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produce of the colonies of this country. and provided, also, ii
was the production of free labour.e--( Great cheering.) But
he had been told that he shouldinjure the West Indiaproprietors
by that. Indeed ! Had they not already had 20,0i10,000/. of
the money of this country in their pockets, and the
estates and property improved by it? They bed been
told that the mighty experiment of emancipation would
be followed by every crime that could disgrace huma-
nity. They had been told so by these new Anti-Slavery
advocates.—( Loud cheers.) What had happened ? 'I he ca •
lumniated African race had obtained the power which physica:
force gave the multitude, and their revenge had been forgive-
ness and inerey.—(Cheers. ) Not one crime ha4l been corn-.
mitted. The bridewells and the gao:s were empty, and the
chains which had worn away the limbs of the negro
is ere now wearing away with rust-4 Loud cheering. )
He had recently seen the Roman Catholic Bishop of British
Guiana, who Lad stated that recently a community of negroes
had purchased a large estate in that colony, and having en-
gaged a gentleman as superintendent of that estate, at a sa'ary
of 500/., had bound themselves to abide by his directons.
They had alsoinstituted a school for the instru. tion of the chil-
dren, and he had the satisfaction of stating, that he had asked the
Bishop if the children of the African race really exhibited that
mental incapacity which the yellow miscreants of North America
imputed to them, and the answer was, that on the contrary
they exhibited a greater readiness than even the generality of
children, because they were actuated by a greater desire to
learn.—( Cheers.) Would the Americans, now that the expe-
riment had succeeded, follow our example? The called
themselves Republicans, forsooth, yet they practised the most
abominable tyranny.
A CLIANTIST.—Not so bad as the tyranny 01 the mi Idle
classes.
=Mr. O'CoNNELL.—There is a tyranny worse than even the
tyranny of the middle classes ; that beastly tyranny which
would attempt to confine all discussion to one particular point.
—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con-
tended there was no tyranny he abominated more than that
tyranny which attempted to interrupt all public business.
What would they say if a few individuals were to go to one
of their meetings for the purpose of interrupting their pro-
ceedings because it was a Chartist meeting, and they wouldput
itdown. He (Mr. O'Connell) would oppose any attempt to inter-
fere with one of their meetings as strenuously as he wouldany at-
tempt to interfefe with the present, for in both cases it would
be gross oppression, and there did not live a human being who
would go further to put down oppression than hitnselt.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to de-
nounce, in glowing and eloquent •terms, the abominations of
American slavery, more particularly the slave-breeding
system as practised in Maryland and Virginia. He also
inveighed against the Texians for rebelling against the
Mexicans, and des,ribed their Charter, the fundamental princi-
ples of which were that negro slavery should be perpetual.
and that the native Indians should be excluded from the soil of
Texas, as being not written with ink, but with human blood—
not sealed with wax, but imprinted with the hoof of a demon.
