The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

SUP! _LEMENT TO rnE MORNING SUN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1845.

whose lighter works displayed the greatest mingling of wit
and wisdom of any writer of his time, whether presented
before the curtain of the theatre, or, as was sometimes whis-
pered, behind the curtain by a certain lady friend of his not
necessary to mention.—(Loud cheers.) He saw they under-
stood well whom he meant, and therefore he would at once
call on Mr. Douglas Jerrold to address them.
Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD was received with the greatest en-
thusiasm. After the cheering which greeted his appearance
had subsided he spoke as follows :—The high object of your
Institution—its many refining tendencies—have been so fully
discussed—have been set forth with such various and com-
manding eloquence by your distinguished Chairman, that
little, indeed, on such points is left for me to utter; and
herein do I hold myself peculiarly fortunate. I congratulate
myself, and I especially congratulate you, upon the very
subordinate part I must necessarily play in the drama of
this evening. I have, you will perceive, already touched
upon the drama. I thought, before my present .3udieme, I
might venture to do so ; though, I assure you, there are
certain circles in the great city I quttted yesterday, in which
I fear, any such allusion would have been considered to be
very vulgar indeed. But having alluded to the drama,
and having still your cordial welcome, I cannot but com-
pare myself to one of the very many walking gentlemen
with which the drama abounds. It is the great occasion on
which they appear that allows to them even the most passing
attention ; not to themselves, but to the principles with which
they are humbly associated—principles carried out by
stronger, loftier agents—that they owe their presence on the
scene ; and such, ladies and gentlemen, do I feel to be my
position this evening. The success of your admirable Insti-
tution has been made so manifest to-night—its prosperity has
been so full and complete—its noble uses have been so widely
acknowledged, that it is as difficult to find anything new to
praise as it seems hopeless for me to discover aught to con-
demn. Indeed, did I selfishly wish for matter for a more
lengthened speech, I should wish for the revival of some
good old wholesome wrong, and desire the presence of one
of those bugbears of the good old times, one of those creatures
of ignorance, that condemned knowledge for the like reason
that the owl flees the sun.—(Cheers.) It had not eyes,
poor thing, to bear that light created for the health and
happiness of the meanest man that lives.—(Cheers.) But
there is no such antagonist to fight—no such bugbear to
grapple with.—(Cheers.) The Lady Knowledge, too long
pent up in her tower, guarded not only by giants, but,
more provoking still, by dwarfs—(Cheers)—and we have only
to look back a few years, a very few years, to own there have
been dwarfs as mischievous as any in fairy tale—(Cheers)—
the Lady Knowledge, I say, is no longer a prisoner
(Cheers.) We have killed the giants, we have slain the
dwarfs. (Cheers,)—And how have we killed them ? Why,
as Luther rebuked the Devil, by throwing inkstands at
them.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) Her music is no
longer made the idle luxury of the few, but is acknow-
ledged in the daily want of the many.—(Cheers.) It is
a proud thing for you, people of Manchester, that you
have erected a temple to her—a temple, wherein the hum.
blest of your fellow-townsmen may come and listen to her.
and feel his nature at once softened and elevated by the magic
of her voice.—(Cheers.) To say that it offered to such the
sweetest solace after the day of toil—to say that it imparted
to him a keener consciousness of the dignity of his na-
ture—to say, that whilst teaching them their own right-
ful position in the world, it makes them respect the
rightful position of others, is only to translate into the
merest common-place the oft-repeated eloquence of gifted
men.—(Loud cheers.) These things are now truisms. But
human nature is apt to be ungrateful to truisms ; for, let us
not forget how fortunate it is for us that we live in an age
when they are truisms.—(Cheers.) For truths, like oaks, are
of slow growth; and it is with the early truth as with th•
acorn—show it to merest ignorance, and it. cannot conceive
how that little germ should hold within it a latent power
that, duly developed, shall breast the billow, and defy the
thunder.—(Loud cheers.) And so has truth grown, but with
this sad difference, that it has too often been watered with
the blood of those who have dared to plant it.—(Cheers.)
Happy then is it for us, and for the blessing ought we to
render up most humble and hearty thanks that we may to-
night be gathered together under its branches--(Cheers),
for your institution is a great truth—(Cheers)—a truth, it may
be, planted amidst the fears of the timid, the sneers of the
foolish, the misgivings of really well-meaning folks, who
still thought that that truth for the masses was the barley-
sugar of children.—(Cheers and laughter.) They might
have a little—just a little when very good—but to allow
them to have their fill of it, was to risk a terrible derange-
ment of the body social.—(Loud cheers.) With the success
of your Institution made as clear as the sun, it is amusing,
it is more, it is instructive, to remember the prophecies of
certain men, who predicted that the very light that would
play about instruction such as yours would only herald what
to them appeared the total destruction of what they consi-
dered the best foundations of society.—(Cheers.) These
men have reminded me of a story I have read in one of
Captain Parry's voyages of a certain bear.—(Cheers and
laughter.) The poor beast had drifted upon a loose piece of
ice into the sun. And as he was borne into a yet warmer
and wanner latitude, he felt his footing melt and melt away ;
and then, the story says, he growled and roared as though
heaven and earth were coming together.—(Loud cheers and
laughter.) And so was it with these men—and the species, I
fear is even now not wholly extinct—(Cheers)—they could
not conceive that the very current of time that was bearing
them yet nearer to the sun of knowledge, was not bearing
them to destruction. But it is not so, for it is not with men
as with bears.—(Cheers.) The tide that carries us on -in
kn .wledge, which is power, gives to us that best, that noblest
element of power—gentleness, which, in the fullness of its
teaching, will bear all men to that happy end, of which
institutions like yours are the most hopeful beginning.—
(Loud and continued cheering.)
Mr. M. GIBSON congratulated them on the improving
prospects of the Atheneum. They heard in other places of
panics, and of stock being down in the market; but, judging
from that meeting, he might say the Athenmum stock was
at a high premium. It was an excellent investment; a per-
manent investment, which if it did not give a direct pecu-
niary return, offered one which money could not purchase,
but which all could attain in the advantages of true mental
culture. It was natural to found such an institution in a
commercial community. The genius of commerce was
diffusion, and not content with extending the material com-
forts of life, they were combined together for the purpose of
diffusing intellectual and moral blessing,. The first English
printer, Caxton, was a merchant, and that great mercantile
community was now engaged in extending through all its
members the blessings which the printing-press had
bestowed on society.—(Cheers.) Their friend Mr. Bright had
referred to Oxford awl Cambridge ; he might also have
dwelt on the powerful influence which such societies
as this had on those older institutions, the universities
of the land. There was a time when it was thought dero-
gatory to men of noble birth to possess the commonest rudi-
ments of knowledge. They were told by Mr. Southey, in
his work on " The Progress of Society," that the time had
not long gone by when a nobleman would think it a test of
his high birth that he should be totally ignorant, and not
even be possessed of the power of reading and writing.
Was it possible to believe that such a state of things existed?
Such undoubtedly was the fact; and at our national univer-
sities degrees were conferred on men of high birth without
preliminary examination. But knowledge was becoming
spread through all classes of society, and the consciousness
that knowledge is power had brought on the necessity of
giving a sound education to men of all ranks and condi-
tions. He congratulated them on the success of their insti-
tution, and hoped that kindred societies would spread over
the length and breadth of the land, confident that with an

