The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

TIT SUN, TON DOLT, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 184" z.

Hitherto the burden of the national struggle has fallen upon a
comparatively small number. Hereafter let it be cheerfully and
honourably shared by the friends of the cause at large. If the
sinews of war are supplied, the contest now waging will soon termi-
pate in the triumph of justice and humanity, over the cruel and
selfish legislation of interested men.
JAMES KERSHAW, Chairman.
WILLIAM RAWSON.
ELKANAH ARMITAGE.
FRANCIS BOULT, Jun.
SAMUEL LEES
EDWARD EVANS.
JAMES AYTOUN.
EDWARD WATKIN.
Subscriptions will be received by Mr. Hichim, Secretary to the
League, or Mr. Edward Watkin in his behalf.
Three cheers were given for the Queen, and three for the repeal
of the Corn laws, and the meeting then dispersed.

ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES.
ADDITIONAL NAMES OF DELEGATES.
NAMES OF DEPUTY, NAME OF ASSOCIATION OR CONGRE-
GATION, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND COUNTY.
Bains, James, Scotch Secession Church, Pell-street, Ratcliff-
highway, Middlesex
Bower, William, A.C.L. A., Chelsea, Middlesex
Brewer, Nicholas, A.C.L A., Southwark, Surrey

Cox, Edward William, A. C. L. A., Taunton and Wellington,
Somerset

Dyke, Mr., A. C. L. A., West Pancras, Middlesex
Doran, .1. L., Esq., A.C.L. A., Christ Church, Marylebone,
Middlesex

Fowler, John, A.C.L A. , Oxford
Harding, Jonathan, A. C.L. A., Mitcham, Surrey
Hayes, Thomas, A. C. L. A., Bethnal-green, Middlesex
Kevan, Peter, West. Relief Church, Paisley; Renfrew hire

CORN AVERAGES.
LIST OF TOWNS, and the COUNTIES in which they are
situated, from which it is propose.' that Returns of
the quantities 2nd prices of various descriptions of
CORN sold, shall be made to the Comptroller of Corn
Returns, in order to determine the general Average
Prices, whereby the rates of Duty shall be governed.
Note.—The Towns to the names of which an Asterisk
is prefixed, are those from which Returns have not
hitherto been obtained.

11'Connell, A. C. L. A., Marylebone, Middlesex
Mall, Edward, Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeshire
Pulling, John, Independent Congregation, Deptford, Kent
Poulton, J., A. C. L. A. , Camberwell, Surrey

CHESHIRE.
Chester
Nantwich
Middlewich
Fonham Ends
"Congletou
*Knutsford
*Macclesfield
*Stockport

Renton, Henry, A.C.L. A., Kelso, Roxburgh
Rayre, Charles, A.C.L. A., Newcastle and Gateshead, Nor.
thumberland

SURHEY.
Guildford
*Croydon
*Kingston
*ltyegate

Sturges, Jcseph, Esq., Inhabitants of Cupar, Fifeshire
Scoble, John, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire

ESSEX.
Chelmsford
Colchester
Romford
*Chipping Ongar
*Epping
*Alaldon
*Saffron Walden

Thomson, Adam, A.C.L.A., Hayrick, Roxburgh
Turner, T., Hope Chapel, Providendo, Rochdale, Lancashire

Walker, David, A.C. L. A., Linlithgow, Scotland

LANCASTER.
Liverpool
Ulverston
Lancaster
Preston
Wigan
Warrington
Manchester
Bolton
*Ashton under Lyne
*Blaeliburn
*Bury
*Oldham
*Ormskirk
*Rochdale

ADDITIONAL NAMES OF MINISTERS,

NAME OF MINISTER, DENOMINATION, PLACE 01' RESIDENCE,

AND COLTNTI.
Archer, Thomas, United Secession, Gray Friars, Glasgow;
. Lanarkshire

KENT.
Maidstone
Canterbury
Dartford
*Bromley
*Chatham or Rochester
*Dovor
*G ravesend
*Romney
*Sevenoaks
*Tunbridge (Town)

Beaumont, John, Relief Congregation, Ceres, Fifeshire
Benson, Williams, Baptist Congregation, and British and Fe.
reign Sailors' Society, Welling, Kent

Cairns, Peter, United Secession, Stewarton, Ayrshire
Carhie, Janie:, Secession Church, Cupar, Fifeshire

Garnsnay, Smith P., Congregational, Newport, United States,
America

Hinton, John H., Baptist Free Communion, Cupar, Fifeshire

DERBY.
Derby
*Bakewell
*Chesterfield

Tyler, W., Independent, Hope Chapel, Spitalfields, Middlesex

SUSSEX.
Chichester
Lewes
Rye
*Brighton
*Horsham
*Petworth

Alirams, Janiee, Independent, Kennington, Surrey

.NOTTTNGTIAM.
Nottingham
Newark
*Mansfield
*lietford
*Worksop

UNION OF THE MIDDLE AND
WORKING CLASSES.

A meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Delegates and others
favourable to the Extension of the Suffrage. was held in
the small room of the Crown and Anchor last evening. The
meeting was called together by the following hand-bill, issued
by Nlr. Sturge, and circulated during the day :
" COMPLETE SUFFRAGE.

BEDFORD.
Bedford
*Biggleswade
*Dunstable

LEICESTER.
Leicester
*Loughborough
*Hinckley
*Lutterworth
*Market Harbro'.
*Melton Mowbray

"Joseph Sturge respectfully requests such of the Delegates
to the Anti-Corn-law Conference as may entertain views
favourable to ' Complete Suffrage,' to meet at the Refreshment
rooms, Crown and Anchor Tavern, at seven o'clock this even-

BERKSHIRE.
Windsor
Reading
*Abingdon
*Farringdon
*Maidenhead
*Newbury
*Wallingford

ing. Admission may be procured by presenting a Delegate's
Ticket at the door.

" Friday Morning, Feb 11, 1842."
The room was well filled. Among those present we observed
Joseph Sturge, Esq.; Sharman Crawford, M. P.; Dr. Mad-
den, Dublin; George Thompson ; John Bright, Rochdale ; A.
Prentice, Manchester; Wm. Ibbotson, Sheffield; Rev. Mr.
13aily, Sheffield ; Rev. Mr. Renton, Kelso ; Rev. Mr. Owen,
Staffordshire; Rev. Mr. Thomas Spencer, Bath ; Rev. Mr.
Cairns, Paisley ; Rev. Mr. Lowe, Forfar; Mr. Hicken, Man-
chester ; John Childs, Bungay ; John Bright, Rochdale ;
Jose; h Corbett, Birmingham ; Hamer Stansfeld, Leeds ; Ed-
ward Baxter, Dundee ; Josiah Conder, London ; Nathaniel
Griffin, Esq. ; Wm. Boultbee, Birmingham ; Mr. Curtis,
Ohio ; Stafford Alen, Esq. ; Dr. Perry, Boston ; Lawrence
Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool; John Dunlop, Esq., Eninburgh;
Edward Lankester, M.D. ; C. E., Rawlins, Esq., Liverpool ;
Mr. Henry Hetherington ; Mr. Watkins, Manchester ; Mr.
Wm. Lovett.

