The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

don, West London, City of
London..

_ ........ ....373,806 188 185 182

East--Shoreditch, Whitechape ,
Bethnal Green, St. George

in, the East, StepueT, Poplar 392;49'i 206 207 178
South—St Saviour, St. Olave,

St.George(Southwark),Ber-
mondiey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Rother•

Greenwich .............138,060 221 228 232

Total 1,870,727 912

912 853

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
and the parishes of St. Maylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith as:yell:0, St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 , and in June 1841, was
1,570,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATUIcE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Nov. 19. Nov. 26.
56' 53'
39 36
43 43
30, 1612. _

Highest
Lowest

Daily Mean .
General Register Office, Nov.

SUPPOSED MURDER 1N NOTTS.

Three weeks 'ago, a Young man of the name of
Millington, of Holme Pierrepont, became suddenly
missing, and fears are entertained that he mur-
dered. He was on the eve of marriage, and having,
been at Nottingham to purchase articles for his wed-
ding, he called at Mrs. Richards', the Town Arms,
Trent Bridge, and had a glass or two of ale.
Mr. John Spencer, of. Adbolton, a neighbour,
was there, and sat a short time drinking with
him, and afterwards they parted at Mr. Spen-
cer's garden gate., No tidings have been heard
of Millington since, although every inquiry has
been made. We understand he was servant to the
Rev. J. J. Cleaver, who is taking every step possible
to trace out the mystery.. A mat basket which he
carried has been found, and also his hat, the lining
having been torn out of it, which was found at Hover-
ingham, on Friday morning The conviction is that.
he has been robbed and thrown into the river. The
daily reports about him are truly mortifying —Notts
Review of yesterday.

The Rev. Dr. Colts, of Trinity College, Cambridge,
late Curate of Hampstead; and the Rev. T.E. Whytt,
M.A., Curate of St. James's Church, Clerkenwell,
have announced themselves as candidates for the rec-
tory of St. James's Church, Duke's-place, City,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. rovah. The
'living is in the gift of the Lord Mayor and Corpora-
tion of London.

SOLAR LAMP PATENT.—THE QUEEN V. I3YNNER.
—ln the sittings after Trinity term last, a verdict
was returned in this case adverse to the patent ; but
in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, upon
the motion of the patentee' a rule nisi was granted
for a new trial of the case.. The consequence is that
until the question now raised is decided, the patent is
still in force.,

On Thursday a most crowded meeting of this division
of the Metropolitan Association .which comprises the
parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St. Anne
and St. Margaret, Westminster, was held in the the-
'atre of the London Mechanics' nstitution, Southamp-
ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, _and the building, which
will seat 1,100 people, was filled to overflow : there
was not, in fact, standing-room. The chair was taken
by Henry. Warburton, Esq., supported by the Hon.
C. P. Villiers, MX., General Sir De Lacy Evans, J.
L. Ricardo,'Esq., Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., Dr.
I3owring, MP., Col. Thompson, James 'Wilson, Mr.
M'Leod, Mr. Daniel, Dr. Black, Mr. Sidney Smith,
and other well-known friends of the cause.
The CHAIRMAN, .in opening the business of the
evening, said that, in pursuance of the recommenda-
tion •of the Central Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law
League' .London had been divided into several dis-
tricts,_for the purpose of promoting the success of the
great cause in which he presumed all their hearts were
engaged. This meeting was the meeting of the first
district athe local associations into which the Central
League had recommended that London should he di-
vided ; and jn meeting them upon that occasion, he
might be permitted to, congratulate them on the con-
' trast which the order of that ineethigpreSented to the
meetings upon the same subject .which were called
some eighteen months since not many hundred
yards from that place. At that .time there was no
sympathy enlisted in their cause*; now thee was
not a single disturber of the meeting, all were anxious
that the great cause should prosper.—(Cheers.) And
why had they met there ? Because they believed
that they felt a great public grievance—(Cheers)—
and, as Englishmen, whatever some parties might
whisper in the shape of threats of prosecution, and he
knew not what—(Laughter)—there they were, met
to confess themselves Members of the League, liable
to prosecution or not, to discuss • the rem3val of what ,
they said was a great public grievance.—(Cheers.)
It waa for these purposes that public meetings were
held, and to afford to the gentlemen interested an op-
portunity of stating their opinions, and of that inter-
course of thought by which they endeavour to spread
those great principles. having Said thus much, his
first business would be to call upon Mr. C. P. Villiers
to move the first resolution.