improved mental culture there would come happiness and
prosperity, and, with general education carried into practice,
additional force and effect would be given to those words of
Scripture, " Honour all men."—(Cheers.)
Mr. LOVER, who had often appeared before the members of
the Manchester Athenaeum as a public servant, was proud at
the invitation to come among them as a guest. He had tra-
versed every quarter of England, and had never met with so
intelligent an audience as in the manufacturing districts.
Many a time and oft, when, before the titled audiences of
Hanover square, he had ventured to utter what he thought a
pleasantry to the cold simper of the "reserved seats," had he
longed for the generous laugh and ready sympathy of the
back seats of the Manchester Athenaeum.—(Cheers.) He
had always found that the circles of society were like the
circles of the atmosphere—the higher, the colder they were.
—(Cheers.) He rejoiced that he had been enabled to be pre-
sent can that occasion to see so brilliant an assembly, which
was large enough to make half-a-dozen good audiences; for
at one time he much feared he should have been prevented
by his engagements in another part of the country, for indeed
he might say he was almost in the same predicament with
Mr. C. Dickens, for the place he was very nearly detained at
was called Beddicomb.—(Cheers and much laughter.)
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(Cheers.) When Mr. Dickens two years ago came forward
from his closet to preside at their meeting, and when he saw
assembled around him all the wealth and intelligence and
influence of the district, he felt that there was an era in the
social history of the country.—(Cheers.) Literary men had
not held their true position in this country. While in France
the leading men, the natural leaders of the country, were
those renowned for their genius and intellect, in England
they held no social position, but were like hermits living in
their cells. The reason, he believed, was they did not know
the literary men of their country. —(Hear, and cheers.)
They were indebted to their Committee for making them
better acquainted with their literary men, and he
had little doubt that among other contributions to
public usefulness that institution had made, it would
be recorded that it had been instrumental in produc-
ing a new estimate of literary men, which would not stop in
their appreciation of them as the leaders and champions of
a large section of the most intelligent portion of the middle
classes ; but they would, ere long, see the men of science and
literature holding that rank which they did in France—
(Cheers)—and proud indeed they would have reason to .be
when they thought that the course of the Manchester Athe-
naeum had contributed to so desirable a result.—,Loud
cheers.) They had Mrs. Caudle with them tt.gt night—
(Cheers and laughter)—and, therefore they :rust not forget
that the hour was getting on, and thl-e were other amuse-
ments in store for some of them; he would not, therefore,
detain them with any further obervations.—(Cheers. )
Mr. HEYWOOD seconded the motion, which was carried by
acclamation, and responded to by Mr. E. Watkins.
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, and three cheers
for his lady, the seats were removed, and dan • cing com-
menced.