—( Loud cheers.) Yet this was the nation that Lord Palmer-
ston, in the excess of his folly, had had the audacity
to recognise ; and the reason given was, that. the
opening Texas to the literature of Europe, would make
the Texians ashamed of being slave owners. His Lordship
when he had coaxed the birds from the bushes, might coax the
Texians to free their slaves, but riot till then.—(Cheers and
laughter.) He should bring the subject before Parliament as
soon as the Treaty with Texas should be printed. He so-
lemnly warned all men against having any thing to do with
Texas,.or with any Texian loan: ; whoever advanced money to
the Texian land jobbers would be sure to lose it. trade
was agitation in behalf of justice.—(Cheers.) He wished to
see freedom and representative governments all over the world—
(Cheers)—and he thought that every man in England who
had attamed mature age, and was possessed of a fixed habita-
tion, whether lodging or house, should have a voice in electing
representatives to the British Senate.— (Cheers. ) But in the
work of the great regeneration of mankind, let them beware
of the hypocrisy of those who, while they pretended to
weep for the sufferings of humanity, were only in reality sigh-
ing for office.—( Loud cheers.) John Bull was remarkable
for his good sense, and he saw at oncetheir's was a flimsy
pretext to delude, and not a conviction to be worked out for
the sake of humanity.—(Cheers.) Could he forget that
the West India planters themselves, in their own country, con-
sumed nothing but slave grown sugar, which was tint of
all imported from Brazil and tuba into England, refined and
re exported under a drawback (and there never ma. a draw-
back without a little swindling), to be consumed on the estates
of the Goulburns, and the Grants, and the Glad.stones, and the
Sandons—(Cheers)—who cared nothing for the sngor being
slave-grown, in their delight at getting it so cheap.—
(Loud cheers.) There was another point to which he
alluded, as connected with this question. Could there
ever be a greater crime committed than when a weeping chid
cried to its parents for a second slice of bread to force that
mother to refuse the bread to her hungry child ?—(Cheers. )
Yet now the mother was forced to sac to her hungry child, .‘ I
cannot, my dearest, famishing child, give you another slice of
bread, because the Duke of Buckingham has a tax
upon the corn.—( Loud cheers.) Our loaf is small,
only half what it ought to be, because the other half is a:lo-
cated to the Duke of Buckingham, in order that the wheels of
h-s coach and four may glide glibly over the stones of the city
of London."—(Loud cheers.) He was an Irishman—lreland
was an agricultural county ; he believed he represented the
wants, the wishes, and the feelings of his countrymen, and he
would raise tt.e my of "Justice to England—a free trade in bread."
The Hon. Gentleman, after apologising to the meeting for
having introduced the subject of politics, end stated his wil-
liogness to hear anv length of speech which the gentleman
who had attacked him might choose to make, if he would
attend a meeting at the Crown•and Anchor that evening, at
which he (Mr. O'Connell) would be present, concluded by
calling upon the Association to continue their exertions in the
cause of justice and humanity, and sat down amidst loud cheer-
ing from all parts of the Hall.
Mr. REMEN (a gentleman of colour) from the United
states seconded the resolivion, and expressed his fears that
the system of American slavery must endure as long as Great
Britain encouraged it by purchasing slave-grown cotton from
the United States.

The resolution was then put and carried by acclamation.
W. EvaNs, Esq., M.P., moved the last resolution, expresd-
ing the satisfaction of the meeting at the advance of education
among the emancipated negroes, and to assure them of the
earnest interest the meeting took in their welfare, and to ex-
press the regret and indignation at the conduct of the British
Mining Associations in becoming the purchasers of slaves in
Cuba and the Brazils. The Hon. Gentlemen hiving expre>sed
his disgust at the conduct of the British slave-holders in Cuba
and the Brazils, sat down amidst loud cheering,
G. W. ALEXANDER, ESQ., in seconding the resolution. ex-
, pressed a hope that Brazil and Cuba would be excluded from
the English market, and vindicated the course pursued on that
question by the Committee of the Society.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
A GENTLEMAN on the platform proposed a. vote of thanks to
the venerable Chairman, who had been forced from indisposi-
tion to quit the meeting, and whose place had been take❑ by
Air. J. T. Gurney.
Mr. AsHwowrx, in seconding the motion,. said that the
feeling of the meeting had been so clearly expressed in ant wer
to the statements of Mr. O'Connell, that he should not trouble
them any furthers; he merely wished to explain, that he had not
came to ask any sympathy for his neighbours in Lancashire.
He came there to express their sentiments. The present was a
struggle between class interests and the people. The Lancashire
people asked for no protection whatever ; all they asked for was
fair play.—(Cheers.) The elms interests were those of corns
sugar, and timber ; and when they saw this trinity of monopo-
lists all suddenly converted, and giving utterance all at once to
their Anti-Slavery sympathies, he thought they had good reason
to suspect the grounds of such a marvelously sudden conver-
sion.—( Loud cheers.)