Mr. VILMERS was received with great cheering.
This agitation was rendered necessary, and was forced
upon the people by the circumstances of the country
and the condition of the. Legislature.—(Cheers.)
Abuses the most glaring, laws the most mischievous,
were left unreformed; 'And facts the most startling,
reasoning the most cogent, would be heard with in-
difference, unless some sign could be shown of almost
approaching convulsion, springing from the anger and
discontent of the community., (Cheers.) All the
great measures—which it would be the shame of the
country if they were still in dispute—have been ex-
torted from the Legislature by this means—(Hear,
hear)—whether it was the abolition of slavery, the
establishment of religious freedom, the enfranchise-
ment of our large towns, the reduction of postage, or
the partial application of free trade—all had been' re-

fused to calm—remonstrance or patient endurance, and
had been conceded to agitation and to the difficulty of
longer withholding them. However, if agitation had
been justified in other matters, more especially would
he say it was so in this case; for the question of free

trade had, in his opinion, a more important bearing
upon the permanent interests of this country than
—..s
any other matter that could be, named—(Hear)—the
il
,e
resistance was of a more immediately interested cha-
racter than any other; and he would say that the
moment was never- so appropriate, inasmuch as we
were just at the end of an experience which estab-
lished beyond question that every thing pretending to
a public character that had been urged in defence of
monopoly had been proved to.he fallacious, and might
almost be referred to as a detected imposture.—(Loud
cheers.) If he wanted an example of the justice of
thisobservation, lie would only point to the very dis-
tricts for whose interest especially the Corn-law was
and ad-
r,
always pleaded. The law, it was said, would keep the
labourer in employment—would MaintainwtLetrlavtaes oitf
vh4ins
eSse•ages—scsise•nouceldoif agriculture.ecurepriceto tshlerhfavrpie
,
at this particular moment they. were hearing and see-
ing :in every direction ? Tli,., unions were overflow,.
ing with agricultural labourers, dismissed from their
service ; their wages- were everywhere being reduced;
the farmer was complaining that there was less de-
mand for his produce, though he had more poor-rates
to pay; and the landlord, forsooth, is heard lecturing
the - farmer in every direction for the want of the
skill and economy he has long shown in the cul-
tivation of his land.--(Cheers, and great
He did hope that those who had hitherto been indif-
ferent to this question, or who, above want them-
selves,
laughter.)
had not considered the sufferings of others,
would seriously reflect, if it was only with the view
to their own interest, on the social condition of this
country at present. Do let them reflect upon the de-
plorable condition in which millions of the people are
now living—congregated in dense masses in different
parts of the country, excited by their sufferings, ren-
dered intelligent by collision,
partially educated, and
now having access to the same sources of information
as the rest of the community by means of a perfectly
free press.—(Hear, hear.) Let them remember also
that it is proved that the supply of food in this country
does not keep pace with the population ; that the
demand also for the products" 'of this country by other
countries does not keep pace with, the productive
powers of the people,;' which, by means of numbers
and ingenuity, are- annually augmenting—(llear)_
that the population is increasing
at a rate of 100 births
an hour over the: deaths, or 1,200 a day.—(Hear,
hear.) . And if these are the circumstances of the
. employed—can a man be sane who prescribes for such
:
country, the mass of the people thus ill-fed and ill-
a condition a deliberate legislative obstruction in the,
exchange of the food of other countries for the results
of the industry of this country ?—(Loud cheers.)
And yet, Gentlemen, this is the question now in agi-
tation as to the repeal of the Corn-laws—(Hear, hear)
—whether or not, with a population circumstanced as
ours is, they shall be'continued.--(Hear, hear.) IVe
see that the distresses of the people are acknowledged
by the universal joy expressed at the prospect of a
market in China being opened to our manufactures.
•timely relief to the
iPinefeoprlteunhaetpeearthtiastanist ofm at3l:isbreionugntry, and yet there is
nothing in the custom of China that is one jot better
for the English manufacturer than that of Europe,
'which we have repudiated,. or of America, that
we still refuse.—(Cheers.) Tlie industrious classes
find . customers for, the
f nits
:have no preference for
China, theyythe legislative obstruction
owrfhhiitnethsiaii,s of
asfnci theirinterposed b
they wzaprnl ;
countrylac complain
iattihnttho of
other
countries.—(Cheers.)
We nearly prohibited. altogether the only article which
his efforts, as...they of the country'
most of our best customers had to
come manufacturers for themselves, and we have lost
paybeen
O for
theyu have m
sn•e be-
come
custom.--(Cheers.) Whenever he had felt -it
ei
factures, and the consequence has-
his painful duty to bring the subject before the House,
( till they
lgre hadnt
iein. genially
with
thebee n
inutility o
taunted
said that it
wassaidw e r e i°
the,l as they n e
br i
werenvge i r i l
should g.not concede
forward
with
hitheln
while-BUthi
3;. et
the People
were indifferent.—(Hear, hear.) He had always ac-
knowledged the fact that the people did not support the
motion as he thought it was their interest to do but
that they did it not from being deluded.—(llear,
hear.) And let any man now review the predictions
of those who had given thought and consideration to
One single•
thing that
has happened, that had not been expected and specifi-
callythe subject, and say if there is:
in town and country; and
foretold by them, as almost necessary to result
from it.—(Hear, hear.) And now .he turned to the
evidence which the country afforded of the results of
e(ciiinlei°enib.ssoitithi-Iteogianealrsic the potency
a perseverance in 1 this fatal policy, as it affected the
hospitals--,aye,
the
through-
in spread-
ing disease, theolou orkignerdga populationgraves—(Cheers)--to
_t h
legislation
mindustry and
misery, a commerce,:id death
out the land—(Loud cheers)—and ultimately 'of
the consequences to the 'agricultural interest itself,
in lowering the value of their produce.---(Hear, hear.)
The last Ministers told the aristocracy that they must
abandon their monopoly, and they were turned off
i m inediately.—(Hear, hear.) They told it to them
somewhat abruptly, lie admitted—(Hear, hear, and a
laugh)--but they were dismissed because those who
(Cheers.)
r
were now in their service told them that they need not
abandon their monopoly, and that they would. serve
them upon the terms of maintaining it.--(Cheers and
lhaluagy
eh laughter.)
r.) ell,bleVen
a IhiloeN,y have
up against a starving people, a declining win.
merce, and a sinking revenue ? No ; they have ,
iispite t they
ofy dunethe
ir ipfess
t ?o ions, to
ad-
mitted that the time is past for doing so, and nosy, if
they are prcperly pressed, they will go on in the right
direction.—(Cheers.) You have now a Minister in
Sir Robert Peel who professes to agree with you in
opinion ; urge him, then, to be true to his professions.
You know his creed; as he has announced ' it. He