Two military bands were in attendance, and played during
the evening many favourite overtures and grand selections of
music.

SHOCKING ATROCITY.—The Droit gives the fol-
owing account of a most atrocious act committed on Satur-
day night last, near the Barriere de Mont Parnasse. M.
Gerard Fleury, a brush manufacturer, was returning at a
rather late hour from a house in that quarter, to whichhe
had gone on business, when passing along the outer boule-
vard he was, in an obscure and unfrequented spot, seized
suddenly by three men. Two of them confined his arms,
while the third forced his fingers into both his eyes, and
turned them out of their sockets, but, not being able to tear
them away completely, he replaced them, and endeavoured
with all his powers to crush them. From the pain and loss
of blood M. Fleury fainted, and his torturers, believing him
to be dead, left him and fled. In this horrible condition he
remained on the ground for three hours, at the end of
which time he was found and carried to the Necker Hos-
pital. Means of cure are being tried, but it is believed that
nothing short of miracle can save his sight. M. Fleury had
about him a watch and some money, which remained un-
touched. This renders the barbarous deed the more inex-
plicable, and creates a belief that it was an act of vengeance;
but, as the sufferer is not sensible of having done any serious
injury to any one, the inference drawn is that he had been
mistaken for some other person.
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SLAVERY.

INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF A FUGITIVE
SLAVE.
(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)
On Tuesday an influential and numerously attended meet-
ing of the citizens was held in the City Court-house, to hear
the statement of Mr. Frederick Douglas, himself " a fugitive
slave," relative to slavery in America, and also to give
expression to public opinion against that atrocious and cruel
system.
The meeting was announced for two o'clock, but long be-
fore that hour the Court-house was densely crowded in
every part. The grand jury gallery was thronged with
ladies, who seemed to take the liveliest interest in the pro-
ceedings. His Worship the Mayor entered the court a little
after two o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Buffum, an American
gentleman, and Mr. Frederick Douglas, who certainly ap-
peared a noble specimen of the race to which he belorCed
The oratorical powers possessed by Mr. Douglas were a mat-
ter of admiration, nay, astonishment, during the progress of
the speech he delivered. To facility and power of expression
he joined a most impressive and energetic delivery, with
the most humorous method of exposing the hypocrisy and
duplicity of some of the American slaveholders. In fact,
his powers in this latter respect literally kept the meeting in
a roar.
The MAYOR, on taking the chair, explained the object for
which the meeting had been convened. The cause of human
liberty should not be limited to any country or clime, and he
was sure it would be readily taken up by an Irish audience.
Whatever might be the condition of men who were badly
fed, and badly paid, still they stood intellectually and every
other way higher than those who were made mere chattel
goods, and beaten without mercy or consideration.—(Cheers.)
They had many things to do to elevate their own country,
but they had not to get rid of the lash, and the privilege
they enjoyed of personal freedom they should strive to ex-
tend to all mankind.—(Loud cheering.) They were only
asked to extend to the American continent the exertions and
influence which worked so much good in their own islands.
His Worship here alluded to the exertions of Mr. O'Connell
in the cause of freedom, observing that it must be gratifying
to him to reflect that those exertions had been attended with
many and signal triumphs.-- (Loud cheers.) lie (the
speaker) held it to be spurious philosophy, and worse morals,
to suppose that he, into whom the Deity had breathed a
living soul, should be less than man, merely because of the
darkness of his skin. They had many instances to show
that, however they differed outwardly in colour, the soul was
of one colour, and that was bright and noble.--(Applause.)
Mr. MARTIN proposed the first resolution.
The Rev. Mr. WHITLEGG seconded it. He wished to express
the pleasure he felt in attending such a meeting. It was said
if they went abroad to look for grievances they would be
neglectful of their duties at home ; but facts disproved the
assertion, for among the most strenuous advocates of freedom
abroad were to be found the most untiring supporters of
liberty and peace at home.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BUFFUM proposed the next resolution. The kind and
sympathetic manner in which he was received in Cork more
than compensated him for all he suffered in the anti-slavery
cause. He was mobbed, his life was in danger, but what of
that, he felt it a glory to mingle in the strife—(Applause)--
to take part in the emancipation of his countrymen in bonds.
The cause of freedom in one country was intimately con-
nected with the same cause in another, and if they con-
tributed to break off the shackles of American slavery, the
latter country would then be better able to assist them in
turn.— (Cheers.) How could America labour for the eleva-
tion of any class of people, while she had in her own bosom
three millions of slaves? The speaker here observed that
Frederick Douglas, who had been twenty years in slavery,
and had experienced its horrors, would address the meeting,
so that it would not be necessary for him to tresspass on them
further.
Mr. BERNARD said that justice was so fully understood by
a Cork audience that he would say no more than merely
second the resolution.
Counsellor MAGUIRE proposed the third resolution. It
was a matter of record that in spite of the renown of America
—(Cheers)—her slavery system made her the most degraded
country on the face of the earth. The boasted free institu-
tions of America were only a mockery and a scorn, because
they were tainted with slavery at the heart's core.
Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLAS then came forward amid loud
cheering. He said—Sir, I never more than at present lacked
words to express my feelings. The cordial and manly
reception I have met with, and the spirit of freedom that
