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E'•ECTIONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.-
Yesterday a requisition was in circulation in the different
Wards of the City of London, the object of which was to re-
quest that Lord :lolin Russell, the Secretary for the Colonies,
would offer himself as a candidate at the next election. It ts
expected to be most numerously signed. The following is a
copy of the requisition :—" To Lord John Russell, Al. P. We
the undersigned electors of the City of London do hereby re-
quest that you will in the event of a dissolution of Parliament
permit yourself to be put in nomination to represent the City
of London in the ensuing Parliament."

THE IRON TRADE.—A meeting of the princi-
pal ironmasters of the neighbourhood of S‘ olverhampton was
held on Monday, the sth instant, at which it was determined
(we are informed) that fifty furnaces should be " blown ou',"
viz., thirty-five in Staffordshire and fifteen in Shropshire.
a, for the
the most part, be partiallytion, we believe, will take
e
Although this resolution is much to be regretted, as evincing
the depre,.sed state of trade at the present moment, we are
glad to learn that but few of the work people will be thrown
quiteai,l,oyd
oute oaf
short time
taims telTytl 'ase alteration, 'ill
plate immediately,—Monmouthshire Merlin.
HESSE HONIBURG.—The °flicial journal of
Hesse Homburg of the 16th inst. publishes a proclamation of
the Landgrave, dated the Bth, promising a constitution to his
subjects.

might be brought back without doing wrong to anybody.
—(Loud cries of " Question.") He thought Whigs and
Tories were both equally bad. The consequence of the
debt rendered it impossible for them to have cheap
corn from abroad, and their great. object ought to be to
obtain cheap Government- . He was against any altera-
tion, in the Corn-laws—(Loud hisses and great uproar)—
and he would move as an amendment a resolution, stating
that it would be impossible for the manufacturers of this
country to compete with foreigners so long as a revenue
of fifty millions was wrung from the productive classes
to be given to the unproductive classes.
Mr. BAYLIS, of Hosier-lane, seconded the amendment.
Mr. WOOD complained of the attempt of Mr. Wells to
shirk the question as one unworthy of the meeting. If
the 11 millions taken out of the pockets of the people an-
nually by the present Corn-law were kept in the pockets
of the people, and out of the grasp of the mono-
polists, there would be no great difficulty in obtaining
cheap Government.—(Cheers.) The measures of the
Government must be taken as a whole.—(Cheers.)
There was now a prohibition against the importation of
cattle and of meat. The landed interest were a class
that nothing could ever satisfy. They had even upheld
a duty upon eggs satd sausages.—(Cheers and laughter.)
In addition to the eleven millions taken by the Corn-
laws, there was no less than 20,000,0001. taken out of
the pockets of the people of this country by indirect
taxation, for the purposes of protection. It was neces-
sary to reduce the duty on foreign sugar in order to pre-
vent the East and West India monopolists combining to
keep these sugars out of the market so as to keep up the
price. He contended that the change proposed in the
Corn-laws would not reduce wages but would in-
crease the present consumption of corn by at
least • one-fourth.—(Hear, hear.) The poor labourer
would not then be obliged to give his children vegetables
because he could not give them bread. Mehemet Ali
had complained to Napier that lie could net send a
cargo of his corn here and take our manufactured goods
in return, on account of the uncertainty as to the duty
he should have to pay when the corn arrived here.—
(Cheers.) Would they give up their trade with the
Brazils on the hypocritical pretext that free labour could
not compete with slave labour. Why, the estates in the
West Indies had increased in value since the emancipa-
tion, and the way to increase free labour was to let it
compete freely with slave labour all over the world.
Why did they refuse to encourage the free labour of
North America by refusing the corn, and yet encourage
the slave labour of the South states by taking the cot-
ton ?—(Cheers.) Why because they were the victims
of the sugar, the timber, and the corn monopolists.
Mr. Deacon Hume, who was no party man,
had said that if we did not get rid of our monopolies,
our commercial empire would be lost.—(Cheers.) The
indirect taxation which did not go to the purpose of
Government, was greater than the direct taxation. The
consuming population had been taxed to its utmost ex-
tent. The Government saw this, and had long concocted
this great and mighty measure.—(Cheers.) If they fol-
lowed Mr. Goulburn's advice, to leave things alone,
would the public creditor be quite safe ? With the po-
pulation of the manufacturing towns starving, were things
to be let alone.—(Cheers.) The proposd measures
would produce an increased demand for labour, and con-
sequently increased wages.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. E. PONTIFEX contended that more persons would
be called into employment in the manufacturing districts,
than would be thrown out of employment in the agricul-
tural districts by a repeal of the Corn-laws. Belgium was
already exporting hosiery to the East Indies, and it was a
matter worthy of serious consideration bow the prosperity
of our manufactures was to be maintained. Our pros-
perity depended upon maintaining our foreign commerce,
and how could that be maintained as long as these prohi-
tions continued ? and they ought to take the earliest
opportunity of doing away with the incubus which was
pressing upon us. Mr. Wells had complained of the
taxes, and in addition to them he was for imposing on
the country an additional tax by the Corn-laws. The
French were supplying customers in Holland, who used
formerly to be supplied from the city of London. Feeling
that it was necessary to take measures to maintain our
commerce, he should support the resolution,—(Cheers.)
Mr. PRENDERGAST supported the resolutions and went
into a history of the Corn-laws, and stated that when
they were first enacted the attempt to make corn dear
was considered so atrocious that the Corporation of Lon-
don, albeit at that time the Lord Mayor was a Tory, ad-
dressed the Throne, praying the law might not pass.
Blood was shed on that occasion. The Tories of the City
of London had always been opposed to the Corn-laws.
