The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

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Lord Provost will nut find fault wite me for associatim ' his
' me with that of his Grace.-( Laughter.) The Lord I '''°-
. ost of Glasgow tells us that it will not be very courteous inn us
t. obtrude on her Majesty the Queen at the present crisis. I
heliese, as the gentleman behind me bas said, that, upon matter. 3
o'
o courtesy, as in matters of taste, there will be a variety
eat
pinion. I am willing to concede to the Lord Provost the:
power of judging or what is courteous or uncourteous in a far
higher measure than an humble individual like myself may
pretend to-(Laughter)-but it may so happen that nations of
courtesy at Windsor may differ from notions of courtesy in the
.0 n lleriggs..-(Roars of laughter, and loud cheering.) And,
gentlemen, it may happen that what the authority I hare last
referred to may denounce as altogether uncourteous, our excel-
hen Queen may regard as the most civil thing in
the world.-( Renewed laughter and cheering.) Indeed, to
take our opinion of the Queen's character from an atecoel-
'dished and prudent statesman, who has deservedly earned
golden opinions from Whigs and Tories, and all men, and
whose absence from Parliament, I suppose, every one of us
deplores--1 mean Lord Morpeth_(Ureat cheering)-to take
Ws opinion of the Queen's kindly nature-and I rely with the
va,At entire confidence on the opinion of Lord Morpeth-I be-
littee that, if the people of this country were to rise, constitu -
tionally and peacefully, but to rise, as I belieere it is their
bounden duty to do, from Cornwall to Shetland, and if they
sys•-e to speak in such accents on the Corn-laws, as .sot to leave
it a matter of option even for five weeks, I say not ft.er months,
evi:li the Legislature to repeal those lews, I bt-lieve the Royal
helm would bound with rapture.-(Great cheering.) 'Gnat
seber individual to whom I alluded is his Grace the fluke of
IVellington. He has said, or is reported to have said, that: there
is no need of meddling with these laws at all-that any- poor
rneo in this country, if only sober and industrious, may ruses.
.I.;niself to competence, or something to the like effect. Naive
I eny the statement, I deny the foundation of the statement..
1, '.y it is too bad in his Grace of Wellington to utter such a
brat; less taunt against there men ; but so far as the effect (kr
ti t' seeeement is concerned, I do not regret that his Grace has:
ai,en it wessra.nce. There are fields in which the Duke of:
el,ellington is ,not invincible. The battle field is all leis own ;:
end let those laurels which have been given him be enjoyed as.
10. et as God may spare him on earth, but he is not invincible;
in the senate.-( Cheers.) I believe with Mr. Graham that
no. the Corn-laws alone, but the corn and provision laws, cost.
the consumers in this country very nearly fifty millions a year.
- (Hear.) I believe, also, from investigations I have masFe,
in the statement of Mr. oleden in the House of Commons,
and which Mr. Graham has given here, that, inasmuch as.
bread is used in nearly equal proportions by the poor and the.
ri, 11, and as the bread of the poor comes to nearly one half of
their earnings, anti as that bread is raised 40 per cent, by
these taxes, you pit as income tax of 20 per cent. on the poor,
and not a tenth of e per cent., on the rich man,-(Loud
cheering.) I will sit (two by puelenff the question, if it be p
esible to preserve long tiettpeeee of This country if these laws
are permitted to stand ?-( aisers.) There is a period of
9
ignorance which the curse of igetereito must endure; but
th re is a period of knowledge after evile have been dragged
to light; and if you attempt to legislate for the perpetua_•
tien of those evil., then no man can answer for the result-
( ( heers.) The question comes, has any man a right to legis-
late for injustice? Has any man a right to legislate for a me-
nepoly ?-( Loud cheers) end for a monopoly the`t grinds to
the earth the faces of the poor ?-(Loud cheers ) I wish
everything to he done with tranquillity, and through‘t he chan-
nels of, law -I deprecate anarchy and confusion - I wish' Peace,
btu I believe that peace can only be stable on the sure ft 'unda-
lion of righteousness.-(Great cheering.) A gentleman- has
alluded to the hazards we are in. Ido not choose to dwell en
that doleful field ; but my belief is, that I know no period' to
be compared with the present but one, and that is the period ofs
the restoration. I trust that no evils such vs follewed that. res.
stosation will follow this ono ; for I hope this restoration is note
to he a restoration of '2S or 30 years ; if the people will, it may...-
certainly not be 30 months.-(Cheers.) And shall I not add.
th .t there is a great Ruler, and that I fear his displeasure.
There are such evils as national sins; and if there be one
crime that merits the character of a national sin more than an..
other, it is when injustice is decreed by a law. The Rev.
Doctor sat down amid several rounds of applause.
