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No. 16,436.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The evidences of a systematic organisa-
tion of the Chartists, kept up for the purpose of aid-
ing and assisting the Tories in their attempts to dis-
turb public meetings, and to annoy Liberal candidates
and voters at elections, have been too abundant and
conclusive to admit of successful resistance, or even
of reasonable doubt. We have frequently taken oc-
casion to refer to the subject, as a striking illus-
tration of the destitution of principle on the
part of the Tories, and of the besotted igno-
rance and desperate infatuation of the Chartists,
in allowing themselves to be made the tools of those
who engaged them to perform the " brickbat-and-
bludgeon ' part of their opposition to the Whigs, in
Parliamentary election contests, and for raising the in-
cessant noise, uproar, and other species of annoyance,
by which they have interrupted, and, in many
places, dispersed meetings of the Liberal
party called to petition Parliament against the
Corn-laws, or any other grievance affecting the
general interests of the community. Those who
recollect the detachments of Chartists from Carlisle,
who were notoriously billetted at public houses en-
gaged by the Tory Committee at the Cockermouth
Election ; the services rendered by those worthies at
the hustings, in the way of hurling stones and wield-
ing bludgeons, to the personal injury of many of the
electors in Mr.i Horsman's interest ; and the same
sort of active support given to the Tory party at
Nottingham, Sunderland, Leicester, Norwich,
Southampton, and many other strongly con-
tested elections these, with the occasional
disclosures of the delicate business transactions
between the aristocratic Tories and those whom they
are wont to contemptuously designate the "swinish
multitude" and the " unwashed artizans," have left
no room for doubt as to the employment of the Char-
tists by the Tories in such services. Awkward alter-
cations between the blinded dupes and the more
crafty agents, respecting the distribution of the funds
entrusted to their hands as the wages of violence,
have terminated in open rupture : thus the public
has been made acquainted with matters which were
never meant to be known beyond the walls of the com-
mittee-rooms. It remained, however, for the Chartist
worthies of Leicester to supply the most ample and
almost astounding evidence against their Tory subor-
ners and accomplices. The Leicester Chartists have
split among themselves. A dispute has arisen respect-
ing the monies received by certain of their leaders
from the Leicester and Nottingham Tories, for the
various services they were employed to render to the
Tory party in the borough and county elections ; and
a meeting of the fraternity has been held for the pur-
pose of hearing the criminations and recriminations
of the accusers and accused.
STANDARD.—The principle of Sir Robert Peel's
proposition for a modification of the Corn-laws has
been approved of in the House of Commons by a
triumphant majority—by a majority greater than has
for nine years divided on any disputed ques-
tion. This is well known to every being in
the United Kingdom. Nevertheless a second de-
bate has been got up on the same disputed
question; it has already consumed four days, was
again adj ourned last night, and may last one
cannot guess how many days more ; for as the debate
was wholly useless at its commencement for any prac-
tical purpose, the customary elements of calculation,
an estimate of the sense of decency, and of what is due
to the public service, here must wholly fail one. An
uumeaning, and necessarily unprofitable discussion,
may be continued indefinitely, as it must have begun
in defiance of all considerations of decency, or of
care for the public interests; such a debate threatens
to be without end in every sense of the phrase. The
defence of such directly unprofitable discussions,
sometimes advanced, namely, that though hopeless of
convincing the Parliament, they may assist in in-
structing the public, cannot be employed by those
who originate and protract, in such a wearisome
manner, the debate over which the House of Com-
mons is now dozing. The Corn-laws have been
thirty years under discussion. For the last year
the quiet of the country has been disturbed by hired
lecturers, sent to howl in every direction • and with
the effect, we may remark by the way, Of reducing
ihe number of Anti-Corn-law petitioners, from
1,300,000, to less than a third of the number, a
fact noted by Mr. Benett last night. What more,
then, can the public learn upon the subject from
Mr. Villiers, Messrs. O'Connell, Mr. Patrick
Stewart, Dr. Bowrilig, and Mr. Milner Gibson ?
Why, there is no one accustomed to attend to such
matters—and none others will read the reported
debates—who could not write off-hand the speech
of each of these persons, faithfully presenting all its
figures, and all its arguments, and all else—except-
ing only the false English and bad grammar. Or will
the people be made wiser by Lord Duncan's lavish
drafts upon " his satchel of school books ?" If it is
suggested that the Conservatives, who squander truth
and good sense in reply to the worn out common-
place fallacies of the Leaguers, are equally culpable as
respects the prolongation of this tedious waste of the
public time, the answer to such complaint is, first,
that they did not begin the nuisance; secondly, that
they are by no means as numerous or prolix as the
parties to whom they are compelled to reply ; for,
thirdly, falsehood must be met by truth as often as
falsehood is put forward, lest falsehood, as unanswer-
able, pass upon the thoughtless for truth.
