The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1841

this important and numerous part of the com-
munity, with no present hope of improvement.
This is a very brief and condensed view of the
statements made at all these meetings by resi-
dent manufacturers and ministers. All the asser-
tions were supported by numerous facts, and
there is no authority capable of gainsaying them.
If such statements be not credible, human testi-
mony is in no case to be relied on. Manufac-
turing England, we are assured at all these
places, never was in such a deplorable condition
before, and great alarm for the consequences is
mingled with great affliction at the existing
distress.

It was also stated at these meetings, though
not on equally good authority, yet still
on authority worthy of credit, that the progress
of those manufactures in which England has
hitherto excelled is, in several parts of the Con-
tinent, very great—that we are already under-
sold in the foreign markets by Saxon hosiery.
and some species of cotton; it appears likely
that we shall be still further undersold in the
foreign market, and that there will be still more
misery at home,unless some measures be adopted,
if possible, to put a stop to the decay of our ma-
nufactures, and the increase of poverty and want.
It is impossible to deny this condition of the
manufacturing districts, so strongly attested,
and almost impossible, we fear, to doubt
that it must become worse and worse, if
its cause be not removed. What then, is
the cause. It is happily within our power to
remove it. The minds of our people have not
been smitten with atrophy, nor have their hands
lost their cunning. The seasons have not been
much below the average fertility, and we every
day read proud vauntings of the wonderful im-
provement in the cultivation of the soil. The
land has not been desolated by earthquakes, vol-
canoes, nor very serious inundations. We possess,
in the vast knowledge and skill of our people,
the elements of unbounded wealth.

Some silly persons, the Premier amongst them,
ay that evils which have been increasing for
years, as our columns testify, are caused by the
contemptible haste of a few joint-stock banks to
get rich, and their failure—a cause as inadequate
to account for the effects as the firing of the guns
at the fortress of St. Elmo for the bursting forth of
a desolating stream of lava from the sides of Vesu-
vius. Others, more silly still, say the misery
arises from too much wealth. They will have it
that our people are impoverished because they
have produced too much. If these are not arrant
fools, they are arrant knaves.

The cause is not single, further than it may be
expressed by one phrase—unjust legislation, of
which the foremost and most afflicting specimens
are the Corn and Provision-laws. There is great
distress in the land, and there is also, co-existing
with that, a large series of unjust laws, restrict-
ing trade, and taking away the property of the
suffering classes to enrich the law-makers and
their immediate dependents and friends. The co-
existence cannot be denied, nor can it be denied
that these laws are sufficient to account for the
existing evils. We hold it to be trifling wantonly
with important and solemn matters to divert
attention, by side-wind inquiries, from this most
plain and certain connection. The manufacturers
at all the three meetings, they being some of the
most intelligent men in the country, were una-
nimously of opinion that the Corn and Provision-
laws were the main cause of the distress.

How can we remove the cause ? The Tory
Journals make light of the distress, and scoff, in
an unseemly manner, at the manufacturers and

Ministers who have brought the distress to public
notice. They do but give utterance, we are
afraid, to the sentiments of the party in power,
and the manufacturers, it appears, are to be de-
nied relief, and treated as rebels if they utter the
just language of indignation. One Tory Journal
brands them day after day as men who deal in
falsehood, another as prompters to sedition, and
a third says the country can spare them. If the
manufacturers expect relief or compassion from
those who thus habitually traduce them, they
are weak and contemptible, and not the hard-
headed andstrong, minded men we take them to be.

An aristocracy or a Government acts on sys-
tem or rule ; it has no feelings, no sense of justice
or of honour; and all history is a lie if such a
body have ever done justice to the people, except
on compulsion. Our ancestors heretofore ex-

torted every right they possessed from the tyrants
of the hour, and the manufacturers must by legal
means imitate their example, and extort their
rights from the tyrant aristocracy. We are, in
truth, glad to see, from the language of Mr.
BRIGHT, at Manchester, that some of them take
this view.

We must tell the gentlemen manufacturers

that it is idle and even contemptible in them to
complain of the unjust aristocracy, and to go on
admiring and even worshipping it. Their silly
admiration of this Lord and that Lord, and
their still sillier imitation of the splendid
follies of those who plunder them, are the
roots of the power which overshadows and
destroys them. Nothing but their own prejudices
or passions could work their own ruin. Their
deference to rank and to landowners places fet-
ters on their minds and bodies, and gives them
powerless into the hands of their enemies. To
be successful they must stand forth independent
men, and cease to revere, as the greatest of hu-
man beings, an aristocratic receiver of rent, the
produce of taxation.

We were reminded by the Times yesterday,
that there is no exclusive class who own and
farm the land, and that it is purchaseable by the
profits of the trader, or the capital of the ma-
nufacturer. It follows, therefore, that it is the
unfeeling system which crushes the nation. In
other words, men are crushed by their reverence
for landed property, and for the dictates of large
landowners, which lies at the bottom of most of
our institutions. If that, in its origin, was just,
we are taught by the evils the system now in-
flicts on the community, that to entertain it, long
after the circumstances which warranted it have
passed away, is wrong. We are, in fact, en-
slaved by our own prejudices. It is curious to
find the same deference to rural occupations
amongst the Communists of France and the Tories
of England. "Cities," say the former, "must
be destroyed, as centres of domination and cor.
ruption." Half otir towns, say the organs of
the landlords, may be destroyed with advantage
to the public. Happiness and virtue are only to
be found, say the Tories, like the Communists, in
rural districts and rural occupations. Both alike
entertain an unfounded prejudice against the
new population of manufacturing towns; and, by
honouring the aristocratic landowners, the manu-
facturers half assent to the vulgar error, sanction
the degradation of their occupation, and are
parties to the oppression of which they complain.

The Spectator asks, " what crime is there in
being a landowner, to justify the exaction of the
whole deficit of revenue from his class exclu-
sively ?" The community replies, what merit is
there in being a landowner to justify the exaction
of an immense sum annually by taxation from
the whole community for his class? Though there
he no merit, it may be doubtful if there be no
crime, because the landlords have entered into a
conspiracy to starve a portion of the people. The
landlord who does not protest against their con-
duct, shares the crime of his class, and deserves to
be mulcted for their offences.

In the nature of rent, however, there is some-
thing so peculiar that it would seem reasonable
to make it contribute largely to the expense of
the State. Rent, according to modern
authorities, is what remains after the
whole expense of cultivation is paid, the
capital employed renewed, and its legitimate
profits paid. It springs only from the necessity
to cultivate inferior land; rent only begins when
land of an inferior quality is taken into cultiva-
tion, and it increases as men-are driven to use
worse and worse soils. It is the result of the
greater produce of those lands which are more
fertile than the land last taken into cultivation.

