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A GRAND CELTIC BALL, in AID of the
FUNDS of the SOCIETY of TRUE HIGH-
LANDERS, will take pla...te in the FREEMASONS"FA-
VI', RN, on 'THURSDAY NEXT, the 4th of January.
Ticket., ti admit a Lady and Gentleman, 17s. 6d.,- to be
had at Mes,rs. Duff and Hodgson's, 65, Oxford-street ; Mr.
Hardy's, 136, Fleet-street ; and at the Bar of the Tavern.

A F a MEETING held at LONDON HOUSE,
1.-X.• on Saturday, December 2, 18-13, it was resolved to form
an A sSOCIATION for PROMOTING the RELIEF of
DESTITIMON, and for IMPROVING the CONDITION
of the POOR in the METROPOLIS, by MEANS of PA-
ROCHIAL and DISTRICT VISITING : and after several
intermediate meetings, it was resolved, on Saturday, De-
cember 16, to adopt and circulate the following Address and
Regulations :

The object which this Association has in viewi s, not merely
to administer immediate relief in cases of extreme destitution,
or of pressing want, but to improve the social, moral, and re-
ligious condition of the poor, by means which have been tried,
on a limited scale, in certain districts, and which have been
uccessful in proportion to the completeness of the system
which has been put into operation, and the care with which it
has been worked. It is obvious that to dispense pecuniary re-
lief indiscriminately, and with reference solely to the apparent
or actual necessity of the case, without inquiry as to the past,
or provision for thj future, is, to say the least of it, but a half
measure of charity, and has a tendency to generate or increase
the very evils which it seeks to cure. An inquiry into the
causes of distress, and into the best means of preventing its
recurrence, by infusing into those who labour under it sound
principles of action, and forming them to habits of economy,
industry, and foresight, is obviously necessary, to ensure to the
exertions of benevolence their proper results. Mere liberality
in almsgiving, unaccompanied by an endeavour to remove the
causes of that destitution which calls it forth, will not answer
the requirements of Christian charity.
This view of the subject plainly implies the necessity of com-
bining religious and moral instruction with the relief of bodily
want, and of making the latter, as it were, a preparative for
the former. And, therefore, although the primary design
of the Association is, to furnish the means of administering
to the extreme necessity of the poor, after due inquiry into the
circumstances of each particular case, its ultimate object is, to
aid in removing the moral causes which create or aggravate
want; to encourage prudence, industry, and cleanliness, as
parts of Christian duty, and to promote kindly feelings be-
tween those classes of society which are kept so far ftnder
by the difference of their worldly conditions. And this may
be effected, it is hoped, by a judicious distribution of the funds
entrusted to this Association, through which individual beauty
may be applied to the relief of distress without fear of misdi-
rection or waste. A few only of those charitable persons, who
ale at all times ready to give of their worldly substance to the
sick and needy, have either leisure to make personal inquiry
into each case which presents itself, or these habits of investi-
gation which are required for the detection of imposture. Dis-
trict Visiting Societies, when conducted on right principles,
open a safe and ready channel for the distribution of pri-
vate alms.

The description now given of the objects contemplated by
this Association clearly marks out the propriety, or rather the
necessity, of attempting their attainment through the agency
of the parochial clergy. They are, in virtue of their office,
almoners, as well as instructors, of the people ; nor can it be
doubted, that the evils under which the poorest classes labour
in our crowded cities and towns, have been greatly aggravated
by the inadequacy of our parochial system, with its existing
machinery, to meet the wants of an overwhelming popu-
lation. Two things are necessary, in order to replace the social
system in a healthy state; a more direct and friendlyintercourse
between the different classes of society, and the general incul-
cation of Christian principles. In both cases the agency of the
Clergy is indispensable, and will be, under the Divine blessing,
effectual to these ends, if means are supplied for carrying on the
work, which is now so immeasurably beyond their strength
and resources. An Association, which aims at the attainment
of this object, may surely assert Its claim upon the charity of
those whom Providence has entrusted with the means of doing
good, and who are bound to use them for the glory of God, in
promoting the temporal and eternal welfare of -their fellow-
creatures.