The vote of thanks having been carried by acclamation, the
meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FR3M TIIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—Our columut of this day afford abundant
evidence of the interest taken by the country in the success of
the extensive Qgmmercial reform proposed by Ministers. At
home, we have meetings in the Borough of Southwark, in
Camberwell, Bethnal-green, and the Tower Hamlets. We
have reports of meetings at Birmingham and Blackburn,
and communications from numerous places in every part of
the island. Everywhere the language is—the country must
he rescued . from monopoly. Everywhere gratitude is
expressed to Ministers, for what our Contemporary,
the Scots»tan, calls the ." Glorious Budget of 1841-.”
The attempt of the Tories to hoodwink the people by their
pretended regard for humanity has proved an utter failure.
The people never, far a moment, separated the different moe
nopcdigs, and are quite aware that Lord Sandon's motion is
as much directed against the alteration in the Corn-law and
timber duties, as the admission of foreign sugar at a protect-
ing duty. No man believes fur a moment that humanity has
anything to do with Viscount Sandon'3 motion. It amount,
merely to this—We, the corn and timber monopolists, hand
over to you West Indians the monopoly of the sugar market,
in return for which you must enable us to exclude
foreign corn except when it rsaches a famine [Nice. I
Mr. Brotherton stated last night that there were at p .esent 1
ten thousand people out of employment in Manchester and its
neighbourhood, and many of the mills were working half-time ;
ad as alproof of the depreciation of property, he instanced a
ge mi with sixty-three acres of land, and a mansion worth
four
nears or
1, five thousand pounds, and many dwelling-houses worth
y . a-yeer, the whole of which property cost 10,000/.,
and for Which, on the failure of the proprietor, about three
years ago. his creditors refused 75,000/, That property about
,ix months ago was offered for self) ai 40 0001, and hitherto ne
purchaser had been found for it. lii all the manufacturing towns
there are a lumber of houses unoccupied, and other signs of
distress. Disease, crime, and misery, as the Honourable Mem-
ber observed, were the natural result of this state of things.
What do the Tories propose to themselves ? The :Ministerial
plan recommends itself by its jueice, by its necessity, to meet
the demands of the crisis, and by its correspondence with the
opinion prevalent in all classes not under the influence of
sinister interest, that the springs of industry can only be re-
lieved by a substitution of duties for purposes of revenue for
prohibitory duties. Mr. Hastie, as Deputy Chairman of the
East India and China Association, stated last night that there
was not a member of that body who did not filly concur in the
principle announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He added, that he believed " that a reduction of the im-
port duties would be most beneficial to all classes of the
community—to the labourer, by bringing the necessaries
of life more within his reach—to the merchant by facilitating
the exchange of British manufacture* for the produce of fe.
reign nations, But will the landowners relish one whit more
his proposal of an equalisation of the legacy duty from which
real property is at present exempted ?' Something must be
done to supply the wants of the Exchequer, and late expe.ri:.
ments have proved that taxes on consumption can
no further. Sir Robert Peel has not yet delivered his
r,
senti-
ments on this question, and the public are looking foteyvea to
the mode in which he will endeavour to escape from
vi;t;tall
diffi-
culties of his position, with considerable anxie
n. of decided
his dexterity, ha cannot avoid taking a be carried
position
the league
bnstility to the people. He cannot p ofi by
of monopolists, without
• • whatever it. may be, in favour
soul and body. The majority,
by the union of
of Lord Sandon's resolution, will be obtained
giving himself-lit over_ th em
monopolists, whose ground of hostilityto 31inistors is the
honest determination of the latter to
of
classes. Sir Ro-
bert Peel cannot say, I merelyconsultaccept the interests of
the people in preference to the
interests
the aid of the ntunopo-
lists now, in qrcler to turn Misters out, but I shall be
place, pr pese the very same measures
toMi Ministers the hostility of mono.
prepared, when in
which have drawn down .
polists. He cannot throw dirt into the eyes of the people.
ea—n
dc o
the ont (Luse
However circuitously he may express himself, the plain En,,
involving a new precedent in
witie tte
Mee. 4nOnopolists
IWishesot flnhdisianpsr,olphoositliaonnds
landowners, and
against the people.
milTitier3lrEdSie.e—iXinneat.;inmtaclftion Mr, Monte, in the House of