NORTH A Al PTON.
Northampton
*Peterborough
I)aven try
*Oundle

BUCKS.
Aylesbury
*Beaconsfield
*Buckingham
*High Wycombe
*Stoney Stratford

WAR WICKSHIRE.
Coventry
Birmingham
*Coleshill
*Dunchurch
*Stratford on Avon
* Warwick

OXFORDSHIRE.
Oxford
*Banbury
*Burford
*Henley
*Witney

WORCESTER.
Worcester
*Bra ;nsgrove
*Droitwich
*Dudley
*Kidderminster
*Stourbridge
*Stourport

Mr. G. THOMPSON stated that the meeting was extra.official, and
in no way connected with the business of the Conference. It was
convened for the frank and free comparison of opinion as to the great
question of suffrage which now agitated so large a portion of the
population of this country. It partook of the nature of the general
conversation on the merits of the question, every gentleman express
ing his opinions in a private and individual capacity.
Jos. STURGE, Esq.,was unanimously called to the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN observed that he had invited his friends present
to a conversation in the best spirit of the merits of a declaration
on the subject of the Suffrage, which he had already put forth.
He hoped his Honourable Friend Mr. Crawford, who, but for illness
would have put forth the declaration in conjunction with himself.
would in the course of the meeting be present. (Mr. Crawford
soon after entered the room and ascended the platform amidst loud
applause.) It had also been proposed bj the Birmingham " Corn_
plete Suffrage Association," to recommend for general signature,
a memorial to the Queen of which the following was the outline,
the object of which was to beseech her Majesty not to take to her
councils, nor to retain in them, any persons who were not prepared
to grant Complete Suffrage to the people

HUNTINGDON.
Huntingdon
St. Neot's

GLOUCESTER.
Gloucester
Cirencester
Tetbury
Stow on the Wold
Tewkesbury
*Cheltenham
*Dursley
*North Leach
*Stroud

CAMBRIDGE.
Cambridge
Ely
Wisbeach
*Newmarket

SUFFOLK.
Ipswich
Woodbridge
Sudbury.
Hadleigh
Stow Market
Beeeles
Bungay
Lowestoft
Bury St. Edmund's

The Rev. T. SPENCER addressed the meeting at somelength in
advocacy of an extension of the Suffrage. He thought that the
higher and middle classes did not repose sufficient confidence in the
working classes. For himself he could say no one could have been
better received than he at a meeting of the working classes at
Bath ; and yet he had done much to provoke them; but they knew he
had done it honestly, and therefore they forgave him. The working
classes would think and let think. He had great confidence in
the working men, and the chief mischief of the country
was the want of it. In the higher classes there was an unneces-
saty suspicion of them, and that was because people were apt to
judge others by themselves. Those who had sinecures and pen-
sions, and brought up their families to the army and navy, and by
the law of primogeniture fattened on the spoils of others, think
that other classes, if they had the same power as themselves, would
use it in the same manner. But before they put the working
men in the possession of power, they would be sure that they
should not have the same power of abusing it. They would not
have the law of primogeniture, and he was sure that Mr.
Sturge would agree to this, that they would have less war
and less army and navy, These evils had been ascribed to over-
production ; he was disposed to think there had been an over-pro-
duction of one commodity—there had been an over.production of
laws !—(Loud cheers.) He should like to see a Parliament that
fur two or three sessions, would do nothing but destroy laws, in-
stead of snaking them. They had laws which meddled with every-
thing, with their money, their religion—(Hear, hear, and cheers)
—and with their trade ; with every thing they could mention.
If the working men were admitted to power, he hoped they
would guard against meddling with too many things ; the grand
thing was to protect person and property, and leave everyth,ng
else alone. There were no more important words than " let
alone"—the laissels faire, of the French. Above all, let
them leave trade alone. The grand question was, whether,
if the working men obtained a general Suffrage, would they
judge wisely of their candidates ? When at Southampton,
with his friend Mr. George Thompson, he saw that drunken ruf.
flans were hired to disturb their meetings as long as they staid,
by the County Members! Would the working mien h the dared to
do this ? The Parliament he considered so ill chosen, that he did
not think the working men could choose a worse. When the best
and holiest who ever wore the garb of human nature, Jesus Christ,
the son of a carpenter, who even worked as a carpenter, was seen
to possess everythi,,g that is admirable, aad deserved respect, yet
the rich despised him ; the Scribes and the Pharisees hated him ;
Herod and Pontius Pilate set him at nought, but the common
people heard him gladly. Had the Suffrage, then, been with the
rich, would they have chosen him as their leader ? Would they
have chosen the very best of the eat th P No ; but the
common people heard him gladly, and would gladly have
done it. It appeared to be the will of God that the common
people should be always ready to hear gladly the grand truths of re-
ligion and politics. But how were they to obtain the Suffrage?
Why, they had the power of passive resistance and of self_denial.
He should be willing to deny himself every excisable article—in-
deed, he had done so for other reasons, and so might all—and would
the Government do without the money ? If necessary, he should
be prepared to refuse the payment of the assessed taxes. He ap-
proved of the Memorial to the Queen, and said he could state some
circumstances which led him to believe that their Queen was with
the working•elasses.—(Cheers.)

SOMERSETSIIIRE.
Bristol
Taunton
IVells
Bridgewater
Frorne
Chard
*Bath
*Yeovil

NORFOLK.
Norwich
Yarmouth
Lynn
Thetford
Watton
Diss
East Dereham
Harleston
Holt
Aylsham
Fakenhank
North Walsham
*Swaffharn

MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Monmouth
Abergavenny
Chepstow
Pontypool
*Newport

DEVONSHIRE.
Exeter
Barnstaple
Plymouth
Totness
Tavistock
Kingsbridge
*Ashburton
*Axminster
*South Molton
*Oakhampton
*Tiverton

LINCOLN.
Lincoln
Gainsborough
Glanford Bridge
Louth
Boston
Sleaford
Stamford
Spalding
*Barton on Humber
*New Bolingbroke
*Bourne
*Grantham
*Grimsby
*llorucastle
*Market Deeping
*Spilsby

CORNWALL.
Truro
Bodmin
Launceston
Redruth
Helston
St. Austell
*Falmouth
*Penzance

YORK.

