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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,

26, COHNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital .£400,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both In its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested; and this bonus, according to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied In reduction of future
premiums.
Entr !Policy, , e Annual
y.
No. 'Age.' Stun. prem.

Bonus
Added.
11

Cash I Prem.
Bonus. Reduced,

.£ .£ a. d.I .£ 4. f s, d. .£ I. d.
837 I 39 159 I 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 65319 9 819 4
838 ll4 56 3,000 175 15 0 296 9 7.123 0 6 18 9 7

Another Bones will be declared in the present year.

14,A LEAGUE MEE'fiNG
iU The Weekly Meetings of the League will in future be held on
the WEDNESDAY iu place of the Thursday Evenings as heretofore.
c next WEEKLY MEETING of the LEAGUE will take
place in cOVENT-GARDEN TcIEATRE, on WEDNESDAY EVENING,
February 21st.
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock.
The meeting will be addressed by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., ;
James Wilson, Esq., and other gentlemen. •
Cards of admission to the Stage and Upper Circles of Boxes may
be had on personal application, at the Central Offices of the League,
No. 67, Fleet-street, during Monday and Tuesday ; no application by
letter can be attended to.
To prevent inconvenience from the great pressure at the front en-
trance of the Theatre, the Council has resolved to limit the issue of
Tickets of admission to the Dress Circle to the precise number that
can be conveniently accommodated.
Each Ticket will be numbered, and each number represent and
secure the seat lu each box to be occupied by the bearer of the
7 icket. _ _ .

_
The Entrance to the Drees Circle will, in future, be at the Private•
Itox-door on the Queen's Side, in Hart•street.
The Cards of Registered Members only, will, as heretofore, admit to
the Pit and Galleries of the Theatre.

xviLsoN's SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
V MENTS,
MUSIC HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 19, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will give (by particular desire) and for the tlrst time
this season, his celebrated selected Entertainment on the
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Pianoforte, Mr. LAND.
PART I.—My ain Fireside—Saw ye my wee thing—Auld Robin
Gray—The Laird o' Cockpen—Lizzie Lindsay—Scots wha ha'e wi
Wallace bled—Mary Morison—Get up and bar the door.
PART IL—Farewell to Lochaber—My boy Tammy—My Nannle's
awa—Allister M'Allister—There's nae luck aboot the house.
In the Press, the SONGS in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Front Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Back Seats, 25.; Private Boxes for Six, 155.;
for Eight, IS. Programmes and Tickets may be had at the Music-
shops, and at the Music-hall.
Mr. WILSON will, in the course of the season, produce the follow-
ing, which he has had some time in preparation :—Jacobite Relics—
Wandering Willie's Wallet—The Jameses of Scotland—The Wallace
and the Bruce—A Halver wi' Jamie Hogg.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEBRUARY 2, 1844.
THE COURT of DiRt.,CTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
he held by adjournment at their House, in Leadeuhall-street, 00
WEDNESDAY, the 21st Instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon,
pursuant to the following Resolution, viz. :
To the Honourable the CHAIRMAN of the COURT of DIREC-
TORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY.

IjosorRABLE
"We the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock request
that a Special General Court may be convened at the earliest period,
to take into consideration the following Itesoluticins proposed to be
submitted to them :

" 1. That from the Printed Papers recently laid before the Proprie-
tors on the subject of Shute, it is the opinion of this Court that the
proceedings of the Government of India which ended in the dethrone-
ment, exile, and imprisonment of the Ameers, and the seizure of thar
country and private property, were uncalled for, impolitic, and unjust.
" 2. That this Court does therefore most earnestly recommend to
the Court of Directors the immediate adoption of such steps, by repre-
sentation to her Majesty's Government, or otherwLs'e, as may cause all
practicable reparation to be made for the injustice already committed,
and enforce the abandonment of a line of policy Inconsistent with
good faith, and subversive of the interests of the British rule in India.
" We have the honour to be,
" Honourable Sir,
" Your obedient Servants,
"J. SULLIVAN,
" WILLIAM J. EASTWICK,
" JOSEPH HUMS,
" CHARLES FORBES,
" HARk'ORD JONES BRYDGES,
"JOHN POYNDER,
"ARTHUR J. LEWIS,
" A. HOGG,
" THOMAS MARRIOTT.
" London, January, 16, 1844."

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

GUILDHALL, LONDON, JAN. 26, 1844.
NOTICE is hereby given that the BONDS of
all PERSONS having become BANKRUPT or having TAKEN
the BENEFIT of the INSOLVENT ACT since their ADMISSION as
BROKERS of the CITY of LONDON, have thereby become VOW,
and that all such persons are disqualified to act until they shall have
signed other Bonds with sufficient sureties, and shall have been re-
admitted by the Court of Aldermen.

information of persons acting as Brokers without being readmitted
is requeSted, that they may be prosecuted.

MEREWETIIER.

GUILDHALL, LONDON, JAN. 26, 1844.
NDYKE is hereby given that the COURT of
ALDERMEN have DISCHARGED the undermentioned par-
ties from the OFFICE or EMPLOYMENT of BROKER of the CITY
of LONDON, viz.:—
THOMAS DOUGAN.
BENJAMIN MENDES DACOSTA.
CHARLES PEARCE CHAPMAN.
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE DOWSON.
CHARLES EBSWOItTH.
JOHN GRIFFITH.
WILLIAM ANSON HANN.
WILLIAM THOMAS HODSOLL.
JOHN INMAN.
WILLIAM POOLE.
FRANCIS WAKEFIELD.
CHARLES VARNHAM.
JOHN COCKRELL.
ALBERT WILLIAM JONES.
DANIEL ALDER.
JOHN HENRY SAUNDERS.
WILLIAM VIRGO.
JOHN HENRY BARLOW.
CHARLES TERRY
JOHN MACDONALD.

