The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, isn

GRAND ANTI-CORN-LAW TEA

PARTY AT HUDDERSFIELD.

(Abridged from the Leeds Times.)
On Thursday last, a great Anti-Corn-Law Tca Party
took place at Huddersfield in the Philosophical Hall.
About 500 persons sat down to tea. A great number of
ladies graced the scene, which was exceedingly elegant
and animated. The guests were accommodated at a (time-
table on a raised platform, and immediately behind them
was raised a handsome triumphal arch, of painted marble,
surmounted by the Royal arms, and diverging on each
side into two side wings. Round the arch was inscribed
the following Scripture quotations :—" He that with-
holdeth corn, the people shall curse him."—Prov. 9, 26.
On one silo was inscribed " Rob not the poor because
he is poor."—Prov. 22, 22; and on the other, " The
bread of the needy is his life."—Eccles. 24, 27. A little
behind this arch was elevated a round tablet, inscribed,
" The 335 Electors of Walsall." An excellent band of
music played several lively airs while the company were
partaking tea. W. Brook, Esq., occupied the Ci air.
The CHAIRMAN, on rising, was received will loud end
prolonged sheering. He said the situation which they had
called upon him to fill was one which, when they considered
the object they hal in view, any man might justly be proud
of.—(Hear, hear.) That object was one which, he re-
joiced to say, could not, by any possibility, resolve itself
into a q'teotion of party politic;.—( Hear, hear.) It was
one of far greater importance than any question which
could aonaee the political world--it was a questi in of
whother the people of this c tuntry, who arc proverbially a
manufacturing people, should continue to be so or not.—
(Cheers.) Whether they regarded the structure of that
portion of the earth which they occupied—the great ele-
ments of Fame, iron, and coal ; or whether they regarded
the physical structure of its component parts, al! combined
to constitute ties country, and the people of it, to be ma-
nuf icturers to the greases[ extent which the human mind
could imagiee.—( Hear.) He roust he allowed, in the first
place, to express the high gratification ho felt at seeing that
assemblage honoured by the presence of so many late 9._
(Cheers. ) It was a happy omen when the ladies
undertook eny cause. for success was ever the triumphant
issue,—(Cheers.) It was also a source of great pleastee
to him, to witness the number of operatives at this me Ming,
—( Hear, hear.) He would Leg of them never to forget
that what affected the master affected the man, that their
interests were as indissolubly united together as it was pos.
Bible for any two clas-e sof society to be ; that they were
sailing in the same beat, and the wave that swamped the
one would inevitably sink the ether.—( Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Their pre' ice showed to the meeting, and to
the country at that they were not insensible and in.
different spectators to what was going on, and that they
'e capable as well as acting.—(Cheers,)
were
eregrde l tie Corn-la
laeis as the greatest curse that ever
affl:cted a country like England, and failing in th is effmts
to get rid of them them was nothing to look forward to
but ultimate ruin both to the commercial and manufacturing
population.__( Hear, hear.) lie had no hesitation ie say-
ing that on the cerestion of the Core-'aws, ignorance the
most profound and unaccountable abounded both in the
humbler and higher walks of life, and whilst he
hal no immedieto hope, either by lecturing or re-
monstrance', of getting anything from the land-
owners, his advice to them tsar—petition, and
never lot them ceate petitioning, until they got all they
wanted; fir petitioning, after all, was the only constitu-
tional mode of a, ttipg rid of any national grievance.
( Hear, hear.) But they would never petition with cif ct
until they made know'edge as univ real amongst the mass
of the people, as it was now unfortunately and 1 aneLtably
deficient. —( Hear, hear.) Let knowle age spread, and
then John Bull, arising in his majesty, would tell the Le_
gislature that he had long enough been shackle] by cruel
and which injured the rich and poor alik,s,
and o p
thatpr ei
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theysi:
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lacetstid not make up their minds to cmanci.
pate him from that degree of thraldom. he would do it for
them. —( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Let th meeting not
misunderstand him, Ile (Mr. Brook) was not an advo-
cate of physical force. —( Hear, hear.) He was a great
advocate for moral force, and if their cause cool f not
to gained by its own intrinsic merits and its justice, he
would abandon it that v ry moment.—(The Chairman
resumed his seat amid:t much cheering.)