DORSETSHIRE.
Blandford
Bridport
Dorchester
Sherborne
Shaftesbury
Wareham
*Poole
*Weymouth

York
Leeds
Wakefield
Bridlington
Beverley
Hawden
Sheffield
Hull
Whitby
New Malton
*Barnsley
*Bedale
*Bradford
*Doncaster
*Guisborodgh
*Halifax
*Huddersfield
*Keighley
*Knaresborough
*Northallerton
*.Pickering
*Pontefract
*Richmoad
*Ripon
*Selby
*Skipton
*Thirsk
*Wetherby
*Yarm

HAMPSHIRE.
Winchester
Andover
Basingstoke
Fareham
Havant
Newport
Ringwood
Southampton
Portsmouth
*Christchurch

The Rev. Mr. YOWNO, of Andover, urged the necessity of union
between the working and the middle classes. The union was a
natural one. The working "'en stood in need of the capitalist, and
it was the energy of the working men that made capital valuable.
How was it then they had become separated ? Each party had
committed faults, and in order to become re-united they should look
each other boldly in the face, and see what were the faults they had
committed. As a middle class man, he would at once admit that
too many of the middle classes had looked too much to their own
interest. But while he admitted this, he must say, that the
working classes had also committed faults.—(Cries of " Hear,
hear.") He went fully with them into the Suffrage question,
but he thought they were in fault in seeking t• postpone the
Corn-law question to the Suffrage question. If ever there was a
practical question which came home to the working man, it was
that of Corn-law repeal. Let them go on with the practical ques_
tion, and having gained that, let them go on to the theoretical
question. He urged upon the meeting the necessity of union be-
tween the middle classes and the working classes to carry the
Corn-law question, which by union they might do in a few
fresh°''d agitation for the
months, for the Ministers would give way before thorn, and he
Pledged himself to the men of the working classes tshaayt
ltallyeyas would
take take the Suffrage question into their most anxious consideration;
and agitate with them for it, until it would be gained. He was con-
vinced
that without union they could gain neither; with union they
could gain both. He would say try the Corn.law first; and if they
fail Suffrage,
nu ef;rt
aotgice, ,
the
racrnyodr thnhe. ei
a, , ,
.repealwo u agitation,ld
urge
orfg thee th eCamon Corn-law,
b lgaeogw
io,
nn until h e
the nation possesseda w
every right which it ought to possess.
Mr. A. PItENTIS would not have addressed the meeting, had it
not been for the conclusion of the address of the last speaker. The
m mattereetin than for coming to any
g was one rather for mu.
agitation for the Suffrage was not now to be beg"
; it had begun
long since, and he protested against postpoinn
g it for Corn.law
agitation, as he did against postponing Corn.law agitation to Suf.
frage agitation. His desire was not to see one agitation displacing
the other, but to see the two going on collaterally.
A Gentleman in the body of the meeting requested to know what
was the resolution they were discussing ?
M
IT, , kautn in explainedconversational
teal
resolution—there was no resolution before the meeting. The
explanation
question before the meeting was, the propriety of presenting a me.
morial to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to take to her coun.
cilF, nor to retain in them, any
that
persons who were riot prepared to
gfant complete Suffrage to the people.
Mr. PALLISER load begun life as a working man,
and now he was
one of the middle classes, possessing a voice in returning eight
Members to Parliament, in different places, a right which no
man
ought to possess. He thought working men had shown their wisdom
in standing still as they had done in regard to the Corn-law agita-
tion. He had formerly been of a different opinion, but he now saw
that they were right, and the event had shown it. Once bit twice
shy; and as they had been deceived on the occasion of the Reform
Bill, they were not again to be caught.—(Cheers.) What could
they expect from a House of Commons constituted like the present?
What they wanted was a Rouse of Commons representing the ma_
jority of the people, and not the few--(Hear, hear, and loud
cheers)—not one which legislated to take money out of the
pockets of the people to put it into their own. Since 1815 the
landowners who composed the Parliament had trebled their rents.
What was the remedy for this class legislation ? Why, an exten-
sion of Suffrage— (Cheers)—with Vote by Ballot—(Loud cheers)
and equal electoral districts.—(Cheers.) That was what himself
and his friends in the parish of St. Luke had petitioned for in addition
to a total repeal of the Corn laws.—(Cheen.) The Chartists in
his district had joined with them, and he had always found them
men of good sound common sense. He called upon the middle
and working classes to follow their example, and
to unite to ob-
tain the complete Suffrage, and to put an end to class legislation.
(Cheers.) He had read with indignation and disgust Peel's state.
merits as to the amount of meat and bread consumed by the working
classes in foreign countries. Now, what was the mighty discovery
Peel had made ? Wby, that John Bull loved roast beef better than
the foreigner did, and that when he could pay for it.)o,
e would have it.
But since Peel had compared the mode of living of the English
working men with that of the foreigner, he (Mr. Palliser) should

RUTLAND.
*Okeham
*Uppingham

HEREFORD.
*Hereford
*Leominster
*Ross

DURHAM.
Durham
Stockton
Darling-ton
Sunderland
Barnard Castle

SHROPSHIRE.
*Shrewsbury
*Bridgenorth
*Elmsinere
*Ludlow
*Newport
*Oswestry
*Wellington
*Wenlock
*Whitchurch

NORTHUMBERLAND.
Walsingnam
Belford
Hexham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Morpeth
Alnwick
Berwick
*Wooller

WILTSUIRE.
*Bradford
*Swindon
*Chippenham
*Devizes
*Salisbury
*Marlborough
*Trowbridge
Warminster

CUMBERLAND.
Carlisle
Whitehaven
Cockermouth
Penrith
Egremont
*Wigton

STAFFORDSHIRE.
*Stafford
*Burton on Trent
*Newcastle under Lyme
*Stowe
*Tamworth
*tittoxeter
*Walsall
* Wolverhampton

WESTMORELAND.
Appleby
Kendal
"Kirby Lonsdale

WALES.
Carmarthen
Carnarvon
Ilaverfordwest
Cardiff
Denbigh
Wrexham
*Brecon
*Mold
*Bangor
*Cowbridge
*Newbridge
*Newtown
'New Radnor

MIDDLESEX.
London
Uxbridge

HERTFORDSHIRE.
Hertford
Royston
*Bishop Stortford
*St. Alban's
*Ware
*Tring
*Watford

SUNDAY SCHOOL TE ACHEII3 AND THE
CORN-LAlVs.—Petitioni for the to tal and immediate repeal of
the Corn-laws were adopted last night at a meeting of the
Committee of the South London Auxiliary Sunday School
Union, which represents nearly 2, ' 00 gratuitous teachers of
the young—the petition to the Lot ds to be presented by Earl
Fitawilliam, and that to the Ccn mons by the Members for
Southwark.

