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-LIASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COAL-
Aid PANY.—Notice is hereby given that the undermen-
tioned Resolutions were passed at a SPECAL GENERAL
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the said COM-
PANY, held the 22d Day of February, 1842; and the atten-
tion of the Proprietors of Shares and Debentures of the said
Company is requested thereto. By order of the Board,
A. BULKELEY, Fee.
Offices, High-street, Shorediteb, Feb. 23, 1842.
RESOLUTIONS.
1. That this Special General Meeting of the Shareholders
of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, called and sum-
moned in pursuance of the provisions of the Company's Act of
Incorporation, doth hereby, by way of Augmentation of the
Capital Stock of the said Company, create 36,000 new Shares
of 251. each, and dOth hereby order that the Directors of the
said Company shall issue the same new Shares in such form and
manner, and with such Scrip or Scrip Receipts, or otherwise,
in the rst instance, as they shall think fit, and that upon such
new Shares, the sum of 81. 6s. Bd. per Share only, and no
more, shall be paid at the following times and in the following
proportions, viz.
£2 6 8 on sth April next.
£2 0 0 on 4th June next.
£2 0 0 on sth August next.
£2 0 0 on sth October next.
2. And this Meeting doth further order, that the Directors
shall give notice of the creation of such new Shares in one or
more Newspapers published in the Counties of Middlesex,
Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk ; and that such new Shares shall,
in the proportions after mentioned, be divided amongst eV each
persons as shal be, on the sth day of March next, the re-
gistered Proprietors in the Compan .'s books of original Shares
of this Company, and as shall on the sth day of March next be
the registered Proprietors in the Company's books of the con-
vertible Debentures of 81. 6s. Bd., which were issued by this
Company in pursuance of the ReSolutions passed at the Spe-,
cialfleneral Meeting of this Company, held on the 29th of
September, 1840.
3. And this Meeting.doth further order that the said 36,000
new Shares shall be appropriated and issued by the Directors
amongst the said several Proprietors of Original Shares and
Debentures, in such proportion and manner as shall in the
opinion of the said Directors be fair and equitable to the said
Proprietors respectively, yieldingas nearly as practicable one of
such new Shares for every three of such original Shares, and
for every three of such convertible Debentures ; or, as the case
may be, for every three of such Shares and Debentures jointly.
4. And this Meeting doth further order that by such notice
in the said Newapapers each registered Proprietor of Shares
and of Debentures, shall be required to give notice in writing
to the Directors, of his intention to take or become the pur-
chaser of the Shares so to be appropriated to him, and that the
same new Shares, or so many of them as shall be required,
shall be appropriated in the proportions before mentioned, to
such of the said Proprietors as shall on or before the 25th
day of March next, give notice in writing to the Directors, of
their intention to take up such new Shares. -
5. That any Proprietor not duly paying on or before the sth
of April next, such first deposit of :U. 6s. -Bd., on each new Share
to be appropriated to him, shall be deemed and taken to have re-
jected his proportion of such new Shares, or of so many of theist
upon which he shall have refused or neglected to pay such de-
posit punctually ; and the Directors are required and directed
by this Meeting thereupon to hold, for the purposes next
mentioned, such of the said Shares upon which the said deposit
shall not have been duly paid.
6. That as to all such new Shares as shall not be appro-
priated, distributed, or disposed of, under or by virtue of the
foregoing Resolutions, or upon which the first deposit aforesaid
of 21. 6s. Bd. each, or any of the future instalments shall not
be Ally paid, it shall be lawful for the Directors of this Company
to dispose thereof to any Corporations or persons who may be
willing to become and 811311 become Purchasers and Proprietors.
7. That the new Shares so created, when issued under the
Common Seal of the Company, and after the sum of Si. 6s. Bd.
for each Share shall have been duly and punctually paid to the
Company, by the Instalments aforesaid, shall on the 4th of
January next (in respect of the Traffic of the previous half-
year) and from and after that date, be considered as to divi-
dends, and for all other purposes, and rank the same as, and
equally with the now existing Shares of 25/. each, and as if
251. had been paid up thereon.
8. That it shall be imperative on all the holders of the said
Scrip or Scrip Receipts, to pay the said several instalments
punctually, and in default thereof, from whatever cause arising,
the Scrip held by them shall be subject to such forfeiture as
next hereinafter mentioned

PUBLICATIONS.

