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The reiccted of Kilmarnock has now added to his
o'ber titles that of the rejected of Newcastle-under LT
We arc confident that wherexer humbug, hypoericyc,oaindu-e:anei
are held in detestation, the intelligence will be received with
unnflig?ed satisfaction. In his own country, Mr.
w.is speedily seen through, arid his- last venture has been made
in a quarter whole iittlO7eould be known of him.-7- Glasgow
Argus. •i: • ,':', ;: - ' :1-. ' 1

DISTRESS OF THE _COUNTRY.
(THIS DAY.)
A meeting :of. Dissenting ministers, which had been
called by circular, was held at Devonshire-square Chapel,
at eleven o'clock :this morning. The Rev. Dr. Cox
' took the Chair. - -
The CHAIRMAN said,- if he understood rightly the pur- '
pose of the meeting, it soared far above all party interests
and purposes. Differences of opinion existed between
their respective bodies on many political points, but they
were all united in a feeling of sympathy with the dis-
tresses of the suffering multitudes throughout the coun-
try.—(Hear, hear.) The object of that meeting was to
confer together for the.purpose of affording assistance to
those who had been sent to the metropolis as delegates
to represent the distress which existed in different parts
of the coentry, to aid them in their applications to the
Prime Minister and different Members of Parliament on
that subject. A general impression existed that those
who held the high places of the land had not manifested
sufficient sympathy with the distress of the people.
There was a general impression that the course of legis-
lation had been such, up to the present time, as rather to
aggravate and increase the sufferings of the people than
to prevent and remove them. They must look to God
to direct the movements of the Legislature. As Christian
ministers, it was their duty, laying aside every. other core-
sideration, to endeavour to promote the best interests of
the distressed population. The delegates-from the ma-
nufacturing districts would now state to the meeting the
condition of their own districts, and it would then be for
the meeting to determine what course should be pursued.
The Rev. C. BAKER; of Stockport, said the meeting
was probably aware that eight or ten individuals had
been deputed to visit London to lay before her Majesty's
Ministers and the Members of both Houses of Parlia-
ment to some facts which had come under their own ob
servation, as to the distress which now existed. They
came, feeling that they had a tale to tell which required
no adornment ; that the only danger was that they
would understate the appalling scenes by Mach they had
been surrounded.—(Hear, hear, hear.) They thought
that they perceived indications that Parliament was
about to be prorogued, though there was no appearance
of diminution, but rather of increase, in the sufferings
of their countrymen. When Parliament was last pro-
rogued, there was uncertainty about the future, and that
very uncertainty formed a ground of hope.—(Hear
hear.) At present there was no uncertainty. They
could not tell the people that if they waited a few months
something would be done for their relief. There did not
appear to be the slightest hope of amelioration from the
measures which had been adopted by Parliament. The
poor-rates were increasing to a vast extent ; and the
ratepayers were becoming receivers, and dragging those
who were just above them into their own vortex. One
could almost calculate the day, and the hour of the slay,
when the people of the town of Stockport, and other
places, would be involved in one common pauperism. As
ministers of the gospel, they had much to do with the
distress of the country.—(Hear, hear.) The public
peace was in danger.—(Hear, hear.) The delegates
had told all the Members of Parliament with whom they
had conversed, that they were sitting upon a barrel of
gunpowder—it required but the application of a match,
and the explosion would inevitably take place. The pa-
. tience of the people had worn well, but it was to be feared
that their endurance would soon be at an end. In the
various meetings which the delegates had held with Mem-
bers of Parliament, their chief object had been to bring
about the re-opening of the discussion on the Corn-laws
before the prorogation of Parliament., thoroughly per-
suaded that the only remedy for the distresses of the
people was to give them free, unfettered commerce with
till the nations of the world in all articles of food.—
(Cheers.) They had not been able to make any impres-
sion on the Government, but the discussion would, in a
few days, be re-opened by the opposite party in both
Melees of Parliament, and he trusted that what would be
elicited in
_that discussion would induce the Government
to pause before they dismissed the Members to their
respective hotnes.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. RAwSON, from Manchester, and Mr. JAMES
LEES, from Saddleworth, addressed the meeting, and
made appalling statements of the distress existing in
their re pectiee districts.
Mr. G. Tiweiesole said he had thought the numerous
visits which he had paid to different parts of the country
bad made him intimately acquainted with the condition
of the unemployed operatives, and he felt that it was
utterly impossible for him to convey to the meeting any-
thing like an adequate idea of their actual condition. He
fearlessly stated that there were at this moment mil-
lions who were in danger of perishing from absolute
hugger. lie was persuaded that there was a daily
diminishing respect for the laws and constitution
of the country—a daily diminishing regard for the
rights of property—and a growing feeling of despair.
The savage in the woods, living on bulbous roots, and
by trapping the bearer, was blessed, in comparison to
the thousands of poor creatures he (Mr. Thompson) had
seen in this country.—(Hear, hear.) He passed through
Stockport lately in a chaise, having to keep an engage-
ment in Staffordshire. He stopped there but a short
time, to change horses ; but Mr. Baker would confirm
him, when he said, that even a person stopping so short
a time, could see the desolated state of the town. He
could see that every, second house was closed. The
people were standing ea' the market-place, and there was
no one to hire them. He also visited Bolton, and he
was accompanied by a respected friend of his,
