The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

CHARTIST MEETING.

A crowded meeting, convened by the Chartists, was was held
on Monday, pursuant to public notice, at the Vestry-rooms,
Gordon-square, St. Pancras, for the purpose, as stated in the
blls, "of adopting measures to make the Charter become the
law of the !anti, and of praying her Majesty to dismiss from
her Council her present advisers."
Though the meeting was called for seven o'clock, the busi-
ness did not commence until eight o'clock, at which hour the
chair was taken by Mr. Farrar.
The CHAIRMAN commenced by stating, that though he was
a strict Chartist, he desired that every one who might wish to
address the meeting would be allowed to do so ; he highly de-
precated the conduct pursued by some Gentlemen who called
meetings for the avowed object of eliciting public opinion.
but would not allow any one to speak but their own agents,
thus making public meetings, as the Duke of Wellington
had expressed it, a public farce. He believed this meeting
had been called for the purpose of effecting a union
between the middle and working classes; whilst people ap-
peared to be striving far a union, he was sorry to see them
quibbling about straws —adopting various names, but always
shirking the question of the Charter. Thus it might be
seen from the papers, that a meeting of the Radical Club, at
which Mr. Hume presided, had been lately held at Radley s
/lox', whet e the object was to give everything in the Charter
but Annual Parliaments.—(" Oh.") He was the more
H i
sur-
prised at this, when he remembered that Mr.
Hume, when n
Parliament, had adopted the principles of the Charter. Mr.
Sturge, of Birmingham, also had been talking about his " com-
plete suffrage," and had called meetings on the matter ; but if
Mr. Sturg-e were to propose such a thing in London, he
(the Chairman) should rise and propose an amendment.—
( Hear. )----He should recommend the Chartists to combine
with no party who were not prepared to combine with them
en one principle, and that, the Charter. He thought they
shoeld agitate now for all the pints of the Charter, and then
let agitation cease, and for ever.—( Hear, hear.) After a few
more remarks, the Chairman concluded by calling on Mr.
Pelling to move the National Petition.
Mr. PELLING regretted that the duty which devolved upon
him had not upon into other hands. He then read the
National Petition at length, and bilefly proposed ;t for the
adoption of the meeting.
31r. MEAD, of Birmingham, said he heartily seconded the
proposition. As a true Britih sailor he always felt happy when
fighting in the cause of liberty, that cause for which, when a
young man, he also fought, but in &different way—( Chew s. ) He
had now advocated the cause of Chartism for two years, at much
expense to his pocket, and at some personal danger ; but he
had nailed his colours to the mast-head of the old Britannia,
and he would stick to them yet.—(:dear, hear.) They had
had Lord John Russell's nostrum, and he had proved himself a
perfect quack.—(Loud cheering.) Now they had Bobby Peel's
plan, and they were goirig to have a property tax, and
?many people thought that it. would be a great thing ; and so
it would, but it would come out of the people's pocket after all,
because if they taxed the property of the middle men they
would immediately lower the wages of their workmen.—( Hear,
hear.) The measure, however, was better than they expected
from such a man as Peel; but the fact was he had felt the
pressure from without ; the Chartists were, as the renegade
Dispatch had lately discovered, a powerful body, and Peel felt
it too.—( Hear, hear). He ( Mr. Mead) contended for equal
rights, equal taxation, and equal representation ; but they
•would never get that till the Charter became the law of the
land ; they had an indubitable right to this ; it had been given
to them by their forefathers, and, by the Heaven above, they
had moral strength enough to,regain it.—(Cheers.) Then as
to the State Church, lock at what it was; why, Lord
Chatlam, fifty years ago, said that it was a mockery, composed
of a Popish Liturgy, an Armenian clergy, and Calvanistic
articles. When compared with the disciples of our meek Re-
deemer, what a farce was the conduct of the ministers of our
Church. They were to be found in the gambling hells, the
race-course, the hunting-ground, and every where, in fact, but
where they ought to be—the paths of virtue and humility.—
(Cheers.) Was it a wonder, tnen, that the Charter demanded
the abolilition of a State Church? He believed that a State
Church was the source of all moral, social, and political evils.
—(Hear, hear.) He rejoiced to say, however, that there were
some goon` men in the Church ; and whilst there were such
men amongst them as the Rev. Dr. Wade, the Rev. W.
Spencer, and the Rev. Mr. Price, he could not condemn them
all.—(Cheers.) He next came to the matter of class legis-
lation, and he would say roost unhesitatingly that to class
legislation were owing the evils of the State Church which he
had endeavoured to depict.—( Hear.) If they wanted to carry
the Charter they must shut up their pockets, and use as few
exeiseable articles as possible; let them do as the men
of Birmingham did at the time of the Reform Bill, who
had large placards printed, and stuck them in their windows,
intimating that they would pay no tax till the Reform
Bill was passed.—( Hear.) Property qualification was the
Ireatest curse this country ever had. In one case the bricks
and mortar voted for the return of Members of Parliament,
and in the other case a barber's block, with plenty of yellow
dirt in his rocket, became their representatives, whilst honest
poor men could not vote, and talented poor men could not
speak to uphold the rights of the people.—( Hear, hear.) Time.
however, was precious ; their time was precious ; and he wonld
call upon the numerous assembly to co-operate in obtaining
the Charter for the law of the land. Now was the time, and
he would remind them, as Shakspeare said, that