MEREWETIIEE.

F. X TENSIVE SALE.
The SPLENDID STOCK of FANCY JEWELLERY,
GOLD and SILVER 'WATCHES, SILVER PLATED GOODS,
TORTOISESHELL WORKBOXES, and TEA CADDIES, and a
great variety of other Fancy Articles, are now SELLING OFF, at a
heavy sacrifice, by Messrs. HORTON and CO., of 36, Ludgate-
street, opposite Messrs. Everington and Co.'s, in consequence of Mr.
Horton retiring from the retail business.
It is seldom the public have an opportunity like the present of pur-
chasing, at little more than one-half to two-thirds the usual charge,
the variety of genuine articles now offered for sale—comprising Gen-
tlemen's and Ladies' Gold and Silver Watches, of workmanship the
first class of excellence, Gold Neck and Guard Chains, Seals and
Keys, Fancy and Mourning Brooches, Rings, Pins, and Ear-rings,
Pencil Cases, Silver Card Cases, Scent and Snuff Boxes ; also Silver
Plated Tea and Coffee Sets, Candlesticks, Cruet Frames, Dish Covers,
Corner Dishes, Waiters, Ice Pails, Rutter Coolers, Bread Baskets,
&c., all warranted the best Sheffield make ; Table and Dessert Forks
and Spoons, Soup Ladles, Grape Scissors, Asparagus Tongs, Nut-
cracks, Dessert Knives and Forks in Case, Jet Necklaces, and nu-
merous other Fancy Articles, all at a considerable sacrifice.

ISAMUEL NICHOLLS, at present, and for
eighteen months past, residing at Wellington Cottage, Ken-
sall-green, in the parish of Saint Luke's, Chelsea, and county of Mid-
dlesex, and being an excavator, do hereby give notice that: I
intend to present a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall-street, London, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate,
and effects, and to be protected from all process, upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects for payment of
my just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice, that
the time when the matter of the said petition shall be heard is to
be advertised in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun news-
paper one month at the least after the date hereof; as witness my
hand, this 7th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1844.

SAMUEL NICIIOLLS.
Witness, John Chisholm, 3, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, Insolvent's
attorney.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Independent.)
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Penelope, 22, Captain Wm.
Jones, having undergone some repairs, both in her hull and
engines, went into the Sound on Thursday.
Her Majesty's ship San Josef, 110, Captain Burgoyne.—A
seaman named Greet, belonging to this ship, fell from the
wizen-channel on Saturday last, and sank before assistance
could be rendered him.
Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, 90, fitted as an advance-
ship, was inspected by Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pvm on
Tuesday, previous to being reported ready for commission.
Her Majesty's ship America, 50, was taken into dock on
Thursday, to have her copper cleaned and repaired.
Her Majesty's ship Forth, 44, was warped alongside the
Jetty, from her moorings, on Wednesday.
The Devon lighter arrived on Wednesday from Scilly, and
came into harbour to repair the damages sustained in the
late gale.
COVE OF CORK, FEB. 9.—Tier Majesty's ship Iris, 26,
Captain R. Munday, sailed this morning for China. The
Voluge, 26, Captain Sir W. Dickson, Bart., arrived here yes-
terday morning, after a very boisterous passage from Devon-
port, and was towed to her anchora,,e by the Meteor steamer.
Her Majesty's ship Madagascar,°44, Captain John Foote,
'was lying at Ascension on the 21st December. The Rapid,
10, Lieut. C. Earle, was cruising on the Line. The Hydra,
steamer, Corn. Young, had gone to the southward. The
Heroine, 6, Lieut. R. Foote, and the Spy, 3, Lieut. S. 0.
Woolridge, were off Whydah. The Rapid and Spy had taken
two prizes. The Ferret, 10, Corn. Oake, and the Alert, 10,
Corn. Bosanquet, were off Cape Palinas. The Albert steamer,
Lieut. D. Woodruffe, was off the river Gambia on the 4th
January, all very healthy, and the weather beautiful.
PROMOTIONS 'AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTION.—Mate—F. A. L. Selwyn (of the Devastation,
steamer) to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOLNITMENTS.—Lieutenants--Henry Ainslie, to the Ex-
cellent, vice Newcomen ; T. C. 0. D. 'Whipple, and Robert
Hall, to the Camperdown ; H. R. Crofton, and Richard
Hoops, to the Tortoise ; T. Gresham, to the Formidable.
Master—J. R. Martyn, to the Tortoise.
Chaplain—The Rev G. R. Lewin, -to the Camperdown,
vice Cooper.
Mates—George W. Preedy (from the Excellent) to the
Camperdown ; Alleyne Bland (late of the Druid) to the
Excellent ; E. B. Rice (late of the Blonde) to the St. Vin-
cent ; P. W. Coventry from the Queen) to be acting Lieu-
tenant to the Vernon.
Surgeon—J. J. Paul (late acting of the Lily) to Green-
wich Hospital.
Second Master—F. F. F. Taylor (from the Madagascar)
to be acting Master of the Alert, vice George Gibbon,
invalided. _ .

