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THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1842.

1 tion now agitated. ' But .he could assure Ministers that the
I people were not indifferent to it ; that they entertained opinions
that sooner or later, sinless there was a great reform in our
"commercial policy, would "be exhibited in actiop. It
I might be said .that this WIS but a vain threat, proceeding
solely from himself, but it was far otherwise. He therefore
warned the aristocracy not to provoke the people too far.
lie knew. also—and he mentioned it because it had been alluded
to by his friend Mr. Sturge-e( cheers. }—he called him
friend because he was' the Mend 'or the human -race—( Tre-
-1 rnendous cheering)—he knew that there were numbers of
men who bad made up their minds when the proper time
I came, and he thought the time had come, insulted as they had
been, when they should follow the example of the body of
Frienis. rest to resist the law, but allow it to take its course ;
they would-not resist the payment of- the assessed taxes, or
the collection of them, but they would allow the collectors to
come and tale their tables and chairs. There was such. a
;..:-thing as Chartism behind the Anti-Corn-law agitation, and let
,hot some deceive themselves,. that because these men appeared
i in opposition to Anti-Corn-law agitation, .that they were fa-
vourable to taxes upon their bread. —(Cheers.) Those men
did nut oppose the Corn -law agitation—no, they came. with ad-
ditional agitation to say " We approve of. the repeal of the
. I Corn-laws, but- we begin to doubt whether you will obtain it.
You have been four times to London, you have been-treated
with contefapt every time, and therefore we call upon you to
join us in demanding the Charter." He ( Mr. Prentice) differed
with them in that respect ; he thought they had a more
immediate. rospect of obtaining a repeal of the Corn-laws than
the Charter. —( Cheers.) He would warn the members of the
aristocracy and the House of Commons that those who called
themselves Chartists—those who agitated for the Charter, were
with them to a man.—( Great cheering.) They were as much
opposed as themselves to the obnoxious laws passed by the
aristocracy at the point of the sword and bayonet. They
only doubted the efficacy of their means, and believed they had
good reason, seeing the manner in which insult and injury hail
been heaped upon them during. their agitation. He would
warn the aristocracy that these men were at the back of the
Corn-law Repealers—(Cheers)—and that, if they destroyed
the Corn-law agitation, they would only raise up Chartism
with tenfold force.—(Cheers.) They had passed a resolution
to test the House of Commons on Mr. Villiers's motion, they
had declared that they would support nothing but immediate
and total repeal ; and having done that, they could not refuse
giving their assent to the motion proposed by Mr. Sturge.
Mr. P. Tnomestre, the son of Colonel Thompson, then
came forward to support the resolution. In sober sadness, he
thought he might ask them whether at last they were tired of
the course of folly of locking the stable door when the steed
was stoleo.—(Cheees.) , If the principles they advocated
were just now,_ they were so six months ago.—(Cheers.) Why
did they wait for seven years, which it might be, before they
Were put in operation? The question now was, what was to
be done to assist the patient at the last gasp ?—( Cheers. )
The blood was now pouring out of its wound at the neck,
and they were called upon to see what they could do
to staunch it.—( Cries of " Bear.") Some remedies had
been proposed; with respect to time, they had been told that
the time had come when some course should be adopted; he
would say, that when this Bill had passed they should refuse
taxes.—(Great cheering.) Let him warn every man who
cheered in support of that proposition, to be determined to
carry it out.—( Cheers, and cries of "We will.") He would
scorn to come forward and put to them anything that was un-
just;
but he believed there was a time when forbearance would
be cowardice, and submission crime.—( Hear, and cheers.)
The present was the only time to relieve distress, and he be.
lieved it would be efficacious as long as they went on with pas-
sive resistance.--( Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel, and those con-
nected with him, knew that the dauntless spirit that pervaded
their ScOttish neighbours still existed, and they knew that
the blood which flowed in the veins of their ancestors still ran
through the veins of some of their descendants.—( Cheers.) if
they took the course now proposed they might depend
upon it they would no longer, having a starving population.
'1 hey might depend upon it nothing else, would do any good.
He did not ask the poor wretches in the street to act for them-
selves ; they had told them to keep easy, and •he trusted they
would exercise their trust as honest men.—(Cheers.) This
being the time for action, it was scarcely necessary for him to
attempt to show the justice of the course he had adopted ; they
all felt that it was just, they all knew the . destitution which
their, felloW-countrymen were suffering. There was one cir-
cumstance to which he (Mr. Thompson) would allude, which
he thought had not been sufficiently referred to at this meet-
ing. They knew how much the landed interest' told
them that they (the land interest) bad a right to pro-
tection, because they were taxed. They theoretically held their
land from the Crown, who reserved privileges to itself in the
shape of rent charges. Some land was held by a military
tenure, and ethers by different tenures requiring particular
services, all as much rent charges, however, as if they paid' a
certain sum per annum. At the Restoration of Charles 11.
they had wit enough to get rid of these rent charges, and place
them on the taxes ; let there be an end then of their talk about
paying taxes, they have got off rent-free.—(Cheers.) He (Mr.
Thompson) should not have presumed to have addressed them
to-day, had it not been that he came there as the representa-
tive of 4,000 starving weavers—as the representative of 4,000
people out of a population of 12,000 who were perishing for
want of food. They had bid him ask how it was that 4,000
persons with energy, activity, and intelligence, and the will to
labour, were perishing for want in the streets; and they had
instructed him to say, in reply, that it was because they could
produce everything but food for themselves; that they could
not do because they had not the machinery; nor could they
exchange other prodose with foreigners for food, because they
were not allowed ; alt they could now do was to trust that this
meeting would save them from starvation. In conclusion, he
was sore he need not say that he agreed with the resolution for
preventing starvation. .
The motion was then put from the Chair, and was carried

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unanimously, amidst mosi vociferous cheering.
The CHAiRMAN then announced that the Rev. J. W. Alas-
3ie, of Manchester, would now move the Memorial to the
Queen.

