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expected a great on:Eutaw IM sue revenue; but the- fact is, that the consumption of sugar was so materially abridged,
that instead of being increased, the revenue from that article
fell ;off to 2,530,000/.—(Cheers.) There are many other
articles, equally the subject of excessive duties, which pre,
vent their due enjoyment by the multitude. I am quite
aware that the revenue cannot do without a duty upon
many articles, more especially articles of luxury ; the rule
should be to combine the maximum of revenue with the mi-
nimum of cost to the consumer.—(Cheers.) Ireland is the
next subject to which I ought to allude. Ireland has been
experimented upon for the last two hundred years by admi-
nistrations of various political sentiments; but I fear that
little has been done to make her's a happy and contented
people.—(Hear.) I am most desirous for the Irish people to
see that we think them no longer a conquered nation—that
we give them equal rights and privileges with oursetVes—
that we forget we are separated by the Irish Channel, and
that we treat them with the same kindness as the inha-
bitants of Yorkshire treat the inhabitants of Lancashire.—
(Cheers.) The education of the people also is a very im,
pertant consideration, and one which I should be ex-
tremely glad to see the Government pay more regard to
than Governments have hitherto done, and to do it in
such a way as not to interfere with the religious feel-
ings and views of any particular sect.—(Cheers.) To
be useful it must be general, and whatever our religious
creeds may be, it is most important that we should have a
moral cornmunity.—( Loud cheers.) The poor-laws also afford
a subject worthy of deep consideration. I fear that the poor
of this country, far from decreasing, are on the increase,
and if any amendment of the poor-laws should be brought
before the House of Commons, so far as I am able, and as
one voice goes, I shall endeavour to prevent you being plun-
dered by worthless pretenders, but at the same time to
relieve to the utmost infancy, old age, and real cases of
distress.—(Hear, hear.) The sanitary condition of the
country is another object requiring the attention of the
Government. In many towns the masses of the working
population, the industrious bees of the community, occupy
cellars much less comfortable than the mud huts in Ireland,
of which we hear so much.—(Hear, hear.) There is a great
want of water in many of our towns. and Government must
give large powers to parties to introduce a plentiful supply
of water, in order to keep the cottages and the persons of
their inhabitants clean, for without cleanliness there can be
no self-respect amongst our labouring population.—(Cheers.)
In conclusion I may say, gentlemen, that I am an opponent
generally to all class interests.-Cheers.) I have no idea
of one class of the community being compelled to pay for
the comforts of another; that we must endeavour to correct.
We possess local and acquired advantages which no other
country in the world probably possesses, and if we make a
prudent use of them no doubt England will continue to main-
tain that high position which she now occupies among the
nations of the earth.—(Cheers.) It will greatly depend upon
the wisdom of your representatives, whether we are to con-
tinue to enjoy that pre-eminence or not; certainly, as far aa
the influence of the humble individual who addresses you
goes, I shall endeavour, by nnfettering industry, by promot •
ing the morals of the people, by improving their education,
and by aiding to repeal and amend such laws as require re-
pealing or amendment, to maintain our country in that
glorious position which she now occupies.—(Cheers.) Yon
are quite aware, gentlemen, that I possess no oratorical
powers; I shall not trouble you, therefore, with any further
observations upon the present occasion, excepting to repeat
that I cannot find words in which to express to you the
gratitude and pleasure that I feel at your having entrusted
me with your confidence—a confidence, allow me to say,
which I shall be extremely proud of being able to deserve
and to possess.—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. Member having
concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff,
resumed his seat amidst considerable applause.
Some person in the crowd inquired whether Mr. Brown
would support the Ten Hours Bill?
Mr. BROWN—I have heard an anecdote of a Member of
Parliament who went into a small public-house at Salford
to ask for the vote of the landlord. He found a girl stand-
ing by the counter, and she asked him what he wanted-
He said he had come to ask her father for his vote. She
then bawled out to her father up stairs, " Father, here's
a Parliament man come, and wants your vote." " Tell him,"
responded the father, " to write his name on the counter
with a piece of chalk, and I'll inquire into his character."—
(Cheers, and great laughter.) Now, gentlemen, I believe
von all know my character towards the poor—(Cheers)—
and if I thought that a Ten Hours' Bill would tend to the

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good or the advantage of the working classes, I assure you
I would support it; but you send me to a deliberative as-
sembly, and by the arguments which I hear there I shall be
guided, as I am bound to be.—( Loud cheers.)
The questioner did not think that Mr. Brown bad fairly
met the question.
Mr. BROWN-But I think I have met it very fairly.—
(Cheer.) Perhaps I can give You some information that
you are not aware of. In the eliited States they work 78
hours a week. In France, from 72 to 74. In Austria, from
72 to 80. In Saxony from 72 to 80. In England 69 hours
a-week-16 per cent. less than in any country on the con-
tinent.—(Loud cheers.)
Na other questions being proposed, three cheers were
given for the new Member, three tor the League, and three
tor the Queen, when the court was declared to be dissolved.

POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN
SOCIETY. '

A public meeting of the friends of this society was held last
eight in the Temperance Hall, Waterloo•road, in compliance
with the requisition of 206 householders of the borough of
Lambeth.

