The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

TELLERS,

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Hume, Joseph—Montrose, &e.
Williams, %%, illiam—Coventry

—NOES, 173.
Hardinge, Right Hon, Sir H.
Launeestpn
Hardy, J.—Bradford

lientGote, G J.—Ruttindshire
Henley, J. W.—OxfordShire
Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts
Hervey, lord Alfred—Brighton
Hodgson, F. Barnstaple
Hodgson ltd.—Berwick-on-Tweed
Hope, Charles—Linlitligowsbire
Howard, C. W. G.—Cumberland
Hussey, Thomas—Lyme Regis
Hutt, W.—Gateshead

Inglis, Sir It. H. —Ox. University
Irving, John-..Antrim Co.
Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Dublin Uni
versity
Jolliffe, Sir W. G.—Petersfield
Jones, T.—Londonderry Co.
Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire
Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry—
Taunton
Langston, J. H.—Oxford
Lascelles, Hon. W.—Wakefield
'Lawson, A.—Knaresburouth
Lefroy, Anthony—Longford
Legh, G. C.—North Cheshire
Fitton, Edward—Coleraine

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Lowther, J. H.—York
Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire
'Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire
M'Geachy,
Marsham, Lord—West Kent
Masterman,

Miles, Milli) W. Sk ynner—Brlstol
Mitchell, 'l. A.-13ridport
Morgan, o.—Monmouthshire
Morris, D.—Carmarthen

Mundy, E. M.—South Derbyshire
Napier, Sir Chat les—Marylebene
Newport, Viscount—Shropshire
Northland,Viscount—Dungannon
O'Brien,A,—N.Northamptonshire
Ora, W —Newcastle.upon.Tyne
Packe, C. W.—Leicester, South
Paget, Frederick—Beauznaris

Parankton, J. S.—DrOitsZb"
Palmer. Robert—Berke

Palmer, George—Essex
Parker, John—Sheffield
Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire
Peel, lit Hon. Si r R.—Tamw oats
Philips, Mark—Manchester
Pigot, Sir Robert —Bridgnorth
Ponsonby, Hon. John—Derb)
Praed, W. T.--st. Iveq

Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire
Repton, U. W.—St. Alban't
RoHeston. Col.—S. Nottingham
Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suftblk

Russell, Loid John—London

Scarlett, Hon. R.--Horsham
Shaw, ltightHon. F.—Dublin Un.
Shell, Richard Lalor—Dungarvan
Sheppard, Thomas—Frome
Sm R. V.—Northampton
Somerset, Lord G.—Monaleuthsh
Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire
Strutt, Edward—Derby
Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr
I Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dorsetshire
'Sutton, C. M.—Camhridge
Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Taylor, Capt. E.—Dublin Co.
Townl4,. C —.Beverley

3 revor,iion U —Caerinarthensh,
Trollupe, Sir J.—S. Lincolnshire
(Trotter, John —West:Surrey
Tamer Edmund—Truro

Vere, Sir C. B East St ffblk

Vesey, Hon. T —Queen's CO.
Waddington, H. S.—West Sunlk
C. Baring—Guildford

Walsh, Str John B.—Radnorshire
Wilbraham. Hon. -R. B.—Lanea

shire
Wodehouse, Edmond—E. Norfolk
Wood, G. W —Kendal

Wrigli Ron, W. B.—Northallerton
ihomas—Waterford City

TLLLERS.
Fremantle. Sir - Buckingham
Baring, B. B.—Marlborough

COMPROMISE COMMITTEES.
BELFAST.
CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY.
(Continued from our Edition of Saturday.)

On the admission of strangers at that hour, the Report
was not read ; but we understand the substance of it to
be as follows, and that it will be presented to the House
on Monday night :
•"fliat it had been proved that a compromise respect-
ing the late election petition for Belfast had been entered
i-to, and partly performed by tw.) gentlemen on behalf
of the petitioners, and the then sitting Members for Bel-
fast ; but it appeared that the then sitting Members and
the petoners had no hand in such compromise, the two
gentlemen having solely relied on their personal influ-
ence with their respective parties for the carrying out of
such compromise.
"That gross and systematic bribery and corruption had
prevailed to a great extent on the part of the Conserva-
tives, at the late election for Belfast ; and that the per-
sonation of voters at the poll had also been resorted to,
four men, in fact, having been brought from Monaghan
for that express purpose; but. that it did not appear that
the then sitting Members had been in any way concerned
in, or, in truth, cognizant of such practices.
" That all parties were agreed in representing that the
registration of voters in Belfast was in a most deplorable
condition, and required great alteration."

