The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-20 00:00:00

tll_h SUN, LON-DON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1A44.

I came before them ; that is, inquire into his habits, and
' see if he had conducted his business with skill and with
economy They should,adopt the, tattib tdWardS
the West Ihdia proprietors. He (Mr. Cobden)
Crossed the Atlantic ten years ago with a gentleman
who had travelled over all the sugar producing coon •
tries of the globe, who tol4 him that ther:e why as
reneh differende between th &lb of cultivating
West 'lndia land find nianufacturing its sugar, and the
mode which other countries adopted who had no
monopoly, as there was between the machinery, and
malui.ginerit of one of the eottoti-mills of this day a.§
-compared with ON umfity years aga.—(Hear,, htar.)
Therefore, he said they ought to dd away with the
rotten prop of protectidn; which 'even made it impos-
sible for than td protect themselves. Let them, like
ether men in this country,' fight their own battles.---
(Cheers.) Now, having told them what were the
grounds on which he had voted against the amend-
ment of the Hon. Meinber for Bristol the other night,
he would frankly confess that he was not aware of the
trap which had been laid dii Friday morning
till the motion eatne, for he had on Thursday made
up his inind to vote in favour of the amendment.
Simple•hearted creature that he was, he thought that
something good might come from the Hon. Member
for Bristol.—(Laughter.) He believed, in fact he
had no doubt that a great number of free-traders, as
earnest as any In that theatre, who had voted with
the Hon. Member for Bristol, did so under the mis-
apprehension which would have caused him to vote
for it on Thursday. But that could not shut their
eyes to the fact that there were other parties in the
lletise of Commons who made this a party contest ;
and the newspapers, organs of that party, were very
much dissatisfied that the free-traders, who had any
other objection than party or factious objects—
(Cheers)—did not join in carrying a worse measure
than the bad enough measure of Sir Robert Peel, and
by that moan. upset the political coach.--(Cheers.)
He did not look on this contest as a party or political
contest. He had never given a party vote in the
House of Commons, and he hoped he never should.—
(Cheers.) He would get the best measure he could,
and he would never support a worse measure when a
better was proposed to the House.—(Hear, hear.)
But if he were a politician, and disposed to
look at the question as one of party tactics, through
Whig spectacles, he could see no wisdom in
those tactics. He had heard of a coalition, but what
sort of a coalition ?—(Hear, hear.) He had heard
many sensible men say, that there were 250 Mem-
bers on the Tory side, and 100 on the Whig side, be-
tween whom there was very little difference; and
who might now be sitting side by side in the House
of Commons, if it were not for the difficulty of ad-
justing the rival pretensions of opposite leaders.
What sort of coalition could there be between the
liberal and the ultra-bigots of monopoly ? Lord John
Russell with the Whigs, and Lord John Manners with
young England, went out into the same lobby. Now,
if faction did not blind men, if they could look
beyond their noses, why should they not ask them-
selves what good that would lead to, whither it would
lead them, even if successful ? The next vote they
came to with such ingredients, would put them in a
great minority ; and if ever Sir R. Peel resigned and
Lord J. Russell were sent for by the Queen to take
office, he would probably advise her Majesty to send
for Sir R. Peel, for there VMS nobody else.—(A
voice, " O'Connell.)--(Cheers.) With a majority of
90 or a 100 on a party question, could Sir R. Peel
be dispossessed of office by such miserable manoeuvres
of the House of Commons ?—(Hear, hear.) If, indeed,
parties canse to something within lOor 20of each other,
then there would be an opening for party movements.
But, as he said before, with a majority of 90 or 100
on the side of Sir Robert Peel, how could those tac-
ticians in the House of Commons put the Opposition
into power ?—(No, no.) The way to get into power,
if Lord John Russell and the Whigs wanted it,
was not by joining the ultra-bigots of monopoly, but
by working strongly out of doors, that he might be
strong within doors; and how could he increase his
power out of doors, but by an advance to free trade,
which indeed he professed to advocate in principle,
but which he did not carry out to its full extent ? He
was sorry to say, that such was the opinion of poli-
tical parties throughout the country, that his belief
was, that people cared very little for one party or the
other on the present question, and that there was very
little to choose between them. He should not be sur-
prised that,efor. a ss. reduction per cwt. on the pro-
tection to sugar, the public would sell either of them.
Now the League, at, least as far as he was concerned,
was of neither of these political parties—neither the
Whigs nor the Tories were practical free-traders.
They had never yet heard a pledge, a distinct pledge,
from the leader of the Whigs, that he was prepared
to carry out the principle of free trade. They had
plain declarations that the country was not satisfied.
'When questions of free trade were brought forward,
there was always some plan to continue the pro-
