The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

~1

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENCE
- AT EDINBURGH.

THURSDAY, JAN. 13.—The Conference met at ten
o'clock, when Provost Henderson, of Paisley, was called
to the Chair.
The Rev. Mr. YOUNG, of Dunfermline, seconded the
resolution which had been proposed the previous even-
ing by Mr. George Thompson, and, in the course of his
remarks, adverted to the state of trade in the town with
which he was connected.
The Rev. MT. STIRLING, of Coatbridge, supported the
resolution, contending that the rate of wages was never
dependent on the price of food, but on the amount of
employment.
The Rev. Mr. ELLIS, of Saltcoats entered into a variety
of statistical statements with respect to Steventon, Ar-
drossan, Dairy, and Newmills. In Saltcoats the wages
for working certain fabrics had fallen within fifty years
800 per cent., and the average of wages now was ss. 6d.
per week ; those who earned so much as 10s. being en-
gaged in work of a superior description, and being be-
sides very few in number, not exceeding a dozen. In
Newmilis, where there were 900 weavers, these Men had,
within the last four years expended 3,000/. to furnish
Jacquard machines, being at the rate of nearly 4/. each,
while wages were, within the same period, reduced 42
per cent. The value of money was a great dal less to
the poor man than to others, because he purchased in
small quantities, and the shopkeepers in the locality
which were referred to, said that while they were em-
ployed as much as before in the sale of articles of con-
sumption, the amount of money drawn was considerably
diminished. After some farther observations the Rev.
Gentleman concluded by expressing his cordial concur-
rence in the resolution, and by observing that the prin-
ciple of self-preservation should impel them to support
Dissent, which was the cause of truth and liberty.
Mr. J. THOMSON, from Dunse, described the condition
of the rural population in the district with which he was
connected. He had made a list, of farms let in the neigh-
bourhood of Dunse for the last three years ; one of
which (the old rent was 1,3021.) had let for 2,0061., being
an advance of 42 per cent. Lands of which the old rent
was 149/., now let for 181/., being an advance of 211
per cent. Another, of which the old rent was 1201,
now let for 146/. A farm in Buncle, of which the old
rent was 8001, was now let for 1,050/., being an advance
of 31 per cent. A farm in the same parish, which was
formerly let for 350/., was now let at 6501., being an ad-
vance of 85 per cent. A farm in logo had risen from
IMO/. rent to 1,3501., being an advance of 35 per cent.
The rural population was almost stationary, while that
in the towns was decreasing ; and from the statements
ho had read, it would be manifest that to the farmers' in-
terests the-Corn-laws were as injurious as to the general
intereats.of the country.
`lll-r: J. H. WILSON, from Aberdeen, said, unless a
speedy change were effected the prosperity of the city of
Aberdeen was gone for ever. Their shipping interest
was fast decaying. For a period of seven years it ap-
peared from statistical tables (which Mr. Wilson read)
that their imports by British vessels had remained
stationary, while those by foreign vessels had increased
to an immense extent. In all articles requisite for ship-
ping the foreign market had the advantage—an advantage
which they owed to the Corn-laws.
The CHAIRMAN having put the resolution, it was car-
ried unanimously.
Dr. JOHN RITCHIE, of the. Potterrow, proposed the
next resolution, which was to the effect that the general
system of free trade was most consonant with the prin-
ciples of civil and religious liberty throughout the world.
There was a yawning gulph between the higher and the
lower classes : it was the business of those whom he ad-
dressed to step into that gulph—to mediate between the
two classes. It was a terror to him to look on the pre-
sent state of the country; everywhere it seemed as if the
crater was soon to burst forth, and the lava be scattered
far and wide. If they stood fast to their cause, if they
held on their way undismayed, he ventured to predict
that their triumph was certain, and that the country
would escape those dangers which seemed impending.
The Rev. Doctor concluded by moving the resolution.
Rev. CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON, Edinburgh, seconded
the resolution, and observed that he took up the question
as a deeply religious one. It was a question of life and
death. He felt it a humiliating task to stand up before
such an audience, and in the nineteenth century second
such a resolution as that now made. So long ago as the
sixteenth century, when Henry VIE. sent an embassy to
Naples to form a commercial treaty, that monarch had
urged the duty of free commerce among States; and here
after successive monarchs had sat on the throne, and
350 years had passed away, still were men explaining,
still resolving, on precisely the same subject. The Rev.
Gentleman then proceeded to enter into some historical
details with respect to the principle of free trade ; and
concluded by urging the necessity of energy and union,
which had before destroyed monopolies; and if Scotland
were firm and unanimous in this instance as in others,
these Cor. -laws would by the combined efforts of their
opponents soon be at an end.
Mr. THOMAS MILLS, farmer, from Perthshire, in sup-
porting the resolution observed, that farmers were as
much interested in the abolition of Corn-laWs as others,
because these laws failed in the very object which they
professed to effect, namely, in keeping up the prices of
grain.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 14.
Number Dividend Price
:starof per CANALS, pee
s. Annum. Paid. Share
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton& Oldham...Average97l.lBr.sh. :911
1,482 41. Ashby.de.le.Zouch Average 1131.1 h. 72
1,260 Basingstoke.... ..... ....... .... 1001.• h. 5
4065 41. Brecknoek and..Abergavenny l5O/.sh. 92
‘,OOO I-16th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ...W. & 711. 194
4,000 ......... Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l92l. •6. 100 pi 21
go 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. Islip.' -
400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. eh. 105
300 321. Coventry 1001. sh . 300
Croydon.... ....... . Average 311.28 10d. sh. -
2, 60 51. 04. Dudley 1001.5 h. 1112
800 181. Derby lool.sh. 120
20,0 A 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ... ...... 411,135. 4d.pd SO
3,575 i 41 Ellesmoreand Chester Average 133:.sis. 75
231 621 &awash . 1001 sn 735
6,485 811. Forth and Clyde l9Ol, sh.
-1001. pd. 1:8
1:,4331 71. Grand Junction ........ MI. e n 115
7,.49. ‘2.55, Grand Union lool.sh. 26
',500 Grand Surrey
1,000/ 41. percent. Ditto (optional) fan .....1001.
.296 Grand Western
800 131.125. 9d. Glainorganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 135.41. 230
749 Its. Oranthtm l5Ol. sh. 2'211
g 238 21. Os. Huddersfi'eld Average 5//. 6s. 6d. sh. 21%
100
25.328 11.10 E. Kennet and Avon, Av. 39!. 18s.10:1. sh 18
11,699 i I/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 8d 27
2,8972 301. Leeds and Liverpool lOOl. als 730
544 111. Leicester 1401.31 150
,8117 51.2•, Leicester & Nort kampton Aver 53/.loe 71%
2,409 101. Monmouthshire lOO/.81 200
230 101. Melton Mowbray . 1061. sh. 117
00 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh. 540
2,000 21. 10s. ?if =cies fl eld 100!. sh. all pd tri
247 17/. N euthlool.ll, Mt
1,400 51. Peak Forest .. . ... . . Avel..ge about 781. sh. 71
1,418 S. Regent's (or London) Av.33/.165.8d. sh. 10
)0,9 tit. Rochdale Average 351.. h. ii 2
500 8!. Shropshire
:800 11!. 10s. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. 1711
1,6001. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh. II 700 361, Stafford and Worcester 140/.sh. 68G
L3O 151 Shrewsbury. .. ... 1251. sh. 280
300 91, 3taurbridge ........... N. 1451. sh. 396
3,647 21. 0, Stratford.on.Avott A ver....79/. 9s. Bd. sh. 33
533 1211 Swansea lool.sh. 265
3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wyc &Railway Av. 261.95. sh, 45
).g.voisn. 22/. lOs .
Trent and Mersey, i share .
„JON. sh. 500
- 8,149 ... ...... Charnel and Medway Av.191..55. Bd. sh. 2
1,0105h.1
161. Warwick sod Birmingham lOO/.sh 203
I,ooolBh. j
910 13, Warwick and Napt.,,n• lOW. sh. 117
7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 55
4.000 365. Wilts and Berks Average 671. lOs M. A. 28ii
800 6. Wytlev and Essington 125/. eh '74
.26 Wl,oeacn . . ........ . ..... =. sh. 50
SO5 li ?Vey and Arun...... .. •
...... ••••••••••• llO/. sn. 20
DOCKS.
i. 600 &
n.....,«1001.5h. 61
,4)65ph.] 3p. c. Commerc al
5 per cent. East and West India. ~...........Stock 1024
1,238,310;1. 31. p.c t. London Stock 74%
Ditto Bonds
2,209 3/, 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1. Os. sh. 75
68,3241. Si. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ....... ... 106,
352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine ............ .. . . ...star* 92.
500,CAA ti per cent. Ditto Bonds .....
..100%
.100.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
•••... ..... •••• Deptford Pier - 201. sh. 201. pd 10.

