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This day is Published,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW,
No. xxxii. CONTENTS :

1. Critics and Criticism in France.
2. Arnold's Lectures—The Church and State.
3. The Muiical Anti9uarian Society.
4. The Principles of Tariffs applied.
.. Secret Diplomacy of Louis XIV.
6. The Oxford Controversy—Anglo-Catholicism.
7. The Oregon Territory.
8. Laing's Notes of a Traveller.
9. Ireland—Repeal of the Union.
10. Note on the Law of Debtor and Creditor.
11. Postscript on the Oregon Territory Question—The
President's Message.
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GLASGOW IRE E TRADE
BANQUET.

This great and important demonstration in support of the
principles cf free trade, and especially in behalf of a total
repeal of the corn and provision-laws, took place on Wednes-
day, in the City Hall. In point of respectability, according
to the ordinary acceptation of this term, the meeting was
perhaps never surpassed in Glasgow. The entire number of
persons in the hall was about 2,000, including ladies, of whom
150 occupied the western gallery.
The Chair wa' occupied by the Hon. the Lord Provost.
Vice-Chairmen--Walter Buchanan, Esq. ; John Tennant,
Esq. ; Alexander Graham, Etq. ; William Cross, Esq.
On the Chairman's platform were the following gentlemen :
—The lion. Fox Maule, M.P. ; James Oswald, Esq., M.P. ;
Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. ; Colonel Thompson ; H. R. R.
Moore. Esq. ; John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Archdeacon Hastie,
Esq , M.P. ; Rev. Dr. Wardiaw, Rev. Dr. Peugh, Rev.
Dr. Willis, George Stirling, E.q. ; Samuel Higginbotham,
Esq ; John Wilson, Esq., Dundyvan ; P. W. Kennedy,
Esq., of Drumellan ; Robert Stewart, Esq. ; George Ander-
son, Esq. ; David Chapman, Esq. ; William Gemmel', Esq. ;
Walter Crum, Esq. ; Alexander Cooper, Esq. ; David Mur-
ray, Esq. ; George Brown, Esq. ; Charles Gray, Esq. •
James Scott, Esq. ; John Ker, Esq. ; Andrew Galbraith,
Esq. ; Thomas Speirs, Esq. ; John Young, jun., Esq. ; George
Stevenson, Esq. ; John Ker, Esq. ; John Kerr, Esq.
At the other end of the table were—Provost Bain, Gree-
nock; Bailies, Hamilton, Whitehead, Hastie, and Anderson ;
Provost Bankier ; Bailie Bunten ; James Dunlop, Esq. ;
George Crawford, Esq. ; George Wilson, Esq. ; John Wil-
son, Esq., Auebeneden ; John Robertson, Esq. ; Robert
Hutchinson, Esq. ; Robert Bartholomew, Esq.; William
Gray, Esq. ; John Pattison, Esq. ; John Anderson, Esq. ;
11. P... Crum, Esq. ; A. C. Dick, Esq., Advocate ; Alexander
Denny, Esq. ; William Cooper, Esq. ; William Logie, Esq. ;
and P. Cowan, Esq.
Letters of apology were received and read from Lord Dun-
fermline, Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. ;
P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P. ; G. Duncan, Esq., M.P. ; J.
Fergus, Esq., late M.P.; and W. D. Dillon, Esq., of Wall-
house.

The LORD PROVOST, in rising to propose the first toast, was
loudly cheered. lie said—Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great
pleasure in taking the chair on this occasion. The question
of free-trade has long occupied the attention of the citizens
of Glasgow, many of whom, towards the close of the last cen-

tury, zealously maintained the sound principles which the
celebrated Adam Smith so ably and admirably propounded and
practically illustrated, whilst he filled one of the chairs in our
University.—(Cheers. ) lam happy to find that so many of
,our intelligent merchants and manufacturers of the present
time are becoming every day more and more alive to the im-
portant principles involved in this all-engrossing subject—the
abolition of all monopolies ; and I assure you that 1 feel gra-
tified, when an opportunity occurs, that I can, in the exercise
of my duty as chief magistrate, give countenance and support
to any measure that will tend to ameliorate the condition of
the working classes, or improve the commercial and ma-
nufacturing interests of this great and flourishing city,
the mercantile metropolis of Scotland.—(Great cheering.)
We have met here to-night to express our abL.orrence of those
laws which, by enhancing the price of bread, cut deeply into
the comforts of this great community, as well as of the coun-
try generally. They also tend, by restricting our intercourse
with foreign nations, to limit the demand for our manufactures,
diminishing the employment of the working population, and
the necessary consequences follow—the reduction of the wages
of our operatives and artisans.—( Hear.) lam well aware
there are many gentlemen whom I have the pleasure of seeing
around me, who will in the course of the evening explain and
enter upon the details, and picture to you, in more glowing
terms than I can, the misery those unjust laws inflict on the
vast majority of our population. To them I leave the task;
and I now request you will fervently join in doing special
honour to ono whose father's principles, as well as her own
education and feelings leave us no room to doubt that in her
we have a friend to every measure that can promote the social
happiness, comfort, and prosperity of the people —" lho
Queen."—( Great cheering.)
His LORDSHIP then proposed successively_" His Royal
Highness Prince Albert," and " The Prince of Wales and
Royal Family," which were drunk with applause.
The LORD PROVOST then called on the Hon. Fox 111aule for
the next toast.

