The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-15 00:00:00

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• see a single expres4on of feeling in favour of the present Corn-
...laws, but that, on the contrary, the most influential and re-
' spectable of nur provincial contemporaries have declared them-
selves firm advocates of Lord J. Russell's propositions.— Ibid.
CORN LAWS, - &c.—A meeting of the Board of Directors
• and Guardians of the parish of Marylebone took place last
- night, at wliieh—afier many able speeches had been made, for
:which we regret we have not space—it was resolved to
' Pe'ilion Parliament for an alteration in the existing system
of ' Corn laws. Meetings also on the same subject, have been
-held during the Week at St. Marlin's-in the-Fields, St. Leo-
' nard's ShOrediteh, at Kentish Town, in the Ward of Farring-
don Without, and generally throughout the country.

THE CORN LAW AND THE POOR-

LAW.

- To THE EDIF6ii. OF THE SUN.
SI I address you because your Paper is 'more read
In News-rooms here, and other places where I have
tra-
velled, and is calculated to give more light than many
other; which appear like a star in comparison to the
great orb of 'night. I have concluded, from .the result
.:-of the Nottingham election, that surely we must have
arrived at the summit of ignorance on the one hand, and
deception on the other. When. the Poor-law is con-
trasted with the Corn-law, the first does not affect above
• we in an hundred, while the other affects ninety-nine
. out, of every hundred. Even admitting the Poor-law
was bad, which I deny—though not perfect, I am sure it
is superior to the old law—indeed, in large towns, the
new law is very like the old law to them, so much so,
that there required no alteration, where is the compa-
rison of the 'two questions ; and the model of the new
I,„a'y was found in Nottinghamshire under the old system.
-"he aged, infirm, and deserving poor will find the supe-
, rierity ef the new Law, and idle, drunken, bad characters,
•, who are the cause of more than one-half of pauperism,
will find the new law too strict for them.
OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW POOR-LAW.bilild •
LAticE BASTILES.—EIegant, clean, well-regulated
; instead of low, filthy places, which would
not keep Out the rain, wind, or snow—all masters, and
fighting continually, in some of the country places.
SEPARATION OF MAN AND WIFE.—I have been in a
Workhouse bAnging to thirty-eight parishes, but there
!vas not a couple there ; if there had been, they would
have been separate 'during the day, and together at
night, unless young people ; indeed it seldom happens
a man and'his wife to be paupers together:
Too :117CH EXPENSE WITH OFFICERS.-74 believe they
save the towns more by preventing imposters drawing
front the fund, and especially law expenses about the
Nht settlement of paupers, which is not so much dis-
puted, than is paid to all the officers put together ; and
the Guardians are respectable, cost nothing, and meet
la the morning in their sober senses, which, under the
';',1(1, law, was far from being the case, the business
being done at public-houses in the country.

- OIIJECTIONS TO REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
IT WILL LOWER, WAGES.—If so, increase the price ;
out When
corn is low, wages are high ; and when high,
Wages are driven lower.
IT WILL RUIN THE FARMERS.—Does the farmer eat
bread ? If rents are lowered as they have been raised,
-it must benefit the whole community except the land-
°Wner ; in manufacturing districts some farms are four
tines
,the rent they were forty years ago. In country
Places we use three kinds of corn, viz , oatmeal, flour,
and malt. If a moderate family, the corn will cost ss.
ter week, 2s. of which may be used for clothing if the
is repealed, if not our populatilm must continue in
rang, and destitute of the common comforts of life, like
InanY of the Msh and Irish. Indeed, some the
here say. " if the Corn-law cannot be repealed
~vitaoitt universal suffrage, which may be universal con-
_fusion, we had better have it than universal starvation."
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Population is increasing 1,000 per day ; our best
!loanirs. covering
with buildings and railways ; two-thirds
Population in some districts are not so well fed as
.11511 the workhouse ; our cottages are deserted, and hus-
bands seeking shelter in a foreign land, and leaving their
wife or children to the parish. One of our best cus-
tomers is in debt to us and cannot give us money ; but
can give us corn, which we want far worse. Indeed, in
Arnerica, 101bs, of best flour may be had for one shilliag,
QM the same would.cost us two shillings ; _the carriage
(Which is a sufficient protection to our farmer) to Liver-
-11 Of a barrel is 2s. 6d., though it weighs 1961b5.
titter and butchers' meat will be -more within the
I. each of the poor man, for they are- double the price
gluey were in the memory of some who are now living.
1:7--aring 'you to make use of what you please, and when
J'ou please, of the above,

