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Described by Waterloo Men.

COVENTRY and LEICESTER JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

BRANCH LINE from NUNEATON to form a JUNCTION 'with
the BLRMINGHAII and DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY, near
to COLESHILI..

Length, Ten Miles.
Increased Capital, 225,0001., in Shares Of 251. each.
Deposit, U. ss. per Share.
The Provisional Committee of the Coventry and Leicester June-
tion Railway, pith the view of accommodating The imptirtaut
rough as well as local traffic between Leicester and Eirmlnghanzhave
decided upon this extension, which will effect a saving of upwards of
Twelve miles in a distance of Forty-nine miles betwean these impor-
tant districts. The country to bo traversed presents no considerable
engineering difficulties, and the traffic returns show an ample source
of revenue.

The Shares will be appropriated to holders of Coventry and Leices-
ter Scrip in the proportion of two shares to every three held in that
Company.

Allotraent letters will be delivered to parties producing the Scrip
of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Company, any day after
Wednesday, the 9th, till Wednesday, the 30th April, Instant, inclu-
sive, between the hours of Ten and Four, at their Office, 3, Church-
court, Old Jewry, Loudon _ _ _

All parties not so applying, will be considered to have waived
their option.

R. HARTLEY KENNEDY, Chairman.

London, April 4, 1845

WARWICK and CHELTENHAM JUNC-
TION' RAILWAY COMPANY.

The ALLOTMENT of the Shares in this COMPANY will take
place on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 9th instant, on or before which day
all applications must be made.
Holders of Shares in the Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton, and
the Coventry and Leicester Junction Lines, will be entitled to One
Share in the present undertaking for every three held by them in
either of the two former, provided they make application and produce
their Scrip to the Secretary, at the Office of this Company, No. 3,
Church-court, Old Jewry, London, before the day of Allotment.
R. HAP.TLEY KENNEDY, Chairman.
London, April 4, 1845.

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PRICES PATENT CANDLES, 1014c1. per lb.
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PRINCESS'S CONCERT ROOMS.—Miss Galbraith had
a concert at the above rooms on Wednesday evening
last ; and she was aided by a variety of vocalists (in-
cluding Madile. Schloss and Madame Albertazzi), who
sang a long list of ballads, duets, and trios. Perhaps the
best thing among the vocal efforts was. the perfcrmance
of Rossini's " Quis est honso," which Miss Galbraith and
Madame Albertazzi gave in a most excellent and effective
style. A little lady, about twelve or thirteen years of
ago, rejoicing in the suggestive name of Dalcken, played
a grand fantasia on the pianoforte, and with such vast
execution and evidence of muscle as to greatly astonish
the room: Mr. John Thomas played a solo on the harp ;
and there were other exeputive doings by Mr. Haus-
mann, Mr, Richardson,Vr.Roecicel, apd Mr. G. Case.
SHROPSHIRE iktort TRADE.—In ,conse,quenpp of the
;z7:O Advance in the pric,e Of iron which has recently taken
place, the L:.)iftdiall Company hawaregolve.dpn advancing the
wages of the numerous ~.718 lil their
employ ;—The ;pen to
rim= and boys in pro-
the amount of Gd., per day, and the ~ • -bsncring to the
portion. The whole of the pits and furnaces oe
company are in full operation, and the advance ;iirtake
immediately.— Worcesteraliit:e Chronicle.

NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LACY
LEAGUE.
GRAND FREE-TRADE BAZAAR.
Yesterday a meeting of ladies was held at the Hanover-
square Rooms, being summoned by the Ladies' Committee
i for promoting the success of the Free-Trade Bazaar, to
hear addresses from W. J. Fox, Esq., and George Thomp-
i son, Esq. Before one o'clock, the time appointed for the
meeting, the Queen's room was filled. Mr. William
Beaver was introduced to the chair by Mr. Scull.
The CHAIRMAN said, Ladies, it would be bad taste in
me to occupy a single portion of your time, when we
have such friends as Mr. Fox and Mr. George Thompson
'in your presence. I will at once commence the business
of the morning by calling upon W. J. Fox, Esq., to
address you.—(Applause.)
Mr. Fox then came forward, and was received with
considerable applause. He said—Such an audience as I
behold here assembled, and on such an occasion as that
which has led to your coming together this day, renders
the present meeting one without precedent or parallel in
the history of public speaking. The circumstances give
it a p culiarity of character, which, to a certain extent,
cannot but depress the feelings of those who have to
address you, from the very sense of moral sublimity,
which cannot but be suggested to our minds by the
scene which we now contemplate.—(Hear, hear.)
For—to behold you, the representatives of the
women of England, brought together to bear your public
and active testimony
.to the cause of justice and hu-
manity, involved as it is in the proceedings of the Anti-
Corn-law League, is a nobler and a grander sight than
any miscellaneous public assemblage, however vast its
numbers, and however determined its opinions.
It is grander far than any gathering of any
patriots or warriors listening to thessrarsers wHOUF-'
they expect to guide them on to battle and to victory.
It is grander than any meeting of the ministers of reli-
gion assembled in their robes, gowned and mitred, and
surrounded by adoring multitudes—because in you, who
have so great an object to be realised—an object as great
as ever was contemplated by human beings—in you we
see the women of England met to declare that the laws
which refuse to industry its remuneration—which ag-
gravate the wretchedness of the suffering and restrict
the achievements of enterprise—which divide class from
class—which swell the bills of mortality and fill
the record:, not only of disease, but of crime—ought to
be abolished. You are met here to bear your testimony
that this disease-creating, and poverty-producing law
shall not be continued—a law which presses down the
powers of the country, and renders this isle the
abode of vice and wretchedness, when it might be
one of virtue and of enjoyment—of honourable
and useful progress. But, what can I say to you—can
I declare to you more than you yourselves express by
your attendance here? What topics can I appeal to
which you have not anticipated? Your presence here is
more eloquent than the most strenuous discourse of the
most eloquent public speaker.—(The Learned Gentle-
man was here briefly interrupted by an expression of
approbation which we cannot call a cheer or applause,
but which was too marked to be left altogether un-
recorded.) He went on to say that the effect
of the corn-laws upon the whole of the
British community was such 'as might be
experienced by this great metrepolis, if that proud and
stately river which flows through it were to change its
course, and instead of mingling its waters with the ocean,
were to surround, enclose, and isolate the City and the
whole of Middlesex, so that we might speak of this
metropolitan county, as the old romancer talked
of the isle of Windsor, they. would have the isle of Mid-
dlesex. Food would rise in price—land would rise in
value—rents would be doubled as they had been through •
out, under the present restrictive system, but the imme-
diate cultivator would not find remuneration. Many
would be driven to leave the localities to which
they were attached, and would be obliged to go forth
pilgrims, with heavy hearts, to look for a country which
would give them a remuneration for their labour.
Kent and Essex and Buckingham would have
their retributory codes, and would impose pro-
hibitory duties on the produce of Middlesex.
He told them that which they themselves knew, which
they, the women of England, told to the world by gifted
members of their sex—he told them but that which had
been put forth in bold and strong language by Mrs.
Loudon, in her " Philanthropic Economy, which had
been told with such elegance and almost fairy stores of
fancy by Mrs. Marcets, and what had been told in such
sound philosophy, and with such varied illustration and
infinity of resources, in the elegant and powerful lan-
guage of Harriet Martineau.—(Hear, hear.) They had
given the world instruction, and they came there only to
say that they were not inattentive to their lessons. They
rejoiced that the women of England came forward there
nn Mat day with such strong sympathy and determined
no, inirn, bießPSvc‘int:,..LS. -r ee:tehers onsasarekeeMsi
which pens, and eloquent ones, had been found amongst
their own sex. They had well done their duty; and if
some times the heart of man forgot what was due to such
teachers—if there was a tendency to take a dishonour-
able license with their names—if it was said that writers
of the gentler sex should, instead of discussing such sub-
jects, remain at honie, making puddings and mending
stockings, they might retort by saying that they were
too honourable for many men otherwise employed at the
present moment; and if legislators, peers, and rulers
could not imbibe the simple lessons taught by those
women, and had not integrity enough to act on them, why
they were unworthy not only of their present functions,
but even of making puddings and mending stockings.
There should be fur them a more charitable feeling,
even if they were as ignorant as it was pretended they
were—even if they could only set up nurseries for un-
enlightened Chancellors of the Exchequer, and offer
plums and praise to Premiers, who seemed to have some
glimmerings, though imperfect, of the truth.—(Laughter.)
As it was not necessary to treat this question as a matter
of argument before an audience so enlightened on the
subject, he would refer to another topic, and would