Mr. 13. CABBELL having taken the chair, said he had been
requested by several to take the Chair, and state to the meet-
ing the object of the society. Distinguished, he said, as the
country was for voluntary societies for the objects of science,
it was strange that the administration of the law affecting
the poor, and of the funds collected for their benefit, was con-
ducted in a way by no means creditable to any Government,
and that no institution had risen to protect them. The Poor
Man's Society had been instituted to amend this evil
as speedily and as safely as possible, that the
wants of the poor may be attended to immediately.
Ile needed not to dilate on this subject before the meeting.
Poverty, which was no crime, was yet treated in this coun-
try with an obloquy which seemed to insinuate something
unmoral in the want of the means of support. He referred
to a case which had occurred, by way of illustrating the
working of this society. The case, he said, was that of a
poor girl, destitute and neglected, who had applied to the
Marlborough workhouse in vain. Application was made on
her behalf to the Lord Mayor. He referred the applicant
to the City Guardians. The City Guardians, on being applied,
to, said they had made their report to the Lord Mayor; and
the answer from his Lordship was, that the report had been
received. Application was made to the Poor-law:Commis-
sioners. The report which was received from them, drawn
up by the Guardians of the City of London work-
house, the Chairman characterised as most disgrace-
ful and unwarranted. He read a paragraph from
that report which characterised the majority of those
who applied at Marlborough workhouse as " lawless vaga-
bonds" and " prostitutes." The chairman commented with
the deepest indignation on the terms of this sweeping clause.
He thought it was to be regretted that men connected with
the Government were so insensible to the claims of the poor.
The Rev. Mr. BAX.BER, after adverting to the good treat-
ment of the poor in the parish of Lambeth, and to the ne.
cessity at the same time of such society, even in Lambeth,
to protect those incidental cases where injustice was often
I done to the helpless, moved this first resolution.

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" That, in consequence of the recent exposure of various
acts of cruelty and injustice to the helpless poor, thi's meet-
ing is of opinion that every possible assistance should be
given to the obtaining redress in all proved castes of such
nature, it being, as this meeting believes, very difficult for
the poor to succeed in doing so, unless by such aid as is af-
forded by the Poor Man's Guardian Society."
Mr. COCHRANE in seconding the resolution, referred to the
report from the district asylums in which it 'gas stated that
there were 50,000 in the metropolis who 'daily rose from
their beds not knowing where to get their first meal.
From this he appealed against the Poor, Law Guardians of
London, that they ought not to have summarily con-
demned the poor as they bad done. The same report
stated that they relieved 18,000 during the winter
months, and it gave their trades, designating them indus-
trious and willing to work if the opportunity had occurred.
Ile thought, then, considering the frightful amount of suf-
fering, the poor, instead of meriting their condemnation,
deserved their sympathy and their aid. His statements would
be found borne out by the police reports of the daily papers.
It was but the other day that he read of a man, verging on
I seventy years of age, having been put in prison for refusing
to work at the pump, the labour being too heavy for him.
Another case was that of a poor girl, destitute and starving
in the street, who was taken up by the police. She wAs
ordered to be taken to St. Luke's workhouse, and the ma-
gistrate gave her an order for admission. The policemane
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said the society had
the Andover Union case. James White, when brought up to,
give his evidence before that Committee, was so emaciated air
to excite a shudder in the members who beheld him. 13. e
said he had five or six children, and received only 75,. a
week, and that bread, hot water, and a pinch of salt sprin'itled
over it, was his diet from_one end of the week to the Other.

Mr. Cochrane then alluded to those cases which have abready-
anpeared in The Sun, and stated that the case of Mary
Sinith had been postponed till the following sessions. These
cases showed the necessity of such a society as the Poor Man's
Guardian Society. He said it was an evil connected with
the appointment of the guardians, that it was al together in
the hands of the householders, notwithstanding that the poor
in many cases paid more to the parish rates th,an those who
had the vote. There was a strong obligatio'j then on pri-
vate gentlemen to come forward and protect, the poor under
this grinding oppression. He concluded w,ith seconding the
resolution.

Mr. SKELTON, a workman, was afraid that the society
m;ght miss the best means of effecting their object. He wets
understood to advise the society not to expend their money
in particularising cases of cruelty, but in pointing out these
men who had been denounced by the magistrates, and with-
drawing them from the labour-market, and in pointing out
tlie willing and the industrious who seek the opportunit:v to
labour. In short, he advised them to provide labour ~vith
their money.
Dr. M‘Dowma. addressed the meeting at considerable
length. He was glad to see the middle class men eourie for..
ward to help the poor, and he promised the society that the
working men of Lancashire and of Yorkshire, at least, would
go with them to a man, and create a grander movement, a
greater agitation than ever existed on any question,.
The following resolutions were then moved, eend carried
unanimously :

That this meeting is of opinion that the principles and
objects of the Poor Man's Guardian Society are fully entitled
to the support and co-operation of the public.'
" That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Press, for
its able advocacy of the r',glits of the poor."
"That thc., thanks of this meeting be given to Benjamin
Bond Cabbell, Esq., f:or his able and impartial conduct m the
chair."
The meeting then adjourned.

T2ULDIONA_RY CONSIIMPTION.—We are gratified to hear
that Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place, already favourably known
to the profession and the public for his successful mode of
curing consumption by " Anaspasia," has been for some time
engaged in attempting to promote the absorption of pulmo-
nary tubercle by means of electro-magnetism, and, we un-
derstand, has completely succeeded in effecting their removal
from the lungs. Consumption, is the " plague spot of our
variable clime," and is acknowledged by every raedical
writer to arise from the deposit of tubercle. The removal of
tubercle in its early stage is, therefore, of the utmost import-
ance, and hence the value of the new agent introd'aced by
Dr. Cronin, which, by producing absorption of the tuber-
culous deposit, prevents the formation of tuberculo-pvilm"ari
abscess and its consequences--consumption.--GIDIN"