W. R. C. STANSFIELD, E3q., M. P., was received
with repeated cheering, and addressing them as Ladies
and Gentlemen, said that he ought to apologise for his
absence from his duty at the House of Commons, tai h
which he was occupied, when their summons to attend
that meeting retched him, but ho thought the importance
of the subject about which f-ey were assembled, would
enable him to justify himself in his conscience and to them
for that temporary absence.—( Hear.) It was very true,
as their worthy Chairman had told them, that his existence
and support in life depended on the produce of the so I,
he hai inherited from his ancestor?, but be lived that
interest would never induce him for a moment to act un-
justly towards others, by being a party in placing restric-
tions upon" the necessaries of life.--( Cheers,) In his
bumble opinion, from what they saw daily passing in the
street, the impolicy of the I" resent restrictions was almost
a self-evident proposition. Was it to be said, that when
the county of York bad abundance, and the county of Lan-
caster was deficient, they were to be prevented by re trie-
tions from supplying each others' wants ?—( Hear, hear.)
That when England had a deficient harvest, Ireland was
not to send of its super-abundance here, and that they
should be prohibi el from taking the benefit of the surplus
produce of Germany, of France, and of America?—( Hear,
hear.) It had been considered that a free trade in corn
would place them in a position of dependence upon their
enemie., inconsistent with the dignity arid character f
the country. Hence it was said they must raise corn for
themselves. How was it to be done? That corn could
only be produced at an extra cast, they must throw their
labour away upon unproductive soils, and they thus checked
the great stimulus of commerce, and they checked the ir-
tercourse betwixt country and country, which formed the
basin of a large manufacturing community.—( Hear, hear.)
It was one great fallacy of their opponents that cheap
corn would make cheap wages; and the application of
this principle had been the means of dividing the two
great masses of the community—the masters arid
the operatives. He congratulated them on the forma-
tion of an Operative Corn-law Association in Huddersfield.
By the dearness of provisions, the labourer was obliged to
force his young children to work for subsistence; the young
mind, before receiving those sound sentiments implanted
by education, and which were necessary to form the na-
tional character, was sent uneducated, unformed, unpro-
tected, into the world. The market of labour was thus
broke down, the master had three hands where he only
wanted two, and he said I can only afford to give you the
same price for the three as I could for the two, and there-
fore I must divide it amongst you. They knew that pro-
tection ruined the silk trade—they knew that protection
ruined the glove trade—and he was fully convinced that
protection had ruined the farmers,—Hear, hear ) Leave
him to his own resource, make him adopt the most ccono •
mical mode of bringing his goods to market, and see whe-
ther instead of considering, as in 1829, 80s , he will not
then consider 503. or 603. a fair remunerating price. With
a favourable harvest he produced more than was required
—tbe demand was not equal to the extra quantity thrown
into the market, and he was beat down by the very cause
he expected to be the source of his prosperity, and so much
so, that in the year 1835 or 1836, cern fell from the bare
produce so unnaturally fostered by the protection of the
Corn-laws to a price of 393. per quarter.—( Hear, hear.)
These fluctuations could not he beneficial to the farmer,
whose capital was invested in land. The Corn-laws were
only part and parcel of a system ; there were restrictions
in other articles of food of all kinds. The repe 1 might'
not be carried this year, or next year, but he thought ere
long they would be able to rest front their labours, with the
consolation of having fought the good fight and conque ed.
—( Repeated cheerinv.)
Mr. E. BAINES. jug,, cam@ fotteard amidst enthusiastic
cheating, to move the first resolution. There were many
questions, he said, which plain common sense, and a heart
in its right place, conducted directly to the same conclu-
sion as tee meat enlightenel philosophy t and be believed
the eneestion of the Corn-laws to be eminently one of them,
for plain common sense told them that a man bad a tight
to obtain his necessary food wherever, by honest labour,
he could get the most of it, and the best and the ftiost
profound political philosophers had most clearly established
, the point that it was for the interest of the nation that Go.
