The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-22 00:00:00

(Ohm) Mai Otititot IMiii Uhl tint 14 • Parliament, pratatdy to Ste sttltatiat• aftl cute that lam opposed to escsaaive dittatemia4
anti prohibitory duties of every hied iebetaeovee= qiift
hear, and cheers.l sugar at .one period, a - ikr
Lord Brougham m Ic-t" -4,eoriier annum
to the revenue. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought
in his wisdom that he could increase the finances of
the country by raising a further differential duty. ite
expected a great increase to the 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 Toff to 2,530,000/.—(Cheers.) There are many other
articles, equall3- the subject of excessive duties, which pre.
vent their due enjoymeqt 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 !s the
next subject to which I ought to allude. Ireland has fleets
experimented upon for the last two hundred years by admi-
nistrations of various political sentiments; but I fear thi.it
little has been done to make her's a happy and contenta;
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 ourselves--
that we forget use 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-
portant consideration, and one which I should be ex-
tremely glad to see the Government pay more regarl 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 community.—( 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 atnendment of the poor-laws should he brought
before the House of Commons, so far as I arts 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 cap 1 :,..
no self-respect amongst; our latonringpoptlAstion,'.-I(
In • conen,Ann,r-tifirj.#o4kiltle)iken, that I
generally to all class interesti.—(Cheers.) no idea
of one class of the community being compelled to pay for
the comforts cf 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 as
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 ameudment, to maintain our country in that
glorious position which she now occupies.—(Cheers.) You
are quite aware, gentlemen, that I possess no oratcrical
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. Baowx—l 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
you all know my character towards the poor--(Cheers)—
and if I thought that a Ten Hours' Bill would tend to the.
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 had fairly
'met the question.
Mr. BROWN—But I think I have met it very fairly.—
(Cheers.) Perhaps I can give you some information that
you are not aware of. In the United States they work 78
hour's 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.)
No other questions being proposed, three cheers were
given for the new Member, three for the League, and three
for 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
night in the Temperance Hall, Waterloo road, in compliance
with the requisition of 200 householders of the borough of
Lambeth.
Mr. B. CABUELL having taken the chair, said he had been
requested by several to take the chair, and state to the meet
ntary societies
the
ing
theot tgoibmi
ing the object of the society. Distinguished, he said, as the
citou,ln,atsr)-was
strangefo rtll:aoatl
the poor, and et' 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
and as sately as possieie, that the
"Aaslan'sspeStodciii3e.ty
wants of the poor may be attended to immediately.
He 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
immoral 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. Ile 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. BARBEE, 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
done to the helpless, moved this first resolution.
" That, in consequence of the recent exposure of various
acts of cruelty and injustice to the helpless poor, this meet.
ing is of opinion that every possible assistance should be
given to the obtaining redress in all proved cases 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 was 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 c*
London, that they ought not to have summarily con-
demned the poor as they had 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.
He 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
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 policeman
accompanied the girl to the house,
forcibly tagain. urned his back when she was
It was but
e theother
ect of union relief, ha
re.
Yturned out
Wakley, on some
being
inquiry
h. diet (the hrane believed) of thesaid Brom-
could prolairkent,
which allowed the poor man four ounces
macocwi ti,t day that Mor.
;Vmeat, not per day, but per week. He (Mr. Cochrane)
said the society had given its assistance at the inquiry into
the Andover Union case. James White, when brought up to
give his evidence before that Committee, was so emaciated as
to excite a shudder in the members who beheld him. Ile
said he had five or six children, and received only 7s. a
week, and that bread, hot water, and a pinch of salt sprinkled
over it, was his diet from one end of the week to the other.
Mr. Cochrane then alluded to those cases which have already
appeared in The Sun, and stated that the case of Mary
Smith 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 altogether in
the hands of the householders. notwithstanding that the poor
in many cases paid more to the parish rates than those who
had the vote. There was a strong obligation then on pri-
vate gentlemen to come forward and protect the poor under
this grinding oppression. He concluded with seconding the
resolution.
Mr. SKELTON, a workman, was afraid that the society
might miss the best means of effecting their object. He was
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
the willing and the industrious who seek the opportunity to
labour. In short, he advised them to provide labour with
their money.
Dr. M'DowALL addressed the meeting at considerable
length. He was glad to see the middle class men come 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, and 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 rights of the poor."
"That the thanks of this meeting be given to Benjamin
Bond Cabbell, Esq., for his able and impartial conduct in the
chair."
The meeting then adjourned.

PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.—We are gratified to bear
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 at tempting to promote the absorption of pulmo-
nary tubercle by means of electro-magnetism, and, we fin
derstand, has completely succeeded in effecting their remora.
from the lungs. Consumption, is the " plague spot of ou
variable clime," and is acknowledged by every medical
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 introduced by
Dr. Cronin, which, by producing absorption of the tuber-
culous deposit, prevents the formation of tuberculo-pidwonari
abscess and its consequences—consumption.—G/-

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