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried
unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. HARVEY, of Calton, said, the motion
.itself
sit
ando appalling;nceaieture butan so far
danarigs it from
argument-.a
being) ei
ctureoaven.
of n. I,teilSa.
Olt it can impart but a faint conception of the actual condi-
' lion of our country to those who have not taken the trouble,
p.rsonally, to investigate the matter for themselves ; and it
co stains an argument which cannot easily be resisted.--
(Cheers.) If the misery of which we complain were confinod
to the idle, the improvident, and the profligate, we would
hawe little cause to complain. Moral means would be the
bit corrective. But the wretchedness which we deplore has
entered the dwellings of the sober, the industrious, and the
pious. They are willing to work, but can find no emplayment.
I hey toil, but in many instances cannot earn enough to keep
th it families from starving.-( Hear, hear.) To a benevolent
in nd, I cannot conceive a more melancholy spectacle than
to witness intel igentand industrious men pleading for work,
that they may earn, by the sweat of 'their brow,.
Isle ad for themselves and tl.eir families, and yet unable even to.
obtain this poor request. And yet this is so common in the
midst of us, that it has almost ceased to impress us. Such a
se -ne is never witnessed among savages, and yet it is a dail ye
occurrence in civilised, Christian Britain. - (Hear, hear.
Why is this ? Because savages have no monopoly laws, and no.
tax ors their food.-(Cheering.) I shall never forget the int-
p:ession made on my mind by a deputation of hand-loom.
weavers to the late M,nisterial Conference at Manchester, as
they detailed their sufferings; thousands of them living for
d iys without food of any description, and, when obtained, of
the coarsest kind, and in amount quite inadequate to sustaita
a healthy existence. They said they were frequently cam-
jelled to eat raw potatoes for want of fire to boil them.-
( Hear, hear.) And if their condition in respect of
fend was such as described, you may easily con-
ce.ve- what must be the state of their clothes end
habitations ? Some of them were actually hunted from
the dwellings of men, and compelled to take up their abodes
i.i stables and sheds, and even others were without shelter
of any description.-(Hear, hear.) Were these solitary in-
stances limited to one town or district of our country, charity
is ight meet the evil, and, if it did not entirely remove it, might
at least greatly alleviate its extent; but the evil is nearly
it iiversal, aid is not confined to one class.-( Hear, hear.)
The property that used to be most productive is now of least,
v lue. alaehinery, which was wont to employ its busy mil-
-1 ens, and to give activity to our towns, is now nearly motion-
less. Capital is leaving our law-guarded shores, and seeking
p. otitable investment in more favourable climes. Our opera-
tl, ee are begging for the means of transporting themselves tee
distant lands, and have only left to them the alternative of dying;
of starvation at home, or subjecting themselves to the second pen--
aty in our criminal code. In the meantime many are dying of
starvation-and others are forced to steal, that they may prolong
an existence wh:ch deepening misery only still more embitters.
We are actually experiencing all the horrors of famine in the:
midst of plenty. This is a state of things which cannot last.
A crisis has come.-(Cheers.) The cloud has been long"
en lecting-it has been dark.ming for years, and it is now tun:
os gloom. It is so fully charged with all the elements of!
s'arvatien that, if it be permitted to burst, it is impossible to.
a eicipate the consequences. If it is to be dispelled, prompt
itect active measures trust be taken. There is no time fur
trilling. The air of commerce is stagnant, unwholesome, and.
I regnant with ruin. Let the breeze of free trade but once
aeitste it, and its gloom will dispel, and the bright sunshine of
prosperity irradiate the land.-( (sheers. ) It is well that the
ee.fering is not limited to operatives alone. Ido not say this
horn swish to see the rich made poor, but from the fact that,
as the operatives are net represented in Parliament, their voice
is little regarded, and, from the selfishness of our nature, when
we ate well ourselves, we are apt to overlook the sufferings of
others. But fellowship in suffering produces common sym-
pit hy.-(Cheers.) And cow, though most unhappily its one
sense, y, t most fortunately in another, the suffering is so ge-
neral, that we may hi:ye, from the combined exertions of mil-
Lons, speedy redress.-(Cheers.) Let Britons once be
ar ,used, and, wealthy and powerful though the spoilers be,
they shall, howevetereluctantly, be forced to let go their prey.
(Cheering.) Let the people have work, and good wages, and
plenty of cheap food, and it will be a comparatively easy matter
to elevate their moral condition; subject them to misery and
want, and their hearts become hardened, callous, and indiffe-
rent. To offer them the bread of life, while you leave them to
starve, is not only to mock them, but to insult the Author of
Christianity. While the temporal circumstances of the people,
are desperate, you must, in spite of all exertions to the con-
trary, expect to see them sinking in the scale of ignorance, vice,
i religion, and crime. They have not the means of educat-
ie.; their children, they have no clothing to attend church, and
they have no heart to listen to messages of mercy that may
1., brought to the'r own firesides. Something, then,
must be done, and that speedily, to rave our country from ruin.
