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ANTI-CORN-LAW DEMONSTRA-

T lON
THE LINEN TRADE—MEETING OF DEPUTIES.
(Abridged from, the Dundee Advertiser.)
A public meeting of the members of the Dundee Anti-
Corn-law Association, and Deputies from the various
Anti-Corn-law and Free-trade Associations in Forfar-
shire, Fifeshire; and the neighbouring counties; connected
with the flax and linen-trade, was held in Bell-street
Chapel, on Thursday, for the purpose of diffusing infor-
mation relative to the depressed state of trade, and the
baneful effects of the Corn and Provision-laws on the 'con-
dition of the:people, and to memorialise her Majesty and
petition Parliament for the total repeal of these laws and
other restrictions on commerce.

Edward Baxter, Esq., President of the Dundee Anti-
Corn-law Association, took the chair, and Messrs. Law
and Wighton were appointed Joint Clerks.
The platform was crowded. Amongst others we no-
ticed about fifty Deputies from the towns and villages
of Forfarshire, Fifeshire, and Perthshire, comprising a
number of Magistrates, merchants, manufacturers, and
tradesmen, the greater part of whom were connected more
or less, with the linen trade, in their respective districts.
The CHAIRMAN read letters from Lord Panmure, and
George Duncan, Esq., M.l'., for the Borough, excusing
their absence, but expressing cordial concurrence in the
objects of the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN, stated the object -of the meeting, and
thanked the Deputies who had come to attend' the
meeting, for their prompt attention to the call of the
Dundee Anti-Corn-laW Association. I-le:(Mr. Baxter)
admitted that . all the distress did not arise
from . the restrictive laws alone,—there was a
severe pressure on the productive classes, from un-
equal taxation.. But the taxes on food, and the pro-
hibitory duties on foreign productions, were the great
cause of the present distress. They considered f:eedom
of trade to be the inalineable right of freemen, and they,
would not cease. remonstrating until the foreign was as
free as the home trade. Mr. Baxter gave a history of
the effects of the Corn-laws, and showed that they im-
peded the home trade more than the foreign. The trade
of Dundee exemplified this statement. From 1827 to
1834, omitting the speculative years of 1835 and 1836,
the shipments of linen to the home and foreign markets
increased at the rate of 29,605 pieces annually. Omitting
these years of speculation; the year of distress 1837, we
find the export of linens to all parts from Dundee for the
year ending June 1839 to amount to 717,070 pieces.
'Unlike the periods referred to, the/ exportsfell in June
1840 to 695,459 pieces, and in June 1841.
,they were
697,295 pieces. Since then, the last six months ending
30th November 1841 shows a farther decline of 29,457
pieces compared with the shipments during the same
period of 1840. In what articles was this deficiency
shown ? In Osnaburg, of 8,560 pieces, and in dowlas
of 3,658 pieces. TheSe • fabrics are chiefly shipped
to foreign markets. But, has _ the home market im-
proved ? It has fallen off in a greater ratio. In sack-
ing used at home, chiefly by farmers and others, there is
a decrease of 13,754 pieces, and of narrow bagging and
Hessians of 9,097 pieces. But there is an increase in
cotton bagging of 7,311 pieces ; and perhaps Sir Ro-
bert Peel would point to this as a proof of our prospe-
rity ; but he should be glad to hand over to Sir Robert
7,000 pieces which he had in the United States unsold.
It appears, therefore, trade .in linens is declining ; but
he ought to mention that there is an increase in yarns
exported of 107,845 cwt. in 1840 to 122,064 cwt. in 1841,
and that the increase during the last six months com-
pared with the corresponding period in 1840 has been
13,606 cwt. The number of bankruptcies during the
last five years is as follows : 1836-7. 1838-41.
Merchants (Dundee trade)
Manufacturers (ditto) 99"