Mr. FOttiiAULE, who was loudly and enthusiastically ap-
plauded, and "one cheer more," was given for the Member
for Perth, said—Ladies and Gentlemen in rising to address
you on this occasion, I feel that to-night I have been placed in
a position which there are many here present vouch more
worthy to occupy than myself. Indeed I should have been
disposed rather to follow those who have already led the way in
bringing the great principles of free trade before the public,
than to be put forward as the first to introduce that subject to
you this evening. But it. has been the pleasure of the Com-
mittee to arrange it so, and I shall, therefore, endeavour, in as
few words as I can, to give the toast which they have allotted to
my share. It embraces the great and wide subject of " Free
Trade"—( Cheering)_a toast into all the ramifications of which
I will not enter in detail—for, were I to do so, in the first
place I should weary your patience, and in the next place, I
should do'that of which I have sometimes had occasion to com-
plain in following the toasts of other speakers--I should
trench upon my neighbour's ground. 1 shall endeavour
to avoid that if possible, and 1 shall endeavour to speak to
those paramount principles which, if they exist any-
where, I should imagine must and will exist in that city
in which Adam Smith taught and wrote—( Hear, hear )
—in that city which boasts itself not only the commercial and
manufacturing metropolis of Scotland, but is second scarcely
to any city in the empire.—( Applause.) The principles of
free trade, Gentlemen, have begun to force themselves so con-
vincingly, day after day, upon the minds of the inhabitants of
this country, that it scarcely requires—indeed it would be an
insult to your understanding—that I should go back into their
origin, or trace them to their ultimate objects. I consider that
the proper business of such a meeting as this is to consult toge-
ther, and to listen to practical suggestions as to how, in the
speediest and most effective, and, at the same time, in the
safest manner, we can carry these principles into effect ha the
Government and Legislature of our country.—(Loud cheers.)
I think you will admit that we have had of late years pretty
clear and plain proof that the old systems of special protection
are not these upon which—even though you might believe and
countenance them for the moment—the vast interests of such a
country as this can permanently stand.—( Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) Like a plant, which may be reared or forced in a
hot-bed or hot-house, monopoly may be of benefit for the
moment; but to stand all the tear and wear of a changeful
cimate—to be thoroughly fixed and permanently rooted in
our soil, it is not destined, and you may rely upon it, that
monopoly is not the plant to flourish in this country ; nor is
our soil likely to be burdened with it much longer.—( Cries of
" Hear.") We are free men, and why should we not have
free trade ?—( Applause.) I think it stands to reason that that
system is best, and promotes to the greatest extent the well-
being of all, which shall give to us the easiest enjoyment of
that which the rest of the world produces, and which shall con-
vey to the rest of the world the produce of our own industry in
return. Now, time are the principles upon which I for one
wish to see legislation; and I wish to see them embraced not
in this point only, but in all. In fact, I wish to see no taxation
in this country which is not solely for the purpose of maintain-
ing our national credit, and answering our national engage-
ments—(Hear, hear)—and I would further wish to see that
taxation so levied that its pressure might be equal on all classes,
and that no class or section should have exemption at the ex-
pense of another. There are various subjects to which the
principles of free trade hare been more peculiarly directed ; but
as one deeply interested in the prosperity of agriculture, I am
not sorry to have the opportunity before this company, in this
great city, to bear my public testimony to that which has been
asserted by others—that I believe free trade in agriculture, or,
in other words, the repeal of the corn-laws, which give a mono-
poly to the owners or holders of land, should be, for the general
good of the country, conceded—that these laws should be imme-
diately repealed.--( Loud applause ) I have not come to this
opinion suddenly, nor have I arrived at it from any personal
motive or purpose ; but the more I have considered the sub-
ject, the more I have been convinced, not only that the land-
owner or landholder will not be losers by the repeal of the
corn-laws, for that is a narrow view of the question, but they
will he so far gainers that, without any loss to themselves, the
repeal of these laws will confer an immense boon on the rest
of the community.—( Hear.) Now, in reference to the article
corn, I would like to say one or two worts on that subject to
any farmers who may be here present, and I would wish to
express my conviction, from the little experience I have had
in communication with agriculturists, and especially with the
tenantry of this country, that I believe there is a growing
opinion amongst the tenantry, that the sooner the corn-law is
settled the better, and that they will not consider any settle-
ment satisfactory which does not involve a total repeal of these
laws.—( Applause.) This I believe to be a growing feeling
among the agricultural population ; and our agricultural pepu-
lation, you will bear-in mind, and the gentlemen from England
wig bear in mit-id, depend mostly upon leases and u;on fixed
engagements with their landlord. But to what do I trace this
change and growth of opinion ? I trace it to the efforts of a
body' of which, though I am not a member myself, yet. I can-
not have looked unebservantly upon what they have been
doing during the last twelve months. It was not my inten-
tion to hale entered into any details regarding the Anti-
Corn-law kague; yet when I sec a body of wen 111 much

