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CORN-LAWS AND COMMERCIAL

REFORM.

HOUNSLOW.—Mr. Sidney Smith lectured at Hounslow on
Friday evening upon the influences of the existing Corn-laws.
After the lecture, a resolution was passed attestative of the de-
light and satisfaction felt by the announcement that 6. Byng,
Esq., had declired himself favourable to the commercial mea-
sures of her Majesty's Ministers. 'I he meeting broke up with
cheers for the lecturer, Mr. I3yng, and the Ministers.
SUSSEX.—The rural population are forming societies to
petition against Corn-laws. Troops of rustics with flags are
moving towards Crowborough-common with banners, "Ne
Corn•bill," " Cheap Bread," &c., to a large meeting out of
doors.
WALES.--ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETINGS.—An Anti-Corn-
law meeting was held on Monday last in the open air, at Rhos-
Ilanerchrug,or. and another, on Tuesday afternoon, at Cefn-
mawr. About three thousand people attendee, who unani-
mously condemned the bread-tax.

LONDON, TUESDAY, J ONE 22, 1841

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of busi-
ness. The Court was unusually crowded, the .el,Cretion
of Comptroller of the Chamber, having been fixed to
take place at one o'clock.
WANT OF VENTILATION IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL
COURT.
Mr. WEu.s said he had been given to understand that
there was great complaint of the want of ventilation in
the Courts' of the Old Bailey, and that, on Saturday last,
an actual deluge had taken place there, notwithstanding
that enormous sums had been laid out in improvements
in the building. He wished to know from the Chairman
of the City Lands Committee something about the matter.
Mr. Pawn said it appeared to.him that the City Lands
Committee had relinquished the power to interfere, and
that the business was left to the Court of Aldermen,
Mr. BRIDGE (the Chairman of the City Lands Com-
mittee) said that he was not aware that any thing had
been done by the Committee on the subject.
Alderman LucAs said that the deluge alluded to was
caused by an experiment in ventilation which the Judges
had themselves ordered to be made, and that their Lord-
ships were perfectly justified in issuing the order.

THE FILLING UP THE BOTTOM OF HOLBORN-HILL.
A Report was brought up from the Farringdon New
Street Committee, on the subject of Mr. Moseley's
plan for filling up the bottom of Holborn-hill. It
stated that the Committee having examined witnesses
and the plan, are of opinion that it would be unadvis-
able, to adopt such a suggestion.as Mr. Moseley's, and
that it would be of great advantage to the citizens of
London to conquer the nuisance' of the declivity by
means of a viaduct.—(Hear, hear.)
The Report was agreed to.
LOVE OF READING IN THE CORPORATION.

A Report was brought up stating that that since the
Corporation Library had been opened in the evening
by order of the Court, no more than six members had
made their appearance in the rooms—(Laughter).---and
recommending the discontinuance of the evening open-
ing, and that 55/. 6s: ' 6d. the exiense incurred by the
experiment, should be ordered to be defrayed.
Mr. WELLS asked whether it was meant that there
were only six members at a time, or that there were only
six members during the whole time ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that no more than six made
their appearance during the whole time.—(Laughter.)
Mr. R. J. JONES—I thought it would be so—about 101.
a man.

Mr. WELLS said that he had done all he could to show
the folly of opening the library in the evening, and, in-
deed to show the folly of having any library at all for the
Corporation.—(Laughter.) lie declared that an inexcus-
able expense had been incurred, and he should vote
against paying it.—The Report was agreed to.

