The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 13.—0 n Sunday evening, about
nine o'clock, his Majesty King William Frederick,
Count of Nassau, with a suite of four carriages, coming
from Deventee, arrived at the Lou. We have hitherto
had reason to doubt whether the aged Prince, who has
governed our country for 27 years, would think it expe-
dient now to undertake a journey to his own country,
arid it is still rather uncertain whether he will make a
long stay.
His Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe
Wiemer arrived here the day before yesterday, on a visit
to his Majesty the King. Towards the end of this week
the present session of the States-General is to be closed
by his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, and on
the 18th instant, the new session of the Chamber will
be opened by his Majesty in the.usual manner.
AMSTERDAM, OCT. 12.—We hear from good authority
that his Majesty King William Frederick, Count of
Nassau, is to be affianced at the Hague, to the Countess
of Aultrement ; the marriage will take place at the Loo
soon afterwards.
APPELDOORN, OCT. 10.—We were all in a bustle yes-
terday,
in consequence of the arrival of his Majesty the
Count of Nassau (who is Lord of the Manor here), ac •
cempanied by the Countess. Flags were set up all along
t
c
the road, aM the inhabitants of Appeldoorn and the Loo
rarecptar.ron. to have exerted themselves to give him a festive
Oct.i Burgomaster, was ready at the barrier.—.
Dutch Papers,
A guard of honour of fifteen horsemen,com•
manded by the

ATELANCHOLY
acefURRENCE.--011 Saturday
evening last Mr. Oakle rAt 11,1ey, a respectable sur-
vey-or and land agent, w' °r
returning from Warwick in a
onegig.
ofs hickhis
eer
clerks,
swhhi himself s
aftere l f
theyng, and accompanied by
had proceeded some
111 r. Oakley's hand,
distance, observed the reinsfall' from
unfortunate gen-
tlemen supposing him to have falleneTniahseeeP, took them up
and drove the gig in his stead.
continued to retain his position "
if asleep,
se remained till his arrival at his
0 and
„,
Allesley, when it was discovered that hen residence at
c
must have been so for some time.— WarwiT Addeaedl;tiasenrd:
A poor man lately applied to a cleri
vivant in the country to preach a funeral sermonan 6°n
deceased wife, at the same time requesting to know
th
expense. " Two places," was the reply. " Couldn'e
you do it for one ?" " Why, I could preach you a ser-
mon for one guinea, but it would not be worth your
hearing."
LORD TENTERDEN.--When Mr. Brongharn
opened an action for the amount of a wager laid upon a
dog-fight, which, through some unwillingness of dogs or
men, had not been brought to an issue, " We, my Lord,"
said the advocate, " were minded that the dogs should
fight." " Then I," replied the Judge, am minded to
hear no more of it ! Call the next cause."—Law Ma-
gazine.
SOMETHING NEW.—At an ordinary given at
the King's .Head Inn, Monmouth, at the late races in
that town, several ladies sat down at table with the gen-
tlemen who assembled there. This practice, should it
become more general, which it promises to do in Wales,
where female benefit clubs are becoming very common,
may have a very desirable effect, namely, make the con-
versation assume a very different turn, and much improve
the general character of such meetings.—Hereford Times.
In the Dublin municipal elections the Reformers
have decided majorities in twelve out of the fifteen I
wards

THE SUN, LO

ADDRESS OF THE LEEDS PAR:

LIAMENTARY REFORM ASSOCIATION,
TO THE MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,
AND OPERATIVES OF THE WEST-RIDING
OF YORKSHIRE :-

BELLOW COUNTRYMEN AND FELLOW SUFFERERS,—
The alarming position in which your nearest and dearest
interests are placed by the accession to almost absolute
power of the aristocracy, a class recently described by Mr.
Byng, the Member for Middlesex, and one of their own
body, "as havine, less feelings than any other class, as
heing distinguished for their love of power, their indul-
gence in luxury, and their not caring for the sufferings
of others," demands imperatively your immediate and
unceasing attention, and should convince you of the
necessity and policy of seeking the only true remedy, in
a further reform of the Commons House of Parliament.