Why that peculiarity in soils, which makes one'
yield more than another, should belong to one
class only of the community, is difficult to say.
Accordingly, as it is seen that rent rises in the
progress of society, from the increase of popula-
tion, and the necessity of having recourse to soils
of less and less fertility, it is said that this extra
produce of the fertile land should belong to no
individuals, but should belong to the State. It
is said that this natural revenue ought to go to
pay the expenses of the State. If the rental of
the country, therefore, be sufficient to bear all
the expenses of the State, there ought, according
to this theory, to be no taxes, and all taxation
should be paid by rent. This is the answer to the
Spectator's question, why the class of the land-
owners should exclusively bear the burden of the

State.

The Spectator says, speaking of Mr. COBDEN'S
speech at Derby—

There may be dignity, if not prudence, in refusing to
offer any inducements to the landed majority in Parlia-
ment to repeal the Corn-laws beyond mere abstract
appeals to justice, but there is quite as little dignity as
prudence in augmenting their prejudices against the
cause of free trade and its supporters by threatening
them with confiscation, even if they grant what they at
present refuse.

The Spectator objects, therefore, if we under-
stand the meaning of the passage, to threaten-
ing the landlords. But it is admitted by the
Spectator, or was formerly admitted—what it
now admits we know not—that the Corn-laws
plunder the many for the few. The Spectator
would then have the many speak to the plunder-
ing few fairly and softly, and ask them gently
and kindly to take their hands out of the people's
pockets. Thus the stern, rigid, unbending Spec-
tator is the encourager of robbery. It would
have us bribe the landlords by fair and soothing
words to allow the people to enjoy their own,
Apart from the meanness of such a course,
worldly wisdom demonstrates that it is not pru-
dent. Men are not to coaxed from rapine by
flowery speeches.

We mentioned yesterday that the apprehended
the Tories would propose a plan to relieve dis-
tress, by putting down public meetings and en-
chaining the press. While our remarks were
composing, the Times was preparing a demand
for a new law to put down the Repeal Associa-
tion in Ireland. Here are our Contemporary's
words :

Above all, the Repeal Association must not be su
fered to continue its mischievous existence. We vvil",
not pause to discuss with Mr. O'Connell the question'
whether it be so constituted as to be beyond the reach of,
the existing law. If it be, let a new law be made that
shall reach it. We hold that, at all events, it must be
put down—by the present law, if the present law be apt
for the purpose ; if not, then by express Act of the Le-
gislature.

If the Repeal Association must be put down
because it annoys the powers that be, why should
manufacturing associations and the press be
spared? The same arguments which would jus-
tify putting down one would justify putting down
the other. Indeed the reasoning against the
latter is more forcible, because there is much more
danger to the aristocracy from the discussions
on the Corn-laws, than to the State or the aris-
tocracy from the proposition to repeal the Union.
We have, therefore, called the attention of the
public at the right time to the probable designs of
the Tories. They cannot retain power without
using coercion, and coercion they will use if they
are permitted. Forewarned is fore-armed ; if
the starvationists succeed, it well be the fault of
the people.

We gate yesterday a summary of the proceed-
ings of a meeting held at Leeds, for the imposi-
tion of a Church-rate, but the subject is of too
much importance to be passed over with such
slight notice, and we therefore give to-day a full
report of the speeches and the result. These
manufacturers, whom the Tory landlords in their
madness would destroy, are an active, intelligent,
and persevering race, and we are mistaken if
they allow themselves to he crushed, either
by Church, or what is commonly called
State, but which in reality means the
aristocracy. The very Tories themselves in
the manufacturing districts begin to see the
selfish purposes of their Church and State
friends. In Leeds, which returns one Tory
Member, ten thousand persons assembled to
decide upon a Church and, of course, a Tory
question, and the friends of Sir ROBERT PEEL
were defeated by acclamation. Affairs cannot
go on longer under the present system. While
the Church gets ten millions a year for
religious services, and still agitates every
parish for more, and the landlords join
with the priests in raising the price of provisions
and restricting the labour of the first artisans in
the world, the people starve. When the sup-
porters of Sir ROBERT PEEL find that their trade
decays, and that they cannot put money in their
pocket owing to the selfish laws passed by a fa-
voured class, we shall have a re-action which nei-
ther Whig, Radical, nor Chartist ever dreamed of.

We publish in another column a letter ad-
dressed by M. Onnex BARROT, the celebrated
French Republican Deputy, to the Editor of the
Siecle, provoked, it would appear, by an article
in the Morning Chronicle, denouncing the sup-
port given by the French Liberals to the forti-
fication of Paris. As we always agreed with the
Chronicle upon this question, we feel called
upon to take some notice of this letter, the more

especially as our Morning Contemporary passes
over it very cursorily. HOBBES held the doc-
trine that a state of nature was a state of war;
but ODILON BARROT out-Herods Herod, for be
holds that a state of civilisation is a state of war
also. " A nation is not a first-rate nation," says
M. ODILON BARROT, " but upon one condition,
which is the being able, in a good and just cause,
- to combat alone against- all, and when Europe
says yes, to say no." According to this
French statesman it is not in the excel-
lence of her laws, in the wisdom of their
administration, in the virtue of her rulers, and in
the virtue and happiness of her people, that the
first-rate qualities of a nation consists, but in her
ability to bid defiance to her neighbours. Mili-
tary power is the essence of all national great-
ness in the eyes of M. ODILON BARROT. It
is true, he premises, the cause for which the
world is to be combated by a single first-rate
nation shall be a good and just one, but it is
equally clear that this must be a matter of indif-
ference,
since the struggle is to be decided not by
right but might. What M. ODILON BARROT
wishes to make France, is a nation able to over-
whelm any one of her neighbours singly, whe-
ther the cause be just or unjust, and in a case of
extremity to be in a condition to bid a triumphant
defiance to them all. This he conceives is to be
achieved by the fortification of Paris, and there-
fore he gives his support to that measure.
There is also another reason equally cogent
why M. ODILON BARROT favours the fortifica-
tion of the capital. The project, he avows, was
a bantling hatched by himself in 1830. When
the other patriots of the Revolution of July
were immersed in projects for a Constitution to
place the liberties of France on an immovable
basis, M. ODILON BARROT was revolving plans
for repelling the hostile bayonetiofEngland and
Russia. The despotism of CHARLES THE TENTH
was forgotten by the Republican lawyer in less than
forty-eight hours after he quitted the capital ;
and the future Deputy and then statesman over-
looked the fact that a revolution could not have
taken place had Paris been fortified, in his eager-
ness to demonstrate the power of bidding defi-
ance to revolutionary France's only ally and
best friend, England! These facts will speak
for themselves. They demonstrate that the Re-
publican party
in France knows not what is
meant by constitutional liberty. M
But taking
M. ODILON BARROT'S view of this
question, there is one very important point upon
which we differ with him. We feel quite assured
chat the " one condition" which, in his opinion,
makes a nation a first-rate nation—namely, the
power to engage single-handed against the rest
of the world, is not to be obtained by the fortifi-
cation of a capital in the nineteenth century.
France, with Paris fortified, will not be a jot more
formidable to Europe than she was in 1815. She will
not even be so much, for she will have for ever I

ost the prestige ofa name more formidable than
a thousand ramparts. Paris fortified, will be for-
midable to France, not to Europe. When M.
ODILON BARROT conceived his darling idea of
fortifying Paris, he formed a conception of the
cradle in which, if ever executed, a despotism
shall be nursed, the pressure of whose iron heel
shall crush the liberties of France.