vernment should leave their subjects to the sure gui lance
and instinct of selLiniere3t, in supplying their wants find
directing their industry.—( Hear, hear,) He would feast
to the truth of these principles for the entablishmmit
of perfect freedom of trade in mil dotantry on the face
iJ the globe. But he was prepared to show that Eng-
land, more especially, was interested in the utmost
possible freedom of trade, and more particularly in the
article of human food.—( Hear, heat, hear.) 1-10 thought
that all her disadvantages, and all her advantages, be th
natural and acquired, combined to make het to. Let
them consider, first, her disadvantages. They lad a
limited to ritory, compared with the immense population
which wan to be supported within it. Tracy bad a soil of
moderate fertility compared with the soil of thrifty other
countries, so that they were not capable of reeving corn
and many other agtiettltural productions so adv,antsdeously
as those which were Produced la warner climates.—
( Cr:es of " Hear.") They laboured, also, under a weight
of national debt, which, inasmuch as it pressed eta till
kinds of industry ante, rendered it the Illoro encutrabent
not to imposts any unnecessary burthens Ott industry 4 sod
more especially that no law sla mid ceiet Which pressed
directl yon the springs of human life.—( Hear, heir.)
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Was an immense body of discipline] manufactugrin there
tire% ',rained in every minute sub-division of lagboOtapreran-
the highest point of perfection and skill, for making :II
those articles of manufacture, which wore sent to the re-
motest corners of the earth, and by which alone they could
product' (for they ha i not aTrioulturai produce to `gable
tir.in to do it), titt,ry under the
and bring them all to Per,ch this islsnd of
the ocean. Another circumstance which he considered
of great weight, in painting out her trade to be her true

141 r, Alderman CoEDE4 was received with rcpe:v.'d
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glib ring, all Pei li 11..eit his• gabd iunc: a's
meetings on the subject cf t.e ta:t
he might say vsitt, re feet candour he 11,.4 9.9yq, at cid
one he had witnessed with so much satisfa.:vlo ed
idulil: Cae pr
tent. Ho had neVor then dric ao largely r
presenc:., and encouraged by the smiles cf the fairest it :d
purest portion of the creation, nor had he ever known t'1;1
great and cpmprehensive question treated in d maned
more able or exhaustive, than it had been that night. It
might be fairly said that there was no other great pcliti_
call grievance which could so long have engaged the atten.
of such an aud'ence, and on which the strictures of sum
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policy, and especially in corn, was the great amount of ' dicated through the works of nature that night. They
capital which this country possessed in making England had it ably told them by Mr. Baines and others that : ight,
the granary of the world—a depot for foreign corn, so how dependent a certain class of the community cho cto
that they could both supply themselves, and be the means of be on the different climes and conntries of the werld.
supplying other countries that might be labouring under That was an acknowledgment of the law of God in the las;
scarcity or dearth.— ( Hear, hear.) But it has been of nature. From the knowledge of the law of God asevinoed
mat .d to them by their Honourable Reeresentative that in the works of nature, he would appeal to the mirdoers
there were some, and he (Mr. Baines) was sorry to say of the Gospel, who took for their guile the revealed will
a large class (though it would scarcely be believed, if the of God, whether they did not find in that great book as
fact were not known to be notorious), who imagined strong a sanction for free food as could be found in the
that if the people of Englind depended, in any degree,
book of nature, Ha was himself a Churchman, aid he
upon foreigners for the supply of food, it would be in their
could not understand how a minister of the Church could
power to starve them whoa they pleated; Sir James read the prayer of plenty and cheapness, and yet sanction
Graham was excessively troubled with this apprehe tni hn. I this law, which, as Mr. Plint had observed, was a law of
—(Laughter.) Now his (Mr. Baines's) list observation robloery.—( Cheers.) He had looked through the records
on this point was, that we are already, in a degree, de- of their prisons—the records of their infirmaries—and the
pendent on foreigners for a supply of feed, aed he should records of their poorhouses— and there found that
like to know what would have been their position if they just as food became scarce and dear, just in such proportion
had not gone to foreign markets for their supply for the were the fever cases multiplied in their fever hospitals ;
last three years?—( Loud cries of " Heir, hear ") They j just in the same proportion were the criminals multiplied
could not build a wall of brass round the island to keep out P
could not dispense with the aid of the forei.geer. They in their prisons, and just in the same proportion did pau-
