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1.7. to the NEW ZEALAND COMPANY, to sail as un-
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PIHEBE, 471 Tons, from London, 15th November.

Fo: turther particulars, apply at the New Zealand House,
Broad-street Buildings ; or, to Mr. J. Stayner, Broker, 110,
Fenchurch-street.

ONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
On and arter the Ist November next the Nine o'Clock
A.at. Train from Brighton, and the Day Mail Train will con-
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Stations. The latter Train will leave Brighton at Ilh. 30m.,
Instead r,f 11 o'clock, and will perform the journey to London
in two hours. Passengers are now set down and taken up at
Merstham by all the Trains —By Order,
CHARLES R. MACKENZIE, Sec.
10, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Oct. 25, 1842.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AsSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
OFFICE, 49. PARLIAMENT-STREET,
WESTMINSTER.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, Esq.
WILLIAM CABELL, Esq.
THOMAS SO. ERS COCKS, jun., Esq.
GEORGE HENRY DREW, Esq.
WILLIAM EVANS, Esq.
WILLIAM FREEMAN, Esq.
FRANCIS FULLER, Esq.
JAMES HUNT, EFq.
JOHN.ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq.

EDMUND LUCAS. Esq.
GEORGE HENRY POLLOCK, Esq.
JOHN BAZLEY WHITE, Esq.
J. CARTER WOOD, Esq.
HENRY WRENCH. Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH, and CO., Charing-cross.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. BICKNELL and LETHBRIDGE, Abingdon-street,
Westminster.
Perfect security combined with moderate rates.
The assurance of a CERTAIN BONUS.
The allowance of HALF the ANNUAL PREMIUM to
remain unpaid for SEVEN YEARS. and TEMPORARY
LOANS to the ASSURED on available security.
EDWARD T. RICHARDSON, Secretary.

EUROPEAN LIFE INSURANCE COM-
PANY.

No. 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.
Established January, 1819.
PaesinENT—Sir JAMES RIVETT CARNAC, Bart.,
Rook Cliff, Lymington.
Vice-PRESIDENT.—GEORGE FORBES, Esq., 9, Fitzroy-
square. With Twelve Directors.
Facilities are offered by this long-established Society to suit
the views and the means of every class of insurers. Premiutns
are received yearly, half.yearly, or quarterly—or upon an in-
creasing or decreasing scale.
The insured for life participate septennially in the profits
realised.
A liberal commission is allowed to solicitors and agents.
DAVID FOGGO, Sec.
N.B.—Agents are wanted in towns where none have yet
been appointed.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY, Empowereu by Act of Parliament.
Adelaide-place, London-bridge., No. 444, West Strand,
No. 11, Queen-street, Edin- No. 30, Oldham-street, Man-
burgh, Chester, and
Wason's-buildings, Liverpool.
The Company transact business in every Department of Life
and Fire Insurance, in Annuities, Reversions, and Loans.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
J. T. CLEMENT, Esq., Actuary.
A sum far more than equal to the value of the Policies is in-
vested in the public securities, in the names of the Trustees, so
as to be at all times available.

At the last quinquennial meeting there was added a banns to
the Life Policies equal to twenty-five per cent. on the sums
paid, and a bonus of five per cent. was added to the Shares in
addition to the payment of the annual ritcrest.
For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a spe-
cific sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table, at lower
rates, has been calculated, on which, as well as on the partici-
pating scale, ONE-HALF THE PREMIUM MAY RE-
MAIN ON INTEREST AT FIVE PER CENT. FOR
FIVE YEARS, thus enabling a person to assure his life for
1,0001. on the i rnmediate payment of the premium for 5001. only.

The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of
100/., for the whole life, one-half of which may remain for
five years by merely paying the interest annually at five per
cent., and should the policy become a claim in the interim the
amount due will then be deducted :

Age 20, without profits £1 13
30
40.
50

0 with profits £1 IS 0
6
3
4

nr short periods the premiums are considerably lower, and
forany ages or contingencies not usually advertised, information
may be obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The Company insure Houses, Furniture, Stock in Trade,
Farming Stock, and every description'of Personal Property,
against loss or damage by Fire.
*,* The Directors beg to remind their friends, whose Pre-
miums become due at Nlichaelmas, that no extra charge is made
at this Office for the Transfer of Policies, and that they will be
rated on terms peculiarly favourable to parties insuring.
Ir surances may be effected for any period of time ; if for
SEVEN years, the Premium and Duty will only be charged
for SIX. W. T. FA *CETT, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,

8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mil, London.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG, THE ASSURED.

HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
Earl of Errol Earl of Stair
Earl of Courtown Earl Somers
Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Falkland
Earl of Norbury Lord Elphinstone
Lord Belhaven and Stenton

DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
11. DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq.
Hamilton Blair Avarne, Charles Graham, Esq.
Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq.
Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident William Heaton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., As- John Ritchie, Esq.
sistant Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq.
SEC It ETA KY.—Patrick Macintyre, Esq.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords
the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in
the great success which has attended it, since it, commence-
ment in 1534.
In IS4I the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added D. per
Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy.
£1,000... 6 Year:. 10 Months £136 13 4
1,000 4 Years lie 0 0
1,000 3 Years
1,000 1 Year
Every information will be afforded on application to the
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Halo Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

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They are used for all Gouty and Rheumatic symptoms, under
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1. 'Mr. Erasmus Wilson's New Synopsis of Skin Diseases—
. Dr. Todd's Clinical Llustrations of the Proper Diagnosis
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Source of Disease in the Lungs-5. Dr. Golding Bird on
Death from Glandular Pressure on the Bronchus-6. Dr.
Martin Barry on the Creation of Muscle at its Finot Moment
(with Engravings of the Process)-7. Dr. Turnbull on his
New Treatment of the Eye and Deafness-8. Dr. It. Lee on
the Newly-discovered Nerves of the Uterus-9. Dr. F. Dun-
can on the Treatment of Measles in Workhouses-10. Experi-
ments on the Cure of Sore Nipples-11. The best Process
for Removing Superfluous Flair—Twins, born in England,
like the .Sian,ese (with Engravings;-13. Mr. Guthrie's Ac-
mint of Himself to his unfortunate Pupils-14. Mr. Cooper's
Key to the Army Herbarium at Chatham-15. The Use of
Debating Societies to Students—ld. Editorial Remarks on
the Total Abs, ce if Rewards for Merit in the Medical Pro-
fession-17. And on Mr. Payne, the Coroner-18. And on
the Quackery at Dudley-19. Medical News, &c.
J. Churchill, Lancet-office, 46, Ptinces.street, Leicester-
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THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE;
1 Containing :—Summary of the Statutory Enactments of
the last Session of Parliament., held 5 and 6 Vict. 1842 ' • with
the Cases (hitherto published) decided in the Courts at West-
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SIIEERNESS.—A SAVING Wm.—A few days
since Mrs. Lowe, wife of Mr. Lowe, of this place,
died of a lingering disease. After her death, Lowe,
with fie assistance of a confidential neighhcur and
friend, a female, proceeded to look over his deceased
wife's wearing apparel, with a view of making a dis-
tribution of them among some of her relations, when
to his utter astonishment he found secreted in various
drawers upwards of 6001., of which he was altogether
ignorant; in one place he found 3601. in gold, in
another fifteen 51. notes, and in a third place a hoard
of various kinds of money, making,, as we have before
said, upwards of 6001. Mr. Lowe 's occupation was
formnly that of a warden in the Dock-yard, a rather
humble station, but he has for several years past been
superannuated on a very small income. The de-
ceased was a woman of very frugal habits, and must
have commenced saving money many years ago.—
Kent Herald.