We have sincere pleasure in announcing that
a Treaty for the Suppression -of the Slave Trade,
confirming the mutual right of search, and de-
claring all traffic in slaves to be piracy, was
Signed yesterday •at the Foreign Office by the
Ministers of England, Franee; Austria, Russia,
and Prussia. We congratulate the Great Powers
upon the harmony which exists among them upon
this most important subject; and after the many
peevish articles which have appeared in the French
journals, complaining of the exercise of a
mutual right of search, the adoption of such a
Treaty by M. GUIZOT exhibits an extraordinary
degree of mental courage. That the United
States may be prevailed *upon to join this Treaty
must be the sincere wish, not only of every
friend of humanity, but of all who seek to ele-
vate the character of that Republic. Nothing
but the accession of the United States is now
wanted to put down the accursed Slave Trade all
over the world.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have been all
received, with Madrid Papers of the 12th inst.
Their contents are of little importance, beyond
that there are rumours of the hourly expected
death of the POPE, and a change in the Russian
Cabinet. Count PAHLEN, late Ambassador in
Paris, is spoken of as one of the new Russian
Ministers.

The trial of the prisoners, by the Court of
Peers, is proceeding, but no additional sentences
have been pronounced, or disclosures made.
The Sift.le says :—" We have repeated, after the Jour-
nal des Debats, the statement that Dufaur had attempted
to poison himself in his prison by swallowing a quantity
of snuff. This statement is not correct, and we are
assured that Dufaur did not make any attempt to de-
stroy himself. It seems that when he was arrested at
the barrier of Fontainbleau, he had taken no refreshment
for nearly 24 hours, and that he was conveyed to the
prison of the Luxemburg in a very weak state. He
then ate with great precipitation the breakfast which was
given him, and his indisposition was caused by this cir-
cumstance, and by the violent emotions which he felt at
the examination."

Notwithstanding the denial of the Ministerial Jour-
nals, the National thinks that the recal of General
Bugeaud is final. It says, " General Bugeaud was
soon convinced that to rescue the colony from the unfa-
vourable situation in which it is placed, it was necessary
to begin with great reforms in the local administrations,
and especially to place the direction in other hands than
those of M. Laurence. Like his predecessor, M.
Bugeaud was dissatisfied with the direction of the affairs
of Africa, he uttered some threats, and it is even said,
that his only motive in returning to France was to de-
mand the discharge of this man, whose hand has carried
disorganisation into Algeria. M. Laurence has antici-
pated his adversary, and Marshal Soult has again pre-
ferred listening to the deputy .of Les Landes rather than
to the Governor of our possessions in Africa. Only
some measure has been observed with respect to a friend
of the Palace. He has been prdpared for his disgrace,
but in fact it is complete. General Bugeaud is sacrificed
in the same manner and for the same reason as Mar-
shal Vallee. Marshal Soult has besides been the more
disposed to take the Government from the Deputy of
the Excideuil, as he is fatigued with his indocile man-
ner and humour.

This is the truth ; let the Ministerial journal again
contradict us ; the sequel will prove that we are well in-
formed."—Le Commerce.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MK. MILLER,

QUEEN'S COUNSEL.
This Learned Gentleman expired suddenly
last night, at his Chambers, in Stone-buildings,
Lincoln's Inn. The Learned Gentleman was in
perfect health yesterday afternoon, and dined
with several of the Benchers in Lincoln's Inn
Hall. He retired from the convivial board at
an early hour. This morning he was discovered
by the laundress of his chambers dead in the bed
with his clothes on. It is supposed that Mr.
Miller, after returning from Lincoln's Inn Hall,
sat down to read his briefs, and that being taken
suddenly ill, he bad laid himself down on his
bed, and there expired. Several briefs were
found open on the table, and both the candles
were burnt down to the sockets. Mr. Miller prac-
tised chiefly in the Lord Chancellor's Court and
the Privy Council.

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S COMPANY
(THIS DAY.)
The Quarterly General Meeting of the Court of
Directors of this Company was held this day, at the
office of the Company, 25, Birehin-lane, Cornhill. The
meeting was a mere routine one, and called for the pur-
pose of following the directions of the Act of Parliament
incorporating the Company, which provides that a general
meeting of the Directors should be held each quarter.
Some of the accounts were submitted to the Directors,
which were confirmed ; after which several petitions
from individuals interested in the Company were pre-
sented to the Court, and the meeting adjourned, having
sat only half an hour. None but Proprietors were present

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—aI-HS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 21.—Wind this day at noon W.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 20.—Arrd. St. Laurence, Lang-
bourne, Quebec for London, leaky.
DEAL, DEC. 20.—W.N.W.—Acrd. Erin, Morrison,
Quebec ; Cherwell, Kind, North America. Arrd. from
the river, Honduras, Sydney ; Clifford, New Zealand.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 20.—Wind variable.—Sld. Eliza-
beth, Hobart Town ; Camoens, Berbice ' • Elizabeth,
Charleston ; Laurel, Savannah; Adirondack, New York.
The Friendship, Wilson, from the Clyde to Jamaica, is
ashore in Clew Bay, near Westport, with loss of fore and
maintopmasts. The Scandinavian, from Chili to Swan.
sea, is wrecked in the Straits of Magellan—crew and
materials saved. The Royal Victoria steamer, from
Carlisle, ran against Clarence Pier this morning, stove
her bows, and lost head and cutwater. The Provident,
Bell, for Bilbao, has returned to dock to discharge, hav-
ing been in contact with the North America, in theßiver.
DARTMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Arrd. William IV., Gibbs.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Wind E. to E.S.E., strong
gales and squally.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Allen, Aux Cayes,
with foremast sprung and loss of bulwarks ; Java, Young,
Quebec, leaky, and with loss of bulwarks, &c. ; Margaret
steamer, for Vigo.
BRISTOL, DEC. 20. Sld. Wm. Miles, Trinidad.
COWES, DEC. 20. Arrd. Elizabeth and Anne, Lid-
stone, Messina.

