The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-20 00:00:00

No. 16,645. LONDON, SATURDAY 0 SUN, DECEMBER 1845, PRICE SD.

ROYAL I'OL I".rEt;HN iN 711.1TUT1.02,
A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES,
and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article,of Food, will
be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the
Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine.
Professor Pachoffner's varied Lectures, with expyriments,, in one
of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC
RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Downe, the
celebrated Flutist, will perf,;rm, at Three o'Clock, on Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays. 2olcman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO-
MOTIVE ENGINE, for ri.3:entling and descending inclined Planes.
A beantifnl series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN-
STRU %JENTS, Sac. Experiments with the 'JIVER and DIVING
BELL, &c &c,
Admission, One Shilling. Schools, /Self-price.

Ai R. CARTER'S MAMMOTH lIORSE.
AL The colossal Horse, GENERAL WASHINGTON, the pro-
perty of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, has been visited by many thou-
sand persons, including the obility and gentry, and numerous ladies,
who have declared that he is the most extraordinary horse in the
world. The principal journals have spoken in the highest terms of
this remarkable animal General Washington is the largest horse in
the world- he is twenty hands in height, and weighs twenty-five
hundred pounds.
He will be exhibited by Mr. Carter for a short time, previous to
his departure to America, at the Egyptian Mall, Piccadilly, from
Eleven, a.m., till Nine, ?AL—Admission, Is.

NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., Chairman.
The Directors, Members, and Friends of this Society will DINE
together at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street Within, on
TUESDAY, the 30th of Decemb,.r, 1845, at Five o'Clock precisely.
Tickets, One Guinea.
STEWARDS.
Messrs. Midlane, H.
Milledge, R. 0.
Newbon, J. S.
Reed, T,
Ridley, A.
Ridley, R.
Roberts, T.
Rumcey, W. S.
Satchel!, T. H.
Smith, W. IL"
Starr, F.
Stockdale, G.
Stokes, J.
Sutton, T. P.
Tilt, W.
Toleman, J.
Watch, J.
Williams. W.
Wilson, C.
Wood, F. G.

Messrs. Aders, J.
Bally, A. H.
Barrett, J.
Bligh, F. J.
Brankston, T.
Brooks, J. W.
Carter, J. D.
Child, 11. M. -
Crampton, T. IL
Crease, 0.
Curley. J. R.
Eng!efield, J.
Evans, J. L.
Godshall,
Goodall, M.
Hewitt, G.
Hicks, M.
liodgkinson, W. S.
Jones, S.
Loder, It.
li'Culloch, W.
Tickets may be had at the Lora
at the Office, Arthur-street West, 1

;don Tavern ; of the Stewards ; or
London-bridge.

NTATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR,
ANC?' SOCIETY,
26. colonin,L, LON-Dahi.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important arm suestantial advan
Dive •vith respect both to Life A9SUrliTiCeB and Deferred Annuities.
The ass fired has, on all occasions, the power to borr 3W, WitkUtlt ex-
pense Jr forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see tahe); aleo the option of selecting benefits. and the conversion
of hi i:Aerosts to meet other convatiences or necessity. Assurances
for terns of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PitOFIT4.
The sseeess and increasing prosperity of I,c. Soctei:y nes enables
the erectors, at the last aoeual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, oaring torn :du to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each. Policy etlected on the Profit scale.

i . .l . C'l 4
Li P. .9 t. 4co
ri), - „7 Bonus Benas in ''P 5 t ~., it-, to
go Premium. - B -
py : !... ; added.- Cash. it g g..64tt ck
1 „
1 0: ; mom4
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1837 X 1 1 51.87 13 51£1317 1 X 395 Il 1
1 -- 3 -
60 1000 74 3 4 1838 165 13 0 74 13 101 11 8 6 346 2 3
1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
1840 89 0 0 41 13 4) 6 0 I 247 4

T of protit4 is annual, and the nest will be made in 1)e.
tens •er of the present year.

F. FERGINON CAVROUX,

THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS AND
GENERAL LIFE AND
Instituted
R 7.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 3 Vie., c. 20.
62, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, LONDON ;
21, ST. DAVID-STREET, EDINBURGH ; and
4, KING-STREET, QUT.EN-SQUARE, BRISTOL.
Capital—One Million.

TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS.
George Bousfield, Esq. Charles Ilindley, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman Thomas Piper, Esq.
Peter Mils, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq.
Jacob G. Cope, Esq. Edward Smith, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq. Mon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P.
Joseph Fletcher, Esq. John Wilks, Esq.
Richard bonier, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq.
On the return of the Christmas quarter, the Directors beg to re-
mind their friends and the public that, iu the Fire Department they
receive risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School-rooms,
Mills, Goods, and Shipping in Docks, Farming Stock, &c.. at the same
reduced rates as other respectable Companies, and make no charge on
policies transferred from other Offices.
In the Life Department they continue to transact all business re-
lating to Life Assurances, Annuities, and Family Endowments, upon
the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and public
security.
Loans also are granted on equitable terms to life assurers on life
interests or satisfactory personal securities. To all agents and soli-
citors, auctioneers, and surveyors, liberal allowance will he made.
By order of the Directors,
THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post
office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN LABOUCIIE RE, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
John W. Buckle, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
John Harvey-, Esq. James Morrl Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. Henry IL Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
AUDITORS.
A. W. Robarts, Esq - Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
I
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
in the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June
1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an
average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly
equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842.
On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added
to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to
about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those
seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three
Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001.
Loans granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies all have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
Is the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the 4th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies
which hail been in force seven years at Christmas 1844, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),
between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office; and
also by the Agents in the Country Districts.
Notice is hereby given, that as,atranees which expire at Christmas
must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams,
1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall; or with the Company's
agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they becom void.
GEORGE KEYS,e Sesretary.

IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT lIALF-PRICE.
el ARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand,
J beg to announce that they intend mating extensive alterations
in their establishment, awl, in consequence, are compelled to dispose
of a large portioa of their immense and excellent stock of lamps.
The stock consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Camel Oil Lamp
(the best oil lamp aver made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps.
Young's Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle
Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut
Lnstres ; Pahner's Magnum Candle Lamp., and every description of
Pshner's and Clark's Candle Limps that can be required. In fact,
teir immense variety providcs a choice for all, and gives all satisfac-
ana. The whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges.
The reduction in prices continence Tuesday, 16th December, and
will only continue one month, or perhaps less.
Please write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND,
the Immense Lamp Depot.

RANDY AND CAPSULES.-Mr, BETTS
(the late firm of J. T. BETTS% and CO.), Patent Brandy
Distiller, 7, Smithfield Bars, feels it due to himself and the public to
state, that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDT was not,
and never has been knowa to any person except to himself and one
of his sons. And that ho wits succeeded in the business of the Dis-
tillery, 7, Smithfield Mars, by his sons, J. T. BBTTS, jun., and CO.,
on his retiring therefrom, in 1843.
Mr. BETTS further states, that ha is the sole Patentee, manufac-
turer, and ♦eadcrr of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering
for the mouths of bottles), that no other Brandy in England, except
BETTS'S PA [TNT BRANDY, is thereby protected; the Patent
Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must
have been surreptitiously obtained.
3fetallie Capsule Manufactury, 1, Wharf-road, City-road.

BETTS'S PATENT BRAN DY,certified by the
Faculty of England to be the purest spirit, and guaranteed
by the Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy,
7, Smithfleld-bars," is sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most
respectable dealers, lists of whom nagy be obtained at the Distillery,
where quantities of not less titan two gallons, in bulk or bottles, are
supplied. Address, 7, Smithileld-bars.

FOIL STOPPING DECAYED TEETH
Price 2,. 6d.

Patronised by her 3fajesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
R. THOMAS'S SUCCEDANEUM for
stopping decayed Teeth, however large the cavity. is
placed in the tooth without any pressure or pain, and will remain
firm It the tooth tier many years, rendering extraction unnecessary,
arresting the further progress of decay. All persons can use Mr.
Thomas's Succeduneum themselves with vase, as full directions are
inclosed. Price 25. Cd.
Sold by Savory, 220, Regent street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ;
Butler, 4, elicapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Johnson, 6s, Cornhill ;
Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; and all meilicine. venders.
Mr. Thomas continues to supply the loss of teeth upon his new
system of self-adhesion, without springs or wires. This method
does not require the extraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful
operation whatever.
Mr. Thomas, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Perners-street, Oxford-street.

PUBLICATIONS.

BY ORDER of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the
ADMIRALTY.
This day is published, Bvo., ss._,
friHE NAUTICAL ALMANAC 'for 1849,
containing, in addition to the usual matter, an Ephemeris of
C;anibart's Comet, now visible, and extended Ephemerides of the
Minor Planets.
" TIIE 'NAUTICAL ALMANAC" for 1845, 46, and 47, may still

be had.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

T' QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLIII.,
will be published on WEDNESDAY NEXT.

