The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-12 00:00:00

LIAM Omt, Esq.:--

" That we deprecate the factious opposition offered by the Com-
pany now known as the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Com-
pany, who, without reasonable hope of being able to carry out their
own project, from want of support from the landed proprietors along
the line, can only effect the retarding of the introduction of a railway
ints this part of the country, and of its consequent improvement."
Moved by HENRI ANDERSON, Esq., and seconded by ROBERT WIL-

sox, Esq., Surgeon, R.N. :
" That it is of great importance to the labouring population of this
country, that the Act for establishing the Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush Railway, should pass in the present session of Parliament,
as they will thereby be employed during the ensuing winter and
spring months, when they are comparatively idle."
Moved by DAVID Wu.soN, Esq., and seconded by RienaßD Haim-

TON, Esq.:—
" That in the hope of gaining, at as early a period as
advantages which railway traffic must produce, this meeting do
adopt the petitions now read, to be forwarded for presentation to
both Houses of Parliament, praying for a suspension of the standing
orders in favour of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway
Company."

Moved by Wm. M'lgrfar, Esq., and seconded by DAVID REID, Esq.:
"That Lord O'Neil be requested, on the part of the inhabitant of
this town, to present the petition, and support its prayer in the
House of Lords ; and that the Members for the county of Antrim be
requested to present and support the petition to the House of
Commons."

JAMES LESLIE, Chairman,

At meetings held at Coleraine on the 2d ; Magherafelt onsthe sth ;
Meneymore oa the 6th; Cookstown on the 7th; Duegannon on the
Bth; and Armagh on the 9th instant, similar resolutions were
unanimously carried.

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and Dissolving Views, Daily.
Every Evening a Grand Promenade Concert, under the direction
of Mr. Sedgwick.
Admission, One Shilling. Children and Schools, half-price.

MAGDALEN HOSPITAL.
It is the intention of the Governors of the Magdalen Hospital
to appoint an EVENING PREACHER to the Institution.
Applications for this Appointment, with Testimonials, are to be
sent in to the Rev. J. Brackenbary, Secretary, at the Hospital, be-
fore THURSDAY, the 22d inst., from whom all particulars may be ascer-
tained.
May 1, 1845. JOSEPH BRACKENBURY, Secretary.

MEDICAL LEGISLATORS AND OTHER'S
ARE RESPONSIBLE TO GOD.—THE MEDICAL
QUESTION NOW BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
The following is a list of persons responsible to God for perpetu-
ating a false medical theory, viz. (the organic) upon mankind, in
order to prop or support a particular class amen :
lst.—All Judges. _ _

2nd.-3fembeis of Parliament.
3rd.—All persons subscribing to the erection or support of hospi-
tals or infirmaries where diseases are treated upon a false and inte-
rested theory.
4th.—Ail persons of rank, and others making speeches at public
meetings in support of such hospitals.
sth.—All Editors of newspapers who, for profit, insert articles itt
their newspapers tending to perpetuate such false theory upon man-
kind.

6th.—An Doctors, Surgeons, and others, who for profit, directly or
indirectly, follow or support a theory which they knew to be fllse.
Inasmuch that the truth can be ascertained in medicine by posi-
tive proof, Hygeists consider that the before-named persons cannot,
in the eyes of God, plead ignorance as an excuse. Medicine de-
cidedly differs in this respect from religion. The upholders of a false
and interested medical theory are clearly guilty of a great crime.
Hygeists contend that there is but one disease, viz. impurity of the
blood, and therefore only one treatment, viz. proper vegetable purg-
ation. As to medical diplomas, they absolutely prove nothing—on
the contrary, they operate as licences to kill with impunity, and to
make a trade of advice. Such being the fact, who can wonder at
the scenes which take place in the House of Commons upon this
question. Doctors wish to make a trade of diseases, but this we tell
them they will never effect.

Issued.. by the British College of Health, New-road, London, for
and on behalf of the body of Hygeists, 10th May, 1845.