MILFORD, DEC. 19.—Arrd. Bridget Timmins,—Dal-
housie' with loss of maintopmast, &c., having been
struck by a sea. Sld. Crusader, Monte Video; Eling,
Trinidad; Lavinia, New Orleans; Congo, Africa;
Greenhow, Sierra Leone; Alexander, Messina.
WHITEIIAVEN, DEC. 19.—S1d. Paragon, Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH. DEC. 20.—Wind E.N.E.—Sid. Portly,
Bordeaux and Mauritius; Druid, Barbadoes.
WEXFORD, DEC. 18.—The Peace, Cornier, from Dublin
to this port, got ashore to the northward of Arklow, on
the night of the 16th inst. ; she is full of water, and ex-
pected to become a wreck.

Conic, DEC. 18.—Arrd. Charles, Le Grand, Monte
Video, sailed Oct. 1.

WATERFORD, DEC. 17.—Sld. Trusty, Newfoundland.
PETERHEAD, DEC. 18.—Sid. Harrison, Mobile.
YARMOUTH, PEC. 19.—Sid. Enigheden, St. Domingo.
The Emma, Graham, from Buenos Ayres, is supposed
to be arrived off Dover.

THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
The public sales were large, and went off heavily at
lower rates for Bengal sugar, but other articles brought
full rates. Refined sugar in better request, 81s. for
standard lumps.
TEA. MARKET.
The market was dull for Free Trade, and prices were
barely supported ; is. 9d. to Is. 9id. for low and good
ordinary Congou cash. Company's difficult of sale at
Is. 81d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices firmer with a good demand. P. Y. Candle on
the spot 48s. 3d. to 48s. 6d., and 48s. for delivery up to
the end of the year.
SPIRIT MARKET.
Rum sells more freely. Proof Leewards at Is. 91-cl. to
Is. 10d. Brandy in good request, and prices on the ad-
vance.

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
The supply was good, the demand for Hay and Clo-
ver middling ; prices without alteration. The demand
for Straw was brisk, at an advance of ls. per load :
Clover, 3/. to 5/. 135.; Hay, 2/. to 4/. Bs.; Straw, 11. I Is.
to 11. 15s.

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PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At the ordinary
meeting held yesterday evening, in the rooms of the
Society at Exeter Hall, Dr. Elliotson, President, in the
chair, there was a very interesting communication read
on the relative proportions of the organs of the skull
between Blakesley and Courvoisier, both of whom were
recently executed for murder, and casts of whom were
exhibited. It Was a matter of singular coincidence that
no less than 12 measurements were equal. In Blakesley
the organs of destructiveness, self-esteem, and firmness,
were very large, as were those of attachment and love of
offspring. It was stated that, at the next meeting, a cast
of the head of Ward, the unhappy individual who was
executed yesterday morning for murder, would be ex-
hibited.
KIRK PERSECUTION.—It appears from the
Dundee Advertiser that Key, the man who was refused
Church privileges by the minister of Barry for burying
his child on a Sunday, is not the first who has suffered
from priestly tyranny. A Correspondent mentions that
the only son of a poor widow there lately died. The
woman with difficulty mustered a sufficient number to
carry the coffin to the church-yard on the following
Sunday, but just as the body was laid in the grave, the
grave-diggers were ordered to desist, and the coffin, jay
uncovered in the open grave all that day and night!

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" Who runs may read."

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A Grenoble Paper ofFO
thelL IW.
sth hist. publishes a letter
from Rome, stating that his Holiness the Pope was on
the night of? the 10th seized with an apoplectic fit, and
was speechless when the letter was written. The death
of Gregory XVI., a Pontiff of irreproachable morals,
and of an amiable disposition, will excite a great com-
motion among the hierarchy of the Churdh of Rome.
King Otho is not always unmindful of benefits. M.
Guizot having just gratified him with a million of dol-
lars, his soap-locks Majesty has requited the Minister
with the Order of the Saviour, of which M. Piscatory is
a Commander.
The Court of Peers considers the affair of Quenisset
so important that it did not allow itself to repose from
its labours on Sunday. No fresh sentences of guilt have,
however, yet been pronounced.
M. Salrandy, the new French Ambassador to Spain,
entered Madrid at ten o'clock on the morning of the
12th instant. His Excellency was to be introduced to
the Regent on the following day, to present his creden-
tials, after which he was, according to etiqi Otte, to visit
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the corps diplo-
matique.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald, reverting to the fraudulent Ex •
chequer bill affair, makes the following strange re-
marks ;—" But it is with deep and unaffected reluctance
that we advert to rumours which are rife in those quar-
ters of City intelligence, where beacon fires are seldom
false.' The ' two Noble Lords,' whose names have
reached us as not intact by the disgraceful 'on dit' which
obtains of this affair—are representatives of the great
contending parties in the political divisions of the coun-
try. They are, neither of them, deficient in the three
so emphatically predicated properties of plausibility—
talent—and power.' Ihey are, we fear, proverbially de-
ficient in other more tangible properties—
' Arcades arnbo :
Et cantare pares, et resonare parati.'
The social liberalities of the one—the political libe-
ralities of the other—much as we have to object
to them both, on the score of morality, and of consti-
tutional propriety—cannot extinguish the feeling of
pain and mortification with which we are compelled
to dwell, for a moment, on the report of their having
been participators in the desperate preliminaries to, and
desperate practices of, the most nefarious fraud, per-
haps, ever practised on the fiscal departments of the
country. We rejoice to hear that one Noble Viscount,
who seems to have almost as many personal, as he may
have found political or diplomatic, enemies,—has cleared
up every imputation which an unlucky combination of
circumstances at first was calculated to throw upon him,
in connection with the memorable bills.' We shall
indeed deplore the substitution (in the event of facts
justifying the intelligence of our informant), of another
peer, in his place, of rank not less eminent,—of attain-
ments not inferior,—and of certainly superior personal
influence."—lf the Herald has any thing :o say upon this
strange Exchequer bill affair, it should speak out boldly,
and not deal in hypothesis and insinuation, which mean
every thing or nothing, according to the fancies of its
readers.
We take the following from the Morning Chronicle :