THE GREAT DOG-CART
QUESTION.
" Every dog has his day."
Nothing that has fallen out under the moon since the
groat battle of the frogs and mice, has been of such im-
portance to the lower creation a* the passing of the Dog-
Carts Bill through the Lower House of the British Pa-
laver last week. Let sceptics wrap themselves in their
ice, but verily the march of improvement goes gaily on !
Gulliver muse no longer be reckoned a lying traveller
because he told us that lie had stumbled upon a nation
where the horses were the rationals and the men the
brutes ;—is not the stern race of English mastiffs—not to
speak of the noble Newfoundlanders, the crouching spa-
niels, the Scotch terriers, the Irish wolfhounds, the col-
lies, &c.,, fit to be matched against any race of horses—
even the Arabian, in any terra incognita of the known
world ? And where is the proud lord of the creation
who lightlies the emancipation of the dogs, honest crea-
tures ! from harness ? Point him out to us, and we'll
say, Fye on him !
The passing of the Dog-Carts' Bill through the Impe-
rial Palaver will mark an era in English history. The
Gibbon of a future age will speak of it as time measure
of Session 1841 ; and if the gods who sit above don't
ratify the fiat of the Palaverers below, he will no doubt
be compelled to ascribe the fall of this mighty empire to
this circumstance. Not only will this great measure
furnish a Ilich treasure to the historian, it will supply
the poet with new themes of poesy. We shall hear no
more-T-oh dear ! no more of " Maids who love the
moon ;" but ill our poets will run madly in love with
dogs ; and the burden of their song will be " The dogs
that bay the moon." The friends of the Negro looked
forward with hope and fear to the Ist of August after
the passing of the Negro Emancipation Act : with hope
and fear -we look forward to the approaching dog-days.
If the month of July prove very warm, we anticipate
nothing less than a dog crisis.
Our Palaverers have nobly redeemed their characters,
by the passing,of. this truly noble and national measure.
People-said. they were a set of proud fellows. Dogs
never uttered such a lie,. not they, and hence the passing
of the DOg-Carts' Bill by such a large and glorious ma-
jority. - Who can affirni that our Palaverers are proud,
after this ? They are as meek as Moses ; they don't
think it beneath their dignity to associate with dogs.
True, they care not very much that it should be known,
that a poor fellow of a rational is their cousin, or so ;
but imagine them saying to a large Newfoundlander,
" Good morning, Bob ; my dear fellow, how I love you!
come, gie's your paw my frien', my brither." Truly the
world wags wonderously, and the tail of every towler in
the country is just now wagging with joy at the emanci-
pation of the canine race.
A waggish Tellow, a friend of ours, asked us the other
evening how the English Apostles, who sit in the Assem-
bly of the gods, will treat this dog measure. He offered to
lay a bet that they would treat it doggedly, for, said he,
they refuse to emancipate the Jews, lest the heavens
should fall ; and surely they are not so ignorant of the
New Testament as not to know it is there declared that
it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to
the dogs. We declined betting upon the subject ; but
expressed our conviction that the Apostles would deal
favourably with the dogs. Don't you think, then, said
our friend, that if the Apostles admit the dogs to all
the privileges of the glorious English Constitution they
must also admit them within the pale of the Established
Church ?. for you know, said he, that the Church and
State are one "for better for worse." We did not answer
this question ; but remarked that it was well for our
friend that he did not liVe in the days of Thomas a
Beckett. _ _

We trust the dogs will prove themselves worthy of
the high honour now conferred upon them ; and
that every kennel in the country will ring with a
howl of joy. A word or two in the ears of the
beings called rational, amongst whom are sometimes
reckoned Corn-law repealers, Irish Union repealers,
Radicals, and Chartists. Take a lesson from this
great Dog-Carts' measure. The dogs (as far as we
are aware) never held a public meeting upon the sub-
ject of their emancipation. They barked when they
were bidden ; they crouched when their masters lashed
them ; yes, poor beasts ! they licked the hand that
smote them, reasoning, as no doubt they did, that it
also fed them. They never barked of physical force,
nor refused to hunt hares or beggars at the bidding of
their masters ; and behold their reward ! They have
been declared free citizens of her Majesty, while you, ye
Corn-law repealers, Irish Union repealers, Radicals and
Chartists ! are still rattling and biting your chains.
Might you nut, by way of experiment, change your
tactics, and imitate the dogs ? If you don't you shall
not carry out all your schemes till the towlers have re-
presentatives in the Aritish Palaver.
We recommend the case of the donkeys (a numerous
race), as a fit subject with which to commence the first
session of Sir Robert Peel's sliding Parliament —Leeds
Times,

JAMES MONTGOMERY'S IMPRI-
SONMENT FOR THE PUBLICATION OF A
SEDITIOUS LIBEL.

