The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-10 00:00:00

No. 16,030. 14.0N10N, WEDNESDAY E ;,.:

JANTIU,..kitY 10, 1844.

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

MR. TEAIPLETON will repeat his Popular
ENTERTAINMENT, of MARY QUEEN of
SCOTS, and the Music of her Times, on SATURDAY EVEN-
ING NEXT, Jan. 13, at the Hanover-square tooms ; at the Horns,
Kennington, THURSDAY, the 18th ; on SATURDAY, the 20th,
at the Hanover-ignore Rooms; and on Mornay, the 22d, at
the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr. Templeton will sing thirteen favourite Scotch Melo-
dies in each Entertainment.

To commence at Eight &MA.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.-AT THE

OY:114 POLYTECIIN fC IN STITEITION
kik, an increase of POWERFUL and BRILLIANT
EFFECTS in ELECTRICITY are exhibit.d by ARM-
STRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE. A new
field is opened for investigating, on a magnified scale, a
variety of objeets in ART, SCIENCE, and NATURAL
HISIORY, by means of LONGBOTTOM'i OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE, showing also an extraordinary OPTICAL
ILLUSION. New DISSOLVING VIEWS. A List •f
the POPULAR LECTURES which will be delivered during
the Week is suspended in the Hall of Manufactures. Hollo-
way's original CRAYON DKLAWINGS from RAPHAEL:B
CARTOONS, numerous MODELS in MOTION, DIVER
and DIVING BELL. Conductor of the Band, T. Wallis,
Mus. Doe.

Admission, Ono Shilling. Schools, Half-price.

N ERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM
U.ol";are appointed to leave LONDON for—
HAICIBURGH ant ROTTERDAM, carrying her Ma-
est y's Mails—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
;IA VRE—Jan. 14, and 25, at Eight, Morning.
ANTWERP—From Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall—Every
Thursday, at Ten Morning.
From London Bridge Wharf, for

OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
BOULOCNE—Every Thursday and Naturday Morning.
CA LAIS.:-Every Thursday and Sunday Morning.

HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, MOrning.
YARAIOUTI-I—Every Saturday, at Six, Evening.

EDINBURGH—From .trown'; Wharf, Poplar—Every Sa-
turday :and alternate Wednesday, at Ten Evening, Jan. 10,
13, 20, 24, and 27.
From pawn's Wharf, Reduced Fares for

SUNDERLAND—Jan. 12, and 23, at Seven Evening.
NEWCASTLE—Every Saturday, at Eight, Evening.
To secure Berths, for Freight, and for Bills, containing hours
of departure, Fares, &e., apply at 69, Lombard-street; and
37, Regent-circus.

SALES BY AUCTION,

TO COAL MERCHANTS AND OTHERS.

CADETS, Assistant -Surgeons, Officers, and Pas-
lIJJ proceeding to India or the Colonies, are strongly
urged, previmis to their encumbering themselves with the old-
fashioned Wooden Sofas and Iron Bedsteads, advertised as
Patents, to inspect JOHNSON'S (late Merriman) PATENT
BEDSTEADS, which, for warm climates, require neither
mattrass nor bolster.

To be seen at Johnson's Outfit Warehouse, 45, Jennyn-
street, St. James's. _

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
34, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.

Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
PI IC ECTOICS.

The Right Hon. THOS. FRA NKL AND LEWIS, Chairman.
HENRY FLIED. STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq.
Stephen Nicholas Barber, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gor.lon, Bart.
Henry Barnett, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P.
Robert Bidaulph, Esq. John ➢lendham, -Esq.
Robert Davies, Esq. William Routh, Esq.

AUDITORS.
Faancis Dumergue, Esq. I Charles Morris, Esq.
Capt. Robert Gordon, R.N. John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq.
vsiciA N—J. Ayrton Paris, M.D., F.R.S., 27, Dover-street.
Su 14 c EON—Benj. Travers, Esq., F.R.S., 12, Bruton-street.
Soucrroa--Henry Young, Esq., 12, Esex- street, Strand.
ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., F.R. A. S.'
SECRETARY—CampbeII James Downer, Esq.
LOWER RATES of PREMIUM than those of any other
Office that entitle the Assured to participate in the Profits, as
follow :

The Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon an average to
£lli per cent. on the premiums then paid; and in 1839 a se.
cond Bonus was declared,amounting on the average to £3l per
cent. on the premiums paid during the preceding tive years.
Prospectuses, and other Particulars, may be obtained at the
Office between the hours of Ten and Four, or will be forwarded
to persons resident in the country on application.
By order of the Board of Directors.
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

lIG US LIFE ASSURANCE CO Al PAN 1'
..LX. 39, TIIROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT PARLIANIENT,

6and 6 Will. IV. c. 76.

TII ONI AF. FA it N (X./AI It, Esq.. Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, E,q., Deputy Chairman.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. James Chit, Esq.
William Banbury. Esq. Rupert Inglehy, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Ald.
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq.
John Humphery, Esq., Alder - Lewis Vocock, Esq.
man, M.P.

, _ •
CoN ul.rtxa ACTIIA ax—Professor Hall, of King's College.
Pll VSICIAN-Dr. jeaffreson, 2, Finsbury-squire.
SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., '2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
In addition to the subscribed Capital of R 300,000, the Assured
have the security of the Company's income of nearly £60,000
per annum, yearly increasing, and an accumulating Assurance
Fund invested in Government and other available securities,
of considerably larger amount than the estimated liabilities of
the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale com-
patible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of
the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder
an immediate and certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the
deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a pftriodical division
of Profits.

Age.

ANNUAL PREIII

For One Year.

Whole Term.

20 £Ol7 8
30 1 1 8
40 1 5 0
50 1 14 1
60 3 2 4

£0 19 1
1 2 7
1. ti 9
1 19 10
3 17 0

XL 11 I()
2 0 7
2 14 10
4 0 11
6 0 10

One-third of " Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid
at 5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for
life, or may be paid off at any time without notice.
In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts
eras a provision for a family, when the least present outlay
is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus
Office will be found to be particularly favourable to the Assured.
The Medical Officers, attend daily at a qUarter before Two
o'clock. EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE.
COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
(Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.)
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
fhis Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in
the great success which has attended it, since its commence..
ment in 1834.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added :U. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured wi'.ll Profics.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderates cales,
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, wnere the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time Assure'l. Sums added to Policy.
£1,000... 6 Years 10 Mouths £136 13 4
1,000 4 Years BO 0 0
1,000 3 Years 6O 0. 0
1,000 1 Year
Every information will be afforded en aptdication to ibe
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo.place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-mast Two o'clock.

