The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From. the London New Price Current of Nov. 5.)
Suamt.—To day importers of West India Sugar ma-
nifested firmness, and obtained fully former rates, in-
deed good and fine yellow kinds in some cases brought
prices rather above those of Friday. The foggy state
of the weather preventing the trade from pro-
perly inspecting the samples checked business, and
the private purchases were only 300 hhds, gro-
cers and refiners were desirous to purchase
all qualities. At public sale, 130 hhds 20 tierces of
Barbadoes went briskly, at prices Is above those of the
former sale for middling, good and fine yellow, and 64
per cwt for low sorts ; fine fetched 625 63 to 66s 6d,
good 59s 6d to 60s 6d, middling 57s to 58s 6d, and low
55s 6d to 56s 6d per cwt. The market closed with a
firm appearance for West India Sugar. There was no
public sale to-day of Bengal or Mauritius.
REFINED.—To-day several purchases were made in
Refined goods by the home trade ; standard lumps at
725, and brown grocery 71s per cwt. Bonded crushed
Sugar is firm at 28s Gd to 295. Loaves are in excellent
request ; Turkey 24- to 41bs at 36s to 40s ; Harnburgh
6 lbs 32s 6d to 335, 9 to 10 lbs 30s 6d to 31s, 13 to 14 lbs
30s, Tittlers 20 to 30 lbs 29s to 29s 6d, Prussian 40 to
45 lbs 28s to 295. Pieces are in excellent request at 22s
to 25s ; Bastards yellow at 18s to 19s, and brown 17s.
Of Treacle some parcels have been sold at 12s 6d.
Dutch Crushed Sugar is fetching 26s 6d to. 27s 6d per
cwt.
,MAURITIUS.--In consequence of a reduction on pre-
vious rates of is to 2s per cwt having been accepted for
brown and inferior yellow sorts, of which the supply
has principally consisted, buyers have been induced
to purchase several parcels ; middling good and fine
yellow have been in good demand at the former
currency, and the supply at market has been in-
sufficient for the demand. At auction, 1631 bags were

sold—low and low mid brown at 40s to 425, middling 443
to 455, good 47s to 48s, fine 50s 6d, middling grey 52s ;
a few lots of yellow fetched 52s for low, 53s 6(1 fur mid-
dling, 60s for good, and 2 casks very low brown 35s 6d
per cwt. 'There has been no arrival since this day week,
and the stock in first hands is small.

EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Java Sugar was sought
after, but stiffer rates being asked, operated against
business ; 347 baskets. 1,000 bags, at auction, were only
partly disposed of, fine yellow at 21s to 22s 6d, good
19s 6d to 20:1 6d, damp 19s to 19s 6d, washed 18s to 19s,
good sound brown 16s 6d to 172, ordinary 16s, washed
15s to 16s, damp 14s to 17s per cwt.
MoLAssEs.—Prices remain firm for 'West India, and a
fair demand has prevailed for the better descriptions ; a
parcel of good Antigua has been sold at 24s per cwt, but
at present there are few purchasers of comnon sorts ;
holders, however, are not inclined to press sales, prices
ruling very low. In East India little has been done.
For Jamaica Honey further reduced rates have been
accepted.
FOREIGN.—There has been little business transacted
by private contract in yellow Havannah Sugar, and only
400 chests have been disposed of at 19s to 22s per cwt.
To-day a floating cargo of 440 chests brown Bahia was
sold, deliverable here for refining under bond, half white
at 225, and the remainder brown at 18s per cwt.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with
eager purchasers, and further advanced rates were paid;
the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 1,257
bags, were mostly disposed of at a further advance in
prices of 6d to Is, making the rise on good ordinary
since Friday of 2s to 3s per cwt, ordinary pale at 545,
good ordinary pale. 54s 6d to 555, fine fine ordi-
nary grey Demerara sort 65s 6d to 67s Gd, fine ordi-
nary 62s 6d, pea berry 70s Gd to 78s, low middling
colonry Jamaica kind 70s to 75s 6d, broken and triage
50s to 555. With Mocha the market was better sup-
plied, but the trade operated with caution, and 579 bales
10 cases at auction, and nearly all taken in much above
what buyers were inclined to pay, good mid long berry
greenish at 755, low mid 66s 6d to 68s, common green
Mysore 455; a few lots were sold at 60s to 61s for
low mid green Mysore sort, 51s 6d for fine ord, and
inferior 38s: 219 bags Bengal were withdrawn. 100
bags Padang were sold at 24s to 24s dcl for middling,
being chesper. 88 bags Mysore sold at 40s for green.
5 bags Madras at 66s 6d to 70s for yellow. 9 casks
11 bags of Dominique were taken in at 58s to 60s for
fine and fine ordinary and good ordinary 48s per cwt.
COCOA.—This afternoon West India met with atten-
tion, 131 bags of Trinidad, and 22 bags of Grenada were
offered at public sale; the former sold at stiff rates, m d
red at 40s 6(1. to 45s 6d, and ordinary grey 39s 6d o
40s Gd, and the latter at 42s 6d to 44s per cwt.
TEA.—There has b( en an increased demand for nearly
every description of Tea since this day week, and the
general tendency of prices is upwards. For the lower
sorts of Congou there has been a brisk demand from the
trade and speculators : common selling at 101(1 to lqd,
good common I Id to 1 lid; in the better sorts the transac-
.. tions are upon a more extended scale at ratherhigl errates.
but mid coarse has been selling at I lid to Is, but mid
and blackish leaf is Old to is 2d, good is 21d to is 6d,
fine is 6(1 to Is Bd. Pekoe Flavor is 9cl to 2s 6d.
Pouchong has been in good request, and prices rule
firm ; the sorts most in request are those from 5Nd to
9d. In Twankay, common selling at is lidit to
Is 2d ; brightisk leaf is 3d to is Bd, and
Hyson kind, is 9d to 2s sd. Scented Orange Pekoe
3s 4d to 3s 5d
,per lb. Hyson has been much inquired
for, common fetching 2s Gd to 2s Bd, mid 2s 6d to 3:,
and superior 3s 3d to 3s 6d. In Young Hyson the
transactions are upon a more extended scale of still'
rates, faint fetching 2s to 2s 21, and better qualities 2s
4d to 3s 3d. In Imperial several purchases made at 2s
9d to 3s 6d. Gunpowder is much wanted, and the par-
cels disposed of fetched 3s 3d to 4s 6d per lb.
SPICES.—This afternoon, at public sale, 106 bags of
Malabar Pepper were taken in at :30 for good brown
heavy; 688 bags of Sumatra were only partly sold at
21d per lb for rather stalky, being barely former rates;
158 bags of white Tellichery, all taken in at 5d to 5i
for small Coriander sorts. With Nntmegs the market
was better supplied; 22 chests at auction were sold at
3s 8d to 4s Gd for brown Singapore, 3s 3d for inferior.
Of Mace 14 chests fetched 3s 3d to 4s 4d, low is Gd to
Is 7d. Of Piemento 30 bags were sold at 41-d per lb.
for mid.

RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The home and ex-
port demand has fallen off for Jamaica Rum, and the
business transacted hae been limited since this day week,
but there is still no decline in prices to notice. The totol
purchases since this day week are 60 puns at 3s 10d to
5s 6d for 30 to 36 per cent over proof ; arrivals, however,
have fallen off considerably of late. Leeward Island Rum
at 2s 4id to 2s 5.1 proof strength; Demerara, 35 3d to 3s 6d
for strong qualities. Calcutta at 2s 3d to 2s 3id per
gallon, proof strength, with certificate. In Brandy large
purchases have been made at firm rates ; holders are de-
cidedly less inclined to realise ; in France prices have
opened higher than was expected. The quotations here
rule as follows :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage,
of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s 0.1; 1839, hhds 4s
' I Id, puns 4s 9d ; 1840, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d ;
1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d,
puns 4s 5d ; low 2s lid to 3s 3d, and mid to good mid
3s 4d to 3s 10d per gallon. For Geneva there are few
shipping orders ; is 9d to is 10d is the value of export
sort, and 2s 6d to 3s 6d for fine fit for duty. The price
of English Corn Spirits has declined 2d ; it is now
lOs 2d per gallon cash.
CrivNamoN.—The quarterly sales of Cinnamon were
brought to a close this afternoon. The demand through-
out was limited, and of the 2,300 bales offered, only 1,300
were disposed of at prices showing a decline of those of
the last sales of 3d to 5d for good firsts, seconds, and
thirds ; ordinary sorts went from last sales rates to 2d to
4d per lb decline. Java and Tellichery was all taken in;
Ceylon, first sort sound sold at 4s to 5s 6d, second sort
3s 4d to 4s 6d, and third sort 2s 9d to 3s 9d per lb.
RlCE.—lmporters of Bengal Rice are not inclined to
submit to lower rates, in consequence of the stock here
not being more than adequate to three months consump-
tion. Privately several parcels have been disposed of at
full rates, rnidding and good middling white fetching
11 s to lls • 6d, and good 12s per cwt. Java at
auction sold at and after the sale, middling white
rather broken at lOs 6d to 1 ls, good bold 12s to 12s 6d,
and sea damaged 5s to 9s 6d per cwt. Madras yellow
sold at 8s to 8s 6d, and small parcels of white 9s to 10,
per cwt. Cleaned Rice has been in good demand,
Patna at 13s 6d to 18s, and Carolina 23s to 27s per cwt.
The consumption of East India continues large.
OlLS.—'There has been a better demand for common
descriptions of Fish Oils since this day week, but no
improvement has occurred in prices. Cod has been
selling at 331, pale Seal 351 to 35155, Southern, good to
fine 30/ to 32/ 10s, and low to mid 271 to 291 10s.
Coloured Seal at 32/ lOs to 331 per tun. Of Southern the
stock is rather less, and of Seal not above half of what it
was last year at this period. Arrivals of Coi are near
at hand. For pale Seal prices are 20s to 255, and for
Southern 5/ to 71 per tun lower than on the
sth of November, 1843. Sperm 88/ to 90/ ler
tut) for fine British. Linseed Oil at 23s 6d to 23s 9d
per cwt on the spot and for forward delivery ; prices
are, however, kept low by the large supply.
There are few buyers of Rape, and the crushers expe-
rience difficulty in ob:aining 35s 6d to 36s for pale, and
34s 6d to 35s for brown : the supply is good. Cocoa
Nut 27s to 29s per cwt. Palm has met with a good sale
at former terms. Prices are steady for Olive Oil, and
several parcels have been sold, Gallipoli at 43/ to 44/,
Spanish 411 to 421, Barbary and Levant 39/ to 401 per tun.
FRUIT. —To-day new Turkey Pulled Figs were in ex-
cellent request at 655, and Sultanss 68s per cwt, being
however, lower rates. Valentia Raisins met with eager
purchasers at 503 per cwt at which the market is firm.
In old currants there was an immense business transacted
at 65s for Patras, and 42s for Island Fruit. At public
sale 41 butts 12 caroteels new damaged Patras Currants
were offered, and sold at 45s to 50s per cwt.
INDIGO.--The demand for East India was good in the
middle part of last week ; several purchases were made
by the home trade and exporters. On Thursday 270
chests of Bengal, mark H F and Co., were disposed of ;
since then, however, the market has been in a quiet state,
and in some instances there are sellers rather under the
rates of the last quarterly sale, in consequence of the
accounts come to hand from Calcutta.
COCHINEAL.—This afternoon the market was largely
supplied with Cochineal, three parcels of Honduras
amounting to 881 bags were offered at public sale, and
nearly the whole sold but at rather lower rates, low to
fine silvers fetched 4s Id to 4s 9d per lb.
TALLow.—lmporters of Russian submitting to a fur-
ther reduction in prices has occasioned an excellent de-
mand on the spot, old P.Y.Candle has been selling at 40s
6d, and new at 40s 9d to 41s per cwt upon these moderate
terms some of the trade are inclined to get well into stock.
For forward delivery several contracts have been entered
into, and 40s 6d to 40s 9d are the rates paid up to the
present year. Town Tallow at 42s to 42s 6d nett cash.
Other sorts of Tallow are rather cheaper. At auction
New South Wales sold at 39s to 39s 6d for good quality,
and South American at 38s to 39s 9d per cwt for good
and fine. The stock of Foreign Tallow has been fur-
ther increased.