his said, justly, that commerce bet Ween nations should
be carried. on as it is between individuals. He has
admitted, moreover, that it is from commerce and
manufactures that England derives its greatness ; and
that if he was the exclusive partlian of the agricul-
turist, he should always tell hint that the manufac-
turer was his best friend. It was his (Mr. Villiers')
opinion that it now depended upon the metropolis
whether these laws, should be repealed.--(Applause.)
He trusted that they would not be deluded by
the silly notion that this was only .a manufacturer s
question; and that it was only they that were inte-
rested in its repeal. For one, he was • bound to say
that he thought that the manufacturers had been very
tardy in the expre3sion of their opinioh on the sub-
ject, and he used constantly himself, before the League
was formed, to reproach them for not speaking out
more .on the subject.—(Hear.) The League was now
exerting itself with a spirit and energy that was be-
yond all praise —(Loud cheering)—and it only required
the metropolis to act in hearty unison with them for
complete success.—(Cheers.) Viewing, then, the
question in this general light, and impressed with the
importance of meeting the exigencies of an increasing,
• industrious, and commercial population, lie trusted
that this great metropolis, the seat of the liovernment,
would not suffer itself to be again lulled, or deluded
into apathy and indifference, but that they would now,
once and for ever, call for the abOlition of all restric-
tions. on the trade in food.—(Lcaul cheers.) Ile con-
cluded by moving " That the state of trade and com-
merce, the rapid increase of pauperism and crime, the
continued decrease in the public revenu, and the ge-
neral discontent of the people, are circumstances which,
while they demand an instant remedy, have their ori-
gin in the vicious policy which has .restricted the field
of national capital and industry, and which, while
its advocates have recognised theeretically the right of
the coin munity to buy in the cheapest market and
sell in the dearest, has been practically continued in
the new Tariff and Corn-law.' • _
Mr. RicAano seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN was about to read the resolution,
when two working men,
Mr. BL.tCKMORE and Mr. RIDLEY, rose with the
view of moving an amendment, by way of addition,
not in opposition; but being out of order in point of
time, they sat down.

The resolution having been put,
Mr. BLACKIkIORE again rose, amidst considerable
interruption, to move the amendment. For some time
he was stopped by cries of " turn him out." Another
working man, in the confusion, mounted the railings,
when both were immediately seized by the persons
round the platform, and they were unceremoniously
pushed over the rails.