Assistant-Surgeons—E. J. Brown, Daniel Booth, Andrew
Coates, and Andrew Lillie (all additional) to the Penelope,
steamer ; W. Davis (acting additional) to the Camperdown,
for service in Melville Hospital, at Chatham.
Clerks—J. Winstanley, to be Secretary's Clerk to Rear-
Admiral Bowles, at Cork W. H. Mellish, to the St. Vin-
cent, vice Hayward ; W. W. Green, to the Victory, vice
Strain, deceased.
Midshipman—J. E. Riley, to the St. Vincent.
Naval Cadets—S. Dallison, to the Tortoise ;A. White,
(from the Excellent) to the Stromboli, steamer.
Boatswain—Joseph Hyde, to the Penelope, vice Richards,
appointment cancelled; Byng (boatswain's mate, of
the San Josef), to be boatswain of third class, on the cheque,
at San Josef.
Carpenter—William Williams (supernumerary, of the San
Josef), to do duty in the Astraca, at Falmouth.

deck port is 6ft. Bin. from the water, and she was enabled to
keep some of her lower deck ports open when under double-
reefed topsails. She is considered by her captain and officers
to be the most perfect line-of-battle-ship in the service, and it
is considered doubtful whether even the Vanguard, 80, built
by the same constructor, which has hitherto beaten every
other line-of-battle-ship, would have any chance with the
Albion.

The Victoria and Albert Royal steam-yacht, is ordered
to be got ready early in June, for the use of her Majesty.
She has had her boilers removed, and is being fitted with
tubular ones.

SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING.

TRIUMPH OF FREE-TRADE PRINCIPLES.

(Abridged from the Bristol Mercury of Saturday.)

On Friday a public meeting of the freeholders
and others, inhabitants of the county of Somerset,
took place in front of the Town-hall, Bridgewater, in
pursuance of a requisition to the High Sheriff of the
county (Hon. P. Bouverie), requesting him to call a
meeting to oppose the proceedings of the Anti-Corn•law
League. From an early hour the town of Bridgewater
was a scene of excitement, from the influx of the neigh-
bouring yeomanry and freeholders, and other persons
from different parts of this large and important county.
Colours were displayed from many of the houses, and a
couple of bands of music paraded the streets, adding not
a little to the bustle which rwevailed. At twelve o'clock
about 5,000 persons were assembled around a platform,
ere,-ted in front of the Town-hall, on which was the
High Sheritl; together with a number of ;rent•emeii con-
nected with the county. Amongst those prsent were
the following:—Hon. i'.:P.Bouverie, High Sheriff; in the
Chair; Sir Alexander Hood, Bart., T. 1). Ac,and, E q.,
M.P., Francis Popham, Esq., Charles Powel Collins,
Esq., Sir T. B. Letathrigde, Hart., Rev. Mr. Thring,
Captain Norris, I'. Mildmay, *W. H. tom. Langton,
Esq., I'. G. W. Carew, Esq., Rev. Mr. Barnard, J. W.
Warren, Esq., Rev. W. Thomas, Dr. Ma tn,illen, Ed-
ward Jeffries Esdaile, Esq., Henry Badcock, Esq.,
*Andrew Crope, Esq., *Captain strachey, Rev. M.
Joltiffe, Edward Ashford Sanford, Esq., lace M.P. for
the county; Henry W arre, Esq., •Captain fq.owne,
R.N., Colonel Luttrell, Lee Lee, .E:=q., hlenry Charles
Trenchard, Esq., *John Browtie, Esq., *— Edridge,
Esq,. Mayor of Bath; *William Beadon, jun., Esq.,
Langley St. Albyn, Esq., Edward Sealey, Esq., Edward
Coles, Esq., Edward lieadon, Esq , Sir George Adams,
K.C.H., Rev. R. Beadon, R. K. M. King, Esq., H. D.
Harvey, Esq., Captain Keats, &c., &c.; including a
large proportion of influential county families, an im-
mense number of Church clergy, lawyers, stewards,
land-agents. &c.. hostile to free trade.
Note.—Those marked with asterisks are free traders.