ASSOCIATION for PROMOTING the RELIEF of
DESTITUTION in the METROPOLIS, and for
IMPROVING the CONDITION of the POOR, by
AJEANS of PAROCHIAL and DISTRICT VISITING.
1. The ohjeet of this Association shall be to relieve Desti-
tution, and to improve the condition of the Poor in the Metro-
polis, by means of Parochial and District Visiting, under the
superintendence and direction of the Bishop and Clergy.
2. The Association shall consist of the general body of con-
tributors to the Fund, the Bishop of London being President.
3. The business of the Association shall be conducted by a
Committee of Members belonging to the Church of England ;
one-third to go out annually, but to be re-eligible; the vacan-
cies to be filled up by election at the Annual Meeting.
4. The Committee shall have power to defray, from the funds
of the Association, such expenses as they shall deem essential
for the efficient management of its concerns ; but no part of its
funds shall be applied to the payment of District Agents or
Visitors. Ihe attendance of five members of the Committee
shall be necessary for the transaction of business.
5. An Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held—the
President in the chair—to receive the accounts of the preced-
ing year, to appoint auditors for the .ensuing year, and to fill up
the vacancies in this Committee.
The duties of the Committee shall be, to form and maintain
a fend for the purposes hereinafter specified, by occasional ap-
peals to the public, to receive contributions, and to administer
such fund utulor thw fralnoving regnhtinn%
1. To obtain from the parochial clergy, and to afford to them,
information concerning District Visiting. For this purpose, to
enter into immediate communication with the clergy of each
metropolitan parish.
2. In such parish where a Visiting Society is in operation, to
request information respecting its working and results, and the
general condition of the poor.
3. Where a Visiting Society exists, but is confined in its
operations by want of funds, to render assistance.
4. Where there is no Society, to submit a plan, with the offer
of effective co-operation.
5. Where no provision for District Visiting exists, or seems
likely to be made, the case to be submitted to the Bishop.
The fund shall he administered to objects deserving of relief
without distinction of religious persuasion.
1. Upon application from any incumbent, or from the curate
of any non-resident incumbent, a grant of money may be made,
to be employed in the relief of the destitute poor by means of
gratuitous district visiting.
2. Such incumbent, or curate, shall specify in his application
the constitution of the District Visiting Society by which he
proposes to dispense the money granted to him by the Commit-
tee, and the general objects to which it will be applied.
3. And shall render periodically to the Committee an ac-
count of the actual expenditure of the grant.
4. All grants shall be made for one year only, but shall be
renewable upon similar application, at the discretion of the
Committee.

In distributing the funds of the Association, care shall be
taken not to interfere with the legal administration of relief to
the poor.
It was resolved to advertise the foregoing Address and Regu-
lations in the leading London journals.
A Committee was appointed, with power to add to its lim-
ber. The following noblemep and gentlemen have already
consented to act on the Committee :

Tho LORD BISHOP of LONDON, President.

The Lord Ashley, IIL P.
The Lord Howard
Viscount Canipden
The Lord Dudley Stuart
The Lord R. Grosvenor, M.
Hon. Wm. Ashley
Hon. Wm. Cowper, M.P.
lion. and Rev. H. Montagu.
Villiers
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
M.P.
Hon. A. Kinnaird
H id Rev. R

on. an
Ne,•l
Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson

laptist V

Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge
Rev. Sir H. I)ukinfield, Bart.

Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart.
Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart.,
1%1. P.
Very Rev. the Dean of Chi-
che.ter
IL R. Burgess
Rev. A. M. Campbe

Philip Cazenove, Esq.
Rev. W. W. Champneys
Harry Chester, Esq.
IRev. Thomas Dale
W. Clowes, Esq.
W. Cotton, Esq.
IRaikes Currie' Esq., M.P.
Rev. William Dodsworth
G. Carr Glyn, Esq.
W. Gregson, Esq.
IJ. G. Hoare, Esq.
J. R. Kenyon, Esq.
• Kin" Ite, F

IHenry , ingscote, r.sq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq,

Rev. H. H. Alilman.
W. Norris, Esq.