GREAT MEETING OF THE ANTI-
CORN-LAW LEAGUE.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAT MORNING.—The meeting
of the League last evening was one of the largest and
• most enthusiastic that has assembled in Manchester
since the recommencement of the agitation. It was
held in the Picture Gallery, .Newall's-buildings.
George Wilson, Esq., took the chair, and oa his right
were seated Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. for Stock-
port, and Richard Walker, Esq., M.P. for Bury.
Dr. Bowring, .M.P. for Bolttm, and Mark Philips,
Esq., M.P. for Manchester, and George Thompson,
Esq., sat on the left of the Chairman. Amongst the
company present were :—Alderman Walker, Alder-
man Brooks, William Rawson, Esq., Henry Rawson,
Esq., William Lockett, Esq., Charles Cobden, Esq.,
T. Woolley, Esq., J. Corry, Esq., and Samuel Lees,
Esq. There were a great number of ladies present.
Richard Walker, Esq., and Dr. Bowring, had beea
specially invited for the occasion, and
The CHAI4MAN opened the proceedings b% intro-
ducing the former gentleman to the meeting.
RICHARD WALKER, Esq., M.P., then came forward
and was loudly applauded. Ht said.—Mr. Chairman,
ladies, and gentlemen—lf r felt convinced that I had
ability sufficient to discuss this question—and I con-
fess 1 have not, for I am rather accastomed, in the
House of Commons, to give silent votes than make
bad speeehes(Applause)—l should labour under
some embarrassment ; bait, knowing that I have no
new argument to advance, I only bring with me one
recommendation, which is that of 'a fixed determina-
tion to co-operate with the Anti-Comalaw League in
effort which they may choose to make
for the purpose of removing from our statute-book
that most obnoxious law, which is repugnant to every
sound principle of commercial legislation, opposed to
common sense, fraught with injustice, and, I believe
in my heart, detrimental to every class in the com-
munity.—(Applause.) You have, within your own
precincts, a power of eloquence so commanding,
that it is quite unnecessary for.' me at any length to
dilate upon this question. It is better understood by
you than by myself. I am quite confident of that ;
but, at the same time, knowing that your treasury is
so full of facts that cannot be refuted, that my mite
can scarcely be acceptable, yet I hope you will be
convinced, by my ready acceptance of your invita-
tion, with which I felt myself greatly honoured, that
I am ready to bear my share of the obloquy that may
attach to the League, which is endeavoured to be
cast upon them, I trust unayctlingly, by those who
are in the interest of monopoly.—(Applause.) Before
I go into the state of our own districts, I will just
advert to a correspondence which has lately taken
place between one of your lecturers and a Noble
Duke.—(Hear, hear.) I know that Noble Duke to
be a very honourable and straightforward person ;
and I believe he only states what he believes to be
true. He is, however, in my opinion, greatly mis-
taken in the view which he takes of this question ;
and I think when the people are well instructed, the
people of this country will unite as one man in con-
demnation of this law, both in its spirit and its ten-
dency, in its principles and its details.—(Applause.)
The Noble Duke is a Legislator, and consequently a
public man ; therefore we cannot be indifferent to
the votes which he gives in his, place in Parliament,
nor to the opinions which guide his votes; but I be-
lieve him to be very much mistaken upon this ques-
tion, and he will find, ere long, that the people will
arouse from their lethargy, and will endeavour to
erase from the statute book a law which was passed
by partial legislators for their own benefit, to the
detriment of every other class.—(Applause,) Now,
ladies and gentlemen, I will endeavour to state to
you what is the position in which our unhappy
manufacturing district is placed at present. We have
seen, within the last five years, that our trade has
greatly declined; the capital of our merchants and
manufacturers has been daily diminishing; the people
ere half-fed and half-employed; the Poor-rates in our
manufacturing towns• have increased three or four
fold—(Hear, hear)—Our workhotises are crowded
with inmates—(lfear, hear)—the savings of the frugal,
and industrious, which were intended to supply the
wants of old age, are exhausted to supply the pressing
wants of the day. The polished furniture of our arti-
sans is exchanged for food, or distrained for rent to
their landlords ; their decent Sunday clothing in the
pawnshops ; our shopkeepers behind their counters
wanting customers; in short, we have nearly a de-
struction of the social system. And what must re-
sult from this state of things ? What we have seen ,
will occur again ; the disruption of social order, the
Magistrates of the district expecting momentary out •
breaks, the peace only preserved by the presence of