BRIDGES.
1,600 1/. Hamtnersmiti• 501.6 h. 21%
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. not. 26. Bcl. sh. 31.6
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 71 per cent., 501.5 h. 1534
.1;000 Waterloo 1001. sh. 3
MOO 226. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si 60/. pd2l
5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. .. . 4Ol. pd 18
60,0001. U. per cent. Ditto Bonds !Ai
5,848 276 Vauxhall .........Average 701. 106.3 d. eh 26

ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 72
60,000 [6g:7l ejsn. i'l Allianceßritish &Foreignlool.sh. 11/. pd 144
-
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. oh. 5/. pd 514
24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14
1,20010. 51. Birmingham lire "50/. sh. 55/. pd 107%
20,000 41. percent. British Fire 2150/. sh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 61. percent. nritish Commercial ...... . 5O/. sk. 5/. pd 6
5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Lite, 1.00/.5h.2/10s pd 6%
4,000 310 s County lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 1(
9,000 Ss. Eagle .......501. sh. 51. pd 4%
200
nd 30/ 5 per cent../ Economic Lite 1600/. sh. 2504 pd 400
Z bs
2,271 228. percent. European Li. • 00/. eh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2!. pd 17
1,000,000/. Cl. per et Globe Stock 115
20,000 51. Guardian - 100/.oli. 2711 pd 25
30,000 4s. Od. Hope 5O!. sh. 51. pd 54
2,400 51. 12s. ed. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 135
7,500 Its. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd .11
13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl. eh. 8/. pd 'Z.%
2,020 31 101 Kesit Fire 5Ol. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66
10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 31%
5,000 16s. London, Fire 251. sh. 12!. 10s. pd 18%
3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18%
1,600,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh.
25,000 54 per cent. National Loan Fund... 201 oh 21. lees. pd 2,
35,000 51. per Cent. Palladium Lite 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 216 s
50,000 5!. per cent. Protector 11. f... 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 18sed
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....160/. sh. 51. pd 5%
2.500 1!. Provident Lite lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20
200,660 4s. Od. Rock Life ...........« .................... 2/. pd 5%
89,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 170
6,000 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 8%
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 731
JOINT STOCK BANKS,
25,000 Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. s h. 10/. pd
15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 40/. pd 534
10,006 10 percent. Bank of Biz aiiiigham 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 501. sh. 10!. pd 138
30,000 6 per cent. London St Westminster 100/ sh. 201. pd 224
60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/, sh. 10/. pd 121 s
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster .. . ..... ........ . . ... lOW. oh. SO/. yd 30
25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100! oh. 121/. pd 19
50,000 71percent. Manchester mid Liver-
pool Dis-ount 5O/.sh. 151 pd 19%
20,000 7 percept. Manchester lOO/. eh. 10/. pd 414
20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of I relandlOW. sh. 251. pi 41
10,000 6 ler cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 171/. pd 17.%
10,000 6 per cent National Provi.scial Eng.loo/. sh. 35/. pd 34
10,000 Ditto New 10r. sh. 101. pd 93
10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 101. pd 32
6.000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. eh. 51. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.

- -
2,500 16sOd Bath 20t. sh. IN. pd 22
5.000 British 401, sh. 161. pd 18
3.000 1.614° Ps. 6s, Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19/. pd 244
••
928 51 lOs Birmingham 50! sh. 96
1,250 21 Os Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36
2,250 31101 Brighton 2Ol. oh. 13%
750 ' 31 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. oh. 181. pd 9
1,171 4 per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sh. alipd 9%
1,000 71. IN. Continental Consolidated ....7M. 641. pd II()
1,000 10/. City of London.. ....... ..' ANL sh. nil pd 195
1,000 61. Ditto New 1001. sh. 75/. pd 150
1,000 3/.os. Equitable 5Ol. lid 20
,0,000 3/. per cent. Imperial 531. sh. 61
SOO 5!. per cent. Isle of Thattet 25/. sh. 201. pd le%
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 30/. Th. all p„, 56
9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 33
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 100)1. sh. 80/. pd (03
4,000 South M-aropolitan 501. sh.-034/. pd 17
2,000 51. per coot. United General 50/. oh. V/. pd 29
240 W. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50
400 5/. per cent Wakefield 25/.44. 22
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000 121. Ditto New 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 11%
780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. oh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS .
1,800 31s. Birmingham ....25:. sh. 25/. pd 21
1,133 7!. East London lOW sh 1625(
5,500 21 15s. (hand Jtinction Average 41/. 15s. 4d. oh. 55
2,000 2/. Kent ' 1001. sh. V 52%
372 10/, Liverpool !tootle 2201. s h. 325
1,500 1 110. New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. . 54
1,000 5 per cent. South London . 1001. el. 98 .
8,294 4i/. West Middlesex Average 631.t125. 9d. sh. 90
1.300 II 144 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001, 2h. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,300 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby .
... lOO/ pd 47
9,580 Birmingham and Gloucester !COL pd 64%
15,00 IL 44. Bristol and Exeter . ..... 1001. sh 60 pd 2(1
7,500 Cheltenham & G.Wel.tern 1001. sh. 72x,/. IN
3,009 Clarence ... . *.. ... - ... .. .. 100/. sh. 1001 pd 20
8,000 ......... Dublin an Drogheda 1001. sb. 5/. pd
10.006 ..... -.. Eastern Counties... 25/. sb. 231. pd 8%
10,000 Great North of England 100!. oh. 901. pd 693
10,918 19 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 193
25,''00 9 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 651. pd 854
25,00(1
........ Ditto New
6,000 5 per cent ' Gosport Junction,. 5Ol. sh. 50/. pd 56%
2,000 6 per cent. Hartlepool .... .............. lOU th. 1001. pd 11553
8.000 Hull and Seib), 6O/. ih. 50/, pd 39
2,100 4 per csnt. Leeds and Selby. . . .... lOO sh. 65%
5,1110 10 per cant. Liverpool& slanchester 11X/.811. 100/. pd 199%
7.968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd 90
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45
mow
...,..... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 50/ pd 374
24,000
10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...201. 01. 201. pd 7
25,000 01 per cent. London & Birmingham 1004 sh. 90/. pd 1691%
25,000 21. Co Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 5/. pd 25
31,250 Ditto New Shares 321. sh. 321. pd 57%
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381.171.9 d. 52
33,900
Ditto New Scrip. Av. 13/. 1511. 9d. 11%
13,000 61 per cent. Manchester and Lee" 5...100/. sh. '7O/. pd 70%
13,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 25/. pd 30;4
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 28%
.....
..
.Ditto Extension
Midland Counties 7l. pd 2%
10,000 21•1'',. 'OO/. sh. 1001. pd 84
15,000 :31. Os. North Midland ...... ... 1.0/. sh. 100/ pd 71%
ll.loe. Ditto New 401. pd 3F%
10,250 Northern and Eastern.... 501. sh 401. pd 33%
3,600 Preston and Wyre -. ...... 50/. sh 301. pd 36
28,000 South Eastern and Dover
1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 265
9,000 Thames Haven 5O!. sh 5!. pd
... ......
MOO

The Rev. Mr. LEECIIMAN, of Irvine, moved the eighth
resolution ;---" That looking to the increased facilities
which would thereby be afforded for the more extensive
propagation of the gospel of salvation, and favourable
reception of the word of life, free trade may be justly re-
garded as one of the means of the final triumph of Chris-
tianity ; and considering the great and Many privileges
which Britain has enjoyed above other nations, this
meeting is of opinion that every Christian within its
limits, is bound from a sense of duty, gratitude, and love
to Almighty God, to use his strenuous efforts to accom-
plish such a desirable result." The resolution was
seconded by the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, of Paisley, who
made various statistical statements with respect to the
depressed state of trade.

The Rev. HENRY RENTON, of Kelso, proposed the
ninth resolution That this meeting express their high
satisfaction, that the Anti-Corn-law League have called
a. meeting of Delegates from all parts of the kingdom to
assemble at London on the Bth of Feb. next, to consider

the best means of promoting the total and immediate re-
peal of the Corn and Provision-laws, and earnestly re-
commend to the friends of the cause throughout Scot-
land, to send deputations to the said meeting, and
to urge upon it, irrespective of any measure which
may be announced by her Majesty's Government,
and in order to test the opinions of the professed
Representatives of the people, the adoption of the
most effectual means for securing an early division of
the House of Commons on the question of the total
and immediate repeal of these unjust and oppressive
laws. And, impressed with the vast importance and
necessity of active and combined exertions on the part
of the members of this Conference, and the other friends
of the cause throughout Scotland, this meeting further
recommend that in every locality immediate and ener-
getic measures be taken for informing the public mind on
the various bearings of this question, especially those of
a moral and religious nature, and organising Committees
and Associations to secure continued co-operation, and
the transmission of petitions to Parliament, numerously
signed by members of dissenting congregations and others
on or before the Bth day of February next." The Rev.
Gentleman observed that all they had done and heard
were only means to an end ; and if they trusted to their
proceedings at that meeting, they would have effected
little of what it was fitted and ought to produce.
Provost HENDERSON, after a few observations, left the
Chair, to which Mr. Wigham was called ; and after a
vote of thanks to the late Chairman the Conference ad-
ourned to the evening.

EVENING BEDERUNT.
Mt. •STURGE and Mr. MAssIE in succession addressed
the meeting, which was more crowded than in the early
part of the day.
The ninth resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. ADAM BLACK, seconded by the Rev. PETER MAC-
DOWAL, Alloa, moved that an address to the Queen be
adopted, as embodying the sentiments of the Conference,
and that the Right Hon. Lord Dunfermline be requested
to present it to her Majesty.
Rev. A. SomEnvILLE, Dumbarton, seconded by Mr.
D. DEwAn; Dunfermline, moved that an address to the
people of SCotland be adopted, published, and circulated.
Rev. J. DOME Langholm, seconded by the Rev. J.
TAYLOR, St. Andrew's, moved that petitions to the Lords
and Commons be adopted, and presented to - the ,House
of Lords by the Eight Honourable Lord Dunfertnline:;
and to the llonSe of Commons by the lion. Charles Pel-
ham Villiers, M.P. for IKolvtrha ".‘ thitt, -ft
copy 'of theresolutions- be `transml
it tßff'l~fcrri-
bers of Parliainent for Scotland. at,- al
fei-ioh- •
A Committee was then appointee
.resolu-
tions carried into effect, and- thanks were vote& to Mr.
Duncan M`Laren, Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Wallae, M.P.,
and Mr. George Thompson, to 'the -Session. 4nd: Ma-
nagers of the Chapel in which the Conference met, to
the families who had accommodated the straners, and
to the Chairmen,. Committees, and Secretaries. "
9
The meeting then separated. , „i b"

. _
MINES.
6,000 Albion Copper ' Rs li. 341. pa 12
4,000 11.51. Alten ......... l5/. eh 121. Ilk pd • 10
tome .... ..... Anglo 51Exican.iss. 5/. pin.loo/. sh. al 1 d 1%
. •Ditto Subscription 25/. Iva I
2,000 Int. Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd 35
13,009 11. 101 Brazilianlmp. iss. 5/. pm 95/. sh. 20/. pd 7%
6,000 Macauba&dt Locaes United 251.811.251. pd 4%
11,000 • • Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 14/. pd 1%
IC,OOO Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd . 1
10,000 ....
20,000 ... ..... British Iron lOO/. sh. 60/. pd
)000 ... British Copper...-. 51. sh. 41/. pd 1%
Cat -I Branca 6i/. pd 6%
. Candonga ....
10,000 1 1 Copiapo ........-. ............ 20/. sh l3/. p 4 10
8,500 ... Colurnlnan, ie3. et. pm. -.551. sh 55/. pd ON
2,H50 31. English 1.1/. Gs. pd 3
50,000 General AliningA•aoclation2ol sh.lBl. pd I%
O,M
3,0(10 Polberou Consols .....
gist. ..101. sh. 81. pd
1,500 Real, del !Route* Unreered . 34
Ditto Loan Notes... ...... ...... ..1501. pd too
United Mexican, Isl. 2 pra. 40/7sh. all pd
Dittt. Scrip 1 %
Ditto lie* Sail) . 41 p 4 3
West Cork ..................501. sh 501. pd 30
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS..
,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 14%
,500
790 • Russell.... ..................... ......,,,zgs. sh. 6
King' College lOO/. 19%
MISCELLANEOUS,
1.04./..5nhy.32581/1.
ppdd 399
• •
le, NA 15s; • Australian AgrieuLltatn7cl;
6,)00 1. per cent. -British American
pd 28
10,000 61. per cent. Canada CompanY
30,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,4
rifeann
............ ............... 1.
......... 91
City Bonds, 4 p$
v. at.
en.. . ! ..... •••••• ..... ••• 99
20,000 IL Os. GeneralSteana Na 1,1; t, 151. ill. 141. pd 24
10Lper cent. ,
SsHudson Bay Stock .....m
..•.. ..
.006 U. London Corn. le Roos ....Xv. .. . 557:81; .. 25194%
,00C
New Brunswick Land Cornpa7.- •pd it;
..;,11.000:1.1.E 1079
P. 154 5% per cent Reversionary int. Soc..
.......... s
•;633 51. per cent. Ditto New ............ . 1
OW ........, Thames Tunnel ....7......50"ih.
41,000 61. ' Van- Dic.neh's Land ...1001. sh. ISA pd , '%

10.000

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' ppicEs
JAN; 8, 1842
BANKS.
• 100/. sh. all pd 151 • 34
1,4110,006, 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...831. 6s. Bd. sh, all pd 154%
tsooo.oot, , fl. p. ct. Royal of Scotland
500,000?. Si. p. ct. British Linen Company 10m ah.sll pd 906
500.0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial ........•..... .5001. sh. 1 001. pd 163
500.000 t. o. ct. National ............. pd
500,0001. 8?. p. ct. Glasgow Cnion 2501. sh. 50/. p 84d
1000,000/. p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 40/. pd ap34
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
250,6005 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 1/. pd 23s 3J.
7,500 In p. ct. Hercules .. . . ....... ......... 1001.8 h. 10/. pd 13
100,000 10 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pdgyp
50,000 10 p. ct. North British ...............2001. sh. 10/. pd 17%
1,000 10 p. et. Caledonian Fire !‘/01. sh. 10/. pd
5,000 1U P. ct. Edinburgh Lite .004 sh, 10/. psi 15
100,000 31 p. et. West of 5c0t1aud..••••••........... 10/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 ......... Edin. and tiles. Un. Canalso/, sh. all pd 8
Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 46
1125,40 t Si per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 25/, sh all pd 34
- (,000th 21 per cent. Shotts Iron I. ounderr .... . . 50t sh 481 pd
0,000 i per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2ol.sh. 101. pd 0%
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 50
4,450 10 pct cant. Glasgow Gas •...... sh. all pd 52
750 71 percent' Leith Coal Gas ••••••••• 201.14. all pd 28
,151 Edinbrirglyand-Dalkelth it aihray 50/.sh 30

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- -The Friendly Society of Benevolent Porters held
their annual festival at Mr. Harrison's, the Marquis of
Granby, South Andley;:street, On Thursday evening last,
Nthen fifty members-and ten- guests sat down to-an ekcel-
len t supper. , . - . . _. ...
~ .
Almost Court- -day -in Sunderland some
. every
poor wretches -are brought ' before the Magistrates,
charged Nith=being-, found by -the..ppljea sleeping in glass-
;houses, and other Tlaces—rif -l-ilrat dekription, having no
place of abode.—Carl isle Journal.

GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN FA=
VOUR OF A TOTAL REPEAL OF THE
- CORN-LAWS. •
(Abridged from the Glasgow Saturday Post.)
This important Convention, the assembling 'of which has
been looked, forward to with feelings of much interest and.
anxiety, commenced its•sittings yesterday; at twelve o'clock, in
the Trades' Hall. In ordinary: circumstances, 'an assembly
called for such a purpose would have commanded' both atten-•
tion and respect: but in the present crisis,,when trade Is pars-
lized, when industry is suspended, and when gaunt starvation
stalks over the length and breadth of the land, its meeting as-
sumes a national importance, and its proceedings, were, even in
anticipation, regarded with a degree of intense interest, which
no public movement in this part of the country had previously
called forth. And the reports of the Deputies, which follow,
will amply prote that the mass of the working population of
this kingdom have reached that point in depression—and that
trade and credit are in that disorganized position, which must
-call for cri immediate remedy, otherwise anarchy, ruin, and
national bankruptcy are the certain results.
Mr. WALTER BucnAxast (in the unavoidable and re-
gretted absence of Mr. Alexander Johnston, M.P., who was
detained from indisposition) took the Chair. Upon the plat-
form we observed a number of the gentlemen who have taken
an interest in, the Anti-Corn-law movement in Glasgow, in ad-
dition to a large body of deputies from the country. The body
of the hall was well filled, a considerable number being
wembois of the working classes.
Mr. WAvrea Buena NA 14, in taking the Chair, said—
Gentlemen, you are all aware that this meeting is held under
the auspices of the Glasgow Anti-Corn-law Association. Its
purpose is to bear statements regarding trade and the condition
of the working classes in those districts from which deputies
hate attended, and, at the same time, to communicate to them
a similar kind of information as regards the trade and the con•
dition of the operatives in Glasgow, lam here occupying
.the
Chair which Mr. Johnston, M.P., ought to hove occupied.
-He has been the Chairman of the Anti •Corn-law Association
of GlasfOw for many years, and took an active share in its
proceedings when they -were regarded as of much less interest
and importance than they now are, and when the move-
merit for Corn-lavi repeal occupied a much smaller share of
public attention than it does now. You will all regret with
me that he is not able to be here. For many years he has pre-

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dieted the tuitions effftts tif this restrictive system Upon the in-
KIRRIEMUIR. '' • ' er 1-7-_-_._:l44t.
dustry and prosperity of the coutittyi After referring to the
-
The population of the town and parish of Kirriem—u-irga,:a‘c
.tH7-__!l-:=-21- ~...7s,
meetings which have already taken place, Mr, B. ooncluded, cording to the last Census, was 7,001. There are about 2,100 ' '.---.../
I hope we shall follow in the same course not unworthily ; and weavers, of whom 1,700 are employed, and the idle and par- t i
fs+'\-' 1 c;1 ,
w.{
I trust that all who look to the vast importance of the subject tially employed may be stated at 400. The average weekly
: • '
for which we hate met, will lend it their willing and cordial earnings at present is ss. 4d., from which has to be deducted, •
co-operation. Glasgow will be looked to over the country, for winding, 100m-rent, and light, Is. 9d. per web.
and I know that the result of this meeting will not afford cause The poverty at present is greater than at any former period
for disappointment.—( Loud applause.) during the minister's incumbency (thirty years).
REPORTS OF THE DEPUTIES. A UCH TERM uarr Y.
Provost HENDERSON said the town of Paisley was an ex-
It appears from the reports before us that in Auctermuehty
ception to the general rule. They had sent no written parish, including the village of Dunsheth, there are 18.87 per
answers. The first query put, applied to Paisley, should hams cent. of the weavers out of empoyment. The increase of
been reversed. Not how many of the population are unem- paupers in this district in 1841, over that of 1831, amounted to
ployed, but how many of them are in employment. With them no less than 172.22 per cent.
unemployment was the rule, and employment was the exec BAN K FOOT. .'„„i.'
a-
tion. Comparatively few of the workmen of Paisley were em- The population of this village is between 700 and 800, of~ - 1
ployed, they were broken up, and to be found wandering about which 273 are without any means of support. In the year 1624,
in every town in the country, begging for bread, independent a man could earn es. 9d. per week ; in the year 1841, he ,i,
of those thousands whom they had at home, sorted by charity. could not earn more than 3s. 11 4d.
CUMNOCK. Paisley had literally been martyred by the Corn-law.. When in Edinburgh two days ago he had heard a report that there Mr. ToRRANCE, of Cumnock, said, like the delegate from
had been a riot in Paisley, and that a granary had been broker, Girvan, he also had been nominated by a Chartist, and se- 14,
into, his reply on hearing the statement was, " Well, 1 conded by a Chartist, at the meeting at which he was elected. -'
would not be surprised though such a thing has taken place ; In Cumnock there was a universal feeling amongst all class”
but if it has lam glad it was in my absence." He was then in favour of an entire and immediate abolition of the 0b noxi-
asked what regiment was quartered at Paisley, when he ous Corn-law. The population was about 1,200. They were
answered there is some regiment, but it is of little difference, mostly engaged in agriculture, and the farmers, in consequence
the
he would never call them out to compel the people to die for of the pressure of the times, were going rapidly down
want. But if it were to go to the worst, if they were to be world. Other trades were bad. The people believed that mcnopoi
deprived of the means of procuring food for the people, and if lies, and especially the Corn-law, was the chief cause of al
a granary, under such circumstances, were to be broken open, their sorrow, and they earnestly hoped that this meeting would
he would never place the lives of the people and the value of have an effcct at head-quarters—or the folk up bye, as the
property on the same level. He would not give his consent saying is.—(Laughter and applause. )
that the military should be called out to compel the people EDINi-lURGH.
when thus driven to supply themselves with food. He made Mr. DUNLOP, of Edinburgh, regretted that, from tome
this statement deliberately, ads isedly, and he wished it to go misunderstanding, he had not been able to obtain that informa-
forth to the Lord Advocate and the Home-office. tion which ought to have been laid before this assembly. His
DUNDEE. constituents were for no compromise on this subject.
Mr. BAXTER, President of the Anti-Corn-law Association MAUCHLINE.
of Dundee, said that city contained 66,000 inhabitants, and he Mr. PATON, from Alauchline, said—This was a small village.
was happy to say that their situation was far better than There were not many idle persons in Mauchline, but what work
the town of Paisley. '1 lie spinning population of Dundee they had, was very inadequate to support them.
were employed, but their wages were very low, provisions very LARGS.
high, and great distress existed amongst the out-door weavers, Mr. PERSTON, Largs--From its connection with Paisley,
many of whom were only partially employed. Sir. B. con- the principal part of their weaving trade was greatly depressed.
eluded by reading the following statements : The number of the inhabitants of Largs and its neighbourhood
Factory Weavers—Total number of looms, 3,131: of which was :3,000. Of the weavers in the town, 65 were employed,
in employment, 1,238; partially employed, 504; unemployed, 176 out of employment. Thcse who depended upan these
1,345 ; total of persons employed, 1,319 ; partially employed, were about 159 draw boys, and 88 pirn winders, who even when
554, unemployed, 1,458 ; starchers employed, 70 ; unemployed, in full employment had miserably low wages. The general
113 ;—total, 3,331. Of those employed 360 are working Go- opinion was that the Corn-law embarrassed trade, destroyed
vernment sailcloth, the contracts for which are nearly made up. their means of subsistence, arid ruined the best interests of the
Out-door Weavers—The present rate of wages paid for out- country. They were for a total repeal.—(Cheers.)
door weaving is not sufficient to enable a married man to pro- STRANRAER.
vide the necessary quantity of wholesome food for the use of a Mr. M‘Ceermen, from Stranraer—Theirs was not a ma-
fan•ily, independent of clothing and education,—many of the nufacturing town, but chiefly agricultural. They had a little
children are to be seen in this inclement season of the year connexion with the sea, and the vessels in the port were
without shoes or stockings ; a few only at the age of thirteen the raeans of supporting trade. They considered that the
can read, and still fewer can write ; and in very many cases it Corn-laws were injurious to the farmers, and in his district, lie
is to be feared that extreme poverty has produced in the minds was happy to state, the farmers were beginning to see that
of parents a disregard to the education of their children, either themsels es.
moral or relieieus. In 1836 weavers' wages were 40 per cent. Of Linlithgow, Milton and Duntocher, Maybole, Kilwinnn-
higher than they are at present. (Mr. Baxter also made some ing, Kilrnarnoch, and Kilsyth, similar statements were made.
statements relative to the different trades employed, and the This concluded theevidence of the delegates, and the :neet-
quantity of butchers' meat consumed, similar to those already hag adjourned.
published in The Sun. )
KIRKINTILLOCII.
Mr. Born, of Kirkintilloch, said—Kirkintillock contains
above 5,000 inhabitants. About 3,000 are employed at weav-
ing of muslins, and of a description well known in the trade by
the name of lappets, a piece of goods for which the weaver
was paid Is. 7d. in 1834-5, was, in 1836, reduced to Is. sid. ,
in 1837-8, to Is. Ind. ; in 1839-40 it advanced to Is. 3d. ;
and in 1841 it again fell to Is. id. The weekly wages made at
these prices is 7s. 5d., 61. 10d., ss. lid., 51. I Id., 4s. ltd.,
from which falls to be deducted Is. iv. for keeping up his
loom. So miserable have the weaving body in the place be-
come, that a system has been resorted to by great numbers of
them, which is revolting to even the ordinary feelings of our
nature, and which may be stated as follows :—"A weaver rents
a shop containing 4,6, 8, or 10 looms, which he contrives
to get furnished, and which he then fills with boys and
girls, which he collects from the poor-houses, and from
families who are in great destitution; these children are set
to work, confined and pushed on in many cases by the
necessities, the avarice, or the misconduct of those who
have them in charge, forming scenes of drudgery, irregularity,
destitution of education, clothing, and comfort, which are
enough to shock the feelings of every person who has the
slightest conception of even the low order in which a human
being ought to spend his existence, and all this may be set
down to the low state to which the moral feelings are fallen, in
consequence of the downward progress of the manufacturers,
which form the staple dependence of the town. Such a state
as that to which the weaving population of Kirkintilloch is fast
hastening, calls for the immediate and serious consideration of
the Government of the country.—(Cheers.)
GIR VAN.
The Rev. Mr. DUNCAN, of Girvan, said the population is
upwards of 6,000. There are 2,000 hand• loom weavers in the
town. Al'hough I cannot say that there are any altogether
unemployed, yet, as they depend entirely on Glasgow and
Paisley for employment, their prospects are of the most dreary
description. Work which was in 1813-14 paid Bd. the ell is
now paid at the rate of Isl. and 2(1., so that a weaver who at the
former period could with ease earn 20s. a-week, can now earn
no more than from 4s. 6d. to ss. As to the state of crime, I
am instructed to say, that far fewer petty thefts are committed
than might be expected, considering the extreme destitution of
the people. In answer to the 4th query. I am instructed to
say, that with the exception of the provision merchants, the
working classes generally can scarcely be reckoned among the
customers of the other tradesmen mentioned ; and with these
their purchases have gradually declined, and were never lower in
amount than at present. As to the state of education, I may
mention that while we have a parish school excellently con-
ducted and numerously attended, comparatively few of the
Children belong to the weaving population—probably not more
than 20 in 30, out of 120. Our Committee authorises me to
to say, that the inhabitants are all but unanimous in wishing an
immediate and total repeal.

THE BANQUET.
The company assembled in the City Hall, in the evening, at
six o'clock, amounted to upwards of 2,000 persons, and a great
number of applicants were disappointed in not obtaining admis-
sion. Independent of the mere numbers, the meeting was by
far the most influential of the kind ever held in Glasgow, both
in point of wealth, talent, and general respectability. The
Chair was filled by James Oswald, Esq., M.P., for the City.
We gave yesterday the names of the gentlemen present.
The CiIAIRMA S, after praising Mr. Johnston, who was to
have presided, said—You are aware you are come here to
demonstrate your hostility to the present Corn and Provision-
laws—( Great cheering)--and I hope and trust that the de-
monstration in Glasgow will have a decided effect. on other
parts of the country where that subject has not been taken
up. In this large city many have maturely considered the
subject, and I believe 1 do not say too much when I say the
opinion increases every day that:the present Corn and Provision-
laws are both impolitic and unjust.—(Cheers.) Perhaps I
may be told that we ask too much in asking a total repeal of
these laws. Gentlemen, there might have been a time, there
was a day when much less would have satisfied us.—( Hear.)
But I believe, if we look back, we will find that the supporters
of these lads have all along resisted—not only the slightest
change—but the slightest inquiry into the subject; and we
ask, therefore, now, what we have a right to obtain—and whe-
ther we obtain it or not, we will stand to our plea as founded
in justice.—( Great cheering.) Gentlemen, before I sit down.
I ask you to till a bumper, and a bumper to a toast it is not ne-
cessary to say one word upon to induce you to receive it with
a shout of exultation and triumph. Gentlemen, " The
Queen."—( The toast was drank with great applause.)
" The Prince of Wales," and " The Princess Royal, Prince
Albert, and the other Members of the Royal Family," were
drank with all the honours.
Mr. Ewa KT, M.P., was received with the most enthusiastic
plaudits. 'He said he had been called on to propose to the
meeting the toast of " the Total and Immediate Repeal of the
Corn-laws."--( Immense cheering.) lie felt that in connec-
tion with a mighty demonstration such as the present, the
moving spirit should come, not from a few Members of Parlia-
ment who might be summoned to attend the assembly, but from
the mind of the country itself. Personal and party influences
must be fleeting and evanescent. ; but he saw that this vast
movement, which was animating Scotland, came from a deeper
and more enduring source. It proceeded from a conviction
deeply formed in the minds of the people of this country—slow
to act, but strenuous and energetic to perform—who, when the
mature time for exertion should come, would rise superior to
any extraneous influence, come from what quarter it might.
—(Continued cheering.) Since he had been lately in
Scotland, it had been his lot, at the Conference in Edinburgh,
and now at the Delegate Meeting at Glasgow, to hear more
of the condition of the mass of the people than he had known
before ; statements which it was impossible for him or for any
of his friends to hear without feelings of the deepest pain. The
manufacturers and the delegates, at the meeting of this day,
had unfolded to them the short and simple, but, be was afraid,
he must add the melancholy, annals of the poor. It was on-
possible to convey their situation in words more touching and
descriptive than in tho-c of Dr. Johnson, and the truth of
which must have been confirmed by their own observation,
on which he says—
" Where penury retires to pine,
And labour steals an hour to die."—( Applause.)
What had been the nature of the evidence brought before them
in Edinburgh and Glasgow? There were three points which
powerfully arrested his attention. The first was the deep
despondency which seemed to have seized upon the minds of
the people—a despondency amounting not only to idleness and
listlessness, but to apathy. It must have appeared, from the
description of the ministers and others most familiar with them,
that, in the language of Milton, "despair attends them front
couch to couch, and that it seems by its deadening touch to
have dulled their sympathies, till they are silent, not from the
absence of suffering, but from the severity of its pressure."—
( Hear, hear.) There yet remained another darker shade to
be drawn across this already darkened picture, and this was
again found in the evidence of the ministers of religion and
others, who had assured them that day, that in several of the
towns in this country, from inability to pay them, their me-
dical advisers had been forced to' leave the place. Su extreme
was the destitution, that the healing power itself had deserted
the spot, from inability in the wretched population to main-
tain Hear, hear.) The :Honourable Gentleman
made a long and eloquent speech, and concluded thus-
-1 trust that instead of following the bigoted and intolerant
part of the landed interest, that the labouring classes, and par-
ticularly those of our large town, will devote themselves to
those sources of real power, based upon moral and religious
ascendancy. And I hope that we of the middle classes will
co-operate with them, and they with us, and that by agitating
for this great national object, we must ultimately triumph.—
( Hear, hear.) Yes, Gentlemen, the conflict will then become
apparent.—( Cheers.) It will be moral power and right reason
on the one hand, against prejudice and selfishness on the other ;
and there can be no doubt which will triumph. The triumph
will be yours.—( Applause.) Selfish interests will fall before
you, and titles, rank, or legislative ascendancy will no longer
prevail against the voice of a united people !
" Despite their titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch concentered all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down,
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung '
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by proposing the toast.
Mr. WALTER BUCHANAN, who was received with applause,
said ho claimed a bumper to the next toast, which was the
health of the " Hon. Charles Villiers, the mover of the ques-
tion for the consideration of the Corn-laws, anti the other
Members of the House of Commons who spoke and voted in
support of the same."—(Cheers.) Mr. 'Villiers had taken a
part in this question which entitled him to the gratitude of
every Corn-law reformer ; and amongst the number he might
class Sir Robert Peel and the Tories. Mr. Villiers had the
merit of having taken up the question of Corn-law repeal at a
time when it was by no means popular. He came forward in
1838, anti exhibited an energy, and zeal, and talent, in ex-
posing the evils under which the country laboured from .the 14uli
Corn-laws, which at once placed hint at the head of this mire-
anbtelent,,,aamnedabniyottivghitpip-hnie.ohsaed,,esht.abwiiesibeedsifonreiri:ilysealtftaanchi
imperish-
able
We say to these gentlemen, (Jo on I—Go
on there is much yet to do; but in the name of truth and
justice we 'promise you a triumph.-(Cheers.) And when "- OM
the pen of some future ,historian tells of their struggles-- .y
of their assaults often repeated—frequently defeated—but still
renewed, against the selfishness which was opposed 'to-them, ,KPI'
and of the triumph which they shall certainly achieve, it will It W.
not be necessary to pass any vain eulogium on their efforts, •
BIM
but only to point to revived and prosperous industry-4o com-
mercial activity reanimated—to the swelling sails bringing to V,il"-,
the shores of Britain the produce of every clime , and to con- lases
trast all this with the dark and gloomy days of the landlords'
supremacy.—(Cheers.) The toast was received with great
applause.
Mr. Fox MA ITLE said—ln the name of my Hon. Friend Mr.
Villiers, and also in the name of the other Members of the
House of Commons referred to, and my own name, I beg that
this company will accept of our best thanks for the honour they
have conferred upon us. Mr. Villiers has earned by his con-
duct in the Commons, distinguished as it has been by firmness,
and marked as it has always been by courtesy and gentleness,
—he has earned fir himself a monument mere imperishable
than brass ; and long after this great question has been set at
rest by the voice anti determination of the combined country,
Mr. Villiers' memory will live as having given the vast stone
its first impulse, and will be endeared to the memory of all
who hold England's greatness fixed in their hearts.—
( Great applause. ) Gentlemen, front this vast assembly, re-
spectable in numbers, but infinitely more respectable for the
talent it commands, I will be prou.l to convey to Mr. Villiers
the enthusiasm with which his health was received ; end I feel
quite sure that even if he needed any encouragement to pro-
coed in the path which has redounded so touch to his credit,
the encouragement of such a meeting as this will give him a
new impetus on the road.—(Cheers. ) When I look to the
position
of England—when road.-(
look to the station she has hi-
therto held among the nations of the world, having upon al.
most all occasions little to do but to lead the way, either in
peace or war, to have the nations of the world follow in her
path—when I see the proud position she has held, I confess .
that it strikes me with alarm to see some of her classes cling-
ing to a course of policy which, in my opinion, must endanger
that position most essentially. What ! is it nothing that
England shall be left isolated in her p )sition, and exnosed to
restrictions by the rest of the nations of the world? C,an
any arm be more powerful to act against her than a combi-
nation of nations leagued in a commercial treaty fromoassrt:
England shall he excluded? Are there any enemies of
thereg
land who would like to see such a consummation? 'firllomacy
none who, shaded behind the plausible
heuofcc:-;
are at present tr)ing to work out. suchveialtn
My Honourable Friend has
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1301,LOKSHAWS.
Mr. HEcron, Deputy from Pollokshaws, read to the meeting
a report, by Provost Corbett, of Pollokshaws, and William
Hector, writer in Pullokshaws, Deputies appointed by the Pol-
lokshaws Anti-Corn-law Association, to the general meeting to
be held in the Trades' Hall, Glasgow, which was full of inte-
resting details like the following. We pass over the hand-loom
weavers, whose condition is known to be most wretched :
Cotton-Spinners, Steam-Loom Weavers, Quarriers, La-
bourers, and Bleachers.—These classes having obtained con-
stant employment during the past year, they have not felt the
pressure of the times so much as other classes of the popula-
lation, although the wages of many of them are reduced to the
extent of 20, 30, or 40 per cent.
Inability to Purchase Clothes.—The change within the last
ten years in this respect is very striking and lamentable.
In seventeen cases of respectable weavers, investigated by the
Deputies, not one was found where a single article of clothing
had been purchased within the last two years. Mr. William
Nicol, the oldest and most extensive draper and cloth merchant
in Pollokshaws, states that he has been 28 years in business,
and that he has had ample opportunities of knowing the condi-
tion of the population generally during the whole of that time.
He says that they have been retrograding fast—that families
who, for many years, were regularly able to make pretty ex-
tensive purchases of body and bed clothes, have entirely ceased
to do so—that, in cases of others, where pounds were for-
merly spent in this way, shillings are now laid out ; and that,
in general, there is a great and observable change for the
worse in the personal appearance of whole classes of the people,
arising from their total inability to purchase clothes.
Inability to procure Provisions.—ln one of the oldest
established, and most extensive retail grocery and provision
shops in Pollockshaws, it was found that as many as fifty sales
take place per day of the following quantities of groceries and
provisions, viz., one halfpenny worth of tea, one halfpenny
worth of sugar, one halfpenny worth of butter, one halfpenny
worth of herrings. That very rarely so much as a quarter of
a pound of tea is purchased at once or a pound of sugar.
The Crowding together of the Population.—ln the parish of
Pollok or Eastwood, there has been, within the last ten years,
as ascertained by the census, an increase in the population of
of 1,012, while the number of new houses built within that pe-
riod does not exceed twelve, and these do not afford accommo-
dation for 200 of the increased population. Thus 812 of the
new population have been crowded in upon the former occupiers
of homes, who were already overcrowded.
The Increase of Paupers and of the Poor's Rate.__
There has been a regular increase of the paupers on the parish
poor's roll for several years past, and a corresponding increase
in the assessment. In the three winter months of 1838, No-
vember, December, and January, the average number of pau-
pers on the roll was 82 ; in the corresponding three months of
1841 the number was 102, being an increase in three years of
20 paupers, or 25 per cent.
In conclusion, the Deputies would remark, as the result of
their own observation and of the inquiries now made, that a
material change for the worse is gradually taking place in the
appearance and condition of the population of this parish, and
although all are not suffering alike, yet poverty and its attendant
consequences are but too visible among the great body of the,
._ •- ~ :
people.

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MORNING SUTie44-rf

time, else the country will receive a shock, for the cause of
which it can only look to itself. ( Great cheering.) Gentle..
men, it has been said, and very likely with too good reason, that
those who resist the alteration of the Corn-laws, and who most
strongly uphold the present system of things, are the landed
proprietors and the aristocracy of the country. Let me re-
mark to you, however, as belonging to that class, perhaps, that
they are, although much, not altogether to blame. For we
found, not long age, in a discussion on free trade in the House
of Commons, that certain other monopolists were just as for-
ward as the monopolists of corn to maintain the present impo-
litic system.—( Hear, Lear.) For myself, I cannot see why
the landed proprietors should dread the abolition of the Corn-.
laws.—( Cheers.) I have looked to the question in all its
various bearings. I have talked to pt:actical agriculturists on
the question—to men who know what the capabilities of soil
are, and what, too, are the capabilities of industrious and ac-
tive heads; and they tell me that, if we will leave them their
own industry and energy free and unshackled, they will get on
tolerably well, even although the Corn-laws are repealed.
—(Hear,) I confess that I have derived some little satisfaction
from a great agricultural meeting which was held lately in
the county of Lincoln. I cannot say that I have received
much satisfaction from its results ; but things took place at that
meeting, where Mr. Christopher developed his plan of a reform
of the Corn-laws, that have given me the greatest satisfaction.
For when I read that he whom I had seen in the House of
Commons, and other friends around me had seen, denouncing
with the fiercest wrath, and the bitterest enmity, any who
presumed to touch these sacred and inviolable laws; when I
have seen that gentleman pour forth torrents of indignation
against my friend, Mr. Villiers, I cannot but hail with some
satisfaction the admission made to the Lincolnshire [farmers,
in words admitting of no doubt, that the time had come
when the voice of public opinion was not to be resisted, and a
change must take place in the Corn-laws.—( Tremendous
cheering.) This indeed is consolatory ; but as to Mr. Chris-
topher's plan, I think we may whisper to him that it is not the
plan which public opinion will sanction.—( Renewed cheers.)
Gentlemen, it is not for me to anticipate what her Majesty's
Government purpose on this head ; but one channel into which
I see their minds are running, and which I view, I confess, with
some alarm, as tending rather to inflict injury in the country
than to confer a benefit on it, is an extensive system of emigra-
tion.—( Hear, hear.) I object most solemnly to a wide door
being thrown open, through which emigration can scarcely be
said to be voluntary, but through which a starving populace,
tempted by the magnitude of the plan, and the prosrect of the
success held out to them beyond seas, shall be pushed into a
system of expatriation, terminating not only in increased mi-
sery to themselves abroad—increased misery, because, termi-
nating not only with none of the advantages they were led to
expect, but with all the recollections of home and country
hanging heavy at their hearts, when home and country are no
longer theirs.—(Loud cheers.) Such a system is dangerous to
the country, by removing only the healthy and able-bodied of
our population, and locating them in the colonies, while we
leave the unhealthy and the infirm to be maintained with a
scanty population at home.—(Cheers.) I trust, therefore, the
country will be on its guard apainst rushing into any extensive
system of emigration. The 'Hon. Gentleman concluded by
Pwing "Earl Fitzwilliam, with the Members of the House of
eers who supported his motion for the consideration of the
Corn-laws."—( The toast was drank with great cheering. )
The CHAIRMAN gave—" The deputations from various
parts of Scotland, who have honoured us with their presence
on this occasion, and Provost Bain, Greenock."—( Cheers. )
Provost BAIN, of Greenock returned thanks, and gave—
" The Farming Tenantry of Scotland, and may they soon dis-
cover that they derive no benefit from the present Corn-laws."
I understand there are several of this class in the meeting, and
it is most gratifying to know that these gentlemen are at length
beginning to see that they derive no benefit from the laws
which press so severely on other portions of the community.
Mr. SettouLL returned thanks on the part of the farmers,
and detailed the more healthy feeling which was gaining ground
amongst them:_ _ _ _

The Rev. Dr. HEUGH, after alluding to the Conference at
Edinburgh, said—From that meeting I have returned with
the conviction deepened, that the essential injustice of the
Corn-laws in this country has taken such hold of the minds,
the consciences,and the hearts, of the great body of the Scot-
tish people, ft.om the centre of the country to its utmost cir-
cumference, that they will not now cease from strenuous, de-
termined, but legal efforts, constitutionally, and therefore irre-
sistibly made, until the object they seek, and which they now
feel they have the right rather to demond than implore, shall
be triumphantly accomplished.—( Great cheering.) I have
been requested to propose the following toast:—" That the
Corn and Pravision-laws are producing a constant increase
of immorality." If you rob one man, you treat him
unjustly ; surely your conduct does not lose its cha-
racter when you extend your robbery to a hundred,?—(Hear,
hear.) Ido not wish to use language unnecessarily severe ;
but I cannot but regard these laws as constant infractions of
the law of God, and as exposing the country to his righteous
displeasure.—( Hear, hear.) But, Sir, if the laws are im-
moral, what but immorality can we expect them to pro-
duce ? But from tke great, the immorality of these laws is
descending open the Floor ; they are rendering the people dis-
contented, restless, desperate ; they are giving,to the under
stratum of British society the fearful character of a heated
volcano, stirring its mighty fires for a vast heat—a terrific—a
ruinous outburst. Sir, that is precisely the catastrophe which
from our hearts we deprecate—which, with all the influence
we can exert, in our persuasions of men, and in our prayers to
Almighty God, we shall endeavour, while we live, to avert.
But to our rulers we say, avert it else, work with us, give the
people cheap food, do not dash the
cup of hope from the
lips of the famishing, the long-suffering people. We ask mo-
rality, we implore mercy, we demand justice—justice and
mercy, which are the pillars of the throne of the Eternal, land
which alone can give stability to ours.—(Loud applause.)
The Rev. Mr. Low of Forfar, had been called upon to pro-
pose " The abolition of all selfish and class legislation. '—
(Cheers.) He rejoiced that the day had come when such a
sentiment could be proposed and responded to—not in a hole
and corner way, as they knew the friends of civil and:religioue
liberty were at one time necessitated to speak their conscien-
tious and heartfelt sentiments, but in a large and intelligent
assembly like the present, resolved not to break their bonds of
union till all the oppressed go free, and every shackle be
broken. He trusted the toast which he had risen to propose
would be echoed from this meeting to the city, from this city
to another city, from one tovrd to another town, from one vil-
lage to another Tillage, from sine hamlet to another hamlet,
and frein the stranger on the way to the stranger who payseth
by, Rising no rest to those opposed to them till their objectwas
reeiseil, and till every vestige of class legislation was for ever
abolished.--(Cheers.) It could not be denied the evidence was
accumulating every day they lived, that there was a spirit of
discontent spreading through the land. This was a spirit
which would spread rapidly. It prevailed at the present, and
a very little might raise a torrent, that would bring down the
throne itself, with the other institutions by which it wag sue.
rounded and upheld. If they continued the cause, they must
expect likewise to continue the effect, as selfish and data le-
gislation could not fail to produce discontent in the minds of
those who were placed under its cruel and withering influence.
All that he knew or had heard of her Majesty satisfied him,
that she earnestly desired the prosperity and happiness of the
nation, but still he would take the liberty of saying to her, as
Mordecai answered the words of Esther—he said it not in a
spirit of braving—not in a spirit of threatening, but with a
strong desire for a continuation of the throne, and many of the
excellent institutions of the country—( Hear, hear)—" Think
not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the King's house,
more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether heldeth thy
peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliver-
ance arise to the Jews from another place ; but thou and thy
father's house shall be destroyed ; and who knoweth whether
thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this."—( The
close of the sentence was almost drowned with cheers and dis-
approbation, which continued for some time, and Mr. Low ulti-
mately gave the toast—" The abolition of all selfish and class
legislation," without any further remarks. The toast was
drank with great applause. )
Mr. P. M. SrICIVART, M.P., rose to propose the next
toast, " The abolition of all colonial monopolies of sugar,
coffee, and other tropical produce."--( Applause.) As a part
and parcel of the general and universal principle of free trade,
which they were met here to promote and to further, he gave
this toast with every emphasis he could attach to it.—
(Cheers.) He might say of our colonies that he himself
would directly benefit by so beneficial a change, and that even
the landed proprietors of this country must prosper in the re-
vival of our commerce and national prosperity.--( Cheers.) He
never could comprehend the sentiment which embraced the
foolish notion that the agricultural, commercial, or manufac-
turing part of the community could flourish, while the other
classes were suffsring. His opinion was, that they must
flourish or fade together, and, like our national emblem, the
garland of the rose, the thistle, and shamrock, that they were
bound by a union inseparable, at once the emblem of our na-
tional existence, and the token of our national strength.--
( Loud cheers.) With these evidences of distress, any Go-
vernment that could assume a careless position under inch
circumstances, must be compared, not to respectable citi-
zens, but to men like the Emperor of China, a Brother of the
Moon—(Laughter)—who, far superior to all terrestrial com-
motion!, looked with unconcern at the fall of the stoutest of
his places—saw the boldest of his soldiers running away that
they " might live to fight another day"—and in Pekin dreamt
of security—while our troops were at his door demanding re-
paration for the past, and security for the future--he main-
tained that as moonstruck must be that Minister who dreams,
like his prototype, the Emperor of China, that he shall be able
to uphold our commercial legislation, or save the erasure from
the statutebook of this law, which pressed so heavy taxation on
their suffering fellow-countrymen, and to denounce which was
the main cause of their meeting this evening. Mr. Stewart
concruded amidst thuoders of applause.
Mr: R. Vir,it.i.Ace,'M.P., differed much from some of his
Parliamentary friend's, who imagined that the Corn-laws would
soon be repealed.' He did not think their object would be so
easily attained: It was understood that whatever might be in
the speeettLfroni,the Throne at the opening of Parliament,
they (the Ceia;law vepealere) would be quiescent till after
Easter, He, for.one, would. say no such thing. He would
ray to them, he on tbe'watch-towers, for if their friends who
were reckoned the most active did not bring forward their mo-
tion in the House of Commons, others would do it.—(Cheers.)
They should give their enemy no rest. They should be pre-
pared by the 3d of February, and give Sir Robert Peel no rest
till he went to the church on Good Friday.—(Laughter and
cheers.) This should be the tactics. He did not know what
tactics had been definitely resolved upon with reference to the
Antis Corn-law movement, but he for one would be in the
right place on the opening of Parliament, and if he could, by
hook or crook, he would for one break down the selfish system
till it would never rise again. lie gave " A just and equal
system of taxation."--(The toast was then drank with three
times three and loud cheers.)
The Hon. Fox NIA I/I,E, M.P., proposed the health of the
Chairman, after a complimentary speech.
Mr. Oswar.o, M.P., returned thanks.
Mr. RUTH ER,FOII, D, after alluding to the Reform
Act, said—The people of Scotland had already accomplished
what was little short of a revolution, without crime or turbu-
lence, hut with sobriety and peace.—(Cheers ) It was im-
possible that truth should not prevail. It was impossible that
a truth, which involved the peace of the empire at large, should
not at last force its way into the minds of reluctant parties in
the Legislature, till their cause was successful He said, let
them profit from history, and from recent experience. Let
them pursue the same course at present which they did ten
years ago. Let them hold meetings. Let them exercise mu-
tual forbearance. Let them sacrifice minute differences of
opinion. Let them not look behind, but press forward to the
mark of then- calling, and the day would be theirs ; the tri•
umph could not be far distant—(Great applause)—and, in ac-
cemplishinx, that object, another proof was added of the great
truth of hit toast. that r the progress of knowledge was the
only sufficient guarantee for the diffusion and pet manence of
free institutions. —( Cheers.)
Mr. A. G a arta.at was received with loud cheers. The aboli.
tion of the timber monopoly, though it may prove a dry subject,
is nevertheless a most important toast: at all events, I pro-
mise not to occupy many minutes of your time. This mono-
poly has been principally instrumental in provoking the pre-
sent retaliative exclusion of British manufactures from all the
timber-growing countries of Europe. It has also increased by
100 per cent., or just doubled the cost of the raw material of
the woodwork of all buildings, thereby adding_ one-fifth or 20
per cent, to the cost of their erection.—( Hear, hear.) In
British built ships, the monopoly price of timber has been still
more pernicious. A ship built at Leith costs 30 per cent.
higher than a similar vessel built at Dantzic, and should we by
the same rule measure the enhancement of the cost of all Bti-
tishtsuiltships, the amount of waste from this source would be
enc'rzeons- • Thus.does this monopoly sit as
commercial an incubus on our
'lt is thus that, We exhibit the inconsist-
ency of a nati"l"utt.tt-ita..maritirtie wendanci—i nation
•_.