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London, England, 1842-02-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1842,

was to bring forward an amendment, the tenor of which
would be for a total repeal.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The
question, then, was what course they should pursue if they were
defeated at all points—if Mr. Villiers' amendment
should be lost, and Sir R. Peel's plan be crammed down
their throats. Some people were of opinion that if they could
not get the precise thing they wanted, they should take
the next best, and that was just Sir R. Peel's motion. In his
opinion, however, that would be the very worst thing
they could do ; if they could not get Mr. Villiers'
amendment, he trusted that the country would still con-
tinue to agitate. He, for_ one, would never cease to agitate
antil they got a different House of Commons.—( Hear.)
'There was one matter of regret to him ; it was, that in all their
proceedings they had not made use of the words " Free
Trade" instead of the abolition of Ike Corn-laws only ; hei
would have all kinds of protection removed from every article.
He did not think that protection did any good either for
or against the landlord ; but if they had always gone for
a total repeal of all kinds of protection, the landowners
would not now have the only leg to stand upon which, as it
was, was left them.—( Hear.) He was grateful, however,
that the general feeling seemed to be for free
trade, and he could wish that all their proceedings
had been worded for free trade. They had now rubbed off
same of the difficulties which formerly opposed them, the
p entleman who seconded the Address having said that distresi
was admitted. The evils produced by the Corn-laws were manifest
in two ways ; first, by raising the price of provisions ' • and
second, by destroying labour. With regard to the first, he did
not think so much as others did; he did not think their
repeal would lower provisions much, but he was sure it.
wou'd tend to increa .e labour. These laws had resulted
from people not considering that all commerce.
was barter, and that in prohibiting the importation
of corn, they did in fact prohibit the exportation.
of manufactures. Wages had lately been reduced -about,
one-third or thirty-three per cent. at Birmingham, and he
would divide the people of Birmingham into three sections; of
these one-third were frilly employed, one-third were only em-'
Voyed two or three days in the week, and the other one-
thild were not employed at all; the result of this
was, that the wages of the country were reduced from 3,000,0001.
a week to 1,000,0001. a week, and it seemed impossible to,
conceive otherwise than that the landholders must be injured,
by the taking away of twe-thirds of the means of their cus-
tomers.—( Loud cheers.) When he was a boy, he had-
heard from Dr. Adam Smith of three reasons for- the,
enactment of a mercantile law, and he had never
heard of any others; the first was, to compel
the people to buy dear when they could buy cheap ; the second
was to make them sell cheap when they could sell
dear ; and the third was to make them buy a bad,
article when they could get a good one. He was
now a very old man. He had advocated free trade principles
during his life, and he would go on till the day of
.his death.
The Chairman then intimated that it was understood. that the
meeting at its breaking up would go in procession to the House
of Commons. .

The Rev. Mr. LOWE supported the resolu ion. He thought
it could not be said that Scotchmen were cool upon the
subject of Corn-laws, when such numbers of Deputies
had been sent from that country. (Cheers.) Those Delegates
had come there, not as a party faction, but as the friends of
humanity ; they had all one object in view, and they would
never desist till they obtained it.
The resolution was then agreed to.

After a short discussion ii'was agreed, upon the proposition
of Mr. WiLxiNsoN, the late Ma)or of Exeter, that the
Deputies should proceed in a body to the House
of Commons at half-past three o'clock for the purpose of showing
to the Members of that House, that the Deputies were re-
spectable, and were not to be deterred from the purpose for which
they had come to the metropolis—namely, that of giving to
the famishing poor the necessaries of life. _

Among those present we noticed F. Thornely, Esq., Dr.
Bowring, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. R. H. Greg, Mr. Ash-
worth, Mr. Otway Cave, M.P., Rev. Dr. Jenky ns, Coward
College, Mr. Edward Baxter, Dundee, Mr. W. Buchanan,
Glasgow, Mr. Biggs, Leicester, Mr. J. Baxter, Dundee,
Rev. T. Spencer, J. Evans, Esq., Wales.