the military power, our gaols crowded with rioters,
Special Commissions in every manufacturing county,
ships freighted with transports to the antipodes—
(Hear, hear)—and pauperism, instead of being.
the exception, will, if not intercepted, become
the rule—(Hear, hear)—and
the efforts of :the
League during the last session of Parliament
prevailed upoi the Government to make. some change
in the Corn-law. That change was, in my mind, of
very limited extent ; it was so small a mercy that I
believe we were so ungracious as not even to be
thankful for it.—(Applause.) The vicious system of
the sliding scale and the average has been retained,
thereby limiting our supplies, as usual, to the nearer
ports of Europe, and denying
us those supplies which
we would have in abundance from the fertile plains of
America—(Hear, hear)—where our clothing and- our
manufactures of various kinds would be received
as a boon in exchange for their own commodities.—
(Applause.) To this system of policy we may attrie
Bute the hostile tariff of the -United States of Ame-
rica—(Hear, hear).-,--and if this vicious policy be
pursued, we may expect the same retribution from
the Brazilian Government, provided we do not re-
ceive,nd as we ought to do, their coffee and sugar on fair
a
equitable terms.—(Applause.) I myself have no
reeling against the present Government, providel
that Government will do its duty to the people.—
(Applause.) My votes have always been given in
Parliament with the view of benefiting mankind, and
not of benefiting a party.—(Loud applause.) I shall
continue to pursue that course. For, Sir Robert
Peel, as an individual,l have a very high
personal regard. I knew him in his early days ;
f knew his
father. It was his father who gave the
first impetus to the industry of the district in
which I live—(Applause)—and his exalted talents
and private worth have conferred distinction upon the
town of his birth, which town I have had the honour
to represent since the passing of the Reform Bill.—
(Applause.) But I frankly confess I can place con-
fidence in no Government which pursues a policy
which I conceive to be so directly opposed to the real
welfare and 'happiness of the community at large.—
(Applause.) The people are now in a state of de-
spondence, without help, and without hope ;. and; ex-
cept we change our system, I see no immediate pro-
spect of their distresses being relieved. I approve
greatly
of the plans of the League, and of their pro-
jects in, endeavouring to act upon distant constituen-
cies, in order that Members may be sent by them
whose views shall be favourable to those of the League.
My friends, there is a very wide field for the exertions
of Hear, hear.)
If ended upon the
—(
t.l.4ancaster and the
Members
nhh the
eb
eLr
repeales a League
of
in this
tyt aleitsh oeucroun ownt
Corn-lawsc oouf
depended
y
boroughs within it we could not carry the question.
—(hear, hear.) With what face? then, can we go
amongst agricultural constituencies, even when we Can-
not in our county return a majority of Members fa-
vourablewhose interests are so vitally important, and we so
this county,
deeplyaffetcot e
dt the y
repeal rtephee. alof
operationthi law—in s
of the
c r n a w s
(Hear, hear.) Why, my friends, our duty is to work
well in our own field. If we cannot make converts,
let us till the ground and prepare it, and sow good
seed; and when a general election arrives, which of
course it will do in process of time—how long it may
be first I cannot tell—we shall reap an abundant har-
vest, which will amply compensate you for all the
labour and money you have expended in effecting the
abolition of this abominable law.(Applause.)
Dr. BOWRING, M.P., then rose, and was loudly
cheered. lle said : Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentle-
men, I think I can address to you some words of con-
gratulation,
ts
Ino
c'o orriscontinue ue o to move uovew
encouragement,forar which will
upon that
path upon whicli you have entered.—(Hear.) I said
that we had progressed ; and wherever I look around
me, I see marks of that progress. Sir Robert Peel
himself is under the despotism of necessity; he has
proclaimed principles, to which he, and whoever fol.
lows him, must give effect. He has become a lecturer
on political economy in the House of Commons ; and
Sir Robert Peel must carry out those doctrines which
he has declared to be true.—(Applause.) I was told
yesterday, in London, that already as many as forty
.Members had determined to. desert Sir Robert Peel,
that they were already alarmed at the concessions he
had made to public opinion.—(Applause.) But I am
told that Sir Robert Peel himself, and certain friends
of Sir Robert Peel, begin to anticipate, that for every.
one who shall desert him for the good he is doing, he
will receive the addition of two from our side.—(Ap-
i plause. Like any Hon. Friend, I am not bound to the