seems to animate the bosoms of the entire audience, have
filled my heart with feelings I am incapable of expressing.
I stand before you in the most extraordinary position that
one human being ever stood before his race—a slave—
a slave not in the ordinary sense of the term, not in a
political sense, but in its real and intrinsic meaning.
I have not been striplibd of one of my rights and privi-
leges, but of all. By the laws of the country whence I
came, I was deprived of myself—of my own body, soul, and
spirit, and I am free only because I succeeded in escaping
the clutches of the man who claimed me as his property.
There are fourteen slave States in America, and I was sold
as a slave at a very early age, little more than seven years,
in the southern part of Maryland. While there I conceived
the idea of escaping into one of the free States, which I even-
tually succeeded in accomplishing. On the 3rd Sept., 1838,
I made my escape into Massachus4ets, a free State, and it is a
pleasing coincidence that just seven years after I stood up in
the Royal Exchange in Dublin, to unfold to the people of
that good city the wrongs and sufferings to which my race
in America were exposed.—(Applause.) On escaping into
Mass?.chussets I went to work on the quays, rolling oil casks
to get a livelihood, and in about three years after, having been
induced to attend an anti-slavery meeting at Nantucket, it
was there announced that I should go from town to town to
expose their nefarious system. For four years I was then
engaged in discussing the slavery question, and during that
time I bad opportunities of arranging my thoughts and
language. It was at least doubted if I had ever been a slave,
and this doubt being used to injure the anti-slavery cause, I
was induced to set the matter at rest by publishing the nar•
rative of my life. A person undertaking to write a book
without learning will appear rather novel, but such as it was
I gave it to the public.—(Hear, hear.) The excitement at
least increased so much that it was thought better for me to
get out of the way lest my master might use some stratagem
to get me back into his clutches. I am here then in order
to avoid the scent of the bloodhounds of America, and of
spreading light on the subject of her slave system. There
is nothing slavery dislikes half so much as the light. It is a
gigantic system of iniquity, that feeds and lives in darkness,
and, like a tree with its roots turned to the sun, it perishes
when exposed to the light.--(Loud cheering.) We want to
arouse public indignationagainst the system of slavery, and to
bring the concentrated execrations of the civilised world to
bear on it like a thunderbolt.—(Loud cheering.) The rela-
tion of master and slave in America should be clearly under-
stood. The master is allowed by law to hold his slave as his
possession and property, which means the right of one man
to hold property in his fellow. The master can buy,
sell, bequeath his slave as well as any other pro-
perty, nay, he shall decide what the poor slave is to
eat, what he is to drink, where and when he shall
speak. He also decides for his affections, when and whom
he is to marry, and, what is more enormous, how long that
marriage covenant is to endure. The slaveholder exercises
the bloody power of tearing asunder those whom God had
joined together—of separating husbard from wife, parent
from child, and of leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth de-
solate.—(Sensation.) The slaveholders of America resort to
every species of cruelty, but they can never reduce the slave
to a willing obedience. The natural elasticity of the human
soul repels the slightest attempt to enslave it. The black
slaves of America are not wholly without that elasticity;
they are men, and, being so, they do not submit readily to
the yoke.—(Great cheering.) It is easy to keep a brute in
the position of a brute, but when you undertake to place a
man in the same state, believe me you must build your fences
higher, and your doors firmer than before. A bride you may
molest sometimes with impunity, but never a man. Men--•
the black slaves of America—are capable of resenting an in-
sult, of revenging an outrage, and of looking defiance at
their masters.—(Applause.) Oftentimes, when the poor
' slave, after recovering from the application of the
scourge and the branding iron, looks at his master with a
face indicating dissatisfaction, he is subjected to fresh punish-
ment. That tross look must be at once repulsed, and the
master sel.:lps, as he says, " the d—l out of him ;" for when
a slai:e looks dissatisfied with his condition, according to his
ruel taskmaster's idea, he looks as if lie had the devil in him,
and it must be whipped out.—(oh, oh.) The state of slavery
is one of perpetual cruelty. When very young, as I stated,
was sold into slavery, and was placed under the control of a
little boy who had orders to kick me when he liked ; whenever
the little boy got cross, his mother used to say "Go and
whip Freddy." I, however, soon began to reason upon the
matter, and found that I had as good a right to kick Tommy
as Tommy had me.—(Loud laughter, and cheering.) My
dissatisfaction with my condition soon appeared, and
I was most brutally treated. I stand before you with
the marks of the slave-driver's whip, that will go down
with mo to my grave ; but, what is worse, I feel the scourge
of slavery itself piercing into my heart, crushing my
feelings, and sinking me into the depths of moral and intel-
lectual degradation.—(Loud cheering.) In the South, the
laws are exceedingly cruel, more so than in the northern
States. The most cruel feature of the system in the northern
States is the slave trade. The domestic slave trade of Ame-
rica is now in the height of Its prosperity from the annexa-
tion of Texas to our Union. In the northern States they
actually breed slaves, and rear them for the southern mar-
kets; and the constant dread of being sold is often more
terrible than the reality itself. Here the speaker proceeded
to comment upon the law of America relative to the
punishment of slaves, and read the following:—
" If more than seven slaves are found together in any road ,
without a white person—twenty lashes apiece. For visit-
ing a plantation without At written pass—ten lashes. For
letting loose a boat from where it is made fast—thirty-nine
lashes; and for the second offence, shall have his ear cut off.