entitled to hold their opinions, and to press them on the public
as I or any other class of the community are entitled to I old
opinions—when I see a body composed of such gentlemen as
these on my right and left, to whom have been attributed ma-
licious motives, and who have been falsely attacked and chal-
lenged for using the most atrocieua of language, and the most
horrible of doctrines—when I see this I must take the liberty of
stating my opinion of the high merits of that body, and of the
important services which the Anti-Cern-law League have ren-
dered during the last twelve months.—( Hear, hear. 1 I have
often remarked quietly to various members of that body, that
in the first commencement of their career, they, as well as
their opponents, dealt too much in bandying hard words with
each other. I told them that this was not only a waste of their
time, but a highly impolitic proceeding into the bargain ; but
during the last twelve months we have seen that body scattering
arguments throughout the length and breadth of the land__
reams of. reason flowing from their press, and working by that
machinery, and fighting with those weapons which are most
worthy of reasoning men, and moat likely to convince reason-
ing beings.— (Loud applause.) here may, no doubt, have
been here and there, in a large body such as this, sense
men whose vivid imagination and fiery temperament may
have occasionally run away with them; but we must judge a
body like this by its written feelings and opinion', not from
the sudden speeches of some of its members. And when we
look upon the endeavours of the Anti •Corn-law League to
inform the public upon all the bearings of the great question
of free trade, I must admit I have seldom seen-an association
—and I do not in general approve of such associations for the
purpose of urging on legislation—l have never known one
which had such beneficial objects in view, or urged them with
such legitimate and laudable weapons. I have thought it right
to say this much, and to express publicly my ep.nion in order
to show that though I do not belong to them, 1 am so far from
discouraging their efforts, that I regard them as the means of
vast good. and it is our duty therefore to bear up against those
who would foully and unjustly calumniate them.--( Hoar. )
Having said this much in regard to this great and growing
body in the country, permit me to go on to state that I believe
that cause they have been advocating is coming by slow and
sure degrees to a crisis.--( Hear, hear.) When I look into
England—when I regard the counties of England, and observe
the different tone of language which is now held rt agricul-
tural meetings, I cannot he p being struck with a strong feel-
ing that the landlords and farmers of England. though they
won't confess it themselves, are making up their minds for
what they see is inevitably approaching.—(" Hear, hear," and
applause.) Why, we begin to hear in the counties of Eng-
land remarks on she necessity of leases, and suggestions as
to the utility of draining—we begin to have the practice of
the Lothians quoted in Devonshire and Dorsetshiro—and
we find that agricultural associations are no longer mere
bodies met for the purpose of dining together, and hearing or
making speeches in favour of monopoly; but they have ant
themselves earnestly to do business in their own line, by en-
deavouring to point out to the tenantry of the country how
they may make the land grow more, mad how, by increased
production, they may meet the defalcation, should there be a
defalcation, produced by a repeal of the corn-laws.—( Hear.)
It has been generally imagined that the mast prosperous tenant
was the man who held his farm at the lowest amount of rent;
but let me tell you, and in doing so I have the authority of
eminent agriculturists, that a rent inadequately low is nothing
more nor less than a reward for indolence. The man whose
rent is so low that, with the merest daily labour, he can extract
from the ground that which is necessary for his ordinary scents,
will leave his land in t .e same state that he got it.--( Hear,
hear.) But the man who is spurred on by a long rent, or a
large family, will exert every nerve to make the ground pro-
duce to the uttermost; and that man of all others is he who
will not fear any repeal of the corn-laws, but will rather court
the settlement of a question which distracts his attention, and
which, when settled, will leave him at liberty to ap-
ply his energies in a manner from which he will be
be sure to derive a fair return. Such seniiments, lam con-
vinced, will in due time prevail all over England ; but I be-
lieve we shall not succeed in this great question till we can se-
cure leases to improving tenants. But some of the English
landlords complain that they cannot do without the corn-laws
because their estates are burdened with mortgages. These
men, then, may not be able to afford the money to improve
their own estates ; but, if they give leases, enterprising tenants
will be found to improve these lands and lay out the money.
And shall the indisposition of the proprietors to lay out this
money, which may more properly be stated as an indisposition
to part with their hold over the consciences of their tenantry—
shall this indirposition interfere between the public and their
obtaining this great been ? A boon it is not—it is their right.
It is the right of the people of this country to have food at the
lowest possible price; and when this can be had without in-
jury to any class, I say the longer we are in obtainiag this
right from the Government, the more blame we should take
to ourselves that the question is so long unsettled. But that
we shall obtain it in a few years I am convinced—we shall
secure it, either from the rinciples of a Liberal Govern-
ment, or the fears of a Tory Government—we shall either
have it in the same spirit in which the repeal of the Test
and Corporation Acts or Municipal Reform were given,
or we shall obtain it in the same way as Catholic Emancipation
was secured in 1829.—( Hear, hear.) But it is a most
wretched state for the country to be in in the mean time; and
it is worse to have men in power who will nibble at reforms
without making them while there is time. There must be no
nibbling in the case of free trade. " Nibbling," as Lord John
Russell said to Sir Robert Peel, "that unsettles everything
and settles nothing." And, therefore, the safest, and wisest,
and best course for all parties is, to let us have done with all
those laws which give any one class a superiority over another
—which gives a boon and protection to which they have no title
in justice; for I maintain that no men or class is entitled to
protection in the shape of monopoly on any pretence whatever.
—( Applause.) It is not my intention to detain you longer
from the business of the evening. I have merely made these
remarks as leading to the practical development of the subject
before us, and I conclude by inviting you to join me, in drink-
ing the toast of " Free Trade," in condemning all opposite
principles of legislation, and in pressing for a speedy abolition
of those monopolies which are a burden to the country and a
bane to the people.—( The toast was given with the most en-
thusiastic plaudits, after which the Hon. Gentleman resumed
his seat.)