car . of any Minister, but that Minister I will follow
farthest who shall do most for the people.—(Ap-
plause.) The minds of mankind are open, from
the highest to the lowest, to receive new impres-
sions.
in which I was horn, I mingled a good deal with the
rustic and rural population, and I found, from the
first to the last among them, nothing but the heaviest
vituperations directed against the present Prime Mi-
nister. The language they held was'this, to use their
own phraseology—" Drat him, he's Worser than Lord
John ; Lord John only touched the corn, but he has
touched the bullocks. He's worser than Lord John,
and sorry we are that we ever brought him into power."
—(Applause and laughter.) It is my belief that Sir
Robert will listen to much such language in the corn-
ing session of Parliament. It will' perhaps came t-,
him in more polished phraseology, and be repeated
with every sort of courtesy. But the matter will be
discussed. Bad as the Whigs were, he is worse than
the 'Whigs, and he must, for his own salvation, go
further than they dared to do.—(Applause.) Some
of his agricultural friends, however, have already dis-
covered that their fears were somewhat exaggerated,
and that there is not so much ground for apprehension
as they supposed with reference ,to the inroad of fo•
reign cattle. Sir John Tyrrel has assured the Essex
farmers that the beef of America is bad ; that the-
pork is unpalatable; and that the sheep are made up
of only skin and; wool.—(Applause and laughter.)
Gentlemen, the commercial mind is expanding; it is
becoming greater—it is becoming too great for its
fetters; it must burst them—it must be emancipated.
—(Applause.) Commerce will as certainly get rid
of its chains as ever the slave did, for the commercial
principle is greater than the slave, and its triumph
will be greater.—(Applause.) Among the great ser-
vices which the League has done, I will venture to
refer to those many important collateral questions
which have been agitated in consequence of the per-
petual references made to the burden of the Corn-laws.
How many great principles have sparkled out of these
debates ! How much has public attention been di-
rected to free trade in the abstract, to the pacific
principle as connected with the development of trade,
to the vicious character of our taxation, to the ques-
tion of wages, to the improvement of machinery !
Upon all light has been thrown, and .you, who were
charged specially with the guidance of one important
truth, have given birth and circulation to hundreds,
and have brought light into every portion of the field
of commercial and political inquiry.—:(Applause.) If
you like, we will trace the progress of things. Since the
great work of Adam Smith, the Most important fact
that took place was the presentation or a ,free-trade pe-
tition in the year 1820. That petition, I believe,
was written by Mr. Tooke, and it was presented to
the House of Commons by the present Lord Ashbur-
ton.—(Applause.) The next important step in the
interests of free-trade was the publication of the " Ca-
techism of' the Corn-laws," by my Hon. and Gallant
Friend, Colonel Thompson.—(Applause.) I have
seen with delight that the League and. the country
have begun justly to value the eminent services of
that distinguished and excellent man—a man, bound
as I am to him by ties more than brotherly, of whom
I shall not venture to speak as I otherwise would ven-
'hire ta do. But, my friends, I assure you, a mind
beating with a higher and a nobler benevolence, an
intellect morearaled by philosophy and beneficence,
exists not; and I trust that this country will, ere long,
have the advantage. of seeing that gallant man in the
place which he ought to occupy, fighting the battles of
free-trade in the Senate of his country.—.(Loud ap-
plause.) His name, I belieVe, is familiar to vou all;
but his multitudinous services, his generous devotion,
his pecuniary sacrifices, are known but to few.—
(Hear' hear.) Then the next most magnificent step
forward was the establishment of the Anti-Corn-law
League—(Applause)—at whose birth,l had the honour
of being present—(Applause)—whose christening I
also witnessed; and I believe I can claim for myself
the Luggestion of the name it bears.—(Hear.) I have
seen that League grow up in goodly proportion,
standing erect in power and in majesty, equal to the
great work it has undertaken; and I salute it with an
" All hail."—(Applause.) Neit in co-operation and
in advancement of the same principles, came out the
Report of the Impart Duties' Committee.—(Hear,
hear.) When the motion for that Committee was
made in the House of Commons, nobi)dy anticipated
such important consequences from the inquiry. The,
first step of my honourable friend, a man again, whose
services are greater than any language of mine can
describe, Mr. Hume—(Applause)—when he made the
first movement, few, indeed, saw its iniportanee ; few
believed that it would be proved' to demonstration by
the inquiries of that Committee, that while the people
of this country were paying an indirect tax of fifty
millions, a great part of which was a penalty for the
folly of their ancestors, a still greater sum than fifty
millions was taken from them in the dark, by indirect
taxation, by monopolies, the hand of the pilferer being
altogether concealed.—(Applause.) The Report of
the Import Duties' Committee, was, indeed, a grain
of mustard-seed, which has grown up to a great tree,
so great, so magnificent, that we are all of us
delighted to shelter ourselves under its branches.
We have planted a goodly tree, and you
have watered it ; and Sir Robert Peel has
been shaking 'that tree, and gathering some of its
matured and healthy fruits.—(Applause.) Now, the
,power of introducing most important changes is in
our own hands. I know that we cannot directly force
a foreign nation to alter its tariff, but we can do so
indirectly. Let us buy.—(Applause.) Let us buy,
and we shall find people to sell ; and from the moment
we find a man to sell, he'll take care to pay himself,
otherwise he would give us whathe proposes to sell.—
(Applause.) I was very much struck with an ad-
dress which was presented from the poor and suffer-
ing weavers of Lyons to the Chambers of France on
the subject of free trade. I always refer to Lyons
with feelings of interest, because Lyons, like Manches-
ter, has given a noble example. The silk trade of
France being the most important of her manufactures,
and the least protected, is undoubtedly the most flou-
rishing ; and the city of Lyons has always lent its in-
fluence to the attempts which have been made to
emancipate the commerce of France. A petition which
came from the weavers of Lyons, began with these
emphatic words :—" We are poor, we are ignorant ;
but, notwithstanding our poverty, and notwithstand-
ing our ignorance, every one of us feels that
a nation that wants to sell must consent to
buy."—(Loud applause.) These principles I said be-
fore are making progress, progress everywhere. A
few days ago I happened to be in the company of that
most illustrious man, Dwarganauth Tagore, a man
who is a prince among merchants, and a merchant
among princes. I took an opportunity of ascertaining
his opinions on free trade, and he said, after remark-
ing on the anxiety to maintain the monopolies of the
East Indies, after they had opposed that of the West,
" But I observe that everywhere the same state of
things exists ; one man has protection because his
interest is small, and wants much ; another has pro-
tection because his interest is large, and therefore
deserves protection on account of its importance.--
(Laughter.) One man will have protection because
he is connected with weakness, and that requires
assistance; another, because his monopoly is associated
with strength, and where there is * strength it ought
not to be neglected. It is the same thing everywhere,
in the East and in the West." But, happily, if the
story of monopoly is the same, the interests of truth
are the same.—(Applause.) I dare say that many of
those around me have read an exceedingly interesting
book which has been lately published by Charles
Dickens, whose tact is so exquisite; and whose bene-
volence and whose sympathies are thrown over so
' wide a field of thought and action. Have you read
his account of the factories of Lowell ?—(Hear.)
Of the manner in which they are dressed—associated
even with elegance, of the piano on which they play,
of the libraries which circulate among them, of the
periodical in which they write?—(Applause.) I
wish the working people of England would study that
affecting picture, and ask themselves whether this
state of felicity is owing to any impediment put upon
the improvement of machinery, to any "Ten-hours
Factory Bill," to any interference in -,the question of
wages. Dr. Bowring then expatiated in praise of the
pacific principle. He characterised commercial wars,
such as those in Affghanistan arid China, as absurd
and wicked. He eulogised the mission of Lord Ash-
burton, and its happy termination, and remarked upon
the baleful effects of 'Lord Abinger's late charge, and
was glad that he had received castigation. He ex-
pressed himself further that our system of taxation
required change, and he dwelt with, pleasure upon
Miss Martineau's refusal of the pension proffered her.
Dr. Bowring then concluded in these- words :—I did.
indeed, rejoice in the formation of this League' every
measure you.have taken seems to hay.e")Jeen crowned
with success ; every day you in-re grown greater and
more terrible. Yew'-..wt move is a majestic one.
(Applause.)- Tt. ;las startled, it has staggered, it has
stunned'the monopolists.—(Applause.) "Fifty thou-
sand pounds," say they, "front Manchester, from the
men oil Manchester, who always do what they pro-
mise to do, and more than they promise ! There is
no. hopes ma salvation for us."—(Applause.) The