1 The Rev. J. W. 'lllAssrE, then came forward amidst loud
cheers. He said that he rose in furtherance of a resolution
passed yesterday, that this Conference should present a MemOriel
to her Majesty, suitable to their opinion of the present times.
—(Cheers.) There might he some difficulty in their way, or
they might anticipate some, as to access to her Majesty on this
occasion. lie had had the pleasure some time ago of attending
a Conference of Ministers and religious men in Caernarvon,
which had been convened from North Wales, to join in pre-
3enting an address to her Majesty, suited to that time. The
address agreed to was loyal; it was affectionate ; it breathed.
the spirit of ardour, freedom, and love to the Queen, whom
they loved to call their Queen, and towards the young born
heir of the Throne, whom they pronounced their Prince.
—(Hear, and cheers.) This memorial, duly signed, was duly
f,rwarded, yet from that day to this, the Welsh rubjecfs of
her Majesty had heard nought of that memorial.—(Cheers.)
lie would then put his friends on their guard as to the pre-
sentation of this memorial.' If he should have a voice in the
matter it should go through no Home-office—it should go
through no Secretary of State.—(Cheers.) He did not know,
but he ought to say that it should go through no member of
the aristocracy_-( Great - cheering)—yet he feared her
Majesty 'was too far off fromthe Delegates of ' that
Cogerence, for them to convey the expressions of
their' feelings and' opinions to her own royal ear—to her own
tender bosom.—(Loud cheers.) It would then remain for the
Executive Comniittee to consider whether the memorial should
he entrusted to a Peer of the realm, or whether it should be
conveyed by a deputation of their number, or by the whole
of the members of the Conference. They should proceed
by an express train to Brighton—(Loud cheers)—in order
that 'they might secure the presentation of their memorial,
and bring forth 'from the royal lips of -that beloved woman—`
(Cheers)—the expression of her own mother's" heart, and her
Queenly affection for the people over whom she reigns, and
whom she wishes to be happy.-4 Loud cheering, and waving
of hats.) He would leave that now, however, to the Executive.
There was one point of extreme importance which he shubld
now urge upon the meeting—it was that of time.—( Cheers. )
Were the Members of those Houses of Legislature to be found
busied in taking up certain children and certain widows, sick,
pale, and emaciated, from-the streets of London, and forming
purses for themselves of the skins of those people, how would
the indignant cry of multitudes be fiercely rai,ed. against
them, which should appal them in their guilty career?
Were not they murdering mow ?—(Hear, hear.) There was a
gentleman on that platform, who had received a cominuniCa-
lion from i 'friend of his, in the district in which he resided. .
After stating the condition of the working classes in the dis
trict, the communication mentioned that there was a large
number of persons there who fed on one meal in forty-eight
hours.—( Hear, hear.) ThXt fact hail been tested by the
most scrupulous investigation. .He 'knew that deaths were
occurring almost every day from famine, or the results
,if emaciation anddestitution; He knew that an honest man- --
a man once lionest at- •least, had been driven to' the highway,
had arrested- the passer-by, had' demanded his money, had
been content with silver when he was offered goM ; and the
little supply that silver procured for hint was too much—the man
sheathe following morning; the victim of want and destitution
But that was only - one out of a thousand cases. Let the
17,000 inhabitants of -Paisley he deserted by the hand of charity
—let them •be stoglected, . not by the• Duke of Wellington—
( Groans)—for' he would not bear their cries—(Hear, hear)—
he would nut subscribe one fraction for their relief;' he would

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not hear the prayer of their representatives—he was not,
forsooth, one of, • her • •Maiesty's- present advisers—( Hear,
hear)—but • let the -- - sutfer.ng operatives of Paisley
be deserted,- not by the. Duke -of Wellington—not by thb land-
lords, but let them be deserted by the lords of cotttin and the
lords of trade, who contributed • to their subsistence- and then
these 17,000 human—beings must either die or ['fonder the
country. It was mit - merely •in refereoee to the destitution
of the people that they should say no time was to he lost.
There were 'many -ministers..ot religion in • that great metro-
polis, zealeirs, though not too -zealous, for the advancement of
Alis,...ionary Societies; • for maintaining Bible Institutions, for
the liindol of knowledge— through Tract- Societies=—there
were men who s!orel fm ward to ilea& t became of the Negro and
the Hindon, expres7ing a hope • that•rude' barbarians should.
know that t4i itie and glorious conquest once ob-
tained 'upon Calvary. These men this plead 'd in order
that their- friends in other parts of the country might
contribute to those MiArma.ry Societies. . Ile would
tell them—and he wished they might hear it—it was
a truth, which he pronounced from that place most solemnly—
he would tell them, that.not alone was it probable that they would
fall short this year of their revenue, but there were many On_
flemen in that, room who had told him that they would give
51)1. less that year than' they had contributed in former
sears to those societies. He loved the cause of religion—
he loved his brethren of the ministry—but he wished they
had come forward mere zealously in that cause. He did
not mean to say that there were not many distinguished
exceptions. He knew that there were' among the clergy
men of the brightest genius, of the noblest intellect, who
were known for their. most elaborate and successful researches
into ancient history—men who had shown the warmth of their
hearts, the eloquence of their pens, and the strength of their
intellect, in the 'advocacy of their cause. - He honoured the
Smiths, the Coxes, the - *raughans, and ethers of that stamp.
But one swallow did not make a summer. They should have-
soiery messenger of the pulpit engaged in behalf of the poor,
whom the Redeemer first taught, and then fed, and then reli-
gion would be most sure to prosper.—(Loud cries of
.:tlear, hear.") The Reverend Gentlemen then concluded
by m„„::?ir.the adoption of the following memorial:—

mOORIAL TO THE QUEEN.
humbly Showetb,—ltb.: !oar memorialists have been deputed by
Christian Congregations and Assoc4..gtions of their countrymen, who
are suffering under the operation of the t......7r1 and Provision-laws;
and, therefore, seek their abolition. Many of theni hpve already
attended Confererices and Conventions in other parts of theentintry
—in Scotland, England, and Wales. Their constituents are loyal
affectionate, and suffering subjects of your Majesty, and aro CoMident
of the benevolent sympathy of their Queen, and her desire sep
every evil Irotn which they suffer redressed. They devoutly rejoicg
in the blessings which a gracious Providence has bestowed upon
your Majesty as a Queen and a soother, and fervently pray tbal the
Divine favour may rest upon your Royal Household and Family.
Your Majesty has already proclaimed your sympathy with the
suffering millions of your people, whose exemplary patience in the
midst of aggravated privations, has been acknowledged by your
Majesty's Ministers. It is therefore with loyal and respectful con-
tinence, your Memorialists approach the throne of their Sovereign,
which they earnestly supplicate God to preserve inviolate arid
Immured.