like to make a comparison between the aristocracy of England and
that of foreign countries—(Cheers)—and they would find that the
luxury, voluptuousness, and profligacy in which the English anis.
tocracy indulged, at the expense of the poor men, was what any
other nation would blush at.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And this
could not be remedied until class legislation should be done away with.
II- would remind Sir Robert Peel of what happened to Rehoboan,
when he despised the outcries of the people. The cry then raised
was—" Every man to his tent."—(Cheers.) They all knew what
was the result. Let the aristocracy beware in time.—(Cheers.)
John Bull would not submit much longer to be oppressed and plun-
dered as he had been. They slid not want to oppress and plunder
others, but they wanted to prevent others from oppressing and
plundering them.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Mum., who was announced as the editor of The
Nonconformist, then stepped forward, and was received with loud
cheering. He said he should not have presented himself to the
notice of the meeting, but for the remarks at the conclusion of Mr.
Young's speech. He could hardly express the gratification which
he felt at the manner in which lie had been received, and he only
rejoiced to find that the principles which he had advocated had
taken such a hold upon tmlnds of the middle classes. (Loud
cheers.) He felt convinced that those principles which were
now set afloat would not only spread, but spread rapidly.—(Cheers.)
Some persons had urged the necessity of superseding the Corn.
law movement by the Suffrage movement, add others had argued
for superseding the Suffrage movement by the the Corn-law agita-
tion. Let them look at the House of Commons as it had been re-
cently elected, through intimidation and bribery he would allow,
but elected by the middle classes--(Cheers)--why, it was one
Which would establish every principle 01 monopoly to its fullest
extent. Now, the only way of remedying this slate Qt. things was
by giving a prominent place to the Suffrage movement.—(Hear.)
At the same time he would not desist from agitating
the Corn-law question. The Corn-law League, by their agitation,
did good to the Suffrage movement. They opened the eyes of the
people, and he believed verily that that agitation had done more to
forward the Suffrage movement among the middle classes than
anything else. That agitation had now been going on for three
years ; they had had their meetings, their conferences, their ba-
zaars, and what effect had they produced upon the aristocracy ?
Before they did that they must have a broader base to rest upon.
They required some stronger lever to move the aristocracy than
any they had yet worked, and they could only find that lever by
extending the suffrage. He would be no party to any such delu.
sion as that of asking the working classes to postpone the agitation
for the suffrage to the Anti-Corn-law agitation, on an understand-
ing that the middle classes would assist them afterwards in obtain-
ing the suffrage.—(Cheers.) He was for the extension of the suf-
frage to every man entitled to it. Every man had a right to it.—
(Cheers.) He demanded it for every man as a right.—(Cheers.)
Now if that right were fully, fairly, and honestly recognised, he
could see no pretence—he could see neither the wisdom nor the ne-
cessity, fur postponing the agitation to obtain that right for anything
else.—(Cheers.) There were other parts of the Charter with which
he could not agree, but he agreed in the principal question. Let
them settle the question of right, and then let them, having settled it,
go for the complete suffrage in its most extensive and honest sense.
He would urge the question upon the middle classes simply as one
of right. One great argument to be used to the middle class to
convert them to the cause of the extension of the suM age was their
attention to the fact of the evils of existing monopolies. The utter
impossibility of remedying those evils, or preventing their recur.
rence, without enlarging the basis of the representation, by ex.
tending the suffrage to every man who had a right to it. Let them
go on with the Anti-Corn-laes movement, but they would never suc-
ceed unless they joined the Suffrage movement with it. Neither
the middle nor the working classes were sufficiently powerful alone
to carry their point, but by uniting they would break the yoke be.
Death which they now groaned.—(Loud cheers.)
Rev. Mr. YOUNG explained. He had not wished to sat aside the
Suffrage agitation fur the Corn-law agitation, but as of two things
one must be first, he had thought it, under present circumstances,
more desirable to commence with the Corn-law question, because
it would more immediately tend to relieve the wants of the famish.
ing multitude—(Cheers;—and he also thought it was more imme-
diately attainable. If he thought they could obtain the suffrage
with equal facility. he would prefer having the Suffrage to the
repeal of the Corn.laws.—(Cheers.)
WILLIAM Los Err, who was very warmly greeted, then ad-
dressed the meeting. He said he had intended to be a listener,
and had not any idea of declaring his sentiments to the meeting.
With regard to the People's Charter, if it could be shown that
it contained any one principle, or any matter of detail not
necessary to just legislation, he, for one, should be most
willing to give up that part of it.—(Hear, hear ) Of all
the objections that had been urged against the Charter, he had
never heard any satisfactory reason given against any of the de-
tails it included. In the first place, nothing was said in the Char-
ter of Universal Suffrage—(Heer, hear) —it contained not a word
about it. We say that every man twenty-one years of age ought
to have a vote who was untainted with crime.—(Hear, hear.)
We then declare that there must be a qualification of three
months residence; having so far conceded the right to the suffrage,
we say that he ought to be protected in exercising that right, and
for this purpose we assert the necessity of the Vote by Ballot.
We say in the next place that they ought to be at
liberty to choose whosoever they please, and, therefore, all property
qualification is abolished. They considered that if these points
were not conceded, all other measures would be a mockery ; it
would be like giving the right of the suffrage to sparrows; and al-
lowing them to elect only hawks.— ( Hear, hear.) Having this
power of electing whoever they pleased, they thought they should
have the power of paying those individuals for their services.
They said that the present electoral system is unjust, and
therefore they declare electoral districts to be necessary. All
these principles were embodied in and carried out in the Charter
for this special reason—they had often been taunted with being
visionary—with not being practical. That was the reason the
people's Charter stated how all these points were to be worked out.
Details were important and necessary. The Reform Bill, when carried
in the House of Commons was entirely marred in the details. He
should like to see a cordial union among the people ; he should like
to sec the middle and the working-classes combined; they would
never sec, or be able to bring about, any change worth mentioning
but by this means. But the working-classes must ask,
you concede to us the right of the suffrage as a prin.
ciple, why then, thus conceding the principle, should you stand
aloof from prejudice ?—(Hear, hear.) There had doubtless been a
great deal of violence and folly among the party who preferred the
principles of Chartism, but it was no reason for giving up
a good and just cause becatse bad men were among
its advocates.—(Hear, hear.) There were bad men to be found
among Christians, but was that any reason for rejecting the princi.
pies of Christianity?—(Hear, hear, hear.) How much better
would it be far the middle class to dispel the bigotry
that prevailed among them, and try to bring over the
working men, and disprove the violence and folly that
might be found among them.—(dear, hear.) This point was
clear, that they must come out for the Charter as a whole ; let them
discuss it ; let them show that its principles were erroneous; let
them discuss it fairly, and he had no hesitation in saying that if they
adopted it honestlytheywould find that the middle and working classes
would be iu combination in less than twelve months. With regard
to the Corn-laws, he was an advocate for free trade; and the only
reason why he had stood apart from the advocates of the repeal
of those laws, was a conviction that they would never be able to
carry it in the House of Commons as at present constituted.—
( Hear, hear.) It had also been supposed by the working classes
that the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws had been got up
as a counter agitation to the Charter. —(No, no.) It was certain
that at the time the first meeting called in London,
for the Charter, in Palace-yard, just at that time an article ap.
peared in the True Sun, calling on the middle classes to commence
the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws. The working men
were led to believe it was meant as a counter movement. He did not
mran to say this opinion was correct, but such was the conclusion
they were led to adopt. He did not justify all the proceedings of
the Chartists; he was opposed to the intolerance of those who in-
terfered with and interrupted the proceedings of public meetings
called on other subjects. But let Mr. Sturge and his
friends inquire into the Charter as a whole ; he should be
prepared to give up points that were proved to be non-essential, and
by these means there would be a chance of a cordial union between
the middle and working classes.--(Cheers.)
Mr. Must. said they did not deny the justice of the principles
of the Charter, but thought they should do more good by adopting
the line of policy they had marked out, than by simply resting on
the principles of the Chartists, who would not take one point
without the others.

