The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

No. 16,661. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SU N, JANUARY 8, 1846.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital A 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr )w, wit put ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premitm paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the cOzversion
of his interests to meet other aonvenionces or necessity. Assurances'
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT'S'.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from SU to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit 'male.
EXAMPLES

---B,ut tolhe London and Birmingham Railway.
AILWD
_
--bir and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.— 1 0 —.-, ,0 . ,
. '.-n,g 0.-4 *
1 ~•4 , Bonus
l'i-cli °Me", 19, Moergate-street, London, Jan. 3, 1846.
" Is her "'
04 ° Premium. - I added.
ttts,, tha hereby given to the Registered Shareholders in this Corn- p # ,
~14LIvI,LCERTIFICATES for their SHARES will bp READY for
'44, s•—'y at this
Vfa. linit:ore • Office,- on and after MoYnav, the 12th inst.,
give „n till Four o'clock, ia exchange for the receipt which —I-- Banes
Cas in
1 ~
:?: I .
.. 1 j 1 I L/2
----- ---1 ---
Mein for their scrip.
•--...,______......
JAMES BRTDEN, London Secretary. 61 £334965 121
31
68 10100 ----714 Ili
I. 1839 1389881 13l
6:14678741 11334 13'011511931 1728 10 296 13 4
Vi ALPTsI, 1T T A -.AT TA A-r r xi.. A 'V' I , 1840 89 0014113 41 68 0 247 4 5

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
able eota„,, thewALLOMNT OF NEW SHIRES.
to g "t,suallee with vrishes of Shareholders who have not been
1 '6° the Places mmed in the Letters of Allotment, the Com-
-41111 ahkers are autho‘rised to receive deposits till the 10th inst
ees, 4,(1 the Deeds Will Lie for Signature at the CompanY s
"4k,, '44' l'rinces-street, Ed' btr h anl 124, St. Vincent-street,
410144W' th
hp t
London,
7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th instant ; and 28, Par-
nudlloTouonr tpheu9 , 10th, 12th, and 13th instant,
thtt4l,2lYelhsVing powers of attorney will please to remember to have
1.7 'Aryl -""n8 stamp for each person; when sent to Edinburgh they
"4410,-e, as their attorney, David Rankine, the secretary ; when
14one
--"`en, Robert Weems, Parliamentary agent.

By order,
D. RANKINE, Secretary.

°rnitT HE RN RAILWAY of FRANCE.
AIPIRr,CAN AND LEBEtirS ITNI ED COMPANY.)
Le MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COM-
'Mill be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
N 8434 MoNDAY next, the 12th instant, at Twelve for One o'clock
Alto% fjr, to receive the report of the Committee, and to adopt mea-
el"Lng the affairs of this Company.
Tokpn, tsy order, EDWARD FILDER, Secretary.
—"`°4Be-yard, London, 7th January, 1846.

PETERBOROUGH and NOTTINGHAM
tlZect
h' JUNCTION RAILWAY.
that he
ors have the satisfaction of informing the Subscribers
11,,e'tableledning orders of Parliament up to the 31st of December
carefully and duly complied with in all respects, the
—tie of lime taken, aad the tab:es compiled, showing, on a moderate
b,Dla;b:_rg_ es a large per centage on the capital.
bZoti .1. determined to apply for an Act to make only that
th.quitiesßailh() line commencing at the station of the Midland
SYston"waY at Nottingham, and terminating at the station of
eta and Peterborough Railway at Melton ; and as, none of the
s "
Nis_Positioniell were more or less in competition with this project are
n.,'sges to proceed to Parliament, and there being many ad-
h acipatl_ ooth public and private, to be afforded by it, the confident
'ttlrt is encouraged that it will be sanctisaed by the Legis-
" easuing session.

By order,
Coth SEYMOUR, Secretary.
11'4,....74m43;'s *faces, 1, Gutldhall-chaintiers,
ghall-street, Jan. 7, MS.

t4t4STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
STERN
e Diret..
the Eastern Counties Railway Company do, in
kellPriet the Power vested in them by the General Meeting of
/„.404_, ors held on the 28th August last, and for the purposes
Q-er 87nil.th_ rert of the Directors to the Proprietors, call tke
1i7,,1,110 2 younds per share on the shares of the Extension
tto,‘44l4o:er the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to be paid
based ihn'r the 22d day of January next to any of the undermen-
tiV of the Company, who are instructed to receive the
bi,„aistig'esentation of the Scrip. Interest will be charged upon
—44 itth:..?:,•B at he rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, if not duly
ove-mentioned date.
By order of the Board,
411 GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman.
1.1t4c41 RONEY, Secretary.
1,4e4,1 ;11 Westminster Bank, Lothbury, or an of its Branches.
10 °rough Bank—Liverpool.
iTtTler and Liverpool District Bank7Manchester.
ktimrs Dorset Banking Company—Salisbury.
Zeets: Lemon and Co.—Brentwood.
par, Bawtree, and Co.—Colchester.
ktlion:,N)arrow and Co.—Chelmsford.
4t1,4 Provincial Bank —Bath.
11;ttloilZ p'ovincial Bank—Birmingham.
Bank
Bank—Boston.
extent ',lank of Scotland—Edinburgh.
'"9 Bank of Scotland—Glasgow.
izat ‘,lt of Ireland—Dublin.
ivtest ~,r'begland Bank—Great Yarmouth.
TBrB. ilegland and South Wales District Bank—Bristol.
ars ar'''Ys and Hudson—Norwich.
Cobbold, and Co.] —lpswich.
t'Llte Cn eoders , and Co. • • • •
and Gloucestershire Bank—Cheltehatn.
orediteh Station, Dec. 27, 1845.

tittiNc,
4,:tio and CARLISLE, and YORKSHIRE
kPo, GLASGOW UNION AMALGAMATED RAILWAY