They would now assure your Majestythat they are wholly and
grievously dissatisfied with the measure proposed by your Majesty's
present advisers to the country for a modification of the laws which
obstruct the imvOrtation of food for the people, which are so fear.
fully calculated to impose restrictions on trade, and set limits to
the industry and mechanical enterprise of your labouring people.
,Such a measure is viewed by your Memorialifts as injUrious go

rthe interests of the country, the peace of the nation, and the ho-
nour of the Government; and your Memorialists would express
theii alarm at the consequences likely to arise from the sutfaings
now endured by the people, and to avow their utter want of con-
fidence in your Majesty's present Ministps, or in any Ministers
who wit loot propose to Parliament a measure for the total and im-
mediate abolition of the Corn and .Provision-laws.
And your Memorialists shall ever pray.
. .
This was the memorial, subject to their own approval. He would
not detain them for a single moment, by any observations far-
ther than a single one, and that one in reference to the ex-
emplary patience of the suffering people. Her Majesty was
made to say- this in her Majesty's most gracious speech from
the Throne; and he had heard the words repeated by one of
her Majesty's advisers in the House of Parliament. What did
they mean by such an expression ? They meant, if their
patience dial been exemplary, that it might have been other-
wise; that the people, if they had broken out into rebellion,
and had attacked the buildings of the rich and the for-
tresses of the Treasury, would only have done that
which might hale been expected in a state of such
grievous suffering. Such seems to be implied in the ex-
pression " exemplary patience." They were astonishes
at the patience of the people —so was he.—( Cheers.) He had
read the page of history, and had looked at the bloody scenes
that occurred at the close of the last century upon the soil o
France. He saw that at that time the first cry of the people
was, " Give us bread, and none of your gabble !" They
were led by forms in woman's guise, but of masculine
energy, and called out in the Court of the Tuile-
ries for immediate sod, for that they were dying,
and would not endure it—(Loud cheers.) This, then,
was what they might have anticipated, but for the in-
telligence of the people, and but for the moderation of those
who in some measure had an influence in controlling the
popular opinion., But for the conduct of those who had been
agitating this great question of the abolition of the Corn-laws, he
wondered what the country would have done. What would they
have done had there been no Anti-Corn-law League ? What
could the people have done had there been no Conference of
Ministers, no Convention of Trades, no agitation, in order to
reach the ears of the soulless, the heartless, the brutal party—
( Tremendous cheering )—who were now in power? They loved
the Queen, and had confidence in her kindness, and
had a determination to stand by her—(Cheers)—to raise
a rampart round her throne more irresistible than the bayonets
of the soldiery or the guns of her artillery. It was their reso-
lution to come between her and the men who had enslaved her
--( Immense cheering)—to emancipate her from her fetters,
and to let her Royal mind go free, that he proposed this
Memorial.
The Rev. J. HINTON, of London, cordially seconded the
motion for adopting the Memorial. If he were not compas
sionate, he should wish that he was eloquent ; he would to
eloquent for the sake of the cause—he should be compassionate
for the sake of the,auditory. He had, he hoped, caught a little
of the spirit that had animated the meeting at which it had been
his privilege to attend. He had himself, in his own small
sphere, acted in a manner not inconsistent with his presence
here ; after the Conference of Manchester he had given a lec-
ture to his own congregation on the subject, and a petition
from them to both Houses of Parliament would be presented,
he believed,that evening. It was true that the Dissenting ministers
of London were not all up and awake, and active in the cause.
Petitions had been presented from three great dissenting bodies,
particularly from the Baptist congregations. He wished from
his heart that this activity had run through the whole body,
but he confessed that it was not the best way to ensure it, to
use such severity of animadversion on the whole body.—
( Hear, hear, hear.) The Dissenting ministers, as a
body, comprehended many Conservatives, as well as
Liberals. A Dissenting minister was not necessarily a Libera
in politics; for this reason, they were divided, and like other
bodies, he suspected, liked better to be led than driven.
Some of the remarks that he heard that day, he
confessed, had he not stood there before, would rathe
have hindered him from attending there now than have
drawn him. If they wished to enlist the Dissenters
in the Anti-Corn-law cause, he would suggest more appeals to
their understandings and their hearts, as more useful and less
repelling instruments than vituperation. He observed also
that congregations were often divided by political opinion as
well as the Ministers, and though a minister might do all he
could, still, as far as the congregation were concerned, he
might find a very considerable portion of Conservative sen-
timent therein.
Mr. BARRETT WADDEN, of Hammersmith, rose to order.
He appeared there, as a Delegate, to give on the part of those
who deputed him, every possible support to the objects of that
meeting; those directions were given to him upon condition
that those objects should be the total, immediate, and un-
qualified repeal of the Corn-laws ; and further, he had been
instructed to take special care not to mix up with it any poli-
tical or religious matter whatsoever.—( Hear, hear.) He
thought. the Rev. Gentleman, who was addressing the assembly
was not, strictly speaking, in order, because the subject to which
he was in the act of addressing himself when he (ar. Wadden)
took the liberty of interrupting him might lead to some re-
ligious or political discussion.--( Hear, hear.)
The Rev. Mr. Hisizox had said all he intended to say
upon the subject, and assured the meeting that nothing could
be more remote from his wishes than to say anything cal-
culated to provoke an useless discussion.—(Applause.) He
was just about to conclude by making a public declaration
in presence of that meeting that he, as a minister of religion,
as a Baptist minister residing,in this metropolis, had in at-
tending there fully and entirely pledged himself to the objects
of the assembly.--(Loud cheers.) By appearing on that plat-
form he gave those objects his most cordial assent, and he had
not the slightest objection that his name should go forward as
a supporter of them• wherever the wings of the press might send
it. The Rev. Gentleman concluded amidst considerable applause.
Mr. M'Leon, of tambetti, came forward in support of the
resolution. He thought the time had at last arrived when it
because the duty of every- man, whatever his position
might be, to speak out plainly and intelligibly. The pre-
sent advisers of the Crown had the impudence to state the
other night in the House of Commons, that the utmost dis-
trees existed throughout the country ; and that, notwithstand-
ing, no relief should be given to. the people ; therefore it was
manifest the Ministry had no intention or desire to satisfy the
wants of the country. If they meant to preserve the
institutions of England, or that loyalty to the Crown
for which this country was at all times pre-eminently
celebrated, the Ministry must attend to the people's. want,.
(Cheers.) At the same time the people should assemble peace-
ably and constitutionally throughout the country,
and adopt that course quietly, which would sweep
them from their present position. —(Loud cheers. )
The misery throughout the country was harrassin., such as the
people could no longer endure.—(Cheers.) 'The cat was
now tint of the bag. The Quack Doctor had an-
nounced his intention, not only to put the people
upon low diet, but to starve them entirely.—( Cries
of " Hear, hear.") The people of England would not submit
to that. —(Loud cheers.) Mr. M•Leod concluded by ex-
pressing his great satisfaction at supporting a resolution which
had for its object the dismissal of the present Ministers, whom
he designated a set f vagabonds