ASYLUM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIFE OFFICE.
70,Cornhill, and 5, Waterloo-place, London,
Established in 1824.
DIRETTOES.
The Honourable WILLIAM FRASER, Chairman.
Major-General Sir JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON, G.C.8.,
Deputy Chairman.
J. Harvey Astell, Esil. C. W. Hallet, Esq.
J. Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. Foster Reynolds, Lsq.
Geo. Palmer, Jun., Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq.
Wm. Edmund Ferrers, Esq. G. Farren, Esq., Res. Diree.
MEDICAL oretexas IN LONDON.
R. Ferguson, M.D., 9, Queen-street, May-fair.
J. Forbes, M.D. F.R. S. 12, Old Burlington-street.
T. Calloway, Esq., Wellington-street, Southwark.
Persons suffering from chronic disease or irregularity of form
in pregnancy or old age, are insured at proportionate rates, the
Asylum being the Company which originally (in 1824) ex-
tended the benefits of lifo insurance to such cases.
• RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCES FOR
HEALTHY LIVES.
The advantages of a whole life Policy are secured by the
smallest necessary outlay, in the first instance—the contract
being continued year by year, whatever the future health of
the assured (after the primary examination), at a stipulated
slight increase of premium, little exceedinet the price of an
ordinary term insurance, up to the age of 70, when the rate
remains stationary.
Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives
anal Ist yr. I 2d yr. I 34 yr. 14th yr. I sth yr f 6th yr. I 7th yr.

30 1 1 64 1 1 7 1

1 7 11

1 8 9

1 9 7

1 10 5

THE FALCON WHARF, BANKSIDE, including au excellent
RESIDENCR, spacious COUNTINO-HOUSES, extensive

Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select lives.

Prem.!' II 212 2 ('I

2 17 1

4 2 (1

s 10 91

ALTERNATIVE.

10 18

STABLING, &c.
IVER. W. W. SIMPSON has received directions
to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TuEsnsv,
January 30, at Twelve, in consequence of a Dissolution of Part-
nership between Messrs. Thomas, William, and James Horne,
That exceedingly valuable PROPERTY, known as the Falcon
Wharf, on which a very extensive and lucrative coal business has
been carried on for nearly half a cedury ; comprising a substan-
tially-built Family Residence; with excellent Counting-houses and
Strong-room, commodious Stabling for about twenty-fire horses,
with lofts over, coal warehouse, and other useful buildings
with rooms above, spacious paved yard, and capital wharf, pre.
seining a frontage of about sixty feet to the river, with small
counting-house thereon. The premises are fitted up with every
convenience for the coal trade, to which purpose they are ad-
mirably adapted, and are copyhold of the Manor of Old Paris.
garden, except a small portion of the yard, which is held under a
renewable lease from the Bishop of Winchester for three lives, aged
respectively about 31, 81, and 41 years, at the yearly rent of
19.5. Rd. There are no fines payable on admission to the copyhold,
and it is free of rent ; this property is therefore equal in value to
freehold. The premises may be viewed on application.
Particulars may shortly Le obtained of Messrs. Bayley and Jan-
son, solicitors, 4, Basitighall.street ; of Mr. J. R. Rush, solicitor, 13,
Austinfriars ; of Messrs. Quitter and Ball, accountants, 57, Cole
man-street; at the Mart and Coal Exchange; and of Mr. W. W.
Simpson, IS, Rucklersbury.

ALL OF COMMERCE
JUL AND GENERAL SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, .

LONDON.
BOARD OF SUPERINTENDENCE.
Sir GEOF.GE LARPENT, Bart., Chairman.
JOHN CATTLEY, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
William Burnie, Esq. James Pattison, Esq.:
James Cook, Esq. Sir John Pirie, Bart.
Robert Cottesworth, Esq. John D. Pewles, Esq:
Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P. Henry Jame sPrescott, Esq.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. Baron L. di Rothschild.
David Salomon
Samuel Gurney, Esq. .s, Esq. .
Thomson linnkey, jun., Esq. John James'Siordet, Esq.
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. Martin Tucker Smith, Esq.
John Irving, Esq., M.P. Wm. Thompson, Esq., M.P.
Henry Kingscote, Esq. Thomas Weedin Esq.
James Matheson, Esq., M.P. Geo. Frederick Young, Esq.
. 'The lIALL of COMMERCE has been erected to provide
a central point of meeting in the Commercial World for the
Merchants, Bankers, Ship-owners, Manufactders of the
Jnited Kingdom, Captains of vessels, Foreigners 'engaged in
commercial or ether pursuits, and the Public in general.
The READING-ROOM adjoining is provided with all the
.eading Foreign and British newspapers, and general commer-
cial intelligence from all parts of the world, maps, charts, itinq-
-aries, directories, steam-boat and railroad inforination, list Of
ships sailiog to all parts of the world, prices current, documents
and books of reference on commercial subjects.
There are also ,Rooms for PRIVATE BUSINESS and
FIREPROOF VAULTS and SAFE* fir the deposit of
valuables.

In addition to the above conveniences, the Subscribers will
have the use of an EXCELLENT LIBRARY en COMMER-
CI AL SUBJECTS.

SMALL LEASEHOLDS.
LAMBETH, BERMONDSEY, and BLACKFRIARS.

AIR. IV. I.V. SIMPSON will SELL by AUC-
TION, at the Mart, on TuEsDAY, January 30, at Twelve,
in Three Lots, in consequence of a Dissolution of Partnership
between Messrs. Thomas,. William, and James Horne, the under--
mentioned PROPERTY:—

The Establishment will be oonducted by the Proprietor, UR.
der the superintendence of a Board of Subscribers.