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
AndersonW. Iteresford Esq., M.P.. Chairman.
~.. a
NY. ke Wyv'ill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
ar ' E J. Middleton, Esq.
11/' -kalling E„,' sq•
.. • It,
It' ColiCtt -st; W. H. O. Powlett, Esq.
C riattoe. Es, LK., 31. r.
T: "ib,. lsley, EqS.q. R. Robinson, Esq.
G. P. Robinson, Esq.
T. Salkeld, Esq.
Ir. Cion, Esq. J. Steel, Esq.
At °,lge EAt ' kali l' sq, J. Underwood, Esq.
till a Die g as, Esq.
tileY cot.Deti,,, of
,„ a the Shareholders of the Leeds and Carlisle Rail-
OaredC6thJae-,,"3', held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on
, viy"arY, 1846, the following resolutions were unanimously
'aotiei ~,. 41 front the CHAIR, and seconded by W. R. COLLETT,
it ' 44
4104 at the Esq., M.P.
:
Og R use report now read be adopted, printed, and circulated
,
the
ion Ntsreho„,lder
4,0 t , . s
n.,...'
' -. .ARBISON,
Esq.,
and seconded by GIDEON
44q:t tll hp CoLounotrzi, Esq. :
04 t, t the, -St thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Directors,
`lO ro;ticonlldence reposed in them be continued."
..°4 of Wm. ANNINO, Esq., and seconded by Jos. UN-
et'lla ~ DERWOOD, Esq. :-
1.444 t e,044144141 vote of thanks be awarded to the Chairman for his
Cots' gbarehilet in the chair."
at4t.Tittee piders are informed that a copy of the report of the
'-'eOll3,Y
Management, with a map of the lines of the Amalga-
T, may be had on application..at the Company's offices.
%esti.% 7 order of the Committee of Management,
`--- arl-r C. LOCOCK WEBS, Secretary.
°°flni Basinghall-street Jan. 6, 1846.
-.._______2_ ,

PINIII-, SAUNDERSFOOT, and SOUTH
trad " ALES RAILWAY and PIER COMPANY.
er the sanctien and support of the SOUTH WALES
RAILWAY.
kr , Capital, 200,0001., in Shares of 201, each.
<Orr , Deposit, 21,. 2s. per Share.
IleeN-.ARD HULKELEY PHILIPPS PHILIPPS, Bart., M.P.,
C Chairman.
ti oternittee beg to inform the Subscribers that the Plans and
thit,°,.43 and Books of Reference have been duly deposited, the No-
th"; Landowners served, and everything accomplished to insure
ti lit",,,Neation to Parliament in this session.
14,1ra.1 parties having neglected to pay up on their allotments, the
:4o Pr such payment is extended to the 15th January inst. ; and
s_'lle (,'":1* to insure confidence In the bona tido intention to proceed,
`altl"4ltnittee have taken one hundred shares each in the under-
* TIZ
h.ty 4' And entered into arrangements with the Saundersfoot Raii-
,N4cl Harbour Companies to provide one-fourth of the Pasha-
Th i'Y deposit if necessary.
well as the South Wales Rail-
Ny.tiuPPort of that Company, as pursuance of the arrange-
(4eilit;° leeUred ; and this Company, in P
tile A alluded to, will insure an immediateu .return on the capital on
lhirtineiiiiiig Obtained as the Committee aret ndotinawenat
are warran e reer t °aft na-
1, tth 's en tien tin the whole line, they
.4 a Iltio,
tlexit. 3t confidence that this will be effected without any Par-
stAp,,p‘rY contest
4 - `cation . in usual form, will
pp 15% i a for Shares, the
17 Fludyer-stree ,
R. 'lst, at the Offices of the l omPanY, ~
be received up to
vikcinster ; or at Messrs Carden and Whitehead s, or at A.le.ssrs.
risti"ie7B4,_and Harrison,'Threadneedle-street,. London ; and it is re-
''tlreeis"leY may be confined to the exact number of shares re-
Th "y each a
tht ' Peru pplicant.
Si
tito„ arnentary Deeds will Lie for ignature at the Offices of
r'44ri,',4nY, 17, Fiudy-er-street, Westminster, on and after the 9th
-4,11 g niStant ; and at the different country bankers in the en-
,-...,_'Yeelt.

• „„ . TEA._..—The finest flavoured, most eco-
t4 trucia
tale Tea en account of its great strength), and the most
to
'4%Z th. Procure in London in a genuine state, can be ob-
,l4,l3ktiane° Warehouse of the ASA.III TEA COMPANY, No. 11,
tri, %Ott, ft.,King William-street, City, or of the authorised agents:
irlillyt,fectio'"l4ll warehouseman, Gracechurch-street, City; %Tat-
-41•1c. narfner, Upper Seyinonr-street, Portman-square ; John
Italian Apr 4ili' onfectioner, 38, Upper Albany street, Regent's
warehouseman, 149, Regent-street ; Cox, jun.,
tef• 'zireektaL'
.tabrwell ; Bleckley and Co., confectioners, Rye-
, CA:Pick "4, Giles, Italian warehouseman, Stockwell-street,
j'"•--Th
1,011):14cea f 3 Az= Tea is packed in coloured wrappers, from
4,11 ‘,„4t on the one pouad, with the arms and address of the
tto ~"e, v,ith_ 'ace of the wrapper. Their seal is also affixed at
. es.; /,,,Ze,l,lt which none is genuine. Fine Black, ss. ; Best
"re en, 6s. ; Best Ditto, 75.; Mixed Tea, ss. 4d. per lb.
)1
• A few Country Agents Wanted.

be. S S'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
,r tt -es,
Ittb..ruiln„,"`"Ag gained such great approbation, and the demand
°r tae ftui ._'"ug to increase JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
itt:u Offer thus their best acknowledgments te the Public
411eIrliti 13gtronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni-
thkral sok, ..oates have recommended P., to the most distinguished
1,44 It is :etions, who have all spoken highly in its reco.mmenda-
%ft k.ts f iiintrePared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint.
'4171: —es' all Possible ca're has been resorted to, by each
tell% 7141,43yea1h.-ed on the cork with their firm and address, as webill
1044 t —4vitig their signature, without which it cannot
"
atv, tritG,
manner that has
akh'''-'t of '"SS Cod SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
448,--114.1..7!"uTIOVLES continues to be prepared by them after
'Watime given the greatest satisfaction for many
-Bs. 107, Strand, corner of Savoy steps, London.