The LORD PROVOST, after adverting to the fact that the
Legislature had turned a deaf ear to reasonable remonstrance.
and thereby given the League enormous power, requested the
meeting cordially te join him in the" Health of the gentlemen
composing the deputation from the League."—(Cheering. )
Mr. CORDEY acknowledged the toast, and was received with
every demonstration of the most enthusiastic welcome.—( The
cheering continued loud and long, and the Hon. Gentleman, at
the outset of his speech, was more than once interrupted by a
repetition of the plaudits). He said—Nly Lord Provost,
Ladies, and Gentlemen, it gives me great happiness to have the
honour of appearing before such an audience as this, especially
when I have fresh upon my recollection the proceedings which
took place twelve months ago, and the gratifying and flattering
circumstances which then attended my visit here. Since we
last had the opportunity of meeting, important circumstances,
not a few, have marked the progress of our movement ; and if
we were to be asked at what time free-trade opinions were
making the most rapid progress, I would say that now they are
progressing more than at any former period. While we had
ten converts yesterday, we have 100—nay, 1,000--to-day ;
not only converts, but active missionaries in the cause. And
it:is impossible for any one to suppose that our cause, marked by
the circumstances which have attended the movement, can ever
go back. Our excellent Lord Provost has alluded to the
labours of individuals in chnnexion with this movement.;
but I would be ashamed of myself, as my friends here would
also be, were we to arrogate to ourselves the prin-
cipal merit of the great advance which has been re-
cently made. There are many men whom I could
name—men not publicly known—who have done as much to
promote the advance of the cause, and ensure its success, and
who are still labouring in their own circles, as those who have
been constantly before the world, and had all the eclat of the
movement. Well, then, if I were asked what is the reason of
the rapid progress we have lately made, I would say, that next
to the justice of our cause, and to that wise discretion that has
induced the League to adhere to the one great question—l
should say, that we are more indebted to the conduct of our
opponents than to any other circumstance.—( Hear.) 11 I had
been requested to prescribe the course of conduct which our
opponents, both in Parliament and out zif Parliament should
pursue, I would however, having a due regard to the interests
of free trade, have prescribed that very course which they
have been kind enough to adopt.—( Hear, and a laugh.) I
should have recommended the exercise of tricks and chicanery
in the House, and the employment of ruffianism out of it ; and
if 1 could have raked up from the kennel the ready tool of any
party—if I could have found men abandoned in public and pri-
vate life, and induced our opponents to employ them as the
organs of monopoly, I should have recommended those very
men whom they have taken. I should have advised them not
to advance by slow degrees in the charges of a criminal nature
against members of the League. I should have advised to take
charges of petty larceny in the outset, and ascend through the
calendar of crime to assassination itself.—( Hear, and a laugh. )
That would have been the peculiarly proper course, fur it is by
some such gradations that human nature advances from little
to the great depths of criminally ; and I should should have
said—charge the men who have the merit of ordinary propriety
and decorum in their lives—charge them with assassination
at once. By so doing, I should have known, that in dealing
with the people of England—the shrewd and right-hearted
people of England—we should have covered our accusers with
ignominy and contempt. Having said that I am obliged to our
opponents for the course they have pursued, I would also say,
that we are not setting up for ourselves the merit of possessing
any superior amount of virtue. We do not say that we have a
claim for more than a man could expect in a servant at eighteen
shillings a week. We only say that we stand here presenting
a favourable contrast to the champions of monopoly, by whom
we have been assailed. The champions and the cause are
worthy of each other. The Hon. Member then adverted to
what the League had done and, what it proposed to do, and
spoke at considerable length of the rapid and vast progress it
had made at the meetings it had held in the agricultural dis-
tricts, of the benefit of the repeal of the corn-laws to the capi-
talists and labourers, and concluded thus :—And now I have
had a toast put into my hands to which I find it neeessery to
advert. My friend, Mr. )Mule, made a promise he would
not trench on any other person's ground, and, like every
other promise of the kind, given at a public meeting,' he
broke it, by going over the whole of my ground.—( Laughter.)
But as he did it so much better than I ceuld have done, and
with much greater authority, I am happy that he took up the
agricultural view of this question.—( Cheers. ) I shall not,
Gentlemen, touch upon the ground likely to be taken up by
other speakers, the moral ground of this question, which is one
that cannot he dwelt upon too much.—(Cheers.) For while
we consider i. as one sf pounds, shillings and pence, let us re•
member that there are bearings in the free trade question far
higher than these—that free trade is the most benignant of
principles. As Sir Robert Peel said, it is to buy in the'
cheapest, and sell in the dearest market. This may be said te
be a selfish principle ; but it is in fact, just to take your pro-
duce that is cheap, to those countries where it is dear.
--
(Cheers.) And it is our taking this produce, because it is
cheap there, and bringing it to our country, because it is dear
here.— ( Cheers.) If you view flee trade with this definition,
you will never arrive at the opinion, that there is anything
selfish in free trade ; but, on the contrary, you will find that it
is the reverse—that it is feeding the hungry and clothing the
naked, in the most comprehensive manner all over the world.
Mr. Cobden then gave " The agricultural interests sof the
country, and may all classes connected with it become satisfied
that they cannot prosper while commeree and manufactures'
decay."—(Drunk with loud cheering.)
Mr. ALEXANDER GRAHAM proposed "The minister_sregof
religion who bare identified themselves with the cause /