COURIER..—The "Moderate and Constitutional"
party in the Church of Scotland have submitted a
" memorial to her Majesty's Government," of which
a copy has reached us. We are peculiarly struck—
as we have no doubt her Majesty's Ministers
will be—with the contrast which this most im-
portant document displays with the " statement"
and " memorials" presented by the Non-Intrusion
party in the Kirk, so far as plain simplicity of
purpose and straightforward marching towards thp'
purpose are concerned. There is no mystificat;-0
this " memorial." It avowedly lays down ti n
in
. '
ple, that when a question of jurisdiction iep-rinc -
the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts arises between
'of Scotland, it be-
cation between the two
longs to the former to decide i" The line of clemar-
Kirk is most c,l:
" moznori:4l,,e parties.- now dividing the
early marked out, and "no
mistake can ey.s.t.
, " While the majority," says this
"gave to both the Civil and Ecclesiasti-
cal QOurts, each for themselves, the power of fixing what
'is Civil and what is Ecclesiastical, the minority ascribe
to the Supreme Civil Courts alone power to determine
all questions of competing jurisdiction." This con-
cession, according to the dominant faction in the
Kirk, is a surrender of the " spiritual independence"
of the Church—" high treason," according to some of
the more fiery spirits, "against her great and Divine
head!" It now remains with Sir Robert Peel to
adopt or reject the principle, as laid down by the ma-
jority of the Assembly calling itself " The Church.'

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MEETING AT WOLVERHAMPTON
RE-UNION OF THE PEOPLE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, TUESDAY.—A most important meeting
was held here yesterday, first at the Public Office, and then
by adjournment at St. James's-square. The arrival of the
majority of 123 in favour of Peel's sliding scale decided the
people at once as to their future course, and the result has
been, that from this town, the centre of a most important
district, one universal shout for an extension of the Suffrage
has gone forth, followed by a declaration of want of confi-
dence in Peel and his colleagues. On Saturday the walls of
the town were covered by violent. placards, and a large body
of Chartists came in from 12iIston and other places, in expecta-
tion of a reconciliation with their employers, and in this they
were not disappointed. They were met by the most respect.
able men in the town in a spirit of- conciliation, and the result
was, that both parties shook hands, and vowed the removal
from power of the man whom all shades of Reformers denounce
as utterly unworthy to fill the office of Prime Minister. At
eleven o'clock, the appointed hour, the Public Office was
crowded, arid the greatest interest seemed to be felt by all pre.
sent. A few minutes before the time a working man called
out for the chair to be taken by a working man, upon which
JOSEPH WALKER, Esq. then moved Mr. Jeremiah Wynn to
the chair; the Rev. W. STOKES seconded the motion; which
was put and carried unanimously:
The building new became so intolerable from the pressure,
that the immense concourse moved to St. James's-square,
where a temporary hustings was prepared, and around which
several thousands took their stand, amidst torrents of rain, with
as much composure as if it was a midsummer day.
The CHAIRMAN read the requisition calling the meeting,
signed by upwards of 300 gentlemen of the town. He declared
most positively he had never known the people in such an awful
condition. He had visited one district with the clergyman and
others, in order to find out the most deserving objects of charity,
and he never beheld such scenes as he had witnessed. They
met one lad who had been without food for two days ; another
person had only had a few potatoes to keep body and soul toge-
ther • and they found another boy who was actually picking up
the Offal in the street to support nature.—(Shame, shame !)
The first day they relieved 300, the second day 600 most
wretched objects. They found in that one district 700 indi-
viduals who begged as if they were begging for their life, to be
permitted to receive the small allowance of bread and potatoes
which their charitable friends enabled them to give. The time
had now arrived for the people to look to themselves.
JOSEPH WALKER, Esq., then moved the following resolu-
tion That the distress under which the people of this town
and
' ‘
di-st‘rict are now, and have been for so long suffering, are
se
those laws which restrict the importation of food—
thateau
tdhebyMinisterial proposal for the amendment of these laws
adds insult to injury by its mockery of relief—that the certainty
of such amendment being carried by the majority of the Mem-
bers of the present House of Commons, is proof' of the neces-
sity of putting au end to these and other evils of class legisla-
tion, by such extension of the franchise as shall secure to all
ranks of the people that full and free representation as defined
in the People's Charter,' to which, on the principles of the
Constitution, they are entitled."
