The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

THE 7STIN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1848.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Not a dozen subscri)ers present, and nothing done
worthy of quotation.
WORCESTER RACES—THURSDAY.
Match, 501. Two miles.
Mr. Howlett's Cardinal's Niece, 4 yrs (Howlett), beat
Mr. Darius's Maynooth, 6 yrs.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added,
Two miles.
Mr. Price's Tuscan, 3 yrs
Mr. Knowles's Baronet, 5 yrs ...
Mr. B. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged ••• •••
The following also ran :—Mr. F. Edwards's New Po.
rest Deer, aged—Capt. Capel's Subduer, aged—Mr.
Maugan's Farnham, 4 yrs—Mr. Cartwright's Titbit, 5
yrs—Mr. Kirby's Rosa, 6 yrs—Mr. Phillips's Little
Mary, I yrs—Mr. Whildman's Megara, 6 yrs—Mr.
Jones's Smuggler Bill, 5 yrs—Mr. Phillips' Marlow, 4
yrs—Mr. J. Day's Dimanche, 3 yrs—and Mr. Pettifor's
f by Martin Chuzzlewit.
The Worcestershire Hunt Stakes-of 5 sovs. each, with a
piece of• plate added. Two miles.
Mr. Dixon's Clorophorm, 5 yrs (Lord Strathmore) 1
Mr. Woodward's Alboni, 5 yrs ... ... 2
Mr. W. Essex's Countess, 5 yrs 3
The Hack Stakes of 2 sovs. etch, and 10 added; the
second to save his stake. Heats, one mile and a
quarter.
Mr. J. Day's Dimanche, 3 yrs (Wakefield) 1 0 0 1
Mr. Watson's Widred, 5 yrs ... 0 0 1 2
Mr. H. N. Powell's Jenny Wren, 6 yrs ... 0 1 0 3
Mr. Eskrett's Tapis, 3 yrs... ... ... 2 0 2 dr
Mr. Daley's Archery, 3 yrs ... 0 0 3 dr
Mr. Pettifor's fby Martin Chuzzlewit, 3 yrs 0 2 odr
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.
THURSDAY.
VP: Derby—First Ties (Concluded).
Field Marshal beat Wildboy.
Second Ties.
Field Marshal beat Louis Phillipe—Feari:ought bear
Maize.

... (H. Evans) 0 1
... 0 2

The Cup.—First Ties.
Figaro beat Walter—Rosetta beat Milo (drawn)
Mainmast beat Locomotive—Doron beat Minor.

The Oaks.—First Ties.
Dacia beat" Fly—Bessie Bell beat Forget-me-not—
Bramble beat Moreen.
The Port Stakes.—First Ties.
Drift beat Miles—Diamond beat Bulow—Lavender
beat Ratlin the Reefer.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race-course;
Fri., Dyke-10i.
Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket; Thurs., Tels-
combo Tye—loi.
Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., Pound hill; Fri.,
Horsham Gate-101.
Mr. Farquharson's hds., Mon., Burton Turnpike-gate;
Tues., Kingston Russell; Thurs., Holcomb.
B. V. H., Tues., Milborne East Hill; Sat., Sturminster
Common-11i.
Mr. Dean's harrs., Tues., Hunter's Lodge-10.
Worcestershire hds., Mon., Tiddesley Wood ; Wed.,
Woodcote Green; Fri., Bransford Bridge-10i.
Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Boulter's Barn; Wed.,
Far Wood.

Mr. Giles's hds., Mon., Colin Park; Wed., Newcut
Wood-10i.
Wheatland hds., Tues., Monkhopton; Fri., Neeriton
—I

CALLS FOR NOVEMBER.—The calls on classes of
railway shares, including English, Scotch, Irish, and
Continental, amount for the month of November to
1,175,3621., being 867,3561. less than during the corre-
sponding month of last year, when they were 2,042,718/.
The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire alone,
whose works are proceeding vigorously, calls up 300,0001
of this sum.
The works of the South Wales Railway line are
proceeding actively to the westward of Cardiff and at
Bridgend.
MICHAELMAS TERM.—The Lord Chancellor en-
tertained the Judges and leading members of the bar
yesterday at breakfast, at his mansion in Park-lane, in
accordance with the usual custom, preparatory to the
opening of Michaelmas term. The attendanca was very
numerous, including the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Den-
man), the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Sir
Thomas Wilde), the Lord Chief Baron (Sir Frederick
Pollock), the Vice-Chancellor of England (Sir Lancelot
Shad well), Vice-Chancellor Wigram, Vice-Chancellor
Knight Bruce, the Master of the Rolls (Lord Lang4aley,_
Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Pat-
teson, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Coleridge.
Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice
Vaughan Williams, the Attorney-General, the Soli-
citor-General, the Accountant-General, IMaster Dow-
deswell, Master Tierney, Muster Farrer, Master Bar-
low, Sir David Dundas, Q-C., M.P,; Sir Frederick
Thesiger, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., M.P.;
Mr. Godson, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. Stuart, Q.C., M.P.; Mr.
Turner, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. Whateley, Q.C., M.P.; Hon.
J. Stuart Wortley, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. Horace Twiss,
Q.C., Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Mr.
Page Wood, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. Lee, Q.C.; Mr. Parkers,
Q.C.; Mr. Rolt, Q.C.; Mr. Butt, Q.C.; Mr. B. An-
drews, Q.C.; Mr. Hayward, Q.C.; Mr. Walpole, Q.C.,
M.P.; Mr. Bethel!, Q.C.; Mr. Roupell, Q.C.; Mr. J,
Russell, Q.C.; Mr. Hodgson, Q.C.; Mr. Hill, Q.C.; Mr.
Bacon, Q.C.; Mr. Humfrey, Q.C.; Mr. Kmdersley,
Q.C.; Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. line, Mr. Whitmarsh, Mr.
Lowndes, Mr. 'Matthews, Mr. Walker, Mr. Sergeant
Talfourd, Mr. Sergeant Manning, Mr. Sergeant Shee,
Mr. Sergeant Storks, Mr. Sergeant Merewether, Mr.
Sergeant Channell, &c. Previously to the arrival of the
Judges, the Lord Chancellor received the Lord Mayor
Elect and the Civic authorities, to whom the Noble and
Learned Lord expressed her Majesty's approval of their
Chief Magistrate for the ensuing year. After the
breakfast the Lord Chancellor and the Judges pro-
ceeded in procession to the courts of law at West
minster.