The Hon. Gentleman, having given a most humorous
description of the absurd conduct of John Bull in re-
fusing cheap corn, good timber, and cheap sugar, which
elicited great laughter, went on to account for the failure
of the revenue. The Ministers had given them cheap
postage. Had there ever been such a glorious cause'
for a failing revenue? The revenue was failing, and what
did the Ministers say ? We will raise the revenue by
increasing the comforts of the people.—(Loud cheers.)
Among all the benefits of the change in the postage ithis
was one of the greatest.—(Cheers.) At the present mo-
ment the Ministers had put themselves at the head of the
forlorn hope of the country.—(Loud cheers.) The de-
claration of Lord John Russell was a proof of it ; and
they ought all to join him in storming the citadel of mono-
poly. He had placed himself at the head, and would they
refuse to follow him ?—(Cheers.) They should help him,
to help themselves.—(Cheers.) Had he introduced some
fresh measure of taxation the Tories would have sup-
ported him.—(Cheers.) The people of England should
consider what he had done for them, and Whigs and
Tories connected with trade ought to join in putting an
end to the odious system of monopoly.—(Loud cheers.)
He was glad of the opportunity affbrded him of express-
ing his sense of the conduct of the worthy Aldermen
in convening the meeting, and would say once more, let
them support the Ministers. Let them rally round
Lord John Russell—(Cries of " No," drowned in loud
cheering, which continued some time)—and they would
soon succeed in storming the strongholds of monopoly.
Mr. BLAKE defended the Corn-laws as having pre-
vented fluctuations of price, and as necessary for the pro-
tection of the home grower. He denied that high rents
were a disadvantage to the country—(Disapprobation)—
and contended that it was the duty of the Government to
secure the home market to the English labourer. The
Corn-laws were necessary for the maintenance
of the State.—(Cries of " No," and hisses.) It was a
burden absolutely necessary.—(" No, no," and hisses.
Cries of " Down, down," " Off, off," and great uproar.)
He was happy to say that a vast majority of the House
of CoMmons was in favour of the existing Corn-laws
which 'he held to be for the benefit of the country.—
(Hisses, and uproar.) They were already amused with
tales of manufacturing distress.—(Hear, hear.) He said
amused, because—(Loud cries of " Turn him out," " Off,
off," hisses, and disapprobation).
Sir J, nitE hoped it was a slip, that he did not mean
that tales of distress would amuse any one.
Mr. BLAKE had made use of the word because those
tales had nothing to do with the question.—(Loud cries
of " Off, off," " turn him out.")
Mr. PONTIFEX interfered to procure him a hearing.
After a few words from Sir JAMES DUKE,
Mr. &mu; continued, and said he made use of the
term amuse, not because he did not feel for the distress,
but because it had nothing to do with the argument. He
denied that the doing away with the Corn-laws would in-
crease the manufactures. If foreign nations did not want our
manufactures, no difference in price would make them,
and they would never take more than they were obliged,
It was not fair to take away the proteetlon from English
industry.—(Disapprobation, and cries of " Off; off," and
" Time, time.") It was useless to have cheap broad if
they could not purchase it,—(Cries of " Down, down,"
" Question," and great uproar, in the midst of which the
speaker sat down.)
1)r. LYNCH denied the preponderance of the agrieul-
tural classes. The majority of the community was en-
gaged in trade.—(Cheers.) How did it happen that the
poorest continental labourer had more comforts than the
English labourer ? Our merchants connected with America
were ruined, because we Would not take the American
corn in exchange for our manufactures. One-third
of the labourers of Manchester were out of employ.
'A great proportion of the population of manu-
facturing towns were living in cellars in the greatest
misery and wretchedness, and in that very town he found
the poor the victims of disease; and the only moans of
providing against them was by giving them good bread
and animal food.—(Cheers, mixed with hisses from the
Chartists.) It was miserable to reflect that the taxes
upon God's blessings prevented the poor men from en-
joying them.—(Considerable confusion was created at this
period by several Chartists insisting on putting on their hats
and refusing to take them of; a gentleman at length took_
off one of their hats, which was the signal for a general
" physical force" attack on the part of the Chartists,
which ended, however, in their being speedily ejected
from the meeting.)
Mr. E. PONTIFEX said there were a knot of persons
who had come for the purpose of disturbing the meeting.
Sir JAMES DUKE said that if he found any person
who was not an inhabitant of the ward attempting to in-
terrupt the proceedings of the meeting he should
they had
should give
him in charge of the police. tip to two o
been very quiet, and he trusted the meeting would sup-
port him.—(Loud cheers,)
A man in the body of the meeting here rose, but
on being asked if he was an inhabitant of the ward, he
said he was not, and was consequently not permitted to
speak,
A GENTLEMAN- present said he knew him to be a
hired Chartist, who went about for the purpose of dis-
turbing public meetings.
PONTIFEX trusted it would be understood that
every one of those interruptions had proceeded from per-
sons not connected with the ward.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, for which
four hands only were held up. For the original resolu-
tipus a forest of hands were held up, and they were de-
clafgd tq he carried amidst the loudest acclamations. A
petition, founded on tliem, wa§ orclerpfl to belvennte4
to the House of Lords by the E4rl of Fi4wiumm, and
to the House of Commons by Sir James puke,
Aft,: FgAReN, considering it not improbable, from the
previous conduct the TPFIPaI that they might go the
length of voting against the Annual Sugar Ditties Bill,
which would be tantamount to refusing the supplies, and
having the greatest faith in the greatness of soul and
magnanimity of Lord John Russell, he would pro -
ilia l
-w
4 IT§Pillti9l.l ;fl 11) Mliset Platt ORM -the
House of Cowas mwe e the pu4ng tie Annual
Sugar Duties Bill, her Majesty's Ministers be entreated
to adopt every measure to carry into effect measures
which they had proposed,