THE CURRENCY AND THE ANTI-
CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter-hall, May 10,1845.
SIR,—I request the favour of your giving insertion in
your columns to the accompanying correspondence
between the Committee of the Society for the Emanci-
pation of Industry and the Council of the Anti-Corn-
law League.
The object of the Society will be. obvious, namely, the
development of the truth on an all-important social ques-
tion, entering as it does most certainly into the consi-
deration severally of " Free-trade" and " Protection,"
now so much discussed within and without the walls of
Parliament.
As the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League have
shown themselves either unable or unwilling to justify a
principle to which they are publicly pledged, the Com-
mittee of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry,
after waiting more than a month without receiving the
requested communication, have determined, with your
permission, to give publicity to the correspondence
through the medium of your paper.
In taking this step, the Committee of the Society are
making another attempt to point out the true and only
means of alleviating the distress acknowledged on all
hands to prevail among the labouring classes, and to ex-
pose the fallacious character of the system of currency
now existing in England—a system which, in its exten-
sion as proposed to Scotland and Ireland, modified even
as it is by the abandonment of an important feature,
will but aggravate the misery of the industrious popula-
tion, and accelerate the ruin which, as a consequence of
the Monetary Bill of 1819, and its " complement " of
1844, impends over the whore British empire.—l have
the honour to remainuSir, your obedient servant,
.ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman.
No. 1.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter-hall, Feb. 18, 1845.
Sir,—Perceiving an inconsistency between. the e
is founded
prin-
ciples on which the Anti-Corn-law.
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teopherepasurhedjecttLtofavoured with answers to the following questions,--vi,:—
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Society for the Emancipation of Industry request to be
rn Law
the law of supply and demand, and all the consequences
ad-
mittrhsatt, It
the
thee Anti-
commodityC o
of that law, as well as cotton, iron, or any other cern-
modity ?
Second, If so, is the League prepared to maintain that
when the Legislature select GOLD as the money of the
supply and demand to which it is so admitted the mer-
chantable metal ought to be subject?
I am requested by the Committee of the Society to
ask the favour of an early reply to this communication,
and I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman.
To the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law League.
No. 2.
National Anti-Corn-Law League, 67, Fleet-street,
London, February 28, 1845.
Sir,--I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour
of the 18th inst., and I am directed to refer you for a
solution of the questions you have proposed to the ac-
knowledged authorities on political economy, as the
Council are not desirous to enter into controversy on
such points.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. L. SAUL.
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman, &c. &c.
No. 3.
Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter Hall, March 3, 1845.
Gentlemen,--I am requested by the Committee or
the Society for tis.e Emancipation of Industry to ac-
knowledge the receipt pf the reply of the Council of the
Anti-Corn-law League, orough Mr. A. L. Saul, to the
communication made to thou on the 18th of last month.
As the Council of the League and their lecturers have
placed themselves prominently for'w'ard as public in-
structors and interpreters of the effects of free trade on
prices and the wages of labour, the Committee of the
Society, as part of that public, felt themselves justified
with all courtesy in asking a reply to the questions pro-
pounded in their former communication. Anxious to
investigate the truth, and not being aware who are the
writers whom the Council consider to be the acknow-
ledged authorities on political economy, the Committee
request to be informed.
The Council of the League most at the same time be
aware that the fundamental principles of any society can
never be identified in the miscellaneous writings of
other parties, and that unless the Council are prepared
explicitly to avow and explain their own opinion3', they
will never be able to maintain that position in public es.
timation to which they have aspired.
The Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, with a view to do establishment of correct
to r
opinions on the subject in question, propoee giv
de the
sthe
pub-
licity to this correspondence ; and,
in
ow beg leave
to add one more of vats 1,4 Crgin
stand the object of their former questions,.
Council of the Anti-Corn-law Leaguemaory
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3.1 f Fold, the melon
fifty under-

aw of supply and demand, and its price be fixed as it
now is, does it not inevitably follow that all prices, whe-
ther of commodities or of labour, must be regulatei
thereby ; and is not the certain consequence of gold
being fixed at the low price of 31. 17s. loid. per ounce,
the price it bore before taxation was so largely imposed,
that the present low and unremunerating prices for com-
modities and labour in this highly-taxed country are to
be attributed ?
The Committee deem the prosperity and happiness of
the labouring classes of the United Kingdom and its de-
pendencies, especially Scotland and Ireland, at the pre-
sent moment, to be so much involved in the issue, that
they offer to appoint three gentlemen to meet Messrs.
Cobden, Villiers, and Bright, on behalf of the Council,
to discuss any point of difference that may arise. They
propose that it shall be competent for each party to in-
troduce twelve other gentlemen to be present at the dis-
cussion, and that reporters, mutually agreed on, and at
joint expense, shall be employed with the understanding
that an authorised report of the proceedings shall forth-
with be published.—l have the honour to remain, Gen-
tlemen, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) ALEX. WILSON, Hon. Sec.
To the Chairman and Council of the
Anti-Corn-law League.
No. 4.

Office of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, 15, Exeter-hall, March 28, 1845.
Gentlemen,—On the 3d instant I had the honour of
suldressing you on behalf of the Committee of the So-
ciety for the Emancipation of Industry, requesting the
favour of replies to certain questions the Committee are
desirous of publicly raising, and the solution of which
they consider to be most intimately connected with the
future welfare of the industrious classes of this country,
whether manufacturing or agricultural. Not having
heard from you, I request the favour of a reply as early
as podsible, and
I remain, Gentleme7, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) ALEX. WILSON, Hon. Sec.
To the Chairman and Council of the Anti-Corn
Law League.