The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1841.

strongest aristocracy that ever existed in, this or any other
country. In former times the great owners of the soil
had duties imposed upon them. -They 'were obliged to
fight for the defence of the 'nation, and also to support
their serfs—the people ; and in fact, in that all their
strength consisted, ler if they did not treat their serfs
well their serfs wouldleaYelh'ern, and go to another mas-
ter. The aristocracy, at present, however, were relieved
from the duty of personally defendinr, the State, while
they lately enacted a Poor-law, which, while it proles-
secito bestow, but did not bestow On the poor man in-
dependence, took away from hiM the right of obtaining
subsistence. After some further observations Mr. Taylor
concluded amidst loud cheers.
Mr. WHITE seaanded the resolution, which was car-
ried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

PADDINGTON ANTI-CORN-LA W

ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of this Association was held on Monday
at the Load of Hay Tavern, Paddington. The Chair
was taken at nine o'clock by Mr. Smart.
The SECRETARY having read the minutes of the last
meeting, •

TheCHArnmarr congratulated the meeting upon the
progress which the Association had made since its
commencement. Yet he must express his astonish-
ment that any number of persons belonging to tl-e
middle or working classes could entertain any doubt
upon this great question of " cheap food." He could
only account for such a phenomenon by supposing
that the opponents of the change laboured under
the delusion that th&r personal interests were mixed
up with the supposed interests of the owners of the
land. He had no doubt that the persererance of the
real friends of the people would ultimately succeed in
getting rid of those iniquitous laws, and be was happy
to believe that the parish of Paddington would hold a
conspicuous place in the ranks of the opposition.
The SeettEmity then read an abstract from the Report
of the Marylebone Vestry, to the effect that the rates of
that parish rose, not so much with the price of corn in the
current year, as with the price of the preceding year. The
only way to get rid of the oppressive and grinding sys-
tem, was, by a continued and well-sustained opposition
to it.—( Hear.) Every part of the borough of Mary-
lehoue, in which so much distress existed at present,
was intere,ted in demanding a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. PETERS stated that he had made a calcula-
tion, from which it was apparent that, in the
factories with which he was connected, the actual
value of the wages of the workmen employed
was affected to the amount of 9001. in one year
by the difference in the price of bread, whilst the no.
minal amount of their wages remained the 'same.—
( Hear, hear.) There vi ere employed in that factory
one hundred men ; and, from the tables which
he read, it appeared that the a% erage difference
in the cost of bread alone, was to each man fully
91., as between the two years, 1836 and 1841 ;
that is to say, out of the same amount of wages
each man paid in 1841 the sum of 91. for bread more
than he paid for the same quantity of bread out of the
same wages in 1836.—(Hear, hear.) Surely the trades-
men ought to understand that they were as much losers
in this case as the working men. The wives of the
latter were obliged to do without gowns and other ne-
cessaries, in order to pay the landlords their tax of 91—
(Hear, hear.) The women did without the gowns, and
the tradesman was left with stock to that amount upon
his hands.—(Hear, hear.)
Several resolutions for the future regulation of the
Association having been agreed to, thanks were voted
to the Chairman, and the meeting separated at a
late hour.

FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield ; like Lord
Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and Miss Copley, in
George-street, Hanover-square, from Turville Park,
Henley-on-Thames ; Lord Hinton, son of the Earl and
Countess Poulett, from Somersetshire ; Lady Elizabeth
Fielding, Mr. Henry Fox Talbot, and Miss Fielding, in
Sackville-street, from Tunbridge Wells ; the Hon. Col.
Fulke Greville Howard, in Grosvenor-sq., from a tour.