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London, England, 1841-06-19 00:00:00

PRP SUI44,_LOWDON4 !LA Tritriiirt JUNE 19, NC

turn from. New.BrunSivick, and appointment 'to the Go-
vernment of NeWfoundland.
Her 11ajesty gave audience to the Earl of Albemarle,
Marquis of Normanby, and Lord J. Russell. -
land, Mistress of the Robes ; Lad
The Court was attended by the Duchess of Suther-
Barham,
Waiting ; the Secretaries Of State for the Home and
Colonial Departments, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of
the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, Viscount
in
y
Combermere, Gold Stick in' Waiting ~- the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard ; the Vice-Chamberlain,. Lord George
Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting on Prince Albert ;
Colonel Weinyss, Equerry In Waiting ; Major-General
Sir Edward Bowater, EqUerry in ,Waiting on. Prince
Albert ; Sir Samuel Hancock, Exon in Waiting ;
James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Ho-
nourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; the Groom of
the Robes, Sir Benjamin Smith, and.. Colonel Ellison,
Field Officer of Brigade in Waiting.
Lord Poltimore and General the Hon. Sir William
Lumley, were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. •
The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall.
The Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier Guards with '
the band of the Regiment, were on duty on the Palace
lawn.

The recnish and Grecian Ministers after having had
audiences of the Queen, were presented to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing yesterday in a carriage and four.
Prince Albert, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, rode
out on horseback yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon.
Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Poltimore, Hon. C.
A. Murray, Hon. Sir W. Lumley, and Colonel Wemyss,
honoured the German Opera at Drury-lane Theatre,
with their presence last evening.
The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace on
Thursday included the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
Lord Barham, Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended during
dinner.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre-
sent, last evening at the Duke of Wellington's Waterloo
Dinner at Apsley House.
The Dean of Hereford and Dr. Bryce had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-
office. •

A deputatiotr from Portpatrick, including the Marquis
of Dow•nshire, Marquis of Londonderry, Earl of Glengall,
and Mr. Macdonald, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down-
ing-street, yesterday.

REPRESENTATJON OF MARYLE-

BONE.

The canvass for Hall and Napier Was carried on yes-
terday by the United lleform Committee with extraor-
dinary and unexpected success. Even in the most aris-
tocratic districts—in Bayswater and Connaught-square—
they obtained it.large majority over the Ascertained pro-
mises of the Tory candidates. Some of the late sup-
porters of Mr. Young honourably redeemed their
pledge by considerable and successful exertions. A de-
putation from the Central Committee waited on Mr.
Young, in the course of the morning, to request that he
would undertake the troublesome office of Chairman of
one of the district Committees, and we understand that
he readily acceded to the request. Indeed the honour-
able and generous conduct of that gentleman since
his defeat, has won him golden opinions, even
from those who had before been his most ecided
Opponents ; and the cordial union which now happily
prevails amongst the Liberals, holds out the most certain
prospect of success.
A small section of the disunionists, however, still per-
versely hold out. .They had mysteriously intimated, in
the beginning of the week, that they had a " man of
wealth and education," whom they meant to bring for-
ward in coalition with Mr. Young, on the great' prin-
ciples of the Charter, as soon as the ballot should have
been decided in that gentleman's favour. But their
" great unknown" could not confine himself to his ob-
scure waiting place until the issue •of that doubtful
event ; and, on Wednesday, he announced himself as
" William S. Villiers Sankey, son of a Member of Par-
liament, and a candidate for the representation of Mary-
lebone, on the principles of. Universal Suffrage and•the
Repeal of the New Poor-law," alleging as part of his
qualification fora seat in Parliament, that he had " corn-
pleted his studies in Law, Medicine, and 'Theology."
Last evening a meeting was held at the Archery
Assembly-rooms, Bath-place, New-road, for the purpose,
as the Chairman stated, of presenting a requisition to
Mr. Sankey, to allow himself to be put in nomination
There was a 'repeated cry of "read the names,"—to
which very reasonable call,: strange to say, no atten-
tion was paid. Mr. Sankey, of course, having already
put himself forward as a candidate, could have no
hesitation in •complying with the requisition. In his
address to the meeting he declared himself in favour of
the five points of the Charter ; upon. which he enlarged
seriatim ; and, in denying that education was necessary
to qualify a man: to understand his duties as an
elector, lie insisted that his opinion on that subject,
should be - received as authority,- inasmuch as
he had himself revived " a liberal and refined education."
The gentleman who seconded the resolution pledging
the electors present to support Mr. Sankey, said that
" if they could not return Mr. Sankey, they would at
all events attain their object of breaking up the power
•of the Whigs in Marylebone," which is a plain avowal
that their object is to return (if possible, which it is
not) the two Tories.. But it is very well known that
Cabell and Hamilton are liberal to prodigality in the
payment of those who are active in promoting their
election. ,