RICHARD GARDNER, Esq., followed. He extolled the
working classes, whOm he considered a much wiser people than
those who assumed to-themselves all the wisdom and talent
They had first-found out where the evil lay, namely, in defec-
tive and corrupt representation ; their breeches pocket was the
first.fridaitor, and then came the belly, which was worse than
all. He did not so much blame the aristocracy for holding
the poWer, as the middle and humbler classes for allowing them
to hold. it so long—for elevating them into a sort of gods,
although they were men with like passions and frailties to those
of ourselves. • No real or permanent good for the country could
he obtained till the Charter was established.
THOMAS POTTER, Esq., (son of Mr. Thomas Potter), con-
Amide& for the Charter, for Universal Suffrage, as the only
means to obtain good government. A million and a half had
been spent by the Tories at the last election , all which money
had been wrung from the pockets of the people that an oligarchy
might be maintained. He congratulated the meeting on the
power they possessed.
Mr. MURRAY (the able Anti-Corn-law lecturer) addressed
the meeting, when there were loud shouts
-of " Leach, Leach."
- Mr. LEACH (the well-known Chartist) was received with
deafening cheers. He congratulated heartily the-meeting on
the rapid strides freedom was making. Thanks to Sir R. Peel,
the principles of liberty were quick advancing. The English
working man at one time possessed a chest of drawers, a clock,
a bed, and other decent fu, 'cure, but now he ha& but a
pallet of straw. The contlita of !be country was fright-ful
; workmen were driven from their_statedfimployesent, and
hundreds upon hundreds of Cottages were now empty in all
parts of the town. TI-it aristeaeratic portion of the coun-
try had so ground down the People, that they were almost
reduced to helplessness. He rejoiced on the prospect of
union with the middle classes. He would willingly forget
all past differences, and unite heart and hand with the
gentlemen around him, as he had no reason to suspect their
faith and honesty. The deliverance of their country from the
jaws of monopoly in every shape, was what they all then aimed
at. He wished to see perfect union prevail. He was glad to
hear the Charter so highly extolled; it was the only means of
restoring liberty and Justice to the people. He was sure that
the meeting would delight in the proceedings of the evening ;
and he requested that all who agreed with him and the frtends
about him, in the principles which had been submitted to their
consideration—as the means of political salvation to the country
—would signify the same by holding up their hands.—( Here
the meeting responded to the call by holding up their hands,
and following the act by loud and enthusiastic cheers.)
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, when the meeting sepa-
rated in a few minutes, in the same order as they came together.

MISS BURNEY'S DIARY.
The First Volume of

This day is published,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW,
NO. XX V.
. Hegel's ./Esthetik.—The Philosophy of Art.
2. Viola, the Affianced.
3. The Poniitowski Gems.
4. Switzerland.—Her Political Crisis.
5. State of the Nation.—Handloom-weavers' Report.
6. La Chronique de Rains.
7. Foreign commercial Policy.—The Zollverein and the Anti-
Corn-law League.
8. France in the 17th Century.—Tallemant des Reaux.
9. Passavant's Life of Raffaelle.
London R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleat-street,

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actions are now open to observation ; they are the just
objects of suspicion, and they are now . falling into the.
unhappy condition of detected story-tellers, whom nobody'
believes. Such a station, if that be the station which
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL is anxious to maintain, is
incompatible with the preservation of authority.