Your condition borders on the desperate already ; for
four successive years the difficulties of the merchant and
manufacturer, and the distress of the operatives, have
gone on increasing in severity, and spreading wider and
wider. A large proportion of the manufacturing capital
of the kingdom has been annihilated, and as a natural
consequence, an equally large proportion of the working
class have either been thrown entirely out of employment
er have had their hours of work reduced. A more
gloomy prospect sill, is that of the future. The unpa-
ralleled energy and buoyancy of British industry that has
carried us, in spite of all obstacles, through former periods
of distress, now appears to be overmatched by insupe-
rable difficulties. Every year's additional experience,
the report of every traveller who visits the seats of
manufactures in Europe and America, proves, with
greater distinctness, that the selfish class legislation of
our rulers is rapidly destroying the sources of our ma-
nufacturing and commercial prosperity, and transferring
teem to other countries; and if allowed to go on un-
checked, must eventually plunge us into a depth of dis-
tress, greater even than that we now endure, and the
consequence of which it is frightful to contemplate.
We refer, among other proofs, to the following resolu-
tion, passed unanimously at a meeting of 2,000 persons,
held recently in this town, as a testimony to the correct-
ness of their melancholy statement:—
" That great and increasing distress has been experi-
enced during the last four years, by the mercantile and
manufacturing classes of the woollen district, of which
Leeds is the centre. That the condition of the workmen
engaged in the various branches of its staple trade, has
been gradually deteriorated from the combined opera-
tion of a lessened employment for labour—a lower rate
of remuneration for it—and the high price of all the ne-
cessaries of life, and more especially of flour and meat ;
that the merchants have experienced unparalleled, and,
in many cases, ruinous losses, from the frequent and
large fluctuations in the value of manufactured goods,
and the frightful amount of insolvency which has taken
place amongst the retail traders of the nation ; and that
the manufacturers have suffered in a still greater degree
than the merchants, because they have had to bear the
loss arising from the partial employment of their machi-
nery, and the consequent inadequate return upon their
sunk capital, in addition to those arising from extreme
variations in the price of the raw material and the bank-
ruptcy of their customers."
We refer to Mr. Alderman Bateson's letter to the two
Members for this borough, describing the rapid progress
made by the woollen manufactures of Belgium and
Prussia. whilst the exports of British woollens has de-
creased.

Add to these the results of the inquiries of the Unem-
ployed Operative Enumeration Committee, from which
we learn the appalling fact that in Leeds alone.there are
4,752 families, consisting of 19,937 individuals, whose
average subsistence is no more than 114 d. per week.
Such being your condition, what are your prospects of
relief ? Your present rulers, the Corn-law aristocracy,
with the Dukes of Buckingham and Richmond at their
head, already fiercely threaten to turn out the Conserva-
tive Government of Peel and Wellington with as little
ceremony as they have done the late Reform Ministry,
should they venture to legislate for the whole people,
and not for the exclusive interests of their own order.
They not only treat with indifference themselves the
misery and destitution of so many of their fellow-coun-
trymen ; but with a tyrannic jealousy they stifle the
cries for help, and the demands for inquiry, that a suffer-
ing people would carry to the foot of the Throne, and to
the bar of the Rouse of Commons.

The worst is yet to be told. It plainly appears from
various symptoms that a large and influential portion of
the dominant class, are deliberately bent on reducing your
numbers and influence by increasing your distress. A
scheme of policy more atrocious and insane never dis-
graced an educated and civilised community. The
charge is too serious and awful to be lightly made : we
shall state the indications that, joined to the acts of our
rulers, appear to us conclusive evidence that such inten-
tions are really entertained.
We adduce as proofs :
First—The admission of our friends amongst the aris-
tocracy, and thank heaven we still have many, that their
Conservative brethren in private conversation fearlessly
assert what they dare not in public, that the manufac-
turing interest is already too powerful, and must be
diminished—the population too great, and must be re-
duced.