thank them rather for the demonstration of earnest feel-
ing which they had shown, rather than call on them to
use greater exertions in the cause, for he knew that was
not necessary. They felt earnestly in this matter, be-
cause the evils of monopoly in their most aggravated
form came especially under the notice of woman's kind
and observing eye. Many who were present there were
doubtless witnesses in their own neighbourhoods of the
gradual siukings from the effects of poverty—how di-
minished employment narrowed the resources derived
from the wages of labour—how the poor lost one article
after another—how their articles of furniture, and even
their clothing went to the receptacle of the pawn-
broker—how one little luxury was given up
one after another till the bare subsistence of the day
was all that could be got. None so well as the gentler
sex knew how all this time the heart was breaking un-
der the struggle ; how the spirit was worn with the ef-
forts to make an appearance in the world, and in the
contention to bear up against approaching poverty.
They knew how, under the operation of those impious
laws, the working man was transformed ; how those
tendencies which bound together human beings to each
other, and all the diversified classes of society
in one harmonious whole, were broken, till
at last he sunk in the struggle if he did not
turn to crime and guilt. He need but mention
these things to awaken a vivid picture of them
in the memories of many who beard him. He knew
that they felt those things as they ought, and, therefore,
they were there on the present occasion. He would do
nothing more than express his thanks at the moral cou-
rage displayed by the women of England on this occa-
sion. To be present there, exhibited moral courage of no
small amount, for they were opposed by an unscrupulous
party who from their wealth and title gave the tone to
fashion ; and not to be daunted by the sneers and in-
sinuations of such persons from being present
there, exhibited the greatest moral courage.
He had, however, to congratulate his fair and crowded
auditory upon having as powerful advocates in their
cause some portion of the public press. But he re-
gretted to say, that whatever of fidelity, and truth, and
honour, they had experienced from that portion of the
press favourable to their views—and they were not few
—still he felt compelled to declare, that there were other
public writers who, though they should be at least the
faithful recorders of what passed at these meetings,
yet did not hesitate to falsify their proceedings, and issue
the most brazen contradictions cf what had been said
and done by those who were present ; but they were not
to be surprised to hear on occasions their motives mis-
construed and impugned, their kind and mild desires to
do good falsified, in a manner altogether abhorrent to
every feeling of every well regulated mind and
member of society. Even in the highest ranges
of literature he had known instances of the
pen be ing wielded by powerful hands to the ac-
complishment of the basest purposes, when it appeared
that women had the benevolence to make themselves
marked by the use of their pen in exposing the pre-
vailing corruption daily vended in the market in the
sustainment of bad laws. This he could call nothing
less than wielding the tomahawk of political writers by
the hands of interested ruillanism.—(Cheers.) But
the objects of the solicitude of those he now
saw around him, felt assured of their continued exertions;
and those who made those exertions might rest assured
of bespeaking, through their acts, an envied and envie-
kle glory and blessedness.—(Cheers.) For what could
he said to stand as equal to that reward which would be
certain to crown with success and victory, already anti-
cipated, the beneficent and meritorious warfare waged
by such hands, ounscious that they stool forth as
the fair and firm advocates for the well-being
of suffering humanity. To enter into a detail, of the
efforts of his fair auditory in connexion with the bazaar
about to be opened in Covent-garden would be unneces-
sary, for he had already seen that in that too his highest
expectations bad been anticipated, and therefore he had
40 peed to tell them what was to be done, for they all knew
it much better than he could describe it. Fairy fingers had
been at ivork, gi?ing softness, and heatity, and harmony
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made many live ebiraithefore admiring e 3 es. They had
given truth its place i all its simple beauty, song and
poetry abounded in thir works, and thought and magi-
nation had lent all theiglorious richness to enhance their
value.—(Cheers.) Tqhank his auditory, therefore, for
all this as they meriteC was not the object of his speet.h,
for it would not be irhis over. But he would say,
they had given comretio: and perfection to a work
which had long befog pied the minds of many
as one that should be ticl taken ; and they had put
c it ,
before the world practial 'all that had long occupied
the ' minds of the Aam Smiths and other
philosophers of time one by.—(Loud cheers.)
These philosophers, alti the had no influence over
ou ey
the counsels of the ream, although their voices were
not heard in the great seminaries fur instruction, they
were philosophers whc had achieved a mighty task,
and performed a great good, and blessed work. The
men who upheld those principles of philosophical eco-
nomy did a good and ntAlful work to prepare those who
were to follow them in the consummation of it. Tho
merchants and the mameacturers of the north were the
next class who, when they saw laws made not only to
injure their own interests but to spread desolation around
the country—when in ors week a change in price might
bring them from the height of prosperity to the depths
of adversity, and reduce ihtm to a state of bankruptcy--
they put forth
sent petitions to Parliatient, petitions signed by mil-
lions, and when these vere disregardedtheir strength. in mighty meetings, applied from their
legislators to their coistituents, and called upon the
Country to raise its voice and show its strength in im-
mense meetings for the liffusion of instruction on this
momentous project, and who were ready to continuo
that work until its end should be secouvlished. These