"All Tory Journals desire to serve the cause, not only
of the Church, but of Church extension.' Very good,
so do we. And we, further, agree with those Tories
who repudiate any application of the public moneys to
Church building and endowment, as the means of ex-
tension. A Church co-extensive with the nation is de-
sired by all who know the worth of religion. Coercion,
hypocrisy, and taxation, are, in our view, most hostile
to that consummation. The Church-rate persecution
disgraces the Church. The practice of the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster, of making dissenting worship a
forfeiture of the leases held under them, is a disgrace
to the Church. So is the. Oxford squabble about the
chair of poetry. And so, moreover, is the extortion
which represses the formation of cemetery grounds be-
yond the boundaries of the metropolis, exposing the
inhabitants of its crowded streets to the pesti-
lential vapours that flow from piles of rotting car-
cases. We oppose these things as detrimental to the
spiritual character and influence of the Church."—
Had it not been for the Church-rate persecutions, which
the Chronicle here speaks of, the Establishment would
not have been reduced to the state of exhaustion and de-
bility in which it now is ; and which disables it from
making a vigorous head against any of the numerous
schisms with which it is embarrassed. It has alienated
many of its best friends ; it has conciliated none of its
enemies ; and in this untoward condition, can no longer
hope to derive benefit from raising the old war-cry of
the " Church in Danger," for none will rally under that
cry but a pack of old women in the last stage of dotage.
Alluding to the approaching-Session of Parliament,
the Advertiser says :—" At present the people are en-
during their sufferings with more than philosophic forti-
tude, because they are fondly clinging to the hope that,
on the re-assembling of Parliament, the Premier will
announce some measure or measures for their immediate
relief. Heaven grant they may not be disappointed !
It will be the•most portentous opening of any Legisla-
ture within the memory of man, if the people shall, after
all, find that they have been cherishing unfounded ex-
pectations. The position of the Premier, if he suffer the
proceedings of the first night of the approaching Session
to come to a close without some explicit announce-
ment of remedial measures, will be more peri-
lous, both for himself and his country, than that
in which any previous Prime Minister ever stood.
It is because we look forward with fear and
trembling to the probable results of. a disappointment of
the people's hopes, that we wish to press on Sir Robert
Peel, with peculiar force, the urgent expediency of being
prepared by that time with some tangible and substan-
tial measure for the modification, if not entire extinction
of the Corn monopoly."—Whatever our Contemporary
may expect from the fears or the sagacity of Sir Robert
Peel, we have no other expectation than that he will do
no more than he can possibly help—in fact, do just
enough to keep the people in a state of feverish excite-
ment. He will just throw a tub to the whale ; and hav-
ing done this, he will rub on from day to day, till, all his
trickery expedients failing, he will be sent to the right-
about, with all his congenial faction.
The Post says :—" The wretched folly of men who
abuse the landed aristocracy, and call the production of
landed produce robbery,' is not less apparent than the
wickedness of their conduct. When devoting their time
and talents to these idle, aimless calumnies, practical
men lose sight of what good they really might do. They
know very well that the Legislature is not disposed to
give way upon the principle of agricultural protection.
and they know that the party now in power is pledged
to a system of graduated protecting duty, according to
the price. But they know also, or they may know,
that it is only to these two points the Legisla•
ture or the Ministry stands pledged, and they must
also know (if they be intelligent) that even within these
conditions there is room for much speculation as to pos-
sible improvement. Adequate protection does not neces-
sarily imply exactly that kind and amount of protection
which is now established, nor does it follow because
there is to be a graduated scale, that the existing one is
the very best possible. If manufacturers and their ad-
vocates would direct their attention to such alterations as
might be made consistently with the principles to which
the present Legislature and Government are pledged,
they would have far better chance of practical success,
than in such wild denunciations as they waste their time
upon at present."
The Times thus comments on the late important Anti-
Corn-law meeting at Manchester:—." We recur this
morning to the subject of the Manchester cotton meeting,
not because we ascribe any weight or value to the argu-
ments used there,if arguments they can by any courtesy
be called, but because, observing the continuous efforts
of the Radical press to set up these windy nothings as
matters of substance, we think it necessary to guard
against any conclusion in their favour which might
be raised from our silence. Perhaps, if the persons
who make the speeches and who write the commen-
taries were content to state merely their facts and
inferences, and so leave the subject to the dispas-
sionate judgment of those who would take the
trouble of calmly reading it up, the whole matter
might be most usefully dealt with by the professors
of political economy on the one side and on the other.
But the tone taken against the landed interests, both
by the orators and by the journalists, is so little that
of science, and breathes so fiercely of inflammation, that
what ought to have been a philosophical controversy has
now been perverted into a passionate struggle, of which
unreasoning hunger is called in as the arbiter. We
deeply deprecate such appeals ; and though it may not
be so easy to quench an incendiary's handywork as it
was for himself to set it flaming, we will not at least be
passive spectators of the combustion."—These " windy
nothings '—as the Times calls the late Anti-Corn-law
meetings—will yet prove a hurricane that will sweep the
monopolists to destruction, if they do not promptly take
measures to avert the storm. Even now the wind is
freshening to a stiff gale, notwithstanding our Contem-
porary's sneering allusion to " windy nothings."

PUBLIC XIVIIMOVEMENTS.
It has been proposed that a better view of St. Paul's
Cathedral would be obtained by the removal of a great
number of houses at the west end of Cheapside. The
estimated loss of property on this change would be about
150,000/.

Workmen are now employed in forming the new pri-
vate drive from Frogmore Lodge to Windsor Great
Park, which will be finished in the spring. The ride
will pass by the Cold Hospital, and through the fields,
entering the Great Park through the double gates.
COMMERCIAL REFORM.
The people of Tottenham, at a meeting held in that
district last night, to the number of 600, attended a lec•
ture from Mr. Sidney Smith. With regard to the peti-
tion against the Corn-laws, it was remarked that "those
who could not write, would not fail to affix their marks
to it, recollecting that the question concerned them as
much as it concerns those who can write ; and that the
Barons' who obtained for them the great charter of
their liberties were unable to write, and therefore af-
fixed their marks;' instead of their signatures."
rxrrE ARTS.
It is a singular feature of the Chantrey bequest, that
the purchases to be made out of the yearly sum of
2,500/. at the disposal of the loyal Academy, on the
death of Lady Chantrey, are to be both from the pro-
ductions of dead and living artists. But the artist who-
soever he may be, must have resided and produced his
works in this country. 'Thus it will allow of the
pur-
chase of the works of a sculptor like Roubiliae, who had
his studio in London.