The Under-Sheriff (E. Co.es, Esq.), having read the
requisition calling the meeting—
The Rion SHERIFF said, in consequence of having
received the requisition referred to he had felt it
to be his imperative duty to convene tie meeting at
which they were then assembled, and and trusted that
the gentleman present, in the discussion which was
about to take place on a subject intetesting to them all,
would kindly attend to what was laid before them. with-
out interruption, and with patience and good humour.'
Mr. Joust HANCOCK, of Hake, said he rose, being a
farmer of the county of Somerset, a small landowner,
and a considerable occupier ot land, which station he
had held for fifty year., and had occupied his mind
with: the study of agriculture generally... In the
first place, he would beg to make a few observations re-
pecting the protection which agriculture deserved.
First, they had the Church to maintain.—(Cries of "Oh,"
and "That's the evil.") Then they had the poor
and the way-rates to pay ; and he therefore
contended that they ought to have that protection
which would enable them to pay those races and taxes
which they were called on to bear more than
the foreign grower. He did not want high
prices, and he believed his brother farmers did not, but
he wanted protection. They knew that corn could not
be grown in this part of the country for less than 71. per
acre, and that without rent.—(Cries of " Oh.") There-
fore, it' all protection were taken away, corn from Dant-
zic and other northern countries would be let in, which
would bring corn down to Ms. or 365. per quarter, and
there would be nothing to pay rent, and nothing to pay
for labour. It would be nothing more nor less than
putting 5L into one pocket of the labourer, and taking
8L out of another. He was not for having cheap bread
and low wages, but for having good wages and tolerable
prices.—(Hear, hear, and " Oh.") He did not know that
anything more to say, and he would therefore move—
" That this meeting desires to express its decided con-
viction that a repeal of the existing corn-laws would be
highly prejudicial to British agriculture and to the nation
at large ; and, viewing with indignation and regret the
proceedings and avowed objects of the Association call-
ing itself the Anti-Corn-law League," is determined,
by all legal and constitutional means, to oppose and
counteract the same."
Sir ALEXANDER HOOD, Bart., rose, and was received
with mingled expressions of approbation and disappro-
bation. He said, he was most proud to have to second,
on that occasion, the proposition of an holiest and web-
known yeoman of the county, who, as they saw, had
grown grey in its service—in doing that which was ex-
pected of a yeoman—good to his fellow-men, whether
tradesmen or labourers.—(Cheers, and cries of " No
corn-tax.") Why was he (Sir Alexander Hood) there
on the present occasion ? Because he had reed in a
letter by one of the principal individuals of the Corn-
law League that which he should now read, and from
which they would see whether or not he was justified in
seconding the motion. The passage he alluded to said
" The corn-law may be repealed by clamour and by
force."—(Applause, groans, and cries of " No, no.")
There it was—and more, it went on to say, " Nay, they
must be so repealed, unless they fall before the calmly
expressed will of millions." Now, that passage struck
him as partaking very much of threat and robbery.—
(Cries of "No," cheers, and disapprobation.) There was
another reason why he was present, and that also was
given by the very words of the papers of the Anti-Corn-
law League : he saw in one which he held in his hand
these words, " Swing versus the corn-laws."—(Hear,
and a cry "That won't answer.") In the county in
which they were they had, it is true, seen nothing of the
system which had been kindled by such documents as
that he held in his hand--(Cries of "No, no")—but in
many of the counties of England they had seen the
farmers' stores reduced to ashes.—(Hear.) And should
he not be a gross coward if he did not stand before them
—even if it were at the risk of being torn to atoms—
(" Oh, oh")—if he did not stand by the farmers, who had
been in all times of difficulty and of danger the protec-
tors of their native shores ?—(Elear, hear, and cheers.)
It was a matter of congratulation to society at large to
find men of different shades of opinion all there to-
gether to express their disapprobation of the ma-
chinations of the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Cheers
and groans.) It was matter of congratulation
to them to find themselves supported by the yeo-
manry, the tenantry, the gentry, and, he would say, the
labourers too,—(" No, no," and great uproar)—in de-
nouncing what could be called by no other name than
the revolutionary proceedings of the League.—(Cheers
and groans.) Ile rejoiced ; it was one of the happiest
days of his life to see the yeomanry of the county of
Somerset coming forward, and, like men, prepared to
take their stand, if needs be, foot to foot and breast to
breast, against the enemies of their property, their
peace, and their prosperity.—(Cheers and disapproba-
tion.) In every age, and under every government,
certain characters were met with whose delight it was
to set friends and neighbours together by the ears, and
who would turn any country into confusion but England.
—(Hear, and applause.) One man wanted repeal,
another fixity of tenure—and he hoped to Heaven he
would get it to his will and to his wish—another would
like to blot out the national debt as with a sponge.—(Cries
of " No," and " We won't rub out your pension.") Then
the large millocrat desired to amalgamate his mountains
of wealth with as much speed as his steam-engine,
and trod on the shoulders of the yeoman of England
(Cheers and uproar)—taking that from him which God
and nature had bestowed on him—the right to get his
bread by the sweat of his brow.—(Cries of "You won't
let him get it.") John Bull had borne with a great
many insults from the League, but he took little notice
—save the notice of disdain of its proceedings—till he
saw individuals of rank banding,themselves with it.—
(Applause and uproar.) He then naturally referred to
history, and in turning to it he alighted on the fearful
and bloody history of 1798. Some of the generous and.
noble of France banded themselves with the league of
that day—the league of the bloody Rahespierre.—
(Partial cheering, and a cry What have we to at
with that ?") They lent a hand to overturn, the .n-
-stitution of that nation.--(Hear, hear.) (sod was
always just, and they themselves became the early
victims of their own murderous crew. Ile spoke
this in the language of warning—not so much to the
people of England as to the nobles of England; and he
stood there and said that those men of rank who banded
themselves with the League—be they who they might—
would be punished by the deprecations of the people of
England.—( Applause and disapsrobatien.) Profiting
by the example set them, the nobles and gs ntry of the
land had now d. termined, as far as in them lay, to t;e-
fend themselves against the most unconstituf oria', most
dangerous, and most revolutionary measures with which
they were threatened.—(Hear, and tumult.) The Anti-
Corn-law League asked of what use had the corn-hies
been to the tenant-farmers ? Looking bads through the
last 20 years—putting rents on one side—the farmers
had been benefited by from 13s. to 455. per quarter.
Where would the British farmer have been but for pro-
tection ?—(Hear, and a cry, " Better of") He would
have been on a level with the serfs of Germany living in
fixed poverty.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) Lord Spen-
cer told them that by free trade tne prices of the 13ritssh
corn-grower would not be low, red, but the foreign
corn-growers' prices would be raised—he forgetting that
every quarter of foreign corn brought into this country
deducted such an amount from British labour.--(Hear.)
He should be glad to know what advantage this pro-
position of Lord Spencer's would be to the British pub-
, lic, if foreign wheat were not to be lower than that of
British, so as to get the loaf cheaper.—(A voice, "We