Mr. Montgomery is now publishing his collected
Poetical Works. The first volume contains his " Prison
Amusements." This title, we need scarcely remark, in-
dicates what 'was written by Mr. Montgomery when
under confinement in York Castle for a political offence.
This was in the good old days of Toryism ; and there is
a curious revelation about the matter in the volume be-
fore us, which illustrates the Toryism of those good
old days. The present time was not inapt for the dis-
closure. We had thought that Mr. Montgomery, at that
period-, and for many successive years, the editor of the
Sheffield Iris, had suffered imprisonment for an over-
hated effusion of his own. It appears that this was
not the case. He was prosecuted merely as the
printer of an alleged seditious ballad, sung in the
streets of Sheffield by an eccentric old ballacr-inon-
ger. This composition had appeared in the paper
when under the direction of Mr. Montgomery's pre-
decessor, and, being accidentally kept in type until
his own time, was suffered to be struck of in a certain
quantity, at a cheap rate, in pure charity to the old man.
Mr. 'Montgomery knew nothing of the ballad, except
that it had been composed for an anniversary celebra-
tion of the destruction of the Bastile, and referred to thB
invasion of France by the Austrians, in 1792. The bal-
lad-monger himself seems to have been equally ignorant,
till a constable carried him off to the House of Correc-
tion for singing it, alarmed him into the disclosure of
where it had been printed, and waited on poor Montgo-
mery with a warrant of arrest for sedition. This was in
1795 ; and it was alleged that this song, written in 1792,
could only refer to the war between England and France
begun in 1793, and could only have been designed to en-
courage traitorous and seditious designs against England.
All Mr. Montgomery's remonstrances were met by the
quotation of this doggrel stanza,
" Europe's fate on the contest's decision depends ;
Most important its issue will be ;
For should France be subdued, Europe's liberty ends,
If she triumphs, the world will be free,"
and he was ultimately condemned to imprisonment and
fine by the Yorkshire magistrates. What his real perse-
cutors were he shrewdly supected at the time, but forty-
five years passed before their full disclosure. I fere it is:—
'•
Five and forty years after these things, in the spring of
1839, a packet was put into my hands, containing several
of the original documents connected with my trial for a
seditious libel, at Doncaster, in 1795. Among those there
is a letter :signed by the Duke of Portland, his Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Home Department, addressed to
a magistrate of this neighbourhood, apparently in answer
to a communication from the latter, wherein his Grace
approves of the several steps taken against the song-seller
and myself, accompanied by some statesman-like hints
respecting further proceedings. There are several letters
from Mr. White, the solicitor to the Treasury, to the At-
torney for the prosecution here, in one of which the latter
is authorised to give briefs to three counsel named, with
the Attorney-General's compliments.' Thus I learned,
that I had actually suffered, not to say enjoyed, the ho-
nonr of a State prosecution. Another document is the
Sheffield solicitor's bill of costs, at full length, indorsed,
Rex v. Montgomery, J. B.'s Bill, 661.85. 2d. Mr. White
paid this.' What Mr. White himself, and the A ttorney-
G eneral, Sir ;John Scott, afterwards Lord Eldon, re-
ceived, I know not. There are several other memoranda
of no signification now : but the most precious of these
ancient manuscripts, rescued as unexpectedly from hope-
less perdition as any classic treasure from the ruins of
Herculaneum, is a fragment of the original draft of the
brief, delivered to the counsel for the prosecution. From
this I make the following extract. After some high-
seasoned vituperation of my predecessor, the scribe
proceeds thus The prisoner (myself) for a long
time, acted as his (Mr. G.'s) amanuensis,' the
next seven words express an after-thought, being
interpolated in the draft,—" and occasionally wrote
essays for the newspaper. Since he has been the osten-
sible manager and proprietor of the Iris, he has pur-
sued the same line of conduct, and his printing-office
has been precisely of the same stamp.' This refers to a
charge in the foregoing clause respecting Mr. G.'s office,
that from it all the inflammatory and seditious, resolu-
tions, pamphlets, and papers issued' of the political so-
cieties in Sheffield. The paragraph goes on, referring
to myself, Without calling in question the names or
characters of some of his principal supporters, who ought
to act differently, suffice it to say, that this prosecution
is carried on chiefly with a view of putting a stop to the
meetings of the associated clubs in Sheffield; and it is
hoped that, if we are fortunate enough to succeed in
convicting the prisoner, it will go a great way towards
curbing the insolence they have uniformly manifested,
and particularly since the late acquittals.' Thus, after
the lapse of near half acentury, the true key to the mea-
sures of my adversaries against me is found." And an
other true key to the character of Toryism.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUNG
MAN IROIII BRISTOL.-Mr. Henry Lionel Stebbing, a
youth of very considerable talent, was engaged about
two years since at Bath in obtaining the names of sub-
scribers, to Pennie's Series of " Britain's Historical
Drama." About the 7th of February, 1840, he left his
lodgings in that city to proceed to Bristol, and has never
since been seen or heard of by any of his connections.
John Gladstone, Esq., of Fasque, who recently
built a church at his own cost in Leith, is now about to
tuild another church in Liverpool, :to contain 1,000 sit-
tings, 100 of which are to be free for the accommodation
of seamen, and 50 for the aged, and infirm poor. The
endowment from the worthy gentleman will be 2,0001.,
which it is expected will produce 1001. per annum