philosophers, had doni-alirshare ann _
earned from their contemporaries and from their pos-
terity enduring honour. Something else was wanting to
this to give it grace and neatness; something to round
it off, and that such remaining want they, the women
of Great Britain, had achieved. They made this a free
struggle, no mere philosophical speculation, no party
conflict; they carried it beyoni this, they rendered it
more sacred than all that had as yet been done, or all
that, without their assistance, could be achieved; they
rendered it a household word; they brought it to their
fire-sides ; they made it one of their household
gods ; they declared that the wrong was so
great and so grievous, the path so clear and
the principle so good and, so glorious, that it de-
volved upon woman to lend her hand and raise her voice,
in order to complete the purpose of those who had been
so long instructing them in vain. They made it the cause
and the plea of woman, whose moral sense was out-
raged; of woman, who knew better how to suffer than to
strive, whose history was one of endurance, and conse-
quently whose sympathies were so keen for the op-
pressed; of woman, who was seldom seen acting under
the blood stained banner of false glory, but who had
been enlisted under the banner of kind administration;
of woman, who stood by the Cross when the
Apostles fled in haste, and who, by the strength of her
sympathy, was destined to be entered, on account of
this very question, in the annals of the deliverance of
those who were as yet crying in vain for help, but who
should from htr hand receive Joys and blessings, conso-
lation for the past and hopefulness for futurity: They
did not now-a-days act as in former times, when the in-
sulted artisan struck down the plunderer of his rightful
earning; and when the oppressed came together, in-
creasing their rage by communication, and had written
the history of their remonstrances in the blood of the
oppressors, and were hanged in hundreds in gratifica-
tion of the sanguinary justice of their tyrannical judges.
But in your assembling together, and braving whatever
may result, individually and collectively, you evince that
firm gentleness which heaven in its wise constitu-
tion of things has invested with a moral power, and by
investing it with this power given a pledge of its leading
eventually to triumph, glory, and blessedness. For what
can be said by all the world compared to that which
your own minds and consciences will suggest? What is
there in all the reproaches that may ba hurled, in all the
sneers and sarcasms which may be levelled, at you, com-
pared with the anticipation of the success of your
righteous warfare; with the blessings of those who are
ready to perish, that will come upon the heads of who-
ever has aided in this deliverance; and with the sense
that you have made an efficient contribution to the
world's progress; with the consciousness that the mo-
tives by which you have been actuated derive their
power from the purest sources, and that you exercise
them in full communion with those religious princi-
ples that even in the presence of your God do not
interfere with, but prompt your best endeavours for
the well-being of suffering humanity. You know how
to aid the League Bazaar a thousand times better
than I could describe. Fairy fingers have been at work,
the sOitnessislkNlOßJA .Nature's best nroductions, giving
the Great Artist of the universe bestows on the flowers ea
the field in all their richness and variety. The best
hues of every bird that floats on the air have been
offered to your adornment. There has been with you
not only the efforts of perseverance, care, and taste, but
these combined with industry. Some of you, for the
sake of this great cause, have bid the canvas live and
breathe to the admiring eyes of those who gaze on your
artistical productions. You have moulded forms not
unworthy of being animated with the breath of life.
You have given truth its shrine in song, and to song pre-
pared for the voice, its enduring mould of melody.
Thought has been at work putting forth its deepest
powers; imagination, in all its gorgeous richness; n-e-
-mory, with its ample stores; the pen of the poet and the
ry
logician ;—all these you have combined with the pon-
derous efforts of indust in its toils, willing its contri-
bution also, soon to claim the attention of a gazing and
admiring public, to show what the power, skill, taste, in-
dustry, perseverance, and energy must be which can
produce such a testimonial as that which will speedily
be exhibited of the diversity of British industry,