Mr. MILLS advocated the extension of the Suffrage to the
working classes, on the grounds that they were fully qualified by
their intelligence. Who composed the bulk of the army
and navy 2 The working classes; they were, therefore, quite in.
telligent enough to fight ; they were quite intelligent
enough to produce almost every article of necessity or luxury,
that made life agreeable, and they were quite willing to enjoy the
right. They had been led sometimes by designing men, who were
not what they ought to have been, and these had brought discredit
on the cause of the working men. They had their faults, but
there were faults in all classes, and all blame was not confined to
bhe working men.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, M.P., having been loudly called for,
said he should be wanting in respect to the meeting, if he did not
accede to the call it had made on him, by addressing to them a few
observations. He had obtained both instruction end pleasure from
the proceedings of that evening, for he rejoiced to think that there
was a probability of obtaining what was so essential to
the interests of the whole community—a complete union
between the employing and the working classes of this coup.
try. It was essential to the prosperity of the country, that there
should be unity and kindly feeling between them; and it was
to be regretted that it had ever been interrupted. He hoped
the time was coming when ill feeling would no longer exist. He
considered that all their evils arose from class legislation—(Hear,
hear)—and that they never would be obviated till the whole people
were fully and fairly represented in the House of Commons.—
(Cheers.) He considered that the Corn-law agitation and the agi.
tation for an extended suffrage ought to go hand in hand together.
and aid one another. Without that degree of union they could
not expect to carry a repeal of the Corn-laws, nor could they ex-
pect any good legislation of any description. From the House of
Commons, constituted as it now is, they could expect no good mea-
sure, not till the people had the full power of electing their repre-
sentatives.—(Hear.) He therefore thought the working classes
were right in pressing forward that question-- (Hear, hear)—because
he was perfectly persuaded that it was only by an organic reform of
the House of Commons, that any good measure could be expected
to be obtained.—(Cheers.) He had himself given notice of a mo.
tion for an extension of the suffrage to the working classes.
That motion was given for the earliest convenient day after the
Easter recess. The discussion of the Corn.laws would, he expected,
take up roost of the time of the House till that recess. His health,
also, though re-established, would hardly permit him to do justice to
the question till that time. He wished them to understand that thepost.
ponement did not arise from any lukewarmness He did not see any
reason for a distrust of the working-classes, inasmuch as their interest,
and the interest of the men of property, were identical. He had
always thought that the people were entitled to the right r4f the
suffrage, and had always endeavkured to contend for it—(Cheers)
—and every exertion of mind and body should be given to obtain it,
in the position he now had the honour to occupy.—(Cheers.)

Mr. Baoois addressed the meeting on the moral influence of
such assemblies as the present, amid loud calls for Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Gaoling THOMPSON was loudly cheered on rising. He said
he was delighted to be here, it was always refreshing to get upon
a discussion embracing some entire principle. He confessed that
times without number, and at meetings of another kind,
they were obliged to discuss only the branches of a great
question, and had no opportunities of coming at once to the seat of
the disease. One great principle was embraced in their discussion
to-night; they not only recognised the right of the
great body of the people to the suffrage, but their fitness
to excrcise it. The only security from a constant in.
vasion of their rights and the abuse of political power was, ad•
mitting the people within the pale of the Constitution, by giving
them the right of the Suffrage.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. proceeded
to advocate the extension of the Suffrage, in a very eloquent ad-
dress, in which lie conceded the extension of the Suffrage
as a grand and distinct principle; but enforcing the policy
of leaving other points of detail to be settled by the
first Chartist Parliament.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Even without
the franchise, they could do much in the world in which they
lived, and leave it better than they found it. They might do this,
though they had not the ballot box, and could not go openly to
the poll.
After a few observations from the Chairman and Mr. Lovett in
explanation, the Rev. T. Spencer took the Chair, and thanks were
voted by acclamation to Mr. Sturge for having called the meet.
ing, and for the able manner in v, Inch he had presided over the
discussion.

The late Duke of Cleveland's eldest son, the pre-
sent Duke, succeeds to 80,000/. a-year. Lord William Pou-
lett has a legacy of 560,0001., and Lord Harry an-
other of 440,000/. There is a legacy of 200,0001. to a grand-
son ; to the Duchess Dowager the Yorkshire estates, the house
in Grosvenor-square, and an immense amount of plate, jewel-
lery, and furniture. A large portion of the unentailed estates
in Durham goes to one of his daughters. His Grace, it is said,
had 1.2.50,00 W. in the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Consols,
besides plate and jewellery to the value of a million sterling.

PEEL'S SLIDING SCALE.
GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN DERBY.

By breakfast time on Thursday morning, the people of Derby
were put in possession of Sir Robert Peel's speech through the
medium of the Derby Reporter, which acknowledged itself indebted
to the Proprietor of The Sun, for the extraordinary early intel-
ligence. One general feeling of disappointment prevailed; and the
cry might be heard from the working classes, " No Sliding Scales,"
"No accursed Corn.laws." At eleven o'clock the Council as-
sembled to discuss some business left over at a firmer meeting,
and a petition couched in strong terms against Peel's humbug,
was passed by acclamation, and immediately transmitted to the
lion. Members for the borough, for presentation in the House of
Commons the next night. During the sitting of the Council, a
written paper was handed to the Mayor, stating that it was the
intention of the people to burn Peel in effigy.
The matter died away, and nothing further was heard of it until
about seven o'clock, a tremendous procession of people was seen
advancing down St. Peter's.street, with the effigy suspeeded from
two upright poles and a cross pale, forming a gallows, a number
of men heading the procession with torches. The shouting was
tremendous, and as the immense mass passed the residences of con.
spicuous Tories three groans were given (especially whilst passing
the Tory newspaper-office, and here the groaning and hooting was
deafening). With the exception of this the greatest order pre-
vailed, and after perambulating the principal streets the procession
entered the market-place, where the Magistrates and police were
assembled; but as there appeared no menacing intention on the
part of the populace, it was thought the wisest course to let them
alone, for a handful of police against 10,000 people armed could be
but of slight avail; and in nine cases out of ten violence on the
part of the ruling powers is returned by violence. This wise de-
termination prevented any mischief