eri m develops itself in their poor-houses.—(Loud
foreign food, if they would di so.—( Hear, hear.) But cheers.) Nay, he had taken a list of the riots and
then it is said that war might cut us off from the supply of niwurhances, aid consequent bloodshed, and experne of
food. Now one of the most delightful, one of the most im- tae meLary and the police during the last thirty years
e to bind together the nations of the
porant fruits of free t ale was, that it to ,dcd to ee•troy in Lancashire, and he had taken, at the same timeCme, a
impious scourge to the world—war.— list of the prises of corn for the like period, and he found
that the list of the average prices of corn in this coun •
earth(thca ht e horribleeris.nth elt
strong
bonds of mutual interest, atid, ther_ J try, was an excellent and invariable barometer of the
fere, would prevent them ping to vas, even if pre. bloodshed, tumult, and disorder, that happened durit g
pared. But evea it the war did arise, i.e ( Mr. Bsi that time.—(Cheers.) It was not only on this ground
should be ashamed if Sir James Graham, who had tilled he stalled on Christian ministers who clued to see the
the situation of First Lord of the Admiralty, should t all welfare and happiness of the community, but he had
him or the people of this country that Eetti md, whose remarked another symptom spreading from the sarre
fleets cevered the ocean, need fear [6. -g cut off float sup.. gangrene. He had observed that not merely did treteo-
pFes of whatever was necessary f the population._ diaries eeaol,te the country, teaching men to revolt, in-
( Hear, hear, heir, and prolonged chew-v.) He repeated stilling the Itemise of reteLion into reee'a mind-, but that
he should be much ashamed to telieve in the pow,n)i;ity demagogues of another kind, iefidel den-a oguea in-
of any such thing. Every man they could meet i i the vtriably made their appearance at the same time._
stre.t exhibited about him a hundred 'Luso atioes of the (Cheers.) Socialism is a fungus that had sprcal since
all-commanding power of demand to brir g supply c ven tee price of conorwe to 75-. per quarter. He would an-
from the most distant quarter. He owed his hat t the swan for it that in Lancashire, in 1835, no Socialism was
be ~ver of Labrador, his coat to the sheep of Seaway cr of heard of, and so aeprchensions were onto tamed by the
New Holland, his shirt to the fl ix growers of Russia, his clergy that such a heresy shoal. hove spread over the land.
stockings to the cotton planters of the Mississippi, his It had been entirely the produce of the tormenting die-
h eadkerchiefs to the silk worms of Italy and China, Iris tress that had happened since that period, which taught
shoes to the oxen of Buenos Ayres, his watch to the mires men when they were hungered to 1 ,ok to any direction
of Mexico or Peru.—(H a-, hear. ) Ile breaktisled for present solace ar.d c imfort.—( Hear, hear.) On
daily on the produce of China, sere( tenw! by the sugar of these grounds he cslled on Christian uniideers to come
the Indies ; his dinner was furnished either vs ith sithwan- and help them. They required no p'edge Tle i-8 was
tial food or its accessaries from the furthest East and a simele cause, true and just in itself ; they required
West : the timbee of his h tuse came from the :crests of no man to glt-e up an iota of his relei mu or peleis
Russia oe of Canada; his furniture from Honduras r cal opit, ions, to join in thi; great work. —( He oe
13rezil ;io short, the stores of the while world were poured hear.) Nay more, he would appeal to the working
through innumerable streams, to clsthe, feel, and a-fern ciasse-s, as there might be some su.pieien that their of jest
the very labourers cf _(Cheer=.) Now, all was to divert 'heat from other political questions; but in
th :se thi ge were paid for by the menuteeearta if ,his the Anti-Corn L ague it wet a fundamental rule that the
country; and as long as xe Cat, afford to pay for them, mention of poddeal or party questions should not be al-
surely they would be able to obteit all that they requi -est. lowed.—( Cheers.) Therefore, whether they store Church-
But manufactures alone were the means with which they men or Dissenters, Widgs, Tories, Radicals, or Cl.awitte,
had to pay, and if they destroyed manufactures the: stilw they were equally entitled to join in this gloat coot at, nnd
pod the main-spring of their national prosperity and great- it was one in which they were all equally interested io
new.—(Clue-s.) Mr. Baines moved the first rew,lutien, sule—( Chews ) lie would not enter into dot it on
and resumed his s 7ae- antilst prolonged cheering. the subject of the Corn-laws, but would only ask re sry
" That this nate ing, r!iscleiniieg any party polideal mw to c sure and examine thiset& question, arid esp
jects, s'eelaress that L aims exclusively at the tote' and itn- ally he invi!el e ladies and the minis!ers of the Gospel, 'or
mediate repeal of the Corr-lawt—an object nhtee it whenever he fund those two wired in any cause, as they
pledges its best efforts to obtain by every Constitutional were on the great slavery question, he was sure, as they
mewls." nevsr smile but on a just ceuse, that it must succ :ed.