tection on sugar, and some plan for protection
to corn, and till they could get one party or other to
stand up for free trade, and, against all protections,
which were mere robberies, he did not believe that
the League, as a League, would be acting with
wisdom or policy in identifying themselves with
either of them. His opinion was, that if isolated as a
party, the free trade party would be stronger in the
House of Commons, though not nominally greater,
than if it merged itself in the ranks of either party.—
(Cheers.) He saw an utter chaos into which politi-
cal parties were falling. He was not sorry for it, be-
cause, give them a compact body of free traders, the
more complication there was between the Whigs and
the Tories the sooner they would succeed in carrying
their principles to a successful issue. The Hon.
Gentleman sat down amid loud cheers, but immedi-
ately afterwards came forward to correct a mistake
which he was told he had fallen into. He was told
he had calculated the reduction of 4s. on the colonial
duty upon 2,000,000 cwt. of sugar. He should
have calculated it upon 4,000,000, which was the
quantity imported from the colonies, and this, he be-
lieved, would amount to 800,0001.
The Rev. TLIOMAS SPENCER, of Bath, then came
forward, and said he had listened with interest to
the address of Mr. Cobden, and was glad to find
that the party distinction of Whig and Tory was
about to be given up. He hoped another party
would .be founded upon their ruins, to be called the
Justice Party.—(Cheers.) He hoped also that the
newspapers would alter their course, and, instead of
writing articles on the poor-law and 'pauperism, to
excite the people, would write for truth. He con-
fessed he felt diffident of his own abilities when he
found so many persons of high character differing
from him. He found that there were six or seven
clergymen of the Church of England who voted for
the free trade candidate in South Lancashire, while
sixty or seventy recorded their votes on the other
side. He was inclined to be of the opinion of Bishop
Butler, who said " that the greater part of mankind
did not think for themselves." He was convinced
that many men were to.) indolent to labour with
their minds, though they might do so with their body ;
and even reading was, with regard to some persons,
an act of idleness.—(llear, hear.) Such persons
like'd to have their work done for them. They left
their health in the doctor's hands, their property in
the lawyer's hands, and their souls in the par-
son's hands.—(Hear, hear.) The Scripture says
"Examine yourselves," but it was only when men
began to think and to distinguish what was right
from what was wrong, that they would succeed.
When men became informed, the League would do
more in a few weeks than it did now in so many
years. This was one reason to account for the fact
that the League had not made greater progress •
another reason was that men, who even might be
well, informed on the subject, did not think
it necessary to act—they left it all to Mr. Cobden.—
(Loud cheers.) They left it to their representatives
to speak their opinions; but it was the duty of each
man to act, and to spend his time and his money, as
though the successful cause depended upon his own
exertions.—(Loud cheers.) Each man should say
that he would take the step which was right, though
°then-, should neglect their duty, and, without doubt-
ing of the superintendence of Providence, he should
act as if Providence would only assist the man who
should assist himself.—(Loud cheers.) Moreover, he
besought of them not to follow names, however high.
When they dethroned one Pope, they should not
follow another. If they cast off one Pope, they
followed another—some had their Luther, their
Calvin, their Knox, and their Wesley. Let them
throw aside all great names, and follow the right.--
(Cheers.) What matter, though Clarkson be against
you, if truth be on your side ?—(Cheers.) Though
he was Willing to pay deference to the opinions of
the majority, the minority were often in the right ;
and in this case he thought he had even an advantage
over them, because what he advocated was the
doctrine of the Scripture and the Prayer-book.
He was not going to allude to portions of that Prayer-
book to which he had alluded at other times, and in
other places, namely, the prayer for cheapness and
plenty, and the thanksgiving for it when it comes ;
but to another portion of the Prayer-book, in refer-
ence to the right mode of action when a nation was in
distress. At that particular time, for instance, the
clergymen were reading the prayer for rain ; they had
had three months of dry weather. One farmer in his
own parish had, in consequence, lost no less than, six
hundred pounds. Now, what the clergymen sought to
desire was comprised in the words—" That we 'may
receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to
guided.—l
God's hononi;" and the meaning of the fruits of the
earth being' given to their comfort and to God's-ho-
nour, was in other prayers explained by the words
who
cheapness and plenty." This was the standard,
as it
Gi was've us coral)thisn edda
ierefore, by which every clergyman was 'to be
hear. He had no faith in prayer
ho said,
did not work in order to btey. our
a
with
aedtii7 bread, and maarit'l
a man of very
small sense indeed.---r L.—iu it, was .
, }.,ear.) He believed -there
was not an instance, throuP'dout the Bible, of Gods do-
ing anything for man .'
'omich man could do for him-
.