AWFUL DEATH.—One day last week, a labouring
man was employed ricking hay in his master's field, near
Ivybridge, when a circumstance took place of a most
awful nature. The atmosphere, which had been sunny,
became cloudy, and a heavy shower of rain fell; the
man, however, continued his work, throwing the hay
from the ground to the top of the rick; but in a moment
of passion he raised the fork high in the air, and swore
that God Almighty might come and make the hay, for
he would not. At that instant a flash of lightning, at-
tracted by the iron prongs of the fork struck him to the
earth; and on being raised the unhappy man was dead.
—Wiltshire Independent.
GROUND SOLD AT ONE GUINEA PER INCH.—
, That part of the street opposite Messri. Illingworth and Hicks.
booksellers, Wakeibila, is extremely narrow compared with the
other parts of the street in the Market-place. Last week, the
shop recently occupied by Mr. Alderton, situate directly op-
mt a,ka
eke
ineglediloedev 'tins
streets
ecriiatnes
inches in
have
nwa c*.we understandidatghremd eat
o-
poilrA, the alioemvi:ishpsLoaencnee
place, was
guineas,o f
the angular corner), of the ground on which stood
that the
sthureingmosift"iprominent comer of the shop above alluded to. The
very tiny bit. of ground thus purchased will be a considerable
improvement.—Leeds Times.
The Barcelona ournals State that that city was per-
fectly tranquil on the Ist inst. The intelligence of the
march of General Zurbano upon Catalonia had spread
tarror among the Carlist bands, and several of their chiefs
had already crossed the French frontier. On the 24th
ult. a party of factious entered Montagut, crying " Viva
Carlos V. 1" The inhabitants having been taken by
surprise, offered no resistance ; but a few National
Guards having collected in front of the Casa Fuerte,
under the command of a retired -officer named Lorenzo
Punti, kept the invaders in check until reinforcements
could be received, when they were put to flight.

ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERENE. C
The Conference met on Saturday, at half-past ten, at
the Crown and Anchor, and immediately proceeded to
the official residence of Sir R. Peel, in Downing-street.
On the termination of the interview the Deputation pro-
ceeded to Herbert's Hotel (late Brown's), Palace-yard.
P. A. Taylor, Esq., took the Chair at one o'clock.
Mr. FISHER, of Sheffield, rose and said that the first
act of the Executive Committee after their arrival from
the interview with Sir R. Peel, was to pass a unanimous
vote of,thanks to their Chairman, for the modest, digni-
fied, and impressive manner in which the Deputation
was introduced to Sir R. Peel.—(Cheers.) He (Mr.
Fisher) was quite sure that the first act of that large
meeting should be a similar vote.—(Hear, hear.) He
would therefore propose that the thanks of the meeting
be given to the Chairman, for the excellent and impres-
sive manner in which the Deputation was introduced to
Sir R. Peel.—(Cheers.) -
Mr. FREARSON (of Nottingham) seconded theanotion,
which was carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN said, I have only to repeat the thanks
that T tendered to the Committee which I now give to
you.—(CheerS.) It is . most gratifying to have their
approbatiOn for any effort that I can. make in so
great and righteous a cause.—(Cheers.) I have
been identified with- this cause for years be-
fore - the formation of the Manchester League, and
before Manchester 'was-aware of the coming difficulties,
and coming evils, which these Ceam-laws would bring
uPon Ibis country, I was one of that few in London,
with the excellent Colonel Thompson as chairman, who
used to meet once a week ik a very small room, for I
am sorry to say that a small room was quite sufficient
to hold us all in, Colonel Thompson was in the chair,
the Secretary at the foot of the table, and only one or
two more to form the Committee to carry on the work.
That was the spark—that was he germ--that was the
commencement of that great question which is now agi-
tating the whole community,. and which now, in spite of
the coolness of Sir R. Peel, shakes him in his security.
--(Loud cheers.) I can only again assert that I am
always at your service.--(Cheers.)
The memorial to the Queen was then read to the
meeting.
Mr. G. THOMPSON said that it was highly important
that those gentlemen who were on the Committee should
immediately adjourn to the Committee-roam, in order
that every word which was stated in the presence of Sir
R. Peel should be faithfully reported, and that every
statement which was made should be inserted in the
Morning Chronicle, and other daily papers, that would
not hesitate to insert such important communications,
and give them to the world. It was, therefore, neces-
sary that those who attended the Deputation, should at
once consult together, and prepare the statements:
The Deputies then adjourned to the Committee-room.
The CHAIRMAN said that he would commence that
morning's sitting by reading two letters which had come
into his hand, one from Crayford, in Kent, dated July 6,
the other from Mr. Johnson, of Nottingham.:—
Crayford, July 7, 1842.
Dear Sir,— If the following facts will not be too late for your
purpose, please receive them. I thought the statement I sent
to Manchester a short time since, would have been produced
upon the present occasion.
I am sorry to say Crayford is in a most deplorable state, dis-
tress is increasing to a fearful degree. Fur the last two years
trade has declined here rapidly. At that time our block-
printers were all in full work at full wages, since which time
they have not been employed more than seven months, on an
average, in each year. Wages have fallen upwards of 25 per
cent., and the men have received notice of a farther reduction.
During the spring, the calico-printing has generally been brisk,
but this year, spring has passed over without any spring trade ;
last week;nrie of the two remainingfretories in Crayford, closed
its gres, by which several hundred persons are thrown
out of employment. Prior to this melancholy event,
many families in Cray ford were subsisting almost wholly upon
potatoes; tor is the distress confined to the manufacturers, as
the wages of the agricultural labourers have, in many instances,
been reduced 12 to 14 per cent. within the last four month:.
How long this state will last, God only knows, I dread the
coming winter.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours very truly,
Sidney Smith, Esq. THOMAS MIDDLE'! ON.