J. T. CLAY, Esq ,of Resttick, reeonded the resolu- ( Hear, h,ar.) He could say in conclusion, as re- hers
lutiom ttg-ttlier with al the . titer resolutions, was ead mentioned the grounds on which they took up this
passel tmardmnusly• great question, be mil he say, he took it up entirely on
Laweesce HEYWORTO, El., of Liverpool, raid he the sawe principles as ethers had taken up the erett que2-
hoped they would look on the guest.' et—not merely as a tion of s'avcry, for he could not, for the I,fe of hi n, diF-
maten of pounds, shillings, and pence, but an a matter of cover the dlittrence betwixt kidnapping a man and core-
justice. All these restrictions on ford w, re founded on pelting him% work, and robbing a man of the produce of
the principle of viul•ting tie law of God—" Thou shalt labour.—( Hear, hear.) ( Mr. Cobden sat down anti Ist
not steal !"—( Hear, and laughter.) 1.12 begged them to loud and repeated cheere.) " That the thanks e f teis
bolt at the awful conseqeeeces of this tot in Bolton, meeting are tee. i lly due to those ministers of the goseel
where he had recently been, and where there were 1,300 who by their appeal aece here te-rtay, declare their ay,—
cottages, where, in cot:settee Ice of the Corr-law rettrie- path), with, and apercv 1 if, the great purpose of the
tions on cur camme.ce havi we suspended the prospmi-y of meeting."
our trade, and from ir.abili,y to obtain work to gain a Mr. Swear seconded the resolut:on.
Hestr, heat)—send bread I eieg dear, the poor Mr. WARREN, of Maneha stew moved the following te
occueants f these cottages one after aeother were so' teioa :we" That this meeting strongly. urges he A i-
obliged—af er hawing rendered tbe:r homes desel de, by Corn-law Associaziens in this town and ne:g-bourh ,ed
pawning and selling every article they possessed, to leave forthwith to preps e for sigaat ire pe itions t r both Hots
their abodes. Could they suppose that there wretched of Parliament, prayer g for the tt .1 and ima e nate repw 1
men could arrive at such a pitch of destitu•ion with rut of the existing Corn-taws."
death committing havoc among a eat ?—( Hear, he• r.) Mr. Bisro° seconded the resolution.
N, r was Bolton a solitary instance. The v. ry best or w Mr. KILNER acv eat the full ),ing resolution That
societi, the working bees, were driven by their ha-sh the th-anks of tors rra etieg are due to W. R. C St h'- -
restriction from amongst them and obliged to cmig ate. field, Esq , M. P., for the horouge, for his ceurteoas reaei-
It was not bread alone that was thus restaieted. Whet if fleas ic, accepting -he Inv tali .n to this meeting."
he t them of thousands of cattle slaughtered annually W. R. C. SrANSFIELD, Esq., morel that— That the
cn the plains of Buenos Ayret, whose carcases were left to thanks of this trite iag are due to the ladies who have
rot there.—(flear, hear.) Thus the people of England enieced their sympathy in thi; patriotic and benevolent
were allowed to die of famine, while these cattle might le enterprise by their presence on this occasiop, and mere
transported into our island, and sold for 2i. or 31 per especially to those of them who have taken part in the
pound.—( Hear.) England had arrived at a crisis, and preparatory arrange nests, and have presided at the t a
unless• she stretched forth her hand and put forth the tabiet," which was seconded and carried by acclamatios.