. . .
I. LORD CAMPBELL'S LIVES of the CHANCELLORS.
11. LITERATURE, of the EGYPTIAN MONASTERIES.
111. HIGHLAND SPORT.'
IV. ARAGO and BROUGHAM on CAVENDISH.
V. LETTERS of MARY'QUEEN of scars.
VL.HUMBOLDT'S KOSMOS.
VII. TOWNSEND'S HISTORY of the HOUSE of COMMONS—
PRIVILEGE.
VIII. MALE DEBTS ACT.
IX. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS of SCOTLAND.
X. WALPOLE'S MEMOrRS of GEORGE 111.
XI. MINISTERIAL RESIGNATIONS.

John, Murray, Albemarle-street,

NEW WORKS to be PUBLISHED THIS
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Lord CAMPBELL'S LORD CHANCELLORS,
,With Portrait and Maps, Bvo.,
Sir JOHN BARROW'S ARCTIC VOYAGES.
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MURCHISON'S GEOLOGY of
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•
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Tile NAVAL LIFE and SERVICES' of ADMIRAL SIR PHILIP

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GIBBON'S ROMAN EMPIRE. By MILMAN.
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DR.CU LVERWELI. ON MARRIAGE,
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OPENING OF THE
,PORTS.
GREAT FREE-TRADE Dkm ItgIhaiTRATION IN
HULL?
(Abridged from the Hull Advertiser.)
A meeting of the merchants, shipowners, traders, and
ether inhabitants of the town of Hull, convened by the
Mayor in pursuance of a requisition, to which was at-
tached the signatures of 136 of the most respectable and
influential residents of the borough, was held at the
Town-hall on Monday last, for the purpose of praying
her Majesty to be pleased to order the ports to be thrown,
open fer the importation of food. The meeting, which
was most numerously and respectably attended, was pre-
sided over by John Gresham, Esq., the Mayor.
The first resolution was proposed by Mr. Alderman
THO3IPSON, and having been seconded by the Rev. J. H.
BROMBY, Vicar of Hull, was unanimously adopted. It
was to the effect that the meeting viewed with serious
alarm the failure of the crops, and that it consequently
became the duty of the Government to adopt every means
for the prevention of the evil results likely to arise
from it.
Dr. GORDON moved a resolution to the effect that
dearth and scarcity of food diminished employment, en-
gendered disease, and increased crime among the work-
ing classes, which was seconded by the Rev. M. SIBREE,
and carried amidst loud cheers.
The next resolution, advocating the opening of the
ports by an Order in Council, to be followed by an Act
of the Legislature permitting the free importation of
human food, was moved by Mr. Alderman ATaxelsoN,
and seconded by Mr. Councillor SessessoN, and carried
with acclamation.
Hexer BLUNDELL, Esq., moved that a loyal and
dutiful address be presented to her Majesty, imploring
her to permit the ports to be thrown open, and to cause
the immediate assembling of Parliament, for the pur-
pose of abolishing ali restrictive duties on the imports-
time of food. The motion was seconded by J. JONES,
Esq., the ex-Mayor, and carried nein. con.
E. F. COLLINS, Esq. (Editor of the Hull Advertiser),
proposed the adoption of the following memorial:—
" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" Most Gracious Sovereign,
" We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
inhabitants of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in
public meeting assembled, viewing with serious alarm
the state in which this country is placed by the general
failure of the potato crop, which constitutes the prin-
cipal food of several millions of the working classes in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the proved deterioration of all descriptions of grain, and
being apprehensive that the scarcity and dearness of all
description of food produced in these islands will cause
an imminent amount of suffering among the poorer
classes of your Majesty's people before the ensuing
harvest, most ;humbly approach your Majesty, as the
fountain of justice and the hope of your people, in this
their seasoe of imminent peril. We would most humbly
but most earnestly remind your Majesty that dearth and
scarcity of food are proved by the experience of the past
to diminish employment, to render property insecure, to
excite discontent, to engender disease, to increase crime
among the labouring classes. We, therefore, most
humbly pray your Majesty to suspend, by the merciful
exercise of your Majesty's royal prerogative, the
operation of the corn-laws, by commanding the ports of
the United Kingdom to be thrown open for the impor-
tation of all descriptions of food, free of duty, and by
summoning Parliament together for the immediate
repeal of those laws, and fur the removal of all legal re-
strictions upon the free importation of food for the sus-
tenance of all classes of your loyal subjects."
The Rev. JAMES ACPINALL, Rector of Althorpe, Lin-
colnshire, on rising to second the motion, was received
with tremendous chering, which lasted several minutes.
After the applause had subsided, he proceeded to say—
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, these are eventful and im-
portant times. The breaking up of the late Ministry—
(Cheers)—l never used the word late with so much
pleasure before—cannot fail to precipitate a crisis in
which all our watchfulness and all our exertions will be
required, that we may neither be baffled by open
enemies, nor over-reached by false friends who may
desert to us from the hostile camp. I rejoice, therefore,
to see this meeting. The struggle with monopoly is not
over, whether Sir Robert Peel is meditating treason to
it, or is only dreaming of once more modifying it to a
less repulsive form. In either case it is only scotched,
not killed. But I do not believe the rumours which give
him to us as a total repealer, and claim for him the
honour of martyrdom. I regard them as inventions
cunningly devised, and industriously circulated by the
enemy to throw you off your guard, and so lull you into
security and consequent inactivity. I am glad, then, to
find that you are not the sort of birds to be caught by
such chaff.—(Cheers and laughter.) For my part, I am
here to-day from the conviction that, when distress be-
gins in Lancashire, prosperity will not abide very long in
Lincolnshire, and that when the profits of cotton fall off,
the interests of corn will be greatly damaged. In short,