BEST METHOD OF PROTECTING
BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING.
Were our houses, magazines, and ships, built of
iron, or did they consist of a framework of iron
filled up with stone, brick, or wood, they might bid
defiance to the ravages of accidental or wilful fire,
as well as to all the lightning of the tropics. Strike
where it might, the deadly fluid would be conducted
quietly to the ground. In the meantime, however,
we must have recourse to a less perfect system of
protection, till advancing knowledge and receding
ironprejudiceaswellironiron ships, roads,
and
iron bridges. As the conducti▪
ng powers of lead, tin,
iron, zinc, and copper, are as the numbers, 1-2_
2 4-4 and 12, copper is the best material for con-
ducting-rods. The quantity of metal in the rod
should not be less than what iscontainei in a cylinder
i
half an inch and two tenths n• diameter. The me-
tallic rod should be flattened rather than round, so as
to have the greatest surface that is consistent with
strength. The conductor then formed,, should com-
municate with all the detach( d masses of metal in the
building, such as leaden ridges, gutters, and metallic
pipes. It should be placed as near the wall as pos-
sible, and pass directly into the ground. It should be
attached to the most elevated point of the building,
and if the structure is to consist of numerous ranges,
such as the new Houses of Parliament, long, pointed
rods should project from the IT OA prominent parts into
the atmosphere. In place • adopting the usual
method of external conductors ,we would recommend
the introduction of a vertical iron bar into the thick-
ness of the principal walls of the building. These
bars should communicate with a horizontal wall-plate
of iron uniting the whole, and from this wall-plate
should rise all the external conductors which are to

project into the atmosphere.. These iron plates and
bars might be so united as to form a sort of c:4rpentry
which would add to the strength of the edifice.---
Builder.

On Wednesday list, William Stiles a coal guard in
the employ of the Great Western Railway, was em-
ployed im conveying a train of trucks laden with coal
trom Dunhall to Exett,r, two trucks were left at Hale
station, when Styles got off the truck on which he was
riding, to perform his duties at the station, and the en-
gineer stopped the engine to enable him to do so.
After stopping the engine, several of the trucks
forward by their own force. Shortly after the engineer
heard an alarm, and on getting off to see the cause, found
the deceased jammed between the outside framing of
two of the trucks. The deceased called to the engineer
to go a-head and they moved on the engine as promptly,
as possible and re!eased him. He was taken to the sta-
tion-house, and a surgeon sent for ; but before he ar-
rived the deceased begged to be taken home, and was
placed in a chair on his truck and brought to Exeter.
Mr. W. P. Kin don attended him on his arrival here ;
,4iis body was much bruised, his hands cold, and no pul-
sation could be felt at the The poor fellow died
about twelve o'clock on Wednesday night.— Western
Times.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN BELGIUAL—On Monday
evening, says the Independent of Brussels, a horse, which
had strayed upon the railroad near the Soignies station,
was run against by a train, and actually cut in two,
without any of the carriages having been thrown off the
rails, or even the rate of speed being relaxed.
There was not a single arrival yesterday—a very
unusual circumstance—at the port of Liverpool, and but
one from a foreign port on Saturday.—Liverpool Albion.

DESTITUTE CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING POOR.

