The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

V `/
/
t/ ~ A

(co',

'. et
r*,
•
to: • ,
e- • / '
10,1 •
‘..."1" .61
'l4-.4l*
17
I
:JO Y-
---1,..AH-gi57.401.14 • t•t ,047( TS' II \ •
" 414' • t—Bl .7) S. ‘,5‘.16
"' Itor-r,, • 7 -
. - . . • ••

No. 15,693. LONDO NT SATURDAY are-

DEC EMBER 10, 1842.

PRICE 5(1.

THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOTVN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION ( Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS
and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that hour.
ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE TIIREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION,at ONE CHARGE.
.•

PUBLICATIONS.

OYAL POLY FECHNIC INSTITUTION.
-CA) Cary's NEW OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE,
of . enormoui power, exhibiting the HUMAN HAIR
EIGHTEEN INCH ES in diameter, being magnified seventy-
four millions of times. New DISSOLVING VIEW S,lncluding
a View of GH UZ NEE and the BOLAN PASS in APP.
GH ANISTA N. The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MA.
CHINE. LECTURES DAILY, in which the latest scien-
tific productions are familiarly' explained.
Admission, One Shilling. Schooli, Half-price.

MEETING OF THE LEAGUE—PRO-
GRESS OF THE FUND,
MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.--A crowded
meeting of the members of the League took place last
night in the Picture Gallery, to learn the progress of
the great fund, and to hear addresses from 11. Mars-
land, Esq., M.P. for Stockport, Col. Thompson, Jas.
Wilson, Esq., of London, and the Rev. F. Bishop, of
Warrington.
The CHAIRMAN opened the meeting, when
Mr. Hicena, Secretary to the League, read a let-
ter, giving the names of upwards of 80 towns and bo-
roughs which had made fresh or further applications for
cards; also a list of further subscriptions. From
Stockport sheets had been returned containing 308
names, making 2,371 names registered there—(Ap-
plause)—and 41. Os. 2id. had been received from that
town for registration fees, making altogether 321. 95.,
the greater part of which sum had been contributed in
pennies.—(Applause.)
The Ciummax then introduced
Mr. JAMES WILSON (of London), who congratu-
lated the meeting that he saw so many candidates
flocking to their standard. The events of the last few
weeks especially proved that the end of this law was
approaching.
HENRY MARSLAND, Esq., M.P., was then called on,
and was received with much applause. He said—
Perhaps, Sir, very many of us who are here present
have been theoretically convinced for a lengthened
period of the folly, injustice, and impolicy of the
Corn-laws • but the practical experience which
we have had for the last year or two must have given
a vividness to our previous impressions. I am sure
it has considerably swelled the number of converts
to our ranks ; and I believe it has even shaken the
faith of those who never previously doubted of
the wisdom and the power of Parliament, not' con-
ceived that there could be a limit beyond which
misery could not be quietly endured ; that there
could be a point beyond which injustice could
not with security be carried.—(Loud applause.) Sir,
I know not whether you may have heard the descrip-
tion given of the population of Stockport by the As-
sistant Poor-law Commissioners, who were sent down
to inquire into the distress ; but it is one of which a
people may be justly proud. They, Sir, are described
as a people possessing industrious habits of no com-
mon stamp, as possessing intelligence much in advance
of other classes of the working people ; they are de-
scribed in the day of prosperity as taking advantage
of all provident institutions; in the day of adversity,
struggling vigorously against poverty, resisting pau-
perism to the utmost extent, seeking far and wide for
employment, and willing to rely for a livelihood upon
their own exertions, and upon nothing else.—(Cheers.)
Sir, the Commissioners conclude that able Report
with an earnest . hope that something would be done
for such a people by the Legislature ; they pray that
something might be done to relieve the great distress
which then existed. Sir, they know well the merits
of the peolik ; they know well the distress of the
country ; but they little know the selfishness of those
who have pledged themselves to previously declared
opinions.—(Applause.) Sir, how changed is the
scene ! a cloud has passed over, a cloud not raised by
the hand of God, but by the short-sighted policy of
man.—(Hear, hear.) Independence of character and
self-reliance have, I am sorry to say, passed from very
many of our population ; despair has crushed that
energy which formerly bade them to depend upon
themselves ; and I am afraid many have no feelings of
shame at receiving parochial relief, since poverty has
ceased to be a crime, and when a livelihood cannot
be obtained by the sweat of the brow, and by honest
industry.—(Hear, hear.)
Colonel THOMPSON then rose, and addressed the
meeting at great length. He concluded an able ad-
dress as follows :—I was at the siege of Bolton—
(Hear, hear)—and few sieges have there been where
so much of distress was crowded into so small a com-
pass. And all that, remember, was artificial ; it was
forced
eGdofdr'osmmtahke in,fgai:ntiintsgeas windootv,P.
andro her child, to givevidence that did it ;
it was all done that one-half the crust should be
four horses to those who have got two to their coach