Stafford H. Northeote, Esq.
A. Robarts, Esq.
Rev. W. Short
Edward Thornton, Esq.
Henry Tritton, Esq.
Rev. J. Endell Tyler
Rev. J. G. Ward.

The Bankers of London are requested to receive contribu-
tions to the fund, and to place the same to the account of the
following gentlemen, who have been appointed Trustees :
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladat.ine, M.P., Sir Walter R.
Farquhar, Hart., Sir R. 11. Inglis, Bart., M.P., and Henry
Kingscote, Esq.

V) ARBURN'S ANTI-DOLORIC 01 L,
FOR THE CURE OF RHEUMATISM, GOUT,
SPINAL AFFECTIONS, &c.

" To Mr. CA BBURN,
" Dear Sir,—l have the pleasure to inform you many per-
sons in this town and neighbourhood have, and are receiving
great benefit from your Oil, it has effected several extraordinary
cures, the particulars of which I will with pleasure give
to any one applying. A lady's case with a very bad stiff knee,
and another with a spinal affection which was deemed hopeless
by the faculty, may be mentioned as instances of- wonderful re-
lief and cure. In rheumatic affections it is highly successful ; in
fact. from its general goodness, it is a pleasure to recommend
Buell an article. " I am yours truly,
" J. CLAYTON.

Meeke's-place, Doncaster, July 17, 1843."
Testimonials of importance within these few weeks have been
sent from York, Sheffield, Hereford, Manchester, Durham,
Brighton, Norwich, Hull, &c., to Mr. Cabburn's Dispensary,
King's Cross, London, where the Oil maybe had in bottles, at
2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., and 225. ; likewise of all the principal Me-
dicine Venders in the Kingdom. Ask for Cabburn's Oil for
the cure of Rheumati►m, &c.

FOGS AND DAMP AIR.
BARCLAY'S ASTHMATIC CANDY has,
for many years, been proved an effectual Preservative
(rem the ill effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter
Season, are so prevalent us this Climate. Its effects are to expel
Wind, to presorve the Stomach from the admission of Damps, and
to relieve those who suffer from Difficitty of Breathing.
Prepared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street,
London; and Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger,
150, Oxford-street; Giflbrd 11'4, and H. Burtield, 180, Strand;
Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Hallows, Druggist, 2 High-street, Is.
Angton ; Ileudebourck, Druggist, Church street, Hackney; and by
llrespectable Medicine Venders in Town and Country.
01;serve—None can be genuine, unless the names of Barclay and
Son"ate on the Stamp affixed t eack Box

WHEREAS, THREE LETTERS, addressed
to THOMAS HOOD, Esquire, to the care of Mr.
COLUMN, have been sent adrift, endorsel " Not known to
Mr. Colburn !!!" It is requested that all communications for
me be addressed to No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, where (in
case of difficulty elsewhere) " Hood's Magazine," may always
be procured. T. HOOD.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE AS-
SURANCE COMPANY,
No. I I , Lombard-street, at the Entrance of the Old Post Office,

London.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN L A BOUCHERE, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Renry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
John W. Buckle, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. M.P.
John Dixon, Esq. S. Marjoribanks, Esq. M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Robert Mitford, Esq.
Thomson llankey, Jun., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esqh.
G►-orge Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.

A U DITO Its.

A. W. Robarts, Esq.
Samuel Jones Loyd, F.sq.
ACTUARY-Griffith

Henry Sykes Thornton, Esql,.
George Stone, Esq.
lavies, Esq., F. R. S.

In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in Jurne
1829, exceeding One per Cent. per Annum on the Sums in-
sured, on an average of the different Ages; and two subseql ent
divisions of nearly equal amounts were made up to Christ mos
1835 and Christmas 1842. On an average of the three 'divi-
sions the Reversionary Bonuses added to the several PoliciJes at
the end of every seven years amounted to about 27 per C ent.
on the total Premiums paid thereon during those seven y ears,
and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three SeLiten-
nial divisions exceeded 530,000/.