The effigy was decorated with blue ribbons, and in one of the
hands was a cody of the Times paper, containing a report of the
speech and sliding-scale. Order having been claimed, a working
man was appointed to act in the capacity of Judge, and the trial of
Peel then commenced. In a loud and emphatic voice the Judge
pronounced sentence from a written paper, as follows
"In the first place, you, Sir, the great Quack Doctor, stand
charged with having wickedly, selfishly, and cruelly lent your as-
sistance to plunder the working millions of this country of their
property, which is their labour, and by which means you have sapped
the very foundations of their industry, by the laying on of wicked,
cruel, and unchristian Corn.laws, and that at a time when the people
expected very different treatment; for be it known unto the Jury
that it was at a time when the people were returning from
victoriously fighting the battle of the landowners, that you acted
thus cruelly towards them. In the second place you are charged
with having wickedly and cruelly prevented relief, when the late
Administration would have granted it, by destroying that Ministry,
and building upon its ruins one of the most base, selfish, and tyran-
nical Administrations that ever disgraced the British nation ; and
that you also stand further charged with having wilfully starved
many thousands of her Majesty's virtuous and loyal subjects during
the last four or five months, by refusing to administer relief, and
have been adding insult to cruelty in leaving them to perish of
hunger. And now—even so late as last night—you have crowned
an your iniquitous proceedings by rejecting their last prayer for
bread, and giving them instead an insulting mockery in the shape
of a new sliding-scale. How say you,prisoner at the bar —llo you
plead guilty or not guilty I"
A tremendous shout of " Guilty," from the multitude.
The Judge then added—" It now becomes my painful duty to
pass the awful sentence of the law upon you, that your body be
committed to the flames, and so perish all the enemies of the
people!"— (Vehement shouting.)
The effigy was then slided to and fro amidst derisive shouts ; and
some turpentine having been put on it, it was speedily in flames
(and the Times too). The shouting was deafening.
The windows were all lined with people, and as the blaze ex.
tended, it exhibited a large mass of beings congregated on the
spot. It is admitted by the Tories that there could not be less than
8,000 people, but the general calculation is from 10,000 to 12,000.
After the effigy was destroyed, the people quietly dispersed; not
the least disturbance took place.
It was one of the most solemn pieces of mockery, perhaps,
ever seen.

CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.
MR. SPEAKER'S WARRANT FOR THE APPOINT-
MENT OF MEMBERS TO SERVE ON THE GENE-
RAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS for 1842.

Pursuant to an Act passed in the 4th and sth year •f the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend
the Law for the Trial of Controverted Elections," I do hereby
appoint the Right Hon. Granville Charles Henry Somerset,
commonly called Lord Granville Somerset, Member for Mon-
mouthshire; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Member tor
Devonport ; the Right Hon. Dudley 11‘ der, commonly called
Viscount Sandon, Member for Liverpool ; James Loch, Esq.,
Member for the Wick District of Burghs ; John Wilson Patten,
Esq., Member for the Northern Division of the County Palatine
of Lancaster ; and Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Member
for the Borough of Drogheda ; to be Members of the General
Committee of Elections for the present Session.
Given under my hand this 9th day of February, 1842,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.—:-Mr. Wm. Stokes,
delegate from West Bromwich and Oldbury, requests us to
correct some errors which appeared in the report of his speech
in The Sun. The following are the correct statements—
" West Bromwich contained a population of about 28,000, and
Oldburg about 15,000." "As we go on we should soon
have four double rates a year." " Hundreds were de-
sirous of following them (to America) did they but
possess the means of doing so;" and with regard to the hol-
low-ware factory in Spain, he said "an agent was anthorit.ed
to hire fifty of the best workmen by a
,capitalist, and that the
establishment would be in Spain."—We are requested, also, to
make the following statement :—Among the Deputies reported
as having arrived yesterday, but who, in fact, arrived on Wed-
neschy, are the Rev. John M. Thomson, Maybole, Ayrshire,
and the Rev. P. Cairns, Stewarton, Ayrshire.
The Stockholm papers state that a dreadful confla-
gration occurred at Drontheim, in Norway, at the beginning
of last month, by which 500 houses were destroyed. The town
is principally built of wood.