who was appointed to collect correct statistics
of that town. His friend said he would take
him to none of the suffering people but those that were
known to be deserving. He went from house to house,
from cellar to cellar, and from one wretched hole to an-
other, and in the whole of their peregrinations they did
not find a single blanket. They only found anything in
the shape of food in two of the dwellings ; one-was a
little bit of red meat. at the bottom of a pot, and the other
a crust, the wretched fragment of a loaf, which had
dwindled down to what they saw of it. The people
would not touch it until the middle of the day,-
that they might put off the cravings of hunger as long
as possible. They found many of them lying
on the sacking—beds there were none ; and he
said to them, " Why do you lie here?" Young girls
who a few months' ago cheerfully rose in the morning
to go to the factories, were, with the father, mother,
grandfather, and sometimes grandmother, all starving
together, huddled up in dne corner of the room. He
said to them, " Why do you lie here ?" and they an-
swered, "-We are less afflicted with hunger when we.
lie down." He could not depict the gratitude with
which they received the trifles left by the parties
who then visited them. In another house which he
visited he found a poor old man dying on a bed, upwards
of eighty years of age, and his wife, who looked like the
Witch of Endor, as he had seen her in pictures,
was crouched over a few expiring embers in a rude
grate, trying to mix a small quantity of treacle and
butter, to make a kind of toffy for sale, having scraped
together towpence for that purpose. She lifted up the
black covering which was upon her husband, and
there he was, stark naked. She then lifted up her own
clothes, in order to prove that she had no other
covering but the miserable cotton dress which covered
her skeleton. This was the state of Bolton, yet he did
not hear an expression of murmuring in one of them,
or any allusion of a reprehensible kind to obtain relict
He went to Wigan and he had not been in the town five
minutes before the Coroner sent him some depositions
which he had taken at an inquest held upon the body of a
man who had died of absolute starvation. The doctors
had declared their belief that he had died of hunger, and
. while he was reading these depositions a messenger came
from a neighbouring village, and said that a man had
just died of absolute hunger, fur he was seen the day be-
fore gnawing the grass, scanty as it was, in the fields
around. He (Mr. The mpson) had been in Glasgow, and
he had many of the pour operatives at his meetings, who
came merely to beguile themselves into something like
forgetfulness. He was informed by a most respectable
and worthy individual, that there was in that city
thousands dying of hunger. Many of the people were
patiently waiting for death. He had also visited Paisley—
of that they had. heard enough. He had visited Hud-
dersfield also, and from information he derived from
various sources, public and private, he came to the con-
clusion that he was surrounded by a perishing popula-
tion. Some months ago there was hope in some quar-
ters that relief would be offered. For five dreary months,
during the winter, did they tertain this hope. Some of
them died with it. The grass was growing on the graves of
many who perished during that winter. They relied upon
Parliament giving them some relief. But what had been
done ? They had got a Tariff and an Income-tax. They
would all admit the latter was no relief; and to the former
he had looked over it with a most impartial eye, and he
should have been glad to have discovered any symptoms
of relief, but he found none. Trifling articles were al-
lowed to come in on payment of a lowersduty. What
they wanted was comprised in a word of three syllables—
Employment—(llear)—the power and ability to pay. It
was not so much a question of price as a question of com-
petency to buy anything at all.—(Hear.) Ile did not speak
politically he spoke as a friend to humanity. They
were convened together for the purpose of looking the
distress in the land in the face, and to give such counsel
as they felt themselves competent to give. There was
no relief in the Parliamentary measure, a remedy had
been applied in the shape of a Queen's Letter. Our
population was to be relieved by alms gathered at the
doors of our public sanctuaries. No, the progress of des-
titution was not to be checked by a Queen's
Letter. The means of living were daily wast-
ing away, and whatever bountiful donations
were dropped into the plates, when that letter was read.
it would not satisfy the wants of the population for three
days. What was to become then of our nation in a short
time when Parliament would rise ? They knew scarcely
any motive to induce Members of Parliament to remain
when the grouse were waiting to be shot on the moors.
(Laughter.) They would go the sooner if they ex-
pected that it was the intention of the people to keep
them. They would get over the measures that were to
be passed—they would get their supplies and everything
necessary to then- own views, and then they would disperse
over the country. The country would then be governed
by a Home Secretary, living'next to the Horse Guards.
They would adjourn in the middle of August, thus would
they be away the whole of September, October, Novem-
ber, December, January, and in February they- would
meet again. He did not wish to speak of the existing Government disparingly. He did not wish to impugn
the motives of individuals of that Government, but he
did say that it was a terrible thing for the country to be
la to the government - of a standing army during
the months he had named. He had great hepe
in the interposition of Christian Ministers, they
and lie hoped they would
could do much for them,
be worthy of it. lie would. just _relate an
anecdote of a friend of his, who went down to Windsor,
accompanied by his lady and two friends. They went
into the Chapel-royal, to see- her Majesty, and they re- I
marked how care-worn she looked. They wished to
have another view of her while she was walking in
the SlOpese Several soleieee, not 'Under arms, but with
short canes, were walking about, acting as a sort of po-
lice to keep the people 'Off. • One of-these soldiers, a very
intelligent man, got into conversation with the gentle-