_ .
Sir--Considering it desirable you should be put in posses-
sion of every incident that manifests the portentous
signs of the times, which are becoming every day
more threatening and gloomy, I beg to inform you
that yesterday, and again to-day, a haggard, wretched body
of upwards of two hundred famishing individnals, have been
levying con'ributions on the shops and passers by—their im-
portunity was such that no denial would be taken, and at a
baker's shop (where I was a witness) on meeting with a denial
they declared bread they must have—and have it they ac-
coruingly did. And can it, Sir, be wondered at, when famine
and misery invade the home of the industrious artizan, that he
should seek to alleviate the sufferings of his family, by in-
vading the shops where provisions abound?
It may suit the interests of such nien as Peel and Stanley
to impiously attribute the present distress to causes beyond the
control of man, instead of the corrupt and avaricious acts of
a selfish aristocracy. But the people are awake to the truth,
and the murmur of vengeance vrtay be heard in bur streets.
Let the Government beware, they are slumbering upon
a volcano, and however they may boast security,
unless they promptly relieve the distresses of the nation,
by promoting A market for labour, not only will
the manufacturing and commercial interests be de-
stroyed, but the possessors of the broad acres, the aristocratic
worshippers of Mammon, will be eugulphed in the same deso-
lation.

Upon iandnquliry I
have been
mostbeentnlo t
told that
re
the hosiers
ia
lace merchants
earrnehant, turningcan offin
many cases only realise for their manufactured article the value
of the cotton. A gentleman who arrived here from Tewkesbury
to-day informs me that most of the manufacturers there are
stopping their frames • one hosier, to the number of from two
to three hundred, andothers the whole.
Nottingham, July 8, 1842.
Mr. BRADLEY, of Nottingham, said he could fully
corroborate what was stated in the last letter ; in fact, he
would vouch for every word that the writer uttered. The
lace trade was the one with which he (Mr. Bradley) was
connected, and he knew that now that article was being
sold for the value of the cotton. It was a light fabric, so
that they would easily suppose that the labour
must be very great in proportion to the value of
the raw material. The amount of the increase
of relief between the period of March, 1841, and March,
1842, was 50 per cent. The next quarter would show a
similar increase. The relief was 1001. a week more than
it was•this time last year. The increase of the people
in the workhouse in one week was 25. He had this from
the relieving officer. Thif was a circumstance unpre-
cedented in the history of the last twenty years.
A remarkable fact in proof •of the superiority of the
measure they proposed 'over every other measure was,
that not one man who was ever in favour of the repeal
of the Corn-laws, had drawn back ; they were
more anxious for it now than ever, and were
convinced that nothing but the repeal of those
and their concomitant laws would rescue the country
from its present distressed state. Without free trade
they believed that the people of this country were
doomed to starve, and many of them were leaving home
for übroad who were the very bones and sinews of
the community. The people at Nottingham had
laboured in this cause a long time, and they had
met with great obstructions. It had been urged upon
them to begin again at the foundation. He thought with
Mr. Cobden, that they should consider along time before
quotation from the
Times, they dissolved this League, and merged it into another.
lie shouldof
Itcaornechl,uldBe39b,ywrhei reacting
as follows :—" Wea
know the importance of a speedy
Corn-
laws.dy revision of the
We know that whetherthat revision come sooner
or later, come it inevitably must. We say that to make
it speedily is the way to make it safely ; but we
fear we can discover from the tone of a large
party in this, and in the other Houses of Parliament,
that on this question, as on several others, all wi!l be I
obstinately withheld until all must be disgracefully sur-
rendered.
We cannot for the life of us discover the wis-
dom,ghhicall
beenm acquainted
the morality, or the patriotism of suoh a course."
The following statement was read by Mr. Bradley : '
In the, own of Nottingham and a distance of five or six miles
existed in
round there must be from 8 to 10,000/. less mon,eycionncfiirrcmulead-
tion weekly now than in• 1836, which sufficiently accounts for
the threatening aspect of affairs to the shopkeepers,
ftt
ohh
reeA,
stloordmwee prenmo
time
iaotmn
weohif w; aci
ttiEihhiAehßesthe greateNsla'otan
state
distress idos tf reSHtohs
He had
i American markets,
and he knew that there was considerable difficulty in
getting payment from the Americans, because we could
not take what they could give, which was bread-corn.
Mr. LAWSON, of Manchester, stated that ho had been
ears
he
sasa workman and manufacturer
thought he could throw some
in engaged t
:he
stofeokrit
n hg iit.r atyi•e e,
a
light
upo theiviem e nsu
it required just as much time and labour to make a stock-
ing, now, as it did many years ago. Out of 100/. worth
tbinjectthe of
stocking-frame
wages. There had been
no i m lg-frame for many years ;
of hosiery sent from Hinckley to the United States,
there was a loss of 75 per cent ; and he would show them
how this was, from a shipment of his own to the
United States, the return fur which was to be made in
flour. There were as many goods shipped as purchased
216 barrels of American flour. The American duty
on the stockings cost 32 barrels of the flour, and
that duty, he would remind them, had been laid
on on account of our Corn-laws. The English Corn-
law in Liverpool took 42/ barrels ; the charges
of conveying the stockings to New York, and the com-
mission there on buying the flour and bringing it to
Liverpool, were equal to 59i barrels, and the cost of
the yarn to make the stockings was equal to 31 barrels
more. Now he would tell them what the American manu-
facturers had to pay. In his yarn 70 barrels, for profit 14
barrels, being 132 barrels of flour for the wages, instead
of 34, which was all loft to the English manufacturer.—
(Cheers.) The worst part of the matter was, that for
whatever we sold the goods in the foreign market, that
regulated the price in the home market, so that as they
raised their hostile tariff abroad prices increased here,
and wages went down. 'lt could not be alleged that
this badness of the trade was owing to stockings going ;
out of fashion, as had been urged with regard to the
Paisley manufacture, for it happened that the demand
for stockings was greatly on the increase in every country
in the world except One, and that was the country. which
for • 250 Years had. manufactured stockings for the
whole world.