energies of her soul, she was sunk as a nation. M-. Mr. Joseph WEBB moved, —" That the thanks of
Heywood concluded by moving the resolution, and sat this meeting are due to those gentlemen from a distance
down amid loud deers. " That as indifference to the who have kindly honoured it with their presence."
repeal of the Corn-laws must arise mainly frem ignorance M-. W. WRIGLEY seconded the resolution.
of their mischievous operation, it is the bounden duty of The meeting then separated about half-pest 11 o'clock,
every person present to expose generally, and especi dly the most perftet harmony having prevailed during toe
to the working classes, this chief cause of deficient em- whole time.
ployinent, lea wages, dear bread, and consequent poverty
and suffering.
Mr. Rawsoen of Manchester, seconded the resolwion.
Mr. T. Purer, of Leeds, moved the third resolution,
which wee as follows :—" That this meeting, considerine
the strong epinions expressed by the leading men of all
politicpolitical panics upon the desirableness and necessity of an
iminediwe alteration in the import duties of the kingdom,
feel greatly encouraged thereby to persevere in all consti-
tutional (Ens to obtain tire total and immediate repeal of
the existing Corn• laws, the impolicy and injustice of which
1 tree every day's experience more and more demonstrates."
He might be allowed to express the great pltasure which
he felt, that public attention was drawn so s rongly to the
import duties of this kingdom, and that a general opinion
prevailed among mercantile men of all shades of politics,
that their tariff must be materially Altered and improved.
_( Hear, hear.) At the same time, be must also be al-
lowed to express his fears that there was a esrtsia class of
peesons who would be quite ready to alter the tariff, but
by whom the main question would be shirked and era led,
and until that great act of injustice, that disgrace to
the etattee book, that act of legalised robbery of the
mass of the people—the Core-laws—were ext nguishssd,
all other reforms in their tariff would fa 1 to se-
cure the well-being of the whole community.—(H.wr,
hear, hear.) He for one was most anxious
that they should not, is their anxiety with regard to those
alterations, overlook or fwget that which was most im-
portant of all.—( Hear, bear.) He would ask any intelli-.
gent person, how it was possible for wagee to be higher
when corn was dear? What was implied by corn being
dear, but that it was scarce? Could they divide twelve
parts out of ten, for that was really the philosophy of the
matter ? If they could do so, then he would tell them how
a high rate of wages could exist with the high price of
food.—( Hear, hear.) The proposition was to ) stupid
and absurd to be enterteiaed for a moment. How we c
they to determine the rate of wages, in the first in-
stance? By the quantity of produce. In propdrti m
as a community were successful in all the arts of produc
tion, whether agricultural or manuftcturing, in that
very proportion that community would hew) 1,i,211
wages, because the amount to distribute among them
Hear.) They had been told that free
should like to know how wages would fall if commodit es
w would fail. Ile
twr{alleiebxeisitjerdg,e'a—ni corn lowered, wag:
were increased.—(Hear.) If they had cera lower, it was
on the Etlppott!on that it was more abundant relatively to
the rents of' the population, and for this simple reasoa,
a large expenditure
lobsiteller amount. The
yyed .in the cultivation
otf if
ta
etc
ar ?, theyatae wouldtunmd b e
labour,oot
f personso butdu c e
byo cornmap
of food, the greater the amount of comfort to the masses,
because it left a greater number of persons in the produ -
tion of manufactures. Thus they would perceive at once
the stupid fallacy, that if a repeal of the Corn-laws
produced a fall in the price of food, wages would
fall also —(Hear, bear.) Most cordially, however, dad
lid subscribe to the doctrine that if the Corn-laws
Skirted much longer Wages inevitably mint fall.—
( Cries of " Hear; he are") The latter sp • Aker bad a-lulled
to the increase of manufacturing skill on the Coati-
tient t and he (Ur. Plint) had learned sometets within the
list few days that would probably surprise some of them.