the fervour of British charity, of the skil, the combining
and blending power, of the women of Great Britain
compassionating suffering
humanity The CHAIRMAN, at the conclusion s
speech, exhibited to the meeting an elegant cushion,
upon which a most beautiful cornucopia was worked by
the needle, forwarded by a lady from the country,
through the medium of Mr. Burnett, sts a contribution
towards the Bazaar. The beauty of this article excited
general admiration.
Mr. THOMPSON sed, he never listened to eloquence
.—(Cheers
of Mr. Fox'
such as that which had delighted the present meeting,
without a strong desire to be himself mute. To
regret the saying
heighten the effect which had been produced was next
to impossible, and he (Mr. Thompson) should deeply
To him such spectacles as the one before him were not
singular. In connexion with that sacred cause (the
cause of emancipation) with which his humble name had
been coupled by the chairman, be had for many years
seen frequent meetings like that both in England and in
of anything that might diminish it.
America. It was not going beyond the truth to say that
the triumph of the abolition cause was greatly accelerated,
if not principally achieved, by the untiring efforts of the
noble-minded women of England.—(Cheers') To them
belonged, in no small measure, the honour of having
formed that public opinion, which, in the end, was found
so strong that a Cabinet Minister now opposed to them,
declared in Parliament that it was impossible
to resist its demand.—(Loud cheers.) Well did
he remember the time when a petition from the women
of England bad to be brought into the House of Com-
uisffiched among the people s
when one of the most disting It is time to legislate for
representatives exclaimed, "
Com-
mons by half a dozen of the oers of the House, an
the extinction of colonial slavery, when the maids and
matrons of England, half a million strong, are thunder-
justice. '—(Cheers.) His eloquent
ifnrigenadt h oura d doors
not
been afraid to speak to the ladies present
of the petty persecutions they would have to encounter
among their acquaintances, and the probable sneers and
misrepresentations of a portion of the public press. He
(Mr. Thompson) ,knew too well the courage and forti-
tude of the women of this country to imagine for a mo-
ment that any of these things would scare them from
the discharge of their duty.—(Cheers.) He had wit-
nessed the undaunted, the almost heroic bravery of their
sisters on the other side of the Atlantic, in a kindred
cause. He had seen them sit calm and unmoved in a
meeting like that,, while a ruffianly mob without
were breaking
the windows, and threatening the destruc •
tion of the building ; _ and, while he gazed upon
them, he had filt that he would sooner find
his wife, his sister, or his daughter, among those
women, than among the coroneted aristocracy of his
native country.—(Cheers.) The truly noble were the
truly humane. Not many
mighty, not ninny honours
able, had been memorialised in the pages of sacred his-
tory; but many who were poor
,and despised in their
e Ph
own day had been. _ araoh s daughter was men-
tione3, ilf t
was because she took pity on the infant she
foun3 sleeping emong the bulrushes, and brought it up
as Or own.--(Cheers.) Little did the poor widow
think, when she was dropping her two mites into the
treasury, that the eye of t e Saviour of the world was
her, and that she would live for ever on the page
upon
of inspiration, with this-commendation of her conduct
frees the lips of a Divine Being, " She bath done what
she could,' —(Cheers.) To do anything to help a cause
like that which brought them together, was much; to
win the approbetioU of their own hearts, was more; but,
to obtain the testimony of Him who was greater than
err hearts, was best of all and that could only be
gained by awaking our capacity for doing good the
standard of our duty, and losing no opportunity of
sneaking or acting in the cause of truth and justice.—
(Cheers) Thus far the anti-corn-law cause had
teen conducted free from sectarianism on the one hand,
end party-yolitical bigotry on the other,—(Cheers.)
go distinctive differences were compromised by joining
ihe League. No names were written on their standard
is the badge of a party. No votes were given in the
House of Commons for this man or that, because he was
of this or that sect in politics. Never had the motto—
" Meastirs-;.s and-not piers t-been more-cOnsist4tly acted
upon than by the League.— (Oheers.) 'lt was pernestly
to be hoped that such would always bo the case.—
Vicar.) it, was noverthelos tea OM tilts invuorilists