4.mi, .........
BRAZIL. LEEDS MEETING TO PROTE
From a party thoroughly versed in Brazilian affairs, and pro- I MST
AGAINST SIR ROBERT PEEL'S NEW CORN
vided with authentic information on most occurrences, financial , LAWr
or political, that take place in any part of that extensive empire,
we have been provided with the following information on mat- (We are indebted to a second edition of the Leeds Mercury
ter s said to be purposely misrepresented
for the following Report.)
i
,eat number of the inha-
the political tranquillity of the empire. Our informant ob- 'by some planning cor- i
habitants of this borough was held on the summons of the
'1 his day a very numerous and respectable meeting of the in-
respondent at Rio, whose lucubrations, were they not insignifi- ;
cant in themselves, might affect the financial credit or disturb '
l‘fayor, and at the requisition of a gr
bitants, to take into consideration the measure brought forward
'
serves—
The proceedings were such as to evince in the most decided
by her Majeste's Ministers on the Corn-law.
That, in the first place, there is no idea entertained in 1
Brazil, except in the head of the concoctor of that corres-
pondence, ' manner, the strong feeling of indignation excited in this great
of making three different monarchies of the em-
pire. Brazil consists of nineteen provinces, each governed by manufacturine and mercantile community by the proposition of
Sir Robert Peel. The resolutions proposed by the gentlemen
a President named by the Emperor. Some of these are at
times badly governed, when the choice is made under perni2 who originated the meeting were carried unanimously; whilst
cious influence. Para, on the Amazon, in the north, and Rio amendments moved by the Chaztists, not in opposition to the
Grande, in the south, are the most distant, and have always
resolutions, but as additions to them, were rejected by very
major
hcen the worst governed provinces, therefore rebellious and large
At twelveities.
o'clock the Court-house was crowded. The
auinously expensive to the country; though Para, of late, has
redeemed its reputation through the exact Government of I shall,) Esq. was called to the chair, after some opposition on Ma 'or being called by business to London, James Garth Mar..
Senor Franco. The country desires to see married the two
Princesses, Dona Januaria and Dona Francisca, both accom the art of the Chartists, who proposed a Mr. Brook.
plished and beautiful young ladle's of twenty and eighteen
motion of Mr. H. H. Stanley, it was resolved to adjourn to
- Tte Chairman had scarcely taken the chair, when, on the
respectively, arid has voted about 20,000/. per annum for
the Cloth Hall-yard. Here about five thousand persons were each, in case of their hopes being realized ; in order to render
Brazil the more attractive to Princes of influential families, assembled, including great numbers of anxious clothiers whose
some Brazilians, without an idea of separation of the empire, c countenances bespoke the earnest interest they had taken in
wish to see such Princes, and their sons by the said Princesses,the subject. The attendance of the merchants and manufae-
named hereditary Presidents of the said provinces. The plan tuners of the town was also highly respectable.
The CHAIR MA N opened the proceedings, by observing that
is a good one to develops the resources of the provinces, and they had met toteether on an occa ion, the importance of which
even to pacify Rio Grande, and will probably be adopted by the
Ckambers this year ; and little doubt is had that the deficit in had seldom or ever been equalled, whether they regarded the
the revenues of these provinces would soon be altered into a question to be discussed, or the crisis to which the country had
arrived. —( Hear, Lear.) For a long period, the whole of this
very large surplus, administered by Princes such as can be
found in Europe, if Brazil employs the right persons, and looks great country had been left in a state of complete darkness and
for them in the right places : these Princes, therefore, will be suspense as to the measures which the present Government
subjects, or, at may rate, vassals to the Emperor, and the in. would propose for the relief of the almost unparalleled distress
tegrity of the empire be preserved, and siefferiL ee that had overtaken all classes. That sue-
e
" As to Rio Grande, the imperial arms have lately had de-
Tense was at length removed. The people saw clearly
eidedly great advantage over the rebels ; all the ports and the what they had to expect at the hand of Sir Robert Peel,
fond unless Englishmen had:greatly degenerated from their
capital, 400 niiles inland, and all the intermediate country, is
ormer spirit, it appeared to him that on the proposal of such a
again freed from them, the greatest obstacle to the putting down
measure as that now before the country, they would assemble
that rebellion being the smuggling interests, which, by the above in large numbers in every town and district to express their
arrangements, would be soon repressed.
" No treaty, offensive and defensive, has been made between
deep disappointment at, and disaffection with, that measure.—
( Cheers. ) No law could exist which in its nature violated
Brazil and Buenos Ayres, nor ever will be ; and certainly
the principles of justice to such an extent as to cause the
never for the purpose of calling in Republicans to act against
people to be in their hearts against it.—(Cheers.) The people
their own countrymen. None but a mad lawyer, out of his had the means within the constitution, if they used them
mind from not being able to revolutionize the country, could aright, to make their opinions tell even upon the present
conceive such a thought, for that would assuredly never bring House of Commons, but in order to effect that they must take
back the sons of Rio Grande to their monarchical and consti-
care not to deviate from those principles of order and obedience
tutional brethren.
No declaration of war has been, or is likely to be, made to the law, without the observance of which no large body of
against. Monte Video, except the President of the latter, Tracto
"
men could conduct any measure to a successful issue.—( Hear.)
Rivera, continues his behaviour in encouraging the rebels with GEORGE GOODMAN, Esq., moved the first resolution, as
arms and horses, and sometimes even with money, for which follows :
"
reason a Brazilian corvette and schooner have lately been sent That this meeting cannot but express their astonishment down to Monte Video as a demonstration. Majesty's pre-
" indignation at the measure proposed by her pre-
,. With regard to all the northern provinces, we have here
sent Ministry for an alteration in the Corn-laws, a measure
in London from one to two months later news than any known which they regard as a mockery of the prayers and petitions of
at Rio on the 23d of December, and they are known to be per- the people describing their intense
in the opinion of this meeting, have been mainly sufferings;occasioned which sufferings,
fectly quiet. The case, even, of the assassination of Senor
by the operation of bad laws affording protection to particular
Facundo, a former Vice-President of Ceara, is, by official docu-
ments seen, our informant has said, to be clearly proved to be, classes at the expense of the great body of the community,"
G however severe, still a condign punishment, for atrociously
Mr.
some change OODMAN observed, that the period had arrived when
would be made in the Corn and Provision-laws.
tampering with a Jury, of which said Fecund() was foreman.
The circumstance is remarkable, and may be worth relat . —( Hear, hear.) Ile expressed his decided disapprobation of
ing here.
the measure proposed by sir Robert Peel as being totally firm-
" A planter's wife had her husband poisoned by a man of dequate to meet the requirements of the country, and called
colour, with whom she lived in adultery. The numerous friends upon the inhabitants, and especially the working classes, to
show, by their unanimity of feeling, that they would be satisfied
of the deceas©d brought both of them to justice, but an influen-
with nothing less than a full measure of justice.
tial neighbour of the woman, her godfather, interceded for her,
H. H. STA NSIELD, Esq., seconded the resolution, and el-
and in so direct a manner as to send down a message to Fa- H.
to the fact that great slumbers of the aristocracy, when
cundo, who depended in a great measure on the many votes at
they became involved in finare ial difficulties, went on to the
theet through the penalty of losing all his
obtain the necessary arSicles of food much cheaper than in
Fecund° discharged three different sets of Juries because they
Englan ; end yet thrivileges which the took care to
were untractable, and presiding himself at the fourth, tampered
acquired for themselves,e same
theyp cruelly 'withheld from the great
greatly with the witnesses, arid the woman was acquitted on mass of the prop:e. (The truth of this assertion was followed
the 6th of December. A numerous body of horseman belong-
by loud applause. )
ing to the deceased's friends were then in Court ;on the fol- Mr. F. R. LEES proposed an amendment on the resolution
lowing evening Facunda was shot, and these men left the town
proposed by Mr Goodman, contending that nothing short of a
that same night.
" There is said to be no excitement amongst the people con-
repeal of the Corn-laws, combined with an abolition of sine-
cerning the probable dissolution of the next Chamber of De-
cures and pensions, and an equitable adjustment, would restore
puties ; for the Emperor, if he dissolves it, will act under the country to its wonted state of prosperity.
g,od advice, and on his unquestionable right. The Cham-
Mr. WIisTLA KE, a Chartist, seconded the amendment, and,
bees haste already had it too long their own way, and it is
in doing so, charged the Whig party with breaking faith with
time the tables were turned, particularly as there is good the people.
Mr. Jos. HOBSON', publisher of the Northern Star, made
reason to suspect that much foul play was practised at the last
a proposition to the gentlemen who had of iginated the meeting,
election, the recurrence of which will be prevented, in a
to withdraw the original resolution in favour of the amendment,
great measure, in the next, by the salutary reform in the
in order, as lie said, that the meeting might be unanimous.
criminal and civil code, made last session, which, as well as To this proposal, Mr. Stansfeld and other gentlemen felt that
the law for forming a Council of Sta. e, was chiefly brought they could not accede without compromising their own inde-
about by the giant efforts of Senator Vasconcellos, whose pendenee.
mind and activity are scarcely excelled by that of any states-
Mr. J. AY ILLY avowed himself favourable to the principles
man in Europe, and certainly not equalled in Brazil. The
above reform takes the most important functions, hereto-
embodied in the Peel le's Charter, and he called upon those
fore exercised by illiterate, and generally corruptible, Jus
entertaining similar principles, not on every public occasion to
tees of the Peace ( who owed their elevation to popular else- factiously oppose a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. STA NSFELD, in reply, announcest that the third resolu-
tion and the pandering to evil practices), from them, and
tion to be proposed asked for a repeel cf all taxes whatever on
transfers them to the hands of magistrates appointed by the
Crown. This change is a great step towards the supp Iression the importation at food.
of the slave trade, for the "former justices of the peace owed 'his statement was followed by loud cheers. The amend-
ment was negatived by a large majority.
their elections chiefly to pledges in that respect, which inferred
Mr. :MATTHEW HALL, surgeon of Wortley, moved the
a dereliction of their duty, for participation in the profits.
" As to making a loan in this country, there exists, we are
head which
second re,olution, and produced a sample of the chief necessary
of life, brought from Belgium, by Mr. John White ,
told positively, no, longer any such intention, for official no-
was beautifully white, 4rd of as fine a quality as any that could
tifieation to that effect has been received by the Minister be produced in this country. This practical refutation of one
Plenipotentiary and financial agents here. Equally certain of the fallacies advanced by the Pro-Corn-law party, was hailed
it is, that debentures; bearing 0 per cent. interest, or bil-
with loud cheers:—
lets of 600,000 reas, at 100 reas interest per day, will be
" That this meeting protests, in the strongest mariner, aainst
issued for one year, receivable all over the empire, for g
the injustice and cruelty of any tax on human food, and en
duties, &c., and the public are desirous of obtaining them,
dally against the scale of duties contained in the measure the foreign merchants included. It is also positively
known that the Commissioners for the liquidation of the brought forwent by Ministers in the House of Commons ;—it
regards the new projects as not less hostile to the interests of
balance due by Brazil to Portugal, of 487,0001. (and pledged
satisfactory
manuf es and commerce than the former an as celeu-
ortug al
mariner, to Sir Isso much aac Ly Go:d
thatsmid)
assurancesare haveroceeding
been in a lated toectur undermine and destroy the prosperitylaw, of thedco untry."
h so,
A
received by the last packet, that the business will be settled in Mr. NV . M aft N, an operative, seconded the resolution in a
another meeting or two. All that is required in this case, is to very judicious speech, in which he called upon the working
make it secure that the money does not go into the hands of casses to be united on 'his peat question, without which it
the Portuguese Ambassador ; an embargo or protest would was impossible to obtain justice from the Government. Se long
Eas eir Robert Peel and the Tories saw the people divided,
therefore be perhaps expedient. It is very much to be hoped
amongst themselves, and squabbling about straws, they would
that the late Brazilian Envoy here, Chevalier de Montezuma,
play into the hands of the aristocracy, and perpetuate the un-
will not oppose the settlement of this honest negotiation, for
just monopoly which they now enjoyed at the expense of the
which, when in London, he is said to have wished Senor Gal- just
millions.
vao to be impeaehed by his Government. However, the re-
Mr. HOBSON' said that the Chartists did not intend to pro-
Emperor, which this Chevalier is said to have met with from the po ean amendment upon the second resolution.—(Cheers.)
Emperor not at a private intsrview, but amidst a crowd of other The resolution was carried without a dissentient.
individuals, does not betoken his having such influence in that
Mr. Penerseen, after denouncing the measure proposed by
quarter."—Murning Advertiser. . - -
Sir R. Peel as a rniserabl, -Ain,- I