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questiornegrfett vehe cry mulch thaws. Te
hco of h
.nduct r
onitngeaNh
and
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their
i vottets•
are palpably at variance. They have not confidence in their
own principles, and their fears master their convictions.
They, mistrust nature, and wonderfully overrate the
good effects of laws. All their arguments, particularly
the elaborate statements of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Lord
PAL3IERSTON, and Mr. MAcAuLAY, go the whole length
of declaring that trade is not a proper subject for legis-
lation. How can it be ? Legislation is confined to one
21Lialitieixiit is wholly municipal. Trade is inter-
national, and extends far beyond the reach and bound,
of law. But while the leading Whigs take this sound
and wise view of trade, they will vote against their
own convictions. They will not support Mr. VIL-
LIERS, they throw cold water on his motion, and they
thereby inure their own character for consistency and
sagacity. We believe, too, that they will injure them-
selves as a party. The question mooted by, Mr. VIL
LIERS is the popular question of the day. It concerns
the prosperity of property and the welfare of industry.
ft emphatically Concerns the millions. In our judg-
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and just in the Whigs, had they cordially supported the
motion for the total and immediate abolition of the
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REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
Last night a meeting of the inhabitants of the Western half
of the Hundred of Brixton was held at the Spread Eagle
Tavern, Wandsworth, to take into consideration the propriety
of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and for
an extension of the suffrage. The meeting- was very nume-
rously attended. Prout, Esq., was called to the chair.
The CHAIR-max said the subject on which they had met
was of a two-fold character, namely, the bread tax and the
franchise.—( Hear, hear.) The period had arrived when the
working man could now understand both questions.— (Hear,
hear.) With respect to the bread tax, it was clearly shown
that for every shilling expended by the working man for
bread, fourpence or fivepence went back to the Government in
the shape of taxation.—(Hear.) The great object of the meet-
ing then was to see what steps should be taken to get rid of the
bread tax.—(Hear.) It was calculated that during 1835,
16,00j,000 quavers of corn had been consumed in this coun-
try, and the result was, that there was a difference in the price
of bread of 25,000,0001. Of this sum the working man paid
a moiety, and the fact was, that the working classes paid
12,000,0001. of this difference.—( Hear, hear.) It was
said that the amount of wages depended on the price of
food ; this, however, was a fallacy; and if they wanted any
proof on this point, let them look to the United States,
where wages were extremely high, and where the price
of food was extremely low. The truth was, the amount of
wages depended on the amount of work to be done, and the
number of labourers that were ready to perform that work.—
( Hear, hear.) Anything that was calculated to interfere with
the employment of capital was prejudicial to the interests of
the community, and the effect of the Corn-laws was to in-
terfere with the profitable employment of capital. The result
was that the wages of the labourer were abridged, and his
comforts destroyed.—( Hear, hear.) The Chairman then ad-
verted to the price of bread in Paris and in London, and
showed that while tenpence was paid for a quartern loaf in
London it could be had for sixpence in Paris.—( Hear, hear.)
Why should not the working man be able to get his loaf as
cheap here as at Paris?—( Hear, hear.) In connection with
this question there was also that of the extension of the Suf-
frage. This was an important consideration when they found
that there was a majority of 123 landowners, who said that
the people of this country 'should be unnecessarily taxed to
support their luxury.--( Hear, hear.) The taxation of this
country—that is, the taxes that pressed on the industrious
classes—was immense, and the people ought to call for a
diminution of the Excise and Customs duties to the extent of
20,000,000/.—( Hear, hear.) He would also suggest that a
heavier land-tax ought to be imposed, for then property that
ought justly to contribute to the wants of the State would be'
made to bear its fair .proportion in respect to those wants.—
( Hear.) He now came to the question of the suffrage, and
here he mint say that they never could expect to have justice