Secondly—That the words which fell from Sir James
Graham, the present Home Secretary, in the interview
which the Anti-Corn-law deputation had with him some
time ago, left the same impression on their minds.
Thirdly—The following sentiments as expressed in
the Quarterly Review, the Conservative Journal :
" Before emigration is tried, let us endeavour to occupy
our waste lands. Millions of acres are still unreclaimed,
both in Great Britain and Ireland. Stop the gambling
speculations of the manufacturers, and drain off the sur-
plus population from the towns into the country. Let
landlords plant colonies on their commons, and bogs,
and mountains, plant them under their own eye, upon
right principles of colonization, in organic bodies, with
powers of self-government; with social privileges ; witb
the germs of village institutions; especially with that
first principle of life and organization, an efficient eccle-
siastical establishment in the centre. Restore something
of the feudal spirit into our tenure of land. Raze, if
you:like, to the ground, half our overgrown metropolis."
Here their design of reducing the manufacturing and
increasing the agricultural population is to be effected
by the apparently benevolent process of transplanting
the distressed to their commons, bogs, and mountains—
but to make this scheme answer previous distress must
be created, and this is to be brought about by stopping
the gambling speculations of the manufacturers—in
other words, closing the mills. Again, their intentions
are expressed in still plainer language in the following
quotation from the Rev. Baptist Noel's tract of " The
Plea for the Poor :"—" One other remedy has been pro-
posed. A distinguished opponent of the repeal of the pre-
sent Corn-laws, after describing the present sufferings of the
manufacturers, their lowered wages, and their increasing
numbers, ends, confess it is frightful to contemplate
such a state of things and of society, but it can no
longer be concealed; and yet the only remedy seems to be,
to diminish the sources of employment, in order to produce
future or permanent good.' Inadequate employment
has stripped their dwellings bare, driven them to dark
cellars, loaded the pawnbroker's shop with their pledged
property, taken the clothes from their backs, crowded the
hospitals, withered their limbs, and broken their spirits;
and when it is utterly impossible that they should emi-
grate, and would be fatal to them if they could, the
only means suggested for the alleviation of their misery
is, that there should be a further diminution of their
sources of employment.' "
Is not our case made out? Do not the aristocracy
contemplate the reducing the manufacturing influence
and population by increasing the distress? But the con-
clusive sentence is yet to come.—What says their daily
organ of the press, the Standard?—" England would be
as great and powerful, and all useful Englishmen would
be as rich as they are, though one ruin should engulph
all the manufacturing towns and districts of Great Bri-
tain." According to this, the whole manufacturing po-
pulation are useless, and would not be missed were they
engulphed in one common ruin.
These sentiments have not merely emanated from the
editors of the Standard : that they speak but too plainly
she secret wishes and intentions of an influential portion
of the aristocracy, is too well proved by the unbending
tenor of their actions. For had there been an honest in-
tention of.doingjustice to the industrious classes, no op-
position but, on the contrary, every facility would have
been offered for the fullest, and freest, and most search-
ing inquiry into the whole subject of the condition of the
people, and the causes of their distress. How can the
people attribute any but sinister motives to the dogged
refusal to institute an inquiry, that their nl::inest duties
as statesmen, as men, as.• Christians, made imperative
upon them ? No disclaimers, no Atuftling explanations
will suffice to remove from the Corn-law aristocracy the
charge we have brought against them out of their own
mouths; unless accc!ra-eatlied by acts also ; by the offer,
at least, of a full, fair, and free inquiry into the distress
of their courArymen.
We cannot pass on without soliciting the deep attention
of the merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, and
middle classes generally, to the comparative conduct of
the working class and the landlord class, so far as a just
respect for the property of others is concerned. Are
you not often told that the ignorant demoralized working
class have no respect for property, and are ready to plun-
der the rich whenever they have the opportunity) or
when a strong temptation offers ? Consider, we entreat
you, how—in periods of the deepest distress of the ope-
ratives, when thousands have been wandering in- the
streets and roads, famished with hunger, asking in vain
for work—you and your families have lived in peace and
security to person and property in the midst of them ; wit-
nessing, in innumer7Lie instances, their admirable
patience, their '.;rderly conduct, and respect lb?
the property of others, and gratitude for any
acts of real kindness or charity. Contrast this
with the conduct of the Corn-law aristocracy. They
who, more than any other class, live and prosper not
upon their own labours, but on those of others. They,
the wealthitst, most powerful, and splendid aristocracy-
in thr world, and who are indebted for by far the largest
portion of those advantages to the labours of yourselves,
their industrious fellow-countrymen, the inhabitants of
populous cities, the moving forces of the workshops, the
ships, col•enerce, and colonies of England. They who
talk most loudly of maintaining inviolable the principle
of the security of property, and are themselves the most
daring and wholesale plunderers of the property of
others ; of
England, to wyhoouna,
ing the means of eari'ni
ttihiey
dmerehants,damilyanburfeaaettit,irbeyrsd,enanyd.
tradesmen of England ;of you, the working men of
riling it )b.oyur
Awake,
then, fellow-countr
y en shake off your sloth ; search
your labour.
deeply the causes of Yeu'r distress,danger and
weakness, and summon upcourage
„oto yournieet those dan-
gers, and to make whatever sacrifices and exertions are
necessary for the deliverance ofCeg
yourselves and all you
hold most dear, before it it
And now we invite youstooolate. of how far the evils that o serious consideration,
the
are owing to their own faults or
the industrious classes
fearlessly denounce that which remissness.
conductwe
wrong in the
of others, let us have the manliness to avow our own
faults by whatever means we learn them. How is it,

