The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

LYME REGIS.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Lyme (Dorsetshire),
ha= taken place, to adopt a petition against the Corn-laws.
The _Mayor was in the chair. A week's notice of this meeting
was publicly given out, and on market-day it was proclaimed
by the town-crier. All the influential Whigs were present,
but not a Tory was to be seen, and but one solitary paw was
held up in favour of the existing Ccrn-laws. The proposal
to petition in favour of a moderate fixed duty was most cot dially
rel.onded to, and the petition will contain a large majority of
the electors of Lyme and Charmouth amongst its subscribers.
DUNBAR FOR EVER!—LET OTHER PLACES GO

AND DO LIKEWISE!!

A more animating scene has been displayed in this burgh
than has recurred within the memcry of the oldest inhabitant.
The people having learned that the Town Council had for-
warded to Parliament a petition in favour of the existing Corn-
laws, they got up placards for a meeting at the shore on the
evening of Tuesday last. At mid-day the town's drummer
was sent his rounds to intimate the meeting, but he was
ordered off the street by one of the Magistrates. This was
quite enough. Men were seen running to unfurl the Reform
banners, and the instrumental band was soon at the head of the
throng. On their arrival at the place of meeting they were
hailed by a thousand voices ; but an imposing cortege came
upon their heels—Sir George Warrender, Sir A. Maitland,
and Captain Hay, of Belton, followed by two or three Magis..
trates and Committees, and a few of the neighbouring farmers..
Mr. A. MESTO N, shoemaker, was called to the chair. He
concluded his address in these terms:_" 1 am a non-elector.
and I appeal to all of my class if it is not time to look to our--
selves, when we, sitting perhaps with a half-fed family, see
houses opened, wherein the electors are bartering away our
dearest rights and interests for a poisonous and intoxicating:
draught, or perhaps the old cast-off coat of a nobleman ! !"
Mr. C. S. Sawaas moved the first resolution; seconded bx
James Wil.un, Esq., Belhaven.
Sir G. WA RRENDIER. then called for a hearing, saying- he
had a counter-motion to submit. Way was made for hint,
and after trying in vain to convince the people that a free tre.de
in corn would greatly reduce their wages, he put his amend-
ment, which not one of his friends had the courage or sense to
second.
The resolutions were then put and carried amidst the -most
deafening cheers.
Mr. Join( RENNIE, farmer, Oxwellmains, moved the second
and last resolution. He said, in answer to Sir George, " There
are no separate interests, all must prosper or
_uone. We can-
not have too much food for our people. 11
Acriel-aetlrrli'ng
countries are the poorest, as instance Poland and he
latter sends us plenty of corn, but the people must come over
here to eat it. Give us (said Mr. Rennie) a free and unfettered
trade, and we fear not to compete with any corn-growing Conn_
try in the world."
Everything passed off satisfactorily (except to the Tories);
but the good folks of the burgh will not soon forget the scene
they witnessed.

ORTRAIT OF THE WINNER OF THE
DERBY.—Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, May 30,
will contain a Portrait of the Winner of the Derby, with
copious account of all the " Doings" cf the " Epsom week."
—Price of Bell's Life Fivepence.
ANOTHER STEAMER SUPPOSED TO BE THE
PRESIDENT SEEN AT SEA. LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.—Mr.
Court, Secretary to the Underwriters, has this morning re-
ceived, from his correspondents at Lisbon, a letter, stating,
that the Conde de Palmo, arrived at that port from Rio, saw
on the 23d of April, at 6, p.m., in lat. 31 24, long. 40 23, a
lame steamtr, with three masts, punted a dark colour; the
paddles were not in action, nor did any smoke issue from the
chimney. :he did not exhibit any flags. She was under a
press of canvass and steering N.N.E. At eight o'clock on the
following morning, the steamer was still in sight, with topsails
and fore and aft sails set. Some persons hope, that the steamer
seen by the Conde de Palmo, on the 23d of April, was the
President, which would then have been out thirty-six days
from New York. Others suppose that it was the same steamer
which was seen on the 10th of April by the Lord Saurnarez,
the particulars respecting which we published. ln neither in.
st.nee did the steamer make any signal to the sails in sight, an
act which the President, in her peculiar circumstances, would
scasenly have omitted, and the omission of which, in both in-
au* ees, satisfies us, that, whatever steamer or steamers they
were that were seen on the 10th and the 23d of April, neither
of them was the President. Besides, if the steamer sailed so as
to keep in slain of the Conde de Palmo, and was bound for Eng-
land, we ought to have heard of her arrival at some port before
now. Still, as the, letter
much interest, received by Mr. Court has excited
we have deemed it our duty to publish its con-
tents for the information of the pablie.—( From the Liverpool
dal". editiel!;
_The above report has revived the
hopes of the safety of the xrellwest-• Thbest informed nau-
tifid men here tee puzzled to decide what steamer the above
could be.

LONDON
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1841.

Another very earnest debate on the Corn-laws took
place last night in the house of Lords. Our indefatiga-,
ble friend, Earl FITZWILLIAM, took the opportunity of
repelling some of the assertions at the Leicester meet-
ing—such as that one-third of the soil would be swept
away—such as that corn would be shipped from the
Continent at 265. the quarter—and such as that this was
a tenant and a labourer's more than it was a landlord's
question. The Noble Earl insisted that it was a land-
lord's question, and that the law was passed only to
raise rent.

Lord WILLOUGHBY D'ERESBY endeavoured to show
that wages were high in proportion to the price of corn.
The Earl of WINCHILSEA also entered at large into
the subject of wages, and stated that they had risen in
Kent from 9s. to 155., a statement which is contrary to
what we have heard. The Noble Lord was vehement
against a fixed duty, and we coincide with him
that it is undoubtedly the worst duty that
can be levied. To another part of the Noble Earl's
speech, as well as to some of the points of Lord RAD-
NOR'S and Lord ASHBURTON'S speeches we have else-
where adverted.

Some smart and bitter words uttered by Lords REDES-
DALE and HARDWICRE, and the silence of their Lord-
ships when they were spiritedly rebuked by Lord RADNOR'
prove that their Lordships are made to feel in these
debates. They cannot shake off their convictions and
their alarms. They begin to be sensible that something
of even more importance than their rent is at stake, and
a good demonstration on the part of the people will
make the majority of the Peers abolitionists.
Their Lordships adjourned after this, not very agree-
able,
Preparation for their dinner.
In the House of Commons, as soon as the hour for
commencing public business began, Sir ROBERT PEEL

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