trade." A few year. ago, two clerical torerbeations were held
en this special subject. The flret was at Manchester, and con-
sisted of 650 dissenting ministers of all denominations. Besides,
nearly 9;.e9 other absent ministers also addressed letters to the
a‘sembly, expressive of their approbation of its object.—( Hetr,
hear.) The other convocation, held at Edinburgh, consisted
of 200 ministers. Each lersembly closed irs sittings with a
solemn address to the public, condemning all nenopolies. at.
ahke offen ive to God and injurious to man. United, they form
a sacred cloud of witnesses to the justice of our cause.—
(Cheers.) I woul t not maliciously keep alive from oblivion
the memory of that act of the General Assembly, by which they
petitioned Parliament against a repeal of the corn-laws, as
threatening to depreciate the value of their grain revenues ; but
the fact is worthy of record, as an illustration of this one most
repulsive aspect of a bad system, und• r which the ministers of
religion have become vested with an interest antagopal to that
of the people, and are exhibited before the world as collateral
sharers in the spoils of an unjust monopoly--orie even tempting
them, in the secrecy of their hearts, to contradict and revsl the
weekly public prayer of their lips fur plenty in the land both to
man and beast.—( hear, hear. )
The Rev. Dr. Pht:Gli, amidst loud cheering, proposed—
" The progress of knowledge, a necessary guarantee for the
extension and permanence of Lee institutions."—(lmmense
cheering.) Alter adverting to the moral bearings of the ques-
tion, he said,— I think we are apt sometimes to blame Sir R.
Peel too much.—( Hear, hear.) We must be just to that
,Minister; and in some points of view I think he is entit'ed to
oar hearty thanks, and especially for conferring on the country
a great boon which Sir Robert Peel never meant, perhaps, to
bestow upon it, but which, nevertheless, does not alter the
nature of the gift. But for Sir Robert Peel contending for the
corn-law, and using every effort to keep it as it is, I suppose not
a few of the distinguished persons who figure most promi-
nently at the present day might have lived and died in the pri-
vacy of retirement. But Sir Robert has brought them out of
that pi iraey, which to them was luxury, to bring them into the
arena of public life, to fasten on them the eye!, tee confidence.
and the affections of this country and contrived to marshal
under them the people of all classes—bankers, merchants,
tradesmen, and even the farmers themselves. And we may
even suppose, that Sir Robert is preparing the way for
others to follow those classes, fiom whose efforts 'I trust
that he and his associates will either withdraw or be
driven from power.--( Vehement cheer,ng.) I say then, my
Lord Provost, is not Sir Robert Peel a public benefactor—
( Laughter)—unconscious, 'you' may say—condescending, yen
may say—but, after all, is he not a:sublime benefactor ?—( fle-
pewee:laughter. ) Can you listen to what you have heard
from the right hand -of the char, and what you will no dank
yet hear from the left hand, and yet say that Sir Robert Peel
is not entitled to vour—l perhaps say ironical—but et exult-
ing approbation'—( Continued laughter.) Yes, let Sir Hobert
persist, and we will persist also ; let Sir Robert support mono-
poly, we will oppose it ; let him and his friends club their
money, we will do so too; and let it be one or two years, if
we only continue true to ourselves, and to the great cause
we are engaged in, we are as sure to beat him as we are en-
gaged in conflict with him.-r( Loud cheers.) The Rev. Gen-
tleman gave the toast amidst loud and repeated cheering.
Mr. Beienr now rose amid loud and prolonged cheering.
When silence had in some measure been restored, he said—l
have been requested by the Committee of management to speak
to this meeting on a part of the subject %%bleb contains the
which--that is, that part which is included in the phrase—
, " The total and immediate repeal of the corn-lass s"—( t heere.")
and if I had not been so requested, I have ,00 doubt but this
particular parr, or whole of the sus jest, would have presented
itself to my mind at the very first. For the total repeal we
ask, because we ate resolved never to be satisfied with
less than complete justize ; for immediate repeal we ask,
because having discovered what would be. complete jes•
tice, we are resolved that that justice will not be de-
leyed one moment if we can help it.—( Great cheering. )
We have been for twenty-eight years living under the opera-
tion of this corn-law, and have, as men generally do in such
cases, become so accustomed to it, that we are almost unable
to discover the hideousness of its features, or the deformity of
its character ; but that it is hideous, that it has been most m's-
chievous, that it is to this hour destroying the hope and the
happiness of thousands, we are well aware. The Hon. Gen-
tleman then entered at great length into the history and effects
of the corn-law, and spoke with his usual force and eloquence,
proving to the company that none of his energy, or his hearty
abhorrence to the law, had been diminished by his recent
nets, and concluded thus speak nut without authority.
We have attended hundreds of meetings. No men in this
country have seen the faces of so many of their countrymen
as have.—(Cheers.) We have shaken by the hand, from
our heart -of hearts, hundreds of thousands of the intelligent
population of this country; and we have authority for saying,
that it is the opinion of the middle classes of this country, who
are intelligent, and the powerful, and the electoral classes,
that this law is bad, that it originated in injustice, and has
been maintained by an unjust exercise of power.—(Cheers.)
And we ask you, the people of this city, whether you are
willing to come with us to the breach, to bear all, to suffer
all, and work all that is necessary for the carrying out of
our principle, the fundamental principle of the Anti-Corn-law
League ?—( Great cheering.) I know you well—l have not
read the history of your country for nothing; and I need net
point out to you passages in the history of your country that
prove beyond dispute that there is in the people of Scotland a
love of liberty that can never die.—(Cheers.) Your country
has been the cradle of liberty, the home of freedom for centu-
ries back.—(Cheers.) You have not been oppressed and tram-
pled on by England, as some other parts of the world have
been—(Cheers)—and now I trust that what you have done for
freedom—what you have done for civil and religious freedom,
lou are now ready to do for yourcommercial liberties.—( Cheers.)
ask you to resolve with me that—
" By oppressions woes and pains—
By our sons in servile chains,
We slid work while strength remains,
But we shall he free."—(Cheera)
Mr. Bright then pave, " The total and immediate repeal of
the corn-laws," which was drunk amid enthusiastic cheering.
Colonel Tiroatrsoe, who was received with loud cheers, said
—My Lord Provost,Ladies qui Gentlemen, it is well that our
friend who spoke last has interposed a few matters of finance,
for it would be hard to take a man from hearing leScots wha
ha'e wi' Wallace bled," and carry him directly to the discus-
sion of a dry point of political economy like that which has been
put into my hand.—( Laughter.) It was, perhaps, so placed,
because there was a confidence that I at all events should not
withhold a reply when I was regularly called on—that I should
not demur to give the most honest and clear opinion I was
able upon a point of such im?ortance. The question I am' to
speak on is :-44 An adjustment of taxation to give relief to the
industry of the country and the masses of its population." True,
you might ask your gentles to tell how this might be aecem-
[dished, and perhaps they would not give you such an answer
as I would hint at. They would probably propose some change
in the duties of oil olive, or a relaxation of those of stick-