done to them rtil they bad a further reform of the House of
'Commons.-4Loriti-cheers. ) They ought not to look at this
or that particular course of reformation—they ought to go at
once to the root of the evil, and apply for Universal Suffrage
and Vote by Ballot.—( Cheers.) Let them not quarrel about
their obtaining all the points adverted to in the Charter; let
them get what good they could. He was in heart and feeling
a Chartist; but he could not expect to obtain everything that
the Charter demanded for 30 or 40 years.—( Hear.) Still
they might by firm and energetic action obtain many reforms ;
and if they succeeded in obtaining some of the Positions called
for by the Charter, they would do much g00d..--( Hear. )• He
called upon them to act with energy and decision, but above all
things to be united. If they were so, they might depend upon
it they must succeed.—(Applause.)
Dr. LONGSTAFF then came forward to move the first re-
solution, and in doing so observed, that about twelve months
since they met in-that room on this very question, and he did
not then think that they would again have to denounce the sliding
scale, for lie thought that that principle would have been de-
stroyed for ever.—(Hear.) It seemed, however, that he was
mistaken, for Dr. Peel, who refused to say what he would do
until he had received his fee—( A laugh)—had, since his re-
turn to power, prescribed for his patients the very same dose
that they had been swallowing for years.--( Hear, and a laugh. )
It was true that the colour of the mixture had been changed
from red to brown—( A laugh)—but its essential attributes
were the same. What the people wanted was good bread pills—(A
laugh)—and he trusted that they would not cease importuning
the Doctor until they got what they wanted to improve their
health, and strength, and their constitution.—( Hear.) The
question was not now whether they should have a fixed duty
or a sliding scaie, but whether they should have un'.axed
bread ?—( Hear.) The simple question was this—were the bulk
of the people to be taxed for the mere sake of keeping the land-
owners in their present station and power?—(Hear, hear.)
He concurred that the fair way of settlaig this question was by
taxing property, for that was the only legitimate source from
which taxation could be derived.—( Hear.) Why should the
man who only held five acres of land be taxed equal to the
holder of one hundred acres ?—( Hear.) But the r eason why
property was not fairly taxed was, because their legislators were
the owners of the land; and this brought him to the consi-
deration of the question of the franchise, without an extension
of which, so as to include Universal Suffrage, it would be impos-
sible that the wants and wishes of the people could be fairly re-
presented in the Commons' House of Parliament. The speaker
then proposed the first resolution, which was to the effect, that
the measure lately proposed to Parliament in reference to an
alteration of the Corn. laws, was not calculated to alleviate the
sufferings of the working classes, &c.
Mr. Rota seconded the resolution, which was unanimously
agreed to.
Mr. AITKEN then proceeded to propose the second resolution,
and said that the village of Wandsworth was a proof of the in-
jurious tendency of the Corn-laws. In 1822 that village was
in a flourishing state from its manufactures, but now it had
scarcely any. In 1822 there were 13,000 persons employed in
the manufacture of printed calicoes in Wandsworth, and 3,000/.
a-week were paid to them. What was the state of the case
now ? Why the establishments were all closed, and the work-
men were all gone.—( Hear, hear.) He contended that these
distressing results arose from the tax upon food. He was a
strenuous advocate for an extension of ,the suffrage. He begged
to conclude by proposing the following resolution :
" That while this meeting is of opinion that no measure short
of the entire abolition of the Corn and Pi ovision-laws can ef-
fectually relieve the country from its present difficulties, yet
considers it useless to petition the House of Commons on the
subject, as it has no hope of obtaining justice from Parliament
as it is at present constituted ; and in conformity with these
views this meeting pledges itself to commence the most active
and energetic constitutional agitation to effect the total and
immediate repeal of all taxes on food, and for the complete and
thorough reformation of the Commons' House of Parliament."
The resolution was agreed M.
It was subsequently resolved, that the resolutions should be
published in the Morning Advertiser, the Morning Chronicle,
the Times, and The Sun newspapers.
The meeting, which was most unanimous throughout, then
separated