man he referred to._. ,The soldier said,. referring_th
Queen, " Poor Lady, she has. a great deal to worry.
her." The gentleman replied that it was truy
that she had been subjected to attempts upon
her lift., but she. still lived in the affections
of her people. These were solitary acts of insane or
wicked men who attempted to do her harm, certainly.
" Ah," replied the soldier," but look at the condition of
the people, Sir, my opinion is that the- young lady won't
die in this country." The gentleman in surprise asked
why "why said the soldier," the people wont bear it
much longer, they will be uppermost by and bye."
This was the lang-age of a soldier. He (Mr. Thompson)
did not mean to make any remark on it, or draw any
any inference from b. In 1827 there was a celebrated
work written bearing the title of coin and currency,
and written by a very distinguished man. He (Mr.
Thompson) would have brought it had he thought of it.
He had read it so often and commented upon it so frequently
that he knew it pretty well by heart. One passage was,
" Whenever this country presents the spectacle of mil-
lions supplicating for bread, then will the people sweep
away titles, pensions, and honours." That was the lan-
guage of the present Secretary of State for the Home
Department. The spectacle was presented—they were
only wai.ing for the fulfilment of the prophecy. Who
was it that was standing between the aristocracy on the
one hand and the starving population on the other ?
It was the gentlemen he saw around him.—(Hear,
hear.) Ile asked them now to interfere as they had
done berore. He was the last man in the world to
ask the Christian Minister to pervert his sacred func-
tions for the purpose of party politics, but he
asked them to do that which they •de.sired themselves.
It was u”.,eeessary for him to trespass longer on their
e. KIX v had been assembled there that day in order
to gig e weir counsel. They were required not to send
runt' a Queen's letter, but a pastora,!, and he was sure
that the Christian ministers would do their duty.