self; and this was a feet which he wished especially
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edheoadTeils-bfieevctd"idtnh3
find that he rolled away. the stone, because that the
disciples could do. ,A.glin, when the dead
,Awis rai'aed,
he did of an it there theft -Otter the wordi;
Loo'se nun, and let him go," because all that was
needed was in the power of the disciples. 'When he
fed the multitude, he instructed his disciples to tell
them to sit down on the Eros, althongh the multiply-
ipg of the bread *as his own list; whilst it Was -the
disci lea wild gathered ‘ir 016 fraetnents that nothing
Might be lost; bkituse t het was iidi beyond their
capacity. In every case where a needful thing was
beyond their own power, they had a right to ask for
Divine assistance, but 'alien it was in their own
Ppower they had nd right to expect the assistance of
rovidence, except in connection with their own ex-
ne
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whetheret
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foundation to be built upon, cheapness and plenty ?
(Hear, hear.) If it were a thing to be prayed for, it
was also a thing to be sought after. He would also
appeal to Sir Robert Peel on the ground of his own
statement, that the proper rule for the State was that
the people should buy in the cheapest market
and sell in the dearest. This, he said,
was truth in the abstract, this was right,
and it ought to have been the original basis of
their laws. But, then, he justified himself for not
acting up to this principle by the circumstances in
which they found themselves in the present day.
Now, he was bound to offer up a prayer every Sunday
for that Parliament, of which he was so conspicuous a
Member, and a part of that prayer was to this effect :
--" That all things may be ordered and settled by
their endeavours upon the best and surest founda-
tion," which he acknowledged to be cheapness and
plenty, or free trade—" that peace and happiness,
truth and justice, religion and piety, may be esta-
blished among us for all generatiions." Now, at pre-
sent they had anything but peace and happiness
amongst them, they had anything but prosperity.
Did not Sir Robert Peel, when he heard this prayer,
know that he himself was acting contrary to the
spirit of the Prayer-book ?So long as he declined
going to the foundation,, which was here described to
be " the best and the surest," the foundation of cheap-
ness and plenty, allowing risen to buy and sell to the
best advantage, so long would he continue to act in
opposition to the Prayer-book.—(Loud cheers.)
He (Mr. S.) held free trade to be one of the rights
of man—a right of which nothing could deprive
him--a right to be exercised at all times, under all
circumstances, and by all nations.—(Cheers.) There
could be no case in which free trade ought to be in-
fringed upon ; it was the only sure foundation.
God had distributed his bounties amongst different
nations. Some climates were warmer and some
colder ; some possessed iron, some corn, some gold ;
all these things are diversified. When there was no
corn in Canaan there was corn in Egypt. It was
God's i▪
ntention that men should enjoy the best of
what was produced in different parts of the earth, and
the obj▪
ect of the Christian religion, which was de-
clared to be " glory to God in the highest, peace on
earth, good will towards men," could never be carried
out until the ministers of religion advocated those
principles.—(Loud cheers.) He had before him the
testimony of one who was a very great man in his day,
and who had not long been dead ; he referred to Robert
Hall, the Baptist minister. He said, "If there is
any 'class of persons whose opinion on these ques-
tions is entitled to deference and respect, they are
undoubtedly political economists, men who have made
the sources of national wealth the principal object of
their inquiry; and where will you find one, from
Adam Smith to the present time, who had not repro-
bated the interference of the Legislature with
the price, of corn ? To say nothing of the
reasoning of that great philosopher, which is un-
answerable, common sense will tell us that taxes to
raise the price of such a commodity are unjust."
—(Cheers.) Now they were told that the free
trade which they advocated could hardly be carried
out in cases where the countries with which they
traded raised their produce by means of slave-labour.
He had no idea of altering, a rule which had once
been established. If a man, for instance, had made
up his mind, from external and internal evidence of
the truth of the Bible, that it was a genuine and au-
thentic document, he was not afterwards to cavil at
any particular word which he might find in it. Every
science took for granted its axioms. Euclid began
with definitions and postulates. Newton, in his
" Principle," began with axioms and postulates; and
if they began with these, they must not object to
anything which followed. Suppose they were not
yet acquainted with America; suppose they did not
yet know what were the practices of the inhabitants
of Brazil, and yet had come to the conclusion that
free trade was right—that every man should be al-
lowed to act upon this self-supporting, self-adjusting
principle, and be permitted to do the best
he could in the markets, of the world, they
were not afterwards to alter their course be-
cause they found different circumstances in
different countries. They did not say " You shall
not trade with Russia because the Emperor has not
pleased me by his conduct to Poland; you shall not
trade with another country because the inhabitants
are Mahomedans and idolaters, and therefore rob God
of the honour which is due to him ; or with another,
because it contains slaves." Was he to be answerable
for all these things ? The question was, did they
admit that free trade was right ? If they did, they
were Not to be always departing from their principles.
—(Hear, hear.) He had been a member of the Anti-
Slavery Conventions for many years past; and he had
always heard it contended that free labour would beat
slave labour. Yet some persons who had maintained
that for years, objected to the experiment being tried,
as though they had no faith in their own principles.—
(Cheers.) Under the old poor-law, he had seen far-
mers who preferred paying 9s. a-week to an indepen-
dent labourer to paying ss. for a pauper. The fact
was, that many a man was sustained by a feeling of
independence when he had an ulterior object in view ;
when it was in his power to lay by against sickness
and old age, he would do a great deal more work than
either a pauper or a slave. But these persons said that
slaves were stolen, and therefore produce was
stolen. He could not quite see the correctness of
that inference. It did not follow that the earth on
which a man trod was stolen, because the man who
cultivated it was stolen.--(Hear, hear.) But, sup
posing the case to be as it was represented, the par-
ties convicted themselves of' sin--they acknowledged
themselves to be the greatest criminals in the country.
If the argument were just, what was the guilt of the
man who used slave-grown cotton or tobacco? The
party who resorted to such reasoning condemned
himself.—(Cheers.) But then the reply would be,
perhaps, that two blacks could not make one white;
the parties might say " Surely we are better than
you, if we do not use slave-grown sugar." He
thought that, so far from being better, they were
much worse. Scripture said that he who offended in
one point was guilty in all. These parties admitted
point. They (the Anti-
admit their own guilt.
Anti-
Corn-law hoarto
i haewy
party) offended
di idn
not one
They were guilty, therefore, of encouraging slavery
by wilfully using slave-grown cotton, by wilfully
making slave-grown tobacco, andby wilfully taking
up their noses slave-grown snuff. He had told per-
sons of this class that the very money which they had
in their pockets might be brought in evidence against
them. He felt convinced, however, that the Master
whom they served did not wish them to tremble
at every step, lest they should happen to touch slave-
grown produce. The Government were under a
mistake, therefore, in allowing this consideration to
weigh with them ; and he was- convinced that some
of them in their own minds knew better, but they
did not like to-offend the feeling which pervaded the
minds of many good men in this country.. When-
ever charity or pity influenced the mind, instead of
justice, it led men into all kinds of blunders. The
Bible did not put charity for justice ; it first said,
" Do justly," and then " love mercy."—(Hear, hear.)
Let everything be upright, honest, fair, and equitable
i
—let them do what was right, and then, f they had
the means and the opportunity of exhibiting their
generosity, let them do so. But true charity was
not that which arose out of poor-rates or church-rates
—it was not the charity of the State, but that which
name out of a man's own pocket. He would tell
them a case of charity which had come to his know-
ledge yesterday. An excellent gentleman, with
whom he was travelling from Bristol, toad him that
about thirty years ago a gentleman was travelling in
a coach in a stormy night in winter. Outside of this
coach were a soldier's wife and child, ex-
posed to the pelting rain and a very keen
wind. Hearing that the child was ill, al-
though the journey was a long one, he immediately
changed places with the woman and child, and bore
the pitiless storm for hours, whilst the.
Thismo gen-
tleman and
child travelled inside.—(Loud cheers.)
was a noble free trader, and his name was
Radnor.—(lmmense cheering, which lasted for up-
wards of a minute, the majority of the company
rising.) He said to the gentleman who related to
him the anecdote, " I wonder whether Lord Radnor
would recollect the circumstance if you were to tell
him of it." The reply was, " I know of scores of things
of that kind, which, when mentioned to his Lordship,
he had entirely forgotten.—(Cheers.) That was
another mark Of a noble mind.—(Hear, hear.) Now '
what he wished to impress upon them was, thatif
there was distress in the country they should not
resort ,to the modern system of patching and mienthde
its -
.estir
to spend..s/. in removing the cause of and tinkering, but go to the fountain-head_
of
misery, and try to remove cause.
i
tution, and vice, than 5001. in keeping men comfort-
able in their wretchedness. Now he would just state
misery,t was b
dette
-
to them the views which, on the previous Sunday,
had been his business-to bring' before his cong.regatpn.
If he were wrong, it was the Church -wlncTivade
him wrong. In one of the psalms of the afternoon