FLOODS.—From Putney to Richmond the mea-
dows, gardens, and fields are covered, having all the
appearance of a lake. The towing paths up to and be-
yond Kingston, for miles, are flooded, so that trade on
the water is put a stop to; neither boats nor barges can
proceed, as horses cannot be used. At Thames Ditton,
Walton, and near to other stations on the South-Western
Railway, thousands of acres of grass, newly sown wheat,
and ploughed lands, are inundated to the depth of several
feet. Beyond Winchester, to Bishopstoke, Romsey, and
Dean, scarcely a spot of dry land can be observed along
the valleys through which pass the rivers Test and
Itchen. For many miles below Salisbury,- where the
rivers Avon, Abele, Nalder, Wiley, and the Bourne pass,
the surrounding country is flooded. Between Hunger-
ford, Newbury, and Reading, through which the rivers
Kennet and Loddon take their meandering course, and
beyond Reading to Twyford and Maidenhead, where the
Thames is again seen, there is nothing but a vast ex•
pause of water visible; yet we are happy to hear, up to
the present time, less damage had been done than might
have been expected.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, yesterday,
at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Charles
Bingham, Captain Kemeys Tynte, of the Grenadier
Guards, eldest son of C. J. Kemeys Tynte, Esq., M.P.,
and grandson of Colonel Tynte, of Halswell House,
Somerset, to Mary Sophia, eldest daughter and coheir of
the late Rev. G. Clutterbuck Frome of Punknoll, Dorset.
After the ceremony a handsome dejeuner was given by
the bride's aunt, at her residence in Great Stanhope-
street, and the happy pair left town for Burrhill Park,
Surrey, a seat of Colonel Tynte.
A SUBJECT FOR ANTIQUARIAN SPECULATION.—
On Thursday last the workmen of Mr. Brownlie, the
contractor for the erection of the new quay on the south
side of the river, made a discovery while engaged in
excavating the ground fronting the Clyde there, which
we doubt not will open up a field of interesting inquiry
to antiquaries, geologists, and others. About 300 feet
from the margin of the present channel of the river they
came upon; a canoe imbedded in fine sand, at least 20
feet from the surface. The boat, when measured, was
found to be 19 feet in length by 2f feet deep, and 22
feet wide. It has a sharp prow and square stern, and
has been cut out of the solid oak. From the length and
other appearances it would seem to be adapted for six
oars. The wood is in pretty good preservation consider-
ing the position in which it was found, but part of it was
unfortunately broken by the workmen in digging it out.
We believe it is the intention of Mr. Brownlie to have
the piece that has been broken off preserved, along with
the rest of the ancient-looking structure. In the mean-
time it may be seen at the works, on the south side, by
the curious, who have time, and are willing to trudge
through the mud and loose sand that lies in their way to
the spot.—Glasgow Chronicle.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGIL—OPENING OF THE
WINTER SussioN.—On Tuesday the winter session of
our university was opened in the chemistry class room
of the college, by the Very Rev. Principal Lee, D.D.
About two o'clock the Principal entered the university,
accompanied by the various professors, and, after a fer-
vent prayer, delivered a stirring and appropriate address;
the benediction was then pronounced, and the meeting
separated.—North British Mail.
ASHFORD.—A brig built for the Earl of Winchilsea,
by Mr. Duke, of Dover, was launched at Eastwell-park,
last Thursday, The vessel is a perfect model, on the
scale of an 18-gun brig of 382 tons; her length is 60
feet; breadth, 15 feet 6 inches; depth, 7 feet 6 inches.
The spacious lake in which this elegant specimen of
naval architecture lies moored and rigged, is a mile in
length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth, and
from tho diversified scenery surrounding presents a view
of enchanting magnificence. The weather on the occa-
sion was very auspicious, the launch proved most satis-
factory, and Mr. Duke was highly complimented on the
successful production of so great an ornament to East-
well park. Among those present to witness the launch-
ing were—Lord Maidstone. Lord Sydenham, E. R. Rice,
M.P., and others.—Kentish Observer.

Rum.—The Government contract for 50,000 gallons
of rum for the navy was Liken yesterday by Messrs.
Lemon, Hart, and Son, of 59, Fenehurch-street.

THE WRONG Sow DT THE EAR.—An amusing
incident occurred some time since at the City Clerks -
office. A stout Irishman came in at the same time with
an enormous dog, and said to Mr. M'Cleary, who \vita at
his desk, " May it plaze your honour, I went a license."
Mr. M'Cleary quietly wrote out the license and handed
it to the man. " And how much am Ito pay ? " " Two
dollars." "Two dollars ! A friend of mine got one
here only a day or two ago for fifty cents." "It must
be a mistake," replied Mr. M'Cleary ; "I have been here
a great many years and never itsueJ a dog license under
two dollars." " Dog ! " cried the Irishman ; "hang the
dog ! I never saw the baste before. I want to get mar-
ried ! "—Boston Atlas.

TREASURE TROVE. During the past week a
labourer found in Perry-wood, Shelwich, about five
pounds in weight of silver coins of Henry VIII., and
Edward VI. They had been concealed in a crock just
below the surface, and it is supposed that the late heavy
rains had washed the earth from them, leaving them ex-
posed.—Canterbury Journal.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANeREsTER.—The slightly improved tone of
feeling perceptible in this market at the date of our
last report has been somewhat further developed.
Instead of that prevalent want of confidence, and ex-
cessive pressure to force off the production, under
' . which prices were constantly sinking to a lower level,
we are glad to say there has appeared something
like a disposition among the buyers to meet the
sellers at rates ineffectually demanded by the latter a
week ago. Rather higher prices have pretty gene-
rally been asked, both by spinners and manufacturers,
but without success, except in the case of some pecu-
liar and limited qualities of yarns or descriptions of
goods. The day's process has been that of steadying
prices, in some degree, and not of generally raising
them. However, an increased business has been done
in yarns and cloth, more especially the latter. The
purchasers have been for various markets, the most
prominent of which, as regards cloth, are those of
India. There can be no doubt that the main imme-
diate cause of this improvement is the reaction that has
taken place in public opinion as to the soundness of
our leading railway companies. But, looking at the
still most precarious position of the disturbed conti-
nental states, at the embarassments involved in rail-
way calls, and at the lateness of the season, it is evi-
dent that the progress of commercial improvement
must necessarily be slow, and possibly interrupted ;
and that nothing but low prices can carry off the
present production. The rise we see in cotton can
have no effect whatever in causing a demand for ma-
nufactures. It appears from letters which the Greek
houses have received to-day, that the apprehended
military struggle for the throne of Persia would, in
all probability, be avoided. Trade in that country
continued, however, in a paralysed condition ; and
advices from Constantinople state that the arrival of
cotton fabrics were very heavy, whilst the demand for
them was small, and prices were consequently giving
way in some degree. There is, therefore, nothing
from that quarter to stimulate demand in this market.
From the Brazilian accounts, we learn that the course
of exchange at Rio and Bahia had undergone a further
improvement; and that the demand for our manufac-
tures was progressing satisfactorily. At Pernambuco,
on the contrary, trade was still in a very depressed
state, and the rate of exchange very low. We may
here mention that a Mr. Cockshott, a Brazilian
merchant in Liverpool, suspended payment a few
days ago.

itocimaLE.—There has been a fair average busi-
' ness doing in flannels to-day, at last week's prices.
The woolmarket continues languid, and prices have
undergone no change.
HUDDBRSFIBLD.—We cannot report any improve-
ment in the market to-day. There certainly have
I been more buyers but the purchases hare been on a
limited scale. In wool, there is nothing doing, and
complaints are heavy throughout the whole district.
HALIFAX.—Our Piece Hall has presented to-day
as dull and inanimate an appearance as ever, and there
is hardly so much doing in the warehouses. The
spinners continue fully employed; and although as
the season advances the orders given out by the ex-
porting houses are not so numerous, yet as the orders
on hand are completed, fresh ones are given out suf-
ficient to keep the machinery running full time.
Prices, however, are far from being satisfactory.
Wool goes off slowly, yet steadily, at old rates, the
spinners buying only from hand to mouth, and not
seeming inclined to lay in stocks.
LEEDS.—There is no alteration in our market;
business continues dull, as is usually the case at this
period of the year. Prices remain steady.—Man.
ckeeter Guardiazs of Wednesday.

THE TRIANGULAR SURVEY OF

LONDON.