TERMS OF SUI3SCRIPTIQN PER ANNUM.
Persons residing in London, or within 12 miles... 1/. 11s. fid.
Persoiiiresiding at a greater distance

LOT I. A DWELLING-HOUSE, with Coal Warehouse,
&c., distinguished as No. 7 and 8, Stangatc, nearly opposite Messrs.
Series, the Boat-builders, Lambeth ; held on Lease for Eighty
Years, at an Annual Rent of 241., and in the occupation of Mrs.
Turner, at a rent of 441. per Annum.
LOT H. A SUBSTANTIAL DOUBLE DWELLING-
HOUSE, of Modern Erection, with Coal Warehouse, &c., situate
and being No. 10, Star-Corner, Bermondsey near the church ; held
on lease for nearly 23 years, at an annual rent of 25/. 10s., and
in the occupation of Mrs. Ludwell, at a rent of 40/. per annum.
LOT 111. A SMALL DWELLING HOUSE, situate and being
No. 4, on the south side of Holland.street, Blackfriars ; held on
lease for seven years, at an annual rent of 51. 55., and at present
in hand. . .

London, September 1, 1843.
The BOARD of SUPERINTENDENCE of the " HALL
of Cb11111IERCE" take leave to draw your attention to this
Institution.

The property may be viewed by permission of the respective
tenants, and particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Bayley and
Johnson, solicitors, 4, Basinghall-street ; of Mr. J. 11. Bush, so-
licitor, 18, Austintriars ; of Messrs. Quilter and Ball, accountants,
57, Coleman-street ; at the Mart ; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson,
18, Bucklersbury.

Jug published, price. One Shilling,
OURRENCY EXPLAINED, in REFUTA-
kIi TION of the LAST FALLACY of the " TIMES." .

It has been built and established at a very great cost, by a
>ingle individual, for the convenience of the commercial Com-
munity of the City of London, with a degree of public spirit
worthy the metropolis of the world.
The subscription is now placed on so moderate a scale as to
e no object of consideration, in proportion to the conveniences
offered, which are set forth in the above Prospectus ; and the
Board are of opinion, that without interfering with any of the
existing establishments appropriated to specific branches of
trade, these conveniences may be found available by a very large
body of persons in the City of London—by parties visiting
London occasionally on mercantile affairs—and by gentlemen
from the Continent and other foreign ports.
GEORGE LARPENT, Chairman.

JOHN CATTLEY, Deputy Chairman.
N.B. A Coffee-room is now open for the accommodation o:
he Subacribers.

By VEItUS.
Samuel Clarke, 13,. Pall-mall East; and Cowie, Jolland,
and Co., 81, Poultry.

ir JAMES BLUNT, at present, and for one
15 week past, residing at No. 10, Church-street, Tri-
nity-square, in the parish of Saint Mary, Newington, in the
county of Surrey, and for twelve months previously re-
siding at Whittlesea, Isle of Ely, in the parish of
Whittlesea and county of Cambridge. and being a
farmer, do hereby give notice
,that I intend to present
a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, at Basinghall-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 Cambridge
Advertiser newspaper, one month at the least after the date
hereof. As witness my band, tins 29th day of December, in the
year of our Lord, 1843. JAMES BLUNT.
Witness, H. B. ROBERTS, 3G, Friars-street, Southwark.

GREAT FREE TRADE DEMON-

PUBLICATIONS.

'STRATION AT ASHTON.