they *efe elidited laifore a committee now sitting ie
London—( Hear, hear)—and it came out that in Be'gium
and France, they could make machinery equally perfect
with the best merle in this country j and if to-morrow the
GoVernment of this country were to theow down the Itw
which prohibits the exportation-of mashincry, they would
tidt take a s ingld machine more,-a+! Hear.) In all the
points of industry, skill, subdivision of labour, enterprise,
and ingenuity, the nations of the Continent were rapidly
overtaking them. What must follow ? A fall is the rate
not be reduced beyond what they now were, the difference
df wages; het a§ the profits of the mattufacturere could
must corde eat df the *ages of the labourer. Ha entirely
coincided in the observation which bad fallen from
Me. Baines as to the wisdom and benevolence
elf free tradl i and although indications had been
given of late that the nations of guropo were dispose 1
tin Very insufficient grounds to go to
war,and although
thalrr lint 4liren across die Atlantis.'
had Ansel a s very c n-
sideraht^ hastiness of spirit and tamper, yet it was tt"t
Lecaute these aitiOns did not see the benefit of ft-re trade,
but because England had failed,
6onsetitOnce of her
restricted System% to link the nt4iorisdge,Or fse that.thett
coillti dot go to Loud cries ofd ‘• Hear; hear:)lf
these laws had been broken long agoj
tween this country alictAmatica %geoid have been spzi,Clote,
that We eotild net. gd 413 war:—(Hear, hear.) Vis wAs
f a one ground of their hostility. Ithe connection be:
system of free trade
were eitlblist-cd; smutty *Aid be dgaitist wa-,
and then the people berth at borne and abroad would by
come what they ought to be -the
tthren of one grc, t,
United, and happy (Load cheers.)
Me: SCEIWANN tecondel the resolution:
Mr. Mortals,. of Halifax% %netted
the n
Which was as fellows:—" That considering xtheisi'mo.intn,
eio.use
iefluence et the press on the fircra..ian of publai pp nion,
and the impossibility that a bad law can long dentinue
defiance of enlialatened public sereirneat, this mceling
ttoders its Lan), thanks to t'iost.i writersOltito
cotuistcroly; and stealoasly, ennese the tt'icke has of tSe
brkAri.t,o,l.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS' COURT, MARcu 29.
FENNINGS V. uumpEtzu.y.-JUDGMENT.

This.was a motion to discharge an order obtained, as of
course, whereby the plaintiff was required to elect whether
she would proceed in her suit in equity, or in her' action at
law, which was alleged by the defendant, Alderman Humphery,
to be for one and the same matter. At the same time
the plain.iff had shown cause why an order nisi to
dissolve an injunction obtained by the plaintiff, to restrain the
defendant from proceeding at law, should not be made abso-
lute. It appeared that on the 13th May, 1837, the defendant
contracted to let to the plaintiff certain vaults near London
Bridge, which were then in her possession, for a term of seven
years and a quarter, to commence from Lady-day then
Last, at the rent of 1501. a year ; and also contracted to
excavate, build, and furnish another vault with certain speci-
fied accommodations, arid to erect a crane, with proper and
convenient works for the use of the pliintiff. The defendant
did not perform the works accarding to the agreement, and
the rent agreed to be paid by the plaintiff for the vault in her
possess:on being in arrear, the defendant brought his action
against her for the recovery of the rent. The plaintiff filed
the present bill on the 24th of December, 1839, and prayed
to have the agreement of 1837 specifically performed,
and that the defendant might be restrained from
proceeding in his action. The plaintiff obtained the com-
mon injunction to restrain the defendant proceeding in his
action for rent. The answer to the bill was filed on the
27th of January, 1840, and for more than a year no
proceeding whatever had been taken in equity ; but
on the 20th of February, 1841, the defendant obtained the
usual order nisi to dissolve the injunction, and on the 26th of
February, 1841, the plaintiff commenced her action against the
defendant for damages for breaches of the agreement. On
the 11th of March the defendant, alleging that he was
doubly vexed by the plaintiff's prosecuting him at law
and in equity for the same purpose, obtained the common
order that the plaintiff might elect, and this was the order
which it was now sought to discharge for irregularity, as
having been obtained upon a false allegation, that the plaintiff
was prosecuting the defendant at law and in equity for the
same matter.