The meeting having retired for some time, met again at
half-past three, when it was unanimously agreed. that
the Delegates should go in precession to the House
of Commons, and should at the same time present
to Mr. Villiers the petition adopted at the meeting,
and obtain ithe earliest intelligence of the proceedings
of the Legislature. The Chairman intimated that as their
numbers might otherwise occasion confusion, they should
stand in the lobbies and passages of the House side
by side, and leave room for ingress and egress, and the mem-
bers of the assembly should hold their tickets, which were all
coloured, in their hands. The meeting, to the number of
about four hundred, accordingly proceeded to the House in
procession.

. _
PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPEN-
DITURE.
•
I.—AN ACCOUNT OF THE NET PUBLIC IN-
COME OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND
In the Year ended the sth day of January, 1842, after
abating the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the
several Revenue Departments, and of the actual Issues
or Payments within the same- Period, exclusive of the
sums applied to the RedeMption of Funded, or paying
off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repay-
ments for Local Works, &c.
INCOME OR
,REVENUE.
ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS APPLICABLE TO
THE CONSOLIDATED FUND.
Customs (including 3,748,9551. for
other services) - 421,898,844 19 5
Excise .............................. .. : 13,678,835 18 5
Stamps 7,135,217 7 4
Taxes . 4,482,911 12 0
Post-office • 455,000 0 0
Crown Lauds 162,000 0 0
One Shilling and Sixpence and Four
sSihonilsii.talgnds inSaiies
their Pound on pen_
• 5,643 14 9
Small Branches of the Hereditary
,
Revenues of the Crown 5,562 14 11
Surplus Fees of Regulated Public
Offices ...........................

47,917,521 5 2

IMPERIAL• PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 9.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Five minutes before
Four o'Clock.
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, the newly elected Member for
Liverpool, took the oaths and his seat. The Hon. and
Gallant Member was introduced by Lord Sandell and Sir
R. Inglis.
• Mr. CAYLEY took the oaths and his seat as Member
for the North aiding of Yorkshire.
CORN-LAWS.

Mr. PROTHEROE presented several petitions, signed
by several thousand persons, praying a removal of all
restrictions .affecting the trade in fbod.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented several petitions from
Kendal and its neigbourhood, praying for a total repeal
of the Corn-laws.
Mr. GRANGER presented a petition from Castle
Barnard to the same effect.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented forty petitions pray-
ing for a total repeal of the Corn-laws; one of them from
Salford was signed by 9,296 persons.
Mr. HINDLEY presented petitions in favour of the
total and immediate repeal of the 'Corn-laws, from a
congregation of Protestant Dissenters, of the Inde—
pendent denomination, at Spring Head, near Oldham ;
from the Minister and Congregation of Craven
Chapel, Marshall-streets Golden-square ; from a Con-
gregation of Baptists, at Ashton-undef-Lyne ; and
trom the teachers 'of the New Connexion Sunday
School at Ashton and Waterloo. Also from operatives
in the employ of Messrs. James Knott and Son ; of
Mr. Peter Leigh; and of Mr. James Andrew, of Ashton-
under-Lyne.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from the city
of Coventry, signed by 6,000 persons, complaining of the
frightful distress of that place, and attributing it to the
Corn-laws.

Mr. MARK PHILLIPS presented a petition from a
congregation in Manchester, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws; also two petitions from Yorkshire and Derby-
shire to the same effect.

Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from some poor
children in Exeter, stating that they were not able to
attend the Sunday Schools in consequence of their po-
verty, and praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Colonel GORE LANGTON presented a petition
praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. STRUTT presented thirteen petitions from va-
rious places to the same effect.
Mr. BUSFIELD presented thirty-seven petitions
from different places in Yorkshire against the Corn-
laws.

Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from a
place in the West Riding of Yorkshire, signed by 1,800
persons, stating that they consider all taxes which tended
to increase the price of provisions as injurious and op-
pressive, and praying that they should be totally re-
pealed. The Hon. Member presented
.petitions to
the same effect from twelve other places in the West
Riding. The Hon. Member also presented a peti-
tion from an agricultural district in the East Rid-
ing, signed by a great number of a.°ricultural labourers,
stating that they laboured under the most unprecedented
distress, to which they stated they have been driven by
the operation of the Corn laws-.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from the Con-
gregation of Howard Chapel in Liverpool, for a total re-
peal of the Corn-laws.