Yesterday morning the last piece of scaffolding, built
for the purpose of enabling the Sappers and Miners to
make a trigonometrical survey of the metropolis and sur-
rounding counties, was removed from the gallery imme-
diately above the dome, and in the course of the day
carried away. Although the scaffold was only up three
months the observations taken were between three and
tour thousand, in which were included every division in
the degree. In many instances the same object was
gone over ae many as six time:, none less than three or
four. The utmost distance obtained was twenty-six
miles in the circle, with the exception of the north-west
point; here Highgate-hill impeded the observations, the
crown of the hill being higher than the level from which
the observations were taken. With this single excep-
tion no difficulties presented themselves, and the survey,
and the various altitudes obtained, are of the most
satisfactory description. In the language of the parties
engaged surrounding the metropolis and the counties
may be considered nearly a level plain. Although
below it was repeatedly naisty the atmosphere
was exceedingly clear above, which enabled
the Sappers and Miners repeatedly to obtain
the utmost limit of their survey. The extreme
height of the scaffolding, from the base to the crown upon
which the observatory was built, was ninety-one feet,
and took between a fortnight and three weeks in raising.
As the whole was bound together with ropes, about one
and a half ton was used for the purpose. It may be
gratifying to know that in this perilous undertaking not
the slightest accident, not even to the breaking of a
single pane of glass, occurred, while only some of the
corners of the planks were chipped off during the re-
nsoval. The most dangerous part of the work was the
fixing of the poles which supported the cradle, imme•
diately beneath the principal dome. These extended
beyond the gallery thirty-five feet, and great skill and
caution were requisite in fixing, as _well as in removing
them, for had the slightest slip occurred no power could
have prevented them falling through into the church.
The number of persons employed was ten. It may be
interesting to know that the time which they occupied in
going up !was about seven minutes, while from four to
five minutes were occupied in the descent. Some of the
persons had to go up and down three or four times a day.
During the period the scaffold was up the lead-work of
the upper dome was repaired. The expense of the sur.
vey is very small, as the materials were supplied by the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

NORTHAMPTON, Nov. 2.—The unfortunate stoker
who was so dreadfully scalded in the train yesterday, at
Weedon, died this morning in the hospital at North-
ampton, leaving a wife and five children totally unpro-
vided for. An inquest will now explain the cause of the
accident.

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DISSIPATION AND SUICIDIL—Last evening Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at the Salutation, Tavistock-
street, Covent-garden, on the body of Charles Mills,
aged 35, assistant to Mr. Baker, linendraper, of No. 31,
in the above street. The deceased, it appeared, had
lately been exceedingly irregular
. in his habits, often
staying out all night, and keeping the worst of company.
He was frequently intoxicated, and at such times was in
very low spirits. At last he neglected business so much
that he received notice of dismissal. On Monday night
last, while sitting at the Blue Anchor, Feathers-court,
Drury-lane, he asked the servant to buy a rope to hang
himself, and after she had refused, be went out and
bought one himself. Early the next morning he went to
his employer's, and at the time he should have been
taking down the shutters, hung himself against a pillar in
the shop. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—An anonymous " friend"
has contributed 1,0001. towards rebuilding St. Peter's
Church, Cheltenham.
SMITHFIELD CLuz.—Parties intending to exhibit
animals at the next show of the Smithfield Club should
note that it is necessary to send in their certificates on or
before the 11th of November.

SKETCH OF THE STORNOWAY HERRING FISHING.
is a very pleasant sight to see perhaps a hundred
and fifty, or two hundred fishing boats leaving the bay
on an evening, " all walking the waters like things
of
life," every one most eager and anxious to outstrip its
fellow. Each boat is manned with five or six hardy
Highland fishermen. Each net is fifty yards long and
six deep. If the fish are conjectured to be near the
bottom, the buoy-rope is lengthened; if near the surface,
it is shortened; and each net is tied to the other until
the whole extends a thousand yards from the boat, and
swing with the tide. To prevent the herring from see-
ing the meshes of the net in the water, the twine is dyed
brown by the liquid of oak or birch bark, which also
prevents the hemp from rotting, by being thus made im-
pervious to wet. On this invisible surface the herrings
rush and having got their heads in just over the ear,
in drawing back, the cords lay hold of the gill, and
thus keeps them fast until strangled. When then
found, they present, perhaps, the most beautiful ap-
pearance in all animated nature, being enamelled,
gilded, painted, infinitely beyond everything which
the most glowing colours and happy pencil can de-
scribe. The boats return in the morning, some having
perhaps, as high as fifty crans or barrels; but generally
thirty crans and upwards are reckoned a good take.
And then to see the haste and hurry at landing—what
jostling and confusion! Little urchins busy stealing,
and old Highland wifie's begging, in imploring and em-
phatic Gaelic strains, whilst crowds of winsome lasses
are busily engaged in gutting them. As soon as the
boats land, the fish are carried into the curing yard, and
poured into large square boxes. Three women gene-
rally form themselves into what is called a crew, or joint-
stock trio. Two of these with a short-bladed, sharp-
pointed knife, nip out the gut and gill by a process of
throat-cutting which cannot be described. Yet so expe-
ditiously is this work done, that one woman will gut two
thousand five hundred herrings an hour! The third
woman of the crew packs the fish into barrels, each con-
taining seven hundred herrings. To give an idea of the
quantity caught, I may mention, that during six weeks
last year, 31,000 barrels were taken, and on one day,
this year, 2,200 barrels were caught. The herri'eg fish-
ing in this quarter continues from the beginning of May
till the end of June.—W. A.
DARING ROBBERY. Last evening, between six
and seven o'clock, a p )or man was observed lying on
his face on the pavement, opposite Mr. Cording's water-
proof establishment, Strand, near Temple-bar, and, upon
examination, he was found to b 3 in a fit. Some persons
came to his assistance, among the rest Mr. Cording's
fireman, who, with the aid of some medicine, succeeded
in restoring the man to his senses; while the gentleman
was thus humanely engaged some thief stole a gold
watch from his waistcoat pocket, although secured by
a chain. Information of the robbery was subsequently
given to the police, through whose activity it is to be
hoped the thief will be discovered. The number of the
watch was 2,457, single-cased, and rather old-fashioned.
THE DAY. MAIL.—By the alteration in the arrival
of the day mail train in Canterbury, the letters will be
delivered in Canterbury ono hour earlier than heretofore 1
—Kentish Gazette.

