The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1844,

Another great meeting of the Anti-Corn-law
League took place on Wednesday night, in the New
Hall, at Rochdale. The organs of monopoly must
be grievously perplexed by this additional proof of
the vitality of the League, for according to their
accounts it was in a state of fearful decrepitude full
three months since, and there was not the slightest
probability of its ever again disturbing the slumber
of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, or giving occasion for
any further manifestations of eloquence on the part of
Mr. BANKES, whose description of his Dorsetshire
Arcadia caused, it may be remembered, a very
considerable sensation in the House of Commons last
session, if not by its matter-of-fact accuracy, at any
rate by the brilliant inventive genius by which it
was characterised. The Post, the Standard, and the
Herald, having already pronounced the Anti-Corn-
law League to be all but in articulo mortis, and
THE VALUE OF
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chiefengaged
mourners in busy
at
its
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obtained for money on solid security was made manifest Pttlt
490,320 last week at the Auction Mart, on the occasion of Mr. funeral, it must be a great act of presumption in this
Total
w contumaciousard and
declare,
bcooimnge
i.n publiclyill-health fo r-,
How does it happen that all these facts come together George Robins having to sell freehold ground-rents
and corroborate each other ? They are not picked amounting to 2401. a year. A reversionary. interest was
it never was in a more thriving
o,ut of returns prepared and got up by the members of appends d
4to. this sale, at the expiration of 77 years, but
condition in its life,
the Anti-Corn-law League, hut from raturns fur- this. rever ion, at such a distant period, was worth no-
thing', and yet the ground-rents averaged more than 31 and as for dying, it never had the slightest intention
Wished by Government.—(Applause.) Arguments
of giving up the ghost ! 'We remember a remark-
ably robust and vigorous gentleman, with a
are as plentiful as blackberries in the season ; you may years' purchase ; and a peppercorn rent for 77 years,
--a I (when the fee simple will be possessed), of the Hope and
go to any district, agriaaltil al or mainufacturing,, and
I declare it is impossible to fix on any point, or get Anchor public -house, estimated at 1001. a-year, actually
produced 100 guiacss. The interest upon this sum, with face like a full-moon, and a chest like that
1101 d of any statistics but what will conduct to
the compound inter, st for 77 yeafs, will amount to 4,600/. lof Hercules in the Elgin marbles,
the same conclusion ; they all condemn this infamous
which is consequently the enormous value the pepper-
f k and who
Jaw.—(Applause.) The lion. Gentleman referred to
corn produced.--Iferning Post. never in his lire what it was to have
the circurnstancas under which these emigrants left, THE RAILWAY RIOTS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.— a headache, modestly observing in reply to some
anal observed that it was not like the sons of aristocrats Several examinations
Gf parties concerned in the riots common-place interogatory of a friend, that, thank
going to make the grand tour ; they tore themselves consequent upon the attempt of the railway surveyors to I GOD, he enjoyed excellent health, though he looked
away from losociations as strong as any men felt, and get upon Lard Harbor.ough's property, have taken place
f.:r why ? That hen,: ekes and their chikirt n might befare the county magaarates. In some cases the par-
obtain a maintenance. He had s - • grants 1.
seen an emi op ties have been held to bail for assaults; in others the' excellent health, though it looks delicate—at . least
in
delicate; and so may the League reply ;—it enjoys
:euving the dock at Liyarpool, all weeping on board, magistrates have rani:net to grant warrants. On Monday I the estimation of our Tory Contemporaries, who
•ards of 200 s rcial constablas were sworn in for
auld their friends on shore equally weeping, at t.lting uP" P - • • . never will be persuaded but that it must very shortly
was remarkedi_. that
their lust leave of them. It waS oft taenty-one days, and placed in various parts of Staple-
•langliimen who had gone to America,ford Park, and there are also several in the neighbour-
spo {e bitterly ing go off in a galloping consumption. Those, however,
elf their own country ; but when it was villages, headed by some of the Leicester county 1 whose judgment is not wholly eclipsed by their pre-
y
that they had been forced away by the Geoniveenun.ent
eightaateh
iiinouprasr.tiesltofwaabsoustttawtee(ni tweet i
i judices, take a very different view of the case, and
apnodlicaereforrceelieNt-ehdeYelv7
,d saw the very wheat for which they pined Melton on W d , 1 •
h e ne.a.ay that the surveys had re-com- I consider that at the present moment the Anti-
lock -4-1 up in
by the te Oakh:,!rn Canal towing path, and as; Corn-law League exercises a greater moral influence.
,st. that they left this land with a inaledie4ion ' there apopnearts
flared
in 1 Ilarborough his advi'sers will venture
Act
of
pabrie
jaamr(thtitofiswonyorteserved to the public over the public mind than it has done at any time
to seek a living under a
.more just
thought that L
in their it4"ths'
.Lord
tablishment. Were it not so, we
aa , With reelect tco Crime,
again upon i
1-1 ' since its first es
Governme. v '
should not find it effecting such searching reforms
.. 1836-7, ejecting the ailrvvay agents from it.

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