Dr. BLACK at length came forward, and demanded
a fair hearing for every man.
Quiet was restored for an instant, though the dis-
turbance was renewed the moment DIYr. Blackmore
opened his mouth. At lengh, •
The CHAIRMAN said he was endeavouring to obtain
a hearing for Mr. Blackmore, when another person
interrupted by trying to speak himself. •He was op-
posed to anything like physical- force; yet he hoped
there was no one who would not give the greatest
moral condemnation to the gentleman who was a
second time out of order. As long as the gentleman
who rose first kept to the subject of the Corn-laws,
and did not enter upon any thing foreign to the dis-
cussion of the meeting, he (the Chairman) would sit
quietly and hear him. If that -person deviated he
would call him to order; and would expect the assist-
ance of the meeting in keeping order.
Mr. BLACKAIORE again mounted the platform, and
said that he did not mean to ,:peak against the reso-
lution. He differed from the gentleman who had ad-
dressed them as to the mode in which these monopo-
lies could be overcome. He did trust that every one
would unite in upsetting a Government which was
supported by so many monopOlies, and that they
would upset the Government by the use of the very.
means recommended in the circular issued to the
meeting.—(" Where's your nurse ?" a Turn him
out," " Socialists," and other cries.) , The amend-.
ment he would propose would be to the effect—that.
seeing all classes of Reformers united for the support
of the contest carried on by Mr. Joseph Sturge for
the redress of other grievances, this meeting would
send a delegate to the meeting about to be held at
Birmingham on the 27th of December, to assist in
opposing all monopolies.
The CHAIRMAN asked the meeting whether this
was not an amendment utterly foreign to the subject
of discussion that evening, which was limited to mono-
polies of corn or other articles of consumption—(Cries
of " Yes, yes")—and then declared that the amend-
ment was disorderly, and could not be put.—The
original question was then put and carried, amidst
confusion.

Mr. EWART then rose to move the second resolu-

tion, It consisted of three parts. It declared, in
substance, first, that the Government of this country
would not repeal. the Corn-laws ; secondly, that the
Legislature of this country would not repeal the Corn-
laws, unless, thirdly, the people compelled them to
repeal. the - Corn-laws. Whether the. Government
were Whig or Tory, unless full expression were given
to he will of the people, the Gov,erninent would not
repeal the Corn-laws. Who would have believed,
when the doctrine of free trade fell, from the expiring
lips of the Whig Administration, that Sir Robert Peel
would have stood forward as their personal represen-
tative ?—(Cheers and laughter.) He had tardily
adopted the principle as he had done on Catholic
emancipation, waiting till he was won over by the
determination of the people. He (Mr. Ewart) would
ask; therefore, whether it was or was not right, as a
mere matter of expediency, to continue the agitation?
Whether the Ministry were Whig or Tory, from the
the. Ministry they could expect nothing, unless they
continued unceasing constitutional agitation. If such
were the only means of producing conviction in the
Government, could they succeed any ,better, except
by the use of similar means, with the legislative body ?
If the Ministers would not give them free trade, let
him ask whether the Legislature would? The advo-
cates for free trade had not only to oppose the heavy
artillery of the old country gentlethen,.but the lighter
forces of the legislators who had been distinguished as
the "white waistcoats?' it was with legislators such
as these that the voice of reason was thrown away,
unless it were confirmed by the unanimous voice of the
people. It was to obtain this support that the Anti-Corn-
law League was proceeding by giving lectures and
information to the people, backed by a 50,0001.
purse, to pierce the sevenfold shield of the aristo-
cracy, and attach the labouring classes. Already the
landlords were beginning to doubt whether the Corn-
laws were really a benefit to them-7-they doubted
whether agriculture could exist without manufactures.
Already the farmers were asking for long leases, and
were tQlling the landlords that property has its duties
as well as its rights; and, finally, the labouring agri-
cultural classes in the country were penetrating the
mist, and were discovering that they could not b be-
nefited by the obstructions of commerce and manu-
factures, and by the interference with the labour of the
people. Was it, not obvious, therefore, that they could
expect nothing from either, except through their own
exertions ? As the French proverb declared, " Aide
toi, et le Dieu Caldera." Unless the Legislature and
the Government were impressed sensibly by the dis-
contented, they would do nothing. They had, how-
ever, heard it declared from the Bench by a British
Judge—from that Bench whence nothing unconstitu-
tional should flow—that English Men ought not
.to
meet for the purpose of discussing their rights and
interests. They had, however, the right so to meet,
and they_ would continue to exercise it.—(Cheers.)
He knew of no Chief Baron of old who would have
proMulgated such doctrines as to the right of free
discussion, except Chief Baron Minos or R.hada-
manthus—(Loud cheers)--1-whose decrees were so in-
exorable that it was in vain for any individual to
struggle against them. They would, however, exercise
this right ; and if they had no such right, English-
men would see whether they could not,establish it for
themselves, even at the sacrifice of their lives, before
they would willingly leave such a degrading inherit-
ance to their posterity.—(Cheers.) These were the
constitutional principles on which their ancestors had
resisted every obstacle to the right of free discussion,
and that right their descendants would maintain.
What was left to them upon this important question,
except to agitate the people of thiS country, to impress
upon them the conviction which almost universally,
prevails in the commercial classes, and to extend as
far as they could the growing concurrence of the ag-
ricultural community ?, For hiinself, he did not de-
spair of producing a conviction on the agriculturists,.
partly because many would be convinced by reason,
and partly because nothing tended so much to weary
an unjust domination as the exercise of the power of
ceaseless agitation by those engaged against it in 4e-
fence of a just cause.—(Cheers.) The system of A.
striction was detrimental to all, and rejoiced to see
the principle of freedom extending, not only here, -but
in America, which was about to shake off the shackles
which- an unwise legislation hid 'placed upon her,
and to reject a system which had bound her in coin-
mercial slavery.—(Cheers.) was rejoiced to
I know that whilst we were struggling in our own be,