already.—(Loud cheers.) If those men don't think
better of it, if they don't think of making a capitula-
country, their blood be on their own
capitula-
tion in time, seeing, as I do, the rising spirit in the
heads, and all
the mischief that may attend them:(Cheers.) There
has been no instance; that I know of, in the history
of mankind, saving, perhaps, the instance of negro
slavery, in which so much evil has been carried on for
,ar,
the mere sake of actumulating wealth for those who
scarcely wanted it.—(Hem hear.) Our enemies
begin to quail—" the straw is stirring," as an old
friend of mine once said. We see, everywhere, the
symptoms of their failing. Curious instances of that
have I seen by this night's post. I'll read you a pas-
sage if you please, from the journals of one of our
greatest enemies. And first I'll tell you the point on
which he has consented to pit this quarrel. I find it
written here—" Protection is defensible and laud-
able, because it is promotive of the most general
interest of all—the interest of those who are de-
pendent upon their industry for their daily bread.
If protection have not this merit, it has none."
Now, Gentlemen, close upon this ; join issue here.
They have admitted that if protection be not good for
the industrious at large, it has no merit, and ought to
be abolished. Now I will state to you, as lam sure
you in general know already, that this plea, that pro-
tection is for the benefit of industry at large, is a
mere quackery, a fraud, a deception, a dishonest
wrong.—(Applause.) The secret is in this. Pro-
tection is robbing one man for the benefit of another,
turn and turn about, and throwing half the amount,
at each part of the process, into the sea.—(Applause.)
You know that if the exchange of your goods abroad
was prohibited for the sake of increasing the price
given to some monopolist who might have an interest
in it, all that was given to him would be taken from
somebody else. In the first place, what was taken
from you could only be given to him. " Then," says
he, " there's the difference of price." Why, isn't that
taken
and isn't it taken, a second
time, from
from theth consumer
the
choonnesmt er ;
trader,
with whom the con-
sumer, in a state of freedom, laid it out ?—(Applause.)
Well, then, I say the difference of price is that much
thrown into the sea ; and we are expected to be so
weak, so feeble, so imbecile, that this process is to be
put upon us, and we are to make no resistance.—(Ap-
plause) Well, then, we take our adversaries at their
word : on that we put the question, andwe here main-
tain aloud that protection is not for the general inter-
est, but that freedom of all trade is what shall give hap-
piness and wealth to an industrious community.—(Ap-
plause.) Now mark the advantage which our enemies
have thrown into our hands. There's nothing like
taking(Applause, and laughter.) There is an exhortation
given
enemy'sco false movement.—'
comments on the League,
to advantage
you.
The
h oef
writer
one'srite r
and their proposal for raising what, I hope, they in
the end will double.—(Applause.) " Fifty thousand
pounds ! (says he), why if that be enough to repeal
the Corn-laws, what is to be said for the niggard par-
simony of those immensely patriotic persons who have
been so long insisting that Corn-law
repeal would
fill the country with prosperity, and scatter plenty
o'er a smiling land ? Why have those persons waited,
if fifty thousand pounds would do the business ? The
Methodists raised twice as much within a very short
time, merely to commemorate and dignify their cen-
tenary festival ; and is it possible that the wealthy
Sheffield, of Bolton and Stockport, of Birmingham
and Coventry, of Aberdeen and Dundee, and other
patriots of Manchester and Glasgow, of
be named—is itpossible that
places too numerous to
Halifax and
theythey
areo long
solely
Either
attributableh essllcoti coo 0 t
tgh e evils
whicha
Corn-laws,
s,
when 50,0001. would have got rid of them ? This
League' says
who are
meanest, stingiest, most
is passing strange !
the Corn-laws or will not. If the latsteawyrsillbise repeal
t false.ru e ,
Itnhfoewnt h the,elhfeaoatrgmii
eerr s
,obrmeg
must
true,nst
bo ttthhheee
e
penny-wise-and-pound-foolish set of creatures that
ever worshipped money with fear and trembling lest
a farthing might escape for a public purpose. The
`Leaguers' and their organ may take which horn of
the dilemma they like best to hang on."—(Applause.)
we, pin our
We'll hang upon neither horn ; but
adversary by the nose between them.—(cheers and
laughter.) If there should anywhere be found a set
of brethren who are weak on the present occasion—
who want a little stimulating—send them a copy of
last morning's Morning Post.—(Applause.) 'fell
them what their adversaries say of them. We can
want nothing further to rub up their lagging exer-
tions, and to bring to our aid the assistance which is
due in proportion to their strength. There has been
no case in which such exertions as you contemplate
election--that was
have been made which have not ended in success.
spent
th e .(Applause) lie
Sometimes the enemy professes to deride your 50,0001.
his way.—(Cheers.) Now, then, let us see whether
what you raise will not do as much as he did with
that million.—(Applause.) The time, I suspect, is
approaching when there will be something like a de-
mand throughout the country to know low far the
ado
million
nch
aritthheso,loasoto/.
decision then apparently given by the community was

