The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 03c)7.

PUBLICATIONS.

MR. MUSGRAVE'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, in 2 vols., with illustrations, 211.,
APILGRIMAGE INTO DAUPHINE;
with a Visit to the Monastery of the Grand Chartreuse.
By the Rev. G. M. MUSGRAVE, A.M., Oxon.
Hurst and Blacked, publisher=, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Just published, in Bvo. with a Map and S Coloured Illustrations,
price 12s. 6d., cloth,
13ERMIIDA, a COLONY, a FORTRESS, and a
PRISON; or, Eighteen Months in the Somers Islands.

By a FIELD OFFICER.
" Bermuda, as a prison, is very important."—Dally News.
" We part from him with regret."—Literary Gazette.
" A man of observation. and of ability."—Globe.
" A highly interesting account of transportation."—Record.
" It is full of Information, and agreeably written."—Press.
"A field officer writes with all the frankness of a soldier."—Sun.
" A pleasant narrative."—Examiner.
" A pleasant account of this group, as colony, fortress, and prison."
—Spectator.
" Various suggestions particularly valuable and seasonable."—
John Bull. . . .

" Conveys a large amount of information in a pleasing form.".
United Service Magazine.
" This very interesting volume."—United Service Gazette.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.

Just published, New and Improved Edition, price One Shilling,
THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION s
being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and
Important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease.
By FRANCIS 11. RAMADGE, M.D.,
Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the
Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, &c.
Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d.,

A TREATISE on ASTHMA and DISEASES of the HEART.
Louden: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

On the Ist of March will be published, Part 1., price 2d., of
FEIST'S RACING RECORD, containing a
complete CALENDAR of SPORT, from the Ist of January
to the day of publication.
Edited by ALBERT FEIST,
Editor of the Turf Department of the "Sunday Times," and Reporter
of Sporting Intelligence to the London daily papers, &c.
Printed and pubiished, on the Ist of each month, by William
Wright, Sporting Printer and Publisher, Fulyrood-rents, Holborn.

Just published, price 2d., or post free 3d., the 102 d Edition of
THE NATURAL REGENERATOR of the
DIGESTIVE ORGANS, the STOMACH; LIVER, NERVES,
LUNGS, &c., without Medicine, Galvanism, Electricity, inconve-
nience, and expense, by an easy, natural, pleasant, and infallible
remedy, which saves fifty times its cost in other means of cure.
Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Che-
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King, and many other respectable persons, whose health has been
restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed.

London : Barry Da Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street.

Just published, price 55., by post free, ss. 63.,

ON STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA :
its PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT. Illus-
trated by numerous Cases selected from the Records of upwards of
Twenty Years' extensive and successful Practice, and which embrace
every variety of Urethral Contraction, together with appropriate
Means of Cure.

By F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Snrgeons of England.
Belliere, 219, Regent-street.
"We believe Mr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of
stricture to have equalled, if it has not exceeded, that of any of his
contemporaries; whilst we most certainly know of no man to whose
care we would sooner intrust the treatment of a severe case of stric-
ture."—Medical Circular.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
AND MID i,AND RAILWAYS.
NOTTINGHAM RACES, the 24th and 25th of February.
First and Second Class ordinary DAY TICKETS will be issued at
the Euston Station, to NOTTINGHAM, by all Trains, en %lON DAY.
TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY, the 43d, 24th, and 25th of Febru-
ary, available to return by all trains ox Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, the 23d, 24th, 25th, and 26th of February.
The 6.15 a.m train from Euston arrives at Nottingham at 10.25
a.m., and the 9.15 a.m. at 1 p.m.
By Order.
General Manager's Office, Easton Station, Feb. 16, 1557.

Foot, to be Captain, vice Sir David Baird, Bart., who
exchanges.
79th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Gore Currie to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major H. W. Campbell,
who retires ; Ensign Herbert B. Adcock to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Currie.
iOth Foot—Valentine O'Connor, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Grattan, promoted in the 2d Foot.
82(1 Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Meyler Milton,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Poulden,
appointed to the Staff.
95th Foot—Lieut. John Telcher bas been permitted to
resign his commission ; Chas. Thos, Coote, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Nicholas, promoted.
98th Foot—Captain Frederick Rhodes, from the 27th
Foot, to be Captain, vine Croker, who exchanges ; Capt.
Sir David Baird, Bart., from the 74th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice Venables, who exchanges. 4
DEPOT BATTALION.—Brevet-Lieut.-Col. Sir J. Alex-
ander, from the 14th Foot, to be Major, vice Holworthy,
who exchanges ; the Commission of Quartermaster Wm.
Drage, as a Quartermaster, to be dated the 21st Feb., 1855.
UNATTACHED.—Major C. J. Foster, from the 3d Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase; Capt-
and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Lowndes, 47th
Foot, to have the Subst intive Rank of Major, under the
Royal Warrant of 6th 1854 ; Brevet-Major George
Edward Brown-Westhead, Oct,Of the 34th Foot, to have his
Brevet Rank convected into Substantiveßank, under the
Royal Warrant of 6th October, 135.1.
HOSPITAL STAFF.— Assistant-Surgeon Frederick George
Ponlden, from the 82d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Milton, appointed to the 82d Foot.
BREVET.
The undermentioned officers of the East India Com-
pany's Service, retired on full-pay, to have a step of Hono-
rary Rank as follows :
a
Colonel W. Brett, Bombay rkaery, to be Major.
General-
Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Bonldersoll, Madras Infantry, to be
Colonel.