. question was asked me at the aristocratic clubs, " Can
this be true ? Da they really believe they are able
to raise 50,0001?" And the answer I gave was, "Do
not they say so? And they are in the habit of doing
whit they purpose to do."—(Loud and prolonged
applause.)
•
rile CHAIRMAN now rose,"and n.troluced to the
meeting G. Thompson, Esq., who, he said, was ab not
to sail for India, and would take th:s opportunity of
delivering his farewell addreSS. He confessed it was
a matter of great pain to him, as he was sure it would
be to every one present, however they might feel in-
terested in the mission he was about to undertake, to
lose Mr. Thompson at this juncture, when his ser-
vices were of so much importance to the cause in
which they were engaged.—(Applause.)
G. TnompsoN, Esq., then came forward amidst
most enthusiastic cheering. He said—l am extremely
happy that I have once more an opportunity of ad-
dressing an audience in-Manchester, and ofexpressing
my firm attachment to a cause which I deeply regret
I shall not be able for some time to labour for, in
consequence of being called, as I think, and so
my friends around me think, to pursue the path
of duty in another direction. Sir, there is one point
of view in which this cause may be regarded, which
to me appears an important one, and as you have
called upon me to address this meeting, I shall
make a few remarks upon it—l mean the Con-
nection between the present appalling distresses
of the -country and the acts of the Govern-
ment, and between both of these and the morals of
the people.—(Hear, hear.) It is one of the most in-
spiring and mysterious considerations in relation to
the nature of man, that his morality, so mighty in it-
self, and so endless in its issues, should be exposed to
mortification and injury from every influence that
reaches him through life. The passions of his parents
and playmates affect it, long after lie is removed from
their locality and sight. The influence of antedilu-
vian biography—the remotest imaginings of fancy—
the tales of time nursery— the weeds of the garden
the loves and fears of far-off strangers—the dreams
of his neighbours—the fall of a thunderstorm, or the
song of a ballad-hawker, are all elements in the causes
that collaterally affect the morality of our nature.—
(Hear.) Over that, however, and a thousand other
coadjutant forces, the will of man should, and can
exert a presiding potency, and an all-subordinate con-
trol. The power to do this constitutes part of our
moral obligation ; the omission to exercise this power
—a power of which we are all conscious—is
" the head and front of our offending." Perhaps
there is nothing that can be named next to
_