Mr. HUTT presented a petition to the same effect
from a numerously attended public meeting in the im-
portant town of Hull.
Sir J. EASTHOPE presented 104 petitions from va-
rious places, praying for the total repeal of the Corn-laws.
The Hon. Member felt it his duty to represent to the
House that the terms in which the petitions were worded
called on him to state that he could not be charged with
submitting petitions to the House which might be deemed
to be worded in an improper manner. He felt confident
that the House would extend its indulgence to men suf-
fering under extreme distress, and he therefore begged
to propose that the petition from Leieester be read by
the Clerk at the table.

The petition was accordingly read by the Clerk.
Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from a. place in
Staffordshire, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. JOHNSTONE presented. 'four petitions from
Kilmarnock and adjacent places, to the same effect.
Mr. YORKE prosented a petition from -a place in
Yorkshire, to the same effect.

Mr. LEADER presented twenty-two petitions from
' Westminster Marylebone, Chelsea, Ttepney, and other
parts of the Metropolis, with a similar prayer.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved that a copy
of every Bill annexed to a petition be deposited in the
I'rivate Bill-office the day after the presentation of the
petition to the House, and that such Bills be . open to
the inspection of all parties applying for the same ; that
copies of every Bill annexed to a petition already
presented to the House be deposited in the Private Bill-
office, on or before the 14th instant.—Agreed to.
Dr. BOWRING presented fifty-nine petitions from
several parts of Scotland in favour of a total repeal of
the Corn-laws, and an extension of the Suffrage. Also
fifteen petitions from several parts of England, including
several bodies of Teetotalers, to the same effect.
Mr. WILSON, Mr. MACAULAY, and Mr. DCNCOMBE
presented a number of- petitions for a repeal of the Corn-
laws.

Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Dtindee,
signed by IQ,OOO, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Also several other petitions from Lancashire to the same
elfeet.

Mr. HASTIE presented petitions for a repeal ofthe
Corn-laws.

Mr. TOWNLEY presented petitions to the same effect.

Mr. FOX MAULS presented a number of petitions
from Auchterarder, and several places in Scotland, pray-
ing for a repeal of the Corn-laws.

Lord J. RUSSELL presented a number of petitions to
the same effect, from Athroath,%and other places.
Mr. VILLIERS presented 29 petitions to the same
effect.

Mr. HAWES presented a petition from Lambeth,
against the Corn-laws.
Dr. BOWRING intimated that he should inquire of
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade as to whether
the imports and exports, paid by those who were not
parties to a certain treaty, were not less than those paid
by those who were parties to that treaty.
Sir J. EASTHOPE presented a petition from a
place in Lancaster, praying for the abolition of Church-
rates.

Sir CHARLES NAPIER, gave notice that he would to-
morrow ask the Right Hon. Baronet opposite whether
he would have any objection to lay before the House
the instructions that were sent out to Admiral Sir
Robert Stopford and the other Commanders in the
Levant after the submission of Mehemet Ali, and also a
copy of the correspondence between her Majesty's Go-
vernment and that of Turkey, on the subject of the treaty
between the latter and the Allied Powers.

- Mr. GEORGE PALMER cinPlained of great inac-
curacies in the returns respecting the importation of corn
from Russia and the Baltic, which had been printed by
order of the House,

Sir JAMES GRAHAM explained, that the error
arose from quarters having been printed instead of bushels.
REGULATION OF RAILWAYS.

Mr. GLADSTONE brought up the Bill for the Better
Regulation of Railways.
CASE OF MR. ELTON.
Mr. CURTEIS said he thought he should be exer-
cising a sound discretion if he did not put the question
relative to the case of Mr. Elton, which he had an-
nouncedfor this evening. He hoped that the conciliatory
feeling he had displayed on this subject would be met by
a corresponding spirit on the part of the Government.
An HON. MEMBER, from the Ministerial benches,
thOtight it would relieve the public mind, and par-
ticularly of the navy, if some explanation were given.
As the matter stood, it would go forth that some degree
of injustice had been cominitted.—(Order, order.)
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN said he was ready to
give any explanation that the House might require. He
thought the Hon. Member had acted wisely in taking the
course he had done, and unless it should be the pleasure
of the House he would not go into the case. If he found
-the House wished it. however, he was prepared to do so.