MR. G. THOMPSON, M.P., AND THE
TOWER. HAMLETS.
On Wednesday a numerous meeting, called by the com-
mittee who conducted 11.1 r. G. Thompson's election for
the Tower Hamlets, was held at the Royal British In-
stitution, Cowper-street, City-road, for the purpose of
affording that Hon. Gentleman an opportunity of ren-
dering to his constituents an account of his Parliamentary
conduct during the last session, and giving such explana-
tions as might be demanded.
Mr. J. H. FRY was called to the chair, and, after some
introductory remarks, introduced Mr. G. Thompson,
M.P., to the meeting.
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON upon coming to the front of
the platform was received with the most enthusiastic and
prolonged cheering, which, having subsided, he pro-
ceeded to state that, in his opinion, it was the duty of
the represented to expect, and demand, at the hands of
their representative, a candid statement of the manner in
which he had discharged his duty to them and to the
country; and it was the duty of the representative to
make that statement, and to submit his conduct to the
fair, but rigorous scrutiny of those whose suffrages had
helped him to the high position he occupied. He (Mr.
Thompson) came there that night to make no apology,
and to conciliate no party, nor to prepare the way for
re-election in that borough; but to state what he had
done, and to express his deep regret that he had not ren-
dered more service to them and to his suffering country-
men at large than he had hitherto been able to do,
either from want of opportunity or ability, also to state
frankly and honestly, in the sight of the Judge of all
men, that if he had not been able to serve, he at least
had never betrayed them.—(Cheers.) When, at the in-
vitation of all sections of the liberal inhabitants of the
Tower Hamlets, he first came forward to solicit their
suffrages, he delivered and circulated an address, in
which he stated the principles he held upon all the great
public questions in which he deemed they were interested;
and, in that address, he promised nothing but a laborious
attention to the business of the House of Commons,
telling them frankly that he did not intend to go into
that House to talk, but to work—(Hear, hear)—
that he was not to be judged by the number
of his speeches, but that he would be tried by the votes
which he should give, and by every syllable ho uttered,
whenever he deemed it expedient to riee and express
his views in that assembly.—(Cheers.) He had yet to
know that there was one word that he had uttered which
he should retract, unless it might have been in conse-
quence of any want of temper or soundfdiscretion; but,
as far as any principle or sentiment had been embodied
in what he had said, he had nothing to retract or regret,
nor anything for which he should feel condemned in his
own conscience. The past session had been a very long
one; but long as it had been he had felt it his duty to
attend throughout. He had been one of the first to
enter that House at the commencement of the session,
and was amongst the very last who left it at its termi-
nation. He could truly say, that no regard for personal
comfort, health, or pleasure, had ever kept him from his
duty in the Legislature; and, however little he might
have been able to serve them and his countrymen, he,
at least, had always been in his place by en humble
vote to contribute something to the cause of the people.
They were there that night, less for the purpose of re-
viewing the multifarious proceedings of the session,
than to hear an explanation of his (Mr. Thompson's)
own share in those proceedings. many measures had
been lost, many rejected, many postponed, and
many barbarously mutilated.—(Hear, hear and
cheers.) The first question which came up in Parliament
to which he would allude had reference to Ireland; it
was the recommendation of a coercive Bill. An amend-
ment was moved, that it was not just to the people of
that country to enact any law of a coercive character
without at the same time passing measures with a view
to their permanent relief. For that amendment he (Mr.
Thompson) voted.—(Cheers.) He had never given a
vote in favour of any coercive measure towards Ireland,
but whenever there had been a measure brought forward
for improving the condition, and establishing the just
rights of the people of that country, it had invariably
received his support. Whatever tended to improve the
physical or social condition of the people of that land
had received his support; but Arms Bills, Crown and
Government Security Bills, and the Suspension of the
j Habeas Corpus Bill, he had left to others to carry, and
had himself given to those measures his most resolute
opposition. The next Bill was for the purpose of re-
lieving the Roman Catholics from certain obsolete pains
and penalties affixed to them in consequence of their
religion; for that measure he had voted, as he would ever
do when the object was to annihilate all distinctions
founded upon the religious creed of his fellow-subjects.
—(Cheers.) There was another question in which he
(Mr. Thompson) felt a considerable interest, although it
was not so comprehensive as he could have wished it,
nevertheless it was a step in the right direc-
tion, and he gave it a cheerful vote —he re-
ferred to the motion brought forward by Mr. Horsman,
for the reform of certain ecclesiastical abuses. Although
that gentleman advocated the continued connexion be-
the State and the Church, yet he had, nevertheless,
shown an earnest and sincere zeal to remedy the abuses
connected with the administration of the vast property
possessed by that Church, and the unequal distribution
of its good things among its ministers. He (Mr. Thomp-
son) had voted for that measure, not because he thought
it went to the root of the matter, but because it was
just in itself; he should have preferred a measure that
would at once have separated that Church from the
State, and brought its wealth under the control of the
people and Parliament of this country, to be applied to
a more legitimate purpose than the maintenance of an
exclusive sect, holding particular articles of faith and
doctrine. One of the very few measures introduced by
her Majesty's Government, which he (Mr. Thompson)
had felt at liberty to support, had been the Jewish Dis-
abilities Bill. He (Mr. Thompson) rejoiced to listen
to the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, when ably and eloquently arguing for the
rights of their Jewish fellow-subjects to perfect religious
equality with their Christian brethren—their rights to
enjoy whatever honours or distinctions the State had to
confer, irrespective altogether of the faith which they
possessed. The next measure to which his attention was
directed was for the repeal of the window 'tax, for which
he had voted heartily. The next measure he not only
voted for but spoke upon, almost for the first
time in Parliament. The House was unexpectedly
called upon, while the blue book was still wet from the
printer's, and not yet in the hands of its Members, to
vote 1,100.0001. in part payment of the expenses in-
curred in the Kafir war. Upon that occasion he (Mr.
Thompson) said a word in favour of their coloured
brethren in that region, and in condemnation of the acts
of our countrymen abroad, and of certain Governments
which had existed at the Cape of Good Hope. He had
denounced the indecency of calling upon the House of
Commons, without any information before it as :to the
origin, progress, or characteristics of that war, to vote so
large a sum of money out of the pockets of the English
people. He had voted with Mr. Horsman for a motion
in favour of the equalization of the income-tax, so that,
instead of pressing with much greater severity upon the
middle classes of society than upon the upper, it should
be so graduated as to render the burden least severe
where the ability to meet the tax was the smallest.-- (Cheers.) He next spoke and voted in favour of Mr.
Ewart's motion for the abolition of capital punishments.
—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Thompson) had then felt it his
duty in the House of Commons to employ arguments
which to his mind were the most conclusive in favour of
the abolition of that penalty, and which had not been
alluded to by other Members, upon the principles of the
Christian religion, rather than upon the ground of expe-
diency. He (Mr. Thompson) maintained that it was an
excess of human jurisdiction and authority for any tri-
bunal, under any sanction whatever, however for-
tified by statutes, to lay hands up on a hu-
man being and punish him for an offence against
society by taking
away his life. His next
vote was for reducing the number of men and boys in
the navy, upon which question he had followed two able
leaders—Mr Hume and Mr. Cobden.—(Hear, hear.) In
his (Mr. Thompson's) eyes armaments, whether for of-
fence or defence, wore the aspect of practical Atheism.
Revering that Book which told him he must " love his
enemies, do good to; them that hate' him—avenge
not himself," but refer all vengeance to his Maker—
that he was to save life, and not take it—lie could not
regard any warlike measures, whether executed by the
army or devised by the Cabinet, without regarding them
as a practical denial of the authority of Scripture, and
an exhibition of practical unbelief in that Being who had
told them to confide in him for protection and security.
—(Cheers.) He did not expect the people of that coun-
try, still less the Members of a House of Commons corn-,
posed to so great an extent of naval and military men
and their connexions, to take his (N. Thompson's) view
of the subject, but he hoped that the people would (liar
look i
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finance, policy, and religion,carrying;
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he (Mr. Thompson) would dceesrsaarlly
power to those who fearlessly denounced a system so,
fraught with loss to the country in a pecuniary point;
of view, and so
disgraceful to them as a profes-
sedly Christian
The nextlavwotse white he gave
nation
was upon the debate on the game- , upon which oe..
casion he moved the adjournment, witmhetnitiltaevi wasinulost,
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favour of the discontinuance of
maintained
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the western coast of Africa, mm
of putting down the slave trade. That object he desired'
, next void ote was in favour or
to see achieved; but his opinion was, that the end did;
not sanctify such means. His
a reduction of the military force of the country from .
113,847 to 100,000. On the 6th of April a motion was.
made in the House of Commons that her Majesty would.
be graciously pleased to pardon Frost, Williams, and.
though he had givenhear,_and Cheers.)
Jones; for which address,
it.).
pledge, he had voted. (Hear,
been called to take
Upon the next question to which ho. (Mr. Thompson)
would refer, he had unexpectedly
a prominent part. Suddenly, as though in the-
twinkling of an eye, notice was given of the intention el" '
her Majesty's Govermui‘nt to introduce a Bill for the- il
better security of the Crown and Government of the. i
country. By that Bill, ten felonies were created in one.
short clause. lie (Mr. Thompson) did then, as he ever•
should do, when a great duty was required at his::
hands, discharge it irrespective of the opinions entertained.
of his conduct out of doors. While the routine business-
was going on, upon
the day fixed for the second
reading, he gave notice that ho should move
that the Bill be read that day six months;—(Cheers.)
The object of the Government was, as he subsequently
learnt, to press the Bill through in all its stages with
the utmost possible speed, well knowing that it would.
pass the House of Lords without opposition or discus- 1
mon. He opposed that Bill in every stage, and although
its opponents had failed in defeating the intentions of
her Majesty's Government, they obtained several impor-
tant modifications of that measure. A delusion was
practised upon the House and the country by the state- g
ment that the Bill was not a Bill to enhance the pcnelty
annexed to sedition, but for the mitigation of the pe-