power, and %silo had perverted the institutions of this country
to serve their own selfish purposes.—( Loud cheers.) He be.
lieved that they neither would nor ought to have any peace or
quiet in this country who had maintained and passed this law,
until they could either vindicate their policy, or abandoned it._
(Cheers. ) But their position at present was this—that they
neither could du ,the one nor would do the other. There was
no one single position that they had assumed that they had
been able to maintain, and every plan, and every pre'ext, and
every argument had been torn to shreds by the withering
speeches of the League.—( Cheers.) There is hardly a Sunday-
school boy that is not able to cope with the " collective wis-
dom," on the grounds they give for maintaining their policy.
The argument on which they most depended, which was that of
danger of depending on foreign States for food, was used after
all ground fur it had ceased, for we were dependent, and must
be so in spite of the law; and as the dowser has not happened
yet, they expect us to believe that, if foreign countries ex
ported more, and their interest became greater, remaining at
peace, it was then more likely to occur. But if they had diffi-
culty in knowing what would be done in case the foreigners
should cut off our supply, there were persons in this country
whom they might consult, who were about ten million in num-
ber, and who, by their own showing, were without that food
in peace, of which they feared they might be deprived in war.
So much for the benefit to them of not depending on foreign
countries ; but he believed that it was the want of reciprocity
in other States towards this country, on which they intended
chiefly to rely this year. NOW, mark the good faith with
which this argument was used. It was implied, in the mono-
polist organs, that their patty was ready for the repeal of the
corn-laws, if other nations would lower their tariffs, and ad-
mit our manufactures. Now, there was hardly a single State,
of whose tariff they complained, that did not, some years
since, offer to negotiate with us, on the ground of
admitting our manufactures, if we would lower the
duties on corn ; and was distinctly notified to them
that such could never be admitted as the ground of
negotiation. lie (Mr. Villiers) did on one occasion read in
the House of Commons the answer that Mr. Canning was
compelled to give to the Prussian Minister, who had made this
application to our Government ; and he there stated that
domesle policy precluded the corn-laws being the subject of
negotiation.--( A laugh.) Since that refusal to negotiate they
had neired up manufacturing interests, and followed our ex-
ample in attempting to protect them ; and, knowing that they
were wedded to that system, the monopolies of this country •
were to be continued on the plea of their refusing reciprocity.
They should, doubtless, also hear of the necessity of maintain-
ing the corn-laws, for the sake of agriculture, in which such
great improvements were promised to be made ; but if the
corn-laws encouraged agricultural improvement, how came it
that though the laws were passed ix 1815, yet that in the year
of our Lord 1843, we collected from the landlords themselves
that agriculture had been greatly neglected, and, fcr the first
time, they were lecturing their tenants on the bad treatment of
the land ? The fact was, that agriculture hail been retarded,
and never would permanently improve while the law con-
tinued. In short, amongst all the things that had been said,
or that he expected would be said, there was bet one that
seemed to consist with fact or sense, and that rras urged, upon
occasion, by a county Member, in opposition to his (Mr.
Villiers') motion, and which was, that according to the ac-
count of the free traders, they (the landlords) must have a
very good thing of it—( Hear)—and if they had, did the meet-
ing suppose that the landlords would be so sell as to surrender
it before the necessity for it existed?—( Hear, and laughter.)
And he liked that ; it was plain, open, and intelligible, and
he preferred it much to the paltry plea that it was for the
sake of the poor that bread was to be made scarce in order
that it might be dear. It was not usual, perhaps, to make
such avowals in public, but it was very common in private.
Though it might not be very generous policy, he believed it
was very common practice—what was about as common as
human nature, where man was unrestrained by any public or
general influence. But this was the point he wisked people
to observe, for it proved the importance and necessity of this
agitation, which sought to elicit such an expression of opinion
as would make these parties see that a necessity did
exist for surrendering that good thing which they haat given
themselves, and that bad thing which they had imposed upon
everybody else ; and the real question worth considering was,
whether the League were pursuing a wise and judicious
course. With respect to this, after mature consideration, he
was bound to say that he believed that the chief men of the
League were acting as earnest and honest men, under the
circumstances, would do, and they adopted the course best
suited to their end. In all these movements it was necessary
that the object sought should be clear and definite, in order
to be intelligible, and to unite as much strength in its support
as possible. Now, the League denounced the corn-law as
unjust, and hoped to abolish it by producing that conviction
on the public mind ; and it sought the sympathy for this pur-
pose of the wise, and the just, and benevolent of all classes.
Could they expect assistance from these quarters in asking
for anything short of the entire removal of the injustice? And
after showing the evil bearing of the law upon all classes to be
satisfied by simply varying the form of the injustice, and after
proving that it tended to make food scarce, tended to make it
dear, and tended further to deteriorate the value of labour in
the market, could they be satisfied by merely meeting the in-
convenience complained of by the merchant that he was de-
prived of a regular trade, and remedy the grievance of the far-
mer himself that the grain was poured into the market at the
time most injurious to himself ? These were the effects, no
doubt, of the sliding scale, and would be removed by a
fixed duty ; but the argument against the fixed duty
remained unanswered, that its only merit was to keep out
food from this country, which food would only be entered
from being wanted ; and such a duty could be only imposed
for the purpose of protecting the wealthy proprietor, but which
protection, while it enhanced the price of food, did not extend
to increasing the wages of the labouring class.—(Bear, hear. )
This, he contended, was the fault of all protection, unjustly to
favour one class at the expense of the rest. (Cheers.) Pro-
tection could not be universal ; Parliament had repeatedly re-
fused to entertain the notion of regulating the income of the
labourers with the view of putting them on a footing with the
protected interest.—( Hear, hear. ) Now, his Hon. Friend
Mr. Cobden put the Government to the test on the point.
He had said, " You are raising the value of your own pro-
perty by Act of Parliament in passing and maintaining these
corn-laws, and in keeping up a high price for agricultural pro.
duce ; are you willing to give a value to labour by Act of Par.
Lament also ?"—( Cheers. ) Ile smiled at this proposal know-
ing full well that it was impossible, and even had it been possi-
ble, it was not convenient for themselves to do it.---( Hear, hear. )
lie (Mr. Villiers) remembered that when he was first returned
to Parliament for the district which he now had the honour to
represent, he was rather under the impression that this law
was more injurious to capitaists than it was to the working
men ; but he had since been strongly impressed with the con-
trary opinion from observing its operation in that borough. The
working classes, when they met there to express aim improve-
ment in their condition, did not express the idea by speak-
ing of higher wages, or employment, but they said they wanted
more trade, thus evidently intimating no connexion is their
minds between increased trade and better wages.—( Hear,
liar. ) Many of them received their orders direct from the
merchant, and they knew that if the merchant received no order
from abroad they tailed to obtain employment. Restriction on
trade was therefore ruin to them, while every extension im-
proved their condition. They had therefore been impressed
from the moment that the corn-laws were passed, that as a
great obstruction to trade with Europe and America, they
had been tending to deteriorate their condition, rearing up
competitors abroad, diminishing the demand for heir labour,
enhancing the price of food, while pressed further at home by
a constant increase in their numbers. But the view which
!key take of the connexion between trade and their condition is
equally applicable to the whole working classes, for let the most
intelligent of them think from morning to night in what way he
could improve the material condition of his class, and he will
come to no other conclusion than that, it must be by extending
the demand for his labour.—(llear.) And as that would be
effected by increasing the trade in the products of his labour,
so every extension of trade with the rest of the world must tend
to improve his condition.—( hear, hear. ) The very purpose
of foreign trade created a demand for British labour. The
object fur which we trailed with foreign countries was to obtain
something that we wanted and did nut produce. But no such
article could be imported into this country without an equivalent
being exported ; and no equivalent could be produced withorq
the employment, in some shape, of British labour. Thus every
import into this country appeared as a customer for British
labour.—(Cheers. ) Every restriction on that import was the
denial to British labour of a customer ; and every restriction
removed, for the same reason, gave employment. It was not
consistent with the support or those restrictions to deny that
the imports would increase, because restrictive laws were
not imposed, because they would not come in, but because
they were expected. There was, perhaps, this peculiarity
in the import of food when it was demanded, that it not only
required to be paid for by British labour, but, inasmuch as it
would reduce the price of food, and as food was consumed by
the whole community, whatever was saved in the payment of
food was expended on manufactures, thereby creating a fresh
demand for manufacturing industry, while the artisan, with in.
creased demand for his labour, would be compelled to spend
less on food, and have more to expend upon comforts. No-
thing, therefore, was more likely to raise and improve the con-
dition of the working class in this country than extending the
trade in food with other countries and rendering it more ac-
cessible to him at home.—(Cheers.) Should any doubt the
justice of those views, he had only to reflect upon what oc-
curred during the late years of distress, and what had been lately
occur.ing. It was universally admitted that the prominent
cause of the distress between 1838 and 1842 was owing to the
high price of food, and the vast abstraction of the means of the
community that would otherwise have been expended on manu-
factures to be employed in the payment for food. In this coun-
try a great difference in the price of food was the difference of
many millions more or less expended upon it. Now, what
was it that we heard of at present? Why, that trade was
reviving—that the home trade was improved, which is the
precise confirmation of what he had said, since theprice of food
was very fallen within these two years. More had been spent
on manufactures, more employment was given to the people,
and they had more to spend taxed for revenue, which results
in what they knew was the ease that trade was reviving, and
that the revenue had improved. But precisely for the same
reason was it to be expected that if food should again rise, arid
these laws continue, and the supply from abroad should again
be irregular, the same consequences would again follow.—
( Hear.) He said, then, of what immense importance was this
question to every class of the community, and especially if we
consider the amount of 'misery yet existing in this country, and
the shocking details of distress and destitution that are daily
reaching us from the metropolis, and how every business was
overstocked; and, when he considered that all the business of
this country depended upon the extent of the production,
distribution, and consumption of the articles of human want,
was it not insane on our part to choke up any channel of com-
merce that we could open, or not widen to the fullest extent
the field of exchange, which was the soul and spirit of com-
mercial operations? Why, then, he would ask, should they not
at once claim the adoption of this better policy, and insist at
once upon freedom of trade ? Some said that their opponents
were so strong, that it Would be wise to moderate the demand.
He said, too, that they were strong, but strong in relation k
the apathy and tears of others. '1 hey were not strong in num-
ber, they were not strong in justice—( Very loud cheers)—they
were not strong in the love and affections of the people, but
they were bold- because other men were cowards—( Loud
cheers)—ever fearing to go forth lest this lion should cross
their path.—( Great applause. ) But it is said by others that
it is nut on their account they fear, bat on account of
those who had been de:uded by the promises of monopoly,
and who had embarked their capital upon its faith,
and who had since been disappointed. But he said
that rendered the ease stronger for chaege. Had his us-

