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PRICE scl.

LEEDS AN TI-CORN-LA W

MEETING.

The Rev. CHAs. PENarcr returned thanks for Mr. Pellew,
and the Mayor apologized for his absence, owing to his engage-
ments in preparing for the coming confirmation.
Captain Annersley, R.N., gate " the health of Captain
Harmer," with three times three.

The Chairman, the Mayor, and the Vice-President all con-
curred in pouring enthusiastic eulogiums on the gallant cap-
tain
for the innumerable instances of bravery and philanthr,,py
he had displayed in the many cases of shipwreck on our coast.
Captain HarotEa thanked them for the overwhelming
kindness manifested towards him. He that day attended in a
new character, as Master of the Lodge of Maions, to assist
thtir worthy Brother. He hoped the building would be a
benefit to the town, its inhabitants, and the shareholders.
" The health of the Vice-President" seas proposed by Sir
E. H. K. Lacon.
Mr. W. JonxsoN rose to propose the health of a gentleman
on whom much of the prosperity of the undertaking devolved.
Though great credit was due to the Solicitors and the Chair-
man, and much depended on the faithfulness of Trustees, and
the industry of Directors, after all they must have a man of
talent as an architect, or the whole scheme would fall to the
ground.—( Hear.) The Company had been fortunate enough
to find such an individual in the gentleman whose health he
was about to propose, " Mr. T. Marsh Nelson, Architect to
the Company."
Mr. NEnsos, in acknowledging the toast, expressed his
great confidence in the Directors, and the ultimate completion
of the whole plan.
The VICE-PRESIDENT then proposed " the healths of C.
J. Palmer and W. Worship, Estirs., the solicitors of the Com-
pany," and complimented those gentlemen on the activity they
had displayed.
Mr. PALMER, and Mr. Woasute severally acknowledged
the eempliment paid them, and in expressing their earnest
„desire for the interest of the Company disclaimed any notion
of benefit in which the shareholders at. large would not par-
. _ _

—Sir. T. M. NELSON then gave "Prosperity to the town of
Yarmouth," which the Chairman acknowledged,
Amongst the other healths which were then drunk, we should
not overlook that of our worthy fellow-townsmen, J. E. Lacon,
Esq., who was absent for the benefit of his health.
The company continued together to rather a la'e hour,
when they separated, highly delighted with the proceedings of
a day which will no doubt be memorable in the history of Yar-
mouth ages to come.

[We are glad to see the progress making with this great
public improvement, which, when carriej out, will raise Yar-
mouth, as a watering-place, to a par with its southern rivals.
The operations of the Victoria Building Company will have
the effect of erecting a new and elegant town, and will doubt-
less prove a most profitable investment to the spirited and en-
terprising individuals who arc associated in the undertaking. I