A special session of Justices of the Bromley di-
vision was held yesterday at the Bell Inn, Bromley,
for the purpose of disposing 'of a great number of
summonses, &c., against poor people residing in
Bexley, Bromley, Cudham, and other parishes, for
non-payment of poor-rates. The magistrates present
were the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. Mr. Scott,
the Hon. Mr. Dashwood, J. Goodhart, Esq., J.
Berens' Esq., and P. H. Dyke, Esq.
The first ease gone into was a summons against a
poor old widow, named Evans, for non-payment of a
poor-rate for Bexley parish.
The poor old creature said she was not able to pay
any poor-rates. She was herself at this time receiv-
ing relief from the parish.
The overseer admitted that that was the fact.
Sir C. PARNABY asked how it happened, as this was
the case, that she was called upon to pay the rate ?
The overseer replied that the vestry had heard
the old woman had a son who was earning money,
and they thought he ought to pay for her.
Mr. DYKE asked the old woman what she received
from the union ?—She replied one shilling a week, and
a loaf of bread.

The BENCH said they thought this was a case in
which the party ought to be excused paying the rate,
and Mr. Goodhart observed that the poor old woman
ought to have an extra loaf given her for her trouble
in coming to the bench.
The next case was that of another poor widow,
named Martin. She was summoned for six shillings.
The poor woman said the. reason she had not paid
the rates was because it was entirely out of her power.
Her husband, when he died, left her destitute, and
she had no means of subsistence but doing a little
needlework. During her husband's life they had
paid rates in the parish for twenty-one years.
Mr. DYKE asked whether this case had been re-
ported to the vestry ?—The overseer said it had, and
the parish authorities thought that, from the amount
of rent paid by Mrs. Martin, the rate siould be
enforced.

Mr. DYKE—What rent does she pay ? Overseer
—Three shillings a week.
Mr. DYKE—People who pay 71. or W. a year rent
must pay the rates. If not, they should t:tke a
smaller place, or else a room.
Mrs. Martin—l should have to pay as much for a
room, and I have lived in the house with my husband
a good many years, and don't like to leave it. She
thought it was very hard, after paying rates for
twenty-one years, that she should be troubled in this
way.
The BENCH said that they must order the payment
of the rate. They would, hovv ever, allow her a fort-
night to make up the money.
The woman said it was no use to promise to pay.
She had not a farthing in the world. She had no-
thing to subsist upon but the produce of a little needle-
work, and everybody knew how badly that was
paid for.

Sir. C. FARNABY said the bench had n) alternative
but to grant a distress warrant if she did not pay.
Another poor widow, named Street, was also sum-
moned for a rate of six shillings. -
The reason for the non-payment was sthat she had
been left in very bad circumstances by her husband,
and had latterly been ill. The rent she paid was
three shillings a week.
The BENCU said this was a similar case to the last,
and the money must be paid in fourteen days.
Mrs. Street said she could not pay. She had been
lying ill of fever for four weeks, and was quite
destitute.

The BENCH said, if the parish enforced the claim,
they must issue a distress warrant if the money was
not paid.

A man named Leamington, the occupier of a cot-
tage, which, with several others, it appears, is let on
lease by the parish of ‘Vickhain to a person whose
name did not transpire, and who underlets the pro-
perty to a number of poor persons, was summoned for
six shillings.
Leamington said that his landlord told him the pro-
perty was not liable to the payment of the poor-rate.
Mr. DYKE said that as the occupier there was no
doubt. 'le was liable. It frequently happened, how-
ever, that the landlords of cottages told their tenants
they were not liable to pay poor-rates, in order that
they might get more rent.
The overseer said that one of the occupants of the
cottages had told him that she paid additional rent,
upon the understanding that there were no poor-
rates to pay.
The BENCH said it would be a very good thing if
the landlords of cottages and property of that de-
scription were compelled to pay the poor-rates. At
present, however, the occupiers were liable, and the
payment must be enforced from them.
Leamington said that he and a number of other
poor people had actel upon the statement of their
landlord, and he trusted that under the circumstances
the bench would not compel them to pay the costs.
The MAGISTRATES said they could not remit the
costs, which must be paid, with the rate, in fourteen
days, or there would be a distress warrant.
Mrs. Lawson attended to answer a summons for
eight shillings. She said she could not pay. Her
husband had not done a day's work for some months,
and there were nine of them in family.
Mr. DYKE asked what rent she paid, and she re-
plied, eleven guineas a year.
The BENCH said this was a case in which the rate
must be enforced. They had no business to keep a
house of eleven guineas a year it' they did not pay the
rates.