Mr. O'CoNNott,ia iSeputy from Christ Church, Maryle-
bone, and a native at heland, requested of the Chairman to be

heard, on what seemed to himnan omission in the memorial
which had been read. He was sorry, that there were not
deputies from Ireland,
,but be yet thought it was an omission
that the Memorial should be represented as coming from a
meeting of the deputies of England, Scotland, and Wales,
and not as corning from those of Great Britain and Ire-
land.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He was surprised that such
a resolution should emanate from the eloquent, able, and useful
minister who drew it up, or at least who had a great share in
drawing it up. The omission of Ireland might lead to the
supposition that it was against the object of the meeting, which
he denied most emphatically.--(Hear.) Ireland was with them
to a man.—( Cheers. ) There wai another consideration. The
struggle might take plaee, and Ireland would not be the last
t. to join them, bu she would be the first in the' fight.
-( Hear, hear, arid cheers.) For he remembered that the
people of Ireland forced Sir Robert Peel, and the conqueror of
Waterloo, to concede Emancipation—(Cheers)—and that they
did so by simultaneous meetings, such as Mr. O'Connell sug-
gested to the Meeting yesterday. He should propose as an
amendment " that the Memorial should be proposed as emanat-
ing from the' Anti-Corn-law Repeaters of Great Britain and
Ireland."—(Loud cheers.)
The CRAIRAN said it was impossible for the meeting to
meet the M
ideas of the, gentleman who spoke last, because the
Memorial originated with the different Deputies of England,
Scotland, and Wales, assembled at the Conference.—( Hear. )
The Memorial was then put from the Chair, and carried
unanilnously. _

A DEPUTY asked Who were to accompany it.
The Rev. Mr. MA sstx said that he was asked by a number
of persons whether they could accompany the Memorial to
Brighton, and he thought it would be well that all persons who
wished it should be allowed to go with it.
The CHAIRMAN su3gested that it would be well for the Exe-
cutive Cotn'mittee to take the subject into their consideration,
and bring the result before the meeting to-night, or to-morrow
at eleven o'clock.

The Rev. Mr.' MAsssY said, that as several persons were
mpatient, it would be well to bring the opinion of the Com-
ruittee before the meeting to-night.
The Rev. G. W. Runway said it would be better to take
the opinion of the meeting first.
The CHAIR.IIAN thought the better course would he for the
Committee to decide first upon what measures they should
submit to the meeting for its apirobation.
Mr. BARRETT WADDEN said he was apprehensive that one
false step now might do them irretrievable injury.—( Hear,
hear.) Let them not injure their cause by failing to profit by
the knowledge acquired from experience and prudence, and if
they kept within that circle there was no fear of going astray.
There were ways in which a memorial might be, presanted to
he Queen according to the Constitution of the country, which
her Majesty was bound to obey as implicitly as any one in the
room—the first was through the officer at the Home-office,
whose hands he hoped in God the Memorial would never
touch—(" Hear, hear," and loud cheering)—and the other
through the medium of a Peer of the Realm, whose prerogative
entitled him to demand an interview with the Sovereign at
any time. Anything beyond that. must emanate trom the
courtesy of the Sovereign herself, anti therefore they, as ra-
tional men, were bound to ascertain how far that courtesy
would be granted to them.—( Hear, hear.) If that cour-
tesy were granted to them, either at Brighton, or,
as an Irishman would say, "at Gingledee Conch,"
who :,:rotmliomirfgi
he should be ready at a moment's warning to go. But
when he heard, through'the medium of the 'Press, that her
Majesty, intended taking leave of Windsor on the lath of
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that such was the motive for the early removal, and there-
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sa, they had a
Fitzwilliam, and a Radnor, and a Sutherland,.Lid he was
prepared to show that they had a Sussex ( Here the whole
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assembly rose, and continued chee • ring and waving their hats
for a Considerable time)—and therefore - his (Mr. • Wad-
den's) suggestion would be this—that the gentlemen who
had led them thus far so well. should open a communieatio:
either personally or by letter with these noblemen, and as many
more as possible; to know whether they would take charge of
and read to her Majesty their memorial, and tell her that dele-
gates from all parts.of England, Scotland, and Wales--and
would to God he could add his own country, Ireland—had as-
sembled, and that amongst them were 116 'ministers of re-
ligious congregations. He would ask was there ever such
a Delegation assembled in London before. lle was delighted
to find the impetuosity of the people curbed by t becalm judgment
and sound discretion of the Ministers of religion. tie would
therefore recommend that those noblemen be respectfully
requested to lay before her Majesty the state of the public and
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national destitution now prevailing, with a view that would be
eleaeieusly pleased to receive the Deputation, to which he enter-
tained no doubt she would consent, if in accordance with the
Constitutiop. Bet he intreated the meeting not to con:ent
to the Deputation going down to Brighton, and hearing the
distressing and mortifying intelligence, that they could not have
an interview with her Majesty, as under such circumstances a
painful chasm would be opened between her and the Deputies.,
They intended in the first instance to ascertain the Queen's
pleasure, and then if she consented to receive the Deputation,
to decide what number of Delegates shouldproceed toßrighton
with the memorial.
Mr. S. Slltlit said he feared the Deputation could not
proceed to her Majesty, as it had no Constitutional exist-
ence ; those bodies which had, were received only on
days of levee, regularly announced in the Gazette, as
when the Corpration of the City of London went
to present an address. Ministers of the Three Denominations
had, by a prescription of 150 years, also a right of being pre-

sent at-levees. But he had the authority of several Peers for
stating that no such body as the present could proceed in a
body, or by deputation, to her -Majesty. He believed the only
course open to them was, to present their address through the
Secretary of State, or through the hands of a Peer.