nalties annexed to high treason. It was a gagging Bill
and nothing but a gagging Bill.—(Cheers.) It was the
introduction of a clause which had been twice rejected
under the reign of Tory Governments, abandoned by
Mr. Pitt, because he found he could not carry it through
the House of Commons, abandoned by Lord Castlereagh
and his Adminstration, and finally carried by, par ex
cellence, a Liberal Minister!—(Cheere.) He (Mr. Thomp-
son) had also voted against the Alien Bill, believing that
England's throne, altar, and firesides, had nothing to
fear from the residence of foreigners in this country,
and it was his intenton to vote against that
Bill in future. On the 12th of May he
voted for inquiry into the alleged interference
of the Marquis of Exeter with his tenants during the
election at Stamford. He had voted in favour of ever)
inquiry connected with elections, and would always do
so, even if applied to the Tower Hamlets.— (Laughter.)
On the 9th of June he voted for a relaxation of the
navigation-laws, knowing, however, that in so doing he
should displease some parties in that borough. Ho had,
however, stated fairly, when questioned upon the subject
during his canvass, that he should vo'e for the repeal of
the navigation•laws, and would still continue to do so.
The sugar duties was the next measure which came
under consideration, and again he felt himself at
variance, in some respects, with those whose opinions
ho respected, because they were honest, and whose
motives he honoured, because they were in the highest
degree humane; but, nevertheless, he felt it his duty to
vote for leaving untouched the measure of 1846. With
his present views ho should vote for the reduction of the
sugar duties, without reference to the countries from
which they came; and were it necessary upon that occa
sion he should be prepared to justify that course of con.
duct. The measure of 1846 was entirely unsettled,
without giving any benefit to the consumers, but rather
injuring them, the whole object sought by the altera
tion being the benefit of the West India interest. Upon
the refined sugar in bond question, he also gay(
another vote, and spoke several times upon that
measure. It had been so arranged by her
Majesty's Government, that the Dutch refiners, no mat-
ter from what country they might obtain their sugars,
should have the privilege of sending them, in a refined
state, into the market, to be consumed by the people of
this country ; and his (Mr. Thompson's) efforts were
directed to obtain for the British refiners in bond the pri-
vilege of entering their sugars for home consumption,
upon payment of precisely the same duties as those
charged upon Dutch sugar. He had urged the facts
upon the Government, and shown that the question of
slave and free•grown produce had nothing to do with
that particular duty ; not obtaining any satisfactory
answer, he was compelled to give up the matter, but not
until he had voted in every stage against it. Upon that
measure he had been warmly supported by a deceased
nobleman—Lord George Bentinck—who, for the first
time in his life, had made free-trade speeches and a free•
trade motion in the House of Commons. Upon the 6th
of July Mr. Hume brought on his motion re-
specting the national representation. This was a
question upon which he (Mr. Thompson) had
intended to speak, and the reason he bad not done so
was because it had been determined, after grave consi-
deration, to confine the debate to two nights, as the fur-
ther adjournment might prove injurious. He (Mr.
Thompson) well knew that the opinions of the men who
were to speak upon that subject deserved more weight
out of doors than his own, and he had, therefore, re-
solved, against his own feelings, but in full accordance
with the dictates of his own judgment, to refrain from
speaking upon that occasion. On the 29th of July he
voted with Mr. Sharman Crawford, that the House
should direct its attention, not only into the repression
of crime in Ireland, but into the actual condition of the
people, with a view of finding, before
.the close of the
session, some remedy for at least a part of the grievances
of which the people of that country complained. That
motion was thought by many inopportune, but not so
by himself (Mr. Thompson). The session had been
protracted, it is true, much beyond the usual period,
but he (Mr. Thompson) would have willingly sat much
longer if the House would have 'taken up the wants of
Ireland, as well as have employed its time in Arms
Bills, gagging laws, and the suspension of the writ of
Habeas Corpus. They would then have given the people
some solid and satisfactory proof that Ireland was not
considered undeserving of the same religious and poli-
tical rights which were enjoyed in this country. Upon
the Bth of August Mr. Berkeley brought forward his
motion on the subject of the ballot. Again it
was the opinion of all with whom he (Mr.
Thompson) was in the habit of acting, that the debate
should be suffered to terminate the same night. All
present knew that Mr. Berkeley's motion was carried
by a small majority, and that the Hon. Gentleman had
given notice of his intention, early in the next session,
to ask leave to bring in a Bill to make the vote by
ballot the law of the land.—(Cheers.) Oa the question
of Vancouver's Island, he (Mr. Thompson) had voted
with Mr. Hume against giving the government of that
island to the Hudson's Bay Company until the
subject had undergone full inquiry, and certain com-
plaints against the company had been investigated; he
trusted that the discussions which had taken place on
the subject, including the able speech of Mr. Gladstone,
would make the Government pause, ere they trans-
ferred for a term of years so important a portion of Bri-
tish territory to the hands of a company of whose ma-
nagement so little was known. During the progress of
the votes, under the head of miscellaneous estimates,
the House was called upon to grant the sum of 9,8271. to
defray the charge of the Island of Labuan. He had
spoken and voted against thegrant, regarding it as most ex-
travagant, and believing that the establishment of British
authority on that island would, judging from the narra-
tives he had perused of the conduct of our countrymen
in that part of the world, be a calamity rather than a
blessing to the natives dwelling around. He did not
' regret the vote he had given; he would rejoice to see the
fears ho entertained of the result of our settlement at
Labuan disappointed. Any person reading only the
journal published by Midshipman Marryat, of the
Semarang, would blush for the acts perpetrated
by Englishmen under the plea of putting down
piracy in the eastern seas. Too jealous a
control could not be exercised over the acts
of those who represented this country in distant parts
of the world. The melancholy history of the coloured
races, both in the east and in the west, showed how ca-
pable even Englishmen were of committing deeds of the
grossest injustice and cruelty. He had voted for the
Bill to establish diplomatic intercourse with the Pope, as
the head of the Roman states; but he had also
voted for :every amendment tending to divest that
intercourse of an ecclesiastical character. He had
voted with Mr. Lushington against the grant
known by the name of the Regium Donum,
and, though in a minority, trusted it might
be the last instance of the public money being applied to
such a purpose.—(Cheer;.) Future sessions would, he
trusted, witness the introduction of far more comprehen-
sive measures relating to ecclesiastical and religious
questions, upon which he should be happy to vote, until
the House of Commons ceased to legislate and make
grants of money for purposes of a purely religious cha-
raster. He would now briefly refer to a question on
which he had twice spoken at considerable length—he
alluded to the case of the late Raja of Sattara. If
there ever was a case which imperatively demanded the
attention of the House of Commons, it was that of the
ill•used Prince he had named, who was dethroned with-
out a hearing, and upon evidence which had been
proved to be false and fabricated. Ile (Mr. Thompson)
deemed it his peculiar duty to bring this matter again
before Parliament. It was one which be had studied for
eight years—which he had again and again brought
before the Court of Proprietors at the India House—a
case, an inquiry into which had been prayed for by 70,000
petitioners, and which involved, not only the fate of a
noble-minded man, his family, his followers, and his
former subjects, but the character of the British Go-
vernment in India. Many of the most distinguished
men connected with India had long regarded the case of
the ex-Raja in the same light as he (Mr. :.Thompson)
did, and conceived it eminently entitled to the notice of
the Legislature. Though his motives had been assailed
and misrepresented, his facts had not been disproved,
and ho was still ready to establish, before any impartial
tribunal, the truth of the allegations he had made
against the Court of Directors and their offi-
cers and servants in India. The charge of
having obstructed other business by making motions on
this question was not true ; for, on both occasions, there
would have been no House, had not one been kept for
that particular question. If it was supposed that he
had devoted that time to the study of the Sattara ques-
tion which he ought to have devoted to other matters of
more immediate interest, he could assure the gentlemen
before him, that long before he entered the House of
Commons he was perfectly familiar with all the details
of the case, and quite prepared at any moment to
submit it to the consideration of the Legisla-
ture. Though his efforts and those of others had
thus far been unsuccessful, he did not regret
that they had been made, nor did he despair of seeing
the verdict which had so often been recorded, reversed,
when justice should prevail over interest, and therei
should be a fair inquiry into all the facts of the case. 0i
any future occasion he would be ready to explain every
part of his conduct on this question to his constituents,
and he felt assured, that if possessed of a knowledge of
the case, they would unanimously agree that it was one.
that
to only
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It was possible an impression might have gone
particularabroad
that the attention he had given to a par in question
relating to India had abridged his efforts behalf of the
interests of those nearer home; he must contend, how-
ever, that whatever related to thed d
uial governmentmillions
ef the of f
plenedpi
lae,
and to the condition of the hunre
_
of that country under Britislimaisvtaayk—en, a
bpvoptubleatiaodndistoicoti
to be increased, if he was not ti
of five millions in the Panjaub—was matter of deep Lo.
and to all classes otlf the cornrifiuriiti.
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deprived
dr
jo.ufszeirsodmuee
share of
might complain of
badeingstill pthe means of making their
po.it,iacatleppsok%)r‘,v
n. Here, discussions were rife on till
subjects—theregrie---. were parish debates, political associations
of all
e lre3in
coffee-house discussions, and public meetings
of v
in doors and out of doors.—(Cries of
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every d:
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lee (Mr. Thompson) had at the moment
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Bonnet's-fields.—(Laughter.)
T
own government, no representatives whom they could
call, as those before him could, to account for their
public conduct.—(Cries of Only one of them,") The
pweiotbpuleutotfbcls
~ (
nmdeiains wereof nalfaalriing off'onveoioefeltehss and impotent,
many wrongs
they suffered known, still less of obtaining redress. Let
it not, then, be considered foreign from the duty of any
Member of Parliament occasionally to lift the curtain,
and show what was done by a chartered company over
the broad extent of those fertile and sunny lands which
had become portions of British territory. It was a
grievous error on the part of the people of this country
to separate the distant portions of the empire from their
consideration and sympathy. Every spot over which the
national flag floated should be viewed as an integral
part of the empire, and the rights and interests of Bri-