_ - I am, &c.
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YOUR CONSTANT READER.
liuddersfield, May 11, 1841.
P.S. I believe we had one of the most unanimous and
best meetings on the Corn-laws in this town, a short time
ago, that ever there was in this large county. -

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 15.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze
0:n E. to S.E., fine clear weather.
DEAL, AilY 14.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived the
Sumatra, from Ceylon ; Malcolm. Sims, Singapore. Arrived
from the river and sailed the Forth, for Sydney ; Jasmania,
Hobart Town; Five Sisters, Quebec ; Deva, Port
Dowss.—Arrived the Alexander, from Calcutta; Penyard,
Part, Mauritius.
SHEERNESS, May 14.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Volage,
from Portsmouth.
STANCATE CREEK, MAY 14. —Arriv ,d the Sharon, Fos,
from Alexandria.
HASTINGS, MAY 14.—Arrived off, the William Nicholls,
Elder, from Manila for Hamburg; President, from La Guayra
•;.7for trenaen.
• MAY 14.—Arrived off, the Eleanor Ruisell,
ICri.:"th. from the' Mauritius.
• rPoNrslrouris, AlAv 14. —Wind S. S. E.—Arrived off, the
so n , from Jamaica, with loss of boats, bulwarks, Ike.,
134v,ing experienced very bad weather. Sailed the Sarah Bell,
l, fur sydney, New South Wales; Boadicea (transport),
eir o.
Livtaeoor., May 14 —Wind variable.—Arrived the liar-
-55,°„ Ely, Jamieson, from Mobile ; Fairfield, Wilson, New York,
lath ult. Sailed the Richard Anderson, for New York ;
teen, Quebec ; Shannon, Prince Edward's Island. Arrived
off, the Lancashive, from Mobile. The Alpha, bound to New-
port, which was on shore on the North Bank, got off last night.
Ptvmou'ru, AIrAY 14.—Wind N.—Arrived the Lucretia,
iiralearnindg., for Antwerp. Sailed the Prince Rupert, for New
SaLcomnE, MAY 13.—Arrived off, the:Gazelle, Donaldson,
irutu the Mauritius.
MAY 11—Wind variable.—Arrived the Royal
.‘v illia,n (steamer), from Dublin, for London, and has received
on board 200,000 dollars.
sailed the Prince Albert, for St. John's, Newfoundland.
L0C...?,", MAY 12.--Arrived the William Metcalfe, from
. "Qati. fur Sydney. Sailed the Queen, for Quebec. Ar-
li;ved,efr the Seven, France, from Mauritius ; Robert Parker,
V'OM North Orlans, and sailed for Havre. The Sovereign
.aek,t) from London to Malta, has been towed round by the
pa'crt,w%a (steamer), with mainmast cut away. The Robert
Cape
"r, arrived off this Port, from North Orleans, saw off
Clear yesterday, a black ball Liverpool packet ship.
ne Seven, France, arrived here from the Mauritius, en-
"Nei ed a heavy gale the 19th and 20th February, off the
'Cat
,Da and lost bulwarks, sprung bowsprit, &c. The Columbia
"„-`'"et. from Monte Video to Antwerp, rrported yesterday, has
_me in, and the master reports that ten days since, in lon. 18,
p saw at some distance a large steamer, bound to the eastward,
which appeared to him to-be disabld, as she was going very
and could hardly keep way with his vesscl. As night
heavy
on he lost sight of her, and two days afterwards had a
gale to the eastward ; she was so tar from him that he
;'_,Tioot describe her appearance further than tl.at she was a
large itt amer.
SWANSEA, MAY 14.—Arrived the Smith, from Cuba.
4ACHY HEAD, May 13.—Arrived off, the Wanderer,
from Calcutta. -