the power of —domestic life, that operates on
our morals with such uniform emphasis as the laws
under which we live.—(Hear.) Let me illustrate
this by reference to circumstances around us. :Poverty
is, it is well known, when expressive, in most instances
the mother of crime. (hear, hear.) If,- therefore,
the laws of a country doom the greater part of its
people to a state of poverty, they become permanent
"ministers of sin"—(Hear, hear)—and as far as they
have this tendency, they are chargeable with the guilt
of immorality.—(Applause.) What an appalling
mass, then, of antagonist power are the governments
of:the world ! The anathemas uttered in Paradise
contained.the elements inimical to the moral interests
of the banished parents of our race. But, alas ! the
influence of most bodiej, of human law is ultimately
ruinous to the character of the people for whose go-
vernment they were framed. An immoral law is se-
minal revolution ; and, like all other seminal powers,
requires only that time and circumstances should ela-
borate the mighty mischief. Hence the decline of for-
mer empires. Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where
are they ? And the same cause will precipitate, if not
counteracted, our own fall. Immoral laws generally
begin their history by creating false wealth, and '
false standands of excellence and power—which again
become the seeds of other evils, and work the ruin of

the State. Take the subject of poverty, in connec-
tion with the spread of religion. A greater obstacle
to the spread of religious truth, and its influences on
the hearts of the people of this country (apart from
the natural indisposition of the human mind to the
reception of peculiar doctrines), does not exist, than

the excessive and:wide-spread destitution of the people.
—(Loud cheers.) Take, for example, the small num-
ber of the poorest of the people, who attend the va-
rious places of religious worship. To say nothing of
the sense of shame which keeps them back—or their
inability to pay pew rents—or to leave their Sabbath
contributions behind them. How is it possible, even
in well-regulated minds, to disabuse the heart of care