Mr. BOULTBEE moved, as an amendment, that the Executive
Committee should be requested to 'recommend such a mode of pre-
senting the memorial as they should consider most desirable, such
suggestion to be laid before the general meeting of the Conference
that evening, to be open to such remarki as:any Deputy should feel
himself called upon to make. lie was the more particular upon
this point, as the Rev. Gentleman, who brought forward the me-
morial, had distinctly stated, that it was open to discussion; in
pursuance of which suggestion, he (Mr. B.) had given the following
note to the Chairman, and he (Mr. B.) was rather mortified at not
being called upon to snake a remark :

"Mr. Boultbee wishes to suggest to the gentlemen who have
drawn up tl:e memorial, the addition of a very few words."
The amendment was then agreed to.
The CHAIIIMAN then announced the course that was intended to
be pursued in the evening sitting, and the Conference adjourned
at 4 to 6 o'clock.

systern of averages. There were mighty interests opposed to
them, but the people of England before defeated Charles the
First, and they beat the aristocracy in 1832, and would do so
again—(Cheers)—and nothing less than their total abolition
would satisfy them. They would turn out Peel, and they
would turn out Lord John Russell, if he did not satisfy them.—
(Cheers ) He begged to return thanks for himself, and the
operatives who sent him, for the patience with which he
was heard.
Mr. TAYLOR, jun , from the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly
Association said, he was sent by those whom he represented to
witness the consultations of his elders and betters. They
thought it might be a good exercise for the rising mind to
come there to refute the arguments or statements of the Prime
Minister.—( Hear, hear.) It was said his arguments were
only fit for the nursery, and they deserved to be met only by
the piping treble of infantile scorn —( Hear.) It was a
melancholy thing for the character of England end English-
men to see a man like Peel at the head of the Government,
supporting the Corn-laws with such arguments as those
adopted by him, and to see a man of his talents, made the tool of
monopolists. It would be less disgusting to a man °Heeling, if
the support of these laws were for his own interests, but
to see him turn round, and with such arguments as he used,
endeavour to crush the power which had raised him to his
present pitch of greatness, was, indeed; likely to bring shame
and degradation to the mind of every Englishman. The young
men of London, and he entertained no doubt but the young
men of every other town in England, conceived that they had
even a greater interest in the repeal of those laws than their
fathers, because they had a longer life before them; and their
fathers had lived in the days before the declension of English
commerce and English prosperity, and when they were able
to make a competence for the future. It nsed to be said, some
years ago, that when a slave touched the shores of England he
became a freeman, but such could no longer be said now. It
was not in the power of the aristocracy to prevent them getting
a repeal of the Corn-laws ; that had been crushed before, but
much might be attributed to the apathy amongst the middle
classes. It arose from a want of a cordial union. The middle
classes had not, in many instances, done their duty
as they should, and much of the distrust which
arose amongst the working-men arose from this fact. He did
not mean to say that the Chartists had acted wisely in the course
they had taken—the principle of the Reform Bill was that no
man should be taxed without his own consent, through his re-
presentatives ; but the working-classes had gained no advan-
tage by this, and thus it was little wonder that they threw them•.
Selves into the arms of those who tried to ensnare them. He
having been a lecturer, and having attended many a meeting,
could bear testimony to the willingness of the working classes
generally, and even of the Chartists, to be on good terms with
the middle classes. A better feeling was fast growing amongst
them, and from this union of intelligence and strength he had
the best hopes of success.—( Cheers. )
The Reverend Mr. MORGAN, Baptist Minister from Stour-
bridge, said that it had been his pleasing duty, Sunday
after Sunday, to pray that God might be pleased to give employ-
ment to the poor, and to remunerate them for their labour;
but he felt that to offer such prayers and not to help to carry
them out by exertions, was to serve God with the lip, but to
withhold the requisite act. Let no one, then, minister or par-
tizan, say that he, a clergyman, had .no right to take part in
seeking for a repeal of the Corn-laws, if that could be called
politics.—(Cheers.) He was sorry to say that distress was
spreading on every side. On Monday evening a friend told
him that a few years since there were in Worcester 147 master
glovers; now there were about 30.—( Hear, hear.) One of
the working glovers had not earned ss. during the last three
months ; and this case was a specimen of too many others.
He (Mr. M.) himself knew an artizan who, some years
ago, earned 245. a week ; his wages were gradually reduced
until the year 1841, when he got but two day's work in the
week at the rate of 20s. During three or four months he had
nothing to do. In the midst of his misery his wife lay in, and
soon died of want, amidst the wailings of her famishing chil-
dren. Now, was not this murder in detail?—( Hear, hear. )
But the whole land resounded with cries of woe. lie (Mr. M. )
was glad to say that all the Baptist ministers heartily joined in
the present agitation. The Rev. Thomas Swan, who presided
over the largest communicating denominations in the mining
districts, was their most zealous co-operator. They had a
spirited meeting at Stourbridge a few days since. The cry
was, " No surrender ; and a total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws." He hoped this feeling was now becoming ge-
neral.—(Cheers )
Mr. J. H. LEWIS, of Stroud, had a tale of woe to tell from
a district of 40,000 inhabitants, which was once called
the golden valley, but was now the valley of de-
solation. The determination of his constituents as re-
garded the repeal of the Corn-laws, was no surrender, no
compromise. They would have nothing less than a total repeal
of the Corn and Provision-laws.—( Cheers.) It was a gratifi-
cation to him, their Delegate, to find that the Conference was
now of the same determination.—(Hear and cheers.) He
would relate an occurrence of a recent date. He resided in
Stroud, arkd last week a person who had at one time worked fel.
him, and who, when trade was good, earned 3/. or 4/. a week.
He came to him and said, " Give me something to buy food,
or I shall perish. This is the second day on which I have not
broken my fast." Now that was not a solitary instance, as
there were thousands of such instances in the place in which
he resided. He would not trouble the meeting further, but
would conclude with a few lines, which he thought most ap•
plicable to the present subject:-.-
"Oh for a lay, loud-as the surge
That lashes Lapland's sounding shore !"
Oh for a voice of storm, to rouse the people from their
trance,
Ere independence be no more;
Ere England sinks beneath the Tory glance !
Ye torpid powers ! a boding fear pervades my melan-
choly soul,
And whispers, in the muse's song,
Your energies have slept too long.
Oh, yet, if it be not too late,
Arouse, and try to avert sour fate.
Strain every nerve, swell every vein,
To rend the intolerable chain ,
Let union guide, let union bind,
Your hearts, your councils, and your mind.
'Tis only thus ye now can hope,
With England's deadly foes to cope,
And happily, yet, you may prevail ;
But, e'en should every effort fail,
Your glorious struggle in so good a cause
Will win immortal glory and applause.
The demons that oppress our isle,
And their dark legions of dismay
May for a season tyrannize,
While England shudders at their sway.
But, like the sun enthroned on high
Beyond the fierce destroyer's course,
Britannia's guardian, Liberty,
Mocks their vain rage—defies their baffled force.
Her patriot sons shall brave this gale—
Brave the tremendous breakers' roar—
Turn our remorseless tyrants pale
Upon old Albion's sea-girt shore !--(Loud cheers.)
Mr. ORIEL, of Devizes, felt that he had a duty to discharge
in laying before the meeting the wretched condition of the poor
in the parts in which he resided. He did not think that agri-
cultural distress had been full represented at the meeting. He
believed that the miseries in the agricultural districts far sur-
passed those in the manufacturing. He had travelled into
one hundred villages in Wiltshire, and the distress pre
veiling there was most alarming.—( Loud cries of " Shame.")
There was a time when poor labourers were enabled to keep
for their own use a pig. That blessed state of things was al-
tered now ; it they got a pig at all now, it scarcely could be
called for their own use ; at any rate, it was not for their sus-
tenance ; their pigs were given to pay rent and rates, and not
even the offal. was left for the family.—( Cheers.) He had
been into houses where the inmates had subsisted for a long
time on barley bread and potatoes without tasting other food.
On this they live from week to week, and from month to
month, whilst there may be seen, perchance, the farmers'
ditches of bacon hanging up in corners of the wretched cabin
for the purpose of being dried. Mr. Oriel then proceeded to
read statements which he had gathered from several families
of the labouring class in the neighbourhood of Devizes. These
accounts presented pictures of the most harrowing distress ; in
most of the cases referred to the cabins or huts of the inhabi-
tants contained only one room, where the families, consisting
in the instances quoted, of seven, eight, and nine children, lived
and slept. The average wages received for the support of a
whole family slid not exceed 95., being about Is. per week per
individual. As before stated, their food consisted of nothing
but barley bread and potatoes; and the head of one family de-
clared that he had,not tasted meat, cheese, or butter for three-
quarters of a year.—( This recital of misery appeared to excite
feelings of great sym; athy in the breasts of the auditory.)—
No condition could be more unhappy than that of the agri-
cultural labourers who toiled in humble obedience, but who
never touched those goods of nature which their labours con-
tributed to raise. The condition of that class was deserving of
the utmost sympathy. They were well aware how abject was
their state ; but they did nst dare to give expression to their
real feelings, so complete was their dependence on their aris-
tocratic masters.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOHN Towne, of Oxford, next addressed the meeting.
'the district from which lie came was purely agricultural. He
believed that the picture of the condition of the agricultural
labourer was riot over-drawn by the gentleman who had pre-
ceded him. '1 he farmers' labourers in his district received, in
general, but seven shillings a week, which left them but one
shilling a day to support a family consisting frequently of
seven persons. He remembered, that when he was a young
man, farmers' servants received ten shillings a week and ten
pounds a year. A young man in the same situation now re-
ceived but three shillings arid sixpence a week. He hail, in
travelling to London, questioned one of the class, from whom
lie had received that information, and who told him, on further
inquiry, that his breakfast was bread and lard, his dinner
was bread and lard, and his supper was bread and lard.
Such was the condition to which the Corn-laws reduced the
agricultural population. —( Hear, hear.) Ile had struggled
himself to retain the land of his forefathers—his paternal pro-
perty—but he was not able to effect it. HO had been a tenant
to the Earl of Manvers, and with all his endeavours he could
not keep his family together.—(Hear, hear.) The farms,
which were occupied by four or live persons formerly, were now
in the hatids of one, and of course fewer labourers were
employed. Mr. Ainsworth and others were now in the pos-
session of those farms. But lie was glad that at length per-
sons of influence were coining forward to relieve them front
the operation of those causes which had produced ruin to the
farmers.—( Hear, hear.) He had been present in the morn-
ing when an allusion had been made to the scene by which
the Corn-law had been introduced, and he was a little boy
when one of the persons who had been shot fell at his feet;
and ho knew that six balls of cartridge had been served to
the troops on the occasion, hut he hoped to sec England freed
from her oligarchy and her bad laws.—( Cheer s. ) In Oxford,
when they first started the Corn-law agitation, they were
laughed at, but at length they became so strong as to be
enabled to send a deputation to wait upon Mr. Langston, re-
questing him to stand for Oxford, and they were able to place
him at the head of the poll, 11,000 plumpers having been voted
fur him.