In the FIRE DEPARTMENT a return of 8& per cent. Was de-
clared on the 7th June upon the Premiums received on I! olicies
which had been in force Seven years and upwards, at Clari.stmas,
1842, and such return is now payable at this Office, d ally (Fri-
day and Saturday excepted), between the hours of leen and
Three o'Cloek ; or by the respective Agents in the corantry.
Notice is hereby tom', that At.wurano•a whin}, At
Christmas ;must .be renewed within fifteen days, at Lthis
office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's-stroe t, corner
of Pall-mall, or with the Company's agents thratrghout the
kingdom, otherwise they become void.
GEORGE KEYS, Sbcretary.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and :DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and 55, Chztt►cery-lane.

TRUSTEES.

K. Kingsford, Esq. I 13-.Tfili,—Es.q.

I J. Biditiesi, Esq.

PIRYCTORS.
KENNETT KINGSFORD, Esq., Chairman.
BENJAMIN WILL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. James Hartley, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq. John M'Gutte, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth J. Marmaduke Rosaeter, Esq.

THE HALF-PREMIUM plan of Assurance, as practised
by this Company, enables persons to retain to their own use
the one-half of the premiums for the first seven years at Si. per
cent. interest. Thus, suppose the ordinary premium for an
assurance of 5001. to be 10/., the first payment by the half-
premium plan will be five guineas, being the one-half of the
10!., and interest for the retained half; and if death should
occur in the first year, the sum of 5001. would be paid less the
Si. retained. The assured may thus have the use for the first
year of Si. ; for the second of 10/. ; and so on till the end of
the seventh year, when the retained sums, amounting to 351.,
may either be repaid, or retained at Si. per cent. interest until
death, when the 35/. would be subtracted from the 5001. then
payable by the Company.
Every information may be obtained by personal or written
application to the Agents of the Company, or to the Manager
in London.

ALEX. ROBERTSON. Esq,, Manager.

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THE BANKS versus THE POST-
OFFICE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—You will confer much benefit on the public by
giving an early place in your independent paper, to the
inclosed statement taken from the Edinburgh Weekly
Chronicle of this morning. In addition to the facts
therein contained, I can state from my own knowledge
than an order for 51. from the postmaster of Birmingham
on our Edinburgh post-office, dated Dec. 23, and payable
on the 25th, was then presented for payment, and
every subsequent day since, but the only answer or
satisfaction returned was, " No advice from Birmingham,
although written to." The note now lies in the hands
of the holder, disgraced and dishonoured, under protest.
Is such conduct to be any longer permitted to pass with
impunity ?—I remain, your obedient servant,
Edinburgh, Dec. 30,_ a 43. M. .
EDINBURGH, DEC. 28.—We have heard several com-
plaints relative to the transmission of money through
the Post-office. When it is sent inclosed in letters, the
letters sometimes do not reach their destination. When
it is transmitted through the Money Order_ office, the
Postmaster sometimes omits to send advice, and in such
cases, payment of the orders is refused, and parties put
to the utmost inconvenience. It was only lately that a
widow lady in reduced circumstances was watching her
son in bed, who was apparently dying of fever. Ills
articulation might have been imperceptible to any other
ear but that of an anxious mother. She, however, soon
overheard " Oh, that I could only see Dr. Ay.—l would
get relief." The mother had not the means of in-
viting Dr. Ay, upon the only terms agreeable to her
feelings, but she had an affectionate brother at some dis-
tance, and a letter was soon on its way to him stating
the situation of her son, the opinion of an able and at-
tentive young man from the Dispensary, and an account
of the expressed desires of the youth himself ; the re-
turn of post brought a post-office order for what was re-
quired, and the widow flew to her cloak and bonnet, and
in a few minutes was at the Post-office, " but who shall
paint the mother as she stood," when she was told the
order could not be honoured for want of advice.
The feelings of women are strong, and when these
point in the right way, they are unerring guides—a few
seconds only was required to enable her to form a new
resolution. She was soon in the presence of Dr. Ay, and
in half an hour they were both at the bedside of her son,
conveyed in the doctor's carriage. ller son recovered;
the doctor would not accept of any fee, and thus the
feeling and sympathies that ever accompanies genius,
corrected in this, as in many other cases, the mischief
that pampered indolence produces.
We know a family who, about twelve months since,
had occasion to complain to the Postmaster-General of
a gross neglect of the kind alluded to from Birmingham,
but the only answer was to this effect, that the Post-
office department was not responsible for its servants.
The same family suffered for several days by a similar
neglect in summer, and they are again suffering at the
present moment by a third act of negligence, all occasioned
by the same postmaster within twelve months, and it has
naturally occurred to the family that it is an intentional
neglect in consideration of the complaint upon the first
occasion.