-X.XTER4EY iLNXI scxEreTrinc.
of the Phrenological Society held yes-
room, at Exeter-hall, Dr. Elliotson read
a communication on the relative proportions of the organs
of the skull between Blakesley and Courvoisier, and it
terAdaty, a,
meeting
in the

EVENING SUN'

was matter of singular coincidence that no less thin 'la
measurements were equal.
At the early age of 17, the eldest son of the late Sir
D. K. Sandford has been unanimously elected to a bar.
sary from Glasgow to Balliol College, Oxford.
The planet Mercury, which by reason of its prop**
quity to the sun is seldom visible even in the serene sides
of Spain and Italy, may be now seen in the morning in
the south-east, a little above the horizon, from six o'clock
to half-past seven. It assumes the shape of a slender
crescent, and is near the planet Venus by about three or
four titpes the breadth of the moon to the westward of N.
NAVAL AND MILITARY.
On Sunday se'nnight, Captain Northeote, master of
the Elizabeth, an English vessel, in the port of
Havre,
1
and a French pilot, were unfortunately drowned. 111;1
Captain, with the brave pilot, Martin, and others ha'
gone out in a boat to the relief of the English bartTe
Julia, of Newcastle, and having placed her in safetsafety, the '9'
boat upset. Martin and the rest were saved.
LAW AND POLICE.
An application was made yesterday in the Insolvent
Debtor's Court on behalf of the Rev. F. Sturmer, for,s
(P
dispensation to reside within the rules of the 01l 1
Bench, which the Court granted on the ground of l
health. This insolvent kept the boarding school at 111,1'5
where Medhurst mortally wounded his schoolfellow-
A man of the name of Coveney, who was in Maidstonte
gaol for damages in an action for seduction, applied ‘nt
be discharged on sureties, until the hearing on the ne"
circuit, but the Court would not listen to the application;
At the Clerkenwell Police Court yesterday, two letters
were received, one with the initials A. K. R.
and t
other from Goldsmith's Hall, each containing a 10/. n°t,
for the relief of the poor. This wealthy Con3panYf
believe, has sent the same sum to each of the Metror:,
politan Police Courts and deserve credit for their lib
donations, as well As the mode of distributing thew' fr 7
there are few places in London where such distress
witnessed as at Police-offices. • h 4'
Joseph Morgan, the youth charged last week with if, 4
cidentally wounding with a bullet Elizabeth Brorofvl:,a
of a sawyer, while shooting at sparrows, again alWe'", n
before the Magistrate, having been at large on bail., ;)
appeared that the lad, who is sixteen years of age' ,/§.
loaded a musket with a small charge of shot, net loaded
petting at the time that it had been previously
with ball, and fired it at a sparrow. The poor wcrllved
who was in the act of wiping down her table, reee!roe,
the ball in her left hip, and, being alone at the tieing
she lay on the floor for nearly two hours without be
able to move. The husband, who was in attend ja
yesterday, said the ball was still lodged in her had?ci be
so dangerous a part, that no attempt at present c0t..00
made to extract it. The Magistrate, on findin,o.
the surgeon's certificate that she was not at present 15 for
dangerous state, enlarged theprisoner's recognizance

a week.
At Clerkenwell, two Spitalfields weavers were br°lllo...
up charged with begging, but on the Mao-istrate findil,"
that they and their families were in deplorable distrestil
he directed the Clerk to give them ten shillings each °

SPORTING. ly
The Bramham hounds are returned to the Fox fen 9
they were made over to Lord Harewood when the Presb-cit
Mr. Lane Fox preferred hunting in Leicestershire,'
rlt
they have been for many generations in Bramham lord
where some handsome kennels exist, built by J.
Bingley, great uncle to the present Mr. Fox.
THEATRICAL. with
The Birmingham Theatre closed on Friday lash the
a very full house. It will be re-opened again t"-•,11
1 27th, when Macbeth is to be produced, together wh„rt ;
pantomime.
COURT— PASHIONAIIZZ• of
The Earl of Radnor is entertaining a select PZ:chip
his seat in Berks, where sporting is the order Of tP-„sre.
Viscount Duncannon has arrived in Cavendish- pit
The Lord Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and ills
Copley left town on Saturday on a- visit to the bbrel
of Salisbury. 00
Lord and Lady John Russell leave Belgraverlos-
on Thursday next, for the seat of the Marquis °-
downe at Bowood.
separated
The late Earl of Westmoreland had been the
from the Countess for many years till lately, "'hen„
Noble Earl requested a reconciliation, whch Was arra-,bey
The Marquis of Tavistock returns to Woburn Au
on Thursday or Friday next. arty
The Dowager Lady Holland had a dinner-Par
Saturday in South-street. - Lady
Count D'Orsay is expected on a visit to Lord an
Chesterfield at Bratby in Derbyshire. of S tste
Monseigneur Cappacini, the Under-SecretarY.„,Ages•
of his Holiness, the Pope, arrived in town on 1"..-
day last by the Ostend steaer. t 1 tit'
The Earl of Lonsdale hams given up his hounds in
landshire.

of the poor-box.

MISCEIMANZOTTS. he death
t
To-morrow is the anniversary, in 1739, of t voth
of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of the seed hi
Earl of Huntingdon. She is the lady celebra.
Steele in " The Tatler" under the name of AsPlat;oded
sides erecting several schools and churches, she
five scholarships in Queen's College, Oxford. , e
One of the tanks of the gas-works at Dun ue ;.hea
ploded on Thursday last, with a tremendous shociklo the
two boys, named Warden and Bruce, were burl"'
ruins. Only one body has yet been got out.
twipdefl
The poll on the Church-rate at Hackney, co
i the
on Saturday with a majority of 77 in favour orste
Rector ; while in July, after a two days' pol Lirisb
was negatived by a majority of only 1. ly
"000,
church of South Hackney has sittings for about 4 n'olo'
while the Dissenting chapels in the district will SCC-
date 2,500 persons. v"lSce
The funeral of the Earl of Westmoreland takeS,oay
on Monday, at Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. The
_ _ _ _

is now bei-ng removed fi-om Brighton.
The Liverpool workhouse is now crowded to Oce ilis•
'
there being not fewer than 2,000 paupers receivingrb
door relief, and in the new and spacious West Pew°
workhouse every sleeping room is fully occuPie house
believe the same may be said of almost every iork
throughout the country. TeroPe"
We understand that a member of a Fins,lP,r's t 131„;
ranee Society was yesterday fined five shill ' at
t""
street, for indulging in excessive tee•Wt3-5111
previous night. ~, at the
There is no truth in the report that the P°P.,-;',.ce s
instigation of the Puseyites, has landed at "° tyea•
fishing-smack, with a cargo of faggots and old a'!1) has
ite,
We understand that Mr. Newman, the FilseY
lately been examining Smithfield withl attention, in order
ll pro-
to select a convenient spot forroasting LOW-ChureDisha
testant Bishops in. Our•informant adds that the se to
of Exeter is the first whom the Puseyites Prop to s
roast, and that they are resolved he shall be dO inhis
turn. Having already roasted so many rflPisitse 0h../64
pamphlets, the ghostly Prelate cannot in Ps"
or
to being roasted himself. the°
Letters from Paris mention that Rapallo wasthe iar
recently in that capital, and the writers, under t his
pression from the reports in the journals here t.B__seos
apprehension was again ordered, intimate that note uverp-
to be lost in making an application to the French two he
ment for his capture and delivery, as for a day cir
had not been seen in his customary haunts.
RUMOUR. OF THE D.A.r• , Offer
Edwin Jones, alias Palace Jones, has re use" an
of 501., with board, lodging, and clothing six
for ,Ilitencio:
from the keeper of a strolling menagerie, who 'll thiS
to exhibit him in the country. The lad suspects ,„f the
a device of Sir James Graham to keep
ch hiin out
way during the festivities of the Royal ristening'
sifg.