For having an article for sale vrithout a ticket from his

master--ten lashes. For being on horseback without the
written permission of his master—twenty-five lashes."
I saw one poor woman (continued the speaker) who had
her ear nailed to a post, for attempting to run away, but the
agony she endured was so great, that she tore away, and left
her ear behind.—(Great sensation). This is the law of Ame-
rica after her declaration of independence—the land in
which are millions of professed Christians, and which sup-
ports their religion at a cost of twenty millions dollars an-
nually, and yet she has three millions of human beings the
subjects of the hellish laws I have read. We would not ask
you to interfere with the politics of America, or involve
your military aid to put down American slavery, No, we
only demand your moral and religious influence on the slave
in question, and believe me the effects of that influence will
be overwhelming.—(Cheers.) We want to awaken the slave
holder to a sense of the iniquity of his position, and to draw
him from his nefarious habits. We want to encircle Ame

rica with a girdle of Anti-slavery fire, that will reflect
tight upon the darkness of the slave institutions, and alarm
their guilty upholders.—(Great applause.) It must also
be :stated that the American pulpit is on the side of sla-
very, and the Bible is blasphemously quoted in support of
it. The ministers of religion actually quoted Scripture in
support of the most cruel and bloody outrages on the slaves.
My own master Was:a Methodist class-leader—(Laughter, and
"Oh")—and he bared the neck of a young woman, in my
presence, and he cut her with a cow skin. He then went

away, and when he returned to complete the castigation, he
quoted the passage i " He that knoweth his master's will and
doeth it not, shall be beaten with rUnriy stripes."—(Laughter.)
The preachers say to the slaves tliey should obey their
masters, because (Tod commands it, and because their happi-
ness depended on it.—(A laugh.) Here the speaker assumed
the attitude and drlviling Manner so characteristic of the
Amencan peddlers, amid the laughter of all present, and
continued—Thus do these hypocrites cant. They also tell the
slaves there IS rid happiness but in obedience, and wherever
you see poverty and misery, be sure it results from di3-
ebedience,—(Langhter.) In order to illustrate this they
ttil a story Of a slave having been sent to work,
and when his master came up, he found poor
Sambo asleep. Picture the feelings, say they, of that pious
master, his authority thrown off, and his work not done.
The master then goes to the law and the testimony, and he
there read the passage I have already quoted, and Sambo is
lashed se that he cannot work for a week after. Your
servants continued the preacher, "To what was this whipping
traceable, to disobedience, and if you would not be whipped,
and if you bask in the sunshine of your master's favour, let
me exhort you to obedience. Yon should also be grateful
that god in his mercy brought you from Africa to this
Christian land."—(Great laughter.) They also tell the
wretched slaves that God make them to do the working, and
the white men the thinking. And such is the ignorance in