Mr. JOIINSON, of Derby, said it had generally been
his good fortune to be able to speak better of the condi-

flea of Derby than other Delegates from other districts.
It was not so now, however, for he was sorry to say that
Derby was suffering a greater degree of distress than it
flad hitherto done under any circumstances whatever.
Derby contained 35,000 inhabitants, and there were,
perhaps, a greater variety of manufactures carried on at
Derby than in any other town with the same popula-
tion ; and it might have been thought that the very
fact of such a miscellaneous trade would have
kept distress away from that town. Their manufactures
consisted (If silk throwing, silk hosiery, gloves, silks,
velvets, jewellery ; they had several foundries, machine-
makers, white lead and flour manufacturers. Now he
would first call their attention to the foundries. One of
the greatest in the place paid wages to the amount of
1404 a week a short time ago ; the proprietors of that
fbundry had since added a new branch of business to
their establishment, connected with certain parts of rail-
way carriages ; and vet, with this new branch,
added to their establishment, their weekly wages
only amounted to 50/. ; being a difference of
90/. within the last few years. In the machine-maker's
trade the business had fallen off one-third. Mr. Fox,
the great and well-known machine-maker, who formerly
employed 70 men, in December last employed only 50,
and now only from 25 to 28. Two years ago, Mr. Fox
could not have taken as order to have executed in a less
period than six months • and in their present con-
dition, with only 25 hands, three-fourths of the lathes
and other raacEnes were laid up in stock;
There were in the town three or four millwrights. In
one establishment, which he selected as an example, he
found that thei•e were two years ago 28 persons em-
ployed. The owner never had occasion to discharge
a hand until very recently. In December last the number
diminished to 15, and it was now reduced to eight. In
silk-throwing the number of mills standing was about
seven or eight. Some new mills had been built during
the last four or five years, which were engaged in
throwing the .very finest Italian silks for the purpose of
making fine laces, and it was owing to this circumstance
chiefly, that the hands were continued in employment.
With respect to the article of ribbons, which was a new
and extensive trade, he knew one firm which had em-
ployed 300 Viands in that department of manufacture.
They were now every week hiring away the very best
description of hands.
The CHAIRMAN said he was sure the gentleman who
was addressing the meeting would excuse a few minutes'
interruption in order that a resolution of great impor-
tance might be proposed.
Mr. G. THOMPSON said he had been requested to
bring before the meeting a resolution of a very im-
portant nature. The Executive Committee had delibe-
rately reviewed the proceedings of the Conference up to
that time, and they had anxiously considered what was
their duty in reference to the future. Though many
remarks had been made with reference to the want of
practical measures, and to the inutility of their opera-
tions; it was the opinion of the Committee that very
great benefit had resulted from their proceedings:e--
(Hear, hear.) They had not indeed received any ex-
press ground of hope from the Prime Minister, but the
statements which had been made in their various meet-
ings could not but tell with such effect upon the country
as would compel the Government, in spite of wealth,
power, and influence, to yield to the just demands of the
starving people.—(Cheers.) It had appeared desirable,
therefore, to the Eiccutive Committee that the Com-
mittee should not break up.—(Hear, hear.) He did not
mean that those gentlemen whose duties, ministerial
or otherwise, required their presence elsewhere, should
not leave the conference ; but there were' a number of
gentlemen who had determined that they would not
nut leave the metropolis, but would remain together in
an organized form for the purpose of effecting the ()Eject
for which they had assembled. In the present crisis of
the gin stion, considering the state of the House of Com-
mons, and the motions pending in that House, con-
sidering, too, that the tone and temper of many
Members was already favourable, and might be
encouraged by the presence and sagacious counsel of men,
from all parts of the country, it appeared most important
that that body should continue its sitting, and even that
efforts should be made to increase their numbers.—
(Cheers.) He must be permitted for one moment to
congratulate the meeting upon the character of the De-
putation which had waited upon Sir Robert Peel, upon the
ability with which the interview was conducted, upon the
value and importance of the facts which were stated, and
upon the weight of the counsel which was so honestly,
so plainly, so inartificially, so pathetically, so solemnly,
tended to her Majesty's Ministers. He believed that no
deputation ever felt more the responsibility which rested
-upon them. Their hands, as far as that Deputation was
concerned, were clear of their country's disasters, their
consciences were delivered.—(fiear, hear.) It had been
intimated that, possibly, the Conference might merge its
existence in the existence of a body which should com-
prise other elements, and endeavour to obtain other ob-
jects. It was thought desirable that that should not go
forth to the public until all hope had been en-
tirely excluded by the contumacy, the hard-
heartedness, and the immovable injustice of the present
Government and the two Houses of Parliament. Under
these circumstances, it hail been resolved by the Execu-
tive Committee, to submit, for the adoption of the meet-
ing, the resolution which he held in his hand. One
object which they hoped to attain, by continuing assem-
bled, was the removal of the apathy which existed in
the metropolis ; and they had a proof last night, in a
Meeting of three thousand persons, that the people of
London could be awakened to a just sense of the suffer-
ings of their countrymen.--(Hear. hear.) He begged
respectfully to move—.
" That this Conference being deliberately of opinion,
that its continued exertions are imperatively demanded,
both by the alarming condition of the country at large,
and the position of the question in London; and being of
opinion that their efforts have already been attended
with effect, determine to remain sitting, and to use
every constitutional means for the attainment of the ob-
ject for which the Conference has been assembled."
Mr. MCORE rose to second the resolution. It had
been stated in the House of Commons last night by an
Hon. Member, whose name waseassociated with devil's
dust, that the people were not with them ; to which it
was most properly replied, that the people were only
not with them because they thought their measures
would be ineffectual—it was not because they did not.
think that the Corn-laws were a curse, but because they
were beginning to be hopeless. They had heard a letter
read that day, which showed the progress of the discon-
tent. Let them continue to call upon the Government
not to dissolve Parliament until the people had been re-
lieved. _They had had an interview with Sir Robert Peel.
Why should they not seek interviews with the other
Members of the Government, and with all those Mem-
bers of Parliament who did not concur in their object?—
(Hear, hear.) He believed that they had the power of
compelling the Government to relieve the distresses of
the people before they dissolved Parliament, and in the
hope that they would use that power, he cordially
seconded the resolution.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
The Rev. W. MassrE, of Manchester, said lie had not
as yet had the honour of addressing the Conference, and
he therefore wished to say a word or two on behalf of
those whom he represented. He proposed that the re-
solution now adopted be circulated amongst the corre-
spondents of the Conference. He was deeply impressed
with the solemn and religious responsibility now resting
on every man who was aware of the present state of the
country. He believed that every man would have
been repaid amply if they came and mingled their sym-
pathy, and banded themselves together, not for the pur-
pose of considering abstract questions of political
economy, but to consider the operation of the laws on
the condition of their follow-countrymen. He would
propose that the Executive Committee should cause
circulars to be addressed to the ministers of all religious
denominations, and grateful he should feel if the minis-
ters of the Established Church were to join them, and
the Roman Catholic clergy also. He should also ad-
vise that a circular be addressed to the Roman Catholic
Metropolitan, requesting him to call the attention of his
clergy to the present state of the country, and he was
sure that they would be the first to sympathise with the
poor. But whatever might he the denomination of the
clergy to whom the circular would be addressed, they
should be entreated to make a solemn appeal to Heaven
on ,behalf of their famishing ebuntrymen, and to pray
to God that He might be pleased to avert from our com-
mon country the fearful calamities now impending over
us, in the ruin of our commerce, in the prostration of our
morals, the destruction of our institutions, and eventually
in a convulsion of the empire. He hoped this suggestion
would be agreed to, and that the ministers would request
the prayers of their congregations in behalf of the dying,
the perishing, and the famishing people of the country—
(Hear)—and that the country itself would be saved
from anarchy and ruin. By such a course they
would make their tyrants tremble ; for the greatest
oppressors were the greatest cowards in the presence of
that great God who protects the poor—(Hear, hear,
and cheers)—and if such were the case, no matter
whether their tyrants were composed of a landed aris-
tocracy, or were personified in the Prime Minister alone,
they would tremble when they were aware that suppli-
cations were universally offered up, on behalf of the
poor, to the throne of Almighty God, who would jus-
tify His name as the friend and protector of the poor
and the oppressed.—(Cheers.) \The Rev. Gentleman
concluded by proposing the following resolution, which
Was seconded by Mr. , Alderman Kershaw, and passed
unanimously :
" That this resolution, embodied in a circular, Ice ad-
dressed to all the correspondents of the Conference."
The Rev. J. MORGAN, of - Stourbridge proposed the
next resolution, which was as follows :
" Resolved, That a circular be prepared, addressed to
ministers of religion and their congregations in the
metropolis, imploring their supplications on behalf of
the distressed people, that God in his mercy may arrest
the fearful calamities impending over the country."
Mr. JOSEPH FREARSON having seconded it, the follow-
ing circular was adopted on the motion of the Rev.
Mr. MORGAN :

