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ti-.e subject into cons:deration before the prorogatio-
th,l should take advantae-e of the advice of the indivi
dual who spoke fora the gallery, and petition for their
dismissal altogaher.,-7 (Uhe,rs.) 6tanley and • Pee
might attribut.. the distress to over-production, and at
undue supply of paper money • but until they attributed
it to the right eau'e they would never think of the righ.
reinedy.—(Cheers.) His own decided opinion was, tbai
there was nothing to hope for from Sir Robert Peel'
while he held to the eliding scale, which. was neither
more nor leSs than a mischievous device for impoverish-
ing the country and sliding money into' ele pockets o!
the landlords.—(Cheers.) If the present Poi-Hamm
did not do something, he was afraid the winter
would not pass over without some fearful outbreak.—
[The Dean then read the resolution.] If:they septi,
rated without directing their attention to the Corn.-
laws, he felt quite satisfied that there would be n,
other remedy found hut an extension of the suffrage
—(Hear, and general cheering.) All that had been
done in Parliament during the last few years, will the
exception of the penny poStage, was nothing but a fight
between Whig and Tory.—(Cheers.) And he had no
doubt but the present Tory majority would have the ef-
fect of making the people rise as one man, and demand
an extension of the suffrage.—(Great cheering.) L
would tend to reconcile the middle and working casses,
and he thought it would be well if the working classes
would join the middle classes in the present struggle—
(Hissing and cheering from the gallery)—on the expres:,
understanding that the middle classes would thereafter
join the working classes in their demand for an extension
of the suffrage.—(General cheering.) The Dean then
proposed the third resolution.
Finally a memorial was adopted, to be entrusted to
the care of the City Member, to be presented in the way
• he thought best to her Majesty.
A vote of thanks was then carried, by acclamation, to
the Provost for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting
broke up.

PUBLIC TEA MEETING AT BIR-

MINGHAM.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.).

On Friday evening last the members 0e the Christian
Chartist Church, and other friends of the Charter, gave
a tea party to Mr. John Collins, in order to testify the
esteem they felt for their respected fellow-townsman for
the consistency of his conduct in the cause of Chartism.
The party assembled in the Christian Chartist church,
which was tastefully decorated with festoons and flowers,
and devices emblematical of ultra-Chartist principles;
Mr. Vincent in the Chair.

After a Variety of singing and recitation,
Miss CROWTHER rose, and presented to Mr. Vincent
a neatly silver-mounted glass inkstand on behalf of the
Church.

Mr. VINCENT returned thanks in an effective speech,
in the course of which he counselled his hearers to active
exertions in the spread of Chartism.
Miss WIUTEHOUSE, after an address to Mr. John Col-
lins, thanking him for his faithful adherence to Chartist
principles, presented him with a splendid gold watch and
a silver-mounted inkstand, for and on behalf of the mem •
hers and friends of the Church.

Mr. COLLINS rose and was warmly greeted. He ex-
pressed the gratitude he felt for the many acts of kind-
ness he had received at their hands ; but more especially
for their kindly sympathy and present on this occasion.
Those who knew him best could more correctly appre-
ciate the sincerity of his conduct, the purity of his mo-
tives, and•the faithfulness of his adherence to the glo-
rious principles of Chartism.—(Cheers.) He had never
swerved from those principles, and never would.—
(Cheers.) Unjust aspersions had been cast upon his
character, and many honest-hearted people might for a
time be misled by those aspersions : but he was deter-
mined to live them down by devoting every faculty of
his soul to removed attempts to expand the minds of his
fellow-workmen, and to realise for them the whole of the
principles contained in the Charter.—(Cheers.) He
would not consent to compromise a single principle ;
they would have the Charter, and nothing less. Mr. C.
sat -down amidst much applause.

After a variety of singing, the meeting broke up a
eleven o'clock.

Christian Chartism is working a world of good in Bir-
mingham. Two churches are open in Birmingham, and
wonhip is also performed in fourteen houses. No place
is large enough to hold the people who are anxious to
attend. Their preaching is of a very high order. No
doctrinal points are involved. The morality of Scripture
is nobly enforced, as well as a most expansive view of
the Deity, the Saviour, and man's duties, religious, so-
cial, and political. Mr. O'Neil, the pastor, a powerful
young man, is a sincere Christian and an enthusiastic
Chartist. He also possesses the elements of a good edu-
cation. Nis intelligence and excellent conduct are at-
tracting general attention. Christian Chartism promises
0) become a powerful means for effecting man's emanci-
pation from all tyranny.

MR. BUCKINGHAM AND THE
QUARTERLY REVIEW.