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—A great meeting of the friends
of free trade was convened in the spacious' room of the Town-
hall, Ashtow.under-Lyne, last night, in aid of the League
Fund. It. had been announced for some time previously that
the Hon..Chatles Pelham Villiers would address the meeting
then assembled, awl great anxiety ivas consequently manifested
by the population of. Ashton to have an opportunity of hearing
this great • champion of . free trade. Arrangements bad been
made for a tea party, and the large room was provided with
from 30 to 40 tables, each accommodating from 20 to 30 per-
sons. The set-out altogether was one of the most brilliant
that we remember to have seen. There could not have been
far short of a thousand persons.
About six o'clock R. Cobden, Esq., M.P„ in company with
Thos. Ashton. Esq, and Oldham Whittaker, Esq., entered
the room, and was received with loud and continued applause.
Colonel P. Thompson entered, soon afterwards, and was also
loudly cheered. Shortly before - the meeting proceeded with
the business of the evening, the Hon. C. P. Villiers, in com-
pany with Charles Hiridley, Esq., M.P. for the borough,
entered the room, and was recti ved.with the most rapturous
applause, .the whole company rising, waving their handker-
chiefs, cheering, and clapping thew' hands for a considerable
lime. Among others of the deputation from the League who
attended the meeting, we observed Henry Ashworth, Esq., of
Turton ; Mr. R. R. R. Moore, barrister; and the following
gentlemen of Ashton and the neighbourhood were present :
Heny Bailey, Esq„-Stale/bridge ; John Whitaker, Esq., of
Hurst; Alark Andrews, Esq., Morley ; Watkin Lees, Esq.,
Dukinfield ; Nathan Rees, Esq., Dukinfield; John Cheetham,
Esq., Staleybridge ; Thomas Ashton. Esq., Ilvde; . Edmund
Ashworth, Esq., Bolton ; James Smith Buckley, Esq., Ashton;
Robert Buckley, Esq..,,lgoseley;.. Abel B. Wimpanny, Esq.,
Dukinfield ; Wm. Peacock, Esq., Denton ; George Horsfield.
Esq., Manchester ; John Hyde, Esq., Dukinfield ' • Fred.
Rayner, Esq., Ashton ; Wm. Rawson, Esq., Manchester;
Samuel Aston, Esq., Hyde ; Abel Barkley, Esq., Ashton;
William Shuttleworth, Esq , Manchester; George Higgin-
bottom, Esq., Ashton; Ralph Kershaw and Alfred Rayner,
Esqrs., Ashton ; Thos. Mayson, Esq., Ashton ; Richard
Christie, Esq., Droylsdcn ; Richard Ilatley, Esq., and the
Rev. John Brooks, Hyde; Charles Bayley, Esq., Staleybridge.
CHARLES HINDLEY Esq., M.P., took the hair, by pre-
vious arrangement, and in opening the proceedings said—
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are met together to show our at-
tachment to the principles of free trade. It is now a year ago
since I had the honour to preside at a similar assembly ; and
when I look around me at the increased crowd which meets
in this room to-night, I am reminded of the assertion of the
Times, " that the Anti-Corn-law League is a great fact."—
(Laughter and applause.) I wish the editor were here, and
I would appeal to him, as far as my constituency is concerned,
to show him that we are a great fact.—( Applause.) I shall
not, on this occasion, enter into any argument whether free
trade be better, or whether it be worse ; I shall not enter