The MASTER of the Ror.Ls this morning gave judgment,
and stated, that as it did not appear to him the two suits were
prosecuted for one and the same matter, the order of the llth
of March ought not to have been obtained, and must therefore
be discharged. With r:spect to the cause shown against
di solving the injunction to stay proceedings in the
defendant's actions for rent, as the deendant, on the
one hand, admitted that he ought not to be allowed to
receive the rent until the right was determined, and as on the
other hand the plaintiff ought not to be allowed to keep pos-
session without paying rent if the parties could not come to
an arrangement, his Lordship thought it would be proper to
continue the injunction upon the terms of the rent being
brought into Court.
The case was subsequently mentioned by Mr. Jemmett,
who said that the parties would rather have the injunction
dissolved. The order for election was: therefore discharged,
and by consent the order for injunction was made absolute.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-KINGSTON, MARCH 29.

The Learued Judges arrived at Kingst )ra this morning,
and proceeded to open the Commission fur the county of
Surrey.
Notwithstanding that the adjourned Sessions were held
only last week, there are a good many prisoners for trial,
and some of the offences are of a serious description. A
great number of causes are already entered on the Civil
Side, and the business is expected to occupy the Court the
whole of the week.

Lord D2nman will dispose of the causes, and Mr. Baron
Parke will sit in the Crown Court ; but, as the crimii al
cases will prob not occupy more than three days, both
Courts will then be employed in going through the cause
list.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LirenrooL, March 26.
The Judges arrived here last night, and opened the Com-
mission of Assize.
There are ninety-seven prisoners in the calendar, seven of
whom are charged with murder, seven with rape, two with
attempts to murder, and one with aiding and abetting that
crime. There are ten cases of manslaughter, eight of cutting
and wounding, four for forgery, two burglaries, besides felonies
f the more ordinary description. The cause list contains
I sixty. four in :.''..o first or Manchester list, and one hundred and
1 twelve in the Liverpool list.
(Before Mr. Baron Fiaft.)
ivstAiwsorr V. 1TAL1.C..2.•
This was an action to recover compensation to damages for
aft itijdry Sustained by the plaintiff from the misconduct .: the
defendant:
Mr. Hill and Mr. CresiWell Were fOr the plaintiff; Mr.
Alexander for the defendant.
file plaintiff Nary Ann:,Wilkinscn, a young Woman, tWenty,
1 two ye of age, is a miliner and dressmaker, residing with
her niotlice at iluderishaw, near Gorton, and is the organist of
1 theVial...entiiii? tliap6l there: In Arignsto 1837, she was at an
evening party. After supper she was about to sit down to
t 1 piirio, when the det-ndatit suddenly Withdrew the eh sir,
and she received il fall: Atrititb niesiv. were reptired to
anbdue the inflammation. In goVeml,fif she Went to the
ORM tdiday, but suffered a relapse, and it finally tvesaftie
rieceSsarY.fer her togive 'op her occupation. An engat,o-emeLit
1 under which she was io ,haVe been tarried was broken off
In > efiseglieigiee of tii6 ill health to Vital fife was reduced.
In the end of last yeii Slid vfaii eittieleed b a diSealSe of the
spine, which made considerable progres, bill fari 1'44 gettiig
better,i from the remedies applied by her medical acisflgef:
When
organist jat Gorton she had 8/. per annum for berser-
vices, and usually foiii (Sr five pupls.—DamageF., 501.
Marten 27.
, John Browhe, * I'd aged 16, was inficted for stealing cer-
talii Witiirg and a grqat number of bills of exchange, the pro-
perty in which was laid, tinder the statute, in the Postmaster-
General.
It appeared that do the 19th of December last the mail from
Liverpool hid been lath it the Manchester office, and there
being in consequence considerable bsistie in the delivery, a
clerk who did not usually attend in the office int question
was called in tici assist in that department in which the boxes
are kept for the various mercantile houses in Manchester.
Whit. so engaged a person, whom he believed to be the p'ri-
sorter at the bar, called out the number 2d6, which is that
Bank LS A tzueliest.,..7. He. r....
of the IKot aopr..4,riated to the
peated the number sev.,ral times, and expressed Impatience
at being detained so long. The clerk finally gave- him the