The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-20 00:00:00

would all agree in giving him Judas as a patron saint.
—(Laughter.) Among the recent inventions and
discoveries, not the least remarkable was that one
which Sir R. Peel had lately ascertained to be the
principle of administration, and which was
founded upon) justice and sound policy—
he meant the relaxation of the commercial
prohibitions and restrictions, and the introduction of
articles produced in other countries to compete with
those produced in our own. He did not make the
discovery before he came into office. There was no
announcement of it in the Tamworth manifesto. It
never was proclaimed on the hustings in the election
of 1841, but it came out now in the difficulties and
entanglements of his position. It recommended
him to some of his followers, but it made
him odious to others. It certainly gained him
no confidence from any ; and if, as was anticipated,
the Whigs were too pragmatical to advocate a repeal
of the corn-laws, and that Sir R. Peel proposed it, the
League would certainly receive such a proposition
from his hands, but not as from a champion who hid
been its consistent advocate, but from one in whom
they had no confidence, and from whom the mighty
power of public opinion had wrung a measure which
should never have been refused.—(Hear.) He had
often in that place advanced earnest recommendations
to those assembled there to exert themselves in every
way that their circumstances allowed to promote the
Liberal registration, and that whoever had it in his
poWer to obtain this great political right should at
once put himself in possession of it. He had recom-
mended them that they should, by conversation, and
by the distribution of tracts, spread abroad the know-
ledge of their principles and their conviction of the
truth ; and he trusted that he might be indulged
in taking on himself to offer a few suggestions to
those who might be regarded as the advocates
of their cause in the House of Commons. For him-
self, he owned that it would gratify his feelings much
more if he saw those members of the League who
were M.P.'s acting more in concert than they ap-
peared to leave done on a recent occasion.—(Hear,
hear.) If there were but few, they had the more
need for steady and efficient co-operation. If the
question did not involve principles, then there was no-
thing to sacrifice ; and if it were a question of
principle, then he bad no doubt but little
consultation would bring them all to the one
conviction as to any great application of the
principles of free trade. At a time when the Go-
vernment was endangered—at a time when, in
fact, the Government was preserved by only a
majority of twenty—it was time for the tens and
dozens to look about them, and consider where their
weight could be best thrown—how they could best
unite for the common good, and how they could best
advance the great cause which they advocated.
He did not say but those Members acted from the
most honourable and honest motives, but he did not
wish to see those twelve gentlemen who had
filled that chair, and spoken from that platform, di-
vided as to the course they pursued ; but they were,
in fact, divided into three or four different parties.—
(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to see those men up-
holding Peel in office. He did not wish to see them
a party to any decision which tended to prolong for a
week, or a single day, a Government in office which
ruled over Ireland with so much oppession, and which
made the Post-office of England a great spy shop—
(Loud cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.")—which
advocated a mock Liberalism, and supported monopoly
when it could—a Government of subterfuge and
false pretences—a Government which waged war
against the constitutional, open, fair, and liberal
meetings of the people of Ireland, and which would
wage warfare against meetings here if it dare—a
Government, in fine, which had opposed, and would
oppose as long as it could, the first right of an
Englishman—an open market for the produce
of his labour and cheap food.—(Hear, hear, and
prolonged cheering.) He was glad to find that the
feelings of the meeting were his, if he rightly un-
derstood them.—(Renewed cheering, and cries of
" Hear, hear.") The veterans who had assembled at
-the Waterloo banquet should recollect what it was
that first led to the downfal of the despot who
was finally overthrown at that stupendous
conflict. It was the Berlin decree which
imposed, or at least attempted to impose,
fetters upon commerce—that was the first and most
effectual blow that Napoleon, in his ambitious career,
ever received. Buonaparte threatened, and, in fact,
declared, that all the ports of Britain were in a state
of blockade—that was, in fact, what the Protec-
titionists now, in substance, declared—they an-
nounced to every foreign ship that commerce
was restricted, and that, however much the
people of this island stood in need of food, monopoly
reigned there triumphant, and would exclude it as a
far worse and more dangerous, because more in-
sidious, enemy than Napoleon.—(Hear, hear.) 'War
might devastate countries, and overthrow empires,
and annihilate cities; but monopoly, though not so
rapid or perceptible in its progress, was quite as effec-
tual in its operations. Under its baneful influence,
gradual, sure, and silent decay went forward ; the
waving corn-field was converted into the barren pas-
ture—the wealthy merchant was impoverished—the
manufactory rendered inoperative, and the national
resources reduced to helpless weakness.—(Hear, hear.)
Such was monopoly which, whilst it kept the people
at home needy and hungry, permitted the harvests
in foreign countries to rot from want of a sufficient
number of mouths to consume them.—(Hear, hear.)
