The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

" Humbly showeth—That from the present extraor-
dinary price of bread, and of food generally, your memo-
rialists apprehend great distress, the addition of a single
penny to the price of the 41b. loaf requiring an increased
outlay of 1,0001. per week for bread alone in thb town of
Manchester. .The rise in the price of liread within a few
weeks has been nearly three-fifths of the whole cost, or
nearly 3,000/. per week for this town alone; which sum
is, of course, abstracted from the receipts of the general
tradesman, and is thus operative to the destruction of
the home market for manufactures. Your memorialists
fear that a continuance of such prices, with the prospect
of further increase, will, in the present state of trade, by
putting bread out of the reach of many of our country-
men, endanger the public peace ; your memorialists
conceive it, therefore, a matter of paramount importance
that every possible facility should be immediately given
to increase the amount of provisions in the United King-
dom. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully, but
earnestly, entreat you to call an immediate Council, with
a view to opening the ports of the United Kingdom, and
admitting all kinds of provisions duty free.—And your
memorialists, &c."
It might be said that Government could not do this; but
a Minister had stated that Indian corn had been ad-
mitted into Ireland duty free, by order of the Ministers,
and surely they might do this again, and in England.
Sir Robert Peel had given us total repeal, but not im-
mediate. Lord John Russell had now the opportunity
of giving the rest, by making the repeal immediate.
Mr. JAMES COOPER, in seconding the adoption of the
memorial, remarked upon what he termed the singu-
larity of the fact, that whilst there was such an abun-
dance of food in England, according to the returns read
to the meeting, the poor of Ireland should be impove-
rished and dying. lie denounced the speculators in
corn-and cotton as 'guilty of dishonesty, and supported
the view taken by Mr. Mandley, that there was no de-
ficiency in this country at the present time, and that it
was only necessary to open the ports to put a stop to the
practices by which so much evil was occasioned.
Mr. MANDLEY, in explanation, read the weekly re-
turns of the amount of wheat entered for home consump-
tion from the week ending on the 9th of July up to the
last return, and argued that the amounts had only de-
creased because of the high rate of duty, but that corn
had still been bonded, and was ready to be released
when the duty had diminished. He advocated the
opening of the ports, because it would have the effect of
causing au immediate fall in the price of grain, although
he promised the meeting that in less than six weeks
they would have corn much cheaper; but the opening
of the ports was desirable, since it would cause what he
termed the speculators in the wants of the people to burn
their fingers.
The Rev. Mr. WHITE, from Ireland, made a few re-
marks on the present cJndition of the population of that
country, asserting that where 500 or 600 persons who
had no means of subsistence applied at a Government
works for employment, only fifty or sixty could be en-
gaged, and the remainder had to return to their homes
without money or food.
The memorial was unanimously adopted, and thanks
having been voted to the chairman, with a request that
he would for ward it to Lord John Russell for presenta-
tion, the proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
At ten o'clock yesterday morning the Barrister re-
sumed the revision of the householders' lists. The lists
of the following parishes were revised :—Allhallows
Lombard-street, .Allhallows, Staining, St. Dioni's Back-
church, St. Edmund the King and Martyr—in the Lang-
bourn and Lime-street Ward.
The following is the result of the tray's revision:—
OBJECTIONS.

Allowed.

Failed or
withdrawn.
Liberals
Conservatives .
Double l7
CLAIMS.

Allowed.

Disallowed.

Liberals

The foregoing does not include the result of the revi-
sion in the parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr ;
several cases stand over in that parish, and the return
therefore was not made out.
The Court adjourned to this morning at ten o'clock,
when the Barrister proceeded with the revision of the
following parishes :—St. Peter, Cornhill ; St. Michael,
Cornhill ; the parishes in the ward of Portsoken ; and
the parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, Tower Ward.