If this be true, and we have reason to believe it is,
then the postmaster referred to should be instantly dis-
missed ; but it is possible the man may be so stupid, or
so indolent, that he treats every body in the same way,
and if that be the case, then, of course, he should be
treated just as other stupid and indolent men are treated
by their masters who have an interest in their services.
Let the Postmaster .General, however, treat the ser-
vant of the public as he may be advised, and let the pub-
lic conduct their own private affairs as they may feel
best for their own interest. They are just now giving
thousands per annum to the Post-office for the transmis-
sion of money, which may be much better and more
safely transmitted through the banks, of which there are
most respectable offices in every town, and the bankers,
we are told, now make it part of their business to ac-
commodate the public by transmitting the smallest sum
without any charge, while at the Post office he is charged
threepence for the smallest sum he has occasion to send.
—Edinburgh Weehly Chronicle.

FALLACIES of the "STANDARD."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Your paper of last night, received this day,
alludes in its leading article to the monstrous falsehood
that generally characterises the articles in the Standard
newspaper. The same number of your paper contains
one of these Standard articles, in which is so glaring an
instance of the justice of your imputation of this abomi-
nable vice of habitual disregard to truth in the editor
of the Standard, that I cannot forbear mentioning it to
you. The article you quote from the Standard, amongst
other similar insinuations, says, " The United States are
nearly the last part of the world to which an emigrant
would direct his course." While I was reading this, the
number of the "Companion to the Almanack," just
published, was lying before me, from which I extract
the following—
" Total number emigrated from the United
Kingdom in the year 1842
Of which emigrated to the United States
Or just one-half of the British emigrants went to a coun-
try which the veracious Editor of the Standard says is
" the last part of the world to which an emigrant would
direct his course." Even in an article marked by no
violent political feeling, the editor cannot avoid invent-
ing facts.—Your obedient servant,

Dec. 30, 1843.

VERAX.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSA LL'S—YESTERDAY.
The business transacted yesterday afternoon ranged a
tolerably extensive lot of Derby favourites„ and after so
dull a season, may he viewed as a promising commence-
ment to the year. It comprehended the following bets :
700 to 100 agst the Ugly Buck ; 7 to 1, to 1501., and
a fraction more to 100/. (a hedging bet) agst Rattan ;
30 to 1, to 401., agst Leander ' • 25 to 1, to a pony, agst
Cockamaroo ; 1,000 to 30 each, agst Campunero, Run-
ning Rein, and lonian ; 1,000 to 25, repeatedly, and in
one quarter (to hedge a previous bet between the same
parties) 1,000 to 30, agst Voltri ; 1,000 to 25 agst Saddle
Bow ; 50 to 1, to about 100, and 45 to 1, in fifties, agst
the Marinello colt ; 1,000 to 20 each agst Attaghan and
the Delightful colt ; 1,000 to 15 agst Apprentice 1,000
to 10 agst Johnny Broome ; and 500 even between
the Ugly Buck and Rattan, the Buck's backer giving a
couple of sovereigns for choice. Closing prices
:
DERBY.
7 to I agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
7 I to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan —ditto
It; to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone
a 5 to 1 ago Lord Maidstone's Coekatnaroo—taken
:25 to I agst Colonel Peel's Orlando
30 to I agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—taken
33 to I agst Colonel Peel's lonian—ditto
1000 to 30 agst Mr. Wood's Running Itein—ditto
1000 to 30 agst Sir G. Heatlicote's Campunero—ditto
35 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's '!'Auld Squire
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Saddle Bow—ditto
40 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Voltri—ditto
45 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Marinello colt—ditto
50 to 1 agst Mr. Herbert's Delightful colt
50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Attaghan
66 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice
100 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Johnny Broome
We understand that notwithstanding the qui tam ac-
tions, and the extraordinary attempts to evade racing
engagements on the plea of illegality, the nominations
made yesterday afford the most satisfactory evidence of
the prosperity of the turf.

PROYIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF LADY GRENVILLE.-
During the extremely thick fog which prevailed a few
evenings since, the carriage of Lady Grenville, in which
was her Ladyship, who was returning to Dropmore from
a dinner party at Huntercombe House, Bucks, was upset
by being driven
,upon a steep bank, close to the village of
Burnham, about two miles from her Ladyship's resi-
dence ; and such was the position in which the carriage
was overturned, that the footman and coachman found it
to be impassible to extricate Lady Grenville from her
perilous situation without additional assistance, which
was speedily procured from the village. Her Ladyship,
who has attained a very advanced age, received several
contusions, and was immediately conveyed to the surgery
of Mr. Roberts, at Burnham, where she received every
attention, and returned to Dropmore House shortly be-
fore midnight. Her Ladyship, who is still suffering from
the effects of the severe bruises she experienced, espe-
cially in the left arm, shoulder, and side, has not since
left her residence.

Mr. Carew, the sculptor, has for some time been on
a visit to General Wyndham, at the barracks in Dublin,
blending, however, recreation with professional business
(in which he is likely to be extensively patronised by his
spirited countrymen). He has been honoured with a
commission to execute a bust of the Earl of Cardigan,
which task he has perfected with much skill and fidelity.
Carew has also made a bust of Father Mathew, the
temperance loader.
There are serious complaints owing to the scarcity
of silver, which now bears a premium. The Master of the
Mint should do something to remedy this serious
grievaufe.

