The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

turectiomething like . 190 million of dollars' worth more
than the whole of the manufactured exports of Great
Britain. America exported one-fourth, or little more
than that, of the whole amount of what England carried
into it.---(Applause.) Not to refer to particular articles.
he would point out some advantages which America had
for manufacturing. In the first place, they had the raw
material in hand ; in the next place, they had an im-
mense moving power, their water ; and if they did not
wish to resort to that, they had an abundance of coals
spread over the country. Some individuals seemed to
suppose that that was a peculiar advantage which-Eng-
land possessed. The United States possessed fields of
coal sixteen times the size of the whole of England ; in
one State alone there was more coal than was equal to
the whole of England. They had one bed of coal which
extended nine hundred miles' in length ; ' the
state of Pennsylvania alone contained six times as
much coal as the whole of England. And they
had not to descend into the bowels of the earth, as in Eng-
land, to get it ; it lay above the level of the'streams
They had only to penetrate the hill side and take it out'
without lifting it at all, and in many cases it was pushed'
directly down into the furnace where it had to be burnt,
without being hoisted at all. They had got many ad-
vantages of that kind which it was not necessary to
enumerate ; but to show Englishmen that the only way
of competing with America was to render agriculture
profitable employment, he would state that Americo'
could not only supply herself, but could compete with
this country in all the markets of the world. At the pre-
sent moment she was competing with England in almost
every market from her own shores to China, and she was
doing this at a profit, a profit which was constantly in-
creasing. The magic of all that was the cheap bread of
America. We were forcing the Americans into an em-
ployment which they never would have sought had it not
been for the Corn-laws of England.—(Cheers.) It was
no wonder that these restrictions had caused a harsh
feeling towards England, and an alineation in the min&
of the two nations—that instead of assisting and sustain-
ing each other, as the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon
race, they should look upon each other as rivals, and be
ready to injure each other. This certainly was not a
position of two nations related as they were.—
(Hear, hear.) The population of America was now
17,000,000. At this rate of increase, it would,
in ten years, be 22,000,000 ; in twenty years
it would be 30,000,000; in thirty years it would be
40,000,000 ; in forty years it would be 53,000,000; at the
close of the present century it would be 95,000,000 ;
and in the course of a hundred years, 300,000,000._
(Applause.) The trade, at the same rate at which it
was now carried on between the two countries, would
then amount to something like I,soo,ooo,oool.—(Cheers.)
It was perfectly evident, that if England wanted em-
ployment—if she wanted wealth—she should by all
means cultivate her trade with the West. She was
placed upon the western frontier of Europe ; and if she
wished to secure that trade—to become the mart for the
trade between the New World and the Old, she might
do so. There was an abundance of employment in con-
nection with this, not only for the present population of
England, but all that she might produce. Let any per-
son go into calculation, if he pleased, taking the date
which America gave him, and which he could find in
England, and he must come to the conclusion that, upon
the system of free trade, every individual born in Eng-
land could have full employment and plenty of bread,
without leaving his native shores.
Sir T. PorrEa then addressed the meeting, and be-
fore sitting down made a donation of 151.
The Rev. Wm. GADSBY next addressed the meeting,
and proposed a subscription to aid the funds which this
meeting was intended to raise, and recommended that
the plate should go round the head table first, and the
amount be announced, for the encouragement of the rest
of the company ; and
The CHAIRMAN announced, when the collection had
been completed, that it amounted to 501. 19s.—(The
announcement was received with cheers.)
Mr. FINNIGAN, a hand-loom weaver, next addressed
the meeting. The hand-loom weavers, more than any
other class, were in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws,
and the reason was, because they were the first to feel
the sword of competition the Corn-laws had brought to
bear upon them. In 1812 the price of wheat was 1225.
Bd. the quarter. The hand-loom weavers had then for
one description of work lls. for 24 yards ; for another
description they had 20s. for the 24 yards ; for another
description they had 16s. for the 24 yards. Well, in 1813
the price of wheat fell from 1225. Bd. to 106 s. Gd., and
one of the descriptions of work alluded to, rose two shil-
lings, another two shillings. also, and the third kind was
reduced two shillings ; the first because the demand had
increased, and the last was occasioned by a failing
of the demand ; showing that it is the demand that re-
gulates wages and not the price of food. In 1814 the
price of wheat fell to 725. ld., and immediately there
was a rise in the price of wages ; the hand-loom weaver
who earned in 1813, 135., was enabled to obtain for the
same work 20s ; the weaver who earned 225. in 1813, ob-
tained for the same work 325.; and those who in 1813
had been reduced from 16s. to 145., were raised to 265.
No sooner had Prosperity Robinson's Coen Bill been
passed than the hand-loom weavers' wages tumbled
down, and had been gradually decreasing ever since.
And this was simply because the law said von shall not
increase the surplus produce of your hand-loom weavers
for the surplus produce of foreign soils.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MesstE announced that the collection amounted
to 75/. 7s. 9d. In addition to this, there were the profits
from tea, calculated at 251. ; donations in the hands of
Mr. Gadsby, 101.; making a total of 1101. 7s. 9d.
The party then separated.