half, we were struggling also for the whole world.
—(Cheers.) With the feeling, therefore, that the
Government and the Legislature would do nothing un-
less the people spoke with an imperative voice; and
that on the exertion of the people must rest the re-
peal of the Corn-laws, he would sum up by moving
—" That as no reliance can be placed on the wisdom
or patriotism of the Government or of the Legisla-
ture for relieving the country from its difficulties, the
intelligence and moral feeling of the people must be
appealed to as the means of inducing the powers of
the State to deal equal justice to all ranks of her Ma-
jesty's subjects,"
Sir DE LACY EVANS seconded the resolution. He
congratulated them upon their present meeting, he
looked upon it as a good commencement of the cam-
paign, and as a good reason for strenuous exertion.
Mr. RUFFY RIDLEY cordially supported the reso-
lution—(Hear, hear)—and would only move a rider.
His rider was, that the only means of obtaining jus-
tice was by the enactment of the People's Charter—
(Oh, oh ! and hisses)—which would repeal the Corn-
laws, give trade and commeree. to . our country, and
restore the happiness of its people.
Mr. BLACKMORE rose to second the amendment.
The CHAIRMAN said they.were not met to consider
what alteration in the form of Government would se-
cure freedom of trade, and he ruled that the rider was
but of order.
MY:SPUR declared that if be thought the discus-
sion Was to be limited to one side, he would never
attend a meeting. At the same time he must say
that he never saw in any meeting of working men,
such conduct as had taken place that night.—(" Oh,
oh," and hisses, "Go home," and " Groans.") The
Anti-CornLlaw League appeared to him to be like
the man who offered to remove the mote out of his
brother's eye. The final object of the Anti-Corn-law
League was professed to be the improvement of the
condition of the working men of the country, but
what sort of moral principle was that which did not
rest upon the principle of doing unto others as they
would be done by ?—(lnterruption and " Question.")
The CHAIRMAN said it was evident that the gentle-
man would not obtain a hearing from the meeting,
after every endeavour on his part; and if he continued
he must put it to the meeting, whether it was their
pleasure to continue hearing him ?—(This was ac-
cordingly done, and only four hands were held up for
the hearing, and Mr. Spur sat down.)
Dr. BOWRING would have been gratified if the
meeting could have heard every one. Ile (Pr.
Bowring) had met with a few in a small room at
Manchester to form the Anti-Corn-law League;
they were not noticed; they were not reported ; but
they had now become known, and assisted, because
their object was the universal good. Other ques-
tions, such as negro slavery, and Catholic emancipa-
tion, interested only a portion of the community.
This question interested all mankind; and if any one
still doubted the efficacy of repeal, be would urge
them to consider it in reference to its mighty im-
portance upon the permanent interests of the
world. The world looked to England for a great
example, and every Englishman ought to feel
that it rested with him. to take a large and ex-
pansive view of his duty to others. Let there be no
more separation between different countries than
between different sides of the street. Let all be united
for the general good. The arguments for repeal were
now brought home to every man's bosom, and the
general response of the people of England to the ap-
peal of the Anti-Corn-law League had already startled
the monopolists, for they saw in the answer to that
appeal the evidence of victory; and let them be assured
that, by the victory of free,trade in this country, they
would not only be labouring for their own interest,
but would lay a wide basis of humanity and virtue for
strengthening those principles which time could only
increase, and which no arguments could overthrow.
The resolution was then put and carried.
Colonel P. TIIOMPSON presented himself to move
the third resolution. He would not, at that late
hour, detain them long. Ile would only tell them
where the shoe pinched himself, and he would ask
them whether it did not pinch them in the same
place ? Four toes were dreadfully pressed already,
and of the fifth he had great apprehensions. In the
first place, then, he had property in land, and he
complained that he was cut off from the prosperity
of his commercial neighbours. Perhaps they would
say that they did not care for the interests of the
landowners. Be it so. Possibly they had not much
reason to care for them.—(Cheers.) But why should
they not assist one another if the help could be afforded
without trouble or loss ? His next suffering was that
he found himself cut off, as all landlords were, of all
opportunities of establishing their children in life in
the. manner in which they ought. Where was, he to
find employment for them ? If he took the Church—
(Laughter)—there were more ecclesiastics already
than there were tithe pigs.—(Cheers.) If he made
one a lawyer, there were already more lawyers than
briefs. If he took the doctors, there were more doc-
tors than sick men who can pay.—(Cheers and
laughter.) Next was his complaint No. 3. He suf-
fered, as he supposed most did, from the Income-tax.
It was a connivance of the landlords to enable the
Legislature to raise money to meet,the expenditure,
and the Income-tax was imposed to obviate the diffi-
culty of allowing commerce to go free.—(Cheers.)
That was the history of his three miseries. Then
came the other misfortune. His friends in Phila-
delphi could not pay their debts.—(Loud cheers.)
How came that about ? His friends there doubtless
said, " Have patience with me, and I will pay thee
all," and so he hoped they might—(Laughter)—but
why had they not paid before? Because by our refusing
a natural commerce, they were prevented paying
in the only manner in which they were able and
willing to pay.—(Cheers.) how many were there
who participated with him in these four miseries ?
And yet he heard another evil whistling in the wind.
He had some Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, and
down would come the Minister, and would say,
" These stocks I will cut down from 3i to 3 per cent."
This would take away.ls per cent. of his property, or
something like five income taxes. The Minister
would say that the country was flourishing, and that
stocks were high. He denied this. He knew that
at some seasons the loss of a couple of frigates would
make the stocks fall ; but he maintained, that if the
stocks rose from prosperity, they would also rise &in
the evil of want of employment for capital. What
regulated the rate of interest in the funds ; was it not
the rate of interest paid for money in this country ?
If a manufacturer gained 10 per cent., he could afford
to pay 5 for interest; if he gatned 9 per cent., he
could only afford 4 per cent. ; if he gained but 7 per
cent., interest would drop to 3, and so on. He would
ask, therefore, why the interest and the value of
stock should not drop, under Providence and the
blessing of the Corn-laws, to 31, to 3, to 2, or so low
that no one without a microscope could tell what
the interest was ?—(Clieers.) They would, doubt-
less, soon hear the Minister, with the strength
of this argument of prosperity, turn to the little
boys behind him, as he (Colonel Thompson) had
seen him, and bid them cheer whilst he told them
that this rise was all owing to the public happiness
and. contentment.—(Laughter.) Here was his five
reasons for joining the Anti-Corn-law League. Those
who were engaged in commerce would have many
more ; and he was sure that there was no one who
was not aware that these restrictions brought down
the Tate of wages with those who lived upon wages,
and brought down the rate of profits with those who
lived upon profits. As to the opening of the China,
trade, we had robbed a harmless Quaker community
of twenty-one millions of dollars for not swallowing
our opium, but what satisfaction should we have in
opening that trade, whilst we cut off a better trade
at home ? The people could not eat tea, they could
not . eat the bamboo.—(Cheers and laughter.) The
opening of trade might add.to the comforts of the
rich landlord, but would it feed the wretched crea-
tures whose families were starving for want of corn ?
Pains were taken to put off the trade in corn, whilst
they would be told of the increase in silks and
tea. He recommended them, therefore, to stick to
their demands. Why should they be sent after
commerce 3,000 leagues away, and leave those chan-
nels which were only 300 miles off? The Go-
vernment told them they might not trade in anything
they did want, but in anything they did not want
they might trade. He would now furnish the ladies
with a brief and family definition of monopoly : "It
was robbing everybody for the benefit of somebody,
and throwing away half by the way."—(Much cheer-
ing.) That. was what all monopolies came to. When-
ever there was one gain by monopoly there were two
losses to balance it, and that was the secret of mono-
poly. Now, one word as to thoie who blamed the
Anti-Corn-law League because they did not join in
this'agitation. They said that their own measures
would not swim ; if so, was it policy to tie them to
something heavier.—(Cheers ?) He did not join, not
because he did not love their cause ; but, because upon
this point of the Corn-laws he thought his friends had
strength, and he therefore wished to shake this part
of the wall first.—(Cheers.) Then, as to the argument
of the gentleman in the gallery (Mr. Spur), that they
ought not to repeal these laws, because of the leases—