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
" Sir—A meeting of the Conservative Electors of the
City of London, at which the favour of your presence is
requested, will be held on Saturday next, the 12th inst..
at the London Tavern, at twelve for one o'clock precisely.

" RUSSELL ELLICE, ESQ., IN THE CIIAIR,
In meet the four gentlemen who are candidates on the
Conservative interest,
" GEORGE LYALL, ESQ.
JOHN MASTERNAN, ESQ.

MR. ALDERMAN PIRIE, and
M. WOLVERLEY ATTWOOD, ESQ,
and to adopt measures to secure their election.
You are requested to present this notice at the door,
and to introduce any electors of Conservative principles who
may, by accident, not have received one."
[Tory circular, by which the meeting was packed.]

WATERMEN AND LIGIITERMEN'S

ALMS-HOUSES.
On Thursday the Second AnniverSay Festival of this
Institution was celebrated at the London Bridge House
Tavern. _ _

Alderman LUCAS, the President, in the Chair. •'
Upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down to a most excel-
lent banquet, amongst whom were Messrs. Kemble and
Young, the Members for East Surrey, Mr. Wood; M.P.
for Southwark, and Mr. Woverley Attwood, the candi-
date for the City of London. .
After the usual loyal toasts were drank,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the Institu-
tion," which had strong claims upon their benevolence.
It was to afford an asylum to the aged and decayed
watermen and lightermen, and their widows, of the river
Thames, who were deprived of the means f subsistence
by the advancement of science and the improvements of
the metropolis. Their misfortunes were not of their
own generating, and therefore they had stronger claims
upon the feelings .of the
,British community.—(Cheers.)
There was no class of persons more meritorious, and to
none were trade and commerce more indebted.
Song by Mr. Hudson, composed by him expressly for
the occasion, which received immense applause.
Mr. KE3ini.g, M.P., rose to propose the health of the
worthy Chairman, the founder of the Institution, and he
was proud to see him surrounded by so many assembled
to support it.—(Cheers.) There was no case of distress
but would meet with sympathetic alleviation in it.—
(Cheers.) It was worthy of the character of English-
men, to afford an asylum to a class of men, in
their old age, whose active zeal was always prominent
in promoting the welfare of their fellow-men.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, said that he
had passed the greatest part of his life amongst those
men, and he well knew their merits. There never was
an occasion on which their services were demanded for
their country that they did not come forward. On one
occasion, when he commanded •the Thames Fencibles, he
was applied to for a body of men to bring home the
Nelson prizes. He called 600 watermen around him,
and out of that number 200 men volunteered and gave
up 40s. a day for 255. 6d. a week—(Loud cheers)—to
serve their country.
The company separated, highly delighted with the
Committee evening's entertainment. The subscriptions amounted
1,100/.
The
was read,the
s a t sfat
of Ma-
citaifoownlliot:h—
-1 pleasurewimnguehßeport
that
nagement• of the Watermen and Lightermen's Alms-
houses Fund present their first Report to the contribu-
tors, as they feel they have cause for much congratulation
on the successful result of their labours on behalf of this
useful Institution, and they avail themselves of this
opportunity of expressing their sincere thanks to their
friends for the liberal support they have received.
" Previously to the dinner, which took place last year,
after laying the first stone of the almshouses, the Com-
mittee contemp!ated the erection of thirty almshouses,
of which twenty-four were to be set apart for candidates
to be elected by the donors and subscribers, and six for
candidates to be chosen by the Court of the Watermen
and Lightermen's Company in respect of their contribu-
tions to the fund.
"..The donations and subscriptions amounted to about
7,400/. ; the appeal then made was responded to by the
collection of 1,160/. at that meeting,• since which the
Committee have received further sums, making g the whole
building fund now amount to 10,5001. • Encouraged thus
by the public feeling so strongly expressed in their
favour, the Committee have determined to complete the
west wing of the beildinTs by the erection of nine houses
facing the road from Sydenham, with a commodious
lodge at the entrance gates, thus screening the backs of
the houses from the road, and giving a comp'eth finish
to the appearance of the whole : to accomplish this de-
sirable object the Court of the
rWatermen's ComPany
have voted the additional sum of J5O/. from their funds ;
Mr. John Dudin Brown has given 5301., and other mem-
bers of the Court have also liberally contributed to the
same object. There will thus be shortly completed
forty houses for the reception of the objects of this
Charity, the entire expense of which, including the
internal fittings, laying out the ground, and keeping it
in order for two years, will cost about 13,000/, and the
Committee now require only about 2,5001. More to defray
every expense attendant on the buildings.
" The cost is more than the Committee originally in-
tended expending in building ; but the number of houses
has been considerably increased, and they are of that
Character, both. for elegance of design, and sub-
stantial workmanship, that the Coicuaattee are satie-

