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London, England, 1841-09-21 00:00:00

ing districts. He had visited .Glasgow, Paisley, Liverpool, r
Alanohester, and Birmingham, five of the great manufacturing
towns Of the cotintry, atid thefe never was a lees demansl for '
the articles they manufactured than at present; net stteh a want
of employment. Ile was a munufacturer himsef, bih as a
metropolitan mentifacturer he did not feel personally, nor did
hit peeole feel that dlstreille bhceugO at present it was distant.
But when distress comifieiicer at if distence? it, would soon
come home. It had been said by the Ara ififialief thit the
Premier had assumed to himself the right of State physiciiii;
and that he can cure all the complaints of the body politic.
However true this might be, yet he says before lie can apply
the remedy they must wait five months. He (Mr. Pellet)
thottgitt that the *hole gentian was riot merely a political feel-
hag, for he believed there heier ivas a question in which there
was less political feeling than that tiner He believed that a
Tory and a banker of his acquaintailee ttlelold have been
present that day, but that he was prevented by 111,
health, or he would have been there to:declare the great injury
caused by these lawe.—(Cheers.) It was rather extraordi-
nary that the present State physician should on the 7th June
last have preseed so strongly on the political party then in
power to the immediate consideration of the Corn-lawn at
order to prevent agitation, and yet as soon as he comes into
power, one of his 6 st acts is to turn round upon the suffer
lug community and tell them that that was not the time to
give them the reined). He would appeal to a gentleroan who
wrote a plea for the poor on the Corn-laws, and who had
avowed himself as the Hoe. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel. Ile
was a clergyman of the Church of England. If he had been
one of the 1,500 Dissenting ministers that had met in Manches-
ter perhaps he would not be believed by the other party, but
being one of the rristocraey of the country, he (Mr. P.)
thought the landlords would not doubt what he said. He
would take a short. extract from this plea. It was that part
where the author quoted Scripture. "4 He shall 'deliver
the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and
him that hath no helper. He shall spare the
poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He
shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and pre-
sious shall their blood be in his sight!' Agreeably, there-
fore, both to the practice of the Legislature, and what is infi-
nitely more to be regarded, the will of Christ, should the weak
and the poor be freed from those artific'al restraints upon their
industry and that unproductive taxation of their food, which,
without serving the country, inflicts suffering on them."
This was the point to which their-attention ought to be led:
S.nce the proposed change would have taken place, the coun-
try had lost something like 400,000/. out of its revenue, pro:
voted it had been an Bs. duty instead of the sliding scale; that
amount of duty therefore had gone into the pockets of spe-
culators. He would make another quotation irem the " Pica
for the Poor:"—" Olyriads of the working classes, whose inte-
rests are especially at stake, have implored the Legislature not
to vote them any public money, not to give them any unfair
advantage over others, not to invade private property, but to
break off the fetters which the law has laid upon their indus-
try, to restore them t eir national liberty—to 1)T-chase
bread in return for the produce of their labour, to permit them
to maintain their families by honest and laborious exertion."
This he knew to be the opinion, not only of the trade, but
even ef their continental friends—those who were forced to
manufacture themselves cloth because we refused to take their
corn. Many oft he ports are completely closed to the shipping,
and although they Lad large quantities of corn in their ports,
they had, !to employment for their shipping; but they IN ere
manufacturing things which we could do infinitely better, if
we were allowed to exchange our commodities. To show the
fooltry of some of our 1, g.slative enactments, he would refer
to 1634, when Sir H. Ripon was fined 4,0001. for converting.
pasture land into arable.—(Great Laughter.) His per-
sonal experience told him that nearly all the want of employ-
ment that now existed arose from the operation of these had
laws—( Hear, heas.)—ciippling our energies and destroying
our commerce. France would be ashamed of it--( Hear, hear)
—and would rebel against it; but England was an example
of patience to other countries.—(Cheers.) He thought they
never could be prosperous till they had a property-tax in this
country, taxing she rich equally with the poor, and not as at
present, where the laws that were made were merely an excuse
for taxing the poor. He would conclude with another quota•
tion from his favourite author :—" For no fault of theirs they
are suffering the pain of hunger, with all the physical and
moral evils which accompany it. God has provided fur them
corn, not in their own crowded country, but in others less
densely peopled. They have the ability to buy it by their
labour, if the law f olods not; and the restoration of their
natural right will invigorate every branch of British industry.
Generously, therefore, at becomes th ; disciple of Christ, let
every Christian reader overcome all party spirit, silence each
ignorant prejudice, and trampling on the suggestions of a short-
sighted self-interest, labour with every friend of his country to