as an agriculturist, I am always most anxious to see
the masses in the trading and manufacturing districts
obtain " a fair day's work " to make the hungry,
and " a lair day's wages " wherewithal to buy the
food which we supply. But it will, perhaps, be as well if
I commence my remarks to you with briefly stating the
results, as far a's they can be yet ascertained, of the
harvest and potato crop in our part of the country. With
regard to the former, that is, the wheat harvest, although
much inferior to that of last year which, if I may so say,
was next door to a miracle, it is but little below an
:average, and small complaints would have been heard
about it but for the sad and awful failure of the potato
crop. On this point, I am sorry to say, exaggeration s
almost impossible. But what is, perhaps, the worst
feature of all, and must tell tremendously before another
harvest is, that we have the phenomenon of low prices,
encouraging consumption, with an ascertained scarcity,
the farmers bring anxious to sell, at any price, such part
of their produce as they dare not risk the keeping of for
fear of the disease reaching it. I need hardly observe
that the result of these things must create a gap in the
food of the country which it will be quite im-
possible for the produce of the wheat harvest to
supply, and which must, therefore, help to accelerate
the approach of that crisis under the fear of which we
are here assembled. But, before I go further into the
subject, I have a little scolding and grumbling and some
of our friends to get over, in which, I hope, when you
hear the purport of it, you will heartily join me. The
country has had. a bitter lesson during the last few
weeks. I trust that it may be a salutary one. Before
that period darkened in upon us, it had become the
fashion of many speakers and writers on our side of the
question to be constantly telling us that Sir Robert Peel
was an excellent free-trader, and would, in time, do
everything for us. For myself, I must say that I always
considered such persons to be very original eulogists of
the late Premier ; for their compliment to him, when
translated into plain English, could mean nothing else
but that they regarded turn as the veritable and amiable
snake warmed and cherished in the bosom of monopoly
only to sting it to death.—(Loud cheers.) Now, I do not
think that this strange trust in Sir Robert Peel has yet
affected the self-reliance or diminished 'the efforts and
energies of any of the free- trade party. But its ten-
dency, if persevered in, would be to produce such an
effect. You may depend upon it that any seeming bias
which you may ever have perceived in him towards your
principles has been the result of your selfrelisnce.
But if you ever go to sleep, anti allow it to be the substi-
tute for it, it will become " fine by degrees and beauti-
fully less," until it altogether vanishes from your view ;
that is, if the monopolists had brought the greatest
pressure to bear upon the late Minister, he would, I verily
believe, have remained with the monopolists ; but, as it
happened that the free-traders produced this greatest
pressure, he has come over to free trade, or to some
approximation towards it, of which we do not know the
exact degree yet.—(Cheers.) You will probably recol-
lect in your miscellaneous reading to have met with an
account of an elderly gentleman, Mr. Bold, who once, as
he returned a young lady's glove, which she had acci-
dentally dropped, thus tenderly addressed her—
"lf from glove you take the letter G,
You make it love—that's what 1 feel for thee ;"
to which this sad rejoinder instantly came forth—
" And if from bold you take the letter B,
You'd make it old, and that won't do for me."
And I would try it a third time, and put it—
" And if from Peel you take the letter P,
You make it eel, and that's too slippery for nee."
That is, I have not yet admitted him into my Book of
Martyrs.—(Renewed laughter.) But then comes the
question, which has often been asked of the good-natured
people of whom I speak—" Are you not satisfied with
what Sir Robert Peel has done for trade ? Did he not
take the duties off four hundred and thirty articlee all at
once at the beginning of this very year?" To be sure
he did. But it must be recollected, that if (to use a
commercial phrase) he is a free-trader in the sample, he
is, or was very lately-, still a monopolist in the bulk.
He abandoned, it is true, four hundred and thirty poor,
innocent, pigmy monopolies, which nobody felt, and
which nobody, therefore, complained about, but he still
upheld the two giants, the Goy, and Magog of monopoly,
sugar and corn—(Loud cheers)—in all the immensity of
their oppressive weight. But enough of this. I will
only ask, in connexion with it, have we not leaders of
our own, without everlastingly coquetting with one who
has always shown himself to be, and, I believe, still is,
the most sagacious champion of monopoly ? Have we
not all the tried men of the League ?—(Loud cheers.)
Have we not Mr. ,Macaulay?—(Renewed cheering.)
line not a Morpeth just thrown in his time honoured
name to take his part and lot with us ?—(Tremendous
cheers.) And what other war-cry is that raised in the
forefront of the battle? It passes from mouth, and cheers
from mouth to mouth, and cheers us with the certainty
of success, as it tells that the hero of a hundred fights
and of a hundred victories in the political struggle has
I joined us, and unfurled the pure and unsullied banner
lof the house of Russell at our head. Let us, then, I say
again, place all our trust in self-reliance, union, and our
own exertions, and cast off altogether the foolish thought
of confiding in the abduction, by expediency, of Sir
Robert Peel, and his being compelled by the force of
circumstances to become the unwilling stepfather of free
trade.—(Cheers and laughter.) But I will now go on
to consider whether, through the gloom which is upon
us, we may not see brighter prospects yet iu store for
the country. And, first of all, let me fix your attention
on what I consider to be a very encouraging sign for
our cause. Its enemies have laid aside all their old
arguments against it. Not that they have got any better
or stronger instead of them, but the old ones are aban-
doned as no longer tenable. There is, for instance, the