fled' the money has been well laid out. The
buildings will not require one shilling to be
expended on them for, many years; they are an orna-
ment to the• beautiful neighbourhood in which they are
placed, and will be found replete with every comfort to
those for whose benefit they are intended.

" The sum of 2,5001. still required to complete the
buildings, the Committee feel assured will be

readily made up by, contributions from the
friends of the Institution, and from those who
have not yet subscribed to the fund ; and the
'Committee.are now turning their anxious attention to the
subject of making a suitable provision for their endowment.
The Corporation of London, with its usual munificence,
and prudent benevolence, have voted 500/. for an endow-
ment fund, to be paid as soon as thirty almshouses are
occupied, and the President of the Institution, Mr.
Alderman Lucas, in addition to his former handsome do-
nation to the building fund, has contributed the sum of
I 00!. for the like purpose. One member of the Court of the
Company, Mr. Charles Hay, has promised a subscription of
.20 guineas per annum to be appropriated in the same
manner ; and the Committee entertain the sanguine
hope that the liberal examples thus set will be followed by
others who can afford another donation, or at least' to
make an annual subscription for the endowment ;
the present amount of income of the Endowment
Fund is about 2001. per annum, which the Committee
hope will be considerably increased, so as to enable them
with the little income already possessed by most of the
candidates, to assure all the inmates in the almshouses a
certain provision for their subsistence, in addition to the
comfortable shelter provided for their declining years.
" Where all have been so active in promoting this work
of charity and'benevolence it may appear invidious to
call particular attention to an individual, but the Com-
mittee cannot allow this Report
,to be presented without
publicly expressing their deep sense of gratitude for the
continued and unwearied exertions of Mr. J. D. Brown
on behalf of the Institution. Besides the noble pecuniary
gifts made by himself and his family, as shown by the
Subscription List, he has taken upon himself the
expenses of erecting a clock and a wind dial in the two
towers of the centre buildings, and to defray the costs
of erecting two of the almshouses, in order to complete
the west wing, whilst his labours in superintending the
building operations, and in obtaining additional sub-
scriptions, have been unceasing ; they have stimulated
the exertions of others, and have stamped the under-
taking with the certainty of success.
" The Committee have already received numerous ap-
plications from persons seeking to participate in the benes
fits of the Institution. They meet on every Tuesday
morning to receive petitions and see the applicants, and
will continue to do so for a few weeks longer, when
the list of candidates will be made up, and balloting
papers issued to all the donors and subscribers, and the
ComMittee hope, by Michaelmas noxt, the election will
take place, and the imildings all be filled with many grate-
ful hearts, acknowledging with thankfulness to Al-
mighty God the comforts thus secured to them in the
evening of their days."