liquorice.—( Laughter.) Well, here is a sort of professional
workshop, out of ;which Parliament, aril Acts of
Parliament, hereafter are to be made. There let us pause a
few minutes, endeavouring to clear our own ideas upon
this question, although it be a dry one, and perhaps
we may at some time find our opinions mounting into
those regions where they shall have some chance of being re-
duced to a practical result. I pass by, as a mere piece of by-
play, those specimens of taxation in which the pcor, or nume-
rous classes, are ma'!e to pay in something like proportion to
their poverty.—(Laughter.) The invention is a silly one, but
quite effectual. It is hut this, to lay on a fixed duty upon all
articles of one kind, whatever may be the differences of value
amongst them.—( Hear, hear.) Tobacco—for instance—seine
here are erhaps not teetotallers in that aromatic
( Laughter—well then, in consequence of the application of
this principle, the poorest man here pays eleven times the tax-
ation on the tobacco which he whiffs on the streets, compared
with that which the dandy smokes in cigara.—(Laughter.)
With tea, Ladies, it is much the same. —(Laughter.) The
poor have to pay the greatest proportion of the duty on tea.
the Duchess pays but a fragmented portion of the value of that
which they imbibe. The w asberwoman—tell it to your washer-
women when you go forth—pais the same amount, or some-
thing like it, for the Bohea with which she refreshes her irri-
tated nerves.—( Laughter.) There seems in this some
prospect of a possibility of a mixture of taxation in that
form ; but there is another form more important still, be-
cause it is more extensive than we now imagine it to be.
The. Gallant Colonel proceeded to say that he would direct
the attention of the meeting to the same sr.bject as he had
brought before them when he last had the honour, of appearing
before them. The question was simply this—were they to pay
a higher price instead of a cheaper, for the benefit of some class
of the community or other : so that a national gain alight be
'derived from it, or whether there should be a national gain or
a national loss? Colonel Thompson went on to show that in
every such instance, where one individual gained, hundreds of
individuals lost. Ile illustrated this in his quaint and pointed
style by the bread tax, the injustice and impolicy of which be
briefly but powerfully exposed. But then, he said, there has
gone forth a fear and apprehension, that, since there must be a
large revenue raised, how imprudent to shake the fabric under
which it is collected—if you do anything to impoverish the race
of rich men, where are we to get the taxes ? Why, where but
from those who get richer by the alteration ? (Cheers .and
laughter.) Now, you appear a calculating race, whom no
man can beat at sugar fractions any more than in the field of
action.—(Laughter.) Look into those things against I come
again, and let us then compare notes. Another time I will see
whether we have not made some progress in knowing what
species of taxation it is that ought to remain, and what should
be removes!, in the support of my toast, which is,', An Adjust-
ment of Taxation, to give Relief to the Industry of the Country,
and the masses in; Population."--( Great cheering. )
Mr. Oswar.o, M.P., gave the healths of those.rnembers in
the tipper House who support-the principles of free trade.—
( Loud cheers.) The toast was given with all the honours.
"Councillor CROSS next addressed the ineetanz, and in a neat
and appropi iate speech proposed The Abolition of the Sugar
and all other Colonial Monopoly," which was received with
enthusiastic applause.
Dr. Wilms proposed " The speedy repeal of all these laws
which enhance the price of food, and are productive of poverty,
immorality, and crime."
Mr. COIIDEN, with many well-merited compliments., pro.
posed " The health of the Lard Provost." Drunk with loud
cheering.
The LORD PROVOST briefly thanked the meeting for the
honour they had conferred upon him, and, after passing a high
eulogium upon " The free trade Members of the House of
'COmmons who have honoured us with their presence," pro-
posed the toast., coupling it with the name of Mr. Hattie, M.P.
for Paisley.
Mr. HASTIE, M.P., spoke to the toast.
At the conclusion the LORD PROVOST proposed three clams
for the Anti-Corn law League, which were heartily given, and
the large meeting separated in the most decorous and orderly
manner.

