The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

down to two per cent. Every trade, every mann-
; facture was over-ridden by competitors having capital
wanting employment, and yet the complaint was
that they had not capital enough wherewith to till
the land.—(llear, hear.) They had heard the cause
in the explanation of those intelligent gentlemen who
had addressed them—they wanted security for the
application of their capital.—(Cheers.) The corn-
law, which they ever said was for the benefit of the
agriculturist, deterred the capitalist from investing
in the land, because .on that corn-law rested those
other monstrous grievances to which Mr. Lattimore
and Mr. Hunt had referred. The landowners, net
trusting to the application of skill or science to the
cultivation of the soil, confided only in the corn-
law, which they could only maintain by poli-
tical means—by keeping the tenantry in sub-
jection as tenants at will." They made every-
thing subservient to political power, and they made
political power subservient to the corn-law, and thus
it was that in a vicious circle the corn-law reacted in
an injurious manner upon the tenant.—(Hear, hear.)
Thus it was that the corn-law was the basis of every
grievance under which the farmers suffered.—
(Cheers.) It was not their business there to talk of
game but of corn ; but if the landowners prevented
by law the people from being supplied with goods
from other countries, they invited inquiry as to the
way in which they used the land upon which
they ;insisted we should he fed ; and if we found they
were wasting the produce of the soil for their own
useless and sensual amusements, while they denied
the people's right to getting food from other coun-
tries, then their game-preserves and their parks, and
every other arrangement about their estates became a
fair question of controversy.—(Cheers.) When he
(Mr. Cobden) was in Scotland, at a public meeting
held in Cupar of Fife, a farmer, whose name he
gave to the public on the occasion, informed them, in
a letter which he read to the meeting, that he was the
tenant of Captain Wemyss, the M.P. for the county,
and that he and two other farmers rented
seven hundred Scotch acres adjoining the pre-
serves of Captain Wemyss, and that he had
a clause in his agreement by which he was entitled to
receive compensation for the damage done by game
annually to their crops ; and in the year 1841 these
farmers received as compensation for the injury done
by the game to the crops on the 700 acres, of which
only one-fourth was sown, a sum of 7001., and yet
they assured him that that was far from sufficient
compensation for the damage done ; for the crop of
the year was not only destroyed, but the land was
poisoned, so as to affect the 'crops for the succeeding
four years.—(Hear, hear.) He had taken pains to
inquire as to the amount of damage done by game in
this country to crops, and the opinion of intelligent
farmers was, that the damage amounted to no less than
2,000,000 of quarters of corn.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
if they were not allowed to be supplied with corn from
elsewhere, he insisted that they had a right to call on
the landowners to destroy the vermin which did so
much injury to our crops. He was glad to find that
their friends the farmers were putting their brethren
on the right scent. Let them, instead of looking after
the League as a bugbear, see to grievances nearer
home. The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the
system.observed with respect to game, and then went
on to observe that all parties would benefit from
throwing the land on its own resources. He said the
usual way was for a Noble Lord first to vote for the
Icorn-laws, and then to bring in a Bill to inclose the
commons of the country, in order to benefit the poor
by taking from them the commons, on which they fed
their geese. He did not pretend to be a judge whether
those commons were advantageous to the poor or not;
but he knew that labourers were very good judges of
their own interests, and that they had a very great
objection to the inclosure of commons. He knew
riots to have taken place, in consequence of labourers
insisting upon their rights of commonage.—(Hear,
hear.) Mr. Fyshe Palmer, who for a long time re-
presented Berkshire, used to stand up in defence of
the peasant's right to the use of the commons, and,
on one occasion, he ventured poetically upon the ,
subject, and he said—
" The fault is great in man or woman,
Who steals the goose from off the common ;
But who shall plead that man's excuse,
Who steals the common from the goose ?"
—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Cobden) had transmitted to
him from the United States of America a speech de-
livered by a senator of that country in advocacy of
free trade, whose sentiments they reciprocated from
that gorgeous assembly. He alluded to Mr. MDuffy,
who had been twenty years the Villiers of the United
States. The Hon. Gentleman then quoted several
passages from the speech of that gentleman, which,
though used in condemnation of the , protective
system to manufactures in that country, were per-
fectly applicable to the protective system as regarded'
agriculture in this country; and he went on to show,
that what he called the calico oligarchy in America,
were as opposed to free trade as the agricultural oli-
garchy were in this country. He pointed out that
the great majority of the fifteen millions of American
citizens were as much in favour of free trade as the
greater portion of the inhabitants of this country,
and expressed his satisfaction at the prospects of
free trade, when the monopoly of what he termed
the oligarchy of the madder-hogsheads would be put
an end toin America, equally with the monopoly of the
agricultural oligarchs of this country. He showed
the absurdity of supposing that monarchical institu-
tions were inimical to freedom, when there were
found among the Yankees, who threw overboard
what they considered the lumber of crown, church,
and aristocracy, those who were opposed, notwith-
standing all their free institutions, to not only
freedom in trade, but also to freedom to the slave.
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And he instanced, in
proof of his position, their having. at that meeting a
Nobleman in the chair. He justified his agita-
tion on the ground that even in America, where
they had republican institutions, men were not able
to see their own interests without being taught. lie
concluded by stating that Mr. Gisborne, who was to
have addressed them that night, had pressed him (Mr.
Cobden) into the service, but that Hon. Gentleman
would attend on the next evening of meeting.—
(Cheers.) Before they separated, he begged to say
that he thought they would best conclude the even-
ing's proceedings by giving three cheers for the
Noble Earl who favoured them by taking the chair
that evening. He (Mr. Cobden) would be fugleman,
and let them be three good cheers.
The lion. Gentleman then signalled with his hand,
and the vast assemblage rose en masse, and gave three
cheers accordingly, with one cheer more.
The Noble CHAIRMAN then advanced to the front
of the stage, and in a few words acknowledged the
compliment, after which the vast assemblage dispersed