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,
CXLI.
Is published Tins DAY.
• John Murray, Albemarle-street.

just and to be depended on • how far it was the pro-
duce of that most filthy bribery ; how far, if the
question pould only be brought once more before a
Grand Jury of the public, the probability would not
be that the verdict would be reversed ?—(Applause.)
In one way or other, success is certainly before us ;
we have but to persevere in our meetings and union
of efforts, and the time may net be far off when com-
merce shall be safe, when traffic shall be free, when
we can extend our industry, and enjoy the fruits of
the successful industry of those who are gone hence,
without being stopped in our harbour-mouths to pay
a custom that we honestly believe to be public plunder.
The Rev. Mr. Bisuop, of Warrington, then ad-
dressed the meeting in an eloquent speech ; after
which, thanks were voted to the strangers, and the
proceedings closed. 1

Imistake made with respect to his own.—(Cheers.) His
opinions, as he said before, remained unaltered, and
were decidedly hostile to those changes to which he
had already se fered.—(Cheers.) There was one other
topic which he wished, before he sat down, to touch,
but touch lightly upon. It was with regard to the
position and interests of the agricultural labourers of
this county, in which he knew all who heard him took
a deep interest. He could assure them that it afforded
him great gratification, as one deeply interested in the
welfare of the county, to find that by recent regula •
tions of the farmers of this neighbourhood employ-
ment had been found for the poor labourer—(Hear)
—and that he had not been allowed, as heretofore, to
go wandering in search of work. He had a short
time since spoken to some of his friends, whom he
now saw present, in the simple language of truth and
friendship; and he now repeated it, that it was much
better for them, as farmers, to employ their labourers,
so that they might gain an honest- livelihood, even
though the finding of such employment might press
heavily at the time, than to withhold such employ-
ment, and thereby drive them to seek refuge in the
poor-house.--(Cheers.) For let it not be forgotten
that, although in the workhouse, they must still be sup-
ported by the farmer, and that, too, without deriving
any advantage from their services, while they at the
same time, were deprived of the satisfaction of know-
ing that they earned the bread they eat.—(Cheers.)
Let us, then (continued-the Duke), for God's
sake, as Englishmen and farmers go on united
heart and hand in endeavouring to forward to our ut-
most the prosperity of the honest and independent
labourer.—(Hear, hear.) He entreated them to unite
to the utmost of their power to preserve them from
difficulty and distress ; and, above all, as they valued
the old English character, he- besought them to pro-
tect the labourer from the refuge of the workhouse.
The feelings which the company had just given ut-
terance to on this subject would, he was sure, elicit
corresponding feelings of kindness, and good-will in
other parts of the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) He had
now only to express his earnest hope that he might
meet them there again in the coming year united as
they were now heart and soul in the cause of the
country, and in the cause of the British agriculturists ;
for, if he mistook not, the opinions which he held to-
night were the opinions entertained by that numerous
assembly. The Noble Duke having again thanked
the company for the compliment they had paid him,