" There is a tide
In the affairs of man, which, taken at the full,
Leads on to greatness."
Let them go on then, no.v, for now was the time in this great
moral warfare; and with Macbeth he would say to them,
" Lay on Maeda,
And damned be he that first cries Hold, enough !"
Mr. Mead resumed his seat amidst loud applause.
Dr. WADE next rose to speak to the resolution. He was an
old Reformer, and Mr. Mead might recollect that some years
ago be agitated for the Reform Bill in Birmingham, and the
reason he liked the Charter was, because the points for which
lie strove then, piecemeal and in detail, the Charter now con-
tained whole and entire.—( Hear.) He had since then been
to Scotland, where he had the honour of being deputed by the
working classes of London. He was the firstwho introduced the
Charter into Scotland. It was there he made the acquaint-
ance of their excellent friends Messrs. Sankey and Thomas
ildurphy. He was the first to stir up the bold Scotch, and to
invite the blue bonnets to come over the border.—(Cheers.)
Re had also gone to the Queen to petition for the restoration
of Frost. Williams, and Jones, and there manfully, but inef-
fectua ly, had he argued their cause. His desire was to see the
people happy, and it was that which had induced him to do
what he had done in their service. The same principles actuated
him now which actuated him then, and to obtain, the people's
happiness he believed the Charter was the best—the only ob-
ject.—( Hear, hear.) He thought working men should be
nominated as candidates for Members of Parliament, and re-
fc. Trod the meeting to Norway, where the affairs of the Stare were
co nducted by working men, and where the affairs and accounts
we re brought out in the clearest and most accurate manner.
Tb e Reverend Doctor then proceeded to comment at some
lee gth upon the articles of belief contained in the Charter, and
con eluded by expressing his hearty concurrence with every-
thing contained in the six points. He had heard there was to
be a. Conference at Birmingham, for the purpose of considering
the union between the middle and working classes ; if he
shy mld have the honour of being deputed to go there by any
of the London Associations, he should stand up for the Charter
whole and entire.—(Loud cheers.)
The petition was then put from the Chair, and carried una-
nimously, amidst loud cheers.
Mr. Nicitotsos, in a speech of some duration, which want
of space wholly precludes us from inserting, moved a resolu-
tion, decl wing class-legislation to be the root of all evils, social,
moral, and political, and that the meeting, being of opinion that
a great evil required a great remedy, was determined to adopt
the People's Charter,
Dr. M'DoWALL rose with great pleasure to second this re.
solution. He cautioned the Chartists to beware of the pro-
fessions of the middle-class men ; whatever might be their pro-
fesaions, he did not believe that they were actuated by any
desire to benefit the great portion of mankind. They never
-Troubled their heads about politics till politics interfered with
them ; r.nri then they began to think about some reformation,
...Their interests were now interfered with, and they sought for
tome change, but he would warn the labouring-classes not to
trt tst to their sincerity, for so soon as t!heyobtained their object,
which might be the abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws,
per baps, they would forget their professions and leave the
woAting-mfn •to •fight their battle alone.—(Cheers.) With
rest trd to the income tax proposed by Sir R. Peel, he would
assure the working men that they would ultimately have to pay
it—it would all come out of their pockets. He cared not where j
they put the tax, whe her they put it on champagne, which
the -wo-Aing men never saw, or upon port wine, which they
newer drank ; it was the same in the end, the labouring-class
paid for it all.—( Hear, hear.) The repeal of the
Corn-laws would be of no service to the people. Such a con-
cession might have suited them very well some fifty or
sixty years ago, but now they were much in advance of such a
iminciple as that ; now that they were sticking at the tree of
currnpnon, what was the good of one saying, Strike here, and
another saying, No, strike here, a yard higher. He would strike
at "the root at once, and bring down the whole at one fell
swoop.—( Hear, hear.) The Doctor then briefly adverted to
the grievances of the Irish people, and having gone over the
various parts of the National Petition, he concluded, amidst
great cheering, by expressing his hearty and entire concurrence
in the resolution which he had had the honour of seconding.
Several other speeches were delivered by persona present,
and a memorial was agreed on to her Alajesty, respectfully
praying her to dismiss from her Council her present advisers.
Votes of thanks were passed to the Chairman and the gentle-
men who had addressed them in the course of the evening. The
meeting, which had been throughout conducted with the greatest
propriety, separated at a very late hour.