service he read, respecting misery and distress.
a 11-1.:1w will ye jwlo,unittstlY, and accept the
i3ersdni df the Wick Ad perer)d p' 'r eed
less; do justice to the afflicted and needy!, ' It 494
not the mere giving Of ,Charity, which was meant by
doing juitite to the afflicte and needy., Then;
the next verse, were the words " Deliver the poor and
needy, rid them out of the hands of the wicked."
This was what the free trade movement was intended
to effect. He found another command, which it was
very necessary to tett:timber; at a time when religion
was so much in fashion, and when numbers itiouglit
it sinful to interfere with the affairs of the world—
" IS
.it such a hist that I have chosen a day for a man
to afflict his soul ? Is not this the feat that I have
chosen, to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the
heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to
break every yoke?" It was in the breaking of the
yoke, then, and in the undoing of heavy burdens,
that religion chiefly consisted. In another part of Scrip-
ture, he found a description which might be almost li-
terally applied to the state of society now existing in
this country, in which the great majority of the people
were hardly able to get bread and water, while a few
were growing enormously rich by the very burdens
of the State. This was the description to which he
referred. " Now, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, con-
sider your ways ; ye have sown much and bring in
little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but
ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe, but there
is none warm ; and ye that earneth wages earneth
wages to put in a bag with holes." This was exactly
the case at the present day. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer made a great number of holes in the bag
of the State. After the description thus given and
thus applicable to the state of England, it was again
repeated—" Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider
your ways !" It was because the people did not con-
sider ; it was because they did not reflect on the effect of
the presentfstate of things, if they continued, that they
were badly governed.—(Hear, hear.) There could
be no tyranny where there were free spirits ; there
could be no bad laws where the people were wise.—
(Hear, hear.) They could not bribe a virtuous man ;
they could not make drunken at an election
a sober man—(Hear, hear)—they could not in-
timidate a noble man. It was, therefore, purely the
fault of the people that the laws and the taxes of the
country were in their present state. Reform must
begin with the people. They must enlighten the
public mind—they must excite greater generosity,
and teach every man to promote his own interests
without injuring those of his fellow-men. He should
not trespass much longer on their patience. When-
ever he had talked to the farmers on the subject of
the corn-laws, he had found that their greatest diffi-
culty arose from the existence of the national debt.
It was said that free trade might be all very well if
they had no national debt, but that whilst that existed
it would be impossible for the farmers, with-
out the corn-laws, to compete with the foreigners.
Now, in the first place, he thought it was very hard,
after leading the country into war, to make it the
means of oppressing the people. But he contended
that it was, in fact, no argument at all. He would
suppose the case of two rival shopkeepers, one of
whom had a mortgage upon his property, whilst that
et the-other was-free from inbumbrance. Would the
man whose property was mortgaged be justified in
seeking to establish a monopoly ? Should he not
rather exert himself the more in his business, and
endeavour to get more custom, in order to pay off his
mortgage ? He had no doubt that if free trade were
extended, the national debt would be felt as a very light
burden. It would ultimately be paid off, and great care
would be taken not to incur a similar burden in future.
With respect to the complaints of the farmers, of the
national debt, the manufacturers and shopkeepers
were subjected to it also—all paid it ; and if paying
it was a title to protection, all ought to be protected.
;The argument drawn from the national debt was of
no weight at all ; if it was an argument, it was one
rather in favour of free trade than otherwise—(Hear,
hear)—and the more the subject was discussed the
more shameful would it appear for men to stand up
in Parliament, or elsewhere, and advocate local and
selfish interests. He hoped they should not hear them
say, as they had lately heard them, in Parliament,
say, bceause the planters in the West Indies had
been ruined they must ruin England also. He
hoped they would remember that they were
sent to Parliament to represent the interests
of the nation at large, and not merely their own
pockets, or their own individul interest. He hoped
that a time would come when men would be ashamed
to deceive one another in this way; yet he was sorry
to say, in the neighbourhood where he resided, at-
tempts of intimidation were going on in a large way.
He had known petitions against the corn-laves taken
into a village by the butler or head servant of the
great house, and placed before, not only those who
were in favour of the corn-laws, but those who .op
posed them, and these latter were dared to refuse to
sign them.—(Shame.) Some were at once directed
to sign them ; others were reasoned with, and all
kinds of appeal made to their interest; but in some
eases those appeals had 'been unsuccessful.—(Cheers.)
That was node conduct in those who remained
true to their principles; but it was a shameful
thing on the part of wealth and power to place men
in such a position.—(Cheers.) The League, he
hoped, would always use different means, so that in
gaining a good cause they might say they had gained
it by righteous means.—(Cheers.)
On the Rev. Gentleman resuming his seat, some
confusion occurred, in consequence of an individual
in the pit standing on one of the seats, and requesting
to be allowed to address a few words to the meeting.
His name was said to be Dwaine. The cries of
"Turn him out," " Order," and " Chair," continued
for some minutes.
The CHAIRMAN, having obtained silence, said they
Could not depart from their rule of presenting the
gentlemen announced to speak in the regular order;
and, if the interruption should be persisted in, he
should feel it his duty to preserve to the audience
chat order and convenience which had prevailed at all
their meetings. He announced Mr. W. J. Fox as
the next speaker.
Mr. W. J. Fox then came forward ; he was re-
ceived with warm and continued acclamations. He
said the motion for the repeal of the corn-laws, which
Mr. Villiers would propose on Tuesday next in the
House of Commons, marked the completion of another
year of the League agitation ; it was a time at which
to note the indications of the progress which their
Cause was making, and the rate at which it had ad-
vanced. The result of that motion would be a kind
Of "taking stock" in the House of Commons—(Hear,
hear)—and exhibiting, in the first instance, how the
free trade cause stood as compared with last year.
He confessed he had no very large anticipations as to
this portion of the review ; he was well acquainted
with that prayer for the House of Commons which had
been so emphatically and soundly explained to them
that evening. But however frequently, in some quar-
ters, or howeverearnestly that prayer might be offered
Up, he was afraid it would be as unavailing as the pro •
position made about two or three weeks since in a
country village, where the farmers were suffering
very much from drought, that the clergyman would
put up a prayer for rain. He consulted an old farmer
in the village, and wanted to know what his view
of the matter was, and whether he coincided
with the rest of the parishioners. Why,
Master Parson, said the old farmer, in my
opinion it is no use praying for rain as long as
the wind holds in the north-east !—(Laughter and
Cheers.) He (Mr. Fox) feared that the prayers of
the Church for the House of Commons would be of
as little use in leading to the settlement of this ques-
tion on the foundation of truth and justice, as long as
the prevailing wind of that region came from the
bitter and biting quarter of monopoly.---(Cheers.)
He could hope but little, on a question between a
class interest and the public, from a House of Com-
mons as at present class constructed, and even class-
elected. The disease was in its own very vitals, and
there must be a regeneration of the Legislative
body before they could hope for justice, to say
nothing of charity, to the suffering millions from
those who were at present the arbiters of their des-
tinies.—(Cheers.) There were other symptoms which
must lead them to moderate their expectations of the
approaching debate and division on this question. He
confessed he should not be at all surprised if their
strength should appear less even, instead of more, than
it was on the former occasions; and he should be by
no means disheartened by any such phenomenon ; for
whenever the Whig party got a glimpse of office,
they found that phrases and notions which had been
thought obsolete by the progress of the controversy,
were revived again ; and in the recent conflicting
events that had taken place, as soon as in the Legisla-
ture there was any such chance of upsetting a rival
party and returning to place, they perceived that the
doctrine. of a fixed duty re-appeared in the W big
newspapers. They had a perfect right to revive it
assuredly ; they had a perfect right to dig a corpse
out of the earth, ;if the earth belonged to them ;. but
they had no right to push that corpse among living
beings, and say, here, this is one of you, and has a right
to share your functions and enjoy a portion of your
privileges !—(Cheers.) Logically, and in the public
estimation, the fixed duty was dead and buried, and
rotten and forgotten, and it only re-appeared upon
the stage because. there seemed to be some slight
opening to a certain; Parliamentary party, which
occupies a better position than it did erewhile.
for a return to
,place. Now, with a fixed duty as
well as a sliding scale, this League waged inextin-
guishable warfare.—(Cheers.) The hostility to their
principle was as great in one case as the other. They
could no more compromise with the bread-tax in one
form than they could in the other. They abjured
them both. They were only different phases of the
intercepting of the bounty of Providence in its way
to minister to human enjoyment. And they had st
yet further objection to the fixed duty doctrine,
which rendered it more fi4d more obnoxious • that
objection was, that a fixed duty ferided to di-
vide the interest of the class possessing capital