Dr. SMITH next addressed the meeting. He felt that
they were like the prophet Jeremiah, when he sat down
with a number of the faithful to bear up against the
bitter lamentations of Judea. With respect to the
Queen's lotter, he thought such a remedy was like
a physician administering an opium pill to a pa-
dont who was suffering under a severe malady. It
would only relieve him for a short time, and then his
suffering would be greater. He considered that their
duty was to try by every means in their power to get rid
of the gigantic evil which afflicted the country. He con
sidered that evil was caused by the people themselves in
sending such bad and heartless men to Parliament.

Dr. tEIFCHILD then addressed the meeting. He said
he thought that the Christian ministers calling a meet-
ing themselves might calculate to raise a prejudice against
them. He thought the better course to adopt would be
to call a meeting of all denominations. He thought the
statement which had been made that day ought to be
cpeated to a large public meeting, and made as public
as possible, for by this they would call the attention of
the Legislature to the subject.
Dr. CAMPBELL raid he had just returned from Man-
chester and Bolton, and he could confirm what had been
stated respecting those two places. He thought they
ought to consider this as a preliminary meeting, and
call another on a large scale, so that the statements made
that day may go forth to the world. He felt convinced
that if they called a public meeting, that they would
have at least two or three thousand present.
Mr. Doro Las thought that some decisive measures
ought to be taken at once ; the people were starving,
and starving people would not long remain silent.
The Rev. Mr. OVERBU:IY had listened with great at-
tention to the statements w hick had been made, and he
was convinced that this country was approaching a great
and serious crisis in its history They heard accounts
from the North of. England, but none from the West of
England. He lived in the west of England himself, and
he could assure the meeting that the distress was equal
there to any part of the country. He felt convinced it
was the result of class legislation, preferring a class to
the whole country. . _ _

• Mr. BAKER said that the
in
of the state of the
west of England was given in the Statistic Report of
the Anti-Corn-law Conferifnce.

The Rev. Mr. CARLYLE then proposed the following
resolution, " That this meeting is deeply affected with the
statements whiclrhave now been made of the distress pre-
vailing throughout the manufacturing districts of the
country,and expresse its thanks to thegentlemen who have
visited this metropolis, on this benevolent mission, for
their kindness in attending thiS meeting, and for the in-
formation they nave conveyed ; that a provisional com-
mittee be now formed for the purpose of co-operating
with those members of the churches and congregations
in this metropolis who may be willing to unite on the
subject, to convene a public meeting on the distress now
prevalent in this eovntry, the said meeting to be held, if
possible, next week, and that the deputation from the north
be requested to attend it, with a view to some public move-
ment taking place, for the purpose of impressing upon
the legislieure before the close of the present session, the
necesstty of some immediate step fur averting the cala-
mities inipending in the country.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting adjourned.

EXCIIEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
THE CORPORATION OF COVENTRY V. LYTHALL AND OTHERS.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied on the part of the plain-
tiffs ; and the Court intimated that they would defer theirjudg-
merit until Thursday next.

BAIL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)

GREEN D. LLGIE AND TOMLINE.

Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Cowley, and Mr. Corrie, were for
the plaintiff ; the Attorney-General -for Mr. Eigie, and
Mr. Platt, Mr. Baxter, and Mr. Clark, for Mr. Towline.