newest of all—the ducal one, which says, " Never mind
corn, but stick to curry powder."—(Laughter.) Again,
at one of their meetings, not very long ago, it was urged
that no fault whatever rested •with the corn-laws, but
that much of obloquy and odium was brought upon
them bi the iniquitous bakers, who would charge such
enormills and unreasonable prices for their bread.—
(Cheers and laughter.) Fortunate bakers! that they do
not live in Constantinople, where the Turks cheapen
loaves by cutting off the bakers' ears, and, sometimes,
their heads.—(Renewed laughter.) Another mode of
endeavouring to keep monopoly out of sight is, for its
advocates to maintain a perpetual outcry on the subject
of the miseries of the working classes in the trading
and manufacturing districts. But as this has been al-
ready most expressively defined, by a leading organ of
Toryism itself, as " factious benevolence," I shall not
spoil the picture by adding one word of my own to it.
But the most extraordinary substitute for an argument
in behalf of monopoly which I have yet seen was one
which I met with a short time since in an agri-
cultural journal, in which it was urged that the
corn and sugar monopolies had just as good a
claim as the national debt upon the taxation of the
country, and that, consequently, to assail the former
was to threaten the latter with the sponge.
Never was a more absurd proposition put forth
by the simplicity of man.—(Hear, hear.) What is the
national debt ? It is the representative of money lent by
private individuals to the state, and, until the capital is
repaid, the interest must be regularly forthcoming to
those who, confiding in the national faith, have trusted
their money to the country instead of investing it in
other securities. Now, what claim have the monopolists
equal to this ? Have they lent any money to the
country ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") At what time
and to what amount ? When did the transaction take
place, and how was the sum borrowed expended by us ?
Until we know all these particulars, we shall demur to
the alleged debt, and continue to believe that our ideal
creditors have been oftener borrowers than lenders ;
more frequeretly receivers than givers.—(Hear, hear.)
But did you ohlreee the very revolutionary hint about the
sponge and the national debt in the argument of the cham-
pion of monopoly ? Really I was not prepared to ex-
pect anything se bad as this even in such a very unscru-
pulous quarter.—(Laughter.) My faith in Toryism, smelt
as it ever was, is now utterly gone. When the magistrate
turned over the exciseman to the tender mercies of the
infuriated mob, his measured hint against violence was
contained in the words, There is the pump, but on no
account put him under it." And what says the Tory
scribe in this instance ? " There stands the national
debt, and here is the sponge ; but be sure you do not let
the one come in contact with the other."—This is posi-
tively monstrous. What enormity Toryism may next
contemplate in its onward progress it is impossible even
to guess. All good citizens must be prepared to check
and counteract its revolutionary and anarchical tendencies.
Repeal the corn-laws, and you give a new lease of vi-
tality to the commerce and manufactures of the coun-
try, and render trade trade indeed, and no longer a
mere speculation. Repeal the corn-laws, and you make
the world the market of England, and England the
workshop of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Repeal the corn •
laws, amid you fill every sea with our ships, and every
land with our goods. Repeal the corn laws, and what I
look at most in the whole struggle, you will give labour
constant and steady employment, and se rescue it from
those periodical battlings with famine to which it is now
exposed as often as a failing harvest comes round, with,
first, stagnation, and then panic in its train.—(Loud
cheers.) Whatever the timid and impatient may say to
the contrary, I think that our cause is advancing steadily
and surely towards success. I point to all the little
nothintee and the almost as little somethings which the
late Ministers have grugdingly conceded to the principles
of free-trade, to their amended tariff, to their altered corn-
laws. These, be they ever so trifling in themselves, and,
as I said before, ever so unwillingly or ever so craftily
yielded, are still to be hailed as so many straws, so many
pilot balloons, sent up to try the current of public opinion,
and indicating that, whenever " the pressure from
without" shall be strong enough to insist, in the name of
the people of England, upon a repeal of the corn-laws,
the thing will be done, let who will hold sway in Down-
ing-street. But, while speaking of these things, let us
give praise to those to whom praise is due.—(Cheers.)
In all that the late Premier yielded to the demand for
free-trade, he did but feebly and poorly imitate the an-
nounced policy of the Ministers whom, in his struggle for
place and not for principle, he so treacherously drove out
for avowing those very tendencies to which he has since,
in part, given practical effect. This, I am aware, is a very
sore point both with Sir Robert Peel and his more im-
mediate followers. " Sir Robert adopts free-trade in
imitation of the Melbourne Administration ;" they in-
dignantly exclaim, "He was always a free•trader, and
his policy was his own, and borrowed from no one else."
Now, if it be correct that he was always a free-trader,
he must have kept the secret admirably for many years
of his life, so much so, indeed, that our merchants and
manufacturers have a right to put the question to him—
"'Tis true that, you say, you dissembled your love,
But why did you kick us down stairs?"—(Laughter.)
And then, again, as to the assertion that his policy was
his own; who doubts it? Du you? Do I? Does any-
body T—
" The golden hair that Galla wears
Is her's : who would have thought it?
She swears 'tie hers; and true she swears,
For I know where she bought it."
—(Laughter.) But, perhaps, it may be said that, al-
though the small concessions made by Sir Robert Peel
to the principle of free-trade, are, whatever may have
been his motive, good, so far as they go, still they are not
to be received as positive signs and symptoms that the
monopolists are prepared to abandon the corn-laws. Not
if they can help it, certainly. But you should know your
men better—you should know both them and your-
selves, both their strength and your strength, better. The
people of England will bear much and long. They are
a people little addicted to change, and only driven to it
by the most exasperating stimulants. But when once
they feel that right and justice are with them, and
their hearts are up and determined upon victory,
they will be more than a match for any Ministry
which, in the vicissitudes of the struggle upon which we
are entering, the monopolists may pick and cull to their
own satisfaction and pit against them. Up to a very recent
period all was well with us. The country was prosperous
and happy. Providence had overruled the blunders and
ignorance of men, and two bounteous harvests had coun-
teracted the mischievous working of class legislation. A
wise statesman would, like Joseph preparing in the
years of plenty for the years of famine, have taken ad-
vantage of such a period, and smoothed the way for the
next scarcity in our own crops, whenever there
should be a change of the seasons, and they
should leave the Ministerial benches to go into Opposi-
tion. But what was Sir Robert Peel doing all this time?
He was watching over the food monopoly until very
lately with careful tenderness, as if it were the proudest
monument of his legislative wisdom, and not only that,,,
but, as if anxious to "make hay while the sun shone,'
for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he crowned the ex-
periment upon John Bull's patience, good-nature, and
gullibility, with the pleasant addition of the income-
tax (Hear, hear) thus employing the time for
averting another commercial crisis in rendering a
commercial crisis more certain and inevitable than ever.
But what security had we for the continuance of this
state of things ? Was Sir Robert Peel regent over the
barometer ? Was he master of the seasons ? Could
he nail the weathercock in any particular quarter ?
Could he give up any guarantee for a farther series of
good harvests ?—(Cheers.) Not he. Well, then, what
followed ? Our prosperity being only a fair-weather
prosperity, we felt that we must abide the issue in fear
and trembling, as men who knew that the first short or
failing harvest would scatter all our delightful dreams
and golden prospects to the winds.—(Hear, hear.) When-
ever it comes, we said to ourselves, the averages will
begin to creep up, as they are doing now. Anxiously and
feverishly will they be watched from many a quarter of
the country. At last they will be dangerously high.
Then there will be a whisper in the Bank parlour warn-
ing the directors that it is time to bo preparing for the
coming storm. The country banks, taking the hint from
head-quarters, will catch the infection, and become
equally cautious. The accounts of their customers will be
searchingly looked into. "Pay up" will be the order of
the day. Money will be scarce; business will stagnate;
confidence and credit will depart. There will be a
smash, and a crash, far, wide, and sweeping, through
the trading and manufacturing districts. What of rail-
road shares then? what of them now, at only " the begin-
ning of the end?" But what of them then, when the
end itself is upon us? What of bank shares? What of
the shipping interest? What of business in all its branches,
when many a gallant bark of enterprise shall be engulfed
in the troubled waters on which it rode so gloriously
befere—(Loud cries of " Hem-, hear ")—and there shall
be more return bills than profits, and more bank-
ruptcies than successful speculations? There will be
broken fortunes and blasted hopes ; blighted prospects
and withered hearts ; there will be wee, and wailing,
and lamentation in the land ; there will be mills stopped,
and the industrious thrown out of work ; the ruin of the
employer will be starvation of the employed—(Hear)—
poverty and hunger will again raise their demon
front, and once more strew with shrieking victims
the path by which monopoly drags its triumphal
car to the Juggernaut of its idolatry.—Cheers.)l
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)
Then, perhaps, the Premier—yes, be he to
of Richmond or the Duke of Wellington himself—
th
will learn tardy and bitter wisdom ; and, feeling the
state vessel reeling and staggering beneath him, think
at last of lightening the shipe
weight of monopoly under which
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rific and whirlwind fury. I trust that they will say,
" Overboard it must go, even now, and the crew and cap-
tain with it." Aye, let the whole " organised hypocrisy"
go together. I am forgetting. It is gone, and, I trust,
never to return. We have a new pilot, as well as a new
policy.—(Cheers.) We have regained the advocates of free
institutions to he the advocates of free-trade. Let the
country uphold them in the good work ; let the country
raise its voice that it may be done now, while, compa-
ratively speaking, the calm lasts—before excitement again
occupies the place of judgment, and passion usurps the
throne of reason.—(llear, hear.) And for whose ad-
vantage is all that ruin of which I have spoken to
be perpetuated ? I disclaim all benefit to be derived
from it on the part of the lauded interest.—(Hear,
hear. I repudiate the very idea of the monopoly being