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which the slaves are held that some of them go home and
say, "Me hear a good serman to-day, de minister make
ebery thing so clear, whiteman above a nigger any
day.—(Roars of laughter.) It is punishable with
death for the second attempt to teach a slave his let-
ters in America—(Loud expressions of disgust)—and in that
Protestant country the slave is denied the privilege of learn-
ing the name of the God that made him. Slavery, with all
its bloody paraphernalia, is upheld by the Church of the
country. We want theni to have the Methodists of Inland
speak to those of America, and say, " While your hands are
red with blood, while the thumb-scl ews and gags, and whips,
are wrapped up in the pontifical robes of your Church, we
will have no fellowship with you, or acknowledge you Chris-
tians."—(Great applause.) There are men who come here
and preach, whose robes are yet red with blood, but these
things should not be. Let these American Christians know
their hands are too red to be grasped by Irishmen. Presby-
terians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Roman Ca-
tholics, stand forth to the world and declare to the American
Church, that until she puts away slavery, you can have no
sympathy or fellowship with them.—(Applause.) For myself
I believe in Christianity. I love it. I love that religion
which is from above, without partiality or hypocrisy—that
religion based upon that broad, that world-embracing prin-
ciple, "That whatever you would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them "—(Loud cheering). In America
Bible and slave-holders go hand in hand. The Church and
the slave prison stand together, and while you hear the
chaunting of psalms in one, you hear the clanking of chains
in the other. The man who wields the cow-hide during
the week, fills the pulpit on Sunday—here we have robbery
and religion united—devils dressed in angels' garments. The
man who whipped me in the week used to attend to show me
the way of life on the Sabbath. I cannot proceed without
alluding to a man who did much to abolish slavery, I mean
Daniel O'Connell.—(Loud cheers.) I feel grateful to Jim,
for his voice has made American slavery shake to its centre.
I am determined wherever I go, and whatever position I
may fill, to speak with grateful emotions of Mr. O'Connell's
labours.—(Cheering.) I heard his denunciation of slavery,
I heard my master curse him, and therefore I loved him.
—(Great cheering.) In London, Mr. O'Connell tore off the
mask of hypocrisy from the slaveholders, and branded
them as the vilest of the vile and the most execrable of
the execrable, for no man can put words together stronger
than Mr. O'Connell.—(Laughter and cheering.) The
speaker proceeded at some length, and related amusing
anecdotes connected with his history in the United States.
In one instance he was travelling to Vermont, and hav-
ing arrived at a stage, they took in five new passen-
gers. It being dark at the time, they did not know the
colour of his (the speaker's) skin, and he was treated with all
manner of respect. In fact he could not help thinking at the
time that he would be a great man if perpetual darkness
would only take the day of place. Scarcely, however,
had the light gilded the green mountains of Vermont than
he saw one of the chaps in the coach take a sly peep at him
and whisper to another "Egad, after all, 'tis a nigger."—
(Great laughter.) He had black looks for the remainder of
the way, and disrespect. That feeling of prejudice had now
changed, and he could now walk through Boston in the most
refined company. The speaker concluded by saying that he
would again address them during his stay in Cork.
Mr. VARIAN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Martin for
influencing Fred. Douglas and Mr. Buffum to pay them a visit.
Mr. W. C. LOGAN seconded it. It was owing to the ex-
ertions of the " Friends " that West Indian slavery was
abolished, and surely as one of that community, the citizens
of Cork could not withhold their thanks and admiration from
William Martin.—(Cheers.) Allusion was made to Mr.
O'Connell, and he had also the pleasure of hearing him in
London, and of listening to his eloquent denunciations of
slavery, by which the spirit of the nation was roused against
the system.—(Hear, par.)
Mr. MARTIN said he did not expect the vote of thanks, but
all he had to say was, that he was an abominator of slavery
for the last fifty years.—( Loud cheers.)
Alderman T. LYONS was then moved to the chair, and a
vote of thanks proposed by Alderman A. Roots: to his
Worship, for his dignified conduct while in the chair, and his
efforts in the cause of suffering humanity.
The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation, and the
meeting adjourned.

THE LAW-WRITERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—Having recently seen a paragraph in your widely-
circulated paper, in which it was stated that owing to the
unusual press of Law and Parliamentary business, the law-
writers of Serle's-place and neighbourhood intended to •'strike"
for higher prices, and also that the remuneration which the
men now receive is Gd. for common law, or 36-lined briefs,
and Bd. for Chancery, or 42-lined; and as such a statement is
likely to prove very injurious to the trade generally, and
causes those solicitors and others who employ law sta-
tioners, and pay a fair price to them to consider themselves
overcharged, I beg to give it most unqualified contradiction,
and endeavour to explain it as nearly as possible.
The respectable portion of the trade—those who know
their business—have never been in the habit of receiving
less than Bd. for sheets, whether 36 or 42-lined. This is the
trade price, and with it they are very well satisfied, but
awing to the great press of business last session a great
many interlopers got in (persons entirely ignorant of any
other part of the business than the mere copying), and, in
order to obtain employment, worked at any price, and now,
unable to get a living themselves, and unwilling to allow
others so to do, have industriously circulated this report. I
am myself in the business, and have been for many years,
and, knowing the falsity of the statement, and also the in-
jury which would arise from it if uncontradicted, I think it
a duty incumbent on me, in justice to myself and others, who
would disdain to impose upon the necessitous, and who never
pay less than the trade price to any one we employ, to deny
it.—l have inclosed my card herein, and remain, Sir, your
most obedient servant,

Pa, tridges, is 6d to 2s 3d ; Hares, 3s to 3s Gd; Leverets,
2s Gd to 3s; and Grouse, is 6d to s each.