Npt,,,,
kiii WI CER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYhaEir,
''lliti'koerst'lle:' in a few minutes, without trouble, red
or
grbelaYck, by
Dr Ply t4l-Ye,,rows, moustaches;&c., to a dark brownlc:ear
tion will
loZlect ,nf_4 not wetted with the liquid. One
"pi6s., and
~,' Der toD'asing and permanent change. Fri" 3s. 6d.,
A 0 . ttle
tire ut h,,, •
het, viirt.,_L of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-psltaechee, Fieldgate-
, 68, Corn-
Stt,‘lluttor7thaPel-road, London ; also of Mr. Jo
tir'''; ita. Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-
Old Bond-
btt 4,s'olaY, arringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24,
Deleto_st-,, Der, 43,
I.,itr,art
c)rtabii.il King SVilliam-street, London bridge ;
and
fnitinsi
ayt,lnners'et. Itani ;Elmore Bull-street, Birmingham ; o
sent to
kiledloine Vendors in town and country.
...
01„,y4a ase to
1,. ligdorn by receiving a remittance, Pelt-1)119 , the Prolatietor'""cr
N' 43
f6r " ' and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
~,,, 2 address is on the wrapper.
1 'A, RE
Bali
Tlie,„ ,;:‘ RY HALFORD'S FEMALE PILLS.
wkto,m,
i,
_a db,
by Sir Henry
p. i 3, are mate from a prescription given
. ..i.r.
reittt.-,,aq _., , to the Countess of E-n, for her daughte
lez lot - - 7annent cheMist, recommended the prescription to a near.
Vitt Peteruati t 4, late Earl Crawford and Lindsay, who (after consTet.
vet,i'rei! iNnt,he Most eminent medical men in London and the pe-
.1
reiti` she t;`01111Y, was advised to try the German Baths, fr
atter") Wat, Orned to England without experiencing the slighteste.
kletoll,,Z Me use of these Pills, in six weeks completely rre.
lltirrropri,i`o.t.`n, and from whom it came into the hands of the P .
ge, Oe bi In Amenorrhcea, Chlorosis, Leucorrhcea,
lattitaare tiabie,Y, arid the other affections to which females at certain
Hysteria,
l'r0„441011.g ti„.lheY stand unequalled, a fact testified to by several
tek4are.4 ote nobility and gentry. 4, 24, iii'J bY W. A. Byrne, at the Dispensary for Diseases of
• _ Martin's-lane, Trafalgar-square.
IA boxes at Is. lA (1., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d.

Prospectuses, with Tables, Forms of Proposal for the purchase of
au Annuity or for making an Assurance, and every information,
may be obtained by application at the Office of the Company.
E. RYLEY, Actuary and Secretary.

THE TONTINE LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
PANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 207. each.
Deposit, in compliance with the provisions of the statute 7 and 8
Viet., c. 110, Two Shillings per Share, until the complete Registra-
tion of the Company, when the same will be increased to 11. per
Share, which, with the assistance anticipated from the Tontine De-
partment, will, it is expected, be sufficient to carry out the objects
of the Company.
The plan of this Company offers considerable and peculiar advan-
tages to the Shareholders, as in addition to the profit arising from
Life Assurance transactions, it is proposed to raise a capital of
1,000,000/., or more, by the grant of Tontine Annuities, in classes
to be regulated by the ages of the Subscribers or their Nominees ;
which capital, on the death of the survivor in each class, will be
divided exclusively among the Shareholders. The principle of the
Tontine Annuities is explained below.

TRUSTEES.
John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn
John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn-house, Hanwell
James Martin, Esq , 68, Lombard-street.

_
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn
Walter Wyndham Burrell, Esq., Knepp Castle, near Horsham, and

5, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall
John Charritie, Esq., stoorgate-street Chambers, City
John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn•house, Hanwell
John More Douglas Lombard Belvedere-road, Lambeth
Walter Etty, Esq., -street Ckambers
Edward Hamilton, Esq., M.D., Grafton-street, Piccadilly
William Henderson, Esq., 16, Bishopgate-street Within
Hector Monro, Esq., Walsham le Willows, Suffolk
Savile Craven Henry Ogle, Esq., M.P., 84, Eaton-square, Pimlico.
Ambrose Frederick Proctor, Esq., Ware; Hints
C oke Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Fleet-street
John Alfred Trimmer, Esq., Haslemore, Surrey
Forbes Winslow, Esq., M.D., Sussex-house, Hammersmith.
BANKERS—Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martins, 68, Lombard-street.
SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Dimes, Esq., 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REFEREES.
Thomas Callaway, Esq., F.R.C.S., Wellington-street, Southwark
James Copland, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., Old Burlington street.
DISTRICT MEDICAL REFEREES IN LONDON.
William Preston Lauder, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., Sloane.street,

Knightsbridge
Edward Lloyd, Esq., M.D., Jewin-street, City
Walter Heyde Walsh. Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology at Univer-
sity College, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—David Jones, Esq., Author of " Tables on
Annuites," &c., King William-street, City.
ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—WiIIiam Clark, Esq.
Temporary Offices, No. 16, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Life Assurances will be effected with all the advantages to the
assured afforded by the most respectable established companies.

TONTINE ANNUITIES.
_ This Company, in submitting the subject of Tontine Annuities to
as they progress
hope of longevity, and the
the public, is influenced by the belief that there are many persons,
tive and increasing desire of ease and affluence
_
during their own lives tllle
1110 a of investment ;—by
in which they will secure a large remunera-
tionan
illustration
of their nominee.
, guaranteed to them by the Company
The following
persons subscribe 1001, itCzhel.tifeach, they or their respec-
principle. oifilthwehiTeohnttinhee Aaun--
nuities :—lf 1,000
fcaennt. per annum, earceclieassiuvr
ancriber or nominee
ntitiViatynogmrainnteeeds,i IsDa6T g
pero
will, during the continuance of all the lives,
but as the lives drop, the share of the deceased parties will ofi
61.;
divided among the survivors, until they are reduced to six, ewaelil, of
whom will then receive 1,0001. per annum for life ; but as they re-
spectively die off, the 1,0001. per year which the deceased party re-
ceived will fall into the funds of the Company, for the benefit of the
shareholders ; and so in proportion for a larger or smaller number of
subscribers or their nominees.
This mode of investment will place it in the power of almost every
individual, at some period of life, by prudently and legitimately ap-
propriating a comparatively small sum of money, which in many in-
stances would be otherwise uselessly expended, to secure indepen-
dence and comfort in their declining years.
Parents may also by these means provide for their children.
Wealthy relatives for their poorer relations.
Applications for Shares, in the following form, to be directed to
Charles Barker, Esq., No. 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields :
To the Directors of the Tontine Life Assurance Company.
Gentlemen,--I request you to allot me Shares in this
Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less nam-
ber you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of Two Shillings per
Share thereon, and also to execute the Deed of Settlement of the
Company when required to do so.
Name •••••••.
Address.... • • • • • •• ..
Profession or Business
Reference ..... .

RHEUMATISM. —MI those suffering from
Rheumatism, Chilblains, Lumbago, Tic-Doloreux, Cramp,
Sprains, &c., will find immediate relief and a speedy cure by using
CORRALL'S EMBROCATION. The great and increasing demand
or this novel Embrocation induces the proprietor to introduce it
more generally to the public, satisfied that one trial alone will be
sufficient to convince the most sceptical of its superiority over all
other articles offered for similar purposes.
Sold in bottles at Is. 14d., 25., and 25. 9d. each, by the Sole Pro-
7rietor, George Richardson, 12, Norland-place, Notting-hill, and
5Y his appointment by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon• street ;
and J. Sanger,
150, Oxford-street. Orders, by post, directed to the
Proprietor, promptly attended to.