" Dear Sir,—The details of suffering and distress which
have been laid before the Conference during the hi,it five
days are most fearful,

" This day the Delegates have had an interview with
the Premier, who thanked them for the information,
confessed the accounts of the distress were incontroverti-
ble, and promised to lay the statements before the, Go-
vernment. The Conference is of opinion that useless
something be immediately done to relieve this wide-
spread distress, the most deplorable consequences may
arise. The case and position of the people is desperate.
To prevent outbreak, and avoid convulsion in the coun-
try, it is necessary, if possible, that the House of Com-
muns should not be prorogued till measures are taken
to procure justice for the people.
" After the interview with Sir Robert Peel, the Dele-
gates met at Palace-yard, and passed the following re-
solutions [for which see another part of onr Report].
" Allow us, therefore, strenuously to urge you to send
up zealous Delegates to the continued sittings of the
Conference.
"There is no time to be lost. Be up and doing.
" I am, dear Sir, yours respectfully,
(Signed on behalf of the Conference),
"P. A. TAYLOR, Chairman."
Mr. O'CoaneEnn rose amidst tremendous cheering, and
said, he did not mean any unbecoming levity when he '
styled this meeting a Conservative one. He did believe
it to be conservation of the constitution of social order,
and-intended to protect the people against themselves, as
well as to protect them against their oppressors. The
State was at the present moment in peril. He had.raiaed
his warning voice in the House of Commons last even-
ing, but he had there met with little sympathy, and less
support. He would advise them to adopt his old motto,
" Hereditary bondsmen know ye not,
Who would be safe, themselves must strike the blow."
The only fact that they were all agreed on was the
enormity of the distress—the pressure of that distress--
the continuous nature of that distress, and the total want
of any proposal on the part of the Government for its
relief.—(Hear, hear.) lie understood that whey, they
had waited on Sir Robert Peel this morning, Sir Robert
had kept his mouth closed.—(Cheers.) Thgre_
would not have been so much harm in that,
if the people also had not been obliged
to keep their mouths closed for want of food.—(Hoar,
hear.) It was a sad thing that a man should take and
should keep the Government of a great nation like this
—should admit the dreadful state of the distress exist-
ing—and should offer only mere lip-service exprev
sions of sympathy—(Cheers)—and admit that he
had no project for its relief.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Let them tell him any locality in which the distress did
not prevail.—(Cries of " None, none.") Was there one
halcyon spot—one oasis in the desert?—(Cheers.) Could
they find him any locality, however small, in which dis-
tress did not prevail ?—(A voice in the room, "Down-
ing-street.") Downing-street, he was told. The gentle-
man must excuse him, but he did not believe they
were so very comfortable there.—(Cheers and laughter.)
In Downing-street they had an interest in the prosperity
of the nation, because
.the more prosperous the nation
was the greater would be their share of patronage.--
(Hear, hear.) But they had an equally tremulous
interest in the security of the State, because there
was not one of them but must feel the immi-
nent danger that they themselves must be in if
the country -was at its last hour—(Hear, hear)—and if,
instead of social improvement, they were to have the
frightful yell of revolution.—(Loud cheers.) He depre-
cated that.— (Cheers.) Ile was sure that there was not
one who heard him would not agree with him, that
there was no political change that would not be too dear
if lit were purchased at the expense of a single
drop of blood.—(Cheers.) If their counsels should he
taken—if their advice should be listened to—the country
would be safe.—(Load cheers.) But if the Premier
continued silent, and the Parliament neutral, God
help the suffering people.—(Loud cheers.) It was
now time to speak out.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He would not say so if he did not think it necessary, and
in his opinion one of the most alarming symptoms of the
present crisis was, the dumb-like stupidity of the Go-
vernment.—(Loud cheers.) In London they did not see
that distress. All those who possessed any property
flocked to London.—(Hear, hear.) They did not hear '
the cry of the mother, as she put her child to bed with-
out food. They did not see her hunger-famished
countenance, her languid step, or hear the throbbing
of her heart, as she wished her first-born dead
that it might escape from the pangs of hunger:---
(Cheers.) They saw those things ; the Government did
not. The country was in great misery ; particular state-
ments might be denied, but those were but straws upon
the torrent. The straw might be removed, but the torrent of
misery went overwhelming the whole country.— (Cheers,)
In Ireland they were in great distress ; from Belfast to
the south-west coast the people were crying for 'fi.iod.
—(Hear, hear.) But although Ireland was suffering,
there was no patriotic Englishman who had a greater
feeling for the distress of England, who was
more desirous of alleviating it, than himself.—(Cheers.)
He came there for instruction as to what he was to do.
(Cheers.) He did not care being taunted as factious.
—(Cheers.) In all his efforts in the cause of civil and re-
ligious liberty he had been called factious, rebel, traitor.