This was an action of trespass, assault, and false im-
prisonment. Proceedings were taken by the plaintiff;
who was an attorney, living in Nottinghamshire, against
the defendaut, Elgie, who was an attorney, residing in
Worcester, before the Vice-Chancellor, and the Court
of Review, for the costs, in which Green became
liable. An order for the payment of the costs was
• made, which, not being complied with, the plaintiff
was arrested for contempt, under a warrant from
the Court of Review, and lodged in the Fleet prison.
Here he remained for some years, and as it appeared in
evidence, was in a very destitute condition, having
scarcely food or bedding. In the year 1838, a Mr. Briggs
who had formerly known Mr. Green, visited the prison,
and finding him in a destitute condition, applied to Mr.
Trickett, a salesman in Covent Garden, who assisted
Mr. Green, and advanced 1001. in order that he might
be liberated. Mr. Briggs twice took the money to Mr.
Tomline, the London agent for Mr. Elgie, and between
whom and Mr. Green there would appear to be a per-
sonal enmity. Mr. Tomline would not take the money,
alleging that he should write to his principal, and that
he did not know the amount of costs, and so Mr. Greene
continued in prison, till the 10th of February, 1841, when
he was liberated, in consequence of an application made
or that purpose, on the ground of an informality in the
warrant of committal, and which application was op-
posed by Mr. Tornlinc. The present action was, there-
fore, brought; to recover damages for the committal
ander this warrant, which his Lordship held to be void.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted, that there was
no evidence against Elgie, in which his Lordship having
concurred, the jury found in his favour.
Mr. PLATT having addressed the jury for Mr. Tom-
line, his Lordship summed up, when the jury brought
in a verdict against Mr. Tomlin°, to the amount of
130 L, subject to an objection taken by Mr. Platt, as to
the warrant being void or not.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. - .
GLOBE.—The origin and policy of the war in Affghas
nistan was brought before the House of CoMmons last
;fight, pursuant to notice, by Mr. H. J. Baillie, who
moved for the production of certain correspondence of
the Governor-General of India—firstly, with the late Sir
A. Burnes, during the mission of the latter to Caubul
in 1837 and 1838 ; and, secondly, with the President
•of the India Board, and with the Secret Committee of
the East India Company, touching the expedition to
•Afikkanistan. Under this form an attack was made
upon Lord Auckland and the late Government. - The
debate derives its importance from the deep interest
which is felt in this country respecting the causes and
consequences of a war which eommenced with successes
that added new glories to our arms, and was supposed
to have terminated in strengthening our relations with
.he native powers in India ; but which has disap-
pointed hopes reasonably cherished, and been- attended
in its renewal by reverses and disasters that have had
few parallels in our history. These disasterseemed to
promise success to an attack on the Government
which directed the expedition to be undertaken. With
what success the debate will shew. Seldom have reckless
partizans met with so signal a defeat. The originator
of the discussion would fain have avoided the division
which was to exhibit the utter absence of sympathy felt
by the House with the opinions he expressed, and the
statements by which he sought to confirm them. The
lion. Member professed to seek information he as-
sumed- the papers he moved for would afford ; but
launched assertions and arguments, as though the facts
were established, and the condemnation he pronounced
was just.fied by incontrovertible evidence. The points
the Hon. Member endeavoured to establish, by the
lengthy speech with which he prefaced his motion,
were; that the occupation of Afghanistan was a great
political mistake—an opinion which he considered was
egenerally entertained by all parties in the country ; and
that the disasters which had befallen us had also inspired
a general sentiment, that it would be Ivelf if the British
troops were permitted to evacuate the country without
greatly lowering the national character by ftirther de-
-eats. The Hon. Member, however, admitted that there
was no alternative but to prosecute the war with vigour;
as the only means of maintaining our honour and repu-
tation, anct thus to preserve our Indian empire.
STANDARD.—In the House of Commons last fright
Mr. O'Connell reported from the Belfast Inquiry Com-
mittee a request that the parties interested should be
allowed to appoint agents, to be paid of course bp the
public. Mr. Shaw supported the application, but Sir
Robert Peel thought it better to leave the matter to the
discretion of the Committee, which might inform itself of
the proper course by reference to such precedents as those
of the Stafford and Yarmouth Committees. The appli-
cation was in consequence withdrawn. Sir R. Peel's
seasonable interposition has, we suspect, arrested a very
pretty current of jobs, flowing not only from Belfast,
but from all the other places that have given occasion
for inquiries. It would be an extremely convenient thing
to have the Opportunity of paying handsom ly from the
Treasury a favourite solicitor, and bringing to London,
at the public cost, a few scores of friends and par-
tisans in the character of witnesses—and this, too, tin-
der circumstances that would not permit an ill
na,,ured decision .of " frivolous and vexatious to
balk the applicants for public money. Lord John
Russell has foreseen the nice jobbing for which-corn-
mittess like that of Belfast open the door, and haS ac-
upon the
cordingly provided a correction by throwing