THE CASE OF flits. LUCAS, WHOSE HUSBAND
KILLED HIS CHILDREN AND HENISELF.—The Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress have determined to exert themseives to
procure from the compassionate public the means of making
some provision for the unfortunate creature who has been left.
alone and destitute in the world, by the frightful catastrophe
which took place on Sunday morning in Aldermanbury. His
Lordship stated yesterday in the parlour of the Mansion-
house, that he was convinced the feeling caused by the every)
was of such a nature, that it was only necessary for him to al-
Jude to the necessities of the afflicted widow, to induce the bene-
'Talent to come forward to her assistance. He and the Lady
_Mayoress had made the most searching inquiries into the cha-
racters of the widow and her la e husband, and they learned
loom every source to which they had applied, that the conduct
of both hail always been unexceptionable, and that the
brain of the poor wretched man must have been affected
by the horror he felt at the approach of want and its con-
comitant miseries and degradation, as regarded his family.
The almost distracted widow presented, at the moment his
Lordship was speaking. according to the statement of his Lord-
ship's own medical man, who had been directed to attend her,
one of the most deplorable objects in the world. The Lady
Mayoress had been with her to administer whatever the poor
creature was capable of receiving as corsolation in her pitiable
condition, and some benevolent persons had joined in the inte-
rest felt for her, and had expressed themselves warmly in fa-
Tour of a subscription for her relief. It was, his Lordship re-
marked, evident, from the hardness of the hands of the un-
happy sufferer, who was a person of very delicate frame and
";:calth, that she had never been idle while her husband was em-
ployed or seeking for employment ; and it was well known in
the neighbourhood in which they resided, that the father and
mother went, alternate Sunday, to church with the three
children, who were always remarkable for the neatness of their
appearance) Taking the case in all its circumstances, his
:Lordship considered it to be one which had peculiar claims upon
whose who had a " a tear for Tity," and he should, therefore,
$, el the highest gratification in receiving contributions for the
benefit of the helpless survivor.
The American ship Solon, which arrived at this
port on Tuesday last, brought the whole of )Messrs. Titus.
Sands, and Co.'s equestrian stud and company, consisting of
thirty-two horses. We understand that they hare taken the
Amphitheatre, which place it is intended to openperformances, for the dis-
iplay of equestrian performances, about the 20th
oth inst. Amongst
tthe artistes, is the great and unrivalled American rider, Mr.
',North, who has been creating wonders on the other side of
the Atlantic.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The railway cuttings are ,proceeding fast both east
and west of Ashford, and extensive preparations are being
Jnade for carrying on the works with all possible speed. A
great many men are at present in employ, which number is to
be considerably augmented as the spring advances.— Canter-
bury Journal.
The forthcoming new opera of The Students of
:Moss, we are authorised to say, is not, as has been stated, a
"mnsietien, hut is entirely original—Mr. G. H. Rodwell, the
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*l:44V°"r* being the author of both words and MU; .