By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street

MEETING AT WEST BROMWICH.
WEST BROMWICH; TUESDAY MORNING.--A most nume-
rous meeting was held here last night in the Methodist Chapel,
Hill-top, for the purpose of taking measures to secure the re-
peal of the Corn-laws and the removal of Peel and his col-
leagues. James Bottley, Esq., was called to the chair. It is
impossible to describe the feeling displayed at the meeting;
suffice it to say it was such as clearly indicated a state of mind
which must very soon lead to the most important changes.
Eveiy one of the speakers called aloud for an extensioti of the
suffrage, and it eas clearly and plainly asserted that the mo-
ment the Queen refused to dismiss her present Ministers, an
immediate and general cessation from tax-paying would ensue.
The conduct of the ladies of Manchester was loudly cheered,
and a determination expressed to follow their advice. More
solemn promises were never made by men than were entered
into last night by the speakers, to continue agitation until the
object was carried.

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By Miss WADDINGTON.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

MEETING AT WOLVERHAMPTON
—RE-UNION OF THE PEOPLE.
WOLVERHAMPTON, TUESDAY.—A most important meeting
was held here yesterday, first at the Public Office, and then
by adjournment at St. James's-square. The arrival of the
majority of 123 in favour of Peel's sliding scale decided the
people at once as to their future course, and the result has
been, that from this town, •the centre of a most important
district, one universal shout for an extension of the Suffrage
has gone forth, followed by a declaration of want of confi-
dence in Peel and his colleagues. On Saturday the walls of
the town were covered by violent; placards, and a large body
of Chartists came in from Bilston and other places, in expecta-
tion of a reconciliation with their employers, and in this they
were not disappointed. They were met by the most respect.
able men in the town in a spirit of conciliation, and the result
was, that both parties shook hands, and vowed the removal
from power of the man whom all shades of Refo:mers denounce
as utterly unworthy to fill the office of Prime Minister. At
eleven o clock, the appointed hour, the Public Office was
crowded, arid the greatest intlrest seemed to be felt by all pre •
sent. A few minutes before the time a working man called
out for the chair to be taken by a working man, upon which
JOSEPH WALKER, Esq. then moved Mr. Jeremiah Wynn to
the chair; the Rev. W. STOKES seconded the motion; which
was put and carried unanimously.
The building now became so intolerable from the pressure,
that the immense concourse moved to St. James's-square,
where a temporary hustings was prepared, and around which
several thousands Molt their stand, amidst torrents of rain, with
as much composure as if it was a midsummer day. .
The CHAIRMAN read the vequisiiion calling the meeting,
signed by upwards of 3061ene..sinen of the town. He declared
most positively' e had never known thrripple in Bach an awful-
condition. He had visited one district with the clergyman and
others, in order to find out the most deserving objects of charity,
and he never beheld such scenes as he had witnessed. They
met one lad who had,been without food for two days; another
person had only had a few potatoes to keep body and soul toge-
then • and they found another boy who was actually picking up
the offal in the street to support nature.—(Shame, shame!)
The first day they relieved 300, the second day 600 most
wretched objects. They found in that one district 700 indi-
viduals who begged as if they were begging for their life, to be
permitted.to receive the small allowance of bread and potatoes
which their charitable friends enabled them to give. The time
had now arrived for the people to look to themselves.
JOSEPH WALKER, Esq., then moved the following resolu-
tion :—" That the distress under which the people of this town
and district are now, and have been for so long suffering, are
caused by those laws which restrict the importation of food--
that the Ministerial proposal for the amendment-of these laws
adds insult to injury by its mockery of relief—that the certainty
of such amendment being carried by the majority of the Mem-
bers of the present House of Commons, is proof of the neces-
sity of putting au end to these and other evils of class legisla-
tion, by such extension of the franchise as shall secure to all
ranks of the people that full and free representation as defined
in the ' People's Charter,' to which, on the principles of the
Constitution, they are entitled."
The reading of the resolution was received with the .most
tremendous cheering, after which
Mr. WALKER addressed the meeting at great length and
ability upon the well-known injurious effects of the Corn-laws,
and the gross insult offered to the country by the sliding jug-
glery of the Tamworth doctor.
Mr. Mocics seconded the resolution, and expressed his firm
conviction that they would now roll up such a moral force in
the country as would remove Peel in a few weeks. They
would allow him six weeks to snake up his account and be off.—
(Cheers.) They had beeen told that it was the naughty
Chartists who had put Peel into power. Very well—be it so;
and then what followed ? Why, that the naughty Chartists,
with the aid of the middle classes, would hurl him out again.—
(Cheers.) The Chartists did net like Peel, and from that
dayraised the standard of the suffrage, and around it they would
rallyths
uetcyhwaocuoldmpbrionvaetiaitn. —as
( Renewed cheers.) They had now
would drive Peel and his colleagues
from power ; upon that they were decided.---( Hear. )
The resolution was put and carried, with great cheering.
HENRYsq., moved the second resolution. The
aristocracyßv WhaAdLseKeEnam'illioni of human beings reduced to starva-
tion by bad laws; but they would not alter them. It was in
vain, therefore, to petition them again. They had closed their
hearts against the poor, and they must go to the Queen. He
moved the udoption of a petition to the Queen, with the addi-
tion of a paragraph in favour of the Suffrage.
Mr. KETTELL seconded the adoption of the petition. After
which another petition to her Majesty, to dismiss her present
Ministers and grant an extension of the Suffrage, was agreed to
amidst the most tremendous cheering. After which the meet-
ing broke up.