a gain to or a protection. Consumption is our best
protection.--(Loud cries of "Hear.") We must take care
of our customers if we want to take care of ourselves.
We cannot attract customers by cutting off their means.
We cannot empty their pockets, and expect still to get
rich by filling their mouths.—(Cheers.) The great
body of the landowners, however, still cling to their
fears as to the effect upon prices upon which the admis-
sion of foreign corn would produce in this country. I
believe them to be wrong. They think only of the increaser'.
supply, while they ought to set against it the increased ants
steady demand, the increased and steady consumption,
which the more trade of free-trade would create among
the working classes, by bringing about a state of things
when, as Dickens somewhere expresses it, dinner would
happily come round to them as regularly as dinner-
time.—(Cheers.) But supposing, for the sake of argu-
ment, that prices would not exactly maintain the height
at which they now range one year with another in this
country, the landowners should, as another item in their
cal'ulations, ask themselves, where and at what prices,
and, consequently, rents will be, when monopoly, if
long maintained, has ruined our best customers, the
manufacturing and trading population?—(Cries of
" Hear, hear.") Our chief object, as wise wen, should
be to consult and legislate for the prosperity of our cus-
tomers, and, in so doing, to. logili, if I may draw such a
distinction, not at first consciences, but final conse-
quences. To act otherwise, is to let the ship founder,
rather than save her, by incurring the cost of cutting
away the masts. It is to suffer your house to burn to
the ground without interruption, lest, if you should send
for the engines, they might, in extinguishing the flames,
injure your best bed, damp your Turkey carpet, or take
the shine out githe French polish of your drawing-room
furniture.—(lTud cheers.) But I withdraw the supposi-
tion that, under any circumstances, English agriculture
will suffer from free trade. I have every trust, as I said
before, in the increased consumption which it must bring
with it, and I have all faith in English agriculture itself.
Wit
iii the security of long leases—(Hear, hear)—with
the game thinned—(Cheers)—with practical science
dai y increasing, and with more labour brought to the
cultivation of the land, I feel confident that the British
farmer, as well as the British n ma afacturer, may safely
defy the competition of the wor d. But while we, with
our finite intellect, are endeavouring to calculate, to the
shadow of a fraction, the results of free-trade to our par-
ticular interest, a third party steps in and turns the scale
at once for us. It is eternal justice, and it rests its
appeal to us upon that golden precept, which is the
essence of all practical Christianity, and which teaches
us that "we should do unto others as we would that