•
from that of the class having only their labdirtv
to rely upon. It might answer the purpose of the
manufacturer, the merchant, and the shopkeeper; it
thighi in some measure satisfy those who were look-
ing eidiu;ively to their own interests; but it would
do so at the sacrifice of the interests and the rights of
the great majority of the toiling multitudes, whose
questidri this Was, and with reference to whom
it had alWayq been agitated, and not one item
of whose claim to fetid should ever be compro-
mised by any friend of free trade, or that
just and broad principle which that phrase denoted.
In loosing nt the public indicatives of the state of
their cause, one could not IPA be struck at once with
the fact of the unabated interest that /sad been mani-
fested in those meetings ; and this was -the metre re-
markable at the present time than it was last year or
on any former occasion, and for this reason :—The pre-
sent period was not one of very much excitement
on this question. It was not one in which there
were such stimulating and cheering electoral victories
as had occurred a few months ago. It was not one
of those numerous public meetings in different parts
of the kingdom, which some while since occupied
public attention, and formed a continual occasion for
regarding the progress of their cause. It had not
been a period, except within the last few days, of
Parliamentary discussions, that were exciting any
very extended degree of notice or great influence
yet they had come to this place, from week to week,;
seeing the old familiar faces, and hearing the old
familiar voices; they came under no temporary ex-
citement, under no extraordinary stimulus from with-
out ; they came because there was an increasing
stimulus in their own bosoms ; they came because
this was a matter of principle, and not of
mere passing excitement; they came because their
determination was fixed and rooted in their own souls
to protest against the atrocious impost on food till it
should be utterly abolished—and to reiterate that de-
termination, calling Heaven to witness, that come
storm, come sunshine, come calm, come struggle,
they were resolved to make their protest, till at
length the voice of truth and justice prevailed over
all class interests, and that the Legislature itself
should yield to the power of public opinion.
—(Cheers.) In this quiet determination they
needed no contrivance, no recourse to varied means
for keeping up their attendance. He saw in them
that calm and growing strength which worked like
the mighty elements of nature itself; it was the
power which had within itself the means of perma-
nence, and the means of permanence in moral power
implied the means of increase also. It showed a
strength that went on from day to day silently and
irresistibly swelling like the snow on the mountain
top, till it formed into an extent compact as the
glacier, ready at a word, if they bided their time—
ready when that time came to rush down, bearing all
before it, overwhelming any hostile power with the
will, the resistless will of a mighty nation.—(Loud
cheers.) Miscalculating the quietness with which true
power held its own, they found some journalists
still determined to treat th e League as absolutely or
permanently defunct ; indeed, only a few days ago it
was stated by one of these papers that the League
had been driven from Covent-garden Theatre by the
London Conservative Association, a most marvellous
rout that would have been ; but the generosity that
had allowed them the use of the theatre, had been by
no means displaced. Their meeting ought to have
been held this day instead of last Wednesday, then,
when they toasted the glorious majority of ninety,
they might have asked where it was last Monday and
on Friday.—(Loud cheers.) They might have been
called on to explain whether they were cele-
brating the triumph of the Tories over Peel, or of
Peel over the Tories.—(Cheers and laughter.) And
that question might have especially been asked of
Sir Howard Douglas, who voted on the first occasion
with Mr. Miles, and on the second occasion with Sir
R. Peel, and who prefaced his second vote with de-
claring that his opinions had undergone no change.—
(Great laughter.) That was the gentleman who
took on him, or had put upon him, the task of being
the responsor when the health of the Duke of Wel-
lington was given. Had the Conservative festival
waited till to-day, they might have made a pithy
allusion to the uncovered statue of the Duke, which
he was told, for he had not seen it, stood with its
face to the Post-office and the Horse-Guards, and its
back towards the Royal Exchange.—(Laughter.)
At that festival they said repeatedly, and they said
very truly, that they were not an association to up-
hold " any particular Ministry." The Ministry such
an association upheld must be a Ministry that were
not very particular--(Loud cheers)—and he won-
dered much, considering the number of mercantile
people there, and the large correspondence they must
keep up, he wondered they did not introduce at least
some such toast as teis, " Success to those who hold
the seals of office, and who break the seals of letters."
—(Loud cheers, several times renewed.) To re-
turn to the indications of the progress of their
cause, he for one reckoned it a very gra-
tifying indication, and a good of immense
moment effected by the League, that the condition of
the agricultural labourer was now forced upon public
attention, with a power that insured that something
must be done towards their amelioration. It was the
League that brought that condition first under notice,
in the face of the boldest contradiction ; for every
rural district was described as a perfect arcadia, all
innocence, and comfort, and enjoyment. The veil
was now torn aside, one which no patching could
ever hold together again, and the horrid and disgust-
ing reality was exposed, a reality which, however
tampered with, he believed could never be entirely
altered in its character, and never thoroughly
reformed; but by the accomplishment of that
repeal of the taxes on food which it was
the object of the League to accomplish.
How much had been done by the League in the cause
of free trade ? Would that great power, the Times,
have taken up their cause had it not been for previous
preparation ? The Times sent out its royal com-
mission to the disturbed districts ; he said royal com-
mission, for there were other powers of Government
besides those that met in Westminster. The Times
might be said, to a certain extent, to rule England as
Daniel O'Connell rules Ireland. Printing- house-
square, and the Penitentiary at the Circular-road, were
seats of Government, where there were influences
which made themselves felt to 'the remotest bounda-
ries of either island. A series of papers had appeared
in the Times regarding the agricultural districts,
whence you might trace, as on a map, a broad, black
line—low wages and incendiary fires.—(Hear, hear.)
These papers, by the impression they would produce,
would shame down the calumnies so often repeated
against the League, that they had, or could have had,
anything to do with these disturbances. Those
sophisms had fallen in the way of so many others—
they would go down the road to oblivion, and nothing
would be left but theplain; daring assertion—that to
tax food is good for our pockets, and that tax we will
keep up as long as you leave us the power.— (Hear,
hear.) It was pleasing to see that the condition of
these poor creatures was becoming so much better
understood, and that the need of some alleviation to
the miseries of the inhabirants of the agricultural
counties of Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk was univer-
sally admitted. This, and much more, was owing
to the exertions of the League.—(Hear, hear.)
The poor creature born to filth and hunger,
brought up in a dilapidated cottage destined to de-
molition under the common-clearing system—sent
out in his early years to break stones on the road
that leads to some ducal mansion, kept up in splen -
doer by the assistance of a bread-tax—made to work
for all; he must feed, and house, and lie as he can—
his church was the beer-shop, his only refuge—his
only chance of tasting anything but dry bread,
poaching on the preserves of some squire—steering
between the Scylla and Charybdis of the workhouse
and the gaol, the view of the gallows being made visi-
ble in the distance by the fires of the blazing barns.
To reach such as this the star of hope had risen,
and it would held on in its course until it obtained
the meridian of truth and justice. There were indi-
cations of advance in their cause in the present con-
dition of the hostile powers. Where was the great
compact phalanx which had been bound against them
two years ago ? Where was the power which was
exercised in the election of 1841, when it carried
everything before them ? Where was that compact
now ? Quarrelling about almost everything that
could be started. They were quarrelling about a
Welsh bishopric' Dissenters Chapels Bills, and were
about to quarrel about the New Poor-law, having
quarrelled about the Ten Hours' Bill, and were now I
involved_ in a deadly quarrel about the sugar duties.
There were high Church and moderate Church—an-
cient Tories and modern Conservatives—young Eng-
land and old England (Laughter) and there
was the Prime Minister himself' stirring up the bete-
rogeneous.material, and well might he exclaim—
" Double double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble."—(Laughter.)
Thus was Sir Robert Peel at the head of that great
Conservative party, which he had been ten years
amalgamating. These things read a very impressive
moral lesson, which was to avoid in future any endea-
vour to form a party without principle—or what was
worse, a party with five er six antagonistic principles.
In opposition, Sir Robert Peel had avoided showing
himself with wonderful dexterity. The amalgama-
tion of the Tory party succeeded in displacing the
Whigs ; but Sir Robert Peel was now exhibited in
the most pitiable light in which a Prime Minister has
been placed—endured for his dexterity—tolerated for
nothing else. There he was—toiling at their work—
endured by all, scorned by all, thwarted by all—re-
proached by all—not adhered to for any steadiness of
principle, for he turned his back upon all those doc-
trines which he formerly maintained, but supported
because he propped up that wretched system of expe-
diency, which was fast tottering to destruction.
In endeavouring to sustain himself in office he had
been guilty of the most,palpable_ typacbery. Hp had
obtained' for hithself the well-earned reputation of a
trickster, and if they searched the calendai they