The Rev. Mr. WILLIAms, of Carnarvon, said he brought
with him forty-one congregational, and thirty-seven general,
petitions, from the mountains of Wales, having 21,470 signa-
tures attached to them. They were entrusted to him for pre-
sentation to her Majesty. lie should read to the meeting a
petition which had been adopted at a general meeting of minis-
ters Lead at Carnarvon:—

TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful
subjects, being Christian ministers of various denominations, repre-
___

senting numerous congregations, and enjoying the sympathy and
cordial concurrence of many absent ministerial brethren resident in

agricultural as well as the mining districts in North Wales,—have
assembled in Carnarvon, during the first and second days of Decem-

her, 1941, to communicate our experience and convictions relative
to the operation of the laws, which by restricting the amount, and
increasing the price of food, providentially available for the inha-
bitants of this land, repress the resources of the country, and afflict
the labouring people ; and are desirous to approach the throne and
address to the ear of our beloved Sovereign an expression of our
sympathies in relation to the deeply interesting position in which
a merciful Providence has placed your Majesty, as a Mother and a
Queen ; and also to declare our sentiments in reference to the laws

which so widely affect the happiness of our fellow subjects.;
The depression of trade, and the consequent poverty and suffer-
ing of our people, prevent them and us from mingling in festive
celebrations on the occasion in which the God of all mercies, in in-
finite goodness, has preserved the life of your Majesty, and be.
stowed on your Majesty and your people a Prince destined, we
hope, after many years, to become the ruler of these realms. Yet
we trust our evpressions of congratulation will not be deemed less
loyal and affectionate, while thus assembled to address your Majesty,
we hail the birth of your Royal Son, as heir of our native British

Kings, for whom are reserved the highest Sovereign honours be-
longing to this ancient Principality, and descending by long here-
ditery succession from the Second Edward, born in the castle whose
venerable walls surround us May the Prince now born be long
preserved, and made wise for the Government of his people, and be
the source of continued comfort t his Royal and Illustrious
Parents.