The poor woman said that with seven children they
could not get a house to shelter them for less rent.
Mr. Dinks said that was their look out. Houses of
that value must pay the rate, and if the amount was
not paid in fourteen days there would be a distress
warrant.

The poor creature said it was quite impossible for
them to pay the rates. She had left her children at
home with nothing but a piece of dry bread to eat, and
if they took all they had got in the world they would
not make up the money.
Mr. DYKE said that if they were in such a destitute
state they should have applied to the Board.
She replied that it was no use going there, for if
she did they would not give her a loaf of bread for
her children.

The BENCH said they would give her a month to
pay the money.
She said that if her husband got any work they
would pay it, but if he did not, it was impossible
for them to do so. She added, that when she went
home she should not find a morsel of food, and the had
not a farthing in the world.
Several other summonses were then gone into, and
the parties were ordered to pay in fourteen days.
They begged hard to be excused from the payment
of the coots, which in almost every case amounted to
the sum claimed for the rate, but the Bench said they
had no power to relieve them, and both the rate and
the costs must be paid, or there would be distress
warrants.

John Masters, a poor, decrepid old man, was sum-
moned for four shillings.
The BENCH asked how he got his living ?—He re-
plied, by shuffling about with a few coals and a cart
and horse.

Mr. DYICE—Oh ! if you keep a horse and cart you
must pay.
The old man said the horse was not his. It was
only lent to him.
the BENCH ordered the payment in fourteen days.
The next case was that of John Vensels. He said
he was a cripple, and unable to do any work.
The overseer said this case had been before the
vestry, and they thought the rate ought to be en-
forced, because the old man had a son who was earn-
ing something, and they considered he should pay.
The old man said his son was a boy of nineteen,
and he had only done three weeks' work out of 'the
last five. He added that, if his son had not supported
him, he must have gone into the union long ago. He
had never received a farthing from the parish, and he
did not want to have anything from them.
Sir C. PARNABY inquired the character of the son ?
—The overseer said he was a hardworking young
man.

The BENcx thought it was bad policy to enforce
the rate from the father because the son was willing
and able to work, and they expressed their opinion

that the vestry ought to ri consider their determi-
nation.

John Tippin was summoned for €s. 6d. due for
poor-rates in the parish of Cudham. He appeared to
be a strong healthy man.
The reason assigned for no, p ;y:ng the rate was,
that he had three small children, and hip wife was oust
about to be brought to be I of a fourth. He was
willing to work, but could not always obtain it, and
had had no regular work for three years.
The overseer said he was instructe 1 by the vestry
t ) enforce the payment of the rate. The man was in
work now.

Tippin said he was in work, but the farmers had
lowered the wages to 10s. a week. Five shillings went
for flour, 2s. for rent, and Is. for firing, and he had
only 2s. left.
The BIINCII said they had no alternative but to
order the payment of the rate, and ss. costs.
Tippin said he hoped they would not make him
pay any costs.
The MAGISTRATES told him it was his own fault that
there were costs ; he should have paid the rate. An
order was then made for the payment of the whole
amount in a month.

GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING.
A crowded meeting of the members of the Metro-
politan Tradesmen and Operative Protestant Associa-
tion, and others friendly to Protestantism, was held
yesterday evening in Exeter-hall. The demonstra-
tion, if such it was intended to be (and the eve of the
"Gunpowder" Plot would seem to imply it), was most
successful. The large room was densely filled, and
the platform was crowded with respectable and influ-
ential, if not distinguished personages.
Among those present we observed the Rev. Mr.
Benson, of St. Saviour's ; the Rev. Mr. Thelwall, of
Bedford Chapel ; the Rev. Tennyson Cuffe, of Car-
lisle Chapel, Kennington-lane; and R. H. Binden,
Esq., &c., &c.
The chair was taken by J. G. P. Smith, Esq.
The Rev. TENNYSON Curers opened the meeting
with prayer.
The CHAIRMAN said that to-morrow was the anni-
versary of a great national deliverance—a deliverance
from tyranny—Popish tyranny and oppression ; and
surely that deliverance was a greater one than any
that could be obtained from any external aggres-
sion. That day was ordered, by Act of Parliament,
to be commemorated in after times, and they would
do so to-morrow, in the way most consonant to the
principles of God's word, namely, by prayer and other
religious observances.
The Rev. A. S. THELWALL moved the first resolu-
tion. He had not intended to speak at that meeting,
but he held that, as a minister of the Gospel by law
established, he should be always ready to advocate
Protestant principles, and that liberty which was dear
to every British bosom.—(Cheers.) He had, there-
fore, readily conceded to the wishes of the Committee
iu coming forward to promote this resolution—
" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the spread of
Popery among the operative classes arises from igno-
rance of the real principles of the Church of Rome ;
and that, therefore, it is of the highest importance to
promote sound Protestant information among them.
This meeting, therefore, earnestly desiring the in-
crease and prosperity of the Metropolitan Tradesmen's
and Operative's Protestant Association, pledges itself
to renewed exertions on their behalf, trusting that by
the blessing of God their labours may he useful in
bringing many back into the good old paths from
which they have wandered ; of confirming in the
truth those who are halting; and of arousing
in all that vigilant and prayerful spirit which,
under God, gained for us the Protestant Refor-
mation, and which alone can preserve it in our land."
The Rev. Speaker then went at considerable length
into an elucidation of the political domination which,
he maintained, had always been shown by the Roman
Catholic Church. He contended that it was a prin-
ciple inherent in their tenets, and inculcated by their
priesthood, to persecute Protestants whenever they
had an opportunity. He cited the case of the Rev.
Robert Kalley, of Madeira, who had been thrust into
prison contrary to the Portuguese laws. And why ?
In the hope that the dungeon would do the work of
the scaffold or the stake.—(Cheers.) He also ad-
verted to the case of a female confined in the same
island. She was a victim of Popish persecution be-
cause she had renounced that Church for the soul-
saving truths of Christianity as explained by Protes-
tants. But he hoped they would that night and to-
morrow make a demonstration that would ring
through all quarters of the earth, and prove sufficient
to open the prison doors of that unfortunate sister.
Mr. A. V. ALLEN-It had been said by many—it
had been boasted by Roman Catholics—that the doc-
trines of their Church was on the increase in England,
and surely it was incumbent upon all right-thinking
Protestants to unite in preventing the further exten-
sion of those baleful principles. That extension did
not arise from an influx of Catholics, but it altogether
had its strength in the apathy of Protestants them-
selves. It was time to arouse themselves, for now,
alas, Popery had been intruded into the Church of
England, and it would require much watching and
much prayer ere they could get the evil eradicated.
True, hey h
Tracts for the Times" were now done
away with, but the principles of those tracts were
yet in full vigour, for they had now, written by a
clergyman of the Church of England, tracts entitled
" For the last day," and he would read them portions
of one, to exhibit the manner in which this clergy-
man spoke of that Church of which he was a member.
The speaker then quoted at considerable length from
the works in question. Let them not indulge
in vain regrets for the past, but, like true soldiers of
Christ, fight the good fight of faith for the future,