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
Yesterday (Tuesday) a public meeting of the borough of
Leeds was held, convened by the Mayor, on a most respectable
requisition, signed by a hundred individu,ls:and Erms, compris-
ing many of the first merchants, manufacturers, and gentlemen
of the borough, " to consider the propriety of. petitioning Par-
liament for the repeal of the. Corn-laws. The meeting was
very numerous. The Chartists, labouring in their vocation as
common disturbers, did their utmost to prevent the speakers
from being heard, and the resolutions from being adopted: but
they fai:ed to prevent the resolutions prepared by the revisi-
tors from being adopted by a decided majority of the meeting.
The meeting was at first called to be held in the Court-
house, but when the Chartists, by their weekly organ and by
placards, summoned their forces to take early possession of the
building, the Mayor issued a fresh notice, calling the meeting
fur the spacious area of the Coloured Cloth Hall. The Chart-
ists made a secret but very natural alliance with the kindred
Association calling themselves the Conservative Operatives,
and consisting of low persons paid by the Tories to shout at
elections and public meetings ; and not a few of the Tories
assembled to see the efforts of these united bands of disturbers
and opponents of every thing truly Liberal.
Wten the clock struck twelve, :the Mayor had not ascended
the hustings, but was just entering the Cloth Hall yard. At
this time there were only two or three hundred persons mus-
tered, though the meeting afterwards consisted of five or six
thousand. The moment that the clock had struck, a Chartist
named Joseph Jones moved that Mr. Joshua Hobson, the printer
of the Northern Star, take the Chair ; and another Chartist
seconded it.
Mr. E. BAINES, jun., said that the Mayor, by whom the
meeting had been convened, had promised to attend, and that
he was at that time coming down the area; that this being a
public meeting of the borough, the Mayor had by usage a
right to preside ; that he (Mr. E. Baines) therefore must de-
clare the motion to be irregular, and hs hoped the meeting
would not vote upon it.
Notwithstanding this explanation, the motion for Mr. Hob-
son's taking the chair was instantly put ; the Chartist's held
up their hands for it, and as those who refused to recognize the
motion did not vote at all, there was an apparent majority in
its favour. Mr. Hobson came forward and began to address
the meeting ; but at the same time the Mayor (W. Smith,
Esq.), presented himself, took off his hat, and began to speak.
Mr. •E. Baines and others objected to Mr. Hobson acting as
chairman, and called upon the meeting to support the Mayor.
Mr. Hobson and the Chartists, on the other hand, resisted the
Mayor's being heard, and claimed the chair as belonging to
ti,
Mr. Hobson. ,____
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lieved he had a right, in virtue of his office, by the long esta-
blished usage of the borough, to fill the chair at a public
meeting of the borough. Ile had on furn.er occivions claimed
that right, and with success, and he should do it again. He
hoped that all parties would be heard.
In the meantime the Chartists kept up a continued uproar,
so that the Mayor's voice could not be heard. Every moment
s'rearns of people were pouring into the Cloth Hall-yard, and
there was a decided majority in favour cf the object of the
meeting, that is, the repeal of the Corn-laws ; which majority
became larger every minute. Many of the requisitionists were
upon the steps which formed the hustings and in the arca be-
low ; the attendance of merchants, manufacturers, and
clothiers, was very respectable ; and great numbers of the
operatives were quite as decided in favour of the repeal of the
Corn-laws as those of the middle and upper classes.
After the contest about the Chair bad continued for nearly
half an hour, the MAYOR, said that it had never been his in-
tention to do more than open the Meeting, as he had left a
meeting of Magistrates elsewhere, and must return to it. He
hoped, therefore, the Meeting would elect their own Chairman.
Air. Alderman STANSFELD then moved that Mr. Alderman
John Goodman should take the Chair.
Mr. E. BAINES, Jun., seconded the motion.
The motion was put by Mr. STANSFELD amidst much con-
fusion, and a majority of the meeting held up their hands for
Mr. Goodman.

opened.