that has already became familiar with the pangs of
hunger ?—(llear, hear.) Religion commands con-
tentment with some, but surely not with ever• de-
gree-of indigence—or with indigence by whatsoever
cause brought about. God has designed all his crea-
tures should labour ; but he certainly has not designed
that they should starve as their reward.--(Cheers.) In-
dustry is necessary to religion ; but where industry
has no labour, how (in ill-educated minds, at least) is
the assertion that "Godliness is profitable to all things,
and has the promise of this life as well as of that which
is to come," to be made compatible with compulsory
mendicity ? The poor naturally interrogate, "Is it
of God that we live on nettle porridge sprinkled with
meal, while the aristocracy, who are no more than we
his creatures, squander more in the gorgeous liveries
of their saddle-horses and in the splendid kennels and
good food of their hounds, than we can procure by in-
cessant toil and mdchanical skill ?"—(Applause.) Iu
vain does the preacher enjoin contentment to such
questioners, or point them to their inalienable free-
hold
in heaven. The range of evangelical truth has
no reply to hunger but " Work with your hands,
that ye may eat that which is good." But poverty
bewails, " No man hath hired us." To the rich, the mi-
nister is enjoined to say, " If thou seest thy brother have
need, and shuttest up the bowels of thy compassion,
how dwelleth the love of God in thee ?" But, for

the most part the admonition is as unheeded as the
ambiguous ravings of the Pythoness. What is the
preacher's alternative ? Either to take the side of the
poor and demand justice from the Government, and ,
thus drive the rich from their pews by what in re-
venge they will soon stigmatise a 3 " political preach-
ing ; ' or, by passing over the sacred claims of the
population, sunken to beggary, by a few words of
cheap condolence, thus for ever lose their ears and
their hearts.—(Hear.) This, we are sorry to say, is
the alternative which many have chosen. We are
the judge of none ; but we cannot escape the con-
viction that the pulpit has lost much of its power over
the masses of the people, from the coy and reluctant
advocacy with which it has taken up this cause.—
(Loud cheers.) Sir, let me not be supposed as at all
sympathising with the spirit, and still less with the acts
of some who have stood forward to aid the cause of
political regeneration. Whatever is alien in temper
or conduct from the precepts and genius of the Gospel,
I would and do condemn. But am I, therefore, blind
to the shortcomings and delinquencies of those who
ought to be and might be, from their holy sphere,
the expounders and champions of political morality ?
Far from it. I charge upon their negligence and their
time-serving, those evils in the shape of violence
and tumult, which attach to a movement which is
coldly and scornfully left to be managed by those who
are not possessed of their influnce, their education, or
their wisdom. Look at the influence ministers ex-
erted upon the emancipation question.—(Applause.)
It was said, and not without reason, that the cause
was carried by Quakers and dissenting ministers. Did
the impair:their usefulness by:so doing ?--(llear.)
Far from it. They now point, with self-exultation,
to their labours and triumphs in the cause. Tell me
what has given the Baptist and other missionaries the
mighty hold they have upon the affections and confi-
dence of the population of the West India Islands— .
a power by means of which the missionaries, and not
the soldiers—the Gospel, and not the proclamations of
Government, have moulded the hundreds'and thousands
of swarthy and new-born freemen to the obedience
and reverential regard for the law ?—(Applause.)
What! Why the knowledge that these men stood
boldly by them in their bonds—(Cheers)—rebuked
the oppressor—demanded justice—took the spoiling of
their own goods joyfully, and fought, like Michael,
till the fell dragon of slavery went howling frc,,a) ,the
fair islands of the Carribean Sea to find a sheltrjr_ilet
only for a time—under the proud
str
udma-arilt 0e the Any-
rican capital.—(Cheers.) The
,le would, be
laws, liw("Ital have the pulpity;" °ll
short if the awful power of the
of tu~uses-
(Vaee-rrse.-
PU, j1::t were turned
-the master evil.—
effect,
claimth e
th the famine-creating
cause
profess to pity th
Am I sincere while Lam not. Blame thee people as
conceal the cause_
have justice on their side
to eit their title in the sight of God to their
N-011
.he
The► • rf • —(Cheers )
expansive acres the very moment they withhold bread
from the poor.—(Renewed cheering.) Now,
the ministers of our holy religion to suppose
take their lind
for the people, would the people forget the services
rendered ?—(Cries of " No, no.")
with
what fine effect and appropriate authority
mi-
nisters of religion then appeal
°' Godliness is profitable t o the to No, rmatighehrt
life the
that people,
lowi ands.”say
We
have aided your interests,
Government to remove not by prayer and sym-
pathy, but by every
means in our power, to compel
the
the unjust laws that drive