In the midst of our warm and grateful feelings, excited by
this auspicious event, and whilst cherishiog the most affec-
tonate veneration for the person and dynasty, and an ardent
attachment to the Throne, of your Majesty, we are solemnly
conscious that we are met to discharge an onerous and grievous
duty in laying before your Majesty our impressions and convic-
tions as to the character and operation of the Corn-laws. We
are surrounded by, and, in the discharge of our avocations, come
into daily contact, with multitudes who depend on their industry
for their holiest maintenance; we witness their struggles- and
sympathise with them in their sorrows and privations. But
though language be inadequate to describe the scenes of heart-
rending, wide spread, and ever deepening distress with which our
duty makes us painfully familiar, we are constrained to attempt to
convey to your gracious Majesty intelligence of the fact that thou-
sands of your loyal and industrious subjects are in destitution, to a
very great extent, of the common necessaries of life ; and, besides
the prevalence of levers and other diseases, suffer many of the
consequences of famine in a land of plenty. We venture respect-
fully, but confidently, to trace these miseries to inadequate employ.
ment and low rates of wages, which are not merely incidental to
fluctuations in trade but are the legitimate and necessary effects of
laws, which produce artificial scarcity and enhance the price of
bread, and, preventing the increase of labour and commerce, lessen
the remuneration of industry.

We have but too well accredited testimony regarding other
parts of your Majesty's empire to remain in doubt whether others
suffer as do our flocks and neighbours in the Principality. We
read of tens of thousands of skilful and willing craftsmen who sub-
sist on the scanty pittance of public charity, and the seasonable ef-
forts and contributions of humane individuals—a kind of monetary
maintenanee calculated to impoverish the donors, and debase the
feelings and character of the recipients, without any permanent be-
nefit to the community.
In full reliance on the sympathy and parental solicitude uni-
formly evinced by your Majesty towards those who suffer, and for
the happiness of your people, and encouraged by your Queenly de-
termination to "rule in righteousness," we humbly, yet earnestly,
entreat that the constitutional prerogatives vested in you, as our
Chief Magistrate, may be so exerted, as to your wisdom may seem
fit, in order that, at the earliest opportunity, the legal restrictions
on the sale of articles of food may be expunged from the statutes
of your realm, and a free commerce with all the nations in the
bounties of a universal providence be established for your people.
The Rev. W. STOKES said, the district which he represented
in the Conference contained about 20,000 inhabitants, who
were chiefly engaged in the same trade, and were the last who
would be likely to feel the bad effects of the Corn-laws ; yet
misery was exhibiting itself in the most appalling shapes. In
his parish the size of their workhouse had been doubled within
four years, yet they were obliged to put the paupers three in a
bed. Poors'-rates had been doubled ; they had now four
double rates a year ; the guardians of the poor did not know
what to do with them, where to put them, nor how to employ
them. Yet these were men of iron—honest, skilful, and
patriotie—perfectly opposed to the lurking character of Sir
Robert Peel. They had selected him (Mr. Stokes) as their
Delegate, and warned him against a compromise. We must,
said they, have a total surrender, or we are ruined.—( Cheers. )
Last week 36 artisans took their passage to America ; hun-
dreds were prepared to follow them, and 50 men were engaged
to go and establish a hollow-ware factory in Spain. In fact,
now foreign countries wanted not our goods, but our men.
The West Bromwich Guardians had atlength agreed to a me-
morial to Ministers, stating that pauperism had been increasing
from want of employment—that, therefore, they besought her
Majesty's Ministers to devise some means of supporting or em-
ploying the poor. Now, if every Board were to adopt this
course, Ministers would be soon brought to their senses. He
hoped the consequence of the afflictions of the poor would not
fall upon their successors; but really he often wished to go to
some far-famed laud where there was no slavery ; for while the
people were so situated, we could not be said to enjoy liberty.
He hoped the facts adduced by the Conference, and their friends
elsewhere, would have the effect of awaking the attention of
our rulers in time ; if they did not, he dreaded the, contempla-
tion of what might follow.—(Cheers. )
Mr. JOSEPH BAYLEY, of Ilkeston, Derby, then came for-
ward. He said the Society which sent him to this Conlerence,
though of very short duration, was one of the most spirited in
connexion with the Anti-Corn-law Repealers ; that Society
had sent three Delegates to this Conference, and he had
brought with him seven petitions, signed by 4,000 inhabitants,
out of an entire population of 5,656. Mr. Bayley then nar-
rated some harrowing details of the destitution and misery
which existed amongst the labouring classes in the neighbour-
hood whence he was a Delegate. He thought the time had
come now, however, when, in the immortal Nelson's words,
" Every Englishman should do his duty." He trusted they
would go on and agitate.—( Hear.) He would say one word on
the subject of the Land-tax. Last Session Sir Robert Peel
stated that the Land-tax in England far exceeded that paid in
other nations. Now what where the facts ? It appeared
from the Government returns that the direct opposite was the
fact. In Prussia the revenue was 8,261,0001. and the
land-tax paid of that 3,994,0001. The Austrian revenue was
16,400,000.1., and of this the :Land-tax paid more than half.
The French revenue was 40,150,000/., of which the Land-tax
was 23,186,000/. What was now the comparison between the
revenue and the Land-tax in Great Britain ?It was a fact that
the revenue of Great Britain amounted to 52,226,9591., to-
wards which the Land-tax contributed only 1,531,938/.
—(Hear, hear.) This statement was a true one, but it
did not tally very well with that made by the Premier last Ses-
sion; he could not be contradicted then, but the people being
better informed now, such a statement as that would not again
obtain their credence.—(Loud cheers.) He was a lace manu-
facturer, and he could assure those present, the foreigners were
not only supplying foreign markets with that article,
but they were supplanting them at home. For bim•
self, he was laying up stock, in order to employ his
men, because the foreigner could bring articles to. this
county 20 per cent, cheaper than he could sell it. He trusted
that all clergyman would enlist themselves against such sinister
monopolies as had been brought before the meeting.
The Rev. T. DAvis was sure that something must be done
and that shortly, or he would not state what would be the con-
dition of the country. If the Corn-law was nut abolished, he
dreaded the consequences.
The Rev. Mr. MITCHELL, from Ayrshire, entered into a
statement of the distress prevailing in the district which he re-
presented. Labourers there could not earn more than six shil-
lings a week, and the continuance of suffering was leading to
a spirit of wide-spread discontent and disaffection. A total
repeal of the Corn-laws would alone put an end to the evil.
The Rev. Mr. ELLIS, the representative of five manu-
facturing towns in Ayrshire (Scotland), said the population
of these towns were principally hand-loom weavers, ave-
raging about ss. 6d. a week, the highest being 10s., but
very few at this ; numboss could not earn more than 4s. In
1836, girls earned 9s. a week at fancy sewing, now they
did not average more than 3s. 6d. A man that formerly
got Is. 4d. an ell, now got but 2d. an ell. This was a
specimen of the general depression of the place. They were
not quite so badly off as Paisley, but they could not endure
their privations much longer. He would tell the Government
that they were standing on a volcano. Scotland was for a re-
peal of the Corn and Provision-laws :rom one end to the other.
His constituents were especially in favour of free trade.—
(Cheers.) He trusted all England would share in the feeling
of all Scotland.—( Cheers. )
The Rev. Mr. LINDSAY, of Kilmarnock, said his town was
one of the most prosperous in Scotland. Its staple was the
carpet, shoe, bonnet, and shawl trade, but now it was in a most
miserable state. The people shared in the sentiments ex-
pressed by the last Reverend speaker- O'Connell told them
yesterday that Ireland would do its duty. If England, then,
would du its duty, he (Mr. L.) would assure them that Scot-
land would do her duty.—( Cheers.)
The Conference then adjourned at Half-past Ten until
Elevo o'Clock this day.

Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Feb. 11, 1842.
We, the undersigned, being the Delegates of the Ilkeston
Anti-Corn-law Association, are desirous of adding our mite of
information to the treasure accumulated at the present .Confe-
renee held in the Metropolis. The population of our town is
bi,600, who are chiefly of the working classes, employed
either in hosiery or lace, or as colliers. We deeply
regret to state that very great distress prevails. There
are at present 500 individuals who have had but 10%61.
lier head per week. It is the complaint of the colliers that
they have but half work, and much distress prevails in their
families. There are families of four, five, or six individuals,
who have not anything like beds to lie upon, having sold them
for food. In one case (which we state from personal ob-
servation) a man and his wife had but one pair of shoes, the
person who went out wearing them, and the other working at
home on the stocking-frame, without anything on the feet.
The same parties had sold their bed for food, and we are cer-
tain that many others have done the same. One case
came to our knowledge of a poor woman who had
not tasted food for three days ; what she procured,
she gave to her children, mother-like, and in this man-
ner became ill. A medical gentleman in our town declared
that he could take his oath that persons have been brought to
a: premature grave by the exhaustion arising from des-
titution and distress. A family, consisting of the pa-
rents and six children, were visited by the writer
when it was stated that scarcely five shillings had b.,cit
obtained, during the last week, for their suppoi t. Two years
since the Poor-rates were about 6001., last year about 1,200/.,
and this year they are expected to amount to 1,7001. The farmers
have to complain, that their rates are now almost equal to their
rem_ We and our fr,ends cannot be satisfied with anyth ttg
short of the total repeal 01. the Corn and Provision-laws, the
principal source, as we humbly conceive, of the miseries here
deprecated, and which we feel it is impossible for us fully
to describe. Signed, on behalf of the Association,
JAMES PEGGS, Baptist Minister.
DANIEL DAVIES, Independent Minister.
JOSEPH BAYLEY, Lace Manufacturer.
ERRATA.—In our Report of the Morning Conference, we
inserted the name of Dr. Penny, instead of Dr. Pcrrey, of
Reading,

PEEL'S NEW SLIDING-SCALE.
A requisition from the electors of the borough of Southwark
has received 200 signatures, requesting the High Bailiff to call
a Town Hall meeting, to petition the House of Commons not
to accede to Sir R. Peel's proposal, and to address the Quern
not to consent to the measure. The worthy High Bailiff has
ealled the meeting for Monday next, at ten o'clock. •
ME

TROPOLITAN YOUNG MENS' ANTI-310N0-
POLY ASSOCIATION.
The Central Committee of this Association met on Thurs-
day evening, at the Committe Moon., Hart's Hotel, 159, Al-
dersgate-street, Mr. White in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and
confirmed,
Mr. Pucx rose, and, in an animated speech, moved, " That
this meeting consider the modified sliding scale, as proposed by
Sir Robert Peel, to be a shallow attempt to delude the public,
equally discreditable to his character as a statesman, and in-
sulting to a suffering nation."
BOOTII seconded the resolution, which was then put and
carried by acclamation.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—No sooner was Peel's New Corn-law known here,
than the hopes which many sanguine minds had entertained
were dashed to the ground, and \Vhig and Tory alike denounce
it as most unsatisfactory. It pleases no one, but excites the
opposition of all. The agitation will now go on as rife as ever ;
stay, far more so ; and so far remit settling the question, it will
strengthen the hands of the League a thousand-fold, by show-
log timid, moderate people, that they have nothing to expect,
while they all join in the demand for complete justice. The
Tories confess they are completuly disappointed. However,
we shall pursue our course with thu more vigour than ever, to
root out for ever the last remnant of the accursed law.
Yours, &c,

Mar►chester.

A REPEALER.

SOLDIERS' CHILDREN.—It is admitted by all
writers on Military Statistics, that—comparatively speaking—
but few of the children of soldiers ever reach the age of matu-
rity ; and those who are so fortunate, are of inferior size and
stamina tr the children:of mechanics and agricultural labourers;
while th, it moral character will not admit of a comparison.—
Naval tad Military Gazette.
Tl.e cold has been so intense at Barcelona that the
wat_i• in the theatre which was to be employed in imitating a
fni,ntain in a ballet, was frozen there a few nights ago during
tt e performances,