The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

MEETING IN TOXTETH PARK.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
A meeting of the Anti-Monopoly Association was
held in Toxteth Hall, Mill-street, last evening, for the'
purpose of affording an opportunity to the electors of
the ti orth 'Ward to discuss the question of free-trade
with Mr. Murray, one of the lecturers of the League.
The public are already aware that the Anti-Monopoly
Association called a meeting of the electors of North
Toxteth for a similar purpose last week, and that,
owing to the extraordinary conduct pursued by Dr.
Harbord on that occasion, no expression of opinion
upon the all-important question could be arrived at.
e have now to state that the Doctor's conduct last
night, WAS anything but what we should have expected.
In the first place, the ship-carpenters elected him to
the chair ; and, no sooner did he become the presi-
dent, than he also became the partisan. He com-
menced by saying that Mr. Murray was a hired
lecturer, by asking whether there were any ex-
trumpery speakers to address the chair, and by en-
deavouring, as far as in him lay, to throw an air of
ridicule and burlesque over the proceedings. And not
only did he thus evince his partiality, but he also took
upon him to reply to Mr. Murray, and to advocate at
'some length the cause of the monopolists, while ever and
anon his political adherents, by whom the hall
was crowded, commenced the Kentish fire, and scenes
of uproar, such as we have not space to allude to
in detail, but certainly such as we have seldom wit-
nessed on former occasions, occurred. Mr.
Murray addressed the meeting, in the first instance,
in an able speech of three quarters of an hour's
duration, in which he s,hoyed the evil effects of
monopoly upon the inhabitants of England generally.
Three operatives affected to reply to him, and so also,
as we have said, did the Doctor. The latter, in the
course of his remarks, called upon the Tories never
to aid the Radical newspapers,' by sen4ing them ad-
vertisements or increasing their circulation. Mr.
Hughes moved a resolutionto the effect, that it was the
opinion of the meeting that all the monopolies, whether
agricultural, manufacturing, or colonial, were unjust in
principle, injurious in practice, and ought to be to-
tally and unconditionally repealed. Mr. Jones se-
conded the motion. Mr. Robert Inman proposed an
ilinendtuerit,lt.the effect, that the meeting strongly
depreeated".9* conduct of a body of men calling
themselves the Anti-Monopoly Association, in agi-
tating the minds of the people, and endeavouring to
set; them against the Ministry of the day under the
specious pretext of bettering the condition of the
people, while their:only objects were to recover their
lost political influence and to further their own selfish
views, to the great detriment and ruin of the best
interests of the country. Robert M'Clay seconded
the amendment, which was carried amidst great up-
roar by a small majority. A vote of thanks was then
passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated
by giving " three groans for the League ;" each of
the groaners seemingly felicitating himself on the
success of this discreditable trick and paltry outrage
upon the freedom of discussion.—Liverpool Journal
of Saturday.

Upwards of 400 horses, purchased by dealers from
the south at the late Christmas shows, were forwarded by rail-
way from York last week to London and other southern desti-
nations.—Hull Packet.