resumed his reat, amidst4loud cheers.
The Rev. B. HILL rose to propose the next toast,
which was " The Health of the County Members." In
doing so, he said there were two reasons why he
should abstain from saying anything in reference to
their conduct on the present occasion. The first was
because they were not present to answer anything that
might be said ; and the next was, that the Company,
as practical men, were better able to judge than he
was of the line of conduct which they had pursued
with regard to the interests of the agriculturists of
that county. He would, however, say that, whatever
difference of opinion with regard to their conduct
there might be, it was possible for men to act honestly
thought perhaps not judiciously.—(Partial cheering:)
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM proposed the health of
the Chairman.
The compliment was acknowledged by Mr. STONE
in a few words.
The health of the Duchess of Buckingham, of Sir
Thomas Aubrey, the Lord of the Manor, and of the
Rev. Mr. Barron, were severally proposed and re-
sponded to.
The Rev. Mr. BARRON in eloquent terms proposed
the health of the Marquis of Chandos. He hoped
that he would shortly see him placed in the position
which his noble father had so long occupied to the
satisfaction of the constituency of the county of Buck-
ingham.—(Cheers.) •
The Duke of Buckingham acknowledged the toast,
and said that his son was prevented from attending
the meeting by his duties at the Oxford University.
He looked forward with pleasure to the period when
he would appear before them to solicit their suffrages
to place him in the position which had been alluded
to by Mr. Hill. They would then be able to judge of
his feelings and opinions, which he doubted not would
meet with their approbation.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. G. CHETWODE gave " The Health of the
British farmer." He was sorry that a cloud was at
present hanging over his interests, but he hoped that
it would shortly vanish.—(Cheers.)
Mr. E. STONE acknowledged the toast. While he
said the British farmer could find such good landlords,
and such kind, and consistent, and indefatigable friends
as the Duke of Buckingham, they would have little
to fear.—(Cheers.) They would ever be found to
stand up in support of order and good government,
and the promotion of peace and good will amongst
all men.—(Cheers.)
Several other local toasts were afterwards proposed
and responded to, and the company separated at a
late hour.

HUNCH; or, the LONDON CHARIVARI, is
published every Saturday. Price 3d.
PUNCH'S ALMANACK will be published on the 31st
instant. And
PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK is now on sale, price 3s. 6d.,
roan tuck.
Office, 13, Wellington-street, Strand; and sold by all Book-
sellers.

ITATIONAL PROVIDENT IN sTi u PION.
The SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING of the
MEMBERS of this Institution, will be held at the OFFICE,
No. 39 Nicolas-lane, King William-street, on'TIIURSDAY the
15th instant, at One o'Clock precisely, to receive the RE-
PORT of the DIRECTORS for the current year.
Dec. Ist, 1842. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.

OYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of
.11-11) ENGLAND.--A FULL REPORT of Dr. LYON
PLAYFAIR'S important LECTURE on the "Application
of the Principles of Phriology and Chemistry to the Grazing
and Fattening of Cattle," will appear in the GARDENER'S
CHRONICLE of to-day.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CONSERV A.
TIME DINNER.
SPLIT IN THE TORY CAMP.