Mr. WILSON, in seconding the resolution, denied
that the reduction of prices in articles of consumption
had been occasioned by the alterations in the tariff.
It had been occasioned by the diminished power of
purchasing on the part of the masses, consequent upon
their destitution. The prices of butter and cheue,
neither of which were affected by the tariff, had fallen
more in proportion than meat; while the importation
of butter from abroad was 39,000 cwt. less this year
than it had been last. The importations of cheese,
flax, and wool, had all diminished, while the prices
had fallen ; and as a proof of the destitution of the
consuming classes in the metropolis, he would appeal
to the fact, that during the present year the quantity
of coals imported into London was less by 200,000
tons than last year. Prides had been reduced by di-
minished consumption, not by increased importation.
The number of cattle imported into the whole of the
United Kingdom hitherto would not supply Smith-
field for one week. The importation of sheep from
Ireland into the manufacturing districts had dimi-
nished from 225,000 annually, to 155,000 annually.
The Hon:Gentleman then stated that Huddersfield
in one day had contributed 1,0581. to the League
Fund, and urged the inhabitants of the metropolis to
support the League. The resolution was then carried
unanimously.
Mr. J. Smtrit announced that the Chairman had
subscribed 501.—(Cheers)—and that a district meet-
ing would take place in Whitcchapel on 7th Dec.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated, after three cheers had been given
for the Anti-Corn-law League.