tish subjects throughout the world be regarded as one.
Should the people of England ever wake up to a just sense
of the value and importance of India as a dependency,
they would find that every man, woman, and child had
a direct interest in the good government of that country,
and in the happiness and prosperity of its countless
millions.—(Cheers.) Soon after his election, he (Mr.
Thompson) had brought one branch of the Indian ques-
tion before his constituents. He alluded to the great
meeting at the Eastern Institution. He there en-
deavoured to show the importance and neces-
sity of looking to India for the article of raw
cotton, and the connexion between that subject and
the prosperity of the manufactures of this country, and
the abolition of slavery. He endeavoured to prove that
if the Government of India would but supply to the
people of India the means of internal communication,
and relieve them from the oppressive burthen of an in-
tolerable land-tax, and allow them to freight the vessels
on their shores (native though they might be, and
manned by lascars, who should not be put under the ban
of navigation-laws when they come here), the people of
India would be improved in their physical and social
condition, an article of prime necessity be cheapened to
the people of this country, the cotton manufactures
of this country saved from insecurity and fluctuation,
and the grievous yoke of slavery, which republican
America had fastened upon three millions of her people,
be broken in pieces.—(Cheers.) If asked what had
been done on the subject since the great meeting in Oc-
tober, 1847, he would answer, that on the motion of Mr,
Bright, a Committee of the House of Commons had
been appointed, of which he (Mr. Thompson) was a mem-
ber, and that that Committee had taken the evidence
of a great number of witn sses, which evidence, toge-
ther with the report of the Committee, would, he trusted,
be brought before Parliament at an early period, and the
discussion thereon lead to important practical results.
What had been done during the late session was an es-
sential preliminary to any legislation on the subject, and
his constituents must regard his labours in the Com-
mittee, and his continual, though unseen, attention to
the question, as a redemption of the pledge he had given
to do all in his power to give the matter due prominence
in the eyes of the people and Parliament of England.
Members of the House of Commons should not be judged
by the number of columns of reported speeches in the
public papers. Some of the best men in Parliament,
men who rendered the greatest service to the country,
were men whose names seldom appeared in the debates,
but who nevertheless devoted themselves with unceasing
diligence to the business of the nation, whose principles
could only be ascertained by the votes which they gave
on the questions publicly decided. (He (Mr. Thomp-
son) spoke not now for himself so much as for others.
Speech-making was by no means the sole business of a
man in Parliament. Some of the greatest talkers were 'the
most inefficient workers.—(Hear,) It might, perhaps,
be expected that he would notice the strictures which
had been passed upon his conduct by the press. He did
not deem it necessary to do so. He granted to the press
what he claimed for himself. He had no fault to find,
nor was it his business to scrutinise the motives of those
who furnished articles to the London papers or any other
journals. Public writers entertained—and it was well
they did—various opinions, and he could not expect to
share a better fate than public men generally. It was
for his constituents to judge of his conduct after he had
fully explained his acts. By their verdict he was con-
tent to stand or fall. If fortunate enough to obtain
their approbation, he was satisfied; and if he should
have the misfortune to fall under their condemnation, he
would resign his trust into their hands. As he was not
himself at all sensitive in respect to the criticisms of the
press, he wished his constituents to bear with the same
equanimity any severe animadversions to which his (Mr.
Thompson's) conduct might be subjected. Let them not
fancy their Member annihilated by this or that particular
article, but remember that he was treated no worse
than his betters. If a man could not live down
what he knew to be unjust accusations respecting
his objects or his motives—if he could not demonstrate
by his acts the sincerity of his intentions, he could ren-
der himself bat transient service in any other way, and
would spend his time and breath in vain by taking up
his pen in his own vindication, or by coming out into
the street, and crying aloud, I have been misrepre-
sented by the Times, or some other paper.—(Loud
cheers.) Fault might have been found with him for
having spoken but seldom sin& he took the seat to
which he had been so triumphantly elected. He can-
didly confessed that if had erred in this respect, it had
been wilfully and deliberately ; but he had been guided
by a calm consideration of what was due to his own cha-
racter, to the Houso in which he sat for 'the first time,
to the multifarious business requiring attention, and to
the constituency he had the honour to represent. On
very many occasions he had felt a strong desire to de-
liver his sentiments on the questions under discussion,
but had been restrained by motives which he could not
but believe were sound and sufficient. ken of eminence
and long standing of the same political principles had,
however, fully explained their views, and given the
public a distinct knowledge of the objects of those with
whom he (Mr. Thompson) had acted. As often as he had
spoken he had been satisfied with the attention
with which he had been heard. He had never yet been
coughed, or crowed, or brayed, or barked down ; and
should he ever deem it his duty to speak, when such in-
terruptions were offered he would maintain his right,
and fearlessly express his sentiments. He would coun-
sel those before him not to form their opinions of men
in the House of Commons by the number and length of
their speeches in the public papers. A man's adherence
to his principles could not be tried by a more fallacious
test. Think not your member, or any other man, has
betrayed you because you do not see his name fre-
quently in print, but try him by his votes, which are the
best and surest index of the course ho has marked out
for himself. The Hon. Gentleman having recapitulated
the measures for which he had voted, and stated his de-
termination to adhere to a similar line of conduct in
future, proceeded to state his view of the manner in
which he considered the people should act for the ad-
vancement and establishment of their just rights. While
an ardent friend of the disfranchised classes, he was
equally a foe to all conspiracy, to all secret associations,
and to the use of physical force—(Loud chcers)—
to all disobedience to the law, except when the
human law conflicted with the divine, and then
only in the form of passive resistance.—(Cheers.)
He was an enemy to the employment of physical
force, not only on moral and religious grounds, but also
upon the grounds of policy and expediency. Few vit..
tuous and enlightened men, still less any truly Christian
men, would resort to violence for the attainment of their
object. They would seek it by calm discussion, and
establish their right to what they asked by showing
their moral fitness to possess it. Milton had truly said—
" Who would be free should first be wise and good."—
(Cheers.) His conviction deepened every day, that by
the proper exercise of moral power, and the force of
public opinion, it was competent to the people of this
country to reform the government to any extent they
pleased. Reformers in this country were weak in pro-
portion as they were violent, and had recourse to wea-
pons which no virtuous man or good subject could
sanction. Bad and arbitrary governments knew this
but too well, and the consequence was, that when they
apprehended any great and salutary change, and sought
to avert it, they encouraged, up to a certain point, the
designs of weak, misguided, and criminal men, and then,
when some dozen individuals could be apprehended at
the Lord Denman's Head, or elsewhere, frighted the isle
from its propriety by the intelligence of a plot
for the overthrow of the state, the prostration
of all law, and the general spoliation of the
honest and industrious people of the country.
He would, therefore, conjure all who professed a desire
to carry forward the cause of reform to be open, manly,
peaceful, and constitutional in their measures. So acting,
the humblest and the poorest had the power to aid it—
its real enemies were the ignorant, the vicious, and the
criminal, and such were always the friends of despotism
and military rule. Unlawful acts led to legislative coer-
cion, justified the assumption of arbitrary and unconsti-
tutional power, increased the number of armed police
and the additional taxation of the people, augmented the
patronage of placemen, gratified the spirit of Toryism,
and brought reproach upon a good cause and good men,
and inflicted a deep and serious wound on liberty her-
self.—(Cheers.) He felt it would be most unjust to
charge the criminal acts of certain men now receiving
punishment upon the Chartists of England generally,
whose conduct had been loyal and peaceable. Whatever
offence it might give there or elsewhere, he must honestly
say he was no believer in the existence of any real cause
for the panic of the 10th of April, when the nation was
led to believe, on high authority, that there was some
deep-laid and extensive plot for the destruction of the
Government—when men were appalled by the dread of
the sacking of Buckingham Palace, the taking of the
Tower, the pillage of the Bank, and the lighting up in
one great conflagration of the whole of London. A panic
there undoubtedly was; the quiet inhabitants of London
were scared by the apparition of a phantom in the shape
of a bloody insurrection—