9. That in the event of any of the said instalments on any such
New Shares, or on the Scrip or Scrip Receipts to be issued in re-
spect thereof, not being punctually paid on or before the re-
spective days or times fixed as aforesaid for the payment, it
shall be lawful for the Board of Directors of the said Cam-
panyto resolve and declare that New Shares
_under the Com-
..

" That at future divisions of the House, neither the
strangers in the gallery, Or the reporters, shall be re-
quired to withdraw, except by special motion for that
purpose." .The present practice of excluding all strangers
from the House, including reporters, dates from the
time when the House sought to enshroud all its pro-
ceedings in secresy, by making it a breach of privilege
to communicate them to the public. In former times pa-
triotic Members were exposed to the persecution of the So-
, VEREIGN, and there was then a reason for keeping secret
the share which each individual took in the proceedings
of the House. Those times have long passed away.
The SOVEREIGN has lost her power, as against the House
of Commons, and no Member now runs the smallest risk
of being persecuted for an exuberant zeal in the cause
of the people. The public are now admitted to witness
the proceedings of the House, save and except divi-
sions; and the success of Mr. WARD'S motion, to publish
the names and votes of Members by the authority of the
House, has removed every shadow of a pretext for not
allowing the public to see the divisions, when they can
learn from the papers on which side each Member votes.
We are not aware that there can be any feasible objec-
tion to Mr. MuNrz's motion. It will remove the last
remnant of the old secresy, and bring all the proceedings
of the House into harmony. The motion ought, them-
fore, to meet with no opposition and no dissentients.

pang's Seal shall not be issued in respect of the Scrip or sums
of 8/. 6s. Bd. as to which such default shall have arisen ; and
in case of such declaration by the Board of Directors, the holder
of the Scrip on which such default shall have arisen, shall ab-
solutely forfeit his right to receive a share of 251. in respect,
thereof, and the money paid on, or in respect of each new
Share or Scrip aforesaid, upon which such default shall have
taken place, shall and may, from and after such default, be re-
tained and held by this Company as a deposit, and shall be
payable to the parties entitled thereto, in exchange for the
Scrip or Scrip Receipts upon which such default shall have
taken place...,
10. That none of the new Shares issued under, or by virtue
of the foregoing resolutions, nor the Scrip in respect of the
nine, shall be deliverable to any of the Proprietors of ox iginal
Shares, who shall be in arrears for calls on such original
Shares, until such arrears of Calls, and all interest due thereon,
shall have been fully paid up to the Company.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Etq., Chairman.

J. Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. I .Lehr; Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

We referred very briefly yesterday to the immu-
nity of our law-givers, which makes them, in our opinion,
very regardless, considering the importance of their
functions, both of what they undertake, and how they
perform it. There is surely no office in society—no
duty to be done by man—of such pre-eminent, and even
solemn greatness, as making laws for an immense com-
munity, such as is now gathered under the British flag.
Accordingly our ancestors, very properly in our estima-
tion, laid down the rule, that the preceedings in both
Houses were to be begun by prayer.
Like other ordered observances, however, that has now
lost all its sacredness and its sanctity, and has dwindled,
like most of the practices of the established priesthood,
into a mere empty fOrm—the veriest mockery pos"Sible
of the great functions of which it ought to be the appro-
priate commencement. Always to retain its efficiency,
it should be especially adapted to the business of every
evening ; every Member should be required to be pre-
sent at it; and the officiating person should be rather a
statesman than a priest belonging to any of the
narrow and exclusive sects into which Christians are
unhappily split. The present empty form, generally
attended by Mr. SPEAKER and the Clerks, is suitable
enough, we adMit, to the multiplicity of business which
is hurried through without any solemnity, or any due re-
gard to its importance.