The reading of the resolution was received with the most
tremendous cheering, after which
Mr. WALKER addressed the meeting '‘at great length and
ability upon the well-known injurious effects of the Corn-laws,
and the gross insult offered to the country by the sliding jug-
glery of the Tamworth doctor,

- Mr. Moncs seconded the resolution, and expressed his firm
conviction that they would now roll up such a moral force in
the country as would remove Peel in a few weeks. They
would allow him six weeks to make up his account and be off.—
( Cheers.) They had beeen told that it was the naughty
Chartists who had put Peel into power. Very well—be it so;
and then what followed ? Why, that the naughty Chartists,
with the aid of the middle classes, would hurl him out again.—
(Cheers.) The Chartists did not like Peel, and from that
day they would prove it.—( Renewed cheers.) They had now
raised the standard of the suffrage, and around it they would
rally such a combinatio ,as would drive Peel and his colleagues
from power ; upon that, ' hey were decided.—( Hear. )
The resolution was put and carried, with great cheering.
HENRY WALKER, Esq., moved the second resolution. The
aristocracy had seen millions of hunian beings reduced to starva-
tion by bad laws; but they would not alter them. It was in
vain, therefore, to petition them again. They had closed their
hearts against the poor, and they must go to the Queen. He
moved the udoption of a petition to the Queen, with the addi-
tion of a paragraph in favour of the Suffrage.
Mr. KETTELL seconded the adoption of the petition. After
which another petition to her Majesty, to dismiss her present
Ministers and grant an extension of the Suffrage, was agreed to
amidst the most tremendous cheering. After which the meet-
ing broke up.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
BOLTON, TUESDAY.—We had a glorious meeting last night.
It was held in the Temperance-hall, and there coul t not be less
than three thousand people crammed within its walls, while suc-
cessive crowds were obliged to retire, unable to obtain admission.
During the evening a slight attempt was made to produce discord,
but it only served to bring out in relief, the overwhelming pre-
ponderance of good sense and good feeling by which it was im-
mediately crushed. The parties had come together, making
the mutual confession that the one could do nothing without the
other, and determined, if possible, to agree on a common ground
of action. An excellent beginning thus has been made.
At seven o'clock, the Mayor, T. Cullen, Esq., appeared in
the hall, attended by J. Winder, Esq., town-clerk. On as-
cending the platform, he was received with loud cheers ; he
was immediately followed by the Rev. W. Jones, Independent
minister, Rev. W. Fraser, Baptist minister, C. J. Darbishire,
Esq., county and borough magistrate, E. Ashworth. Esq., J.
Dean, Esq., President of the Bolton Anti- Corn-law Association,
H. Hollins, Esq. vice-president of the Bolton Anti-Corn. law
association,Mayor was called to the chair, and some excellent
speeches
great press of matter prevents us from
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butthe
The Esq., president, ke,
inserting them. The resolutions agreed to, denounced the
Corn-Law scheme of sir Robert Peel and the Tory Govern..
ment, and pledged the meeting to toe every endeavour to ob-
tain Vote by Ballot, and Extension of the .111fraget,

is of the mpst universal
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kind. The painter. the man of fashion, the litterateur, the fine
lady, the fool, and the philosopher, are 80 side by side in the most
agreeable manner; each drawn fairly withop; 3
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Particle in malice,
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and Some acquaint-
ance with so agreeable a circle. That extraordinary man, John.
son, is pawl led far better than he is by Boswell or any other of his
biographers, because more pleasantly ; for we acknowledge we
have hitherto, in spite Of their unmeasured eulogiums, too gene-
rally formed our ideas of Min, from their facts rather than their
and had the barbarity to set
words, down the learned poctor as
little better than a brute. Here, however, our opinions have un-
dergone a great [thane, and in the light and shade of Madame
D'Arblay,s ane edotical and conversational sketches of the man, we
can recognise much to love in nature, as well as tA
admire in intel-
lect.— Court Journal.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
Tstsday a mesting of the inhabitants of the Western ha'f
of :he Hundred of Brixton was held at the Spread Eagle
Tavern, Wandsworth, to take into consideration the propriety
of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn-laws, and for
an extension of the suffrage. The meeting was very nume•
rously attended. Prout, Esq., was called to the chair.