others should do unto us." But I have done. From
what was once deemed to be an impossibility, our cause
has advanced, first of all, to possibility, then from pos-
sibility to probability, from probability to certainty, and
from one certainty to another, until the hour of its
triumph canna cow be far off—(Cheers.) It is true
that the fortress of monopoly still stands before us seem-
ingly in all its dark and gloomy strength. But fate no
longer frowns upon us from its its banners. Its towers
and all its bulwarks are undermined. Its defenders,
some from fear, some from shame, and some, let us
hope, from conviction, are gradually deserting its walls.
A few more strokes from the battering-ram of truth, and
all will sink into the dust together. Then will be the
real jubilee of mankind.—(Cheers.) Then will people
congratulate people, as the loud huzza spreads from land
to land, until it reaches the ends of the earth. " Mono-
poly is fallen, and trade is free." That would be, in-
deed, music for the million. 0! that the day may soon
be here, when it shall be chanted forth in a grand chorus
of all the nations of the world! "Monopoly is fallen,
and trade is free." After seconding the adoption of the
memorial, the Itev. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst
peals of applause, which were several times renewed.
The memorial was agreed to, and, after voting thanks
to the Mayor, the meeting separated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, p.—Cambridge and Lincoln, 17g p.
—Clydesdale Junction, 12:p.—Derby and Crewe, 2 p.—Fleet-
wood and West Riding, par—Grand Junction, 236—Ditte,
Quarter Shares, 33 p.—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32',
London and Birmingham, 210—Manchester, and Leeds,
Fifth Shares, 10 p.—Matlock`: and Midland, 13/1 p.—North
Eastern, par—North Western, 1% p.—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 4 p.—Shrewsbury and Here-
fordshire, 23. 6d.—Sothh-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated
Thirds, Half Shares, IA p.—Welsh Midland, 1,4 dis.—West
Riding Union, 34.,p...--_-yaris and Lyons (Latlitte), Is. 6d. p.