"If shape it might bo called, that shape had none,
• Distinguishable in member joint or limb ;
Or substance might be called, that shadow seem'd,
For each seem'd either ; black as night it stood
Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell."
The House of Commons stood aghast—the special con-
stables were called out. Oh I how they turned out.—
(Laughter and hisses.) He must confess, he for one was
not appalled. Ile certainly did go out with a heavy
heart on the morning of that day—with feelings which
he had scarcely experienced at any former time ; but his
fear was, not that the multitude would break the peace,
or that they would injure life, limb, or property; but
that there might be brought about a conflict between
them. and those who paraded the streets, and the more
formidable bodies who were concealed in every part of
.this great metropolis, which would mike the street.; flow
with the crimson fluid that represented the lives of their
fellow-creatures. He stood up in the House and cen-
sured the Government that had thus in‘ited a con-
flict betwcen the people and the authorities.—(Loud
cheers.) He returned thanks to God when he rose at five
o'clock that evening in his place that peace reigned
in
every part of this vast city; but ho did not omit the
opportunity of attempting to show that it was with a
bad grace these measures proceeded from men, who, in
former times, had held similar views, and who had re-
commended the same assemblages which they now
sought to put down. On another day he quoted to Sir
John Hobhouse the following veree of a song, which he
used to sing before he got on the Treasury bench, when
he was Westminster's pride:—

" To see the corn upon the rigs,
And a gallows built to hang the Whigs,
And the right restored where the right should be,
Oh! that is the sight that would wanton me."
(Hear and laughter.) But while he vindicated the
rights of the humbler classes, and while he vindicated
—as he would continue to vindicate to his death—the
honesty of the intentions, and the loyalty of the feelings
of the great body of working men of this country, he
felt that he could do so all the better, because he
would be one of the first to rebuke any measure