THE ART UNION.
PIANOFORTES GIVEN AWAY, VALUE
FIFTY GUINEAS EACH.
The PROPRIETORS of the " RAILWAY TELEGRAPH AND
MERCHANT'S ADVOCATE" will give a Splendid Pianoforte, by
an Established Maker, to every Three Hundredth Subscriber.
The " Railway Telegraph and Merchant's Advocate " Is a first-rate
Railway, Commercial, and General Newspaper.
Prospectuses and particulars to be had at the Office, 2, Catherine-
street, Strand, London.

pARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY
LAF'S .
Shareholders who have IT
not Er
eceivedCOMPANY) the CIRCULAR REPORT
of the Directors, dated 31st December last, may be furnished with a
copy, by sending to this office for it.
The forms to be signed for the purpose of obtaining constituted
Shares, as well as for the repayment of the surplus deposits, are now
ready for delivery at this office, daily, between the hours of Eleven
and Three, until the 24th inst. ED. AIME, Secretary.
62, King William-street City, Jan. 6, 1846.

PARENTS and GUARDIANS who are desirous
of securing those advantages to their children which are so
conducive to bea'th and their future welfare, viz., pure air, good
food, and unremitting attention to their morals, are respectfully in-
formed that Mr. WEDDELL, Principal of a Young Gentleman's
Academy, in a beautiful and healthy town, within four hours' ride of
the metropolis by rail, is now in London, and has a VACANCY for a
few yoang gentlemen. The terms are 18/. per annum, and the extras.
Greek, Latin, French, Dancing, Drawing, Oil Painting, and Washing,
are on the usual terms.

A INS WORT H'S MAGAZINE,
No. XLVIII.--.TANUAItY.

With Illustrations on Steel by GEORGE GRUIKSHANK,

An interview maybe obtained with Mr. W. by addressing to him
a letter (pre-paid), care of Messrs. Reeves and Son, 113, Cheapslde ;
or Mr. T. B. Sharpe, 15, Skinner-street, Snow-hill.

" Ainsworth's Magazine' opens the New Year with great spirit.
The first paper is a characteristic sketch by the Editor, Mr. Harrison
Ainsworth, entitled Sir Lionel Flamstead,' with an admirable il-
lustration 'by George Cruikshank. The Author of Handley Cross'
continues his Life and Writings of Nimrod,' to which he does ample
justice ; and the other papers are highly interesting—the serious and
the gay being happily intermingled."—Bell's Life, Jan. 4.
Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MA-
GAZINE.

Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
" The New Monthly' contains contributions from a greater num-
ber of writers of note than any number of any Magazine which we
have seen. Among the contributors are Captain Marryat, Sergeant
Talfourd, Horace Smith, Mr. James, Mrs. Trollope, Mr. W. H. Max-
well, the Editor, &c."—Observer, Jan. 4.
Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.

Just published, in No. 57 of
THE MUSICAL BOUQUET, price 3d., or
post-free 2d. extra, " The Cricket on the Hearth," a new
Christmas Quadrille, most respectfully dedicated to Charles Dickens,
Esq., composed by F. Lancelett, composer of (No. 5) the " Chimes
Quadrille," (No. 56) " The Merry Christmas Mazourka," &c. The
cheapest musical present for 1846 is Vol. I. of " The Musical
Bouquet," price 85., in illuminated binding, and embellished with 24
pictorial Illustrations, engraved on steel, and contains Songs, Duets,
the most fashionable Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Gallops, Ma-
zourkas, &c., by the most eminent composers, aewly arranged for
the pianoforte.
W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, and all Booksellers.

CANDLES at CLARK'S REDUCED PRICES.
Palace Wax Candles (finest wax made), Is. I Id. per lb. ;
Orient Wax, Is. 9d. • Transparent Wax, Is. 6d. ; Queen's Sperma-
ceti, Is. Bd. ; Sperm is. Gd. and Is. 2d. ; Clark's Royal Wax, Is. ;
Patent Sperm, Is. , Clark's Solar, superior to all composite, 10d.;
Kitchen Candles (six months old), 51,0. Yellow Soap, 395. 4is.,
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WOOTTON BASSET, JAN. 6.—A meeting of a very re-
markable and important character at the present crisis
was held last night at a village, six miles beyond this
town, called Goatacre, a small place with an agricultural
population scarcely exceeding 200 persons, but sur-
rounded at various distances by several similar villages
or hamlets. The chairman was a labourer ; the speak-
ers, with the exception of two, were labourers ; and the
object in view was to call public attention to the present
condition of the labouring population in this part of the
country, and to petition her Majesty and the Legislature
to take decisive steps for the speedy relief of their ex-.
treme distress. The meeting was to have been held in
a large booth erected in a field, but the great expense of
providing such accommodation was beyond the combined
contributions which these poor people could spare from
their very scanty means ; and therefore they were com-
pelled to assemble together in the cross• road of the vil.
lage, and to endure the inclemency of a winter
night while they talked over their common sufferings.
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strikingly characteristic of the occasion. A hurdle
supported by four stakes, driven into the ground,
beneath a hedge on the road side, formed a narrow and
unsteady platform, capable of supporting only the chair-
man and one speaker at a time. Below this rustic erec-
tion were placed a small deal table, and some rush-
bottom chairs, borrowed from a neighbouring cottage, for
the accommodation of reporters. Four or five candles,
some in lanterns, and others sheltered from the wind by
the hands that held them, threw a dim and flickering
light upon the groups on this spot, before and around
which were gathered nearly 1,000 of the peasantry of
Wiltshire, some of them accompanied by their wives
and their children, who, thus collected, presented a wild
and painful appearance. In the shadows of the night
the distinctive garb of their class was everywhere dis-
cernible, but when the flitting clouds permitted the moon
to shine brightly in their faces, in them might be seen
written, in strong and unmistakeable lines, anxiety, sup-
plication, want, hunger, ever responsive in expression to
the sentiments and statements delivered by speakers,
who merely described in plain unvarnished language the
miseries of their rural auditors. The style of the more
important speeches, and the nature of the disclosures
made in them, demand an exact report of them, which
will be found below, abating the provincial accentuation
of words.