into argument on the corn-laws, because I believe the manly
letter of Mr. Rand, which has already been read to you, is
sufficiently full of argument for every candid mind, and I
hope that letter will be printed and circulated by the Com-
mittee; and I would ask any of the working classes with
whom I have any influence to consider well the bearing of
those arguments, and the effect the repeal of the corn-laws
would be likely to have upon the value of labour.—( Hear.)
Especially would I recommend to them to consider whether,
if it be acknowledged impossible to protect the value of
labour, it is or can be their interest that the property of the
rich landed proprietors should be protected. I congratulate
you upon the improved prospects of the question we are met
this night to support. We now hope, and I trust that we see
land—( Hear, hear)—or at least some of the tokens that land
is not far distant. And to whom are we indebted for this im-
provement in our prospects ? Certainly one great instrument
in this change has been that great combination, the Anti-
Corn-law League.—(Loud cheers.) For years had my Hon.
Friend who sits on my right, Mr. Villiers, maintained—( Loud
cheers)—for years had my lion. Friend supported, that cause
in Parliament.—( Renewed applause.) And often did he le-
nient to me that he thought the people were lukewarm upon
the subject, and that he had not the support out of doors which
the importance of the question entitled him to expect, and which
was calculated to make an impression upon the House of Com-
mons. It was reserved for Mr. Cobden and the Anti-Corn-
law League—(Loud cheers)—to produce that support which
Mr. Villiers needed ; and now, with the able and prudent con-
duct which Mr. Villiers has always shown in the House of
Commons, backed as he has and will be by my Hen. Friend on
the left (Mr. Cobden), and as they both will be, I trust, by
every earnest and zealous advocate of repeal in the House of
Commons, arid be the League and the ;smile out of dooms, I
say success must be almost certain.—(Cheers.)
Colonel THOMPSON was next introduced and addressed the
meeting in his usual quaint and argumentative style. In
speaking of the Essex meeting to counteract the League, when
501. was subscribed, he said their opponents reminded them of
a band who sent a party against the Tower, and he sent his
ammunition in his stockings.—( Laughter. )
The Hon. C. P. \ ILLIERS then rose and was received with
several rounds of the most hearty cheering. After the applause
had subsided, the Hon. Gentleman said that having the honour
of tieing a guest of their respected Member, he had readily
complied
with a request that had been made to attend that
meeting, and he had now to thank them for the very friendly
atel flattering reception on the occasion. When he saw the
extreme respectabdity of that meeting, it was gratifying to
him personally ; but if he was not presuming too much, he
would venture to infer from it something satisfactory to the
cause.—( Hear.) He had no title to their favour unless it
were from the course he had taken in the House of COMRIOII3
upon the question on which they were then assembled. here
he had invariably denounced the law they were considering as
unjust in principle as well as injurious in operation—Mear,
hear)—and he had never either for personal or even for party
considerations wavered in the slightest degree in the advocacy
of this question in that view.—(Cheers). He ventured
therefore, to construe their courtesy on the present occasion to
an approval of that course, and consequently to conclude that
there was among them a strong and a decided feeling upon
question.—(Cheers.)the lle could assure them, that to one
who had known this comae in its adversity, and who believed
that its success was near to the well-being of the whole
community, and perhaps, nearer to a remedy for those many
ills from which the people were suffering than any other—these
signs of prowess were truly gratifying—( Hear, hear)—and he
thought that any person who was in the habit of watching
what occurred in this country, would conclude that a question
which had been so lone before the public, and had been re-
sistid with so much influence anti vehemence, and with such
advantages as this question had been, and yet gained grouse!,
and was each day gathering fresh strength from every quarter,
must have some great intrinsic merit of its own on which to
rest. —( Hear, hear.) It had, indeed, stood the test of that
which many a cause which had been agitated in this country
had failed to do—he meant the scrutiny and cautious view of
the men of sense, arid of the men of business anti practical cha-
racter of this country. They we're generally Conservative in
the right sense, and apt to be alarmed when the mind of the
public was agitated, but it was precisely from that quarter that
there was now accession of strength, and it was openly admitted
by them, not only that the cause itself was just, but that the
agitxtion was necessary.—( Cheers.) That great organ of
public events and public opinion, the Times newspaper, had
proclaimed the reason why they justified this agitation ; it was
that every form of remonstrance to the Legislature had been
unheeded ; that motions had been rejected ; that applications
of all kinds had beets disregarded ; that their patience be-
came exhausted, and they became parties to this outward
agil ation.—( Hear, hear.) lie was glad to see that that spirit
which had once animated the commercial classes of this country,
and which, by history we learn, did in time past such service,
yet existed, and was about to be revived ; nay, that it had
blazed forth already in this county. Ile was always sure that
this would happen, for the people of this country were not ser •
vile—they did not submit to wrong when they knew it was so.
—(Cheers.) They might be patient and prudent, and it was
to their praise that they were so ; but let them know what was
right--let them feel that they had a duty to perform, and they
would never turn until they had triumphed.—(Cheers. ) Ile
remembered some few years since, when he. was on the Conti-
nent, conversing with a distinguished traveller who had re-
cently returned lions this country, and discussing the subject
of these corn-laws, Le expressed his opinion that the prospect
of their repeal was distant, and, said he, he had observed that
not only were the aristocracy in this country more united upon
this matter than upon any other—not only did they thrive
all the influence which Parliament and station could give
them, but such had been the habit of their domination that
they seemed to have subdued the spirit of every other class—
( Hear, hear)—and he (Mr. Villiers) owned, at the time, he
had not felt altogether prepared to dispute that view ; for he
felt that those parties in this country who, though not of
the nubility, were yet connected with all that made England
great, had not vindicated their own interests with that spirit
which it would have been to their honour that they should have
done. If, however, he had felt that as a reproach, then he
would certainly tut ri with pride now, and turn the stranger's
attention to what was at present passing in this country—( Hear,
hear) —with pride he could point to the imposing attitude which
the industrious and commercial classes were now assuming—
to the spirit, and intelligence, and determination they were
bringing to this arduous struggle, and the time, and the toil,
and the money they were sacrificing for its success.—(Loud
cheering.) Ile liked to see it as a man hating to see oppression
unresisted—as hating to see man trampled upon and not turn
—as hating to sec the idle, the selfish, and the ignorant in the
ascendant, wasting the resources of art and industry.—( Im-
mense cheering.) He did not mean by the expression of that
sentiment to raise the question there of the principle of an
aristocracy. He was aware that there were members of our
aristocracy who were both able-minded and kind-hearted
men, and valuable members of society. He had no prejudice,
certainly, against the order ; but he knew of no tie which
should bind a man to the errors and follies of any class ; and
these were as conspicuous in the system which they were
maintaining, as that which was the subject of a graver
charge.—(Hear.) And if that were so, he could not divest
himself of that feeling which belonged to every one wishing to
see the community to which he belonged thrive, rather than
decay, and the people prospering, rather than withering, as
they were now —(Cheers.) He was, therefore, happy to see
this demonstration against a wrong, which was admitted to be
so wherever England's condition was discussed and wherever
England's name was known.—( Cheers.) He was glad to see
all party distinctions vanish before this great public object, and
he turned with admiration, and almost gratitude, to those dis-
tinguished men whom they had sent from this county, whose
untiring energies and powers of mind were knitting together
the different parts of this country in a common sense of wrong
and of hatred to these laws; and though the charge was made
against them that they by their addresses were setting class
against class, from the enemy, the answer to that was that the
law itself had provoked the attack.—(Hear.) There was no
mere justice in that charge than there was against any man who
sought redress because he was injured ; and it reminded him of
the story that was told of a criminal in Newgate, who complained
of the discourse of the chaplain of the prison, who on one oc-
casion had taken the eighth commandment for his text, and
preached against stealing. The criminal remarked that it was
in the worst possible taste, and calculated to produce unplea-
sant feelings in his condition.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
lie had no doubt this agitation did produce unpleasant feel-
ings, and, what was perhaps more inconvenient to them, it
prevented a settlement and dealing with their property.—
( Hear, hear. ) That if they did suffer this inconvenience, he
thought the country would survive it, if the Anti-Corn-law
League succeeded in their object, and Ile thought it would only i
be a Just retribution upon thosc men who possessed that great