THE UNHOLY LEAGUE—CORN.
LAW FALLACIES.
(From the Scotsman:).
_ _

The annals of Parliament do not exhibit a combination
more indecent and unprincipled than that which is now
arrayed against the people of Britain ; and the coming
contest appeals not only to the pockets, but to'the com-
mon sense and the manhood of the whole electoral body,
It is unquestionably the interest of the agriculturists
as much as any other class to have cheap sugar,
which is consumed by all the landholders and
farmers, and by at least one-half of • the pea-
santry ; yet we see their representatives sup-
porting the . West India monopoly. The West
Indians, on the other hand, would find their ad-
vantage in getting their bread at as low a price as
possible ; and. yet we find them declarinc, in favour of
the Corn-laws. The problem is easily solved. Each of
the parties. has a small interest iu common with the con-
sumers, but he has, or thinks he has, a much greater one
in upholding his own monopoly. They, therefore, submit
quietly, to pay an extra price for each other's produce,
that their joint strength may enable them to draw
what they believe to be a ten times larger sum from the
pockets of the community at large.
.Begging pardon of
both parties, we must say that the morality of their coa-
lition is very like the morality of certain classes of de-
predators, who, though plying their trade in very distant
spheres, make common cause against the police and the
public.
In the same way, the Canadian interest, consisting of
some citizens of merchants and shipowners, would be
benefited by having their sugar and their corn
as cheap as possible. But having invested their
funds in the business of supplying us with bad
timber, they see, that if the corn and sugar mono-
polies were to fall, their own must follow. They, there-
fore, lend their aid to inflict the evils of dear corn and
dear sugar upon us, that they may be able to plunder us
through the article of timber.
We are satisfied that each of these three classes, though
perhaps partially blinded by self-interest to the bad ef-
fects of its'own monopoly, is well aware of the mischief
done by the others, and would be glad to see them abo-
lished ; but for the'sake of a small gain to itself, it wil-
lingly concurs in imposing an enormous and ruinous
burden on the country. It is an unholy league, the
parties to which are committing injustice with their eyes
open. The annual tax laid on the community may mo-
derately be estimated as follows :
By the Corn-laws £12,000,000
By the Sugar Duties
By the Timber Duties 1,500,000
By the duty on Coffee 600,000

E 18,100,000
Of this enormous sum one-fourth part perhaps may go
into the pockets of the monopolists, and the other three-
fourths are pure loss. But, to the tax imposed we must
add the privations endured, by the tens of thousands who
are denied the use of tea, col The, and sugar, in conse-
quence of these barbarous laws, and the vast number of
others to whom a bellyful of anything better than pota-
toes is a rarity.
We hope the agricultural labourers will keep in mind,
that those who profess to take a deep interest in their
welfare, and to be the advocates of their interests, have
done their best to deprive them of the use of sugar.
They have not yet had the impudence to say that cheap
sugar makes low wages, though they assert that cheap
corn does. The one is just as true as the other. Earl
Fitzwilliam has disposed of the latter fallacy in the
most satisfactory manner :
"Let us examine the case of the labourer in husbandry.
Look at his habits and' circumstances. Consider how large
a proportion of his slender income is expended in the pur-
chase of bread and flour—and can any of you arrive at the
conclusion that he is benefited by enhancing the price
of corn. So far is this from being the case, that pro-
bably there is hardly a class of labourers more interested
in having cheap corn than those who are engaged in
husbandry ; because there is none that spends so much
comparatively upon the necessaries, and so little on the
comforts or luxuries of life:"

His Lordship states, as the results of his own re-
searches, that "the boasted period of agricultural prospe-
rity, which reached its highest pitch in 1810, was to the
laGourer a season of distress." The fallacy arose from
the money rate of wages being taken without com-
paring it with the price' of corn. This could only de-
ceive the most careless inquirer ; but the principle upon
which his Lordship makes his calculation is as follows :
" Tlae weekly consumption of wheat in a labourer's fa-
mily, consisting of h im sel 1, his wife, and three children, may
be stated at about two thirds of a bushel. The amount of their
enjoyments will consequently depend, eateris paribus,
upon the excess of the weekly wages above the price of
two-thirds of a bushel of wheat. Now, that excess was
the greatest in 1814, vin, 7s, 11d., and the least in 1810,
viz., Is. 2d. It will, however, be safer to draw our con-
clusions from periodsof moderate Aerate length, than •from
single years. Five years are probably as fair a period
as can be chosen, and the year 1810 (as the point of the
highest alleged agricultural prosperity) will not
improperly be taken as the centre year of one of those
periods." His Lordship inserts tables of the wages given
in Northamptonshire,, and the average prices of wheat
for all England, and compares the wages with the price
of two-thirds of a bushel. We have not room for the
tables, which are long, but the abstract stands thus—
Price of 2-3ds of Surplus represent-
Fire years a bushel of ing labourer's
ending Wages. Wheat. comforts.
1807, 10s. Od. ... ss. I Id.
1812, 1 Is. 2d. ... Bs. 4d.
1817, ..... 12s. 7d. ... 6s. 11d.
1822, ..... I Is. 2d. ... ss. 4d.