DAVID KELL, a man of rather advanced age, was for-
mally called upon to preside, and opened the proceedings
by reading a printed copy of the following notice:—
" Anti- Corn-law Meeting at Goatacre—At a meeting
of the committee of the Goatacre Reform Society,
held at the committee-room, Goatacre, on Tuesday,
Dec. 8, the following resolutions were unanimously
carried :—Resolved, 1. That, in the opinion of the com-
mittee, the distress of the labouring people, caused by
the failure in the potato crop and the high price of
bread, is such as to justify the holding a public meeting
for the purpose of petitioning the Queen for a total re-
peal of the corn-laws, inasmuch as wheat has risen 25
per cent., while the wages of the farm-labourers have
not risen 5 per cent. 2. That a public meeting be held
at Goatacre on Monday, the sth of January, 1846, for
the purpose named in the first resolution. In pursuance
of the above reso!utions, notice is hereby given, that a
public meeting will be held in a large booth at Goatacre,
on Monday, the sth January, 1846, at half-past six
o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of petitioning the
Queen for a total repeal of the corn-laws.—Joseph
Brewer, Chairman of the Committee. N.B. It is earnestly
hoped that all who are sufferingfrom distress will attend,
that their distress may be made known."
The CHAIRMAN then said—To all who are here pre.
sent, and to my fellow-labourers in particular, I call
your attention to a subject of the utmost importance—
s subject which demands very serious consideration.
You know by painful experience that we are suffering
under distress and poverty ; and we are met here this
evening on purpose to make known that distress to her
Majesty and to her Ministers, to pray them to open the
ports and to repeal the unjust corn-laws, so that we
and our families may enjoy the bounties of Providence.
—(Hear, hear). As it respects my own distress, and
the calamities and miseries I have underwent and un-
dergone, I have spoken of them before at the Ramsbury
meeting. But the case is not altered now. I have only
6s. a week for keeping myself, a wife, and two small
children. I cannot earn half enough to keep us. 61.105.
must go to pay house and garden rent, and no potatoes
got.—(Hear.) I say, then, let us unite together to
advocate the cause of free trade.—(Cheers.) Free trade
for everl—(Repeated cheers.) What was it we were
sent into the world for ? Is it not for the benefit of
society ? Hath God not committed to us a talent, and
will He not require the use of it at our hands ?—(Hear,
hear.) There are classes of people in this world, but
perhaps they are unknown to many of you, that think
that, because God brings all things to pass according to
his unalterable decrees, they may sit down and rest con-
tented, and never think of doing anything at all, except
it is to usurp the authority of God. They may look
into his sacred word, but with his revealed will they
will have nothing to do. Dost thou not know, 0 man I
that thou west endowed with a mind, and will, and
faculties, which God works upon as his instruments to
bring about his all- wise purposes? He looked upon his
people in Egypt, and he saw their afiliction and raised
up Moses to be their deliverer. Again, he raised up Gideon
to deliver them out of the hands of the Midianites ; and
Cyrus again to deliver them from Babylon, when they
were in captivity ; and, to come nearer our own times,
he raised up Oliver Cromwell and many others to do
what was to be done. And in the present day, is there
not a Cobden, a Bright, and a Radnor ? It is not for us
to inquire whether these men are good men or not. It
is sufficient for us to know that they are doing a good
moral work in our nation.—(Cheers.) But there is an
other class of characters which I would speak to, for
perhaps there are some of them amongst you ; poor dear
souls they are to be pitied, for they are fearing where no
fear ought to be. They are afraid they shall be turned
out of their labour, and out of their houses ; and they
are fearing this great man, and that great man, and the
other great man. They are fearing every day because
of the fury of the oppressor. And " where is the fury of
the oppressor ?" There is no cause at all to fear him,
my poor fellow-labourers for, says God, " Behold,
I have created the smith that bloweth the coals
in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument
for his work; and I have created the waster to
destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee
shall prosper, and every tongue that riseth against
thee in judgment thou shalt condemn." Let us stand
up, my fellow-labourers, for good laws, for freedom,
for equality.—(Loud cheers) I envy not the rich man
for his riches ; but is it not unreasonable:and arbitrary
that the rich should be endowed with the full and sole
power to send Members to Parliament to legislate ?
(Hear, hear.) The laws press upon the poor, who never
had any hand in making them.—(Hear, hear.) But I
do think the time willcome when every labouring house-
holder will have the privilege of sending Members to
Parliament.—(Cheers.) When every man comes under
the power of every law that is made, ought not every
man to have a voice in making that law ?—(Hear, hear.)
And now a word or two for the protectionists. I
would ask where is the utility of the protectionist con-
le on by the Duke of
d
tending for the corn-law, since it has been proved again
that the corn law is
Buckingham
noudcbkeaingneagfii
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a,
tmob y invincible
himndothers,
h eßrus,argument,
justßut
hestis as the Italian leads a bear
through the streets, and when he has made as much
money of him as he can, he turns upon the poor crea-
tureand cuts him up to make bear's grease.—(Great
laugliter.) So it is with the poor farmer, and so the poor
labourer is brought down to misery and ruin.—(Hear.)
WM. BURCHELL then came forward to move the adop-
tion of the following resolution, or rather declaration:—
" We, the labourers of Goatacre and its neighbour-
hood, in public meeting assembled, do solemnly protest
against the corn-laws, which were enacted on the plea
of being beneficial to our interest, but have been, on the
contrary, injurious, inasmuch as they preventthe employ-
ment Hear of capital in the improvement of the soil, and
and thereby diminish labour, and raise the price of the
first necessaries of life. And we labourers declare that
we are lingering out a miserable existence under the
idea of being protected.”—( , hear.)
He considered that this was the best resolution that the
meeting could carry. (Burchell finding a little difficulty
at first inexpressing himself, one of his fellow-labourers