WILL OF TILE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.—The will
and codicil of the Marquis Wellesley have just been proved by
Mr. John Thornton Down, the sole executor, who has a legacy
of 1,000/. Ile bequeaths to Mr. Alfred Montgomery, his private
secretary, 1,000/., "in regard of his affectionate, dutiful, and
zealots. services," and the residue of his property to bis wife,
Mary Ann, Marchioness Wellesley. I3y the codicil he gives to
his secretary (Mr. Montgomery), in addition to the legacy in
his will, all his manuscripts ; and gives the following directions,
which are rertatim :—" And I desire him to publish such of
my papers as shall tend to illustrate my two admimatrations in
Ireland, and to protect my honour against the slander of Mel-
bourne and his pillar of state. O'Connell." To Lord BroofiCham
he leaves '• Homer," in tour vols., and earnestly desires him to
assist in publishing his MSS., saying, " I leave my memory in
his charge, confiding in his justice and hcnour." To Earl
Grey, " my George, carved on an Amethyst, and worn by
George II." To his valet be leaves his wearing apparel, robes,
stars, &c., " for his kindness during my illness." The property
is sworn under 6,000/.
COLONEL ST ODDART ALIVE.—We understand that
what may be considered authentic intelligence has
reached town, to the effect, that Colonel btoddart is still
alive, and at large, though strictly watched, by orders of
the Khan of Bukhara. It, is -stated thcat he has been
employed by that Prince in the drilling of his troops.
We also learn, through the same source, that Captain
-Conolly is dead ; but whether he ba
imprisonment, and disease, or been puts
positively ascertainod. ftoandenesathv,willsmnotot
• A mail coach has commenced running daily
ninon!), and Lea?
ISexuhndatflaysul bfeututsre,eft:
jocllkesitatabneatend ; It
Bel-
lingham at eight o'clock iu the sorting, and' afrords
great &accommodation to the retired district of Nurth
yue.---Noweastk ticker. tz

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT
EDINBURGH.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 13.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 41.
BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND, N.W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes
the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers
fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain 91".

On Thursday a public meeting was held in the New
Music Hall (Assembly Rooms), the largest public hall
in Edinburgh, to receive a deputation from the National
Ana-Corn-law League, consisting of Richard Cobden,
Esq., M.P., John Bright, Esq., M.P., Colonel T. P.
Thompson, and R. R. Moore, Esq., the object of the
meeting being to promote a subscription in Edinburgh
and neighbourhood in aid of the Great League Fund of
100,000/., to be applied in securing the total and imme-
diate repeal of the corn-laws, the Right Hon. the Lord
Provost in the chair; and among those on the platform
were, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.: John Bright, Esq.,
M.P. ; Colonel T. P. Thompson; R. R. Moore, Esq. ;
Bailies Duncan and Gray; William Dick, Esq., Dean of
Guild; Councillors Wright, James Duncan, Stark, Lo-
thian, Stott, Cruickshank, Grierson, Dodds, Drummond,
Lindsay, and Sanderson.
The Lord Provost, Mr. Cobden, Colonel Thomprn,
and Mr. Bright, addressed the meeting, and a resolution,
cordially approving of the objects and exertions of the
Anti-Corn-law League, was adopted.
The CiiIIRMAN announced the amount of subscrip-
tions, including the sums which had been previously sub-
scribed, to be 1,142/.
IA very full report of the meeting is given in the
Edinburgh Advertiser of Friday, but we cannot find room
for it.]

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING. JANUARY 15,
Will be performed CINDERELLA. Felix, Mr. W. Harrison;
Cinderella, Mrs. A. Shaw.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime;entitlel HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or-
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr.. Howell ; Colum,
bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxeli 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles al
,Boxes 511.,
Second Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.• riLddle t'allcry Vs.,
l,econd Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
M. Jullies regrets that he is unable to give a Concert this Evening,
Monday, Jan. 15, the Theatre having been let for that evening pre-
vious to his occupation.
TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, JANUARY itt,
Will be produced a New Comic Quadrille, by M. Jullien, entitled
THE IRISH ECHOS:—
Air, Semiramide—Echo, Life let us cherish.
Air, Poor Mary Ann—Echo, Nix my dolly Pals.
Air, Duncan Grey—Echo, Yankee Doodle.
Air, Huntsman's Chorus—Echo, St. Patrick's Day and Rule Britannia
The National Air in the Finale will be given with New and Grand
Effect, in aid of which Twelve Cornets-a-Piston will be added to
the Orchestra.
Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. dd. ; Private
Poxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
`Bond-stieet ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office,
St Maddox-street, Bond-street.
•

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
RE-ENGAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR RISLEY
AND HIS INFANT SON.
THIS EVENING,JANUARY 15,
Will be repeated the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Strickland; Master Slender,
Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Mr. Page, Mr. Howe;
Fenton, Mr. Caulfield; Sir. Hugh Evans, Mr. Webster; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Niett ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs.
(}lover ; Anne Page, Miss Watley.
After which, the Unparalleled Performances of. Professor RISLEY
and.hig SON.
Co conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss-Julia Bennett.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Ilalf-price —Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half.past Six, and the Performances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box-
office, from Ten till Five.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
The Best Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery,
TUIS'EVENING, JANUARY 15,
The New Drpte,.embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THI BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues ot Paris. Principal
Cbti'acters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard,
Mrs. Yates, Miss K Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR-
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD. or, The Fairy ot the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Woudertul Effects!
Columbine, Miss Bul en ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
'Vineland ; Clown, by the Grimaldi or the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pants.
loon,. Mr. Johnstone.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