effect that extension of our trade which, while it improves the
condition of the working classes, will open the prospect of un-
bounded prosperity to the whole nation."
Dr. BEDFORD seconded the resolution. The first. thing that
arose in his mind was, how many Reverend Gentlemen were
present there that day ? On looking round him, he could not
see one.—(A laugh.) He thought those Reverend Gentlemen
cared more lot the soul than the body. They followed not the
example of the saviour of old, who first fed the people and
then preached to them.—(Hear, hear.) They had tot; many
•churches, and when he went into them he saw them empty,
and he naturally inquired, is there not a congregation? It
was because they had no clothes to appear'there in.—( Cheers.)
He had great pleasure in seconding the resolution.
Mr. R. RUSSELL rose to propose the third resolution:—
" That this meeting is apprehensive that peat danger will
arise, should the consideration of the Cotn-laws, recommended
by the Queen to both House of Parliament, be postponed, and
it therefore feels it to be an imperative duty to petition her Ma-
jesty not to prorogue Parliament until it shall have given full
ct to her Majesty's gracious recommendation, and that for
that purpose the following petition be adopted." He said a
friend of his was dining in Manchester with a physician, who
gave him an instance of the distress there existing. He was
called in to a man who was dying. He was about to prescribe
fer the man, when he said—Give me none of your physic, but
give me something to eat, for me and my children. Your chil-
dren, said the physician, where are they ? He pointed to some
steks,and three naked creatures crawled out, scarcely able to move.
The physician was horrorstruck. He did all he could fur them,
but in three days the man and his children were dead. This,
in a country where plenty w-as to the reach of every man, yet
he was prohibited from getting it even by the most. praiseworthy
means, as God had commanded him, by the sweat of his brow.
( Cheers.) He thought this country was not a country of
violence; if it were, they o cold not be at that time in their
present peaceable condition. He thought that Sir Robert Peel
must possess more of placidity than almost any human being
living, for he could riot think how he could feel himself safe
under existing circumstances.—( Cheers.) He could not
think how he could dare to maintain the present Corn law,
which was a protection to the landlord. The farmer could do
without protection as well as the manufacturer.—( Hear,
hear.) Therefore it was not a farmer's question, butt a land-
lord's question, and landlord's question only.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CHARLES Booroon seconded the resolution. He
trusted that on every available occasion they would address the
Queen until they got rid of these accursed laws.—(Cheers.)
The petition to the Queen was then read to the meeting.
Mr. WALTON, a Chartist, rose to move an amendment to
the resolution. He w s received with considerable uproar and.
confusion. He said he agreed with a good deal that was con-
tained in the petition, but it was because he differed with a
portion of it that he wished to move an amendment. The
speaker then read an amendment, which was to the effect that
nothing could be done till the representation was reformed. Ile
would leave it to the good sense of the meeting whether that
amendment should be received.—( Laughter.) They were
not to suppose that he was a supporter of the Corn-laws.—
( Uproar.) It was ncnsense to say, "Go to Germany or
Poland and other countries for bread, when there was plenty
at home, if the country were well cultivated.—(Confusion.)
According to the present arguments, they would take all their
corn from the foreigner, and none from the English farmer.—
(Great uproar.) What would be the result of that.—(Up-
roar.) The farmer would say 'to his labourer, " I have no
employment for you ; you must go to the manufacturer.—
( Here the uproar was very great, in• the midst of which the
speaker sat down.)
Mr. WILSON, another Chartist, rose to second the amend-
insoit, and was met with considerable disapprobation on the
pert of the meeting. He said, if he was situated as he would
wish to be, he should have a nice cottage, and a few acres to
cultivate.—(Great laughter, followed by uproar and confu-
sion.) He should like to be independent of every man.—
( Renewed laughter.) He attributed the state of distress into
which the manufacturing districts were thrown ti machinery,
which did the work of 100 men, and only the labour of one
man.—( Uproar.) The first remedy was, to extend the fran-
chise ; but, until they got that, they would never get men to re-
present the interests of the country. —( The uproar was increased,
and continued without intermission throughout the speaker's
address. )
Mr. HEARNE thought the gentleman who spoke last was
like the man with the goose which laid golden eggs.—
(Laughter.) He ripped up the body of the goose, and lost
the eggs ; and this was the way the} would have them proceed.
Talk about machinery being injurious ! It was only injurious
because it was fettered by bad laws.—( Hear, hear.) He
thoroughly believed that the removal of the Corn-laws would
be one great step towards the reduction of the burthen of the
National Debt—(Cheers)--for, if they were to take the
Corn-law monopoly off, the amount saved wodld pay the Na-
tional Debt, and they would have something to spare.
Mr. A. PELLATT, Mr. J. WitsoN, and several others
addressed the meeting, in answer to the proposer and seconder
of the amendment.