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-,1, • , - SUGAR D 11 TIES.
GLOUCESTER.—At a meeting of the Committee, together
if - ' "ith several friends of the Anti-Slavery cause, held the 13th
~ of May, 1341, a communication was read from the British
,0 aild Foreign Anti-Slavery society, urging upon their friends
in the country to oppose the alteration proposed by Govern-
ment in the duties on Foreign Sugars,—
Releolved—That this meeting is not prepared to give their
9Pliosition to the measure without further information on the
ttilaject ; it appearing to this meeting that it is of the utmost
3 , importance nut hastily to invalidate the great principle so
long enforced by the advocates of freedom, that free labour
is niora economi,lal than slave labour, and would effectually
compete with it under fair and equal circumstances.
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IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM SCOTLAND.
btu!--The large importations of live cattle and meat from Scotland
it, taro London is fast equalising the value of provisi'ms in the two
erauntries. The Scotch graziers obtain a much larger price
tor oxen in England, and, after deducting the expenses of
freight, embarking, and landing, averaging at least 21. 10s. per
head, they are gainers to the amount of 30s. or 2/. for each ox,
„ The North Star steamship, which arrived off Downe's wharf on
',Friday from Inverness, had her decks covered with cattle,
:14iich- were landed in the evening, and soon found purchasers.
LOItD JAMES BERESFORD.—We understand
sitlerel,ativei of he Noble Lord had not up to a. late hour last
nioe received any confirmation of the report that he had coin-
' nutted suicide on the 27th Ult., on his passage home. His
I 4-ordship is youngest son of the late, and brother of the present
Alarquis of Waterford, and brother of 'Lady Sar th Ingestrie.
lie was born 6th October, 1816, and is consequently only in
his 25th year.
TOKER KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—On
Wednesday last, as the luggage-train from Leeds was proceed-
to Derby, when near Duffield the stoker of the first engine
stopped to adjust a chain, and his foot slipping he fell between
° the rains. The ash-pan of the second engine completely
severed the head of the unfortunate man, who was killed on the
-spot. Sheffield Mercury. •
ANTI-TORY MEEEING IN DUBLIN.—The
'friends of honest Government in Dublin are to assemble to-
morrow' at the Royal Exchange, to renew their deciaration of
unalterable hostility to the Tory-Orange faction, and to ad-
dress the Queen, imploring her Majesty still to preserve her
devoted Irish subjects Irons the perils and the calamities of
()range rule. Lord Charlement takes his legitimate station as
Chairman of the Metropolitan Reformers at this trying mo-
ment. There is a current rumour that the Orangemen mean
to disturb the meeting. Our friends, we are sure, will be pre-
areJ , for such a contiugency.—Dublin Evening Post of
riday.
THE ROYAL ELOPEMENT IN PARIS.—A
gteit sensation has been created in the highest circles by a
t-essing event in the family of the infanta o: Spain, Dun
Pnrucisco de Paula, occasioned by the elopement of one of the
Prinoesses, his daughter, with a Polish gentleman (Count
Garovoki), aged, it is said, about 50_ e elopement took
Place,'tna convent in Paris, where the Princess had
been placed, and the escape of the young lady was effected,
wN hear, by weans of a ladder of ropes. The telegraph was
set to work immediately on the circumstance being discovered,
and the further alight of the fair fugitive and her companion
ahsusrt,azeyd. at, 1,1-.1 understand, Valenciennes.—Galignani, of
• A very retnurkable circumstance has just oc-
:, eutred in the commune of Woluwe St. Lambert, near Brussels:
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ne reeetive ages of 39, ur brothers, farming labourers, living with their mother, of
•p
36, 29, and '27 years, all became in-
sane in less than two hours. The eldest ran away, the three
their in fury
‘J.l4..,:others were taken to the hospital St. Jean at Brussels, where
was with difficulty restrained. so groat was
their
cider bodily strength, and so violent the species of madness un-'
, Which they were labouring. One of the at at the
pital narrowly escaped being killed by them. None of these
unhappy men had, it is stated. showed previous signs of mental
04Lerration.—Brussels British Gazette.
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GREAT ANTI-SLAVERY MEET-
ING.-(YESTERDAY.)

Mr. O'CONNELL (in continuation froin cur Evening

Edition of yesterday), said—They had been told that the
mighty experiment of emancipation would be followed
by every crime that could disgrace humanity. They
had been told so by these new Anti-Slavery advocates.
(Loud cheers.) What had happened' 'I he calum
niated African race had obtained the physical power which
force gave the multitude, mid their revenge had been forgive-
ness and mercy.—(Cheers.) Not one crime had been com-
mitted. The bridewells and the gaols were empty, and the
chains which had worn away the limbs of the negro
were now wearing away with rust.—( Loud cheering.)
He had recently seen the Roman Catholic Bishop of British
Guiana, who had stated that recently a community of negroes
had purchased a large estate in that colony, and having en-
gaged a gentleman as superintendent of that estate, at a salary
of 500/ had bound themselves to abide by his directions.
They had also instituted a school for the instrurtion of the chil-
dren, and he had the satisfaction of stating, that he had asked the
Bishop if the children of the African race really exhibited that
mentalincapacity which the yellow miscreants of North America
imputed to them, and the answer was, that on the contrary
They exhibited a greater readiness than even the generality of
children, because they were actuated by a greater desire to
learn.—( Cheers.) Would the Americans, now that the cape..
riment had succeeded, follow our example? The tatted
themselves Republicans, forsooth, yet they practised the most
abominable tyranny.
A CllAivras.r.—Not so bad as the tyranny of the middle
classes.