The annual dinner of the Buckinghamshire Con-
servative Association took place, on Thursday evening,
at the Sun Hotel, Brill. The meeting, thOugh fully
attended by the farmers, was shorn of its " fair pro-
portions" by the absence of every member connected
with the county. The Duke of Buckingham, with
the exception of some of the neighbouring gentry, was
the only person of political importance present. The
chair was occupied by J. Stone, Esq.
The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN gave "The health of the Queen,"
which was responded to amidst loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert ;" and afterwards " The
health of the Prince of 'Wales," and " The Queen
Dowager and the rest of the Royal family."
The next toast was " The Army and Navy."
Lieutenant SLEIGH briefly returned thanks.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM said he rose with the
permission of the chairman, to propose a toast which
he was sure would meet with the approval and cheers
of the company ; it was " The health of the Bishop
and Clergy of the diocese;"—(Cheers)—and attached,
as all in that room were to the Protestant religion of
this country, he had no doubt that they would hail the
toast with enthusiasm.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. GEORGE CHETWODE said, he rose with
mingled feelings of regret and satisfaction, to acknow-
ledge the toast which had been proposed by the Noble
Duke, and the very cordial manner in which it had
been received by the company. He rose, he said, with
feelings of regret, because the task had not fallen
into abler hands, but with satisfaction, because in
looking around him he saw a band of loyal men and
true, who seemed determined to support the Constitu-
tion in Church and State as it was now by law esta-
blished.—(Loud cheers.) The Church of England
was established and moulded up with the civil insti-
tutions of this country, and in their faithful and con-
scientious discharge of their many and important
duties, the clergy had not only to inculcate the neces-
sity of enforcing the laws of the Supreme Governor
of the Universe, but also the laws of man, which were
formed more for the prevention than the punishment
of crime.—(Applause.) In the union of Church and