1827, ..... 10s. 4d.... ss. Od.

It is plain that the labourer's command over the
comforts of life, his power to purchase flesh,- tea,
sugar, clothes, and fuel, is measured by, the sur-
plus which remain;:, after he has provided his
family with bread, the staff .of life. His Lord-
ship's method of calculation is therefore the only
fair one • and those who take the labourer's money-wages
as the sole criterion of his condition, are guilty of a gross
deception. Now, it appears from. this abstract, that the la-
bourer was worst off in what is called the period of the high-
est aeTicultural prosperity. In the five years ending with
1812,' the sum representing his comforts was just half as
great as in the five years ending with 1817, and less
than half as great as in the five years ending 1822.
His situation was therefore incomparably better when
wheat was Bs. a bushel than when it was 12s. 6d.!
But, -to estimate correctly the labourer's command
over the comforts, conveniences, or it may be the
luxuries of life, we must take into account the
variations in the price of manufactured goods. The
reduction in the price of every article of dress
since 1810 has been prodigious. The inferior class
of woollens have fallen one-half in these
.thirty years.
In cottons, which constitute nearly the whole
of the clothing of women and children, one shil-
ling will now go as far as three, perhaps we
might say four, in 1810 ; in silks, which enter
into the dress even of the humblest class of fe-
males, in some proportior, two shillings will go as far
as five did at the former period ; coarse shoes are
one-half cheaper ; and household furniture, including
iron-ware, has been reduced nearly as much: We
may safely say, then, that in the last ten years,
when wheat averaged seven shillings a bushel,
the labourer, with wages varying from 9s. to 10s., was
incomparably better off than in the five years ending
1812, when wheat sold at 12s. 6d. So much for the au-
dacious assertion that cheap corn, is' injurious to the la-
bourer !
It would be unjust to charge these reckless as-
sertions and fallacies upon the whole agricultural
body. Many of the great lhndholders of Britain
rise proudly superior to the narrow, scifiii, preju-
di. ;of their brethren. We may name "Earl Fitz-
wiliam, the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of
Radnor, in England ; the Duke of Hamilton, the
Marquis of Breadalbane, and Lord Panmure, in
Scotland ; and, with a little inquiry, it would be

• Firt, second, and third Address to the Landowners of
England on the Corn-laws. •

easy to add many dozens to the list. These Noble-
men, who understand their own interest quite as
well as Lords Ripon and Winchilsea, look at the
proposed measure of Ministers without the least
dismay. There are not a few farmers, too, whose
eyes have been opened to the evil effects of
the present Corn-law upon their. class. They know
that it balk deluded them with false expecta-
tions, strippeY many of them of their whole
capital,
.and that it constantly exposes 'them to
extreme uncertainty and ruinous fluctuations. As
these opinions are based on truth, they must continue
to gain ground ; and we have little doubt that, were the
measure of Ministers carried, and care taken not to in-
troduce it too suddenly, its beneficial influence would be
universally acknowledged by the farmers in a very few
years.

ADDRESS OF THE LONDON
Wo I tKING. MEN'S ASSOCIATIO).T.

