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London, England, 1842-07-14 00:00:00

ready with his answer; but if he had not been ready, Liverpool
had since returned her own answer to the question, by .coeven-
ii,g a panic meeting to be h- ild on .tionday next, n Clayto
square, to petition Parliament not to separate vt ithout
some measures for the relief of the unpP.ralleled distress which
was pressing on Liverpool as well as on the other towns of the
kingdom. That was the answer returned from Liverpool to Sir
R. Peel's question. —( Cheers.) He would also refer Sir R. Peel
for an answer to an article which had appeared in one of the
most moderate, temperate. end best conducted ;tape' s in Liver-
peol—to the Liverpool Times. In the Liverpool Times of
this week, the following article had appeared:—
" In Liverpool we have not any mills or manufactories to
create over. production ; no profligate banks to ruin credit;
there has been no great diminution in the amount of imports or
exports ; yet, at the present time, every class. from the highest
to the lowest, is suffering more severely than at any prea joss
time. At the present moment, nearly 701, more persons are
receiving parish relief thee were receiving it at this
time last year. There are not more than three or fo it ships
under repair in the pert, and_ scarcely any buildiag. The
great builders of marine engines and machinery have been.cnm-
pelled to dismiss hundreds of their hands ; shies are uesaleable,
and freights, to most parts of the w.srld, insufficient to pay ex-
penses. Things are every day going from bad to worse, and
nothing can stop their downward course but the repeal of those
prohibitory laws by which the price of !turd is enhanced, the
employment of shipping diminished, the returns of the merchant
impeded, anti the ability to consume, both at home and abroad,
destroyed."
The question with re :aid to Leeds had been satisfactorily en-
tered into. They must apply their energies in every district
for the repeal of this law. The repeal must. ultimately be car-
ried. The probability was that Sir R..bert Peel himself
would be the instrument by which the repeal would be carried,
unless he retired from office, in order to enable some one else
to carry that great measure—a measure called for riot unly by
the interests, but by the wises and the necessities of the
people.—( Cheer )
Mr. SIDNEY Sat*H would not have presented himself tuthe
! notice of the meeting if he had not had something to submit to
the meeting which would produce the most material effect in
the chances of ultimate success. They hail been most truly
told by that exce.lent and able patriot, Mr. Cobtlen—(Loud
cheers)—that their business was not with the Govern-
ment, which had refused to hear them—not with
the Parliament, which had rejected their prayers—
but with the great body of 'the people; they must fall back on
the sound hearted and intelligent people, to compel he Govern •
merit and the Parliament to do that which without some such
action on the part of the people they would be unab e to effect.
He had always been of opinion that they had looked too much.
from the very first, to Government and to Parliament. If the
people had been true to themselves the total anti immediate re-
peal of the Corn-laws would have been carried before now. They
had heard complaints of class legislation ; but it was not class le-
gislation that had returned two btead-taxers for Liverpool. It was
the working men of Liverpool that had returned these Members,
selling for a little gold themselves and their country.—( Hear. )
The same th rig had happened in Leeds, where the working
men had returned Mr. Beckett to the House of Commons ;
and among the first names on the list against the late motion
of Mr. Villiers was that of Mr. Beckett. Again,
Mr. Philip Howard, who had been returned as
the Liberal Member for Carlisle, hat absented himself
from the division, and had expressed himself unfavourable
to a total repeal, although he preferred a ;bred duty to a sliding-
scale. Now he ( Mr. S. Smith) proposed that the League
should record its condemnation of the course taken by Mr.
Howard. Before, however, he submitted to the meeting the
resolution which he held in his hand. he wished to say
that if Lord Melbourne were in the House of Commons the
censure of the League ought to reach him as it had reached
others.—( Hear, hear.) He found that that Noble Lord, the
late Prime Minister, and the supposed le:aler cf the Liberal
party, was the only Liberal Peer who had opposed the motion of
Lord Brougham for an inquiry into the national distress. He
wished his Lordship should know that he escaped a vote of cen-
sure by the League solely because he had no representatives on
whom they could act by making him the object of merited in-
dignation.—( Hear, hear.) Air. Smith concluded by moving
the following resolution:—

" That this meeting would respectfully bring under the no-
tice of the constituency of the city of Carlisle the fact. that
their reptesentative. Mr. P. Howard expressed in the House
of Commons his oeposit ion to the repeal of the Corn-law, and
absented himseif.from the divi'sion on Mr. Villiers' motion on
Monday evening. And this Conference vrouldfur ther remind
the constituents of Mr. Howard, that their deputies to the
meeting of the League, held at the Crown and Anchor in
February last, voted for the motion then and there, unani-
mously passed, that they would not vote for any Parliamentary
candidate, who opposed the repeal of the Corn-laws. This
meeting further directs that a copy of this teselati n, signed
by the Chairman, be forthwith Ira ,smitted to the Presideut
and Secretary of the Carlisle A nti- Corn-law Ass elation."
Mr. GItUNDY, of Bury. secon.led the resiutioa, which was
carried unanimously after a short discussion.
Mr. S. SHITH wished to read to the meeting the list of the
representatives for trading towns, who had voted against
Mr. Villiers' motion, it, order that they might go
forth to the wor11:--Mr. Beckett. the Member for Leeds;
Mr. 'Cochrane, the Member for Bridport, who obtained his
election by extensive bribery -(Cheers)—Mr. Fteldeet, the
Member for Blackburn; Mr. Ferrand, the Member for
Knareshoreugh—( Groans)—Nlr. Grimsititeh, the Member
for Macclesfield ; Nlr. Lyall, and Mr. Macterman, the
Member for London; Captain Rous, the Member for West-
minster ; and Mr. Shepherd, the Member for Frome. The
Corn-law League must still: persevere, they must still send out
lecturers, and if they did so they might depend upon it the day
was their own.—( Cheers. )
Mr. WoaLity said, that very mush had been said about im-
provement in machinery, and it was to that that Sir Robert
Peel attributed the distress He (Air. Worley) held in his
hand a Report. It was the Report of Mr. Horner, the factory
inspector, of Lancashire. From that Report it appeared that
there were 1,164 mills in 1841, employing 1,999,190 persons.
Of these, 138 were standing, and 139 were working short time;
leaving 887 mills at full work; employing 142,062 persons. Ot
these not more than 3 per cent. wet eeotton-spinners upon mules.
These were chiefly adults, and might pos-ibly be reduced 1 per
cent., so that there were nover more than 4,269 so employed,
and of those, 1,420 at the utmost had been thrown out of work
by the extension ‘,f the use of the self-acting mules, and by the
coupling of others. Of those out of empiloment, no le-s
than half a million were dependent on charity for support. At
the present time there were no less than 1,200
mechanics out of employ. He knew a respeetahle machine-
maker, who said he had net a single o der in his place, and he
was then only working for stock, and in a few weeks he must
stop. Many of these workmen were emigrating to the United
States. One of the largest mills in Ma.,.chester was wo.k..
ing only four days a week. They were Conservatives, and
were very active in returning a Conservative Member for
the county. fhey employed 1,000 people. Another large
mill, employing 700 persons, had stopped on Saturday. An-
other large concern, employing some hundred hands, had also
stopped. The totid number of persons thrown out of employ-
ment during the list we'k, was 2,600 persot.s. He also
knew that cottage' rents were 'fallen six to seven hundred
per cent. in consequence of the occupants being unable to pay.
Mr. SIDNEY S3ITIH observed that from the Income-
tax, evil as it was, this advantage would be derived, that it
would enable an accura'e estimate to be formed of the present
rental of the country, which could be compared witli the rental
of 1815. when the Income-tax was in operation before, and
thus an idea could be formed of what the rise in the rental of
the country re:illy was.
The meeting then adjourned until eleven o'cloil to-day.

THE SALEOF-THEN-TOCK OF
THE JEWELS AND ',LATE OF ,MESSRS.
RUNDELL, BRIDGE. AND COMPANY. '
In consequence of the expiration of the partnership of
that well-known firm, and the determination of the part-
ners to retire from business, they had their most exten-
sive stock of jewels and plate (the largest perhaps ever
submitted for public comp,tition) con% eyed to the great
auction room of Messrs. Christie and Manson' in King-
street, St. 'James's—gnat-Q., there to be sold by public
auction. At one o'chck yesterdny the sale com.oenced.
The great room exhibited a 1 rgt- attendance of the most
respyctable in the trade.

Sir. CILUSTIE. on opening the sale. said that he had
to submit fiir competition, the larg,st stock vatuqjde
property ever heard bef.,re being disposed of by atto-
tion. Messrs. Runde] and Bridge, with their tisud
liberality, directed hi.n to soli it wunout reserv..., anal he
would therefore cominenc.. with the