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and .were they
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land required
tion ? Was it he wlco, from his extensive experience in agri •
culture; from his great possessions as a landowrier, and his
high character as a nobleman, placed him at the head of that
Society which professed to exist for the improvement of agri-
culture—he meant Lord Spencer?—(Great cheering.) No ;
they had lately heard his opinions, and he had avowed them in
public and in private for ten years before, and declared them to
be useless for agriculture, delusive to the farmer, and prejudi-
cial to the people,—(Clicers.) Was it be, whose vast posses-
sions gave great authority to his well-timed letter and munifi-
cent gilt to the fund of the League ? No ; for his letter con-
tains the denial. Was it he whom Professor Buckland, in the
presence of Sir Robert Peel, at the dinner at Tamworth,
said was an example to the landlo.d and the farmer, for
his intelligent treatment of his property ?—lre meant Lord
Ducie.—(Cheers.) No; he is a member of, and a
contributor to, the Anti-Coin-law League. There is another
nobleman said to be a practical farmer, and of princely pos-
sessions, he meant the Duke of Bedford, and he was friendly
to the repeal of these laws.—((dheers.) Li short, wherever
they found a clear head and a clear estate combined, there
they usually found a friend ; but wherever both were muddled
these laws were clung to.—(Hear.) What was it that they
heard of the farmer himself? North, south, east, and west,
there was nothing but complaint of the depressed condition
of the British farmer. He was in the predicament of a man
who had made an improvident bargain, and was unable to
extricate himself.—( Hear.) Judging from his own account,
it would be difficult to suppose that any ehange could injure
his condition, but it was the labourer's lot on which they de-
lighted to dwell.—(Hear, and laughter.) Oh, if they were
in the House of Commons when the corn-laws were discussed,
how good, and kind, and benevolent to the poor, would
they think the majority of that House, who maintained these
laws !—(Hear, and laughter.) From the beginning to the
end the poor were the subjects of their care; the-simple pur-
pose, as it was alleged, of supporting these laws, was to
their account; and they remembered at this time last year,
the touching description given at the dinner-of the Dorset-
shire squires, of their condition in that county--how happy
and contented they were, and how they loved the poor, and
how the poor loved them; and the poetic description given of
them by Mr. Banks. And they remembered .hovr a few
short months afterwards, this paradise was described by the
Queen's rommissioners sent to investigate the matter; and
how much more like another place they represented it.—
(Laughter. ), But with all this professed interest in his fate,
what was his own story ? The condition of the agricultural
districts told it. It was the old sad argument of ignorance and
despair, sad hideous crime against society—the destruction
of property by fire.—(hear.) Were these, then, the existing
interests that afforded the sufficient excuse for the continuance
of this injustice ?—( Hear, hear.) But if it were still thought
by some that there would le use in offering some compromise
of their claim, his answer was that the experiment bad already
been made. It had been made by lord John Russell under
circumstances which, if ever justifiable, was at that time.
There was much less knowledge and much less feeling on the
subject then than there is now, and the landlords were
strong in consequence of that ignorance. And how was
that proposition, so favourable as regarded them received?
They were scouted, derided, and the most daring things said
in favour of the law and about his motives ; and he (Mr.
Villiers) trusted he would never repeat the proposition—
for he must now see that the aristocracy would not accept
his fixed duty, that the people at large were in favour
of the trade being free, and that he could not get rid
of the present scale without popular support.—( Loud
cheering.) It was therefore his (Mr. Villiers') firm con•
viction that the honest and just course was the most attainable.
—( Cheers.) He had no interest in expressing this opinion, if
he did not believe it. Ile had never served on interest by ad-
vocating' repeal, and could he believe that the condition of the
country could be equally improved by maintaining the law, and
that its repeal was unattainable, he would be silent in future.—
( Hear.) As Jar, however, as he could judge there was nothing
to favour this idea. From every quarter the League appeared
to receive encouragement. They were Low most judiciously
visiting the constituencies, and they had gone nowhere among
them without producing a deep impression of the truth and
justice of their cause.—( Cheers. ) And when it was con.
sidered that these were the sources of the power by which the
law might be repealed, the prospect was cheering of their ulti-
mate succees.—( Cheers.) The electors of this kingdom were,
in fact, comparatively few; they did not exceed four or five
hundred thousand ; and, judging by the conversion they had
already effected, there was little reason for despair.—
(Cheers.) There was no, power in the country more likely
to achieve the object than a permanent, persevering, untiring
body ; such as the body of men of the League had proved
themselves to be. Their objects were defined, and their cha-
racters established, and they had little reason to be diverted
from their purpose ; nor would they do justice to the cause
if they gave any heed to the silly slanders, or the foul calum-
nies that were propagated by their opponents.—(Cheers.) Ile
would only add, that if that meeting were satisfied that the
League had done much, and were capable of doing more ;
and that by extending the agitation they would finally succeed,
it was clear. that they must do more than express their ap-
proval ; and, to use the words of Lord Westminster, they
" must contribute aid more in the shape of solid pudding than
in words of praise." They must now trust for success to the
continuance of the efforts of the League, and they must not
suffer the League to linger for want of means.—( Hear.)
Their expenditure was great, and their funds should be equal
to their objects.—(Cheers.) Had their powers been more
extended hitherto, the agitation would be nearer to its close at
present.—(Hear.) Had twenty Cobdens and twenty Bright,
been in the field at once, the impression which they bad pro.
duced -wherever they had been, would now have been general
throughout the country. He believed that a contribution to
the League was seed set upon the rock which would bring
fruit, in its time; and if not, might console those who had
given, that they had promoted that best deed of charity, not
only to re:ieve distress as it exists, but to prevent its occur-
rence. For his own part he would say, that whatever small
service he could render to the cause should aver be at their
command, and he could only say that had he the same strength
and leisure arid power, he should be quite ready to pursue the
same course as his diAiriguished blend Mr. Cobden was doing,
whom lie hoped they were about to hear. The lion. Mem-
ber resumed his seat amid the long-continued applause of the
meeting.