should have more work;" and cheers.) They were met
there without any feelings of je Mousy among tht.m,
and (continued Sir Alexander, addressing Sir Thomas
Lethbridge and Mr. Sandford) pr:,ud am I to shake you
by the hands.—(Sir Alexander Hood and the gentlemen
before-named then shook hands, amid the cheers and
jeers of the meeting.) He would never shrink from his
principles, but they were met there as one man to con-
sider how the revolutionary League—for he would
not mince his words—was to be met.—(Groans
and cheers.) Instead of " Swing versus the
Corn-laws," ,they would have truth opposed to false-
hood. The Anti-Corn-law League had bearded, at
their own doors, the gentry, the yeoman, the
tenantry, and the labourers of England. They said" We
have got our 100,000/., and we will fight our battle in
every borough ; we will disseminate our sedition—our
daring sedition, among the people.—(Cheers and groans.)
This was their cry ; and he said, boldly, before the
assembled county of Somerset, that there was little hope
for England, if the gentry of England did not loose
their sails and go a-head of the Anti-Corn-law League.
—(Cheers and derisive cheers.) If they did not loose
their sails and shoot a-head of the 100,000/ by at least
50,0001.; and if every county did not subscribe, every
one giving according to his means, they deserved not
to have an acre to stand upon.—(Hear, hear, and loud
cheers.) The blight of Heaven might destroy their
handiwork—the storm and the whirlwind might rudely
sweep the fair face of nature, and devastate their crops
_and there was not a man present who would not bend
with- reveren e to the Divine wilt—but that_ a blind, self-
interested band of men should debar the yeomen and
tradesmen Of England from the just reward of their
labour, and from doing the best they could with their
native industry—(Cheers)—that the patriot yeomen of
England—the life, the strength, the very soul of their
country—that these should be bent to the earth, and
made the yoke-tellows of foreign serfs, never could be
by the will of Heaven ; and, if they only held together
in one indissoluble ph:ihinx, never should be by the
dictation of man.—(Uproar.)

W. BEADON, Esq. rose, and was received with cheers
and win,. disapprobation. He said, he came forward to
propose an amendment on the resolution, which he be-
lieved would receive the approbation of the great majo-
rity of that large and intelligent meeting.—(Cheers).
And if there a ere present one individual from whom
he expected more than from another to receive earnest,
warm, and energetic support, it was the Hon. Baronet,
Sir T. Lethbridge, the great promoter, if not the origi-
nator of that meeting.—(i beers and laughter). He
should call'on him to support the amendment, for he
had a great respect for the worthy Baronet, whom he
believed to be an honest man—he should call on him to
support it, because it embodied sentiments with which he
knew Sir Thomas would fully accord. Before he read
the resolution, he would trouble them with a few brief
remarks—he shoul,l appeal to their common sense, and
refrain from fatiguing them with dry and uninteresting
statistics ; and he implored them to believe that, if he
failed to carry home conviction to their minds, the
fault was not in the matter, but in the man.—
(Rear.) He _would_.; not insult their proceedings
by offering to refute the shallow and futile
arguments —if they might be dignified by
that name—the fallacies and high-flown but empty
rhetoric they had heard employed in support of the reso-
lution. What were they invited to do that day ; the
tenant-farmers of the county of Somerset were invited
to oppose thdt ugly unconstitutional body, as it was
called, the Anti-Corn-law League. They were asked,
in fact, to support things as they were—(" No, no," and
" Yes.") He wished to disabuse their minds of all false
impressions." and to tell them what it was they were
wanted to do. They were invited there to support the
sliding-scale. The landlords might talk to them of a
fixed duty, but they had seen the fixed-duty men take
sliding-scale advocates by the hand—(Hear)—and let
them not be deceived—they would, if they voted for the
resolution be voting for the sliding-scale.--(Cries of
We wont do it."). They were called upon to. support
the "No surrender" party.—(" No, no.' and uproar.)
Was there any one in that vast assembly so credu-
lous as to believe that, with a population increas-
ing at the rate of a thousand a day, the
sliding-scale would last ? —(" No, no," and cheers.)
Did the Hon. Baronet, Sir Thomas Lethbridge believe
it ?—(A voice, " No, old Weathercock. don't believe it.")
The landowner professed to be satisfied with the conduct
of the Government. Why ? Sir Robert Peel had told
them that he did not contemplate any alteration in the
existing corn-laws ; but Sir Robert Peel had also said
he could not tell them what might possibly occur.—
(Hear.) The landlords professed to be satisfied because
they had extorted a kind of pledAe from the Premier ;
but were they, the tenant-farmers, satisfied with such a
declaration ?—(Cries of No" and " Yes.") Well, per-
haps some of the landlords were really satisfied ; but it
was rather curious, it they were so, that they had called
that meeting together.