:',l'l.ltlT of the PUBLIC JOUitNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF LAX.
POST.—In another column will he found an ;Ole
letter by Mr. Munoz on the subject or the Corn and
Currency Laws. Mr. Moniz avows lii:sesit the advocate
of a system of " general protection for asriculture and
commerce." This system of general protection is, he
contends, to be attained only by weans of soutel money
laws. The corn laws he condemns, as yiel,ling. oniy
" partial and uncertain proteotion." We concede to Mr.
Muntz that our protective system ought to be universal.
We concede, moreover, that the most stritssent corn-law
does not, in itself, constitute a protective system. In
opposition, however, to Mr. Muntz, we maintain that of
every thoroughly-protective system a strings nt corn-law
must, in the case of a country so artificial in all its social
relations as England is, form a part. The most whole-
some money laws would not render a corn-law unneces-
sary. This is the point of diff's-rence between Mr. Moritz
and ourselves. We shall presently ref urn to its consi-
deration. Let us, in the first place, however, glance at
.
some other of the positions laid down by the Member
for Birmingham. The corn-law of 1815 was, according
to Mr. Muntz, " right in intention —but the working
of it was bad and unjust, because it only partially pro-
tected the wages of labour." " Had the framers," con-
tinues the Honourable Gentleman, "of the corn-law
of 1815 understood what they were doing, they
would have obtained their protection by coining the
precious metals of that nominal value which accorded
with the nominal value which their corn hail obtained
during the war by the depreciation in the value of the
unredeemable paper-money. By that plan, th,g would
not only have perfectly protected thonselees—hut would Gbo
have protected all the other interests." We admit, once
more, that the corn-law of 1815 was imperti et; and
that, in order to render complete their policy of protec-
tion, the legislators of 1815 ought to have coined the
!precious metals at rates according with the value kr ,the
paper-money which circulated in England during the
war. We will add that, even after such an arrange-
ment, our protective policy would have lacked its surest
basis—laws directly protective of the manual labour of
the empire. The prosperity of the labourer—that is
the only sound foundation of protective laws—and
that foundation has been either deliberately weakened
aws—or b:en only in-
lodsfyi r tet;
1815.1ey a
sc oie nrn.gloirifue ott,
Muntz
,rh
aarisniorildigie rltln,llBiied case of the corn-law
doss n the proposition
that if the currency law of 11 were repealed,t thecorn-laws, too, might be repealed without, injury to
English agriculturists—and Mr. Muntz having, more-
over, shown tit the tendency of the Corn-laws tuts been
to raise wheafto 10s. a bushel, while the tendency of the
currency law of 1819 has been to lower wheat to ss.
we argued, as our readers may remember, that this pro-,l
cess of double repeal would leave matters pretty much as
they are at present. Mr. Muntz, however, regards our
view of his positions as a misapprehension cif their true
nature and tendency. "I do not alone propose," he ob-
serves, "the abolition of the two laws. I also propose
to alter the nominal price of silver front 3s. 2,1. to 7.. 61
per ounce, in which the Bank would pay its notes;—and
in this alteration lies all my contemplated protection and
improvement. It would protect prcduce ur,d 144:;ur
England 50 per cent. again.,t
.foreign produce and IGhour."
Here, as it seems to Mr. Muntz falls into error.
We regard as'perfectly sound his proposition to coin
the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d. ; but such a change
wise and necessary as it is would, as-
suredly, not protect " English produce and la-
bour to the extent of 50 per cent." against the produce
and labour of foreign countries. The producers of Eng-
land need a double protection, and that double protection
it is the highest duty of every Government to afford.
Producers need to be protected, in the first place; against
the influence of usurers and idle consumers. Producers
in this country need, moreover, to be protected against
the competition of foreign producers. Foreign producers
are apt and powerful instruments in the hands of idle
consumers and of usurers amongst ourselves. By means
of free trade, our usurers and idle consumers would
mould foreign producers to their purposes. By means
of money laws, like the money law of 1819, usurers
and idle consumers have already abased, to a scarcely
calculable extent, the condition of all English producers.
The process of coining the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d.
would, immediately, subvert that empire which our
usurers and idle consumers have founded on the currency
law of 1819. Such a process would invert—wisely and
beneficially—the relations which now politico producers
with idle consumers. Producers would I,coonet strong
—idle consumers would become weak. The (-bane
would, almost immediately, double the, strength of the
British empire. The change in tjuestion would not,
however, we repeat, protect English productiv.• industry
against the productive industi y of f,,reign countries.
Let the ounce of silver be coined in this country into
7s. 6d. per oz.—and let free trade he e.stablished, at
the same time ; foreign producers wool:!, forthwith, to a
fearful extent, supersede the native indastry of England.
Now—the ounce of silver being coined into 5-s 2d.- fo-
reign corn growers could, if a free trade in corn were es-
tablished, pour into our markets a quantity of grain suf-
ficient to paralyse our agricultural industry. 'l' ne coin-
age of the ounce of silver into 7s. 6,1. wsul,l not tae-et
the power of foreign corn growers to I ro,!twe such a
disastrous result. After the suggested change in our
money laws, foreign corn and English cern wea!d rise
in precisely the same proportions of nominal price. It'
English wheat be now worth, on the average, 50s. a
quarter, foreign wheat may be grown and imported to
any extent for 40s. English wheat would obviously,
after the coinage of the ounce of silver into 7s. Gil., rise
to 755., while foreign wheat would rise to GOs. ; sixty
shillings of our money would, in short, after such a
change in our currency laws, possess the same value as
40s. possess now ; and since, under a free trade
system, foreign wheat to any extent might TIOW be
procured for 405., so might it be procured to
any extent for 60s. ; if the change in our monetary
laws, proposed by Mr. Muntz, were adopted by our Le-
gislature. No reform, in short, of our unsound money
laws would render unnecessary comprehensive and strin-
gent laws for the protection of British industry- from the
effects of foreign competition.