Ttiwnhoethcehecumrnaogrrwkd called out, " Never mind about a word or
ywmasenecchaonedubnydemrsatnayndvoiweehsat) yro;
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werey t u sufferingt them.-(Bear,
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d umanythatnite
in petitioning for the speedy removal of that pro-
tection, and the establishment of free trade for the
nation.-(Loud cheers.) God Almighty in his provi-
dence caused the earth to produce abundance of provi-
sions for man, and what one nation could not produce
another could ; therefore everything should he so ma-
naged as to have free commerce throughout the world.
-(Hear, hear.) The labouring classes were in a most
distressed condition at the present time-worse than
last year, when he said at Wooten• Basset that every
man with five or six children went to bed more in debt
than he was the night before. His condition was worse
than it was that time twelvemonth. If wages had risen
within the last few years ls. a-week, the price of bread
had risen 25., so that the difference was against himself
and his family.-(A *oice-“ True, we be always going
back.") He hoped the Legislature would take into con-
sideration their distressed state, and find a speedy rescue
for the oppressed poor.-(Hear.) He could maintain the
truth of all that the chairman had stated about their dis-
tress. He believed that there were at the present time
many who had not a bit of bread to eat. He did not know
whether the man was in that congregation or not,
but one man of Lytieham parish had told him that
many a night he had gone to bed hungry.-(Cries of
" Ah, he is not the only one"-" No, net by many.'')
Those who were in distress should come forward and
manfully make their distress known ; that would show
the necessity for free trade, which he believed to be the
the only remedy.-(A voice, " It can't make us worse.")
20 or 30 years ago, the labourers of Wilts used to go up
into the hills and make a good harvest ; but since trade
had failed it was no use for them to go ooking for reap-
ing, for many thousands of " scribblers" and weavers out
of employment wentyand jitt low
wages. But he believed that if' every .c.ribbler had
work at his mill, and every weaver employment at his
loom, they would not rob the poor agricultural labourer
of his day's work.-(Hear.) Many persons said that
free trade would make things worse for them ; he did
not believe that to. be possible, and all he wanted was
that the experiment should be tried.-(Hear, hear.)
He had heard that in centuries past labouring men
had for food bread,. and butter, and cheese, and beef,
and pork, and beer ; but now it was bad potatoes
and salt. He was often thankful that the streams and
rivulets were so bountifully spread around their neigh-
bourhood, and that taxation could not be written on their
bosoms.-(Hear, hear.) But it was distressing for a
man to get up early and go to work having little or no
victuals, and to return to dinner upon a few potatoes,
and then be afraid sometimes to eat what he had.-(A.
voice-" 'Cause you: would not have any for to-
morrow.") He had- heard it said that there was no
market for meat. Why was that ? Because the people
had not the means of purchasing meat, therefore the
consumption was not bigger. He was past forty years
of age, and he could say that he never purchased a
pound of good slaughtered beef fit to be carried into
market. As to mutton, he had purchased a little of
that, but never as much as would average a pound a
year in the forty years. He knew what veal was, but
he never had any at all. He believed that the only way
to improve the meat market and increase the home
cc
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mitofuenitterade, and
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petitioning
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free trade.-(Cheers.) Free trade for ever !-(Re-
newed cheers.)
CHARLES VINES, in seconding the resolution, said-
Friends, I wish the moon was a little brighter just now,
that I could see better who is here ; but I see enough to
find that there is a good many people, and almost all of
'em wear smock-frocks and poor old hats as I do. Some
of us heard from a pulpit a short time ago that the mind
of man is like to be dissatisfied. I believe it. Dissatis-
fied minds have brought all these men here to-night.-
(A woman's voice, "Ay, and women too.") I believe,
fellow-labourers, that-if you and your families had full
bellies, you would n6w have been at home, after being
working hard all day, comfortable with your wives and
families.-(" Ay,- that's true.) I am sure I should not
have walked all the' way up here from Christian-Mal-
ford, through lanes and paths full of mud and dirt, if it
hadn't been for that.: I don't come here to talk politics.
I don't know nothing of 'em. But I don't know much
of the corn-laws, only"that they ha'pt done we labourers
much good.-(Hear; Near.) Everybody knows that.-
(A voice, " I've had,'em staring me in the face ever since
1817.") Yes, the coin-laws exist, and every one of us
feels that the sooner they be abolished the better.-
(Cheers.) I don't know whether many of you read
newspapers, but I must tell you that in the Wiltshire Inde-
pendent, not long ago, there was this statement made by a
labourer of Christian-Malford to the editor :-" As Mr.
Bennett, M.P. for South Wilts, lately stated at an agricul-
tural meeting that the poor of Wiltshire were always em-
ployed regularly at the rate of Bs. and 9s. per week, and
that they were well fed and well clothed, and as I know
by experience that that statement is false, I will, if you
will be so kind as to sEllow me to occupy a small space in
your valuable paper, prove that it is so; and I will tell
what I earned for 39 weeks ending the 10th of June, 1844,
to maintain as large a family as almost any poor man
has. The number of my family is eight; all of those 39
weeks we wanted 7s. a week for bread, not having any
potatoes a third pars of the time; so that, if I had not
been receiving Bs. a week during all that time, it would
not have been enough to buy bread and firing. And
now, Sir, I will tell what was the exact amount of what
I did earn during those 39 weeks; it was 51. 19s. Bd.,
which is not quite 3s. ld. a week. This report is almost
enough to make you stagger to believe it, but it is no less
strange than true; and I can say, for a truth, that if it
had not been for a little land which I rent of the Hon.
Earl of Carnarvon and the Rev. Mr. Law, and a few
good friends amongst my neighbours, my family and my-
self must have died from starvation; it was not much
better as it was. Nowlwill ask the Hon. Gentleman if he
thinks he is justified in stating such things at public meet-
ings? I could say a great deal more on the subject, but
I will leave these remarks for Mr. Bennett's present perusal,
and say a word or two at some future period, and I
sincerely hope and trust that these remarks will open
the said Mr. Bennett's eyes a little, so that he may
see that the poor are in distress; and I sincerely hope he
will make speeches and try to adopt measures for the
bettering the condition of us poor labourers, end I don't
doubt but that it will redound to his praise, and I think
he, in so doing, will glorify God, who alone knows the
hearts of all, and the distress which we, as a nation, are
labouring under, fore there has been an increasing dis-
tress for years past ; many in this parish are now suffer-
ing greatly for want sof work."-(Cries of, " Ah, that is
true, all true.") This case, so stated in that paper, was
the case of the man who stands before you.-(Hear,
hear.) And now, my friends, the purpose of my being
here to night is to prove to you the accurate sum that I
earned from September 16, 1843, till November 23,
1844, which is about 62 weeks together, with the amount
of money earned by me down to the 31st of December,
1845, which, if I reckon right, is about 119 weeks and
three days. Together with relief when ill, and 29 weeks
for a boy, 12 years old, who was allowed 3d. a day,
the whole sum amounted to 421. ss. 5d., that is exactly
75. lid. a week, or thereabouts. Now, I will ask any
labourer with a wife and six children, to step forward
and, if he can, tell me in what I am to spend this
money, so as to pay every man I deal with 20s. in the
pound ?-(" Why thee, can't.") If he can, I shall be glad
to take a lesson in economy of him. lean only say that my
wife and myself have made it our study for the last 14
years and more. She says she can't make the money do
it, and yet I am proud to say she is as good a wife as any
man has got.-(Cheers.) I would remark here that
there are other necessaries besides food. There is house
rent. I pay 4L a year as a good many in this meeting
know. Now, 119 weeks, which go a good way towards
two and a half years, will take away 91., leaving 331. ss.
9d. Then I reckon 'Aloes a necessary.-(" You can't
do without them.") I
take what a pair cost me two
years ago ; I haven't had any since, nor my family, and
I suppose we never Shall any more. I paid 12s. for a
pair of water-tights 4. and if there is any shoemaker here
who will make me another pair at that price, I shall want
at least six months' credit.-(A laugh.) If he wants
them he shall have two bondsmen farmers, and I will be
bound to say that they must pay him, for I don't see
that I ever can.-(Laughter.) Then there is a pair for
my wife, 6s. 3d.; for my oldest daughter (14 years),
ss. 6d.; for my oldest son (11 years), 6s. 6d. daforhmteyr
next son (9 years), ss. 6d.; for my next g
youngest child (2 years), ls. 6d. All that
to buy food
21. 4s. 9d., leaving a surplus of 31L Os.
week for eight in a
for 119 weeks, being ss. 2id. per
if that
will 1 all the world to judgesum
family. I leave' .
is sufficient to keep a family, • ht in number, in food.
eight
atrmue,suforre- -solmo-eitePnvedpoani'dt
amountsfuor
to
atd:ss meet. My bread bill,
(, No, that you can't.') That
niatned inobnofteohT.t"uh)erne, for I have no good can't pay for your bread."-
(" from 7s. 7d. to Bs. Bd. a week.
aenrddodolnk'tnsoewe ahnoywwltt,my toto pay for
forfor
since- know ( ' No,lhasotwJuly,
it
ut cloya
Then you'll say,
make'et
oh, etidmo
acre, and there is not a good potato
po-
tatoes, hardly one fit for a pig to eat; for I do rent a bit
in it. I've got here one I had boiled for my dinner to-
day; I brought it for a specimen. (Tbe potato was
owf itof
what
'afaotnardntdnh willoes
wobihalf
future;waaf
handed down and examined under the lanterns; it
was black with the prevailing disease.) Yet this is what
I am to feed upon when I get up to work at four o'clock
in the morning, if there's no bread in the house. It is a
long time till July next before we get new potatoes;
and unless something turns up for we poor creatures,
starvation stares us in the face on both hands. But I
sincerely hope " longlooked-for" will come before July
next.-(Hear, hear.) -To obtain our rights effectually
we must all, with one heart, lift up our cry and petition
her Majesty to remove the restrictions upon trade and
commerce, so that the poor labourers may have bread
and cheese and good table beer, to enable them to do the
work which their present scanty food never can.-
I (Hear, hear.) May tlAt cry meet with a reply from
our gracious Queen. God save the Queen !-(Cheers,
and responses of " Amen.") Friends, every man who
is born and bred a labourer has for his birthright a living
from the soil, to be obliined without being restricted by
any laws-unjust laws I might call 'em--enforced by