Sir A. Hoop—To prevent the League going further,
and to show where it is wrong.
Mr. BEADON continued—No, it wqs not to prevent
the League going further ' • it was because the land. 'mien
did not feel secure in. the Premier's declaration—the
real object as to coerce an unwilling and vacilating
Minister.—(Cileers and uprose.) The Minister had de-
clared that he was for a sliding-scale or nothing ; and
let him tell those who relied on this declaration, that
they were leaning on a rock of sand ; the Minister would
trip them up on the first opportunity.—(Cheers and dis-
approbation.) Thoy were asked to subscribe money—
for what obje,t ? (A voice. "Not to contest Devise")
They were told it was for the purpose of petitioning the
Legislature—no such thing, petit ions din not cost any-
thing ; he held in his hand a petition vt hieh he hoped to
carry by and bye, and it would not cost a farthing. No,
the money was required for some ulterior object
which did not appear—perhaps vi send the pro-corn-law
lecturers Into the towns.—(Loud cries of " No.") Well.
he thought they had better not attempt. that. lithe land-
lords liked to do so, let them s.tbscribe ; but let the tenant-
farmers keep their money in their pockets. Let them not
stultify themselves and be opposing what they called an
unconstitutional body. by the establishment of another.
If they really believed the League to be an unconstitu-
tional body, let them petition the Queen to issue a pro-
clamation to put do a n the ugly. monster—(Laughter)—
but let them keep their money in their pockets. He was
anxious that they should not be misled in what they
were doing, and he, therefore, warned them that that
was a political movement.—(" No, no," and cheers.) He
would ask them to consider what grounds they had for
placing confidence in their leaders ? Those leaders
formed the very political party who, in the days of
Adam Smith, petitioned against turnpike-roads, al-
leging that they would injure the interests of agri-
culture.—(" Oh, oh.") Yes, the landowners around
London actually petitioned the Legislature not to
allow the formation of turnpike•roads, because the
produce of the country would then flow in, and the poor
unfortunate landowners round London would be under-
sold. Were these fears well-grounded ? No; the price
of land near London had been rising ever since. The
same party, when Catholic Emancipation was proposed,
predicted that Church and State would be swallowed up,
and nothing but Popery would remain in England.—
(Hear, hear.) What was the fact ? The Church of
England now boasted that they never were so strong.—
(Cheers.) The same party opposed the Anti-Slavery
movement ; they said, if slavery were abolished there
would be no more sugar, for the negroes would not work,
but would rise on their masters. They contended that
they were not designed by the Almighty to stand on a
level with their white fellow-men, but were destined to
work in chains to the last. What had been the result of
negro emancipation? They had sugar cheap, and they
would have it cheaper yet, while all the ominous predic-
tions had proved false. The same party, when Mr. Huskis-
son proposed to reduce the duty on wool from 6d. to Id. per
lb., cried out that the flock-masters would be ruined.
The Hon. Baronet, Sir Thomas Lethbridge, had said the
sheep-walks of W iltshire and Dorset would become
valueless ; and they had been told that if the flock-
masters were ruined they would have no mutton, and a
sheep would be a curiosity. The Hon. Baronet actually
went up to London with a d..putation forn the farmers of
Somerset, to endeavour to deter Lot d Liverpool and Mr.
Huskisson from reducing the duty.—(Hear.) Had the
forebodings of the party been realised ? No such thing.
The same party, too, predicted that railroads would ruin
acr'ricultun—they said there would be no horses left toeatet the oats, and the oat lands would be thrown out of
cultivation. What watt the fact? He be'ieved that
oats formed one iT. the best commodities the farmers
had to dispose of. The same party, in 1815,
-aid. that w.less wheat were kept at 80s. per quar-
ter, the land would be thrown out of cuttivat on.;

and yet in a fe.v short years, in 1822. wheat :unk
20s. per ovarter. To crown all, the same party in
1841 asked for. the votes of the tenant-farmers of Eng-
and, pledging themselves to keep things as they wen, ;
and y t, the m,•ment they got into the House they be-
trayed them to a man, and passed the tariff and the one-
sided Canada Corn-bill.—(Cheer, and groans.) They
did this with the House of Lords at trn it back. and ~, ith
a ereat majority in the House of Comm.,i,s; =And y
--because they knew that the, pr nci, les on which thiy
h-id solicit d their e ection were unsound. After some
fur her remarks dr. 13ead•at continued—These were the
men who no a iced them to have confidence in th it
foresight, talent, and integrity.—(" Oh, oh.") Let them
contrast that with what the free-trade advocates had
foretold. They had said, the corn law of 1815 would
derange the currency, and injure the farmers and all the
interests of the country; and the numerous appeals to
Parliament to remove and remedy distress, had proved
the truth of their predictions.--(Cheers and tumult.)
Mr. Beadon proceeded, at great length, and amid fre•
quent interruption, to . support his resolution, but the
meeting terminated so closely on the hour of our pub-
lication as to render it impossible to give anything like
a full report. He showed the injurious effects of the
corn-laws on tenant-farmers, and their injustice towards
the labourer, and concluded by moving the following
amendment and petition:—
" That all monopolies, whether for the benefit of land-
owners or manufacturers, are injurious and unjust to

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' the community at large, and eveeially to the working
classes who have been told by Parliament that there can
be no protection for wages; and, therefore, it is the opi-
nion of this meeting, that the Principles of free trade
out ht to !-.e establited,
sad agricultural monopoly."
Mr. /*RROTT said he kppeared there, as a landwNr, r
and ..ccupicr to a great extent, t 4 second the rc.,olui,ba
propo ed by his friend Mr. Beadon,aod he took the op-
portunity of declaring his belief that the corn-lae s were
most injurious, not only to the manufacturers, artisan,,
and agricultural labourers, but to the farmers themselves,
beyond all measure.