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES AT PARIS.—The Gazette
des Tribunaux relates that for some time past there have
been rumours of the existence of A mysterous society in the
Faubourgs• -St. Jacques and St, ISlAreelitt, the inegibere of
which came forth in the dark, in the environs of the barriers,
and having seduced or forced away with them oeveral young
girls, did not set, thent At liberty again until they had under.,
gone the most brutal 0424/Petit. About ten days ago several
fathers and mothers of families laid informations before the
commissary of pollee that their daughters, 110 were only
between twelve and fourteen years of age, had been aeeoSted,
some at the Barriere de Fontainebleau, others at the lierriere
St. Jacques, by young and well-dressed men, who invited
them to go to a dance, and afterwards compelled them to
qceept a supper, Of what took place at the conclusion the
-;rls could give no aeteoinit, for they were thrown into a
poor b.
in which they Thr 2, long time,
state of let,:rg,Y,
and on recovering their senses follll4 tiiMIOPIFP§
corners of the ftOftPll/ €./RYth•
against stone posts obscure
mentioned. On returning home it :79s found that their per=
sons had been so cruelly abased that it was nee:llBMT to
.place
them in a hospital. The consusissary, !melted to the utmost
indignation, set every engine at work to discover the perpe-
trators of these enormities, and by his exertions no fewer than
twelve of these wretches have been arrested, It appears from
the examinations that these pests of society K Joined in
hiring a house in the Rue de l'Oursine, to carry on their
hideous designs. To this they gave the name of the Tour de
Nesle, and they called the room in which they consummated
their outrages the Chambre Orsini, MA assuming the name
of one of the characters of the drains entitled Teyr Arc,sic.
Their victims were of course thrown under the influence of
some powerful narcotic. The examinations preparatory tp
the prosecution of these wretches are still in Roams, hut
'Tither the name nor station of any one ofthem hat,
transpired. •
SPRING.—The prevalence of cutaneous visitations
at this period of the year inculcates the necessity of pre=
serving the Skin in a pure and healthy state, so that its tune.
tions may be duly performed. The great celebrity which
" Rowland's lialydor ' exclusively maintains as an active yet
mild and soothing agent for extirpating all impurities, and
imparting a healthy freshness to the Skin, is most plgologly
evinced at the present season. This balmy and otioriferons
creamy liquid is composed of extracts from the most rare
flowers and barbs of an eastern clime—its discovery by a
lady of rank, was no less singular than its effects have been
felicitous during the last thirty years, jta universally great
demand excites the cupidity of unprinciptigl crilPpktners,
who give the title of " Genuine" Kalydor to some co'iiipOitat4
of their own manufetetnre of the most deleterious character,
containing mineral .astringen,,,t. Utterly ruinous to the Com-
plexion, and by their yap/Mont endangering health.
It is, therefore, imperative on purchaserotO'se4 444 the words
F. awyjAnd's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—All arias 440
fraudulent &sOgnterfeits.

BLASTING Willi wIE AID OP ELECTRICITT.—The
first experiment, on a large 644;4 111,?de in this country to
lost with the aid of electricity, was tried Olt S*4,-hzday ]rig;
rit KnAckiwtog Hill, in the Phenix Park, Dublin. the 'Spot
selected for the tatpisagpg aperation (which, notwithstandm
the unfavourable state oft 4 weathigi attracted a great crowd)
consisted of an immense bank of gal* §1 c 3.'llYter of a
mile in superficial surface ; 45,0001b5. weight of powder xo-a4
consumed. The necessary arrangements having been made,
A; immense hill rose slowly, as if by magic, with a rum-
bling nom, agil &Tay after the entire mound removed it-
self into the holiaiv or.4444,_gpidst the plaudits of. the
176.`4414 and"
crowd, who cheered Captain
whose superintendence the experiment was Cang,Vte, . "'TO
place where the hill had been is completely level, eg per"
yo the success of the experiment. •
4# 44:p Mg. J. F. BLAKE.--The Funeral of the
§frp-etvy to the Incorporated Society of
• viettaticys, tOWOKa.#I; &Kell:green Cane-.
• litsitiFts cik
Trustees and Coin=
--nnir, the re-

Licensee
tery on Saturday m._
ceased, the Governor (Mr. Kees...,
mittee of the Society, and others, will acconir..
mains from his residence, at the office of the 111Orning AU-
vertiser, to the Cemetery. Several of the past Governors
Trustees, and Committee, have already signified their Wen:
tion of either accompanying the procession, or joining it on
its 'approach to the Cemetery, where it is expected to arrive
at half-past oue o'clock.—ildvertiser.