our Legislature.—(Cheers.) I will now read a few lines
which I have collected together with something of my
own, showing the right of an English labourer:—
" My only claim is this.:
With labour stiff and stark,
By lawful turn, my bread to earn,
Between the light and dark.
My daily bread, and nightly bed,
My bread and cheese and beer:
But all from the hand that holds the land,
And none from the Overseer.
—(Loud cheers, and cries of "No overseers fur we.")
" No
_parish money, nor parish loaf,
o pauper badge for me ;
I'm a Km of the soil, by rightful toil,
Entitled to my fee.
No alms 1 ask, give me my task,
For will, or arm, or leg;
I'm strong and bold, and to this I'll hold—
To work and not to beg."—(Loud cheering.)
WILLIAM PARRY, of Charlton, said, I have come a
11
ditance of twenty miles to tell my tale of distress. I have
six children, a wife, and myself to maintain on Sc. per
week, bread being 15d. per gallon. The farmers tell us
that our wages go according to the price of bread; but
: t
en springthere h
clothing had
7 s.
re toaawndeekfi,rianngd
wcaonutlded,buayndbrheadousae-t
9d. a gallon. Now it is 6d. more; and a gallon a day,
Pay ; but there is nothing to pay for any of these
being one pound to each, is what we want in my family.
things.
I told the relieving-officer that I could not keep
my family on my wages. He said he would bring
my
case forward at the board of guardians. Well, hesent
me an order for one of my children to go into the work-
house. Now, fellow-labourers, is not one child as dear
to you as another ?—(Hear, hear.) Well, I did not know
which to send. I could not part 'with ne'er a one. I
said to my oldest girl, " You are to go into the work-
house." She did not like to go, and I spoke to others,
and there I had the cries of my poor children, which
were piercing to my hesrt, " Don't send me, father, don't
send me 1" Was not that enough to try a man, without
the pressure of starvation ? I spoke to master about it.
" Oh," he says, " if you cannot maintain them, you had
better Send one into the workhouse ; I shall not allow
you -inv. -more r wages." I said; 4‘ What benefit is it to
send this child into the workhouse, and banish it from
its home; it will do the rest no good, nor that one either.
Besides, I should have it always upon my mind for no
man would like to part from his children in such a
way."—(Hear, hear.) I spoke a few words at a
meeting at Uphaven, and master told me I had done
myself a great deal of hurt by it. I know I only
told the truth. He said the farmers might have done
me some good but for that. I wanted some better
potato land, but master wanted 81. an acre for it. I told
him I could not pay that. If I could get three acres of
land at the same price that the farmers get it-21. an
acre, I could provide for myself and family.—(A Voice—
" Ay, the labourers would not let the land go out of
cultivation.") But the farmers say it will, if we have
free trade.—(Aries of " No, no.") Where I come from
there are fields and fields full of nothing but thistles.
Why ? Because there are not farmers enow to culti-
vate the land. Some of the land our people reaped pro-
duced two thistles to one wheat ear.—(Cries of "Shame,
shame.") I was at home emptying this wheat, and mas-
ter came into the yard. I said. " Look at this." The
thistle down was flying off like a snow storm. I said,
" You had better have had more labourers to cut the
thistles out; the land will never be cultivated while this I
goes on." He said, " But I have kept all the sixpences
in my pocket."—(Murmurs.) I wish the farmers would
have public open meetings to discuss these subjects.
There was a meeting in Devizes, where Mr. Bethel made
a grand speech, and said that the labouring men were all
in a flourishing state and well satisfied.—(Cries of" He's
a liar.") Mr. Bethel was in a warm room, had, per-
haps, had a bottle of wine, and was himself in a
flourishing state when he said that ; while at the same
time his poor labourers were starving.—(Hear, hear.)
If it was not for potatoes, starved we must be.—(Hear,
hear.) How does the poor man get clothes ? He lives
upon potatoes and salt, and saves a little to buy two or
three rags, or else he would be positively naked. We
could better ourselves if we were permitted. I told
master that, if he would let me have three or four acres,
at V. an acre, I could keep my wife and family without
coming upon him or going into the workhouse. But they
won't agree to it. They say if the land is let in that kind
of way it will go out of cultivation ; but that is the very
way to bring it into cultivation. Fellow-labourers, there is
one thing that we are very wrong lit. We goes to work at
mowing, cutting and slashing away, without asking master
what we are going to have for doing it before we begins.
But I know very well that when a man asks a fair price,
the farmers say, "Go along—l don't want thee. I can
do without thee." The man who speaks fairly, and asks
a fair price for his labour is sure to be persecuted. But
we should unite together, and know before hand what we
are going to have for doing the work.—(Hear, hear.)
After some further remarks upon the low wages paid to
agricultural labourers, which bad reduced them to a
miserable condition, worse than that of transports, the
speaker said—there was nothing left for them now but
starvation or free trade. He believed that free trade
would give them good beef and bread to eat, instead of
potatoes and no meat or bread. Bad living had made
the agricultural labourers physically weaker ; he hoped
also that it would now have the effect of making them
wiser. It had made them wise enough to attend that
meeting. They must speak out their distresses, or they
could not expect relief. His master had told him that
he thought himself a fool for not turning him away for
attending the meeting at Uphaven. The fact was,
the farmers wanted to keep the labourers in the dark.
The farmers and landlords held their meetings in pri-
vate, and would prevent the labourers from having any
meetings at all. The labourers must be persecuted
for meeting together ; but farmers and laadown-
owners might meet and devise how to starve the poor
labourers, and that was all right.—(A voice—" Never
mind, it won't last long.") He hoped not. His master
(Mr. Wansborough) said, that free trade would starve
them.—(Cries of " Let's try it ; why we be starving
now.") Ile said, " You won't have any money if you
have free trade." How many in that meeting had
money ? He would venture to say none.—(A labourer
—"I have been five weeks without a farthing in my
pocket ; I have never see'd any money all that time.")
He saw no hope for them but in free trade. There was
plenty of bread and meat waiting to come into this
country, but the corn-laws would not let it come in.
Their cry, then, must be, "Free trade, free trade for
ever!"—(Cheers.) They were told that if corn became
cheap, their wages would be reduced. But were their
wages now according to the price of bread ?—(Cries of
"No, no.") When corn sank in price 2s. or 3s. a sack,
the farmers took off Is. or 2s. from the labourer's wages ;
but when corn went up again the labourer was left in
the lurch, for his wages were not raised.—(Hear.) He
should like every labourer to come forward to tell his
grievances.—(A voice—" Then the meeting would last
till the 31st December next.") No, not if they got free
trade before next summer.—(Cheers.) They must not be
afraid to tell the truth. His master told him that if he
had not gone to a meeting he would have done a great
many more things for him.—(A Labourer—" Why did
he not do 'em before ?") It appeared that he never
thought before of doing anything for him. Although
this meeting was large, he knew that there were hun-
dreds who were kept away through fear of offending
their masters. His master told him that if he went to
another meeting he would turn him off. But when
engaged in a right cause they must not fear man, who
at the most could only destroy the body. Let them
fear God, and trust in him, and they would succeed.