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STATE OF TRADE.
o?rnln the Manchester GuaTclian of yesterday.)
)18t,,,,ing to the non arrival of the usual German mail
!f'r• I:'s3' morning, there was not quite so much demand
rtn.tisnr,:l,_lts last week ; but the market continues wry
4rial healthy. In the goods market there is no ma-
-"ange ; 40-inch shirtings are still in limited de-,
'rt'q and rather loner in price, but printing cloth sells
/11111.'4111 at very firm prices. Domestics are steady,
11 4 rather t'ett.er demand for the low; r qualit.es.
itt(VALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 17:-
411,3145;411;,)el market has been more than usually brisk
'luny of the large manufacturers, as well as
Muta:
11:11:Nlants, haYe purchased freely at former prices.
'1111;70.' been also a good demand for wool, which has
ned the last week's prices.

1141

T of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
Oto. ralIle; DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
17t 11,'d r-,-- death as closed the care.er of an
•4 41, his real character,h and the estimation in which
rferi held by his contemporaries, become known.
e• ii„,44 (Wounded rumour of the event, if strengthened
`rediCutestances which seem to justify. its claims to
The
,a; Produces a similar result on public opinion.
ill'4l4l:,pc_illial whose demise has been prematurely an-
' ueeorues acquainted with the place he occupies
ti ew'tie estmation. He has the privilege of reading
:ttit, epttspb ; and may indulge in those reflec-
eds plc
or painful, which the sentiments it re-
tNePecting him are calculated to impart. Lord
til'Ntliti-at", a few years since, was furnished with this
pt,;,,°,Lis privilege. The hoax that was. practised on
• -,-,te in the form of an apparently circumstantial
1.71,4',ei'1-attested account of his death—by whonli-
kl• 'av4a'ned—whether with, or without, the eccentric
i,14111 1.,414 or privity--called forth in the daily
it e04,,-. ceinnaents on his Lordship's public character
rse. The latter were appealed to as reflect-
-1:441, light
011 the. former; and both were chronicled
eo~a conviction that the man awl his deeds had
Z't6 i'„,,teotters of history. It is with Governments as
4tei;gividuals. Events occasionally occur in their
which give rise to rumours of their dissolution.
A ris as they are popular or unpopular, the r
4e-
ior "1 their disruption will be received with reluet-
6, be grasped at with avidity. If there has
p been
expectation and hope of the termination of
ilitiv 4teer
',
the rfiort that the end has w be re-
Nt,4A`"hth avidity and be celebrated withcome delight.ill Even
Itt„t -0 event du not justify the conclusion—though
p'4113,4,
, itsof the Government be postponed, instead of
t.til (1, the testimony
borne to character is not im
ys-L.t,or are the feelings called forth by its sup-
,ljution the less. genuine, because premature..
1)!tt Jet•ts of public praise or censture, of the general
ell'th4r exultations are instructed as to the terms in
weuld have been spoken of had they really
mefiinct• The office of the " great teacher,..
t)41: 11,as been anticipae d in the case of the indivi-
it nu
Vos3 suet a government, before it actually gives place
whit, ssora may witness the satisfaction, or regret,
p,,Zh its loss poker has inspired the community.
Administration has this unenviable pri-
vt,"eihle rumours of its resignation had, it seems,
tik,4l‘47r9.ailicated in a letter from the London corre-
OvNil "f the Dublin Evening Mail, dated Satur-
tpd tt •
e4r„. in terms which implied that the event
liiiNti:l"l. In .the positive arrangement of respect
keliee that pervades the Censervative party in
tr.;ill,,;e;`) far as Sir Robert Peel and the policy of
'ir,;nia,"lent are concerted; and which has gradually
am earnest desire for its disruption, the ()Tin
'!-thlin Tories gloried over the supposed fail of
014,.41bistration in terms of triumph which would
stroi.g if f,und in a Repeal journal ; but
by a Cons.-rvative tog in, may be safel taken
tt,,Nti,:,ee that if the Administration be endured. with
bC't',63' Repeaters, it scarcely is less cordially de
}:1 and " o.e who actually placed it in power by their
t" ao; 'llatience.' That we bare not stated the import
shin Ourleeirient alluded to in terms too strong, will
a peiusal of the article :
L'''oo' I:RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.
Vitia---vr EVE GA.—The Cabinet Council has just
'' and it •'d the decision of resigning was come
tnonaly. said
9`4t 1,',4411 'elt Peel forthwith proceeded to the palace, aned.
an
of her Maesty. The official announc
b. the fax !will, of course, be made to both
'4.1% of p •ct Monday. The cheers with
th, ornament on
tZtiVe 14,-14.".nouncemerit of the defeat of Ministers was
the'lght, from the Conservative benches, left no
L theme inds of Ministers as to the feeling_ of. the party
1/4:Weq9 Thus, in two and a half years, having falsified
,I„f>fcte ntia'ey gave whilst out of office, the Manstru that
pray of . One Hundred in a House called by
t' .%l, now retire without sympathy or
.honour."
Y% 44 goes on to enumerate the delinquencies of
Is' ell 4 ljeel, as head of the Government, which
'll-.14,--(3 event on which it congratulates the Con-
ilj4lst3r and the country in the strongest terms.
buties—on which the adverse vote was
the Government on Friday night, and was
''it414411.,-te cause of the supposed resignation. of the
N,Nkti4 treated as a mere accident of which the
.V"tla 'tel availed themselves to convince the go•
i th• g
1,1), tto fixed determination of the party which
()ince, to enforce a policy more in confor-
eto khe the principles and pledges of Sir Robert
''th;!t, aleader of the Opposition in the last Par-
Sitriet,;l' en the faith of which he was entrusted
V(lo.Zteno'._
.111 ore unequivo.cal. party proclamation of
NI! 1,, -elation and repudiation of a Ministry, has
11%7 "herahodied and issued than the article in
4g iflte Mail, to which we have alluded.
lt','"hert Peel did not resign, as the organ
L't;pelirs4l.Conservatives supposed he had—because,
1vi;1.," was shut up to that only course con-
ri,,"tlll4llt-i" khis position—will be a source of disap-
-1,7t';1 Ilia' but will not mitigate the hostility with
.is eoOrse is viewed by the party, nor in-
/91ietth to qualify the condemnation of its po-
-1 IN, it
over its imaginary grave.
y pronounced
(Inillark. that yesterday, in the hurry
t analvsing the division of the preceding
~71ths,",ated alt. number of ultra free traders who
tared G j That numker, on
ich overnment as.e ve
doer the v,-,L,"ns as twenty-two—the exact majority by
"f Friday night was reversed, and the
Abillitib!ared from inevitable disruption. T _
t was, however, thirteen. Thus, but for
tkezioni,ta—eho in this case voted for
toy
of Protection, as likely to advance
11.1. all protection—the Government would
4,l4ti;jt 1).-
en- placed in a minority of four; and
tvl,i'nolent have been cut of office On the
,hpt in `" ts as eonst&ntly put forth by the Tory
t4ek.
tOt.e,‘Nthigs were in office, that they were
Liberel,, and n, .t by a majority of
it, ntilhr t
y ii'4eo of groin ns, sir Robert Peel is the
Alai-Corn-law League ; the leaders of
tr". hi.ti in ollice by their votes ; and. to
ille will evince his gratitude by adopting