The MAYOR afterwards I)ut the motion again, considering
that he had not left the Chao till his successor was appointed.
In order the better to decide, he requested those who were
in favour of Mr; Goodman to go to the upper part of
the yard (to his own right hand) and those against
him to the lower. The division was made accord-
ingly, but not in a complete and effective manner ;
it left the Chartists nearly in the centre of the meeting, and
made it evident that they all consisted of the lowest class, with
a very few exceptions ; but on their skirts were several broad.
cloth Tories, who seemed to he encouraging them ; and also
numbers who came fresh into the yard stopped at that end of
the yard nearest the entrance, which happened to be the Char-
tist end. These circumstances gave them every advantage ;
but when at length the Mayor called for a second show of
hands on the question whether Mr. Alderman John Goodman
should take the Chair, there appeared a very decided majority
for the motion. The Mayor having declared that that gentle-
man was elected—
Mr. Alderman JOHN GOODMAN took the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN then called on any gentleman who had a
resolution to propose to address the meeting, on which
Mr. Alderman STANSFELD came forward. He was re-
ceived with loud cheers by the majority of the meeting, and by
the Chartists with groans and uproar. This continuing for
some time, whilst Mr. Hobson frequently renewed his attempts
to be heard, but in vain, Mr. E. Baines at length proposed to
Mr. Hobson, that for the sake of letting both sides be fairly
heard there should be two Chairmen, Mr. Goodman and him-
self (Mr. Hobson). The latter replied that he had Leen so ill
treated that he would not consent to any arrangement, and
that the speakers should not be heard unless they acknowledged
him as Chairman. Mr. E. Baines replied, that though de-
sirous of making such a compromise as would allow both
parties to be heard, he most distinctly denied the
sight of Mr. Hobson to the chair; and that right would
never be allowed; the Mayor was at first legally in
the chair, and now Mr. John Goodman had been placed
there by a majority of the meeting. But if the Chartists liked
to have two Chairmen, he had no objection ; and he had ra-
ther both parties were heard than that they should have a mere
row. ss This terminated the negotiation : it suited the purpose
of the Chartists quite as well (or perhaps better), to revent
others from being heard as to be heard themselves. The re-
mainder of the meeting was, therefore, a scene of confusion,
and the speakers were only heard by a few of those near them.
Still the meeting perfectly understood the sides of the respec-
tive speakers, and knew when the resolutions were put that
they were in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. Starr-
feld wa' cheered by the majority of the meeting; whilst Mr.
Wm. Hill, a Swedenborgian preacher and the editor of the
Northern Star, who attempted to speak at the same time,
and to move a resolution, was cheered by the Chartists, but not
heard.
Mr. Alderman STANSFELD came forward to move the
resolutions, and spoke nearly as follows :—The first of the
resolutions which 1 shalLhave to submit to you is—" That the
Corn Laws belies based on the immoral principle of benefiting
the aristocracy at the expense of other classes, tend to dissolve
the bonds of society, and endanger the peace and safety of the
empire."—l need not tell you, any fellow-townsmen, that the
ties which bound together the operatives and middle classes
are bursting asunder those ties which a common nature and a
common interest generated, and which confidence in the justice
of each other matured and strengthened. The operatives are
sensible that there is a rank injustice somewhere—they feel
themselvesnppressed, and they are sorely oppressed at.d heavy
laden, and it will be my business to ..show that the cause
thereof is the selfish and unjust conduct of the aristocratcy.
The operatives have their particular specific,
of which I am now not at liberty to speak, but this I
to bear'ill
say, that when the labourers of the land are made
shall be
the burdens of taxation, and the rich go free, as -
e a
able to prove, then any measure, if it be likely to p 0_
strifia' ble but
cc-
medy,and is within the margin of the law, is not onlyj atalive to the
laudable. The middle classes generally are not as ye
cves
and hold themselves aloof. 7he opera i.
urgency of the case,
them and to be aid-
deem all who are not with them to be aphis! ,
hieh produce
ing and abetting
• the aristocracy in these misdeeds,
on the nature
whose interests are identical. But there is another_ estrange-
ment going on between the middle classes and the aristocracy.
In speaking of these latter, warmly and strongly as I must do,
n
tdhyt:edt‘w:eitettblidl
ptilleilvseue
rebcletahesneses. The re was a
whony
understand it, I must be understood as doing so, net against
Henceean s
ptehaek rupturescoo ny between
stlua
ettwoes classes,
to
of whom are most estimable and are in igno-
rance, but against a class who, unfortunately for themselves and
for all, have been entrusted with too much power. Had the
e
individuals composing this meeting been in their places their
individuals,athnedi rt hsuffering.ma
irtnhoeblearamea.nsioßnust,
conduct,th breachin i
sal i rdeoehnraci
widening
time when many like myself honoured and respected the aris-
tocracy—whentheir rich domains, their splendid equipages, as belonging to a
race willing to live and let live, enjoying only their own, and
ever ready to extend the liberal hand to every good objeJ.
But since we have studiedthe subject of the Corn-laws a change
has come over our dreams, and contempt is taking the place
of respect for them. We now consider their contributions as
but the crumbs which fall from the rich man's table—from
I that table groaning with the fruit of the labour of him who is