and with the blessing of God their efforts would be
fully crowned with success.—(Cheers.) He had
great happiness in seconding the resolution.
R. H. BINDEN, Esq., rose to move the second reso-
lution. Popery did not aim at destroying the spirit
of the Constitution only—it would destroy the Con-
stitution itself.—(At this time the Rev. Hugh Stowell,
of Manchester, entered the Hall, and was greeted
with enthusiastic cheering. Silence being restored,
the speaker proceeded.) Popery had been the same
in all ages. She was the sairy now that she had been
when expelled from this island to her own home—the
city of the Seven Hills.—(Cheers) Why had they
got rid of Popery ? Was it not that she tried to
make the intellects of all, kings or vassals,
succumb to the power of a foreign mercenary ?
Would she not do the same still ? She would, for the
canons of the Church declared it.—(Cheers.) It was
her principle that the spiritual shots!d.coerce the tem-
poral power by every possible means. Was it not the
policy of Protestants, therefore, to confine her within
her present bounds ? If Popery were once to gain an
ascendancy in this country, where would she rest ?
The speaker quoted from many Catholic works to
prove the intolerance of the creed, and then instanced
the experiences of many individuals as proving the
same. If they had any love for their country or their
Queen—for Popery could not tolerate a Protestant Mo-
narch—they must withstand the spread of Tracta-
rianism, for what Papists were in the middle ages
Tractarians were now.—(Cheers.) The many mo-
nasteries and nunneries that were now building in
many parts of England afforded ample evidence of the
active spirit of P.:pery, and, therefore, lie said, that it
behoved them to struggle as earnestly, and the Lord
would assuredly be on their side to help them.—
(Loud cheers.) He proposed the second resolution--
" That the struggles of Popery in this country are
unprecedented and alarming, and call for the most
strenuous exertions of all true members and friends
of our reformed Protestant Church to oppose and
counteract them."
The Rev. Ruch STOWELL then rose to second it.
He said it was worth hastening from Manchester to
witness a meeting like that he had the honour of ad-
dressing. They, in the country, were accustomed to
look to the metropolis as the heart of the community,
and if the life-blood flowed healthily and steadily-
through the heart, they were pretty sure that its cur-
rents would be felt even to the extremities.—(Cheers.)
Yet he could not conceal that there was stagnation
among them. They trusted, he was afraid, too much
to an arm of flesh, and neglected that higher power
which could only lead them on to victory.—
(Cheers.) They trusted to party politicians, and
found that they leant upon a broken reed. They
found themselves deserted on the day of battle--for-
saken in the hour of need.—(Cheers.) But now
they had got rid of those recruits, and they had only
in their ranks sound and Protestant spirits; they had
lost rank, and, it might be, talent, but they had re-
tained sound sense and religious consistency.—
(Cheers.) He would not diverge into party politics,
but he would say that the pious ministers of the
Church, and the noble-minded among the laity, had
their confidence in the present Ministry sadly shaken
when they saw that, despite the earnest remonstrances
of their Church, the Dissenters' Bill was passed, con-
cessions made to the agitators of Ireland, the
grant to the College of Maynooth doubled,
in spite of the eloquent denunciations of a Sullivan
and a M‘Ghee.—(Cheers.) Well might a friend of
his say that " God was indeed doing all for them,
and man doing everything against them:: Their pe-
titions had been indeed slighted by a Ministry whose
governing principle was concession, but were those
petitions slighted at a throne to which their earnest
entreaties should ever be directed ?—(Cheers.) They
were charged as wild enthusiasts, who produced more
schism than unity in the church of heaven ; but let
them remember that but a few clergymen carried the
Reformation. Let them think of Luther, who walked
forth alone with his Bible under his arm, against
an embattled world, and, in the name of the
Lord of Hosts, fought and triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let
them take an example from their antagonists in their
industry, in their buildings of monasteries and of
nunneries in the face of Protestant England; not
that he would compare these doings with what their
own Church had done, and what she would yet do.—
(Cheers.) But it was of interest to observe the bold
front that Rome now exhibited in old Englaul. Time