If war killed, if it stained the field and the stream
with human blood, monopoly destroyed human life
also, its hundreds and thousands from year to year,
and by a lingering agency, worse to endure than the
short stroke of the sword or the cannon-ball ; and if
war demoralised a people, so did monopoly, calling
into life, as it did, theft, incendiarism, and all other
evils which could befal society. He relied on one
overruling process for the destruction of both war and
monopoly—for the same moral law which they were
there to advocate condeinned both, and would ulti-
mately doom both to annihilation.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then informed the meeting, that in
consequence of the motion of Mr. Villiers being to
be brought before the House of Commons next week,
it was not the intention of the League to hold their
usual meeting in that place, but on that day fort-
night he hoped to see them all again.
The meeting then adjourned.

The King of Saxony, attended by Lord Charles
Wellesley, visited the British Institution on Tuesday, the
18th inst., and was pleased to express his approbation of the
splendid collection of pictures. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge visited the same on Wednesday, the 19th
inst.,attended by Major Henry S. Stevens, and was pleased to
express himself highly gratifisd with the present exhibition.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, and several Members
of the Town Council, have arrived in town, for the purpose
of presenting an address to her Majesty, upon. the subject of
Mr. O'Connell's trial and imprisonment.
An entirely new race of horses has been introduced
into France, called nedjdi, the pure blood of which will be
preserved by means of stallions and mares presented to the
' King in 1842 by the Viceroy of Egypt. Crosses between the
stallions, and the finest French, German, and English mares,
promise a great improvement of the breed of horses in
France. The nedjdi are kept at the Arab stud-house founded
by the King in the park of St. Cloud.—Paris Print.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—In the month of June
1837, the schooner Ebenezer, a regular trader for coals to this
port, J. Little, commander and part owner, sailed from Ply-
mouth for Shields, for a cargo of coals, having a regular crew,
' and a passenger named Edward Jeffery, son of the late Mr.
Thomas Jeffery, who died about three years since, and was
for many years a faithful servant of J. and W. Collier,
Esqrs., timber merchants, of this town. It appears the
Ebenezer arrived safely at Shields, took in a cargo of coals,
and sailed again for this port, having still on board the
Young man Edward Jeffrey, whose design had been to take
a summer's excursion to Shields and return again. Coming
down the North Channel when off Yarmouth, the schooner
experienced a severe gale, which lasted a day and a night,
when, by the violence of the storm, she was shattered, and
went down ; and it was believed at the time, for no one heard
anything about her for two months after, that every soul on
board had perished; however, the desk of Captain Little,
with some papers inclosed, was washed into Yarmouth, at
the latter end of July, when no doubt existed in the minds
of the friends of those on board, but that every soul '
had perished—and the captain's widow, Mr. and Mrs.
Jeffery and family, went all into deep mourning. But the
sequel of the story is, that Jeffery and another, after having
clung to the wreck for several hours, were picked up by a
foreign vessel bound to India, which touched at the Cape.
There Jeffery and his companion were put on shore, but
being destitute of money and clothing, to return to his friends,
he entered on board the Arrow, which was then lying there,
bound on a surveying expedition to the Falkland Islands._
there it appears she has been for the last six years, and after
returning and cruising on the coast of Africa for some time,
has taken two very large slavers—and on Saturday, she ar-
rived in Portsmouth Harbour, where Jeffery sent a commu-
nication to his friends, announcing his arrival.—Devonpore
Independent.
HERRING FISHERY.—We are glad to say that there
is a great appearance of herrings on the coast, and that al-
ready has the take been so good as to permit the fish to be
disposed of at from 3d. to 4d. per dozen. As yet the nets
have not been put into operation, the mode of capture being
by hook rigged upon what are called " dandy handlines,"
the abundant produce from which holds out every hope of a
successful fishing when the ordinary means are brought into
play. Aberdeen Journal.
CRUSADE AGAINST REPEAL I3urroNs.—On Friday
morning, notice having been forwarded to the Corporation
House, in William-street, that the main pipe for
supplying water to the Royal Barracks was out of
order,.eo a eb'l ntegh
cotflsieetnhteibnaelrr: en
employed in the pipe-water de-
partment
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wore at once dispatched to rectify it ; but on
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buttons. The men declined to do so, and the sentinel refus-
ing to admit them, although they explained the object of
m
their visit, they returned to the p• -
ewater-office, and the
Royal Barracks remained Without the means of obtaining a
supply of water.—Lublin Emiii, Post.
A RETORT.—" Are you prepared to pay me that
bill?" said the landlord of an American hotel to a guest of
his, who seemed to evinc, a,,de,cided and practical preference
for the "credit system. Certainly • , will pay it," was
on as I get a remittance from
the reply, "as SO the north.
BO why so uneasy? Inot t •
Am putting up with you?"
" you seem glad enough to
I, yes," 84;4 ;.he landlord, put up
with me, by you`4 4d shan't put up with you if you don't
pay me.''
Thursday morning, a
A sturgeon was taken on
ween Errol and Sea-
short distance below the marsh wall, bet
tie 7 feet i men
side, of the following dimensions :-leng
I• b d
• weight t
girth, 2 feet 11 inches ; and its llilbs.
a the e9l e lave
to be one of the largest ever taken in this part Ultry
—Perthshire Constitutional.