He cared not what they called him.—(Cheers.) Much
had been said of a factious opposition to the public busi-
ness in the House of Commons. What public business
could be more urgent than to provide food for the starv-
ing people ?—(Cheers.) The people were starving.
There were 1,500,000 quarters of corn, which by a reso-
lution of the House of Commons might be let out of
bond in a week, and they would not let it come out, be-
cause they were determined to keep up their rents.
If they had fermented the Anti-Corn-law agitation with
a little agitation upon the extension of the Suffrage—
(Loud cheers)—it would have been better. Did the
House of Commons represent the people of England ?
No.—(Lodd cheers.) It represented only that class
whose interests were diametrically opposed to the peo-
ple, whose interest it was to make the poor man pay a
shilling a slice for his bread, and that was protection.—
(Cheers, laughter, and cries of "Robbery.") That was
a "good word—it was robbery, direct robbery. Lord
Howick, it seemed, had proposed a 6s. fixed duty. He (Mr.
(O'Connell) was as opposed to that as he was to a sliding-
scale. A fixed duty was a fixed injustice, and he trusted
that the Conference would repudiate such a proposition.
The Reform Bill did good by abolishing the nomination
boroughs, but it did harm by bringing them back in
another shave. The representation had now reached
the corruption point. If in a constituency of 2,000, there
were 800 Whigs and 800 Tories, the other 400 would
get 10/. or 201. a-piece for their votes to them ; the
balance, as was in the case of Harwich, the last six
votes, might get 5001. each. The representation
was composed of the landlord class, and without uniting
themselves to the people they never could overcome that
class legislation. (Cheers.) However honestly,
zealously, conscientiously, 'and charitably they might
struggle, their struggle would be in vain, unless
they joined with the pesple.—(Cries of " Hear.")
He and his friend Thompson fought for the black
and he had no notion whatever, that after having ob-
tained freedom for the black man, the same thing should
be denied to the white man.—(Hear, hear.) It was too
bad.—(Cheers.) It was too afflicting. But, above all,
the calamities which followed from it were manifest.
They had the 800,000,000/. of debt pressing on the in-
dustrious portion of the country, and keeping from them
the full power of competing with foreign nations, caused
by misrule, and the people not being represented. They
must stop him if be was going too far.—(No, and loud
cheers.) He wished not to deprive any man of his
opinion. He was not there to offer the slightest offence
to those who differed with him in political opinions, but
he was there to perform a sacred and solemn duty—a
duty that he owed to those numerous constituencies,
more than one of whom had sent him to Parliament—a
duty he owed to the Scotch people, as well as a duty
he owed to thepeople of England.—(Loud cheers.) They
had heard him with much patience. They had heard
many men address them, but they had heard no man
more sincerely anxious than he was for the promotion of
the cause.—(Cheers.) They wanted two things. They
wanted to give the people food—they wanted to- give
them employment—they wanted to open the channels of
commerce for them. They did not want to drive them
to violence or outrage. They wished to preserve every
man's property. That man was: not honest who would
wilfully consent to the destruction of a farthing of an-
other man's property. It was no matter whether
it was paltry thieving or open violence. Whether it
was a single pickpocket or an entire multitude that
committed the crime ; the crime was only greater in the
one case than in the other, in consequence of its greater
facility. They were there for conscience sake, as well
as charity, to protect property, and, as he said before,
to be the conservatives of social order.--(Load
cheers.) In making this struggle it was not enough
to be roused by animated speeches addressed to them, and
many talented speeches they had heard. It was
not enough to admire the sentiments they contained.
This was not a question of talk, but of action.—(Loud
cheers.) It was not a question for the ebullition of sen-
timent, but unremitting practice. A political writer in
Ireland—who did not mean to do so—gave advice to the
people consisting of three short words, " Agitate I
Agitate ! ! Agitate ! ! !"—words of ill
omen in a
state of prosperity in the material and political
world, but words • of absolute necessity where the
country was diseased, and the public sufferings un-
bearable. They would look forward if the Conference
agitated ; they would confide in them if they agitated.
While the House of Commons held out no hope, let
the Commons Corn-law Conference be animated to
greater exertions, and they would give hope to the
peope. Let them not sink .under the criminality
arising from despair. These topics had °emir;
red to them many and many a time. Oh
the recurrence of them not prevent them from determi-
nationlva to act. The City of London itself, p ebb aP7Th 'They
not agitated upon the question as it ought to_ et e
must take means to learn the statemtheontlsdiola
ofh golden
city. He had already described
stream that was running through the land
west end of London. That Pac-.o spfrroneaidtihtes
influence over the country, and yet. the country knew
not a cessation from actual misery—from actual
starvation.—(Hear.) He hoped they would petition
the parliament ppin. There was nothing so useful,