In the last number of the Quarterly Review is an
article entitled " Buckingham and Coombe on Ame-
rica," in which the writer evinces a strong deire to pro-
duce unfavourable impression., not so much against
the books as against their writers. In a letter ad-
dressed to the public prints on this subject, by Mr.
Buckingham, is the following statement of a fact,
which ought to be as widely known as the articles in
the Review itself, that the bane and antidote may both
be equally public ; and as the Reviewers do not admit
replies to their statumenti, either of fact or opinion, it
is only through the medium of the public journals that
both sides can be seen.
Mr. Buckingham says—
" There is one assertion, however, made by the Re-
viewer, which, for the sake of truth, it is desirable to
have corrected. At the close of his introductory stric-
tures, be says, `So much for Buckingham. We do not
remember to have alluded to him on any former occa-
sion in this journal.
" It happens to have escaped the recollection of this
writer that in the year 1822 there was an article in this
same Quarterly Review, ending with the same words—
' So much for Buckingham —professing to be a review
of my Travels in Palestine,' but containing so much
of falsehood and calumny, that I felt it my duty to
institute an action for libel against the publisher, Mr.
John Murray, in the Court of King's Bench ; and
though he bad the ablest assistance that the bar could
render him, in the talents of the present Lord Lynd-
hurst, Baron Parke, and Baron Gurney, engaged as
his Counsel in the cause, he found it then desirable to
ask for mercy at my hands ; and, abandoning all defence
of his libellous publication, he instructed his Counsel to
withdraw their plea of justification, make a humble
apology in open Court for the injury unjustly done to
an honourable man, and consent to a verdict, with costs,
being recorded against him. This was Mr. Murray's
course on that occasion.
" The writer of the libellous article was subsequently
ascertained to be the Mr. William John B tnkee, of
Corfe Castle—who recently appeared before the Police
Magistrates in London, a second time, charged with a
nameless offence, having before narrowly escaped cons
viction for the same impurity—and on the trial of this
individual, at the same period with Mr. Murray, for
false and libellous imputations, similar to those incor-
porated in his article in the Quarterly Review—the
Counsel on my behalf being the present Lords Ahinger,
Denman, and Brougham, and those on Mr. Bankes'
behalf being the present Judges Lyndhurst, Parke, and
Gurney—the Special Jury, after a trial of ten hours,
and the examination of a host of witnesses, tinder the
direction of the late Lord Tentcrden, brought in a ver-
dict against Mr. William John Bankes, the writer of
the article in the Quarterly Review, as guilty of a false,
scandalous, and malicious libel, and adjudged him to
pay 4001. damages ; while the -osts of Mr. Murray and
Mr. Bankes conjoined, were understood to amount to
several thousand pounds!
"` Evil communications corrupt good manners,' and
_as Mr. Bankes' loss of memory is so extraordinary that
he forgot his own rank and name, and represented him-
self to the Police Magistrates to be one John Harris,
a servant out of place'—(committing his indecencies,
as he wrote his libels, under a false name)—so Mr.
Murray'a memory, or that of his Editors seems to
have-Utterly failed him also, when he professes not to
remember having ever alluded to me before in his jour-
nal: The Non-mi-recordo family is not of the purest
breed or clearest vision, and therefore often get entangled
in their own meshes.
Whether the actual recollection of this trial and
conviction of the Quarterly Review and its calumnious
contributor may have in any degree contributed to the
malignant spirit of the present article on my Work on
America, the public in oi judge for them!elves. But it
isrigbt that both its elitor and publisher, as well as the
public, should be reminded of these facts ; and, con-
tenting myself with having done this, I leave these
worthies to digest them as they may."
"It may be as satisfactory to others, as it undoubt-
edly is-to myself, to be able to contrast, with the
spiteful and contemptuous spirit of the writer in the
Quarterly Review, the unsolicited, but frank and
generous testimony of an English Nobleman, than
whom no man has bad abetter opportunity of forming
an accurate judgment ; and the equally impartial testi-
mony of one of the most distinguished American tra-
vellers of the present day—whose knowledge of his
own country is, perhaps, more extensive than that of
any man on either side of the Atlantic."
LETTER FROM LORD,ASFIBUILTON TO MR. BUCKINGHAM.
" I have read a considerable portion of y our Work
on America—my long residence in that country leading
me to take a deep interest in everything that concerns
the great Republic—and I have found in it more general
and varied information than in any of the numerous
works on the same subject which have issued from the
press. lam bourr,l also to sty, that, though Ido not
agree with you in al ..-our views and opinions, they
seem to bear the stamp of general impartiality and
candour."
LETTER ?ROM GEORGE CATLIN, ESQ., OF NEW YORK,
TO MR. BUCKINGHAM.
" My wife and myself, who are now residing in Lon•
don, have read your very interesting work on our na-
tive country, America, with pecular satisfaction ; ions.
much as the nature of my pursuits has led us to visit
nearly all the places and institutions you have so vividly
and so justly described in your pages, as well as in your
eloquent lectures, which we have attended. In liiten.
ing to the one, and in reading the other,-we have.beep
carried along by a feeling scarcely less vivid and less
real than if we were fellow-travellers with you, and ac-
tally paging over the scenes you have so graphically