The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-12 00:00:00

(Applause) Now, the League were going to print
a million copies of each of these three prize
essay s.—(Cheers.) He expected in another fort-
night every printing-press in Manchester would be
in full operation for the Anti-Corn-law League.—
(Cheers.) 'They were aware the Council of the
League had arranged a plan for separating the country
into districts, placing an authorised agent and lec-
turer over each, for the purpose of dispensing, as he
had said before, not merely a tract, but a condensed
library; on the Corn-laws. They Shad done the work
in the country; they had the most of the kingdom
almost complete in its organisation; and these prize
essays, in addition to the other books, should be placed
in the hands of every elector in the kingdom.—
(Cheers.) Now, the monopolist papers said they
should not be able to raise the 50,0001. fund. They
said they might as well ask a hundred thousand.
Why, the fact was, that the Council began to feel
that the money raised would be likely to exceed that
sum.—(Hear, hear.) So they saw what a capital
estimate they had formed of the spirit abroad. They
had not waited for the country to respond ; they said,
" We'll spend the moner first ; we'll put ourselves in
pledge for it, and we 11 trust to our bread-eating
countrymen to take us out of pawn."—(Loud
cheJrs.) This was eminently a question of money,
and the amount of money which had been pro-
posed to be raised, though it was an insignificant
sum in proportion to the object to be achieved,
would be a much larger fund than was ever raised
in this country before, for whatever object. He was
speaking to one of the Society of Friends the other
day, and he said the largest sum ever raised in the
anti-slavery cause was 7,0001. Fifty thousand
at one whit, therefore, would not be a bad contribu-
tion'for the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Hear, hear.)
But, he was not going to tell his friends what might
lest :them into the mistake that the money could be
raised without exertion.—(Laughter.) But there
was no reason why they should not raise even more
than the sum proposed. He was talking with some
friends the other day, who said the League would
raise a quarter of a million.—(Hear, hear.) Now, he
really thought if their opponents were to be con-
vinced of this they would knock under in a moment.
—(Applause and laughter.) He had spoken to ‘a
gentleman who said it had been asked in the clubs of
LoriclOn if he really thought the 50,0001. could be
raised. He was assured it could ; upon which he said;
" Well, he did not think the Carlton Club could
raise 10,0001. to oppose tbem."—(Laughter.) No—
they had spent all their money in the last elections,
and now they found it was all thrown' away. They
did not know their men.—(Great cheering.) He be-
lieved the county electors were so dissatished at the
result of the last election, that they would now be
disposed to come to the Anti-Corn-law League in the
hopes of getting something by them, as they could not
get anything by their former friends.—(Laughter and
applause.) And after the experience they had had of
their landowner friend, who contributed his 1001., he
should not be surprised if, before the League finished,
they should enrol the Duke of Buckingham as a
member of the League.—(Great cheering and laugh-
ter.) lie begged most cordially to second the vote of
thanks to Mr. Buckingham, and deeply he felt in-
dt_.hted to him for his exhortation here to-night. Mr.
Cobden resumed his seat amidst great cheering.
Mr. Alderman BitooKs supported the vote of thanks,
and said, especially to the ministers of the Gospel
we: e they indebted for braving the calumnies of men
ever ready to attribute wilong, motives, and taking
their stand on this great question.—(Applause.)
'The motion was carried by acclamation and the
inc.eting soon afterwards separated. ,

M NEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Market for the English Funds was steady up
to the close, but not quite so buoyant. There was
some demand for money, and as much as 5 per cent.
was paid in particular instances for temporary loans.
Consols for present transfer realised 94 to 941, and for
Time 94i to I. Exchequer Bills were 59 to 61 pre-
mium ; the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stocks rather
improved, the New being at WU- to 101 i ; the Re-
duced 100 - to 100,, ; Bank Stock was steady at 172
to 172 ;and India Stock advanced to 2594-.