Mr. -Coonlix, M.P., was next called upon, and was received
ith loud cheers and waving of handkerchiefs. He congra-
tulated the meeting on the speech they had just heard, and
said, having their leader in this question amongst them, it was
only due to him to offer him all the encouragement in their
power. Considering the position in society which he held,
there were few men, unless wade of very stern stuff indeed,
could have pursued the straightforward, undeviating, and con-
sistent course which had marked his conduct en this question.
Let them hope that in these times, when his political virtue would
be put to a harder trial still, to resist compromises and offers
of all kinds to stave off lull justiee—let them hope that id
these times he would find support and encouragement to carry
him through. He would state most sincerely that so long as
the conducting of this question in the House of Commons re-
mained in the hands of Mr. Villiers, he should have the most
implicit confidence in its aafety—(llear)—and he might add,
of any future Government which undertook the settlement of
this question—that the confidence with which they treated Mr.
Villiers would be nu bad test of the confidence which it de-
served at the hands of the country.—(Loud cheers.) After
entering at some length into the gm stien of repeal, the Hon.
Member concluded as follows :—My lion. Friend (tke Chair-
man) has said something of :shish I would say a word. lam
not much of a casuist, and I must bear in mind that be will
have the opportunity of reply immediately I sit down : but
he said he would be more thankful for repeal to Whigs than
Tories. —(Laughter.) Ido not pretend to say how much we
should be thankful to this or that party fur that which we claim
as a right, but if I might express an opinion, I think we gene-
rally give the greatest amount of gratitude for fav%lrs when
they cowl' from quarters least expected.—(taught7r and ap-
plause.) Now, 1 must confess, that I don't expect Sir Robert
Peel to repeal the corn-laws. lam not quite sure that Lord
John w ill do that either, but perhaps my friend Mr. Cheethana
will do that kindness for us, as he is the conscience-keeper of
that party.—( Laughter. ) But though we will not put in the
scales to try the exact amount of gratitude we should give to
either party, this I will say, that the League don't care a rush
from what party they have it.—( Applause.) Therefore, don't
let any man suppose his opinions will be outraged by joining the
League.—( Hear.) I have frequently thought it over, and Ido
not think there is a single question we could incorporate with
the corn law agitation, but it would scatter us to the winds.—
( Hear.) It would make us a rope of sand.--( Hear.) Mr. Cob-
den referred to the letter of the Marquis of Westminster, and
the effect it vas producing. He congratulated the Member fur
Ashton on the support give n him to-night by his constituents,
and said he had no doubt it would be to the people of Ashton
themselves a triumph dia.. they had contributed so largely to
the settlement of this great world's question.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. R. It. MOORE then announced the fo lowing subscrip-
tions : Last year. This year.
Robert Ashton, Dukinfield Hall £lOO ... £5OO
Robert Lees and Sons, Dukintield
Thomas Ashton, Flowery-field l2OO 40(1
J. . Rayner, Esq., Ashton lOO ... 300
J. Whittaker and Sons, Hurst lOO ... 300
W. Bayley and Brothers, Staleybi idge.... 100 ... 300
S. Ashton, Pole Bank
G. Cheetham and Suns, Staleybridge lOO 300
Nath. Barkley and Sons, Carr-hill
Robert Platt, Staleybridge 5O ... Ibo
Abel Buckley, liyecroft 5O 100
J. S. Buckley, Ryecroft..
Charles Howard, Hyde lOO _ 100
Richard Matley
The total subscription was ultimately announced to be
4,3881. 2s. 4 d. The announcement was received with tre-

mendous applause. .....-
Mr. J. CHELTitam moved a vote of thanks to the lion. C.
P. Villiers, the Deputation, and the League.—Carried.
Col. THOMPSON acknowledged the compliment ; and after a
vote of thanks by Mr. Cobden, to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.

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GREAT FOOT-RACE or 100 YARDS.—The lung-
' talked-of running match between John Smith and Willox, a
first-rate pedestrian, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, came off yes-
terday near the Bull Inn, Whetstone, about a mile and a half
this side of Barnet. The race was for 50/. aside, the distance
100 yards, and Willox the favourite. So sanguine, Indeed,
were the friends of the latter, that 5 and 6 to 4 were freely
offered on heavy odds, which were increased to 7 to 4, and in
one instance to 2 to 1, as the time for the race approached.
The start was deferred until nearly five o'clock, when a gallant
race took place. Smith &shod off on the signal being given,
with half a yard advantage in the start, and his opponent tried
his utmost, but ineffectually, to overtake him. Smith retained
the lead at the most extraordinary speed, and won by three
yards. There was a very large assemblage of sporting men on
the ground, and, as betting was brisk, a very considerable sum
must have changed owners.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—A quarterly general
meeting of the Governors of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's
Inn-road, was held last night, the Rev. Dr. Worthington in
the chair. The Rev. R. C. Packman, the Secretary, read
the Report, which commenced by calling attention to the un-
precedented extent of destitution which has prevailed of late
in the metropolis, and the determination of the Committee to
apply all the means at their disposal to the alleviation of every
case of, destitution, accompanied by disease, which had pre-
sented itself at the doors. The Committee also acknowledged
.with gratitude a number ot munificent donations:—The Queen
Dowager, 103 guineas ; the King of Hanover, 800 guineas ;
and Mr. J. 11. Puget, of Messrs. Puget and Bainbridge's
Bank, 300 guineas, in three separate donations of 100 guineas
each. He was prompted by a benevolent wish to serve the
charity, and to stimulate others to the same charitable act, and
each subscription was given as a challenge on the condition
that some other person should do the same—the result
bywas the_h.
receipt, of 300 guineas in addition to the 300
Puget,—(Cheers.) The three gentleman who so iiot
up the glove " were, Mr. Henry Kings" Mr. y "took
Richard
the initial,
Comins, and an anonymous subscriber, under
"P. D." The total receipts
for
the
last three months to the
building and general funds were 2,73/. The number of persons
3
wards, 251 ; accidents, 70 ;
the out-patients, 565
Dispatches from the Governor of J , atoPtca and front the
relieved during the quarter were as follo:5-:-Adr.iiitted into
stecl.mban Colopio, were received
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