SPORTING.
All things considered, the July Meeting has passed
off well. There was a moderate attendance of the
fraternity certainly, but there were quite as many
races as a ten years' average induced me to anticipate.
I do not desire mom than five races, and thanks to the
judge, but not to Colonel Peel, we had this number on
Tuesday. Who would have supposed that the Gal-
lant Colonel would pay forfeit in a thousand pounds
match, and live to discover that he would have won
in a trot ? I must beg leave to compliment Lord
George Bentinck for his gallant bearing on this oc-
casion ; his Lordship, I am convinced, would have
run the match, bad chance as he must have
known he had with so moderate a horse, beaten
at even weights (in the match he had to give 51bs.)
two lengths or more in the July by Murat, the horse
afraid to meet him single-handed. So wretched a
July. Stakes I never remember; the field dwindled
down to six, and the betting was limited to one, for
one only was backed, and that was Lord Exeter's.
The winner, own sister to Euclid, is about fourteen
hands two inches high, and, in consequence of the
shocking bad performance of Equation and Menalippe
in the two previous rates, was not backed for one
penny. Farintosh, said to be a roarer, was last ; so
magnificent a yearling, so perfect a formed animal is
this, that he has upwards of thirty engagements, and
is responsible for a sum of money that am
afraid even to guess at. Very few members of
the rooms were on the Heath, but in the club
waggon I observed the Duke of Portland, and, I be-
lieve, the now father of the turf, the veteran General,
General Grosvenor. I was reminded of very different
times.

The meeting of the Club took place this day. The
Club were here informed, by one of its most influen-
tial members, that several gentlemen accustomed to
attend Newmarket, and who took an interest in the
turf and its proceedings, had expressed their wish to
be permitted to pay the whole of the sum of money
awarded as damages in the late trial, "Thornton
v. the Stewards of the Jockey Club," by so doing to
express their undiminished confidence in their legiti-
mate tribunal, and to mark their sense of disgust at
the very unsportsmanlike proceedings that have lately
taken place, encouraged by a Noble Lord, a member
of the Club, in all other matters sans reproche. The
same gentleman, as I was told, informed his brethren
that, of course, the Club could listen to no such pro-
posal. The money is to be paid out of the funds of
the Club. The betting in the evening ranged over
the many great races to be decided in the ensuing
three weeks.

It was amusing on Wednesday to see Mr. Tatter-
sall put up and knock down, sans buyers and bidders.
The attempt to sell was a complete farce, and I ques-
tion if a single lot found a purchaser. The Duke of
Grafton wisely deferred the sale of his yearlings until
the October meetings. For the Garden Stakes
twenty-six horses were named—five a John Day's,
six of Kent's, six. of Edwards's, three of Lord
Exeter's, and two of the Duke of Portland's ; strange
to say, only two of the whole lot were willing to
accept,`consequently there will be no Garden Stakes,
1842.