ADVERTISER.—And so the " Oastler Liberation
Fund" is to be the Starvealls' instrument of mystifica-
tion and abuse, for damaging the characters of the manu-
facturing capitalists, in the hope of marring their efforts
for emancipating industry from its fetters; and William
Busfield Ferrand, M.P. for Knaresborough, is to be the
Coryphoeus of the party, in whose behuof it is to be em-
ployed. The work in which the lion. Gentleman is en-
gaged is most congenial to his feelings, and if he succeed
as well in this mission as he has in former missions,
having the like objects in view, the Starving interests
will owe him not a few obligations. S.) long as Mr.
Ferrand was satisfied with throwing the filth of his abuse
at random, recklessly assailing every manufacturing
capitalist who ventured to think that the working classes
can have no interest in the maintenance of laws which
limit the quantity of food to be distributed amongst
them, while they force foreigners to beconie our rivals in
the production of those articles which formerly furnished
employment for the masses of our population, and
wealth for the country ; so lung as the lion. Gentleman
was satisfied with such a mode of welfare against the
objects of his malignity—imputing to them hypocrisy,
fraud, oppression, and treason, in the wholesale, withutt t
descending to particulars, or specifying the precise
nature or extent of their delinquencies, he could
scarcely fail, in some degree, to damage the character
of those he thus foully assailed, and to atrued satisfac-
tion to those who found him the fitting tool tor pro-
moting their selfish and sordid objects. To venture
beyond this was a hazardous undertaking for such a
genius as the Member for Knaresborough, and it sur-
prised us not a little to see that he %vas permitted to
enter upon it. Dunderheaded as the "country gentle-
men" are, they are seldom found lucking that sort of
cunning that avoids unnecessary danger or exposure.
Mr. Ferrand, however, was permitted to essay his
powers against the manufacturers in a more specific
wanner; and, as might have been foreseen, a more signal
failure was never before witnessed. his " devil's dust"
affair ended, appropriately enough, in smoke; his dis-
coveries in the practice of " trucking" proved to be " a
mare's nest ;" and his equally confident averments
connecting the master manufacturers with the turn-outs
and riots in the manufacturing districts, were proved,
after a series of gravely-conducted judicial investiga-
tions, to have been unfounded and malignant slanders.
It might have been imagined that after all this the
Member for Knaresborough, if so lost to all sense of
decency himself as to still present himself to the public
gaze, would have been thrown overboard and abandoned
by the party in whose behalf he stood ferward. But,
no ; such is their utterly forlorn case, that even Mr.
Ferrand, " with all his blushing honours thick upon
him," is not too contemptible a thing to 60 put forward
as their champion and—Jack-Pudding. Mr. Ferrand is
making a tour of the country, avowedly to aid the fund
for the liberation of Mr. Oastler ; but not less avowedly
to assail and abuse the master manufacturers generally,
and the members of the Anti Corn-law anew, in par-
ticular. A tolerable specimen of his mode of proceed-
ing was furnished at Liverpool, last week, at a meeting
called in behalf of the Oastler fund :—" I am here," said
this discreet and truth-loving gentleman—" I am here
to bring forth evidence against a party, and you
have driven me to it. Those partits first en-
tered into their conspiracy at Manchester. They
sent for O'Connell—and for the employment of
O'Connell, let the factory children tell the price—
the bargain was made for the destruction of the Pro-
testant religion ; and, in return, O'Connell was to
be assisted in his efforts to obtain a rep; al of the
Union." Look at that, all ye quiet, peace- loving, church-
going old ladies in the kingdom ! it is none other than
William Busfeild Ferrand that speaks, and his word is
the word of—a Member of Parliament ! A conspiracy
was concocted at Manchester—O'Connell was sent fur
(the purpose does not clearly appear, but that there was
one none can doubt, for) his employment was proved by
his refusing to aid the Starvealls in adding to the wages
and comforts of the poor factory people, by limiting
their hours of work, enhancing the price ofahe articles
they produce, and thus narrowing the markets for their
0* I One Who is clear, however, that tic greet bb.

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