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 8d to 5; Tell 111aT017,3s 4d to 4s 8d; Veal,
4s 6d to 53 4d; and Pork, 4s to 5s 6d per Blbs. Supply but
moderate, and trade rather dull.

BILLINGSGATE.

There was only a limited business doing here to-day. yet
no material alteration was noticed in the quotations, it we
except those of Salmon, which declined to 9d per lb.
WHITEOHAPEL.
Prime Veal was in request at a rise of 4d per 81bs, other-
wise the trade ruled steady. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
Mut;on,-* 6d to4s 6d; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; at d Pork, 3s 8d
to 5s 4d per 81bs.

BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
9d to 94d ;of Household ditto, 61d to 8-id per 41bs loaf.

HIDE MARKET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d per lb ; do. 641 b to
721 b, 2id to 3d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3d to aid ; do. 801 b to 881 b,
3id .to ; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 4d. Calf Skins, per
skin, 3s to 6s 6d; Horn Hides, 13s; Polled Sheep, 3s to
3s 6d; Half-breds, 2s 4d to 3s ; Downs, 2s to 2s 4d;
Lambs 2s 6d to 2s Bd.

EXAM BTAILIKETS.
SpurnrrELD.--Old Meadow Hay, 4/ 5s to 51 8s; new
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 16s; Old Clover, 51 5s to 6/ 6s; new
ditto, 4/ lOs to 5/ 16s ; Oat Straw. 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat
Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Trade firm, at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 4t 8s to 5/ 8s ; new
ditto, 31 12s to 5/; Old Clover, 5/ to 6/ ; new ditto,
4/ 1( s to 5/ 12s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw,
1/ 18s to 21 per load. A fair average supply, and a
steady demand.
WIIITECHAPEL—OId Meadow Hay, 4/ 4s to Si 8s; new,
ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ 16s ; Old Clover, :4/ 18s to 6/ 6s ; new,
ditto, 4/ 8s to 51 18s; Oat Straw, 1116 s to 1/ 18s; Wheat
Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Supply good, and trade firm.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE METROPOLITAN NECROPOLIS, or
GRAND EASTERN and WESTERN CEMETERIES ASSO-
CIATION.

Capital, 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered according to the Act of Parliament.)
This Company is now forming for the purpose of establishing two
magnificent Cemeteries on the banks of the Thames, at a convenient
distance east and west of the metropolis, and in order to render them
more extensively available to the poorer classes of the community, in
addition to the usual modes of interment as practised by existing ceme-
teries, they propose introducing the novel but strikingly beautiful
spectacle of burial by water conveyance. Every arrangement has
been made which can be considered essential to the attainment of
that great desideratum—the abolition of burials in the overcrowded
graveyards of the metropolis. fhe Cemeteries will embrace an extent
of nearly three hundred acres each, and no expense will be spared
in order to render them worthy the age we live in, and of the
richest and most powerfhl city in the world. They propose to have
steam-boats with the Archimedean screw propeller, and appropriate
funeral trappings, exclusively:used for this purpose; also row boats
after the fashion of the Venetiin gondola, and houses of reception of
the dead, which will be selected on each side of the river.
The prospectus, with high and influential names attached, will
be issued in a few days; in the meantime, all further information, and
printed applications for shares, may be obtained at the ofilces of the
Association, No. 32, Moorgate street, or at the Solicitors, Messrs.
Bourdillon and Son, Winchester-street.

E MARE, Interim Secretary

22d October, 1845,

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
rr HE EXETER, TIVERTON, AND MINE-
1. HEAD DIRECT RAILWAY, with extension from Minehead
to Ilfracombe.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,600,0001., in 64,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
This railway will pass from the city of Exeter. through the
rich valley of the Exe, via Silverton and Bickleigh, direct to
Tiverton, one of the chief towns of this important district, and
formerly the principal market and manufacturing town of the west
of England. It will administer largely to the prosperity of this
rich and productive country, and will pass from Tiverton, by Ba&np-
ton, Dnlverton, and Dunster, to the port of Minehead in the Bristol
Channel, opposite Landaff, Swansea, and Cardiff, from whence the
produce of the rich mines and quarries of Merthyr Tydvil, Ponty-
pool, and Newport, in Wales, can be transferred by the shortest
route to the English markets. From Minehead it will pass by
Porlock and Combe-Marten to the much-frequented watering-place
of Ilfracombe, where it unites with the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe
Ra.lway. At Minehead it will also join the Bridgewater and Mine-
kead Railway, to which it will serve as an important feeder, connect-
ing the towns on the north coast of Devon directly with the great
western trunk railroads passing from London to the Land's End. It
will also form a very shert and direct junction of the Bristol and
English Channels.