CLOSING OF VAUXHALL FOR

cauxium nu, ICriWI. KYLIAIIITIC. Wa-t-nl7ll-
- fled" before the advances of bricks and mortar.
The smiling_ rule of Simpson has given way to the two-
foot rule of the carpenter—and there, where the tuneful
pipe of the musician sounded, the clay pipe of the hod-
man smokes. Vauxhall is in the process of absorption
into the great wen. Matter of fact hath made another
conquest from romance , and Vauxhall—the Vauxhall
of Addison, and Steele, and Goldsmith—the Vauxhall
where Sir Roger de Coverley moralised, and Beau Tibbs
flattered—and the widow vulgarised, and Mrs. Tibbs did
the genteel—the Vauxhall which " united rural beauty
with courtly magnificence"—has closed its gates for ever.
Last night was the last night of Vauxhall, and as we wan-
dered through its pleasant walks, and took a last long
lingering look of various spots, endeared to memory by
associations with the past, we almost fancied we heard
the widow's voice exclaiming " The water-works over
already. Impossibl I" Yes, widow, the water-works
are over already and for ever. Their place will know
them no more ; and when next we seek them on their
old accustomed spot, instead "of finding every sense
overpaid with more then expected pleasure," we shall be
disgusted with sights, and scents, and sounds, betokening
the presence of squalled wretchedness. There, where of
old every one looked satisfaction ; there, where we were
wont in days gone by, almost to realize the visionary
happiness of the Arabian lawgiver ; instead of " lights
everywhere glimmering through the scarcely moving
trees," rows of flaring, vulgar eye-wearying gas lamps
will meet our gaze—instead of " the full-bodied concert
bursting on the stillness of the night," our ears will be
saluted with the roar of drunken men, the yell of quar-
relling women, and the squall of sickly suffering chil-
dren, while the nearest approach to " the natural concert
of the birds" will be the mangy parrot of some ancient
spinster swearing " oaths profane" at a loitering pot-boy,
We regret the closing of Vauxhall ; it has destroyed one
of the few remaining links binding us to " happy child-
hood's hours," and our feelings on the occasion some-
what resemble those we experienced when we were,
after stout argument, reluctantly forced to admit .that
the history of Aladdin was no true story, and that the
hopes in which we had indulged of perchance witnessing
the glories of the lamp were " the baseless fabric of a
vision. Sic transit gloria. niundi. Had poor Simpson
lived to see this, how magniloquent would have been
his funeral oration over the departed glories of " the
Royal property." The Lamentations of Jeremiah would
have been a mere Jeremiad when compared with the la-
mentations of Simpsen. Poor fellow ! after his death
Vauxhall seemed like a widow—she drooped, and
drooped, and for twelve long months shut herself up
entirely, and then arousing herself for one last expiring
effort, she set like the sun la his glory, and was greatest
and brightest at last.

FEATS Of A POSTURi•MASTER.--With a
pair of French post-boots, under the soles of which are
fastened quart-bottles, with their necks downwards, Mr.
Macdonald exhibits several feats of activity on the slack
wire ; after this, he poises a wheel on his right toe, on
the top of which is placed a spike, whereon is balanced
by the edge a pewter-plate ; on that a board with six-
teen wine-glasses ; and on the summit a glass globe,
with a wheaten straw erect on the same. Ile then fixes
a sharp-pointed sword on the tip of his nose, on the pom-
mel of which he balances a tobacco-pipe, and on its
bowl two eggs erect. With his left fore-finger he sus-
tains a chair with a dog sitting initand„
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standing erect on the nobs ; and, to show the strength
his wrist, there are two weights of 1001bs. each fastened
to the legs of the chain—J.lr• Daniels
Eng-
land," in Bentley.
A letter from Munich informs us that the eele•
brated Bavarian sculptor Stigelmayer has brought to
such a pitch of perfection his galvano-plastic process,
that its effects would be deemed fabulous, were they not
publicly exhibited intheamcuosaetumofofcothppeeSroc,
Nile.htyichof Arts.takes
In the space of two or three hours, colossal statues in
I:vilatshte the covered
are
egrileatest accuracy the most minute and delicate
touches, n
g the whole all the appearance and solidity
of
the with
M. Stigelmayer has also
applied a i
ge
finest
processmtsin brotothn.
the
smallest objects, as flowers,
bronze.
plants,
and even insects, bringing them out with such
accuracy, that they seem to have been executed by the
hands of the most skilful artists.—Literary Gazette.
SIR R. PEEL'S WELCOME AT WINDSOR.—
Sir Robert Peel had an opportunity on Tuesday of veri-
fying the justice of the commendations bestowed by the
Duke of Wellington on Lord Melbourne, for the suc-
cess which had attended his lessons to her Majesty on
her duties as a Constitutional Queen. It appears that
the interview between the Premier and her Majesty
lasted exactly eight minutes, during which brief interval
she was able to transact the important business which
required the presence of the Right Hon. Baronet at the
Palace. Not being prepared for this promptitude, Sir
Robert had a considerable time on his hands before the
arrangements he had made would allow him to leave
Windsor, which he devoted to a minute survey of the
state apartments.=Chronicle.
Yesterday afternoon, the men employed by Mr.
Coulston on Roundway7hill in making an embankment,
in digging came to what proved to be an iron enffir.
On opening the coffin, a skeleton which was in it, on
exposure to the air, immediately fell to dust, with the
excepton of the skull and teeth, which are in good.pre-
servation. In the coffin were a great number of trinkets,
such as gold brooches set with stones like garnets, and
pins like those now used.— Wiltshire Independent.