Mr. O'CoriarEm..—There is a tyranny worse than even the
tyranny of the middle daises ; that beastly tyranny which
would attempt to confine all discussion to one particular point.
—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con-
tended there was no tyranny he abominated more than that
tyranny which attempted to interrupt all public business.
What would they say if a few individuals were to go to one
of their meetings for the purpose of interrupting their pro-
ceedings because it was a Chartist meeting, and they would put
it down. He (Mr. O'Connell) would oppose any attempt to inter-
fere with one of their meetings as strenuously as he would any at-
tempt to interfere with the present, for in both cases it would
be gross oppression, and there did not live a human being who
would go further to put down oppression than himself.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to de-
nounce, in glowing and eloquent terms, the abominations of
American slavery, more particularly the slave-breeding
system as practised in Maryland and Virginia. He also
inveighed against the Texians for rebelling against the
Mexicans, and described their Charter, the fundamental princi-
ples of which were that negro slavery should be perpetual,
and that the native Indians should be excluded from the soil of
Texas, as being not written with ink, but with human blood—
not sealed with wax, but imprinted with the hoof of a dmon.
—( Loud cheers.) Yet this was the nation that Lord Palmer-
ston, in the excess of his folly, had had the audacity
to recognise ; and the reason given was, that the
opening Texas to the literature of Europe, would make
the Texians ashamed of being slave owners. His Lordship
when he had coaxed the birds from the bushes, might coax the
Texians to free their slaves, but not till then.—( Cheers and
laughter.) He should bring the subject before Parliament as
soon as the Treaty with 'texas should be printed. He so-
lemnly warned all men against having any thing to do with
Texas, or with any Texian loans ; whoever advanced money to
the Texian land jobbers would be sure to lose it. His trade
was agitation in behalf of justice.—(Cheers.) He wished to
see freedom and representative governments all over the world—
( Cheers)—and he thought that every man in England who
had attained mature age, and was possessed of a fixed habita-
tion, whether lodging or house, should have a voice in electing
representatives to the British Senate.—(Cheers.) But in the
work of the great regeneration of mankind, let them beware
of the
,hypocrisy of those who, while they pretended to
weep for the sufferings of humanity, were only in reality sigh-
ing for office.—( Loud cheers.) John Bull was remarkable
for his good sense, and he saw at once their's was a flimsy
pretext to delude, and not a conviction to be worked out for
the sake of humanity.—( Cheers.) Could he forget that
the West India planters themselves, in their own country, con-
sumed nothing but slave grown sugar, which was first of
all imported from Brazil and Cuba into England, refined and
reexported under a drawback (and there never was a draw-
back
without a little swindling), to be consumed on the estates
of the Goulburns, and the Grants, and the Gladstones, and the
Sandons—(Cheers)_who cared nothing for the sugar being
slave-grown, in their delight at getting it so cheap.—
(Loud cheers.) There was another point to which he
alluded, as connected with this question. Could there
ever be a greater crime committed than when a weeping child
cried to its parents for a second slice of bread to force that
mother to refuse the bread to her hungry child ?—(Cheers.)
Yet now the mother was forced to say to her hungry child, " I
cannot, my dearest, famishing child, give you another slice of
bread, because the Duke of Buckingham has a tax
upon the corn.—( Loud cheers.) Our loaf is small,
only half what it ought to be, because the other half is allo-
cated to the Duke of Buckingham, in order that the wheels of
his coach and four may glide glibly over the stones of the city
of London."—( Loud cheers.) He was an Irishman—lreland
was an agricultural citunty ; he believed he represented the
wants, the wishes, and the feelings of his countrymen, and he
ould raise the et yof "Justice to England—a free trade in Itead."
The Hon. Gentleman, after apologising to the meeting for
having introduced the subject of politics, end stated his wil-
lingness to hear any length of speech which the gentleman
who had attacked him might choose to make, if he would
attend a meeting at the Crown and Anchor that evening, at
which he (Mr. O'Connell) would be present, concluded by
calling upon the Association to continue their exertions in the
cause of justice and humanity, and sat down amidst loud cheer-
ing from all parts of the Hall.
Mr. REMEN (a gentleman of colour) from the United
states seconded the resolution, and expreased his fears that
the system of American slavery must endure as long as Great
Britain encouraged it by purchasing slave-grown cotton from
the United States.