State it was not sought to make the Church political,
but the State religious. He would not trespass
further on the attention of the company; but before
he sat down,;he hoped they would allow him to pro-
pose the health of a Nobleman for whom they all en-
' tertained a most sincere regard.— (Cheers.) It would
be useles e,hilu to attempt ,t,4y any thing to ele-
vate the which glitNi
in the co t tionin ielitlie Noble Duke stood
if4l7rkir, by doing sti,.lte felt that he would
only diminisifthe lustre which nozv so brightly shone
around tiirn*A(Chier4 He , proposed to them to
drink, int; ii +nipper, the "' Health of his Grace the
Duke ofilltickin*ha,m.?7=;-Thetfmit was drunk amidst
loud cheks. :
The Duke Of .BUCKINGIIA.M said he rose to return
his warmest thanks for the kind manner in which
the company had received -the toast which had been
so favourably and so kindly proposed by his Reve-
rend Friend on his right. He felt deeply the com-
pliment that had been paid to him—(Cheers)—and
he received those cheers as a token that he had not
forfeited the g,ood opinion which he held in their
estimation.—(Loud cheers.) He deeply regretted
that it was not in his power to meet them on the oc-
casion of their last anniversary, but the duties
he had then to perform prevented his attendance,
and he was happy now in having an opportunity of
being once more amongst his friends in that part of
the country.—(Cheers.) It was now, he believed,
nearly six or seven years since they first began to
assemble on that hill, and he was proud to think that
from that time to the present their numbers had gone
on increasing, and he was gratified to find, on this oc-
casion, so numerous and so highly respectable a
company.—(Cheers.) Since he had last had the ho-
nour of being in that room, and seeing around that table
those old friends with whom he had always felt plea-
sure in associating, changes, and great changes, had
occurred in this country ; and changes which de ply
affected those interests in which they were themselves
most deeply interested.—(Hear, hear.) The opinions
which, as Member for this county, many years ago,
and the opinions which, as an individual Peer, he had
since given, were so well known to those present and
to the country, that to repeat them on this occasion
would, he feared, tire them, and take up more time
than they were worth ; but at the same time he must
be permitted to express, before this large assembly, his
unaltered opinions with regard to those measures
which had recently been passed affecting the agricul-
tural interests.—(Loud cheers.) Whatever changes
of opinion might have overtaken some gentlemen on
this subject, those changes of opinion had not altered
his.—(Renewed cheering.) He gave his votes and
he gave utterance to his opinions formerly as he did
now, with the perfect conviction in his own mind
that they were founded in honesty and truth.—(Great
cheering.) He had thought it his duty many years
ago to record those opinions, because then, as now,
he took an active part in doing whatever he humbly
could do to further the objects of the British agricul-
turists. Those opinions remained firm and unchanged.—
those opinions remained unaltered, and he looked back
with regret, and deep regret, to the passing of the New
Corn-bill and the tariff.—(Loud cheers.) They were
measures which he looked upon as being hostile and
dangerous to the interests of the farmer.—(Cheers.)
Having so recorded his opinions, and having again
expressed them in the same shape and language which
he had previously done, he would not detain them on
that subject one moment longer than to express an
earnest hope that those changes might be found bene
ficial ; but at the same time, he had in his own mind
a conviction that those changes of opinion which some
persons had recently undergone, might eventually lead
to changes of opinion back again, and that those who
were now opposed to him might be found to come
Lack and again support him in the principles which
he advocated.—(Loud cheers.) For his own part, he
would rather stand alone in the wide world honestly
and conscientiously maintaining opinions which he
bo
he lai
ne
gv ee d
ti
hn 0 hisse
osoul i
on and s heartfor an to byh e o
ndaolnlc correct,rhth eoeorsres
Sovereign,.t)rahn
eraeoouAan
Inn: to
peehtaion
in
hse
wd teahrsee
hi wen or
eladas
;tea couldand soul
as
goohffueel r
wast
o. (t
sure
r
to theirg
sca
noo undn
hert
hr ye ,
atpnhrdea yyo
encdo t uhtl
this
a hht
aaGpv
peo
ydb
lumatni odg n.
might
ciAompu mpr l oa
down
si
en. -
bteMlreiegssshitnt; he ever find Englishmen free, happy, and
prosperous, and might they live long under the happy
sway of their Sovereign Lady, who ruled and reigned
in the hearts of all her subjects.—(Cheers.) It was
with feelings of no ordinary pride that he said, that in
no part of these dominions would be found a more
loyal or more devoted band of men to rally round
their Sovereign, than those who lived on the hills of
this county.—(Cheers.) Yes, he would venture
proudly to say, that they would never be found back-
ward in attachment to their Queen.—(Renewed
cheering.) He could not disguise from them the feel-
ingsathnids nhoeafidgd
hebehepee
tnri er
hgt
oea
or dhd i
mwahnai
dcwh
he l
lei
ce 0
cemenuet
le
ddr taaa
syi n,
se dbu
zfao
because
this
sehi s
them i
tt ot
hadhw ant
given him an opportunity of again seeing those whom
he had not now so often the pleasure of meeting as
formerly; and he was glad to feel and to see
although more removed from their neighbourhood,
the warmth of feeling with which he had been to-day
received.—(Cheers.) Their reception of him con-
vinced him that he had not suffered in their estima-
tion—(Cheers)—it convinced him that he had not
forfeited their good opinion—(Renewed cheering)--
and that he might still look to the company and to
that neighbourhood for those friendly feelings of re-
gard and good-will which they had for many years
continued to shower down on him, and which he
hoped would follow him to the grave.—(Cheers.) On
personal topics he would no longer dwell. He thought
it due to the worthy Chairman as one who had .al-
ways taken an active interest in the welfare of the
farmers and in all agricultural matters, and to the
present company, that he should freely and unre-
servedly express and repeat, over and over again , his
opinions, in order that whatever mistakes might be
made in these times with regard to the opinions
of some gentlemen in this county, there might be no