Until after the Chesterfield Stakes I was rather un-
decided as to the quality of the two-year-old perform-
ers in the July ; I now pronounce them a very mode-
rate lot ; nevertheless, the fact that the first and
second in the race on Tuesday, carrying respectively
91bs. and 41bs. extra, were second and third in the
race on Thursday. Scott's horse, known to be dead
amiss, was first favourite ! What a stable it is—no
matter whether horses cough or have but three legs,
they are sure to be backed. The winner, Canton, is
in the Derby, having but one engagement previous—
he is in the Criterion Stakes. I never saw a prettier
race for the Chesterfield; seven out of the nine that
started ran so close together that the jockey's knees
must have suffered considerably.
The Marquis of Exeter has again been unfortunate
—second in both races—but even this is an amend-
ment on the last few years. His Lordship has a good-
looking Derby lot, and I hope they may not belie
their looks : there are not above two real good horses
training at Newmarket at this moment. For the
Town Plate, Seahorse, backed against the field, was
beat easily. In looking at public running, it is
necessary to observe particularly distance, and whether
a race be a fast or slow run race : some horses can
almost fly for a quarter of a mile ; run the same two
miles, and a hack will beat them. You may now
comprehend how the horse that beat Balink.eele,
Robert de Gorham, winner in the Rowley Mile Plate,
succumbs to Bridegroom and Ma Mie.
I shall speak of the approaching Liverpool Meeting
on Monday. JUDEX.
July 9.

A HUSBAND POISONED BY HIS WlFE.—Great
sensation has prevailed in the parish of Caerwys, and the
vicinity of the Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, in conse-
quence of the death of an aged farmer, who died from
the effects of poison, under the following circumstances :
—The deceased, whose name is Robert Roberts, 77 years
of age, held a small farm in the parish of Caerwys, at the
distance of half a mile from the town, on the Holywell-
road. About two months ago he became enamoured
with a girl of nineteen, who lived servant at an adjoin-
ing farm; he proposed marriage to her ; and she, seeifig
that he had a comfortable home, and that he was pos-
sessed of some property, consented, and they were sub-
sequently married. Since that time it appears they have
lived unhappily. On Friday, the 10th ult., the prisoner
went to Holywell, and purchased there some arsenic, and
on the following Sunday administered the same to her
husband in some mashed potatoes. He subsequently
complained of great sickness, and excruciating pain of
the chest and bowels ; he walked out of the house,
leaned over the pig-stye wall, and vomited ; a sow that
had lately littered ate up the contents, and died almost
instantly. The deceased lingered till five o'clock on
Monday morning, when he expired. An inquest was
held on the body on Tuesday, when the Jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the prisoner, Hannah
Evans. She was apprehended on the 17th, and com-
mitted to Flint Gaol on the charge of administering
poison to her husband Robert Robarts, with intent to
murder him. Since her committal she admits the deed,
and that she was instigated by a young man, the son of
a late mistress, who had some time promised marriage to
her, and with whom she had been very intimate, both
previous to and after her marriage to the deceased.—
..Shrewsbury Chronicle.
SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S CAN'AL.—An inquest
was held on Thursday at the City of Paris, Bonner's-fields, Beth-
nal-green, before Mr. Baker, on the body of John Smith,
aged 48, a brickmaker. Anp Smith said that the deceased
was ber husband. He bad been drinking all day on Saturday
last, and at ten o'clock at night when he returned home he was
much excited by liquor. He brought in with him a pint of
beer, and while witness went up stairs to give some of it to her
son, he left the room. Witness did not see him spill
until Wednesday last, when his body was found in the
Regent's Canal. A few days previous witness heard bin
say that those who were out of the world were best
off, but he did net even hint at destroying himself.
Witness thought that immediately after leaving the room, lie
had climbed over the garden wail, and jumped into the canal.
Robert Russell said he heard the deceased on Monday week
last sa
wouldy, whilst leaning
to over the bridge at Old Ford, that that
_
d drown himself.—Verdict, —Arerlet, " Found
drowned."
INCENDIARISM.—On Saturday the police received
eta_ eprs t_on aah Mart-
ing, Sussex, the seat of Si
information that on the 24th ult. some evilu iadisposed.rk nueg, hart.
person, or
the
H
persons, wilfully set fire to e_
ry sower
F ath
One hundred pounds reward has been offered for such informs-
ar
tion as may lead 1 to the apprehension and conviction of the
offender or offenders, and any one concerned in the said offence
will be entitled to the reward in question on impeaching his
accomplice or accomplices, and every means used for obtainin
for him her Majesty s pardon. g
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.--A fire broke out vc,,terd v
morning, at a quarter before two in the f
mann actury of Mr.
Jared Town, chocolate and chicory maker,
Spitalfields, and a considerable quantity of t George-street,_
though speedy assistance was rendered. lx stock
it
lieved, is uninsured. Another
fire also broke Town,
is be-
out shortly after
three o'clock this morning in White h
e apel, near the church,
in the cellar of a sugar-house but •
, did not extend beyond the
burning of a quantity of straw.
The butchers at Eye
and Diss have advanced the
price of meat ld. per lb.
hi 3 does not quite agree with Sir
Robert Peel's statement that
the gentlemen to pay :the reduction on meat was to ena-
bleproperty-tax, nor with the gene-
ral state of the meat markets.—Buiy Post.
e
A VETERAN LABOURER.—There is in the parish of
Broadelist, an old man, mined John Lee, in the 86th year of
his age, who has helped to cut Wish Meadow, belonging to Si
T. D. Aeland, Bart., 72 years successively, and is am a
hale man mizaidering his age....Devisee Gazette.