Flax-spinners (ditto) l 2
Bleachers (ditto) 2

Founders and machine•makers 5
Shopkeepers, dealers, and other
trades

190 210
This exhibited a sad picture' of commercial distress, and
showed how deeply shopkeepers and all other classes
were interested in the prosperity of linen, the great
staple trade of the town. Mr. Baxter adverted to
the bounty on linen ; which, when. proposed to be dis-
continued, some deprecated as attended with danger,
but in which fears he did not concur. Now, the year
after these bounties were abolished, the shipments of
linen increased 30,000 pieces, which showed how little
real benefit trade derives from such protection ; and he
believed the same good results would arise from leaving
agriculture to its own native energies.—(Cheers.)
Sir J. OGILVY, a landowner, but allied with the ma-
nufacturers by opinion, recommended moderation und the
use of reason.
Mr. D. BAXTER moved the first resolution::--" That
the manufacturing interests of this district are, and have
been, for some years, in a state of great distress." Ile
would read to them a statement showing the •number
of persons out of employment, the rate of wages as
.compared with former years, and the effect of the high
price of provisions on the industrious classes of the com-
munity.

Factory Weavers.—Total number of looms, 3,131 ;
of which in employment, 1,232; partially employed, 554;
unemployed, 1,345 ; total of persons employed, 1,319 ;
partially employed, 554; unemployed, 1,454 ; starchers
employed, 87 ; unemployed, 113 ; total, 3,331. Of those
employed, 360 are working Government sailcloth, the
contracts for which are nearly made up.
Out-door Weavers.—ln respect to their condition,
as regards the rate of wages, it had been found that a
diminution of fully 25 per cent. had taken place since 1836.
In consequence their earnings are barely adequate to
procure the most pressing necessaries of life. At pre-
sent butchers' meat is seldom seen in their families,—
sometimes a little on Saturday night, and that of the
worst quality ; the greater part of the married women
have neither shoes nor stockings, and their children are
in the same condition. The present rate of weavers'
wages is barely sufficient to provide food, and the great
bulk of the families-of weavers are in rags. Very few
weavers are able to educate their children, and hardly,
any who subsist solely by weaving pay for a seat in
church. In 1836 weavers' wages were 40 per cent.
higher than they are at present. Wages were about 25
per cent. higher in 1836 than they are now ; the fall
has been gradual. Wages in 1836 were 25 per cent. ;
in 1837, 1838, 18 per cent. ; 1839, 10 per cent. higher
than at present.
Mechanics employed in Machine-miking Works.—
Number of .workmen employed,-on an average, during
two or three past years, 1,638 ; total number now em-
ployed, 758 ; unemployed, 880.
Masons Employed in the Quarries in the Neighbour-
hood, and by Six of the most extensive Contractors.—
Number employed average, during past two or three
years, 405 ; number recently employed, 66 ; unem-
ployed, 339.
House Carpenters ; returns from Six of the most ex-
tensive Contractors.—Employed average of two or three
past years, 137; presently employed,l4; unemployed, 103.
Slaters, Plumbers, and Plasterers.—ln the same pro-
portion as masons and wrights.
Shipwrights, Carpenters, and Blacksmiths, employed
in Ship-building Yards, exclusive of Apprentices.—
Average of two or three past years, 302 ; presently em-
ployed, 156 ; unemployed, 146.
Journeymen Tailors.—Fully employed, 5 ; partially
employed, averaging half work, 124 ; unemployed, 30 ;
total, 159.