t,'1(",•1) I r°l'nY they advocate.
‘1(1).--Th r e alliance of West Indians, Whig"
t, that`' ns to ~tliee, and disappointed Conse.rva-
. 4-h -t t "4,e d• h ,d • heir bolt, and we ima,
is( arge •
ea,t• 'Y. 'lre hale gratified by the result. The
'tined the satisfaction of knowing that they
v,i_.
to
tiv)ia.4,73 Placed their interests in opposition
tatn,th'i'en of the property-tax. The Whigs
1,1 „let' bar on the duor that excludes them from
41,11'4 in:' QOll-ervative self-seekers have learned
C•ilt v C.°'''hierable a -fraction of the Conser-
i,'''a, "e constitute. The wretched mismanage-
-4,,1(),„ lizilt4it, Indian affairs from the day in which the
Itl' 1100e.3 nod j.,bbing of the managers drove the
t0.44'41 and Chandos in .disgust from
it 'k't 0,0 ' etbis wr,tched mismanagement has led
ki't.tqll 4,lltirtt,h_lUnder..s and calamities quite beyond
14, t, o,ne
,un
sobsuject is inquired into ; but 4,11 t, 94,1 laYs when great and varied interests
om,t? the care of mere traders. Such
:nody but theni,,elves, and they deride all
44i e?tilfi L.,tairieditilltir.. • The interests. of the British
ie Lr, Y in worse hands, if confided to the
41'N',1ali illtei.e,t ai_gliev" than the hands in which the West
l~ Ileea,h nal' been so many years. Like the
t,',e-tt,t'f„the west Indian managers thinks. only
!Pl`t
fine and of his own private interest.
t 4 4,1. t
kk it, 1. 1111, 441 Prove my returns for the year?
the e:t Indian estate- bring a better
• ; I')arl'et ? I'V"
There- are the questions he
tatis,q4a, onnrltk, " of anything tor the common good, or
Pri'sPfrity of the colonies, he never
till):;:itorToanesg;rvsercravueell. known that many of the West
1,1 1•, tiltivottr u, invested large sums in the pur-
e tai non of estates in Cuba—all cultivated
it
ittet' Sr)tiliteb'aiNhing e'd\-n.d.at this very moment some of the
a. ate for est Indians, as they _are called,
et/ 4130 a loan of half a million to in-
hlavea=lor they will be no more—
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isu,r2l°Pr INTELLIGENCE. into Trinidad and Demerara, so as to prevent, by the
--(LLD
Ili weii. .7-14 e have more fly, but the plant is look- ! advantage of the start, and of a fresher and a bet-
-I,IB4ILEsEo ter soil, the possible recovery of Jamaica and the.
Est a.,ek. Ith.---The bine has greatly inaFroved since other old colonies, and •r' any circumstances, how.
CRA„.,
Ettg:od deal ever favourable. These mismanagers are, in truth,
eyer,
a.sultoox.— al eflyb.ines look well ; there is, how. the very worst enemies of the great body of
planters, and whatever tends to destroy their
lit._ °N The bine growing, and not much fly. influence, is a benefit to the great body of
1101.1.c°11N.—Bine growing, but a good deal of fly. West Indians. The disease under which the West Indies
u
11___
s,ll'idnoueN.—The plant here is looking well, suffer, and have been suffering for nearly forty years, is
leg,
lizteitoenEe.—Not much fly, and the bine look- a steady and by no means slow decline in the supply of
k
labour. This decline has not been caused, and can-
aßDE._
€0,4.1. N.-aZerlye-rel.ittle fly, but the drought is d •
e little h
has been in progress while the West Indies
Leaqiuri:e.trntinasT —The quantity of fly varies a good had a perfect monopoly,. even to the exclusion of diffe'rent gardens; on the whole it is in fair the other British colonies ; it has been in progress
eont,
fx,,i, while sugar was protected by a differential duty of three
th(re‘i EltbEN--The bine continues' to progress, .
and guineas the hundred weight ;and if it is now proceeding
s rio fl
l'llosL Y' • at a more rapid rate, the acceleration is the effect of a
of ii, Et —The bine grows, and there is no quantity natural cause, the necessary operation of which every
p3exeept in places where they are sheltered. one must see. As the negroes become fewer they get
kg fas, IlltY.The bine is looking healthier and grow- higher wages, and with higher wages they become rich,
~, has f, •
and the land becomes of less value. As they becomerich,
i 10,,, ca. lice, and the fly has left us.
eediri 'PItBL---The plants in this district are in an ex- however, they purchase small scraps of cheap land, and
atne,i,glY doubtful state ;on the one hand the bine is cease to be labourers. Thus the labourers are still
n atici,,‘"teil, but, on the other there ii a good deal of mere reduced in number, wages necessarily rise still
ktt 'ice. If anything, it has rather decreased, taking higher, and the same process is repeated again and again
)44c;rage of the grounds during the past week. and again, and must continue to be repeated until there
bats tbsToNTE, JUNE 17.—The hops in this district shall scarcely be a labourer in the colonies to be had
IN. eee. doing well up to near the end of last week; for hire. The advantage derived in this re-
it 4
a'uany gardens begin to show the want of rain, and spect to the great body of planters, is the
114 s uenerally thou ht there would be plenty of bine exposure of the truth, which the faithless
411e4r, b.t if there'is not rain very soon most places managers would keep out of sight. The British
Ths e 4ry short of bine, the young hops iii particular. tropical colonies are of immense importance to
Ihrt,stne remark applies' to the Weald of Kent, but the British empire, pecuniary considerations altogether
134-t;'eY seem to suffer more from the want of rain. apart, and they are of not less importance to the liberty
t°,144,"1-,EY, JUNE 17.—Some of our hop grounds are of mankind. We must, therefore be careful not to
The bit( `dear, while others are very full of fly and lice. lose them, or let them sink into. that state of ruin
t,s'ne IS certainly in a fluctuating state at present. to which they are rapidly descending, and to which
lilac!, 7' PAna.eion, JUNE 17.—The Goldings are rather lk f bin
them more rapidly. A permanent supply of bona fide
It, .-e for this time of year, but the weather of the
h rtm L
ate 4 t gut has been vs ry favourable for them, and they free labour must be found for - them. Until the
Attzu s.uffered at all from vermin. colonial population shall •be doubled, the colonies will
teilerailNycTlck, JUNE 17.—The bine is very clean, and not be in a secure state. Now this supply of labour may
. ell,r, • 8 well, be had promptly, and with little difficulty, by the estab-
lishment of settlements on the African coast, to serve as
i,P,dly'ltva..,. JUNE 16.—The hop bine has grown very
tbk
vermltein
entrepots, and thus will the accursed-slave-trade be effec-
the last week. We are now quite free
tually destroyed. It is not at present -a contest be-
tween free labour and slave labour that is carried
on between our colonies on one side, and Cuba
and the Brazils on the other, it is a contest of
insufficient and overpaid labour against abundant and
unpaid labour, and the result is inevitable. But who
will pretend that if the negroes in our colonies were in
sufficient numbers to compel them to work at the wages,
and at the rate at which Englishmen work, any slaves
could compete with them? To obtain for the West
Indies this abundant supply of labourers is the object to
which Parliament must direct its attention.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SECONDARIES' COURT, June 19.
CRIM. CON.-BARBER V. GRIMWADE.