PROSPECT of TRADE with CHINA.
Already the news of the peace with China has
operated favourably upon our markets, giving
a most important stimulus •to the markets of Man-
chester and Liverpool, and a much improved
feeling to that of Leeds. The new ports opened,
the respect which• the Imperial Government will
be likely to show to' British trade, the decidedly
commercial character of the Chinese people, their
immense numbers, and the much nearer approach
which our merchants will now be able to make to
the northern and colder:parts of China where wool•
lens are worn, are all circumstances that must operate
to increase the export of British manufactures to that

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country.
But whilst this confidence may be reasonably en-
tertained, our merchants and manufacturers would do
well to act with.. caution. There has scarcely ever
been a new opening like this afforded to trade, that it
has not in a few months been terribly overdone, and
the exporters have glutted the market, -and thus
thrown away their property. It was thus on the re-
opening of the AmeriCan trade after the revolutionary
war-on the opening of the Brazilian and Buenos
Ayreau markets to England—on, the opening of the
European markets at the peace of 14—and on the
opening of the Indian markets at the' abolition of the
East India Company's monopoly.; It ought to be
known that there is at the present moment a year's
stock of all kinds of British manufactures on hand • in
China. During the last twelve months very few goods
have been sold in that market, and the latest commer-
cial letters represent prices as exceedingly low. We
state these facts cn the authority of a gentleman en-
gaged in the trade, whose character is .a guarantee for
the accuracy of his statements. .We also know that.
in this country there are large stocks in the hands of
the manufacturers, of goods intended for the China
market; and as it is certain that those goods will be
sent off by the first opportunity, there will be the less
room for those who may conic after them. •
It may further be useful to ' manufacturers and
merchants to know, that the Chinese are the most
particular people in the world -as to the colours, the
niaking-up, the widths, • lengths, and weights of the
goods they purcbise. There is not a house in the
`trade which has not bought its knowledge of the Chi-
nese tastes and habits by dear experience.
Our Bradford friends may not all be aware that the.
Chinese have religious or quasi religious scruples
against wearing fabrics which are made of two diffe-
rent materials,. as wool and cotton. We know of' a
case in which a lot of worsted goods with cotton
warps were sent to Canton, and were gold on arrival'
by the pattern 'card ; but on the day following the sale
was cancelled by the llong .merchants, who alleg,ed
that the goods were made of animal and vegetable sub-
stances mixed, which was contrary to nature as well as
to their religion. In this respect the Chinese act on
the principle laid down in the Mosaic law—" Neither
shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come
upon thee."—Levit. xix. 19. It may be relied on
that mixed fabrics will' not sell in China. -
The kinds of woollens principally sent.to China are
ladies' cloths and medium cloths, fabrics which emplo,v-
a large proportion of wool. The district in which
they are chiefly made comprises the villages of Raw-
don, Yeadon, Guiselv, Idle, Shipley, and Eccleshill,
and they come to the Leeds market. The market at
our White Cloth Hall, on Tuesday last, was the best
that has been known for two years.
In cottons, the article principally sent to China is.
skirtings, of which the largest sales ever known wer e
made in Canton, just before the departure of the last
mail but one ; and a degree of improvement he. in
consequence been felt in the trade even prior to the
news of the peace. Cotton twist is also sent in large
quantities. It is anticipated that as the cottons of
England have superseded those of India, so they will
supersede those of China, as soon as they can be
brought into competition with them. An immense
demand may therefore arise for our cotton manu-
factures.
The principal difficulty of our merchants will be. is;
obtaining returns from China. The only large im-
ports from that country now are in tea and. silk. Pro-
bably other articles may be discovered in the northern
parts of China ; and it is said that samples of tobacco
of very superior quality have been shown in the Lon-
don market.—Leeds Mercury.