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T. LEMBRMGE then addressed the meeting at
great length in opposition to the proceedings of the
League, and in support of the resolution; but our space
will not admit of our giving a report, and, as the lion.
Baronet spoke amid frequent interruption, and his argu-
ments were necessarily much detached, it would b diffi-
cult to give any very condensed abstract of them.
W. GORE LANGTON, Esq., on rising, was received v, ids
loud cheering. He said it had been his intention to
have remained a quiet spectator of the proceedings ; but
after the speeches which had been made on both sides,
he felt called on to offer a few observatit ns respecting
his father's conduct He felt confident, that, .Whatever
political opinions might be entertained by the meeting,
the genercus feeling of the yeomanry of Somerset would
grant him a patient hearing, whilst he spoke in the
name of one who once held the proud situation of their
member for the whole county, and now represented the
eastern division of it.—(Cheers.) He would not enter
into the discussion of the merits or demerits of a fix.'d
or a sliding scale. That question had been again and
again ably argued by the advocates on either side.
He would ask the farmers if any one like his father,
whose income was derived from the products of
the land, could be hostile or indifferent to the
interests of agriculture ?—whether his interests were
not identified with theirs ?—(Cheers.) His father had
a long experience in political matters. and it had silos n
him the danger and injustice of class legislatine, and
the importance of that vital and inseparable bonds, hich
united agriculture and commerce tegether.—(Chcers.)
Gentlemen had called that meeting under the pretence
of opposing the measures of the Anti-Corn- law League ;
but, he would ask them, was it not rather with the
view of upholding a system under which agriculture
and commerce had alike languished, which set class
against class, and threatened to sow dissension in their
once happy and united land ?—(Great cheering.) Be
would now conclude by stating that his fatter c~ rd ally
and entirely differed from the resolution proposed by
Mr. Hancock, and seconded by Sir A. flood, and as
cordially approved of, and concurred with that proposed
by his friend Mr. Beadon, and seconded by Mr. Ferrol i.
(The Hon. Gentleman concluded amidst three rounds c,
enthesiastie applause.)
The Rev. Mr. THRING then spoke in favour of she ori-
ginal motion. condemnintr the proceedings of the League.
The Moir SHERIFF t lien put the amendment to the
meeting, when, accordintx to our judgment. at least. two-
thirds of the meeting held up their hands in favour of
it. A show having be'n taken against it, and on the
original motion, the free traders were loudly cheering in
the confidence of having gained a v:ctt try, whet., to tfe
surpri,e of most persons, the High Sheriff who could
not have commanded a view of the whole meeting, de-
cided that the original motion was adopted.
This decision led to much debate, Mr. Browne, Mr.
Beadon, Captain Strachey, and others, urging that a
division should 'be taken, or at least a fresh show of
hands be called:for.

The HIGH SHERIFF refused to accede to either pro-
posal, and the greatest uproar prevailed, the requisi-
tionists stoutly objecting to the question being again
opened, and the free traders maintaining that the show
was two to one in their favour.

The HIGH SHERIFF still refusing to re-open -the
question,

E. A. SANDFORD, Esq., moved the adoption of a peti-
tion to the following effect ; but the noise which pre-
vailed rendered the arguments by which he supported
it quite inaudible.

[The petition, which was addressed to both Houses
of Parliament, called upon them " to resist the insidious,
persevering, and unconstitutional proceedings of the
Anti-Corn-law League," and stating that the petitioners
had " long-suffered—too long," the proceedings of that
Association to pass without opposition, The petition
went on to state that the petitioners had many burdens
to bear, and that unless the present amount of protec-
tion should be maintained, the consequences would be
fatal to them, and subversive of the peace and order of
the country.]
Mr. BLANDFORD, a tenant-farmer of Orchard Portman,
seconded the resolution.

J. BROWNE, Esq., then proposed the petition, em-
bodied in the first amendment, as an amendment on the
present resolution, and in so doing addressed the meet-
ing in an able speech, in which he exposed the fallacies
used by the friends of the corn-laws, and showed the
unjust and cruel influence of those laws upon the labour-
ing classes. The question was simply one between
the landowners and those who had no land, and
the former taxed the bread of the latter to pay
the interest on their mortgages, to educate their
sons for the Church, and portion off the rich and
influential men of the county of Somerset their
daughters. Those were the grounds upon which
asked the meeting to vote in support of laws which were
ruining the industry of the country. Mr. Browne then
proceeded to show that all the protection on agriculture
was designed solely for the landlord's benefit, and con-
cluded by expressing his conviction that, as education
advanced, it would be perfectly impossible that such per-
secuting laws could be continued.
A. CROSSE, Esq., of Broomfield, came forward as a
landowner to second the adoption of the petition pro-
posed by Mr. Browne. Mr. C. stated that all his iuteres
was in land, and expressed his belief that the abolition
of the core-laws could no longer be withstood.
Mr. SANDFORD the❑ objected to the petition moved by
Mr. Browne being put, as it had been before rejected.
Mr. I.4towXE, maintained that he had a right to put it
in its present shape.
The Hion SHERIFF having decided in favour of Mr.
Browne, then put the amendment, in favour of which full
three-fourths of those pre.,ent held up their hands. The
contrary vote having been taken, the High Sheriff declared
the free-trade petition carried, amid the deafening accla-
mations of the meeting.
Mr. TURNER, a ten•unt-farmer, renting 7,000/. a-year,
then came forward and proposed the following vote of
thanks to the At ti-Corn-law League :--
.4 That in the opinion of this meeting, the gratitude
and thanks of the people of Great Britain and Ireland
are justly due to the Anti-Corn-law League for their
unwearied exertions in diffusing a knowl dve of political
economy, and for their endeavours to abolish the corn-
laws and establish the principles of free trade."
Mr. JOHN SUMMERS, a tenant-farmer, having second, d
the motion, it was put to the meeting, and adopted by at
least ten votes to one.