TO 'BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS,

Major H. D. Maitland, Bengal Infantry.
Major A. Barker, Madras Infantry.
Major R. H. Baldwin, Bengal Infantry.
TO BE MAJOR.

Captain George Robert Remington, Bombay Infantry.
31.Em01 ANDum.—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lionel
Fitz Gerald, upon half-pay of the Royal Artillery, has
been permitted to retire from the Service by the sale of
his commission, he being about to become a settler in
Canada.

ANOTHER MEETING OF "UNEMPLOYED"

AT SMITHFIELD.

Yesterday the unfortunate men who are at present
suffering from want of employment were ind aced to
assemble in large numbers at their usual place of rendez-
vous by an invitation from Mr. Ernest Jones, who pro-
mised that if they would meet him there he would tell
them "how to obtain relief now, and how to become in-
dependent of it very soon." Mr. Jones accordingly ad-
dressed some 2,000 or 3,000 persons, a great many of whom,
however, evidently did not belong to the " unemployed,"
in his usual strain of invective against the present holders
of property and depositaries of power. He declared that
the existing want of employment arose from permanent,
and not from temporary causes. The welts were not
frozen, but were dried up, and they must dig deeper if
they wished again to open the sources of labour and of
prosperity for the people. He ascribed the suspension of
the building trade to the national debt, which had impo-
verished many and enriched a few. Capital was withdrawn
from other trades and invested in building, because those
who by usury bad suddenly become rich were not content
to live at their warehouses in the city, but must have fine
boxes and splendid villas in the suburbs. But that sys-
tem had run its course. New houses were no longer wanted,
while many that were already built were untenanted,
and hence non-employment in that trade. Large numbers
of men being thus thrown out of work the labour market
became overstocked, and the natural consequence was a fall
of wages, the masters in other trades paying off those who
were out of work against those whd were in work. Another
cause why surplus labour now oppressed the people arose
from the fact that the system of 'railways had run its
tether. The great extension of railways called many
thousands of persons into the iron trade, but their labour
was now no longer required, and those'who had been with-
drawn from agricultural pursuits to the iron trade could
not fall back upon the land, for that resource was closed
against them. Again, the price of cotton bad been raised;
the United States and many countries on the continent of
Europe had become manufacturers of cotton goods, and the
only means the English manufacturers had to meet this
competition was to reduce wages. This being the state of
things, the cry of the people was—" Where shall we go ?
What shall we do to live ?" He would tell them. They had
not yet taken one step to better their condition. Emigra-
tion, workhouse relief, and a national subscription had
been recommended to them ; but emigration was imprac-
ticable, workhouse relief was insulting and degrading, while
a subscription was in its nature only temporary, and what
they required was some permanent remedy for the evils they
were enduring. The only good thing recommended to them
by the "Association" which had undertaken to advise them
was the cultivation of the waste lands of England, and that
was a plan he himself suggested 10 years ago. Thera were
30,000,000 acres of land in this country which had never
felt the touch of plough or spade, 20,000,000 of which were
good average land and capable of tillage. But how were
they to obtain possession of it ? They were advised to peti-
tion Parliament, bat Parliament consisted of the very men
who owned the land, and whose interest it was that no
more acres should be brought into cultivation, for that
would cheapen food, and cheap food would reduce rents,
and the landowners needed high rents to pay the fixed
charges on their property, nearly all of which was
heavily burdened with mortgages and other charges.
What, then, were they to do ? They must obtain a Parlia•
meat of their own, and that could only be achieved by uni-
versal suffrage. Let them rally, then, around him, and go
for the People's Charter. He would lead them. When
they had once obtained Parliamentary power his plan
would be to create out of the unemployed 1,000,000 inde-
pendent farmers by settling them on the waste land. These
farmers, so created, would require cottages and clothing,
and thus would bo absorbed the labour of all the brick-
layers, the masons, the carpenters, the shoemakers, the
tailors, and other trades who were now raising the cry,
" Where shall we go ? What shall we do &sliver" Agita-
tion had obtained for the middle classes a reduction of
the income tax ; let the working classes weld themselves
together, and then Parliament would see what millions of
stout hearts, led by honest and intelligent minds, could
achieve. (Cheers.) Mr. Jones continued this mode of
address for upwards of an hour, and in the course of it he
on two or three occasions called for.a show of hands in
confirmation of the doctrines he was endeavouring to in-
culcate. He declared his present object to be to warn Vie
Government and the Parliament .If they conceded the
waste lands to the working classes ho would retire into
private life, and all agitation should cease ; but if they
disregarded the just claims of the suffering millions, then
he would come forward and aid in the formation of a
mighty political organisation, whose demands neither
Parliament nor Government would be able to resist. At
the close of his speech Mr. Jones hurriedly retired, and the
people quietly dispersed, without having at any period
during the address evinced any strong feeling of zeal or
earnestness in favour of the arguments which had been
placed before them.