' - 10
; MONEY and COMMERCIAL i"."-‘1( 4
CI7 Y, TWELVE 0' Cillc -)
e'd I,' 1.1/44i1
' LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 20. --- ' to4ol#l
had a fair business doing in the Cotton Market
except' .
' the sales comprising 4,000 bales, all of which' rric°
ing 200 for export, have been taken by the trade.
are steady at the quotations of Friday. Th tillik,s;
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 20.-- ---e cok
actions reported at the Stock Exchange are Lanotto,
and Preston, 17 ; London and Birmingham, 103 ;vaster°
New, 264 ; Royal Bank of Liverpool, 691 ; ."
Counties, 81. 17s. 6d. 20.--- Oilf
-. . e
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, If EC. rferov'
market continues very firm, very little Stock oi'stia-
Manchester and Birmingham, 281, 28i3r, and 28; ditto
chester and Leeds, 65i ; ditto Half Shares, 27 8
",,d.
Querters, 39-, ; Union Bank of Manchester, a I ls•
No later arrivals from any quarter to - daY•
THE FUNDS. a openecir
Consols and the Three per Cents. Reduce, pole
this morning at the closing prices of yesterday, t"eody pt
, 84, and the latter at 89. Exchequer Bills are St
10 12 premium. ° r rtuguesey
Spanish Active Stock opened at 231 1 ; --,., Ver,
Five per Cents., 32i 33; Ditto Fives, 191 4".
little business doing. * AT O
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY ..'
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. ,
to
Bristol and Exeter ..... ... 6O - 288.•••• to --
Great North of England ...
Great Western ... 65
......... to
...„'"'
Ditto Fifths
Gosport Junction
t: _ 3i;
i
London and Brighton 5O ...... 38 ...... t
...
London and Blackwalk:
......
London and Birmingham - ..-. to ---
Ditto New...
100 2:........... 26-5: ...
...
.......... t::: -----7 '1i.':1196.
London and Greenwich
Landon and South Western
Midland Counties
Ditto 1 Shares
South Eastern and Dover to "":4 d''
14153.m.....L.....F....22r01 t :
s. . . . . .
T. .. . i 0
hy s
ot 0 ,
pa
fr :
A further decline has taken place in the Eng"s ted Ai'
market since the opening. Consols are now cl„ll°edocc'
88i for the Account, and the Three per Cents- -il ii,Ji.
88i. Consols have been done for Money at 89i.'
Bonds, 1 prem.; Exchequer Bills are 11 12 pron. zoisil
Very little doing in the Foreign market. Ort&ots,
Bonds are quoted at 64i ; Portuguese Five pF,r -0011
321 ; Spanish Active Stock, 93i; Deferred, 11t;
Two and a Half r Cents., 52; Ditto Fives, 99il'oel':
and
TheßriSghhatoren
37i;Market is flat, with but little doing. Great
tenham and Great Western are quoted at 281 ;, 000
North of England 69 ; Great Western Fifths ; '-' )'or
and North Midland NSoeuwth3lE. °CI('
TWOO' CI tot.
Consols are now 88/- i. The market looking veit)Tir O.
QUARTER PA S7' 0611 ;
Eastern and Dover 01;
Consols, 88i 89 ; Colombian, 2011 ; Mexico!), '
Spanish, 231-a.
There is again some tQalUk-OtfßtThEe
and, from what is transpiring, it is evident tin pia'
will never rest satisfied until the names of all tuv
rties
quent parties, high and low, are expused. 0 _ Arcgt 42,
To wind up the year with a good balance, s '"',1,0117
have been effecting sales of stock to-day, an•legt:."'
money does not seem to be so easy of obtainra 11,
,s 7
fx Xeoq
Exchequer-he
rif.bflii
j:4iii
Ir. ,e
f 20u`'
MUNIFICENT DoNATIoN.--The sum 6•
has been fonsarded anonymously to the Rev; j.sitss.,
Anderson, to be applied in aid of the funds of treivss,s bail,
County Hospital, Brighton. The Lady Pull Of i'll
which took place a short time since for the be
same institution, realized 171/.

EVENING SUN

ILECTION OF COMMON
COUNCILMEN.
(THIS DAY.)

of TWARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
t.ili° morning a very numerously attended wardrnote
"e ward of Farringdon Without, was held in the New
to-gurr2 Old Bailey, for the purpose of electing members
an for the ward in the Court of Common Council,
other ward officers.
A et
ni•eirinan Sir J. Duke took his seat on the bench at
ther,',°eh. The late Common Councilmen arranged
,pls..eiv.es on each side..
mores ALDERMAN said it was unnecessary for him to do
-vre than
tset,t• 'at' express the very great pleasure he felt in
is) '''`g with the inhabitants of that respectable and im-
thrtant ward. He would only make one suggestion—if
itseliSphad a contest, he trusted that all who took part in it
'Pre; abstain from all personalities. If contest there
ors„ ° De, it would be an honourable one for a public
GilPers,"; and, as such, ought to be carried on without either
nality or ill feeling. &fore commencing the re-
his r business of the wardmote, he had to deplore that
ter:tot-thy Deputy had withstood all solicitation and de-
Ike :fled to retire. It was his wish to address the
r
ttlnit.l)ePuty BLACKET did feel anxious for an oppoF-
fted- 01 expresSing to the inhabitants of the ward his
itsigs of thankfulness for their uniform kindness
tq their period of twenty-nine years which he had been
lou.neir service. It was thirty-one years since they
1114,14 him out for the honour ; he refused, in conse-
the tof the inability he felt to discharge the duties of
tteet:re in a proper manner ; but, having been
the k. Peon the third occasion, he had consented to
st 4 Ind wishes and solicitations of his friends,
tesjeighbours. On entering upon office, he had de-
Ititui,4'ned to consider no interests but those of his con-
!illiej,"lts and of the City in general. The manner in
oefs'„,",,e had carried out that determination had been
*itL'etn, and he was happy in believing it had met
Ilts the approbation of nearly all. He felt that he ought
the tip, disappear from before them without touching upon
s i„4,r,13' all-engrossing subject of the Corn-laws. He
tisp;:,Lne Court when these iniquitous laws were first
'kw'', but at that period it was not at all a political
44, d, but
recollected that Ald. Birch was then Lord
4,j,:r, and the principal person in their favour. Tho
fotitY of the Court certainly resisted their imposition,
lik4ie 43 it was possible; they not only petitioned li,r-
-,pont'ttagainst them, but they also went to the King
ttne throne against them. That such iniquitous
a)ok, had remained so long upon the statute-
' only to be accounted for by knowing
"e lyre"' Our law-makers, that. they were the class most
4e1.41 interested in their maintenance.—(Cheers.) Ge-
tliski,in this country. disputes were settled by twelve
the e-3tenata men sitting in a jury-box, but that was not
Lthe laasae with the dispute between the country and
et4)°'owners ; the matter was wholly settled by the
ebstfr: and they still maintained them, but could not
Nteiiite to do so if the people would only become
141„ii,,After alluding to the improvements of the City
them`le° he had taken part, he hoped he had satisfied
14,44 at all events he had acted conscientiously. He
°,1o:41„ them most heartily for the confidence they had
reposed in him, and assured them he retired
becausethat he thought he was not capable of giving
itt(lat:• 'rgY to their concerns which one placed in the
Strt?rti he had so long held ought to do.—(Cheers.)
'esswu.; WlLLOasts then rose and said, he felt himself
more e" in health and strength in being called upon to
fully a vote of deserved thanks to a man who had faith-
tl)ciisne,,ed his fellow-citizens in that important ward for
til),"Lof near 30 years. He had had the pleasure of sit-
gtll,lLti, r)eputy Blacket as a colleague for manyyears,
c't 'eat thing he could say of him was, that no Member
Nth „,"'eurt of Cornmon Council had performed his duties
al)re forbearance, yet firmness—with more suavity,
eve 4 ,setermination to perform them conscientiously
bita in se who differed with him in politics differed with
ward nothing else. He moved that the thanks of the
Keithraote s
t, were due to Deputy John Blacket, and were
l"thsl given—that they be emblazoned and presented
gentleman in any manner thought most proper.
4itits IltrTTEnwouTH after passing a very high eulo-
the ". the character of' the Deputy, cordially seconded
id:lions/1
w •
Nsts Ems said, since he had had the honour of a
kesy "on with the ward ; he had been engaged in
,_thels,st,c'rniy discussions, but if, in the course of any of
ue had ever said one word which gave pain
terliere- Blacket, he unfeignedly withdrew it. His
they h:dhad been long, and he knew that for some years
ilbeen unremitting. In place of the expense of
ratherAh' Id r the vote being charged upon the waogeerd he
, that it was engraved on a silver salver, to
ooth rich and poor might contribute; he would be
h"11 e first.—(Cheers.)
"erev°te was then passed unanimously, and with ge-
krlteelaination.
thp istq keekET (evidently affected) again returned
th 8' He had seen some cling to office after he, and
'lad right themselves, must have been convinced they
of.the°st that energy necessary to the proper discharge
sal ties of. their office. He had been afraid of that
of him, therefore he retired.
Wasse Wardmote Clerk then read the precept, and the
Ill'inote proceeded to the election of the officers.
former members h vin been again recommended
bast4elPr,eicinet Meetina, were aga.in submitted—the
'Pub Harding being substituted for that of
hie. I 3
6
L 411% ewLE then proposed Mr. Lowden as a candidate.
wdes 4Wsosr seconded the nomination because Mr.
:vowed earne forward at a most critical time as an
rtian enemy of monopoly in every shape. He was
Prigef„,Well known and respected in his parish. His
hptirreS were those of a Whig, but he (Mr. D.) sup-
k him because he was an honest man, and a deter-
ote(3 and consistent hater of all restrictions upon trade
tpf, 'brnerce.—(Cheers..) He was also in favour of a
tirtriP of all abuses in the only unreformed. corpora-
ttitil the world.—(Cheers.) The times were very
1 , and it behoved every one to come forward
4ss„ boldly assert those. principles which he thought ne-
the for the salvation of the country. He knew that
ttkg.reat majority of the Ward were opposed to the de-
14'g Corn-lavvs, he therefore hoped they would re-
-11.7 a man who would give effect to their opinions.
ttr, ATBON nominated Mr. Prendergast, the barns-
cr 44ie1l nomination was seconded by
friel na Thett, who said his Learned Friend
enawarm
rtasholto? progressive reform,' and a determined
was
em
as it wherever it existed, but more especially was
to
was
ata~eelelded enemy to the accursed Corn-laws, which
lgaa a our population.—(Cheers and hisses.) Now
rePre the time when the ward wanted men to
ss
Itus.s-nt them' who were firm of purpose, deter-
pursue a course which would be for the
ts ligt, not of the few but of all, and enlightened enough
der n'w what that course was. In his friend Mr. Pren-
taltgskst they would find all those qualities combined with
Csuriteirhieh would make him respected in the Common
I♦Z" hi„
fc,„&llocrort did not like to come forward to oppose
Pot and neighbours, but some of them having for-
'on • at Were the opinions of the great majority of their
,stusen -
th. i_ts upon a most vital question, he could not
innrin'‘ing that his duty required him to do all
saserwer to relieve them from their duties, and send
,w,h,o would fully and .fairly represent them, their
„"" interests. He therefore proposed Mr. Richard
IsPeeTs"ss' who was a firm friend to freedom of trade,
:11 in corn and provisions.
ad P.
r-i 4111( seconded- the nomination, because a crisis
parrin•V.ed whnevery one was bound to act from pub-
vate r ciPle alone. If they were to be swayed by pri-
t"onst",,li"gs, they would never be able to beat down the
Slr s'Armenopoly, the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.)
ELIA was then proposed and seconded, upon
last he insisted that he and all those who were returned
and What what should
had left undone during that period. After
1a anyC n'usten, the Learned Gentleman, after disclaim-
roi h wish for precedence, said he hoped, although they
ts 4 t strike him, they would hear him. He had at-
atte t.1(1. 22 out of 23 Common Councils--had only omitted
t°n the Sewers once, and he was glad to be able
Spoc-gratulate them upon a decrease of 2d. in the pound
,qfserl, Athe Sewer Consolidated Fund, which had been
"be`i hy obtaining 2,000/. of the Corporation Funds;
"ata Pmgratulated them more particularly upon
.the
he
of the principle that the City funds were
Qt til„e4bie to the City improvements, and were not all to
?lkih-voted to eating and drinking. He had still to comA-
'angioof the.Bool. spent upon the Maria Wood—(
rid Uri" but he understood that that would never be got
tsrs 'or it was particularly useful in getting off da_ugh-
ther's 4 he was told that more matches had been made up