T. D. ACLAND, Esq., M.P., then moved a vote of
thanks to the High Sheriff, which was seconded by Mr.
Browne, who expressed his belief that, however be
might have erred in his judgment on the first re-
solution, Mr. Bouverie was incapable of anything unjust
or dishonourable.

The vote having been carried by acclamation,
The MGR SHERIFF returned thanks.
Th• meeting separated shortly before five o'clock.

NATIONAL ANIMALS' FRIEND

SOCIETY.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This Society has been particularly active during the
past week in no less than twelve prosecutions, viz. :
Samuel Baily took into custody George King, in the
employ of John Gore, scavenger, for cruelly beating a
horse—Fined, 40s. Also, Chas. Farns, for cruelty to a
horse, laden with coal—Fined, 7s. Also, Jas. Hughes,
of Bishop Stortford, with torturing a horse by the canal
side—Fined, 40s. and costs. Thos. Radcliffe took into
custody Thomas Pickett, of St. Pancras, for working a
horse with dreadful wounds—Fined 10s. and horse
killed. Mr. Henry May, Secretary, charged Henry
Knight, of Adam-street, Rotherhithe, before Mr. Hall,
Chief Magistrate, with cruelty to a horse laden with
wood. The Worthy Magistrate took the trouble to va-
cate his seat to see the animal, and was horror struck.
Three gentlemen also expressed their strong feelings to-
wards the inhuman master—Fined, 20s. Thomas G.
Plume, with the assistance of Henry M. May, has suc-
ceeded in obtaining several convictions at Rithmond, for
cruelty to animals.

SPREAD OP FEVER FROM DESTITUTION.—DOCtOP
Southwood Smith has
,just given his annual report . upon the
state of the London Fever Hospital during the past year,
from which it appears that the admissions during the period
were 1,462, being an excess of 418 above that of any pre-
ceding year. Fever raged most violently in the Central,
Northern, and Southern Districts, which was attributable to
the undrained, close, and filthy condition of these localities.
A large proportion of the inmates were agricultural labourers
or provincial mechanics, who had come to London in search
of employment, and who were seized with the malady either
on the road or soon after their arrival, evincing the .close
connection between fever and destitution. These poor crea-
tures ascribed their illness—some of • them to sleeping by the
sides of hedges, and others to a want of clothing, many being
without stockings, shirts, shoes, or any apparel capable of
defending them from the inclemency of the weather; while
the larger number attributed it to want of food, being driven
by hunger to eat raw vegetables, turnips, and rotten apples.
Their disease was attended with such extreme prostration as
renerally to require the admiel.tration of an unusually large
•roport:on wine, handy, and ammonia, and other stimu-
lants. The gross mortality was 1:,I4 per cent. An unpre-
cedented number of nurses and other servants of the hos-
pital were attacked wins lever, namely 29, of whorasix died.
'l'n E LATE MR. LouDoN.—On Saturday a meeting of
the friends of the late Mr. Loudon was held in the Horticultu-
rA Society's Rooms, Regent-street, with the view of adopting
whatever measures might be deemed best for relieving his
family from the state of pecuniary embarrassment in which
they had been left. Dr. Lindley took the chair at two
o'clock, and, in an address of some length stated-the circum-
stances under which tlie, late Mr. Loudon had involved him-
self in pecuniary difficulties. It was not, Dr. Lindley re-
marked, through any personal extravagance, 1,,a. he lived in
a moderate style. 1t was solely through thc losses he had
sustained by the publication of his " Arboretum Britanni-
cum"—a work which had been published at an expense of
10,0001. At the time of his death, his loss by this work was
about 2,6001. It was proposed to relieve Mr. Lo!tedon'sl%nlido
n
ad-
mirers of Mr. London to purchase copies
and family in two ways ; first, by getting the ds
aofth
oefsot
his
ltti ons to works;
secondly, by subscriptions of money. Rthis
eliect were proposed and unanimously adopted,
me
annada
com-
mittee appointed to carry them into
e
Duke of Devonshire, as President of the Horticultural So-
ciety, was announced at the close of the meeting as a sub-
scriber of 251., and it seamed to be the opinion of all present
that a handsome sum will be realised for the benefit of Mrs.
Loudon and family.
The Duke of Devonshire, in testimony of his
satisfaction of the exertions of the numerous dependents on
his Chatsworth estate, on the recent occasion of the Queen
and Prince Albert's visit to that princely seat, gave a boun-
tiful entertainment to the whole of the work people there
on Tuesday last, when nearly 300 were at the dinner.

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