of a violent character to which they might be tempted
to resort.—(Hear, hear.) And why did he depre-
cate such measures ? Because nothing would bo
gained by such a conflict that would not be ten thousand
times outweighed by the evils, the crimes, and the misery
which it would occasion. Every one engaged in such
a conflict would become demoralized, and by the very
acts which he committed to obtain liberty he would be
stamped with reprobation as unworthy to enjoy it.
r—eptuhedimatoeraajli
Could but the unenfranchised classes know the strength
strength—whichetrins preachedt h ey
thatth
wretchede they w ould
miscreant, the Government spy.—(Loud cheers.) When
/
be thought of such a man, and of the Government that
employed him, he could not restrain his indignation.
Thus it happened : a man would go to the inspector of
police, and would say, I will betray certain parties
into your hands. lie then went to Milton.ftreet or
to Bonner's-fields, enjoying perfect immunity, for the
police were told you are not to take notice of the pro-
ceedings of Powell or Johnson, or whatever his name may
be. He went, therefore, to the meeting under the direct
protection, if not the patronage, of the Government. He
showed the hilt of a sword—he showed pistols—he said
to his neighbours, " You don't mean to put up with this.
I am going to propose a resolution, and I hope you will
second it." His neighbours, perhaps his fellow• work-
men, animated by a chivalrous feeling, not to be outdone
in daring, second his resolution, and repeat his words;
and next day they find themselves before a magistrate--
the next day in Newgate—and the next at the bar of the
1 Old Bailey, where they are sentenced to be transported
for life.—(Hear, hear.) He could not but think there
was a better way of doing things than this; and he could
not but hope that the moral and religious classes of this
country would display no sympathy with the informer
and the Government spy. But they might learn a lesson
from this. It was fitted to teach them the futility of
such measures. There was no faith among bad men,
and they ought never to follow the advice of the men
who prompted to violence, be he spy or no spy. A word
now as to the measures to be sought in future. The
work of representative reform must be renewed and
priasecuted with redoubled energy. In the mean
time let the question of taxation not be
forgotten. The gross income of this amounted
in 1847 to 59,538,000/, of which 37,290,0001.
were raised from customs and excise. The Liverpool
Financial Association had truly said, " that as this amount
is a direct charge on articles of merchandise and trade,
it becomes a constituent part of the first cost of those
articles to the trader, who must put as much profit on
this portion of their cost as on the original short or
bonded price, which profit, spread over the number of
vendors through whose hands the articles pass from the
imparter or manufacturer, as the case may be, to the
Iconsumer, may be fairly reckoned, and has been so
stated by witnesses before Parliamentary Committees to
be twenty-five per cent., thus adding to the original
amount of taxation, so far as the tax-payer is concerned,
9,324,000," making the gross amount of taxation paid
by the public in the year ending sth January,
1847, no
less than 68,862,000/., of which only 9,500,000/. were
raised by taxes on property, leaving 59,311,000/., the
amount pressing upon trade and industry. Let the
people out of doors assist their representatives
to obtain both a reduction in the expenditure and
a revision, of the entire system of taxation,
that the burden which was inevitable might be more
equally distribated, and industry and trade have fair
play. A scrutiny into the various estimates would show
the way to reduction, and the voice of the people should
demand an equalisation of taxation, Many votes were
obtained during the last session in consequence of the
conjuring up of another phantom in the shape of a
French invasion. We were discovered to be in a de-
fenceless position, and loud v. ere the clamours raised
against Mr. Cobden for the opinions he had the boldness
to advance. Well, there had been an invasion that had
reached to the Mansion-house, the Exchange, and even
to Windsor Castle. It was a French invasion, too; and
thus the prophecy had been fulfilled, but not as inter-
preted by the alarmists. The recent visit of the French
to our shores had been one of friendliness and good will,
and a certain illustrious Duke and a certain Noble Lord
had been effectually silenced, and Mr. Cobden left in
triumphant possession of the field. After some further
observations Mr. Thompson passed an eloquent eulogium
upon the unenfranchised classes of the country for
their conduct during the recent convulsions upon the
continent of Europe, and concluded by saying—l now
leave myself in your hands, content to receive the ver-
eict you shall pronounce on my conduct and opinions.
Since I have been one of your representatives I cannot
charge myself with ever having flattered those in
power; with ever having trafficked with my vote, or sup-
ported extravagance or corruption in any form; or falsi-
fied any profession, or compromised any principle, or
wilfully neglected any known duty. What I declared
myself to be when I came amongst you, that I have been
throughout the period of my service hitherto, and such
it is my intention to remain. I ask no thanks, I seek
no reward, and leave you, in the exercise of an honest
and impartial judgment, to say whether or not you be-
lieve that I have done my duty.—(Mr. Thompson sat
down amidst prolonged and enthusiastic cheers.)
Mr. Joux SCOBLE then rose and moved the following
resolution:—
" That this meeting, having heard from Mr. George
Thompson a statement of his Parliamentary proceed-
ings, desires to record its entire approval thereof.
_ " That in the judgment of this meeting, the general
election of 1847, and the proceedings at' the present
House of Commons during its first session, have again
furnished irrefragable proof of the necessity for the adop-
tion by the Legislature, of the great fundamental prin-
ciples upon which this borough triumphantly returned
Mr. George Thompson to Parliament—a thorough re-
form of the miscalled representative system—as the only
effectual means of remedying the ecclesiastical and poli-
tical evils of the United Kingdom.
" That while fully recognising the duty of both repre-
sentatives and people to render to tire ruling powers
every constitutional support for the good government of
the kingdom, this meeting desires to express its strong
conviction, that in times like these, when the civil liberty
of the country is endangered, from the assumption by
the Government of extraordinary despotic powers, and
its religious freedom threatened, from the Ministerial
stratagem of the tender of further bribes to eccle-
siastical bodies, thereby increasing the already
overwhelming taxation of the people, for the
nefarious purpose of apostatizing their spiri-
tual teachers into temporal oppressors, it becomes
the special duty of every popular representative jealously
to watch, and strenuously to resist, the sinister aggres-
sions of the Government upon the civil and religions
liberties of the nation.
" This meeting, therefore, respectfully requests Mr.
George Thompson, regardless of any venal opposition
he may encounter—whether voting in minority or ma-
jority—to continue the same independent and vigilant
course he has hitherto pursued in Parliament, taking as
his sole rule of actionithe good of the people, irrespeca•
tive of the corrupt designs of any political faction or con-
federation whatsoever."
Mr. Scoble expressed himself fully satisfied with Mr.
Thompson's conduct, with the exception of the vote that
Hon. Gentleman had given upon the sugar question,
which measure he denounced as the application of free
trade to robbery and spoliation. He also disagreed with
the course Mr. Thompson had taken upon Mr. Hors-
man's motion for the equalisation of the incomes of the
clergy, inasmuch as the measure bad not gone to the
root of the evil—the connexion of Church and State—
which was the great battle of religious liberty remain-
ing to be fought. After paying a high compliment to
Mr. Thompson's great talents and political integrity, Mr.
Scoble concluded by moving the above resolution.
Mr. BROOKS in seconding the resolution, vehemently
censured Mr. flume's motion for Parliamentary Reform,
as a compromise of
the rights of the unenfianchised
classes, who had a right to universal suffrage. He then
proceeded to inveigh, in no measured terms, against
Mr. Cobden for his castigation of Feargus O'Ccnnor, the
Hon. Member for the West Riding having just: platted
80,000!. of the people's money.— (Tremendous hisses,
cheers, and great uproar followed this ill-timed attack of
the speaker,
which continued more or less during the
residue of the gentleman's speech.)
After various remarks from persons in the body of the
meeting, the resolution was then put and carried unani-
mously, amidst loud acclamation.

Mr: THOMPSON, in reply, stated that however cir-
cumspect or conscientious he might have been
in giving his votes, he never expected to be able to meet
the views of all parties in the borough. Although
he could not agree with Mr. Scoble upon his views of
the sugar question, or with other persons upon other
isolated points, it would be unfair to try him (Mr.
.Thompson) upon single points upon which they con-
scientiously differed, and not upon the many points upon
which they fully agreed. With reference to what Mr.
Brooks had said of Mr. Cobden, he (Mr. Thompson)
was bound to state that, in his opinion, that Honourable
Gentleman was justified in whit he had done. It would
have been impolitic for Mr. Hume effectively to have
brought on his motion upon the first evening when it
stood on the paper.—(Elear, hear.) The Protectionists
had spoken at great length upon previous ques•
tions of comparatively trivial importance, so as to
drive Mr. flume's motion 'off until half-past
ten at night, which rendered it utterly impos-
sible for them to have finished the debate, as was
their intention, upon one:evening:. Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor, however, thought himself justified in rising and
impugning the sincerity of Mr. flume's intention, and
Mr. Cobden thereupon, with perfect fairness, as ho was
associated with Mr. Hume in the responsibility of the
postponement, rose and defended Mr. Hume from what
he believed to be an unjust charge. With respect to
what had been said upa that occasion beyond that, he
(Mr. Thompson) had nothing whatever to do. He had
long had the honour of the personal friendship of Mr.
Cobden, for whom he entertained the highest respect,
as the sincere and ardent friend of the rights and inte-
rests of the: people.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman
concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which, having be-n seconded and carried unanimously,
that gentleman returned thanks, and the meeting se-
parAteel.

MONU➢tENT TO THE LATE REV. DR. CHALMERS.
—A monument in memory of the late Rev. Dr. Chal-
mers has just been erected over the grave of that eminent
divine, in the Southern Cemetery, Grange Loan, by his
family. The design of the monument is extremely sim-
ple, consisting of three massive slabs of granite, project-
ing from the northern walls of the cemetery, the one in
the centre having the inscription, " Thomas Chalmers,
D.D., LL.D., born 1780, :died 1847." The grave is
enclosed with an elegant railing in the Gothic style.—.
Witness.

•
CHOLERA.-15 cases were reported yesterday in
the metropolis, of which 12 were fatal.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, NOY. 2.—The Royal.
Mail Steam-Packet Company's ship Teviot, Captain R
Rivett, sailed to-day with the usual British and foreign
West Indian and Mexican mails, also the mails for Ber,
muds and New Orleans, in charge of Lieutenant Den-
aton, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Teviot has 74 pas-
sengers, 7164 in specie, and a large general cargo.