TO THE 'WORKING MEN OF LONDON AND THE ADVO-
CATES OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER.
Friends,—Associated for the attainment of Universal
Suffrage, and th? acquisition of political knowledge, after
a lengthened period we again address vou. Our long
silence has not been occasioned by any indifference to the
great principles we have heretofore advocated—the fiery
persecutions of the last two years have not shaken our
confidence in, nor diminished our ardour for, the speedy
triumph of political truth.
A very large expenditure in agitating for the People's
Charter had involved us in considerable debt ; we deemed
it prudent, therefore, to apply our means to the reduction
of the claims upon us, rather than incur fresh liabilities
by increased expenditure. Our members have not,
however, been individually inactive ; they have rea-
dily lent their assistance in any measures they
deemed conducive to the interests of the work-
ing classes, whether to raise funds for the support i
of the families, to obtain an amelioration of the nfo:
mous treatment, or welcome to their homes the victims
of Whig persecution. Feeling from bitter experience
the want of places wherein public meetings of the work-
ing classes might be held, free from the exercise of un-
just authority or the excessive charges made for their
occupancy, they have seen with pleasure the proposition
to erect a Trades' Hall, and have to the extent of their
ability seconded the praiseworthy efforts of the projectors,
Relieved from the pressure of debt, we desire our As-
sociation to be again useful ; and we are encouraged to
hope, from the success which attended our earlier efforts,
that a renewal of them will not be wholly without effect.
We point to the past as the ground of confidence for the
future—to the meetings convened by the Association,
establishing as they did the practicability of working
men conducting their own meetings, unassisted by aris-
tocratic speakers or the attraction of titled chairmen—
to the various addresses and pamphlets issued by the As-
sociation—to the fact of near 400 working mens' and
other political associations being forthed within a short
period, based on our published addresses and rules, con-
tributing as these did to the dissemination of political
truth, to the elevation and mental improvement of the
working classes,

The causes which led to the original establishment of
this Association still exert their withering influences—
the wasteful and extravagant public expenditure, the
enormous civil list, the disgraceful state of the civil and
criminal law, the obvious tendency of the present Legis-
lature and Government to establish a centralized de-
spotism by means of Poor-law Commissions, rural po-
lice, &c., the increased severity of the laws to fetter the
press, and in short the whole spirit of legislation to mo-
nopolise power and riches for the few, and to impoverish
and degrade the many--all proving the necessity for in-
creased exertion, until the rights of the people are
achieved and secured.

Belleville. that it is only from 'a knowledge of prin-
ciples and conviction of their truth and importance
that sustained and energetic action can be expected, we
shall endeaVour by lectures, discussions, and similar
means of mutual instruction, to acquire and dessemi-
nate a knowledge of those subjects which more espe-
cially affect the condition of the working classes ;
convinced of their great importance in creating
public opinion, we shall, as often as we are enabled, con-
vene public meetings in furtherance of 'our objects. We
recognise in them a powerful means of forming men's
opinions, of disseminating truth, and a pacific instrument
left us wherewith to combat and triumph over oppres-
sion, little inferior to the press itself ; and while we
should resist to the utmost any power intended to fetter
and destroy their influence, we cannot but regret that
continuous and organized opposition should have con-
verted them from their legitimate purposes, to scenes of
ungovernable passion resulting in aiForder and violence.
We shall endeavour on subjects in which we differ from
other bodies of men to meet argument by argument,
trusting to the. good sense of the majority for the results;
and as we believe that, looking at the various elements of
suffering and poverty operating in society, a variety of
opinions may be honestly entertained respecting them,
we sincerely hope that all. parties may see the necessity
of a more temperate expression of their opinions, so that
all who mean honestly may be found side by side in the
work of political regeneration.
The struggle now commencing between the landed
aristocracy and the great manufacturing and commercial
interests, demands the most watchful attention of the
working classes. We abhor monopolies of every de-
scription : that their destruction would eventually bene-
fit all classes, we admit ; that the abolition of the mono-
polies in food would benefit the labouring classes, we
believe ; but thinking, as we do, that these several mo-
nopolies have their source in one master monopoly—that
of legislation—we look, with unshaken confidence, to the
enactment of the just and salutary principles of the
People's Charter as the precursor to their destruction,
and a prelude to a free, just, and beneficent system of
government, manifesting itself in the improved and hap-
pier condition of the people. We are compelled to dis-
trust the sincerity of the Government, and the prime
movers in the present limited free-trade agitation, and
of their new-born sympathy for a suffering and starving
population : the love of plaice in the former, and a dimi-
nution of profits in the latter, being, we conceive, the
parents of their zeal.
In the forthcoming elections, consequent on the rejec-
tion of the Ministerial measures, we sincerely trust that
the Radical electors wiil exert themselves in favour of
those candidates who will give the suffrage to the work-
ing classes ; feeling assured that a few men, who will
speak out boldly, will outweigh a host of professing Li-
berals, whose sole object is the support of an insincere
and pledge-breaking Whig Ministry.
We have no confidence in those men, who, to gain
popular support, pledge themselves to the repeal of one
obnoxious ' measure, while they refuse to extend to the
working classes a voice in the formation of the laws by
which-their freedom is restrained, and the value of their
blhour diminished. The time is now auspicious for a
grand movement in favour of our cause ; and we ear-
nestly hope that the small amount of political power pos-
sessed .by the friends to the Charter will not be thrown
away, in a bootless effort to give preponderance to either
one of the contending factions ; but will be directed so
as to place a few honest, intelligent, and uncompromising
advocates in the House of Commons, there to assert the
rights, vindicate the character, and to expose the evils
endured by the working classes.
We further hope that electors and non-electors will
exert themselves to expose the system of bribery that so
extensively prevails, and to hold up to public scorn those
candidates who, by the power of gold (it may be, wrung
from the people by the monopolies they have created),
seek to purchase, in one day, from a section of the peo-
ple, the power to plunder and oppress the whole for
seven years; that the voice of indignant reproof will be
administered to all such who, having obtained influence
among the people, barter it for a bribe, to their unre-
lenting and implacable enemies.
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We finally entreat the working men of London to
arouse themselves. They have long tried the power of
association in preserving themselves from the cupidity
of employers ; let them now unite to protect them-
selves from the exactions of a Government, by demand-
ing to be admitted within the pale of the boasted Con-
stitution. The advantages our Association offers are, a
library of reference on general and political science ;
the means of obtaining information, statistical and other-
wise, on subjects connected with the well-being of the
working-classes. There are numbers of well-disposed
working men who desire the elevation of their fellow
men; we ask them to come amongst us, to concentrate
their energies,; so that, by numbers, intelligence, and
unity of action, we may be enabled to extend the in-
creasing amount of public opinion in favour of the
People's Charter, as, concurrent with similar exertions
in all other parts of the country, will cause its triumphant
en
ooactment, unaccompanied by disorder, anarchy, or
bldshed.
Fellow workmen, we are, with an earnest solicitude for
the success of our cause,
THE MEMBERS OF THE LONDON WORKING
MEN'S ASSOCIATION.