-(Cheering.) We must tell the Minister we cannot starve
while he is meditating in luxuriance, and that, if he cannot
prescribe in the present alarming exigency for his starving pa-
tient, we must have a physician of more skill and promptitude,
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moving any amendment, as he had, on rising, given the rnmtheeeoeutt-!
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rosei n t efnotri o.tnh.e.
purpose of moving that a ine-
snerial, the echo of the .resolutions just passed, should be pre-
sented to the Queen. The memorial being
read, he moved
th it Lord Viscount Melbourne be requested to present it to
her Majesty.
Mr. J. 'I ENNA/4T seconded the memorial, which was car-
ried unanimously.
After thanks to the Chairman, the meeting
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separated.

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RIPPE\ G INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)
VESSELS Spot; EN Wt./IL—Cub_ ,a Rotterdam to Monte Vi-
Valparaiso 13th ult., lat. 14, lon. 24; Pink,
d. o, June 22, lat. 30 S. lon. 42 W. ; Adolph, Hamburgh
to
L.indon, ah inst., lat. 36, lon. 40 ; Alevayne (Hanoverian
brig); Solena (Dutch ship), 19th, by the
MaCCalcutta, lat.
arrived off Eastbourne. Corrunna, Liverpool to
n 2, W. ;
31 S., lon. 31 W. ; 13rethers, London, lat. 274 10 b-y
the Fe-
C tledonia, bound to Rio, lat. 20 N.,10n. 27 IV., by
19th
raver, arrived off Dover. Murray. Jamaica t°
at Liverpool.
Valparaisoojan
tilt , lat, 34, lon. 65, by the Barbadian, arrivediat 45 long. 42 ;
!lardy, St. Petersburg to Boston, 2d instiart. 49, ion. 20, by
Campbell, Bristol to Newfoundland, •._
the Doggerbank, an.
the Glengarry, arrived at Liverpool9.bth
Port Phillip, 20th, lat. 47, lon. 12,
,3i)
ult., lat. 12 S., lon.
rived off Romney. Charles Brooke, 9'ar 37, lon. 33 ;
Gambia, 7th inst., • ,
2 .1. ; Isabella Helena, from i,
the Alexander Barc.s.:Y,
Alexander Forbes (convict ship). Y.
to Bourbon, June 3,
sultan, of Hub, for
arrived off Dartmouth. Yg
1 9, by the Marys,
Dundee, for Rio Janeiro, lith,el t 4
of Newcastle, for Calcutta,
e_obnograha. Progress, of
the John Marshall, arrived off
aorffriAveldg°ian tßhaey
out 12 days, tat 49, lon. 14, by
the Wight. River. b y
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SPORTING INTE LLIGE N CE.
c Thartlb ersdAalyee;tiintgiscolzmi
a pro-
row, an • to the October campaign, the brakes,
The Newmarket
p tious opening . . Plates,
x races . each day. 'rho
i'uckenharn Stakes looks like a certainty for Colonel Peel with
the Hester colt, although two of Lord Exeter's, and the same
Lumber of Lord G. Bentinck's, are in training.
vrg good, as
aiss
The Grand
eviwilml taerrkmetinFaitrestc2
nd Matches pronnsinv, an average of si
yhetroe.be
J >like Michael rests between Colonel Peel's Cameleon, Mr.
Thornhill's Eringo, and the Duke of Bedford's two, Oakley
nsetfarGf,ficateisnatr;e
wbiutetht,heanfidelpdenistialiakreel
expected, and the Stake is all the money. The H _
ot.eful has a
s,naller entry than usual, and beyond the Rosalie
colt (carrying :t hs extra) has nothing with any claim to notice as a public
runner. The St. Leger will be run for on Wednesday ; all, we
b lieve, are in training for it except Jack
'thistle Whipper, and it may be looked f Sheppard, and
r ce. For the Rutland Stakes ever I or as a tolerably open
y mrse engaged is in train-
ing. The best pub!ic performers are Passien and the Rosalie
colt, but a penalty of ilbs. extra on the filly, and of 311 is. on
tile colt, and the fact that not
the Hopeful, will no doubt h one of the others is engaged in
are an effect on the field. All the
match horses are in training.

MERITED
.ETit—UTION.— Woersh, near Guildford, the seat of Lord Grantley, a
fawn was drinnkiug
in the lake. when one Of the swans suddenly flew upon it and
palled the poor animal into the water, where it held it until it
was d
rownsrd. This act of atrocity was noticed by the other
eer the park, and they took care to revenge it the first
opportunity. A few days after, the swan happening to be on
and,
ently waslled. surrounded and attacked by ilia whole herd, and
pre‘
ki

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