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 23.
The Performances will commence at half.past Seven with LES
DEUX FRERES.
After which, LE COMEDIEN D'ETAMPES.—DorivaI, M. Perlet.
To cenetude with LE SECRETAIRE ET LE CUISINIER.—
Souffle, M. Perlet.
Private Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-
street; Mr. Seguin's, 12, Regent-street; Mr. Sams's, St. James's.
street ; and at the Box-offiee of the Theatre, which is open daily
from Eleven till Five. Admission tp the tioxes 6s. ; 64. ;
Gallery Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s.

Itis impossible, indeed, to be present and hear, in either

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
BOLTON, TUESDAY.— We had a glorious meeting last night.
It was held in the Temperance-hall, and there coul i not be less
than three thousand people crammed within its walls, while suc-
cessive crowds were obliged to retire, unable to obtain admission.
During the evening a slight attempt was made to produce discord,
but it only served to bring out in relief, the overwhelming pre.
ponderanee of good sense and good feeling by which it was im-
mediately crushed. The parties had come together, making
the mutual confession that the one could do nothing without the
other, and determined, if possible, to agree on a common ground
of action. Au excellent beginning thus has been made.
At seven o'clock, the Mayor, T. Cullen, Esq., appeared in
the hall, attended by J. Winder, Esq., town-clerk. On as-
cending the platform, he was received with loud cheers ; he
was immediately followed by the Rev. W. Jones, Independent
hth magistrate,
olton Anti-Corn-law Association,
e B E. Ashworth, Esq., J.
D
minister, Rev. W. Fraser, Baptist minister, C. J. Darbishire,
Et
eqa.n, cEosnqn., Presidenttyandboro borough
11. Dean,
Esq. vice-president of the Bolton Anti-Corn-law
association, J. Crook, Esq., president, &c,
The Mayor was called to the chair, and some excellent
speeches made, but the great press of matter prevents us from
inserting them. The resolutions agreed to, denounced the
Corn-Law scheme of Sir Robert Peel and the Tory Govern-
ment, and pledged the meeting to use every endeavour to ob-
tain Vote by Ballot, and Extension of the Suffrage.

House, the idle, and sometimes party discussions, on both
private and public Bills, to mark the continued repeti.
Lion of, " The question is," "The ayes have it;" to hear
important forms set down by our best constitutional
writers as the safeguards of liberty, mumbled over by the
officers of the House ; it is impossible to be present in
either House during a long debate, and notice the listless-
ness of the Members, their much conversation, the party
and personal objects they have in view, without feeling
convinced that a great reform is necessary in the mode
of conducting the business of Parliament, as,well as in
the mode of constituting that Assembly. Above all, we
desire that the Members of both Houses should be im-
pressed with a much more serious sense of their " awful"
responsibility, if we may use Sir R. PEEL'S well known
word, than they now are, Whatever may be a man's
politics, and whatever enactments he may think advis-
able, he must wish that they should be constructed with
the utmost care, and all the business of making laws
should be carried on with the deepest sense of its im-
portance.

GREAT OUT-DOOR MEETING IN
MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—One of the•largest out-door as-
semblages held in Manchester within the last ten years, took
place yesterday evening, in Stevenson's-square. It was the
adjourned meeting from that held in the same place on Tuesday
last, and was connected with the ;Town-hall meeting in the
morning of the same day. The time fixed for commencing
the proceedings was six o'clock, and it was at one time con-
templated to illuminate the meeting by torches ; but that plan
was rendered unnecessary by the great orb of night shining
brilliantly on the assemblage. The square, which is of groat
extent, was crowded ere the opening of the meeting, and in an
hour afterwards not fewer than seven thousand men were
prevent, all decent and orderly in their behaviour, and appear-
ing deeply impressed with the moral power that they were
called upon to exercise.
Joni; Baooxa, Esq. (late Boroughreeve of Manchester),
was called to the chair, who pointed out the evils which Tory
policy would inflict on the country.
Counsellor MOORE exhorted the people to exert the moral
power they possessed in effectuating their own political salvation.
Mr. PRENTICE (of the Manchester Times) followed, and
recommended the people to work in unity for extension of the
Suffrage, and the repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. G. TnomrsoN next spoke for nearly an hour, and was
listened to with deep attention. He adverted to the majority
which Sir Robeit Peel had obtained, and remarked that his
triumph would be short-lived. The people, the middle and the
lower classes, were now becoming united, and when that union
was effected, the power of Toryism and aristocracy would ter-
minate. For himself, he advocated the People's Charter,
which was a righteous instrument, and would, did lie possess
the power, call that moment into political existence every man
whom he saw before him. He had never used his vote yet, because
he had never yet seen the man on whom he could rely. He
wished it to go forth, that henceforward the power and influence
of the Whigs were gone. They had truckled to their enemies
when in power, and now thepeople had justly deserted them.
Neither
Commons, n
11
n-hall, nor in the House of
v,l.oaunieliter
dtchs at the T(m
shhave•
power.
As a political party
they were extinct. He 'called upon the people to be united and
p( a Tabla, and then the time of their deliverance was at hand.
i
He exhorted them to be just, to far not, and to look only to
truth.