were in the habit of decrying female exertions, in the
cause of free trade, as impertinent and inappropriate
intermeddlings in politic 3. He had not unfrequently
seen a dandy monopolist upon his canvass, after con-
temning the labours of the ladies, take off his hat and
make a low bow to the wife of a voter, and at the same
time earnestly entreat her to give him the benefit of her
powerful, her omnipotent interest.—(Laughter and
cheers.) Yes, so long as she wore his rosette in her
bosom, and "a aved a handkerchief .of his colour at the
window, and refused to deal with a tradesman that would
not vote for him, so long she was in the way of
&it), ; but the moment she preferred the cause
of Justice to him, his colours, and his party, then she
was an officious intermeddler in matters foreign to
her sex, her station, and her duties, and must
be sent back to the distaff and the darning needle with a
flea in her ear.—(Cheers.) When the energies of the
women of England were first call. d forth in the anti-
corn-law cause; there was truly enough to excite their
compassion, to enkindle their zeal, and to alarm them
for the safety even of their homes and their country.
Millions were but half employed, and hundreds of thou-
sands were altegether idle. Mills were empty, work-
houses were full. Placee of worship were deserted by
those who had been their most steady frequenters, be-
cause of the poverty and misery that had befallen, even
the most upright and religious. Seven hundred ministers
of Divine truth had given it as their opinion that the
wretchedness, demoralisation, and disaffection then every
where prevalent,-were to be traced in no small degree to
the influence of the corn and other kindred laws, which,
by depriving the people of the means of obtaining em-
ployment, had hurried them to beggary, and placed them
at the mercy of every tempter that might lure them to.
their ruin. It was then the %%Lunen of England first ap-
pearad-in thelield, and nobly did they do their mmbt4Pl
They went from hovel to hovel, and beheld for them- '
selves the desolation which iniquitous legislation
had wrought. They saw the tireless hearth, the
empty cupboard, the ragged children, the wasted wife,
the helpless, hopeless husband. They saw independence,
integrity, comfort, self-respect, attachment to the laws,
and almost loyalty itself, broken down and wrecked by
by the operation of a system framed for the benefit of
particular classes, and those the most wealthy and least
productive in the State ; and, seeing this, they resolved
that they Would henceforth make it a part of their
religion to labour to set free the industry of their native
country.—(Cheers) Do any call this political ? Then,
I say, shame on those who create the necessity for women
to rouse up, at the strong call of nature, to reform the
laws of the land !--(Cheers.) Do any call this un-
womanly ? I say that woman is never more woman—
never acting more in accordance with her duties and the
strong instinct of her nature—never more noble—never
more sublime—than when exerting all her powers to
remove the causes of misery and suffering around her.