FURTHER LOSS OF LIFE AND
PROPERTY AT SEA.
On Sunday night last, at Strangford, daring a
dreadful gale of wind from the south-west, a brig
belonging to Newcastle, named the Echo, commanded
by Mr. Evans, and a crew of seven persons, was
totally lost on the Cannon Rocks, near the north and
south light, and four of her unhappy freight met with
a watery grave. At Newhaven, on Monday morning
last, a vessel, supposed about 30 tons burden, was
found totally wrecked on the rocks under the cliff
westward of the harbour of this port. • From the
name of " Manuel" being painted in white letters
on a quarter-board, which was washed ashore
in the course of the morning, she is supposed to be a
French craft. All the crew are reported to have-
perished with the vessel. By the barque Venus, which
arrived at Antwerp on Tuesday last, the master re—
ports having passed on the morning of Friday, tite
18th of last month, the wreck of a large vessel burnt
to the water's edge. lie bore round it several times
for the purpose of discovering her name, but was.
unable to do so. The wreck was in lat. about 49,
long. 8. Among the accounts received by the Great
Western steam-ship, which arrived at Liverpool or,
Wednesday morning, were those dated Nassau, Oc-
tober 21, and New Orleans, November 8, detailing
the destruction of two vessels by fire ; namely, the
Maid of Arkansas, a steamer, and an American ship,
the Ceres, Captain Cliftie, from Mobile to New York.
The Great Western also brings tidings of the loss of
several other ships. The Trial, a fine three-masted
vessel, master's name Le Blanc, from Prince Edward's
Island for St. John's, Newfoundland, went on shore
on the night of the 3d of November, at Pompkit, near
Antigoutsh, and became a total wreck. All hands,
amounting to 25 persons, peri,shed. On the 18th of
the same month, the ship Eliza, belonging to London,
was driven by a furious gale on to the south-east end
of the island of Anticosti. About three hours after
she had struck she sliil off
the rocks into deep water,
and sank immediately . Two seamen, and a passenger
named Touton, were drowned ; the rest of the crew
reached the shore. On the 3d of the same month the
ship Mary, of Sydrtey, was totally lost near Manidieu.
The crew were sawed. Amongst the other vessels
wrecked are the shamrock, on the Barnegas Shoals;;
the Curlew, Captain Richie, of Argyle; the barque
Resolution, of London ; the schooners George and
Empress, and three others. The loss of the latter was
stated to be 70,0001.

Sewell and! Co. solicit immediate inspection from
the public to their immense stock of foreign velvets,
at Bs. 9d., 10,s. 9d., and 12s. 9d., original prices being
15s. 6d., 18s. 6d., and 21s. Compton House, 44 and
45, Old Cornpton-street ; and 46 and 47, Frith-stree+
ry
Soho-squar:e.
SINGULAR REWARD FOR TIYE DETECTION or, A
FELoNt,A reward of Si. 10s., and an acre of 'Auld
for five years, rent free, to any poor man, has been
offered for giving information which may lead to the
conviction of some persons who, on the 9th of No-
vember, or early on the following morning, wilfully
and maliciously cut down an avenue of yousag trees, the
property of Richard N. Cartwright, Esq., growing in
the abbey grounds of Ixworth.—SuffolA Herald.