W. TAYLOR stated that he had a wife and four chil-
dren, and expected soon to have five; and was at present
out of employment. For the last seven weeks he was in
work he got 6s. 6d. per week. For many days he had
been without a bit of bread to eat.
vyeo your
ince fellow-labourers
ltaob.oduarye.,r,s)
pro-
tected Wiltshire labourers. Were you discharged
were so weak you could
your employment because you
not work ?
TAYLOR Yes, I could not work because I was not
A person in the crowd—But you are one of the
fremstrong enough ; I could not get victuals to make me so ;
and my master, Mr. Styles, of Whitcomb, discharged
send free trade.
A voice—Go to the Duke of Richmond at 17, Bond-
ms
t re
Anotheree t. I— have
( C r
vi
eno s oi e
of
voice—Did
Dkiii nde
Hear,
erwv,
e,
hr
eandaa any
y,
,not:oaf a sixpence,
anys
ttaor-vdi
na to-day
give you bread when you were starving ?
ns enveeerda l times.not
but what that man gave me (pointing to a labourer in
have clalhl ea du 't
had
himself a
mtheaycrGowodd,Awihmoigrehptlyiesdoo"nYes,
man ;his emaciated appearance •
spoke in stronger terms
than his voice could utter.]
[ThisTA TAYLOR—
rYme yes,
JAMES PEGLER complained
that he had been " hunted
down" under the poor-laws, having been, with his wife
and family, forced into the workhouse, and separated
from them for eleven months.—(Cries of " Shame.") At
last he was turned out to get work ; and, because he went
out of the district to find work, he was taken before the
magistrates, and charged with desertion, for which he
was sent to prison for a month. It was no use for him
to grumble ; he was served so again after that. God
bless my heart and life ! (exclaimed this man) " I never
seed sich agoto be sure as how I was served. I knows
enough of starvation and misery to make me say, ' God
send us free trade'.' "—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put, and unanimously
agreed to.
Mr. COLE said that he bad no idea until he got on the
platform that there were half so many persons present,
neither could he have believed that in a district where
there wore comparatively few houses, so large a number
would congregate together after the toils of the day,
many of them coming from a considerable distance. But
it went to prove that hunger, the cause of a dissatisfied
mind, would drive people to do many unusual things, and
make them submit to serious inconveniences.—(Hear,
hear.) He believed the time had nearly arrived when
the atrocious corn-laws would be blotted out of the
statute-book.—(Cheers.) Lord J. Russell, a nobleman
who enjoyed the confidence of his Sovereign, bad de-
clared that those laws were not only the blight of com-
merce, and the bane of agriculture, but the cause of
penury, death, and crime among the people.—(Hear,
hear.) Could such laws, then, be permitted to remain in
a country like this ?—(Cries of " No, no.") They were
morally repealed already.—(Cheers.) He was satisfied
that Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell must repeala
the corn-laws. Would the protectionists _nry, for
Committee of inquiry into the truth of Lord J. Russell's
_ _
ng
assertion ? No. They refused the self-same thing