This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in an
action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
The defendant allowed judgment to go by default. The
damages were laid at 1,0001. The following are the facts
of the case :—The plaintiff is an omnibus proprietor
living at Clapham, and the defendant resided within a
few doors of the plaintiff, and being an old friend who
had seen better days, was employed by him as a driver.
Amelia Barber, the plaintiff's wife, was a lady of very
prepossessing appearance, about twenty-four years of
age. The intimacy commenced in June, 1843, and con-
tinued until the commencement of the action, a few
months since. An immense number of letters were dis-
covered, many of them being of a very artful nature, and
the fact of the defendant being a married man, with a
young family, threw the plaintiff in some measure off his
guard. The criminal conversation was always carried
on in the house of the plaintiff.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the plaintiff, said
the jury would be spared the necessity of hearing details
of a most painful nature, as the plaintiff had agreed to
take a verdict by consent fur 501.—The damages were
thee assessed at 501.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MAR YLEBONE.

Ishmael Quintin, landlord of the Jolly Farmers
public- house. Munster-street, Regent's-park, was brought
before Mr. Rawlinson by virtue of a summons issued at
the instance of the Commissioners of Police, for allow-
ing gaming in his house, contrary to the terms of his
spirit license and the Act of the 9th Geo. IV.
Jacob Farey said that he left Bath on Tuesday week
last, and arrived in town on Wednesday morning. He
stoped on that day in Mr. Quintin's house, and observed,
in an up-stairs room, a policeman in his official dress and
the landlord's potman playing at bagatelle. They played
some games with varied success, and the cash lost was
' spent in drink. The potman left off play, and the
policeman then said to witness, Perhaps you will have
no objection to play." Witness then played with the
constable, and lost a shilling; he also lost one, and they
then played for threepen,e' which witness won; then for
another threepence, which he won also, and the police-
' man then said he would put sixpence down to witness's
sixpence, and they would play for the shilling. Witness
put down his sixpence, which the policeman covered
with another, and they played for it, And witness won.
On going, however, to take his money he found that it
had disappeared, and on his taxing the policeman with
the robbery, he called him a d-- thief, and a b--
rogue. There was another person in the room, a man
who had been discharged from the police force on the
day before. lie (witness) was so frightened at the lan-
guage used to him that he went down stairs and told the
landlord that he should riot stop an hour longer in the
'house, and he forwarded on the succeeding day a com-
plaint to the Commissioners of Police, who suspended
the constable and ordered a summons to be issued
against the landlord. The landlord had entered the
room while the policeman and himself were playing, and
asked how they were getting on.
' W. Wells, 339 S, the constable, was put in the box.
He admitted the playing at bagatelle, but denied the
making use of bad language, or stealing the shilling. He
was off duty at the time, and did not think he was com-
mitting any offence.
Mr. RAWLINSON said his conduct was most disgrace-
fa! ; but the case before him then only applied to the
landlord. He had no excuse for permitting a policeman
to clay in his house, and he would, therefore, fine him
forty shillings.
The policeman will probably be examined before the
;Magistrate for his part in the transaction.
William Hotham, alias Sir William Hotham, a fashion-
ably dressed young man, and one of the supporters of
the " turf," was finally examined on a charge of stealing
a mare from the stables of Mr. John Dart, of Crawford-
street. The prisoner had hired the animal on the sth
inst., but had forgotten to return it. It was attempted
to be proved by Mr. Hurry, who was retained for the
defence, that the mare had been purchased. The evi-
dence, however, did not bear out his argument, and Mr.
Rawlinson committed the prisoner for trial. He was,
however, admitted to bail.
CLERKENWELL.

Mr. George Saville, a cheesemonger,residing in Soho,
was charged with an assault of a very unprovoked elt:
meter on the person of Mary Anne Coleman, the wife
of a labourer living in Bloomsbury.
The complainant, a decent-looking, poor woman, had
a severe contusion under her left eye.
The complainant deposed that she was returning to
her home on that morning, between one and two o'clock,
when the prisoner came up to her as she was crossing
Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square, and asked her if she
would fight him. She told him not to interrupt her,
upon which he struck her a violent blow on the eye
with his clenched first, producing the contusion, which
was visible. The prisoner had just come out of Mr.
Young's public-house, at the corner of Vernon-place.
She had given him no provocation whatever.
In answer to a question from the Magistrate, witness
accounted for being oat so late by having been in at-
tendance on her sister in Bishopsgate-street, who had
been recently confined. She was going home as quickly
as she could.

Police-constable, 164 E, said the prosecutrix and pri-
soner were perfectly sober.

The prisoner, who assumed an air of great importance,
stated that the complainant had solicited him as a woman
of the town, and grasped him round the breast. He
acknowledged having pushed her away ; there were
four or five other women of bad character with her.

The complainant declared, in the most solemn manner,
that she never touched him ; that she was in company
with no person, and that she had not spoken a word.
Mr. Hopkins, residing in 56, Wigmore-street, Caven-
dish-square, was called for the defence. He deposed
that he believed a young woman solicited his friend and
afterwards caught hold of him ; she spoke to him, but he
could not tell what she said.

Jane Hardinge, an unfortunate girl living in Easton-
street, deposed that she was standing at the corner of
Vvrnon-place, when she saw the complainant crossing
the street—had never seen her before. She was alone
and unotiending when the prisoner struck her a blow on
the eye—she had never addressed him.

Mt:. GREENWOOD said it was evident the complainant
was a married woman, and that she bad given no provo-
cation whatever. -Ile would fine the prisoner 11., or a
week's imprisonment.
• The fine was paid at once, and the offender set at
liberty.
John „Stewart and 'Sarah Pattison, alias Stewart, alias
Browne, alias Thompson, with whom were four children,
two of them infants; were brought up by Horsford, the Men-
dicity officer, charged with obtaining money on false pre-
tences from Mr. James Beale, No. 1, Tavistock-place,
Russelksquare; also on several other charges of a similar
nature—the victims being Members of Yarliamemt and
several of the most distinguished of the nobility. The
prisoners •were attired plainly, but with scrupulous
cleanliness. The woman had a babe in each arm, and
wore a.mournful and dejected look. The male prisoner,
who is her husband, affected an air of the greatest sim-
plicity. Both are among the most artful, successful, and
incorrigible of their class. They refused to give any
address. - -

It appeared from the statement of Horsford that on
that morning he saw them visiting several houses in
Tavistock-square ; they then went to the house ofArch.:
deacon Potts, 20, Woburn-place, and were about pre-
senting their forged letters when he arrested them.
Witness having received numerous complaints from per-
sons of high and humble station who had been defrauded
by them, at once took them into custody. He produced
a bundle of letters, all written in the same handwriting,
and certifying to the excellent character and reduced
circumstance* of one or both of the prisoners. In one
instance the female represented herself as a widow whose
husband had lately died, leaving herself and children des-
titute ; in another she was the wife of a decayed ma-
riner, who had been bedridden for two years. There
was a little red book found on the female prisoner,
which, when apprehended, she attempted to destroy, and
which, on examination, was found to contain the names