No radiant pearl that crested fortune wears;
No gem that, sparkling, hangs from beauty's ears;

Not the bright gars, that night's blue arcfi. adorn ;
Nor rising suns, that gild the vernal morn ;
Shine with more lustre that the tear which breaks,

For human woe, down woman's lovely cheeks."
—(Loud cheers.) Happily, the dark days to which
he had alluded had passed away ; but let no one
suppose that they were gone, never to return.— (Cheers.)
Return they inevitably would, if the causes which
formerly produced them were not removed. Heaven
had in mercy sent abundance of food, and that abundance
had had the effect of staying the progress of those heavy
calamities which for several years had covered the
nation with gloom, and brought the population to the
verge of despair. In the order of events, bad harvests
would again happen, and with them would come the re-
verses and ruin which had often before been experienced,
unless the people of this country achieved their own
emancipation, and abolished the laws which prevented
them from realising the benefits of unrestricted com-
merce, and exchange of the products of their industry,
with the varied tribes and countries of the world.
(Cheers.) In this great woi k of the emancipation of
human industry the women of England were ordained to
take an honourable and influential part—a part in every
respect in keeping with their position, their faculties,
and their affections. Yes, and with their solemn obli
gations and responsibilities in the sight of their Maker.
Much nonsense was talked about what woman should
do, and what she should not do, as though a difference in
regard to sex made a difference in regard to responsi-
bility. He would advise all who heard him to take counsel
of their own hearts, rather than advice from the adversary.
What was it they were asked to do ? To fulfil the
duties of rational, responsible, and immortal beings. In
these respects they were equal with men, and with the
angels of God. They had influence—the influence of
speech, of example, of labour, and of wealth. This in-
fluence they were called upon to exert in the cause of
their country. A day was coming when the plea of a
difference of sex would bo insufficient to absolve them
1,,,,„.„,,..._.....um.,.......b0 then would dare to say " Do
it is called to-day, for the night is 0.........,, 0,.,.. -. , -,_
neither knowledge, nor device, nor wisdom in thegrave?"
But enough, those before him needed not that lie should
add anything to what had been said in the way of ex-
planation. If they sought to be engaged in a good cause
—the cause before them was good. If they sought good
company in a good cause—the companions they would
have in the cause of free trade were the benevolent, the
wise, and the upright throughout the country ; and, if
they sought reward, they would find it—in the blessings
of the poor, the prosperity of their native land, the pro-
motion of peace and goodwill throughout the world, and
the gratitude of coming generations, for having been the
emancipators of British industry.—(Cheers.)
Upon the motion of Mr. G. THOMPSON, seconded by
Mr. SUMMERS Matron), thanks were voted to the
Chairman, and the meeting separated.

HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL RIVER
YACHT FAIRY.
This beautiful little vessel, built of iron in the strongest manner,
by Ditchburn and Mare, 145 feet in length and 21 feet breadth of ,
beam, and 250 tons burthen, fitted with oscillating engines, by
John Penn and Son, was tried down the river yesterday for the
fourth time. The Fairy left Deptford about nine o'clock a.m.,
under the charge of Commander Smith of the Woolwich Dockyard,
with an officer and crew of the Black Eagle, aed the Royal Marines
of the William and Mary yacht. Mr. John Penn, engineer, and his
assistants, went on board at Deptford, and Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer
at Woolwich Dockyard, embarked at that port to ascertain the speed
of the vessel and the working of the machinery. This handsome
vessel, which distanced all the other steamers on the progress down
the river, is propelled with an astonishing degree of speed de-
cidedly far exceeding the greatest ever previously obtained by the
screw propeller, with which she had been fitted on Mr. F. P.
Smith's plan. The great speed of this vessel has been obtained by
a very ingenious adaptation of the double slides to Mr. John
Penn and Sen's engines, which renders them more eligible than
any other description of engines for screw propellers. When op.
posite the measured nautical mile in Long Reach, the speed of the
royal river yacht Fairy was calculated by Mr. Lloyd, and found to
be, atter ten trials, above thirteen knots on the average reckoning,
and against wind and with the tide, upwards of fifteen statute
miles per hour. The vessel rides in the water remarkably easy,
notwithstanding her great velocity, and is so stiff and upright in a
breeze, or when the whole have moved to one side, as to show
scarcely any perceptible difference in her perpendicular position.
The engines, by Messrs. John Penn and Son, are two of 64-horse
power, each making 48 strokes per minute, and causing, by the aid
of the cog.wheel attached to them, 240 revolutions of the screw
propeller in the same period of time. The engines are very com-
pact, and, owing to their oscillating movements, only occupy a very
small space in the vessel, 14 feet by 4 feet ten inches, and the
connecting axle of the screw is entirely under the cabin floor,
near the keel of the vessel. The beauty of the workmanship, and
perfect adaptation of every part of the engines to each other, was
clearly shown during the trial, as not the slightest degree of heat.
ing took place, but every part worked with the greatest smoothness.
It is expected the vessel will be completed in a few weeks, and ex.
ceed in speed the fastest paddle-wheel steamer in any servioo,
When opposite Charlton-pier en her return, the Fairy allowed No.
11 Waterman; fast boat, to get ahead, and, putting on her speed,
distanced that vessel before she got to Blaokwall. The draught of
' the Fairy is 4 feet 4 inches forward, and 5 feet 4 inches aft, and
i the height of the principal cabin, 6 feet 2 inches, and altogether
very commodious and suitable for the purpose for which she has
. been built.

THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.

CAPTURE OF THE MURDERER.

Considerable sensation was created last evening in the
neigbourhood of Great Queen-street, Holborn, by the
announcement that the murderer of the unfortunate
woman, Mary i3rothers, had been captured in a court
leading off the above street. We made inquiry on the
subject, and found that the information we had received
was correct. It appears that Superintendent Pearce,
having received some communications on the subject,
paid a visit to the lodgings of the party charged with
this diabolical murder, and was fortunate enough to ap-
prehend the individual in question. His name is under-
stood to be William Cannon, his age is about 19, he is a
smith, working with his father in the Haymarket.
Superintendent Pearce, on taking the prisoner
into custody, informed him of the nature of
the charge against him. It is not stated
in what way the prisoner met the imputation.
He was immediately conveyed to the Bow-street station-
house, and messengers were at once sent off to Mr. Old-
ham, the cutler, of High-street, St. Giles, and to the
woman Palmer, the servant to the brothel, who attended
very soon afterwards. Both of them, without hesita-
tion, identified the prisoner; the former as knowing him
to be the purchaser of the knife found in the wound in
the unfortunate women's neck, and the latter as being
the person who accompanied the deceased and engaged
the room where the murder was committed. We are
Oldham a the prisoner is a younghis
man
not aware that the prisoner was in any way influenced
by the recognition by these parties, but, as stated by
not more tilan twenty years of age, very sallow in com-
plr.
etion,
verytesremarkable in
appear-
ance. These are all the accredited facts that have trans-
- fired to this tune-respecting the prisoner.