DON, TUESDAY, OCT

that in thelte appeal to the electors of the West-
Riding,-at-the- last general eldetiorCthe strange and dis
graceful result was witnessed, of town after town, and
lastly, the greaV.44tituency of the Riding itself re-
turning Tories, tools of the Corn•law Aristocracy, and
enemies of the people ? Thousands of the electors will
indignantly exclaim that the franchise a mockery, that
its free eiet'OtecA infgeded-by so manykobstructions, en-
tails so many sacrifices, that to possess the right is a
curse, rather than the ennobling privilege of the citizen
of a free State. Others will complain of the apathy pro-
duced by the temporising policy of the late Whig Go-
vernment, often too ready to conciliate enemies; rather
than satisfy the just demands of friends.
Granted that the Reform Bill has failed in securing its
intended objects ; that the Whigs, though .they have
done much for the people which we ought not to for-
get, have not in all cases been true to their best inter-
ests. What remedy ? Ara- the liberties, and rights,
and dearest interests of the people in the keeping of
the Whigs, or of any other political party ; or any-
where but in their own hands ? Now we come to the
real root of our weakness, and of our defeats.

The people, the industrious people, with shame and
sorrow be it spoken, have not been true to themselves.
We have had no cordial union amongst ourselves. The
;piddle classes, and the bulk of the electors, have aban-
doned themselves to the demoralising saliggles of mere
party politics ; and having obtained political rights
themselves, have regarded with too much of apathy, in
some cases perhaps of jealousy and suspicion, the claims
to the same political rights of their poorer brethren of
the working class.
The working classes have been too ready to listen to
the false and irritating suggestions of our common
enemies, and to rank, without distinction, all who are
not of their own class, and all who will not at once
grant the whole of their demands, as hostile to them
Let us profit by The stern, but wholesome, lessons of ad-
verSity which is now our teacher—let there be in future
amongst us mere of justice and forbearance, more of
sympathy and kind feelings towards others, and a
greater vigilance and courage in the performance of
our duties, no less than in the maintenance of our rights.
We must depend neither upon Whigs or Tories, but
upon ourselves only. We must learn to place our
strength in union founded upon the mutual concession of
minor differences—we must organise ourselves—we must
meet in friendly conference and discussion in the sincere
search after the true causes and remedies of the evils of
our social state. Our main practical object will be to as-
certain the best means of reforming our present degrad-.
ing and corrupt representative system, so as to secure the
full, fair, and free representation of the people in Parlia-
ment. In pursuit of this object we must not forget that
no mere forms of Government, however wisely and
elaborately framed, can of themselves create a free and
happy people. There can be no security for real pro-
gress unless the people first, reform themselves, and by a
generous emulation raise the moral standard of the indi-
vidual men who form the millions. All around us there
are symptoms of the awakening of the people to a sense
of the mighty power for alf good purposes that is within
their reach by intellectual and moral culture.

To promote these objects, the Leeds Parliamentary
Reform Ass=ociation was founded, and it is to exhort
you to form similar Associations, that we now earnestly
apreal to you. Men of Yorkshire—Let every town, let
every village, have its Reform Association, and let us
run a friendly race of competition, in advancing each to
our utmost ability the great. cause of Peace, and Liberty,
and well rewarded Industry.
Let us help ourselves in a righteous course, and God
will help us. J. G. MARSHALL, Chairman.