DESTRUCTION OF THE OXFORD
POST-OFFICE, BY FIRE.
13.—A r,
OXFORD, MARCH fire broke out a little after seven
( FROM A CORRESTONDENT.)
o'clock, A. m. (Sunday), which destroyed three or four houses,
and seriously damaged two others. The Post-office and house
occupied by Mr. John Parsons, tailor, &c., Messrs. Foster
and Co., linen drapers, Mr. Marshall, music-seller, High-
street, Oxford, are reduced to ashes. The Masonic Hall,
Alfred-street, suffered materially, from fire and water ; the top
floor at the north end of the Hall was burnt, and at one time it
was feared that it would share the fate of the aforementioned
buildings. Fortunately at the time the fire broke out, the
wind was still, for there was a scarcity of water, although we
are flooded for miles round Oxford at this moment. To make
up for this deficiency, the pumps in the High-street were put
in requisition, and so we had a good supply of spring water.
The gownsmen and townsmen worked like slaves at the engines.
The Postmaster has issued the following hand-bill
The Post-office having been destroyed by fire, arrange-
ments have been made to conduct the Post-office business at
the Town-hall, where a box will be open for the reception of
letters, this evening; and it is intended to despatch the Lon-
don mail as usual. 'I he whole of the letters in the office have
beer, preserved, and will be despatched and delivered in due
course. "JOSEPH WARNE, Postmaster.

" Sunday, March 13."
The service at All Saint's Church was suspended this day,
for various parishioners had availed themselves of the Church
for the protection of their property.

(FRO3I ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
OXFORD, SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH I:S.—This morn-
ing, about seven o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on the pre-
mises of Mr. Parsons, man mercer, adjoining the Post-office
in the High-street, Oxford. The flames immediately commu-
nicated to the Post-office on the east side, and that of Mr.
Chas. Foster, jun., draper and haberdasher, on the west. It
was a considerable time before a sufficient supply of water could
be.obtained to work the engines, so that the flames got the com-
plete mastery, and those three houses were very soon entirely
Oestro),ed. The flames next caught the roof of Mr. Marshall's
house, which has been considerably injured. Property to the
amount of at least. 7,0001. must have been lost or destroyed.
The fire is supposed to have originated in a flue which commu-
cated with a beam, and thus remained in a smouldering state
all night. The houses are insured in the County Fire Office.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING-, MARCH 16, 1842

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Sabbati, 12 die Alartii 1842

Whereas, at the last election for the county of the town of
Southampton, James Bruce, Esq., commonly called Lord Bruce,
was returned a Member to serve in Parliament for the said town ;
and whereas a petition. complaining of an undue election and re-
turn for the said town, has been presented to the Ih,use of
Commons; and whereas the House of Commons did, on the
11th istst., resolve, that the seat of the said Lord Bruce fur the
said county of the town of Southampton had by law become
vacant, he being now the Earl of Elgin, a Peer of the United
Kingdom; now I do hereby give) this: notice thereof, in pur-
suance of the provisions of an Act, passed in the fifth year of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend
the law for the trial of controverted elections."

Given under my hand this 12th day of March, 1842,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.
DUCHY OF CORNWALL, :MARCH 11, 1842.
Sir William Moiesworth, of Pencarrow, Bart., has been
this day appointed to be Sheriff of the county of Cornwall for
the year ensuing.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Sayers Turner, of Col-
chester, in the county of Essex, Gent., to be a Master Extra-
ordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The following places have b en duly registered for solemniz-
ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th and ith Wil-
liam IV., chap. 85 :
St. Stephen's Church, Rochdale, Lancashire.
St. Mary's Church, Stowhill, Monmouthshire.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

JOHN HETHERI;GANTOKNRp
,;holesaleteamerchar.t, King's
Arms-yard, City.
TS.

CHARLES PAGE, coach tyre smith, Nottingham-mews,
Marylebone, to surrender March 18, at two, and April 26. at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assig-
nee ; Kell, Bedford-row.
STEPHEN PEAKE, Luilder, Ramsgate, March 24, at
seven, and April 26, at nine, at the Albion Hotel, Ramsgate.
Smith, Barnard's Inn, London.

