
sive burthens under which they now suffer.
On the motion of Mr. WILSON the following resolu-
tion was put :
" That this meeting pledges itself to do all in its
power to make the Charter become the law of the land
—to recal Frost, Williams, and Jones, and to assist our
oppressed brethren in Ireland in their endeavours to ob-
tain a repeal of the Legislative Union."
Mr. GOODFELLOW having seconded the resolution,
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR rose, and was received with
loud cheering. 'He said, although his medical attendants
had advised his sojourn at the sea side for some time, yet
he chose to forego their advice, and plunge once more
into the ocean of agitation. It was idle for the people
to suppose that they would be • one• whit the better off
under the administration of the 'one great party in the
State than under that of the other. He was delighted to
see in the present vast assemblage 'not the resusci-
tation of.the cause of Chartism, but the gigantic strength
it, had gained since his committal to prison. They had
fought the battle so nobly, that Peel with his majority
tn
in the House ofComons, and his physical force out of
14, had no chalice of ever riding roughshod over the
eople. He should be willing to meet Mr. Sydney
Smyth, and every other man who had written and
Vcken against Chartism ; but he should be very sorry to
meet some of them in their own Billingsgate slang. He
considered the W higs to be done, and done for ever, and
society was now composed but of two parties, the
Tories and the Chartists ; and could any man doubt
On which side the victory would be ? The Whigs
told them that the Queen was now a State prisoner in
her Palace. Would to God (continued the Learned Gen-
tleman) you were all such State prisoners. There is one
thing, however, I can assure you all of, that she is not
living in solitary confinement, or on skilly ; neither does
she take her exercise on the treadmill. Had the Whigs
remained in office for another year Chartism would have
an end, and Republicanism be the order of the day.
They had given the people Act after Act : they first
gave them starvation, and they next gave them coercion
to make them submit to that starvation. The
question of free trade had not been properly analysed.
The duty had been taken off leather, but the mechanic
still experienced no diminution in the price of his shoes,
and the same would be the case with corn, and the other
commodities about which the Whigs in the eleventh
hour set up such a shout. The fact was, that the great
',capitalist, in the capacity of importer, the corn factor,
the miller, and the baker, would all swallow up the pro-
fits, while the working man would still pay the same
-price. What he wanted was to make all the working
classes producers themselves. He asserted—and he
wished his assertion to be published to the world—that
before seven months elapsed Sir Robert Feel would cease
to be Prime Minister of England. Before that time he
(Mr. O'Connor) would have visited every town in Eng-
land and Scotland, and procured four millions of signa-
tures with which to meet the Right honourable
Baronet on the Treasury benches, and hurl him from
his seat.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") It would be a rather
dangerous experiment in the present state of affairs to
send over the threatened number of regiments to Ireland.
There was an old adage, " While the cat is out the mice
may play;" and the Rt. Hon. Bart. might perhaps find the
six points of the Charter and the repeal of the Union
were handmaids, and should go hand-in-hand together.
The time had now come when the oligarchy had banded
themselves together, and he called upon the people to
do the same. The Learned Gentleman, after touching
upon several topics at great length, amongst which were
the cases of the Dorchester labourers, and of Messrs.
Frost, Jones, and Williams, concluded amidst loud and
long-continued cheering, by professing his eternal fide-
lity—even to the death—to the Peoples' Charter, and
his determination by every means in his power to pro-
moe the repeal of the Legislative Union between
England and Ireland.

A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman,
the meeting separated, after giving three cheers for Feargus
O'Connor, and three cheers for Frost, Jones, and Wil-
liams. To the latter manifestation of feeling the female
portion of the auditory, who were very well-dressed and
respectable-looking, seemed to respond with much
warmth and sympathy.

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.

(From Morning Post.)
We understand that Alexander Pringle, Esq., M.P.
for the county of Selkirk, and J. Milnes Gaskell, Esq.,
M.P. for Wenlock, have been appointed Lords of the
Treasury.
Sir Wm. Rae is appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland.
We are also informed that Captain Sir George F. Sey-
mour and the Hon. Captain Gordon are to be two of the
Lords of the Admiralty.