At present, because our law-makers are never called
to account, because they enjoy complete immunity,
because they have no reckoning to give to man—and we
fear few of them think of reckoning with GoD—for their
Parliamentary conduct, they treat the great work they
are engaged in with the utmost indifference, and pass a
law which dooms perhaps thousands of the people to
misery and privation, with no greater emotion than they
experience when at breakfast they throw the grouts out
of their tea-cup into a slop-basin. Young Members and
old Members share this indifference, and a youth hot
from College and a veteran in Parliament, alike desti-
tute of all sense of the importance of their task, are
equally ready to heap restrictive and penal laws on the
community.

We need not dwell on the consequences of this want of
a feeling of responsibility in our law-makers. They are
e v oq
luoaul
sl yv palpable
and
a statutend contradictory
enactments,en c u n ered with f
adifiri a-
community almost riven asunder by distress and discon-
tent, for which the law-makers carelessly say that they
know of noremedy. Men and things now alike cry aloud
against the useless and cruel conduct of the Members of
both Houses of Parliament. And one great step towards ef-
fecting improvement, must be to inspire them if possible
with a feeling of the awful responsibility of the immense
task they have undertaken.

We received last night Hamburgh Papers up to the
18th instant, but they do not contain any news of im-
portance. The King of PRUSSIA left Hanover on the
15th for Berlin. King BERNADOTTE has deferred his
visit to Norway till summer, on account of his declining
strength.

appNrorhiPngoßitiTcopmpOiCetlCio.nTaTnhd
to Pillgwenlly, numbers of the inhabitants of Newport and visitors
inspect the work. The gates are the subject of very general admi
.--This
Bwhgreaen thtel‘weoartkherisadnmorts ofra pairdislif
ration. It is calculated that the basin will afford ample scope for
fifty merchantmen of the largest class; and we are given to under..
stand that an eminent and spirited coal proprietor has staked a large
wager, that on the day of the opening of the dock, he will load a
vessel that will float in by the morning tide, with five hundred tons
of coal, and discharge her by the same tide.--Monmoutlishire
Merlin.

NEW NOVEL, EDITED BY MRS. GORE.—We are
requested to state that " Fascination," edited by Mrs. Gore, au.
thoress of 't Mothers and Daughters," " The Man of Fortune,"
&c., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough.
street, and may now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has
also just published :-1. Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer ; a
Nautical Romance. By Edward Howard, Esq., author of " Rattlin
the Reefer," &c. 3 vols.-2. The School for Wives ; a Novel. By
the authoress of " Temptation." 3 vole.-3. Anne Boleyn ;an
Historical Romance. By Mrs. A. T. Thomson. 3 vols.—and has
also Just ready a new novel entitled" Lady Anne Granard, or Keeping
up Appearances." By the late Miss Landon, authoress of Ethel
Churchill," "The Improvisatrice," &c. 3 vole.
Two men have been recently arrested by the police,
under suspicious circumstances, though neither of them have as
yet been identified. One was found in an obscure street, at a
late hour of night, carrying a bag with upwards of I,ooof. in it,
for the possession of which he could not account satisfactorily;
and the other, who had long been an object of suspicion, was found
to be suddenly in possession of 3,000 f., believed to have been the
produce of some robbery in which he had been concerned. Both
these individuals are in confinement.

. The Haro of Caen has been condemned by default,
for a political article, to fifteen months' imprisonment, and a fine of
10,000 f.