PRINCESS'S. THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
,LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
--THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15,
Will tisi performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Dwi AlOonso, Mr.
Burdinl; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mallio Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan;
GoWta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Maclaine Eugenia Garcia.
'• After which, A DAY WELL SPENT. •
To conclude with the New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe.Leat, Miss R. Isaacs.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.

THIS, EVENING, JANUARY 15,
Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported
by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homer, Johnson, Smith, Mrs.
.H.. Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and 'ricks,
.very thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
ORAN M AR, or, Lindley Murray,and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr,
W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr.:Fuller ; Pants.
loon, • Mr. Ilawsins,; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair.
brother and Miss Sharpe.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West.
minster-Bridge is now open—Juvenile Nights.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15,
Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE-
QUIN FAM O'SH A NTER, and his STEED MEG; or, The
Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ,• Columbine,
Mdlle. Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews.
New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE
TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER-OF FRANCE; or, The
general, Prince, and King.
Acting and Stage. Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. fis.;
Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, :3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery,
rd. ox-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage Boxes One
Guinea • Half.peice to Ditto, Halt-a-Guinea. Private BoliaiTwo
Guirieas; Half-price. to Ditto, One Guinea. Half.price,• Hail past
Eight

ROYAL VICIORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 15.
Will be performed. an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled
POVERTY ; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. 'Freer; Jessamy
Tacit, Mr. Natitz ; Squire Graham, Mr.
,Dale; Patty Parrot, Bliss'
Arden ; Mary graham; Miss Vincent.
After which will be produced THE FAIRTAADY; or; the
Cabinet of Bronze..
To 'Conclude With HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM.
IBETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow' 'Dell. Harlequin,
Nr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow; Pantaloon, Mr. ;
Columbine, Mies Dl. acbmidt.

THE SUN, LONDON, 'MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1844

der, and could not have incurred a higher
amount of penal suffering.
Entertaining these views upon this important
subject, we regard with no overweening favour
or prepossession suggestions for any extension
of experiments, the tendencies of which appear
to be thus cruel upon individuals in their imme-

diate operation, and thus mischievous in their
ultimate results on society. In The Sun of

Saturday last we published a statement relative
to Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S inordinate passion for

" model prisons for the country." From this
it would appear that the Home Secretary is
modestly pressing upon the justices of counties
to take into immediate consideration the expe-

diency of superseding all the existing prisons of
their districts, and erecting one or more in their
stead, at an expense of some 157,0001. (no more!)
on his last and newest " model" pattern ! on a

system, as the " statement" in question well
remarks, " which is yet upon trial—which has
not yet received the sanction of Parliament—and
never, it is to be hoped, will." We certainly
concur in the " astonishment" manifested "at
the temerity of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, of which no
parallel in the conduct of any Minister in this
country can be recollected in presuming to re-
quire, or even to recommend to the justices" the
adoption of such a course. But the request has
been, already, not to say " scouted" merely,
but " kicked out" of the Quarter Sessions of
Lancashire and Gloucestershire. As for the

latter, GRAY'S " Bard" seems to have been
revivified by Sir JAMES'S indiscretion.
" Stout Gloucester stood aghast in speechless trance !"
Yet not quite speechless, by the bye; for
the Chairman of the Gloucester Quarter Ses-

sions, in reference to this subject, said, " The

Government•could not enforce the plan upon
them, and the only way in which the county
could be compelled to build. a model prison was

by Act of Parliament, which, if the county Mein

bens, did their duty, no Government could ever

obtain." Of course every body who knows the

peculiarly sensitive delicacy of so consistent a

- -
statesman, so disinterested a politician, as Sir

JAMES GRAHAM, will pause ere he attributes
the Right Hon. Baronet's remarkable ardour
in trying to force this plan on the county juris-

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dictions to ulterior views of official patronage in

his own department, or of accessions of county
influence to the Ministerial party. But there
is a less equivocal and much more serious reason
for the unqualified and indignant rejection of
Sir JAMES'S proposals by every Quarter Sessions
in the kingdom in the appalling announcement
in Sir PETER LAURIE'S letter to the Lei-

cestershire Magistrates. He tells them, as
President of Bethlehem Hospital, that "although
the Model Prison (Pentonville) has been
opened so short a time, and although every
prisoner is carefully examined, and indeed
selected with reference to his health, two pri-
soners have become INSANE, and have been
transmitted from the Model .Prison to Bethle-
hem." Would to GOD ! we add, that some
of the prime speculators in these " model
prisons"—that is to say, on the utmost limits of
human endurance and moral energy, under the
application of studied mental torture, and a scale
of graduated agony, commencing with remorse
and terminating with despair—were themselves
committed to, and permanently confined in, the
incurable ward of the same hospital. They would
then learn the amount of the distress they pre-

sume to inflict beyond the demands of the law,
and up to the mind-and-body-destroying point
of practical retribution in the Model Bastille of
Pentonville.

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