A mo.e valuable and important line; o the country which it will
traverse could not be projected. A list of the Provisional Committee
will be published in a few days ; and in the meantime further infor-
mation may be obtained, and applications for shares may be made
to, the solicitors, Messrs. Elmslie awl Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, or at the Company's OtP.c.m, No. 37, Gresham-street, City.

Now ready, 264 pages, 124 Engravings, price Is.,
JOHNSON and SHAW'S FARMERS'
ALMANAC and CALENDAR for 1846.

Also, price 65.,
THE FARMER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY.
By C. W. JOHNSON, Esq.
May be had of all Booksellers in the kingdom.
London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly.

Nov ready. in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
rrIIIRD EDITION of "SYBIL
OR, THE TWO NATIONS."

By B. DISRAELI, Esq., M.P.
" The most patriotic and interesting of Disraeli's works."—Post.
" ' Sybil' Is an improvement upon' Couingsby'."—Spectator.
" In his sketches of the knaves and dupes of party, Mr. Disraeli is
without a rival."—Examiner.
Henry Colburn, Publish% 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE public is most respectfully informed that
Messrs. NICOLL have received permission, according to the
specification in the Act 6 and 7 Viet., cap 65, to alter and otherwise
adapt the coat. known as the REGISTERED PALETOT, to be
suitable for winter wear, and it is now being made of a thicker ma-
terial, viz., of milled Llama cloth ; it is waterproofed by the new
method, which, it is well known, does not unnecessarily confine the
heat of the body, but the material, when thus operated upon, remains
as porous as other that has not undergone this process, the effect
being that it does not sop, and will turn a stout shower of rain, but
not that of 24 hours' duration. Nicoll's Registered Paletot for winter
wear is a garment that is warm without being heavy, which,
even for travelling, the necessity of wrapping up in a cumber-
some manner, has of late years been found needless, distances being
so much shortened by present railway and other conveyances.
Nicoll's Registered Paletot, used alone as a morning frock coat, not
over another, is found to be a most agreeable garment for walking
exercise ; and from the skilful way it is formed, it does not
confine the chest or shoulders, but has an equally neat and
gentlemanly appearance when worn in cold wet weather, or in
the evening over a morning or dress coat. The price is three
guineas, that for summer wear being two. It may be ob-
served that those principles are retained that has obtained for
the Registered Paletot the patronage of more than one of the
Crowned Heads of Europe. The Prince Consort, Prince
George of Cambridge, the chief members of the Court, prin-
cipal families in the kingdom, who it is well known are
distinguishel in their taste for perfect neatness of dress. The Regis
lered Paletot having therefore necessarily excluded anything vulgar
or outré in appearance, would alone recommend itself to the notice of
the respectable members of the middle classes, was it not further as-
sisted by its moderate price, being for ready money. It may be ob-
tained of the principal tailors of the chief provincial cities ; but as
only most of the respectable firms are appointed agents, any attempt
on the part of others will thus by the public be at once detected, and
such attempts, when known, will be visited by the penalties provided
in the Act beforementioned ; and in furtherance of which a reward
of fifty pounds will be paid for information that may lead to the
conviction of such parties by H. J. and G. Nicoll, 114, Regent-
street, London.

CLARK'S NEW LIGHT.-IMMENSE
SALE. Perfect Lamp at last. All who require lamps are
in—ited to see it. The least trouble, the most economical, the
greatest light of all. True to description it stands nnmatchel. The
Vesta and Gem Spirit Lamps are defied—to claim equality all know
is ridiculous. An immense sale is already going on, for all desire to
purchase the best of lamps. Constantly burning for inspection (as
well as two other New Lights just Patented), all will be satisfied at
CLARK'S General Lamp and Royal Wax Candle Depot, 447, West
Strand, exactly o7posite Warren's blacking manufactory. Please
write down address. Any lamp pillar can be fitted, and single
lamps of every description sold at wholesale prices.

MRS. OHNSON'S AMERICAN S OTHING SYRUP FOR
CHILDRFN CUTTING THEIR TEETH.
AIRS JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING
SYRUP.

This efficacious remedy has been in general use for upwards of
Th'rty Years, and has preserved numerous Children when suffering
from Convulsions arising from painful Dentition. As soon as the Sy-
rup is rubbed on the Gums, the Child will be relieved, the Gums
cooled, sod the inflammation reduced. It Is as innocent as efficacious,
tending to produce the Teeth with ease; and so pleasant that no
Child will reflise to let its Gums be rubbed with it. Parents su.uld
be very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING
SYRUP, and to notice that the names of Barclay and Sons, 95, Far-
ringdon-strcet, London (to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold the recipe),
are on the Stamp affixed to each Bottle. Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle.