The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-12 00:00:00

r and that was union ; and there would be such an union of the
working men and masters, as had never been seen before. The
time had arrived, and they were called on to use their best
energies and exertions. if they did this, and with prudence,
the bread-tax would go as all other taxes and monopolies had
gone before, but so long as they were divided, this thing could
not be accomplished. The working men of Oldham knew that
the bread-tax was a great monopoly, but they also knew that
there was another monopoly—the monopoly of class legislation
—(Cheers)--and he for one, though he should toil for the
same object which they all worked for, should always re-
member that, so long as class legislation continued, Engl:sh-
nen would be slaves.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CORBETT, from Birmingham, said he felt proud that
he was a working man.—(Cheers.) There had been a great
deal said, these last few years, about the distress in this great
nation. He should lise to know who had selected those people
who brought en this distress? They could not say it was the
working men.—( Cheers. ) Had they participated in making
the lads, they never would have been in this state. —( Cheers.)
He also should recommend a union between the masters and
the working men. Without union, they could do nothing.
The michil ! classes could alone effect .nothing. Look at the
masses who were opposed to them. They had the clergy
against them, with a few honourable exceptions. Instead of
the clergy being the friends of the poor, they were, generally
speaking, their oppressors. They had the two Houses of Par-
liament against them ; the fundholders, placemen, pensioners,
and landholders, against them. The working classes, by
themselves, could effect nothing; and the odds which were
against them should convince every one of the necessity
of being united.—( Cries of " Hear, hear ") He had
to express the determination of the men of Birmingham, that
if the midd'e classes joined them heart and soul, they (the
working classes) would be with them to a man.—( Loud
cheers.) And he might add, that unless they a,. ted honestly
by the working men, they would not have their assistance,
nor ought they, indeed, under those circumstances, to ex?ect
it. —( Cheers.) What he had seen since he had been in this
room, had convinced him that England would not sink yet, if
the working and the middle classes would only unite.—
( Cheers.) The working men he had met at Manchester in-
duced him to believe, that if the middle and humbler classes
were true to oae another, this country need fear no competi-
tion. A good deal had been said about making sacrifices. He
approved of sacrifices for she public good. Let the people
be sober; nothing contributed so much to raise a people, in a
moral and political point of view, as sobriety. He was confi-
dent that, with union and firmness, justice—complete justice
would, era long, be obtained.
The CHAIRMAN informed the meeting that the Rev. Mr.
Massie was about to communicate to them the result of the
deliberations of the Executive Committee as to the best mode
of presenting the Memorial to the Queen which had been
agreed to in the morning.
The Rev. Mr. Massie then came forward, and said that
the Executive Committee had discussed the question sub-
mitted to them. It had been stated by some of the members
that the only constitutional mode of presenting the Memorial
was through a Peer of the Realm or a Privy Councillor.
There was, however, a strong desire on the part of many mem--
hers to comply with what seemed to be the prevailing wish of
the Delegates, that they should proceed in a body and endea-
vour to present the Memorial themselves to her Majesty It
was necessary, however, that previous applicalon should have
been made to the offiei d authoritic a for permission to take such
a step ; and some time would, of course, elapse bef re the
answer could be received. But in the meantime, if Delegates
would find it necessary, according to their previous arrange-
ments, to leave London, the consequence of that would be, that
a small number only of their body could be present. Now, a
diminutive demonstration would be comparatively ineffectual,
and would lay the League under a sneer or a rebuff. The
Committee, therefore, although with a feeling of great regret
and reluctance, had determined to renounce the intee-
tion of recommending the Delegates to attempt to pro-
ceed in a body with the Memorial. They recommend
that Earls Ducie, Radnor, and Kinnaird should be respectfully
requested to take the earliest opportunity of using their privi-
leges as Peers of the realm, to bring before her Majesty the
Memorial of that Conference.—( Hear, hear.) There were
other Noble Lords or Learned Lords whom they would have
also named, were it not that those Noble persons had not out
and out declared for a total and immediate repeal ; and then
other of those Lords had rather discountenanced the Con-
ference of the ministers of religion upon that subject, and ex-
pressed a doubt whether it was a moral or religious question.
The Earls of Ducie, Radnor, and Kinnaird had, on the other
hand, emphatically and distinctly approved of the present move-
ment.

A GENTLEMAN in the body of the meeting asked whether
the Delegates could feel assured that the proposal of the Com-
mittee would be effectual? He remembered a petition ad-
dressed to her Majesty had been on a former occa•ion en-
trusted to a Noble Lord for presentation, but it had been for-
warded by him to the Secretary of State, through whom it
had been presented. What certainty was there that the same
thing might not occur again ?

The R-ev. Mr. MASSIF said that on the occasion reft rred to
the Noble Lord had declared that, in consequence of the delicate
health of her Majesty at that period, he did not wish to pre-
sent the petition in person ; but that at any other time
he would have gladly availed himself of h:s privilege as a Peer
of the realm for such a purpose.—( Hear, hear. ) The Rev.
Gentleman concluded by leaving the resolution of the Com-
mittee in the hands of t .e meeting.
The CHAIRMAN then put the question that the recommen-
dation of the Executive Committee should be adopted.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. FALVEY next came forward to address the meeting. He
had been deputed, with three or four other working men, to
present the Memorial which it had formerly been determined
should be presented to the Premier. Little did he antici-
pate that a refusal to listen to that Memorial would have
been given bA the Prime Minister of England—by the man
who, a few months before, had graciously received a depu-
tation from a certain body, because they agreed with him in
attributing the distress of the country to over-production and
machinery. These men had been graciously received ; and
they, in their turn, declared that Sir R. Peel had a heart—
( Hear, hear.) He might have a heart, but, if he had; it
was a bad one.—(Hear, hear.) When he was waited on by
those who said they were sent from the working men, Enid
when they were asked to show their credentials, and had none,
he allowed he was imposed on, and said he was very sorry in-
deed —( Hear, hear.) And because he was deceived on a pre-
vious occasion, he would not receive any real deputa-
tion from the real working men of England.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Falvey) thought that the Prime Minister deserved
impeachment—(Cheers)—and if the working classes had been

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