to potion, for which both he and his
party deserved the execration of the whole country, proposed as
a substantive resolution the amendment which had been pre-
viously submitted to the meeting and negatived, but it was
withdrawn.
Mr. liousox moved a resolution to adopt the People's
Charter.
JOHN WM To•rvia, Esq., said there was n ecessity for
him to repeat the oft-told tale of suffering ; its e -tence was
admitted by all. The question before them was not isolated
question, but a leading link in a chain of evil—he nt the
chain miscalled "protection."—(Hear.) The leade of the
Ministerial party advocated a protecting duty--now, what did
that mean but the advocacy of an unnaturally increased price
of the projected article whatever that might be. The increased
price must surely be a stimulus to the investment of capital in
such protected article, and therefore to its increased production ;
but the Right Hon. Baronet told them that artificial stimulus
had been the cause of our present distress, and yet he proposed
as a remedy the continuance of the very cause which according
to his own showing, had produced the evil.—(Cheers.) He
concluded by moving the following resolution :
That a petition to the House of Commons, founded on the
above resolutions, and praying for the entire abolition of all
taxes on food, be adopted by this meeting, signed by the
Chairman, and forwarded this evening to the Hon. C. P. Vil-
liers, M.P., for presentation to the House of Commons on
Monday.
JOSHUA. Bow•aic, Esq., seconded the motion, which was
carried. The proposition moved by Mr. Hobson was there-
fore negatived. '1 he adoption of Mr. Tottie's resolution was
followed by several rounds of cheering, waving of hats, and
clapping of buds. The proceedings then terminated.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
HAGUE, FLu. 9.—His Majesty the King of Prussia
left the Hague, this morning at half-past nine o'clock, to
return to his own dominions. Our Sovereign paid hi
Majesty a farewell visit at nine o'clock. Before his de-
parture his Majesty conferred the Grand Cross of the
lied Eagle on M. Rochussen and on Baron lityyssen
van Kattendyke. General Luzaraz received the Cross
of Commander.

Yesterday, the Bth of Feb., a treaty was concluded in
this town, for the acassion of the Grand Duchy of Lux=
emburg to the German Customs Union. Stipulations
have been made on this occasion which remove the in-
convenience v% hich had hindered his Majesty, the Grand
Duke, from ratifying the original treaty, concluded on
the Bth of August, 1841.
This new convention is signed on the one part by the
tChheaonteiclr
ierlo,b the
Prussiany the Ga zl Duchy aliEnvoy at tLuxemburg,the Court
andn
the
Netherlands. It was ratified on the same day by the
two Sovereigns.
UTRECHT, FEB. 10.—Yesterday afternoon, at half-
past one o'clock, the King of Prussia arrived here, ac-
companied by Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.
Prince Frederick accompanied the King, his brother-in-
law, to Arnheim, and passed through this city at half-
past two this morning, on his return from the Hague.
The King of Prussia left Arnheim at seven o'clock this
morning from Dusseldorf.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 10.—The average price of wheat last
week was.2lf. 59c., and that of rye 12f. 56c.

General Vandermeeren has transmitted to the Attor-
nev-General the list of the witnesses whom he intends
to call on his defence in the affair of the conspiracy.
A murder has just been committed in the territory of
the commune of Acoz. Two peasants are arrested.
The fact is that crimes never were more numerous
in Belgium than they are now ; since the many in-
stances of criminals receiving their pardon, of which they
are almost always certain, it is unsafe to venture into the
country without arms. Robberies are increasing
in a frightful manner. The penitentiary system
has been rendered so agreeable by the care of
our philanthropists, that a multitude of idle va-
gabonds prefer the comfortable and certain regimen
of a prison, to the liberty of starving while looking
for work.

HANOVER, FEB. 4.—The budget was laid before the
Chamber to-day, and will undergo some discussion to-
morrow.

We hear that Counsellor Hupeden is gone to London,
to negotiate about the Brunshausen-toll, and that after
the Session is closed, AL Klenze will go to Dresden as
Member of the Commission of the Navigation of the Elbs.
BERLIN, FEB. 2.—So many orders for engraved and
lithographic portraits of our King are received from
England, that our printsellers make good profits. Till
fre,h copies could be struck off, his Majesty's portrait
was not to be had for several days.—Hamburyh Papers,
Feb. 8.

DUTCI,'FUNDS.—AMITSIDAM, Fre 11.
Money. Bile.
Actual Debt, '2% per Cent ..... 3,2_ 4
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen t Syndic, 4 per ............ AY 9.2N17.7
Ditto, ditto, S per cent. ........ ..... .f 2?,
Commercial Company, 4 Ls, per cent 10,2u
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... iy2
Loxn 1837, 5 per cent.... ...... . ........ JO
FA change on Lendow, One month...".
02
Two months
Hamburg!), One month... .«~M •
31 og
Twomonths .....
Balch Papers, Feb. 1
hvistiNA, Fos. 3.
AUNI
..... 107
f
Three hintare e
k FIR.
5,
pgt)bSlAN FUNDS.—BERLIN,
Billa. Mone
St. Schuld. y.
Prueeian is,ht4aLliyeeap:G:rzl:B3ocintet,..4:e.e..b.r... 104%
11;xetiange on London, three months •
ti 2UN

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