The&nza fide and interest paying Foreign Bonds
were supported this afternoon at steady prices, but
the other and more speculative bonds closed a shade
against the sellers. Spanish Actives were 17k and 1,
and the Three per Cents. were depressed at 21k.
Portuguese New Fives were not higher than 381;
the Converted receded to 32k, and the Old Fives
were (Intl at 58. Mexican Stock ranged only from
33 to 32; Colombian were heavy at 21; Buenos
Ayres realised 211; and Peruvian 171; Brazilian were
a shade better, b 'beim, at 64; Belgian Bonds were firm
at 102 to 102} ; Austrian at 1111; and Dutch Five
per Cents. at 1001 to 1001.
There were not many bargains in Shares subse-
quent to our morning report, and those concluded
were at prices a trifle lower, being these :—Birmingham
and Gloucester New were s:}; Bristol and Exeter,
25 ; and South Eastern and Dover, 271 discount.
Great Western, 19; New ditto, 11-1-; and Paris and
Rouen, 21 prem.
'We cannot notice any improvement in the rates at
which bills are negotiated upon the principal conti-
nental cities. On the contrary, they were even a
shade lower this afternoon, being 12 .5} en Amster-
dam Antwerp 13 111 on Ham burgh ;
25 80 to 85 on Paris ; 151 i 1, on Frankfort, and
9 58;J,- on Trieste.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. )
Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar—.
............ 46
Ditto, at sight
BGtterdain ...2 U. 12 9i Genoa ............. 26 10
Antwerp
Ilaniburp:h M.B. 13 14i: Venice ... 47
A luma
Vkris, 3 day3' sight ... 25 70 Pwermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Alarzeilles ....... . 0 Oporto 54
ilGurd,mux .............. 26 0 Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine —l5ll Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 37 Buenos Ayres
......... ...... 7 New York, 21day
Vienna 'ef"44c. 11.
4tl
ie s sight 44
, 4 3M. 10 1 Philadelphia.
Je, d itto ........ 10 '2 PRICES OF BULLION, PER.
............... 36,1, Foreign Gold, bars .k:3 17 9
iibaoCadiz .. ................... 36; Portugal Geld Coin —.3 17 5
............ 36 Now Doubloons 0 0 01;arcelona ............ New Dollars. O4 9
Seville
- Silver 'n Bars ...0 4 11'
.....
Bet

setween .e reigns of Edward IVTand Elizabeth,
bread and butter superseded " kyebin grosse," or
dr:pping, for breakfast. Bread and cheese is men-
tioned as a common viand bey Diogenes Laertius.
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—the usual examination for
e- ' ranee in the month of November was held on Tues-
day. Among the candidates admitted was the Mar-
quis of Drogheda.

rice of speech-making.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially
econded the vote of thanks, and he hoped they should
have the co-operation of his friend Mr. Buckingham
on this
,question again. He had reminded them of
his labours in this country some years ago to open
the trade to the East, and he thought most of the
meeting would recollect how much he had been the
'weans, on that occasion, of contributing to the settle-
ment of that important question.—(Applause.) He
thought they invited him to a co-operation with them
at a most important and rather tempting period of
their agitation ; in fact, they asked him " to come and
pursue the triumph and partake the gale." They asked ,
him to come and pay a few visits in their great cause
to different parts of the country, and if he did he
would carry this important question by acclamation.
—(Applause.) They had heard from the announce-
-meats made by the Chairman, and the correspondence
which had been read, some of the encouraging "signs
of the times." Now he attributed much of this feeling
to the malignity and falsehood of the attacks made on
the Anti-Corn-law League by their enemies.—(Hear.)
It was a short-sighted policy on the part of their ene-
mies, from Blackwood down to the John Bull.—
(Hear, and laughter.) It was a short-sighted policy
to commence a tirade of falsehood and slander against
the League, when, if they had known anything of
their fellow-countrymen and countrywomen, they must
have been sure that directly their calumnies were
detected they would recoil with tenfold force upon
themselves.—(Loud cheers.) He moved a vote of
thanks to their slanderers for the good they had done
them.—(Renewed cheers and laughter.) But their
excellent Chairman had not told them all they had
done. It was right their distant friends should know
that, in contributing to the League fund, they were
not sending money to be applied for local purposes,
but that they were labouring to educate the entire
population of these islands.—(Cheers.) They had
been labouring for years, but with what contemptible
ineans! A small knot of individuals, with a few
thousands only, scattered over a period of several
years, attempting to educate a nation ! Why, the
notion was absurd ; and it was only a marvel they
should have made the progress they had.—(llear,
hear.) .To carry out the objects of the League
as originally designed, they needed that which
they were now seeking and obtaining—national
operation. And it was due to the country at
large, that they should understand that in contri-
buting to the funds of the League, they were only
sending its reservoirs here a contribution to enable
the Council to spread it abroad in fertilising showers,
over the whole extent of the country.—(Applause.)
There was one plan adopted which 'probably most of
thorn had heard of. The Council of the League had,
a short time since, advertised for Prize Essays, show-
ing the injurious operations of the Corn-laws upon
farmers and farm labourers.—(Applause.) By the
first of this month, the time limited, they received a
large number. Three had been selected from that
number ; and, having had an opportunity of perusing
them, he must say that he anticipated the greatest re-
salts from their publication.—(Hear, hear.) One of
them was written by a tenant farmer in Scotland,
paying 1,500/. a year rent, and he said, " I have laid
out a large sum of money which I expect to be re-
imbursed before the expiration of my lease, and yet
I s:iould be delighted to see the Corn-laws abolished
before the end of the next session of Parliament"—