During the four years from 1833 to 1836, the average
price of wheat was 465. 9d.; and during the three years
from 1839 to 1841 the average price was 695. During
the former period the average wages paid to the follow-
ingoperatives were as • follows i--4leeklers, 2s.7id. per
cwt. 3 lib. dressing ; spinners, Bs. ; reelers, 7s. 71d. ;
preparers; ss. 2d. ; weavers, for 24 porter osnaburgs, Bs.
During the latter period the average rate was—Hecklers,
2s. ; spinners, 7s. 2d. ,• reelers, 6s. sd. ; preparers,
4s. 10d. ; weavers, 6s. 10d. The only rcniedy for such a
serious state of things was a total repeal, not only of the'
Corn sand but of nil mnu~umliey --
(che(-.0 the last five years the great mass of
the working population had suffered the greatest distress.
from inadequate wages and high-priced food, and, were
not these pernicious restrictions speedily repealed, the
amount of suffering would go on increasing. Mr. Baxter
concluded by reading the motion.
Mr. THOMAS SAUNDERS seconded the resolution in an
eloquent, speech.
Mr. LANDALE, Of Kirkaldy, moved the second resolu-
tion, denouncing the Corn and Provision-laws. He ob-
served, that the present was not a question of party.
polities, nor was it a movement to cry down one
party at the expense of the other; but a question, the set-.
tlement of which, under the present Government, would
either raise-us from our difficulties, or -sink the nation
at large into deeper poverty and wretchedness.—( Hear.)
•He was sure that he spoke the sentinients of this meet-
ing in saying that he cared not what Government, gave.
us an effectual system of free trade, and the Minister
who did -so would receive the gratitude of the people.
(Cheers.) Looking at the answers of the manufacturers
to the questions in the list, he found that almost all sta-
ted that at least one-third of the manufacturing popula-
tion were at present out of employment, and this he
found more . than confirmed by taking the number of
Warping mills employed at present by five of the princi-
pal manufacturers of linen in his district. These five
manufacturers were in the habit of keeping thirty warp-
ing mills in constant employment, but at present they had
only twelve at work ; and, taking on an average that
each mill prepared warps for sixty weavers, there were
no less than ten hundred and eighty workmen thrown
idle by these five manufacturers alone, and the average
wages of those employed was about five shillings per
week. Such was the distress in the parish of Largo, that
the heritors had found it necessary to raise a consider-
able sum of money to purchase yarns to keep the starving
weavers in employment, the manufacturers in general
findingtheinselVes unable to take adYantage of their offer
of service, even at greatly reduced wages,--(Hear.) The
ameliorations to be proposed next Session of Parliament,
in our provision • laws; might not be worth our accept-
ance ; but let them firmly and perseveringly call for jus-
tice being done us, and declare that class legislation shall
no longer be submitted to. •
Mr. KINLOCH of Kinloch, who was received with
cheers, moved the sixth resolution. • ••
Mr. W. E L. CARNEGIE, of Boysack, seconded the re-
stitution.- He said that it was scarcely necessary to ob-
serve he was one • of those referred to by his friend Sir

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John Ogilvy, as belonging to one part of the great na-
tional family, and professing the sentiments of the other
on this N ital subject. He concurred cordially in the pro-
positions of the motion he had been invited to second.

Mr. CANNING, of Arbroath, proposed the third reso-
lution, and read a table showing the average weekly rate
of wages paid to canvass and linen weavers at Arbroath.
from 1836 to 1841, both inclusive, of which the following
is an abstract :