JOHN JONES, cordwainer, Liverpool, March 24, and
April 26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Corn-
thwaite, Dean's-court, Doctors'-commons, London ; Corn-
th viaite, Cable •street, Liverpool.
JOSEPH PAGE, Jun., porter merchant, Gloucester,
March 28 and April 26, at twelve, at the Office of C. Small-
ride, Gloucester- Jones and Blaaland, Crosby-square, Lon-
don ; Smallridge, Gloucester.
THOMAS MORRIS, grocer, Newbridge, Glamorganshire,
March 26, and April 26, at two, at the Commercial-rooms,
Bristol. Whiteand Eyre, Bedford-row, London ; Short, Bristol.
JOHN ALEXANDER, brewer, Pendleton. Lancashire,
March 29 and April 26, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Har-
court-buildings, Temple, London ; Slater and Heelis, Man-
chester.

PETER BOULD, cotton-spinner, Ovenden, Yorkshire,
March 29, at one, and April 26, at tv, elve, at the White Lion
Inn, Halifax. Emmet and Allen, Bloomsbury-square, London ;
Alexander, Halifax ; Stocks and Macaulay, Halifax.
JOHN PARUERY, soldier, Northampton, March 21, and
April 26, at two, at the Stag's Head Inn, Northampton.
Hall, Northampton ; Weller, King's-row, Bedford .road, London.
JOHN DA VINSON BEDFORD, brewer, Burton-upon-
Trent, Staffordshire, March 30 and April 26, at twelve, at the
George Hotel, Burton-upon-Trent. Richardson, Burton-
upon-Trent ; Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings,
Holborn, London.

JOHN FRANKLAND and THOMAS FRANKLAND,
merchants, Liverpool, March 29, and April 26, at three, at tha
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Makinson and Sanders,
Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; Atkinson and Saunders,
Manchester.

THOMAS FINCH COZENS, builder, Canterbury, March
24, at twelve, and April '26, at one, at the Guildhall, Canter-
bury. Plummer, and R. and G. Furley, Canterbury; Butter-
field and France, Gray's Inn-square, London.
WILLIAM LLOYD, wine merchant, Liverpool, March
29, and June 26, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Whitley,
Liverpool ; Lowe, Garey, and Sweething, Southampton-build-
ings, Chancery-lane, London.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Wheeler, tailor, Princes-street, Hanover-square, April 5,
at one—J. Buckle, tea dealer, Kensington, April 7, at twelve
—T. Brown, plumber, Bell-yard, Lincoln's Inn, April 8, at
half-past ten—F. Lock, wine merchant, Three-crown-court,
Jewry-street, Aldgate, April 7, at twelve—J. Coulsell, builder,
Richmond, April 6, at twelve—J. H. Cassell, naptha seller,
Mill-wall, Poplar, April 6, at one.
In the Country.
. .

T. E. Jones, leather seller, Birmingham, April 5, at one, at
the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—J. Butler, saddlers' iron-
monger, Walsall, Staffordshire, April 13, at twelve, at the
Ewan Inn, Wolverhampton—T. Wiggerham and R. Saunders,
ale merchants, Birmingham, April 13, at half-past twelve, at
the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—E. Raine, carpet manu-
facturer, Barnard Castle, Durham, April 14, at twelve, at the
King's Head Inn, Barnard Castle—R. Peart, rope maker,
Newark-upon-Trent, April 7, at two, at the Castle and Falcon
Inn, Newark-upon-Trent—J. Cotton awl T. B. Oliver,
hosiers, Nottingham, April 4, at one, at the George the Fourth
Inn, Nottingham—E. Knight, cabinet maker, Southampton,
April 7, at one, at the Star Hotel, Southampton—F. Perks,
Sun., hatter, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, Aped 16, at twelve,
at the Vine Inn, Stourbridge—H. Caulier, nurseryman, Bath,
April 2S, at one, at the Castle and Ball, Bath—W. I. Law,
chemist, Manchester, April 5, at ten, at the Commissioners'-
rooms, Manchester—N. Fraley and J. E. Merchant, linen
drapers, Bristol, April 6, at one, at the Commercial-rooms,
Bristol.