The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-02 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Last night a most crowded meeting took place within
the large theatre of the Southwark Literary and Scien-
tific Institution, Borough-road, for the purpose of hearing
Mr. Sidney Smith lecture upon the Corn-laws ; for
expediting the progress of the signing of the memorial
to her Majesty, lately adopted by the Institution ; and
for promoting in general the advance of free-trade
principles in the district. The large lecture-room of the
Institution, which is capable of containing nearly a
thousand individuals, was filled to overflowing ; indeed,
hundreds were obliged to leave for want of room ; and
the utmost enthusiasm was manifested as the lecturer.
proceeded.
PARISH OF ST. MARYLEBONE.

THE CORN AND PROVISION LAWS.—PETITION TO
THE QUEEN, AND DEPUTATION TO THE DUKE OF
SUSSEX.—Yesterday a special meeting of the vestry
of St. Marylebone, which was numerously attended,
took place at the Court-house, Marylebone-lane, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the confirmation of
a resolution passed on the previous Saturday to petition
the Queen, praying her Majesty not to prorogue Par-
liament.

Mr. GIBSON—He was happy to see that the pa-
rishioners of Marylebone were equally, with their re-
presentative Vestry, at work in this great and impor-
tant struggle for the rights of the poor. Meetings and
petitions were being held and sot up in every quarter
and district of the parish ; and it was also gratifying to
learn that the Anti-Corn-law movement was to be led on
by Royalty itself.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted the ab-
sence of Mr. Waymouth on the present occasion, but
that gentleman had requested him to put the Vestry into
possession of the fact that her Majesty had appointed a
day next week, he believed Thursday, for receiving the
petitions praying her not to prorogue Parliament until
the distress of the country and the important question of
the Corn-laws had been discussed. This, Mr. Way-
mouth stated, had been brought about by the Queen's
uncle, the Duke of Sussex, his Royal Highness having
had an interview with her Majesty. It was his Royal
Highness's intention to head a deputation of Peers of a
similar way of thinking with himself upon the question
of the Corn-laws, and present all the petitions to her Ma-
jesty on the subject, which it was understood would be
between 200 and 300 petitions from the metropolis and
its suburbs, and between 500 and 600 from the pro-
vinces.—(Loud cheers and cries of " Hear, hear.") It
was not his (Mr. Gibson's) intention to call upon the
Vestry to comply with the request of the " Anti-Corn-
law Associetion, ' that all petitions should be sent to
their office for presentation. He hoped to see a deputa-
tion appointed to wait on his Royal Highness and place
the petition of the Vestry into his hands themselves ;
they would then be sure of its reaching her Majesty.
The petition was then adopted without a single dissen-
tient, and immediately put in course of sigriature ; and
Messrs. Waymouth, Gibson, Thomas, Bushill, and the
Chairman, Mr. Joseph, having been appointed a depu-
tation to carry it to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex for presentation, the meeting separated.
WHITECHAPEL AND MILE-END.

A meeting was held on Wednesday for the purpose of
memorializing the Queen on the subject of the Corn-
laws, at the Grave Maurice Tavern, Whitechapel, and
shortly after eight o'clock, P.M., they were both crowded'
to suffocation by the most respectable inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, as were also all the avenues leading to
the place of meeting::
Mr. G. WEST proposed, and Mr. CROUCHER seconded,
the resolution, agreeing to memorialize the Queen ; and
a third resolution constituted the meeting into the
Wliitechapel and Stepney Anti-Corn-law Association,
and several gentlemen were elected as the Committee.
The meeting, which was one of the largest held upon the
subject in Whitechapol, then separated.