Canvass Sheeting Dowlas
Weavers. Weavers. Weavers.
1836 10s. 3d.
1837 8 61
1838 8 • 6
1839 • 9 11
•" 4
1840 8 0
1841 8 0
Taking these facts along with others into consideration.
no reasonable man would doubt that a change of a most
portentous nature was coming over the staple trade of
Forfarshire and Fifeshire ; and, as it was shown that a
similar, revolution was occurring in the other great
branches of British industry, it appeared to him that a
case was made out well calculated-to disturb the repose,
not merely of those more immediately engaged in or de-
pendent on manufactures, -but of all who had any stake
in the country.
The Rev. Mr. Low, of Forfar, in seconding the mo-
tion, stated that, in order to ascertain the state or the
working classes, the town was divided into eighteen dis-
tricts ; and the .Provost, some of the Magistrates, minis-
ters, and other respectable individuals, undertook the
charge of investigating the several districts. The informa-
tion obtained by this means, after the most careful and
minute inquiry was this :—There were visited 1,402 fami-
lies, comprising 5,122, which is 'within about 2,800 of
the whole population within the Parliamentary boundary.
Of these 5,122, there were only 139 who had .7rom 6d. to
9d. a day ; 193 -front sd. to S;P. ; 386 from 4d. to 4id. ;
851 from 3d. to 3,id. ; 1,533 from 2d. to ; 1,691
. from ld. to lid. ; 231,1 d. and under ; and 118 who had
no income whatever, and are dependent -.On charity ;'
einpty houses, 93. It must be remarked that the few
who have about 6d; a -day are young stout unmarried'
individuals or--eases whim- there are •a luau and .his
wife without family, and even here it cannot
be called riotous living for an adult to have only
3s. 6d. to 4s. with which to purchase every necessary of
life—for luxuries, it must be admitted, he can have few
or none. But look to those cases where there is only
from ld. to lid. for the support of each individual of
a 'family for the day ; and this class was by far the
latest in the list—suppOse a man and his wife, with
five or six children... It is as much as the wife and
the oldest of the children can do to make out to wind
the husband's pirns—it is as much as he can do with
the scant watery diet on which he is necessitated to
exist, to make out • his web of osnaburg in the week, for
which the whole week's gain in the family is only 7s. 6d.
Now, take from this the. rent of the room or hovel in which
they live, the rent of the lOom-stance, and the cost of the
light for the many long dreary hours it is required to
wind and to work out the web, and the glimmering fire
around which the shivering children crowd, crying for
food—and what hive you left ? Why 4s. 6d. or ss.
for the whole week's provisions for seven or eight in-
dividuals, where the hungry children will actually eat
more. than the health-broken, heart-broken father and
mother, who, in the poverty and misery to which they
are reduced, must, in violation of all natural feeling,
dread an increase of their family as only an augmenta-
tion of their woes. Now, this case we have sup-
posed is a faithful representation, of the real state and
condition of hundreds of families in Forfar at the
piesent time. Mr. Low, here gave an instance of a man
-who had been in the employment of one master for
about • twenty years, who has a wife and four or five
children. His earnings per week, taken from', his mas-
ter's books, deducting winding, &c.,_ were—in 1829,
1 ls. 6d.; 1836, 10s. ; 1841, Gs. 6d. This, then, was a
real case of a man who had been working the same
amount for twenty years, but with a greater waste of
physical strength, having less food to support it. His
family had increased—his income had decreased. The
prices of provisions had increased ; and, according to
the Tory hypothesis of dear food and high wanes always
going hand in hand, this man's wages should have been.
much better now than in 1836. With regard to clothing,
the case of the man referred to was an illustration in re-
gard to a very great part of the weaving population. Ile.
was an industrious man, of sober habits, and of excel-
lent character.—(Cheers.) The time was when hecould
have appeared in any society in clothing befitting his
station, and now he is going perfectly in rags. Talk of
people going to churches ! why, how can they ? The
last blush of virtuous shame has not yet fled from the
cheek of the poor man, although the last rag of his once
church-going coat has nigh fled from his back.—(Cheers.) •
The wages of masons from 1836 to 1839 were 18s. a
week, and for 1840 and 1841 only 155.---:work had gra;
dually decreased, till now there was none to be had, and
no prospects whatever of it reviving ; and this was the
case with trade all over the country. He had thus
shown, on evidence which would stand the most strict
scrutiny, .that the present condition of the labouring
classes of Forfar was miserable—that their wages
had declined while the price of food had been rising---
that they had not half the means of support they had at
and before 1836—that their clothing was almost gone,
and no means of replacing it—their children growing
up without means of education—disease spreading, and
ruin staring them in the face. But that was not all :
Wherever a people were starving, and destitute of food
and clothing, crime increased in a corresponding degree.
In 1836 the number of criminal trials at Forfar was 90 ;
in 1841 the number reached 202, being more than
doubled—rising and falling, in fact, with the price of
the loaf. The year had, indeed, opened upon them with •
prospects more gloomy than any of them had ever wit-
nessed,—threatening to reduce the middle classes to beg-.
gary, and plunge the working classes still deeper m
distress. •

Mr. J. G. STUART moved the fourth resolution.
Mr. JAMES ANcus, of Kirriemuir, seconded the re-
solution.

Mr. DAVID LAMB, of Brechin, moved the fifth reso-
lution.

Mr. JOHN BAXTER, of Blairgowrie, seconded the re-
solution.

Mr. W. NAIRN, of Logic-almond, moved an Address to
the Queen.
Mr. A. D. YOUNG seconded the motion, which was
unanimously carried.
Mr, BUTCHART, of Arbroath, moved a petition to both
Houses of Parliament for the total and immediate repeal
of the Corn and Provision-laws. .

Mr. ALEX. Low seconded the motion, which was
unanimously carried.
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Meeting
separated.