lANCHESTER:DEc.- I B.
STOCK EXCTIINGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 42s.—Manchester and Birmingham, 70%—Preston
and Wyre, 31—Sheffield and Manchester, 53‘ c..

LEEDS, Dxc. 18.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds
Fifth Shares, 9Y's p.—Midland, 141—Leeds and Bradford.
18—Ditto, Extensions, 18—North British, New Carlisle
Branch, 214—London and York, 33%—Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 31. 15s. 6d.—Direet Northern, I%—Buckinghamshire
(late Rugby), 2s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 2s. 6d. dis.—Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, par—Leeds and York, 105. dis.
—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 335. p.—
Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.—North
Western, 214—Wakefield and Harrogate, 2s. 6d. dis.
HULL, DEC. 18.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Hull and Selby
(10 per cent. guaranteed), 100—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 334—North British, 22—Ditto,
Carlisle, 2—Ditto, Dalkeith, 63,4—Dudley, 3ladely, and Iron
Bridge, 375. 6d.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 475.
Leicester and Bedford, 27s.—London and York, 33A—Notting-
ham and Erewash, ice., 21, —Tean and Dove Valley, 1%.

BRISTOL, DEC. 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter.
New, 6—Bristol and South Wales Junction, 2%—Slidland,
New, 241,--South Devon, 26—Vale of Neath, 3%.