COMMITTEE. - -
H. 'MITCHELL. J. JENKINSON.
J. WATSON. C. BEARFIELD.
J. JAFFRAY. W. CAMPBELL.
J. LAWRENCE. JN. LAWRENCE.
D. BINYON. E. B. MITCHELL.
A. MILNER. J. NEWTON.

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R. MOORE, Sec.

wasAhelPd- -before
RESSEDJwttaßiciYey.---owT.ph.usday an inquisition
division of, • •
Mr.
Mchiddlismesiee.xk, at the George and Devonshire Arms Inn,
Cotton, aged 49 years, who died coroner for the western
Old Town, w
forfemth
the
ebody e
effects
sf
of swallowing
eo re
poisun.on the previous day.' • On the arrival of Mr. Wakley
to the inquest-room, seven only out of the twenty-four persons
summoned were in attendance, and, after waiting some time
without any probability of the number being increased, the Co-
roner desired Wright, the summoning officer, Co go to the door
of the inn and press the first persons he saw pass. Wright ac-
cordingly went out into the High-street, and the first person he
goti,hold of was a journeyman baker, resident in the village,
who was speedily secured. The next was a stranger, who hap-
pened accidentally to be on the highway, who, on being brought
into-the room, addressed Mr. Wakley in no very pleasant mood,
and asked, " What do you want with me?" But on the Coro-
ner replying, "To appear before me as ajuryman," he very, quietly
submitted. Wright next desired the attendance of Captain
Nichols and a gentleman named Neat, who were at the water
side, but they first said they could not come, then they would
not come, and, jumping into two boats, called on the watermen
to " pull off," which they did. Ultithately, however, twelve
persons were got together, and the inquest was proceeded with.
The evidence showed that the deceased had ht along time not
been of a sane mind, and the Jury returned a Terdiet—" Th t
a
the deceased died by taking poison, being at the time of un-
sound mind."
EFFECTS OF THE BRITISH CORN-LAWS IN
AuzareA.—Corrol; FacroaiEs.—ln Fayetteville, North
Carolina, rnd its vicinity, are now in operation six cotton fac-
tories. The number of spindles in them are 11,198; number
of looms, 160 ; number of persons employed, 417 ; quantity
uAnnemaplreny
edda,n....t
Bs uepsptleynozdflu.bne--
of cotton required per annum, 4,221: ba'es. The
llars.
ars
till tsl invested
failing wate
rater.