It is generally belie'ved that Sir Edward Sudden has
not accepted the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
and that the proper tribute of respect having been paid
to the fair and honourable claims, united in his person, of
previous possession and transcendant ability, this high
office will devolve upon an eminent member of the Irish
bar. The names of Mr. Pennefather and Mr. Sergeant
Lefroy have been mentioned. It is probable that the
former of these learned gentlemen will be the Irish
Chancellor ; but what we venture to announce as posi-
tively certain is, that the present Ministers of the Crown,
in filling so important an office, will not insult a nation
for the sake of perpetrating a job.
It is generally believed that Mr. Emerson Tennent, a
very useful and diligent member of the House of Com-
mons, is to be the new Clerk of the Ordnance.
We hear that the Earl de la Warr is to be the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Marchioness of Abercorn the
Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty. These appoint-
ments are propable, but we do not vouch for the accuracy
of -the statement.

It is understood, and we mention the fact in order to
allay public anxiety and curiosity as to appointments in
her Majesty's household, that the Countess of Gains-
borough, Lord Byron, and most of the other exalted
persons who have the honour of holding oZces at Court
without any close connection, personal or political, with
the late administration, have consented to retain their
several positions.—Morning Post.

MR JOHN S. WORTLEY AND THE
£5O TENANTS AT WILL •
• (From the Leeds Mercury.)
A careful examination has been made of the votes
given at the late West Riding election, and the result is
such as to throw great light both upon that individual
contest and upon the merits of the famous clause intro-
duced into the Reform Act by the present Duke of Buck-
ingham and Chandos, for giving votes to the 501. tenants
at-will. The following remarks and facts are from a
correspondent, who has the very best sources of informa-
tion :
" Mr. Wortley is reported to have said, in moving the
amendment to the Address, that it was not long since
her Majesty had put a question to the Country respecting
the conduct of her Ministors, and had asked the country
to return an answer which would, in some measure, guide
her in the course which she should pursue. He himself
appeared there as the bearer of a portion of that answer.
lie had, indeed, the honour to bear not the least insigni-
ficant portion of that answer.
That Mr. Wortley is the bearer of the answer which
the landed aristocracy of the West Ridinc, have given, is
perfectly true ; but whether he is bearer' to the answer
people Which the
foiogiveni, ia very different question,
as will
appear from the n, analysis
of the poll :
Total . Wortley. Denison. Milton. Morpeth.
................ 13,165 ... 12.780 ... 12,080 .. 12 031
OCeupiets at 50/.... 3,627 3,566 ... 1864 ..: 1,871
Freeholders and}
9,538 ... 9,224 ... 10,216 ... 10,160
Copyholders...
" is manifest from this analysis (which has been
made with great care, and which may be fully depended
upon), that the voice of the people of the West Riding
was stifled at the recent election by the tenantry of the
great landholders, whose representative Mr. Wortley
undoubtedly is but that Lords Morpeth and Milton are
the chosen of the independent electors is equally clear.
Mr. Wortley is the offspring of the Chandos clause,
without which he never would have been returned for
the West Riding of Yorkshire."
The above facts are to us most consolatory. They
r. show that the independent part of the West Riding con-
, stituency, by a decided majority, supported the principles
of Reform, and their champions, Lords Morpeth and
Milton. The independent electors, therefore, have main-
tained their consistency, and not dishonoured the Rid-
ing. But the 50i. tenants at will have turned the balance
to the other side, and have returned Mr. Wortley and
Mr. Beckett Denison.

FAILURES IN LIVERPOOL.—The depression
in every branch of trade which has unhappily so long
prevailed, and which has been most severely felt in the
manufacturing districts, and by those immediately con-
nected with them, is beginning to produce its natural
•consequences. Failures and commercial embarrassments
are on the increase, and we regret to state that some of
the houses which have stopped during the present week,
both here and in Manchester, are large firms, and their
stoppage must produce serious consequences. Foremost
amongst these is the large and respectable establishment
of Messrs. Molyneux,Witherby, and Co., of this town, ex-
tensively engaged in the cotton trade, whose liabilities we
have heard variously estimated at between 300,0001. and
400,0001. The house is only of five or six years stand-
ing, and, until recently, has maintained a high character.
The principal entered business with a princely fortune.
The liabilities of Messrs. J. Maury and Son, also engaged
in the cotton trade, will not, it is said, exceed 60,000/.,
one-third of which is secured. Four or five Manchester
houses of more or less repute, and whose united liabilities,
our correspondent informs us, amount to between 300,0001.
and 400,0001., have declared their inability to meet their
engagements.—Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday.
The General Steam Navigation Companys
packet the Giraffe, R. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived
off the Custom-house on Sunday with the Dutch mail.
A statute of Nicolas Poussin is to be erected at Les
Andelys, the native place of the great painter, between
Minter and Rouen. The Council-General of the Euro
l 8 voted booof. towards this purpose.