After a great deal of uproar, the amendment was put, which
having been lost, the orrginal motion was put and carried
amidst loud cheers.

A motion was then made that the memorial be signed by the
High Bailiff on the part of the meeting, and that Messrs.
Pellatt, Russell, and others be appointed a deputation to attend
the High Bailiff on the presentation.

Thanks were then voted to the High Eailiff, and_the meeting
quietly separated soon after four o'clock.

PUBLIC NUISANCE.—About three months ago
the house, No. 126, Strand, next to the Globe Newspaper
Office, was pulled down, and during nearly the whole of
that period the passengers in the street, and more parti-
cularly the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses, have
been grievously annoyed by the dust raised in removing
the rubbish. A hoard. has been erected all that time,
the street consequently is greatly obstructed, and as far as
can be seen from the operations going on the nuisance
may continue for six months more. Only a few old men
are employed in carrying out rubbishdaily,-as if .for the
purpose of annoying the inhabitants. The District Sur.
veyor, atd still more the authorities who preside over
• the Duchy of Lancaster, are greatly to blame in winking
at the nuisance. We have always understood that when
permission was granted to erect a hoard for such a pur-
pose, the-shortest time possible, in a great thoroughfare
like the Strand, was allowed for re-constructing the
building. • -
ACCIDENT ON THE GnEAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—An accident attended with serious, and to one
man fatal, consequences occurred on the Great Western
Railway on Friday morning last. It appears that a gang
of men has been employed during the 14.-eek in the Box
Tunnel in removing the ballast from under the transoms
for the purpose of supplying its place with faggots. On
Friday morning about thirty-five of them were so en-
gaged, when an up-train and a down-train met in the
tunnel, and two of the men being unable to get out of
the way in time, were knocked down by the carriages.
The deceased, John Burns, received some extensive in-
juries
of the head of which he died in about an hour a 1..-
terwards, and the other had his feet and hands frightfully-
lacerated,' and was otherwise injured. An inquest on the
body was held on Saturday evening at the Three Tuns
Inn, Stall-street, Bath, before the Coroner for that city,
when a verdict was returned of " Accidental death, with
a deodand of ls. on the Bright Star engine."
On Friday afternoon, Mr. John Elwin, jun., of
Wanstone, in the parish of St. Margaret's, near Dover, ob-
crveel a pigeon alight on one of his father's barns through ex-
haustion,
and the poor meisenger of intelligence had not rested
five minutes before two large hawks pounced upon him,
when
Mr. J. Elwin ran to save the creature's life ; however, ani-
mation was near'v extinct. The pigeOn proved to be a carrier
cif denalches, and upon its right leg variogß parr; were found
attached. Not having any direction to them, the memorandums
could not be forwarded on. The bird had left Paris about five
o'clock on Thursday, and-reached St. Margaret's the follow-
ing day about half-past two.—Kent Herald.