The Cirare MAN said the subject on which they had met
was of a two-fold character, namely, the bread tax and the
franchise.—( Hear, hear.) The period had arrived when the
working man could now understand both questions.-- (Hear,
hear.) With respect to the bread tax, it was clearly shown
that for every shilling expended by the working man for
bread, fourpenee or tivepenee went back to the Government in
the shape of taxation.—( Hear.) The great object of the meet-
ing then was to see what steps should be taken to get rid of the
bread tax.—( Hear.) It was calculated that during 1835,
16,000,000 guar ers of corn had been cor.strmed in this coun-
try, and the result was, that there was a difference in the price
of bread of 25,000,000/. Of this sum the working man paid
a moiety, and the fact was, that the working classes paid
12.000,0001. of this difference.—( Hear, hear.) It was
said that the amount of wages depended on the price of
food ; this, however, was a fallacy, and if they wanted any
proof on this point, let them look to the United States,
where wages were extremely high, and where the price
of food was extremely low. The truth was, the amount of
wages depended on the amount of 'work to be done, and the
number of labourers that were ready to perform that work.—
( Hear, hear.) Anything that was calculated to interfere with
the employment of capital was prejudicial to the interests of
the community, and the effect of the Corn-laws was to in-
terfere with the profitable employment of capital. The result
was that the wages "of of the labourer were abridged, and his
comforts destroyed.—tifear, h'ear.) The Chairman then ad-
verted to the price of bread in Paris and in London, and
showea that while tenpenee was paid for a quartern loaf in
London it could be had for sixpence in Paris.—( Hear, hear. )
Wily should not the working man be able to get his loaf as
cheap here as at Paris?—( Hear, hear.) In connection with
this question there was also that of the extension of the Suf-
frage. This was an important consideration when they found
that there was a majority of 123 landowners, who said that
the people of this country should be unnecessarily taxed to
support their luxury.--( Hear, hear.) The taxation of this
country—that is, the taxes iat pressed on the industrious
classes—was immense, and the people ought to call for a
diminution of the Excise and Customs duties to the extent of
20,000,000/.--( Hear, hear.) He would also suggest that a
heavier land-tax ought to be imposed, for then property that
ought justly to contribute to the wants of the State would be
made to bear its fair proportion in respect to those wants.—
( Hear.) He now came to the question of the suffrage, and
here he must say that they never could expect to have justice
done to them until they had a further reform of the House of
Commons.—( Loud cheers.) They ought not to look at this
or that particular course of reformation—they ought to go at
once to the root of the evil, and apply for Universal Suffrage
and Vote by Ballot.—( Cheers.) Let them not quarrel about
their obtaining all the points adverted to in the Charter; let
them get what good they could. He was in heart and feeling
a Chartist; but he could not expect to obtain everything that
the Charter demanded for 30 or 40 years.—( Hear.) Still
they might by firm and energetic action obtain many reforms ;
and if they succeeded in obtaining some of the positions called
for by the Charter, they would do much good.—( Hear.) He
called upon them to act with energy and decision, but above all
things to be united. If they were so, they might depend upon
it they must succeed —( Applause. )
Dr. LONGSTAFF then came forward to move the first re-
solution, and in doing so observed, that about twelve months
since they met in that room on this very question, and he did
not then think that they would again have to denounce the sliding
scale, for he thought that that principle would have been de-
stroyed for ever.—( Hear.) It seemed, however, that he was
mistaken, for Dr. Peel, who refused to say what he would do
until he had received his tee—(A laugh)—had, since his re-
turn to power, prescribed for his patients the very same dose
that they had been swallowing for years.—( Hear, and a laugh. )
It was true that the colour of the mixture had been changed
from red to brown—( A laugh)—but its essential attributes
were the same. What the people wanted was good bread pills—(A
laugh)—and he trusted that they would not cease importuning
the Doctor until they got what they wanted to improve their
health, and strength, and their constitution.__( Hear.) The
question was not now whether they shou:d have a fixed duty
or a sliding scale, but whether they should have unsaxed
bread ?—( Hear.) The simple question was this—were the bulk
of the people to be taxed for the mere sake of keeping the land-
owners in their present station and power?—(Hear, hear.)
He concurred that the fair way of settling this question was by
taxing property, for that was the only legitimate source from
which taxation could be derived. -- ( Hear.) Why should the
man who only held five acres of land be taxed equal to the
holder of one hundred acres ?—( Hear.) But the reason why
property was not fairly taxed was, because their legislators were
the owners of the land; and this brought him to the consi-
deration of the question of the franchise, without an extension
of which, so as to include Universal Suffrage, it would be impos-
sible that the wants and wishes of the people could be fairly re-
presented in the Commons' House of Parliament. The speaker
then proposed the first resolution, which was to the effect, that
the measure lately proposed to Parliament in reference to an
alteration of the Corn• laws, was not calculated to alleviate the
sufferings of the working classes, &c.
Mr. Rovr seconded the resolution, which was unanimously
agreed to.

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Mildred's Court, Poultry, for the purpose of receiving,
the Report of the Directors, and a statement of the
accounts from the Secretary. The meeting was called
at twelve for one o'clock, but owing to so small a number
of Shareholders being present, the business of the meet-
ing did not commence till half-past one o'clock.
JAMES ESDAILE, Esq. took the Chair, and in doing- so
said they were aware that that was the half-yearly Meet-
ing of the Proprietors, and the Directors had drawn up
a Report, in which they endeavaured to show the exact
position of the Company at the present moment, toge-
ther with a statement of the financial affairs, which he
trusted would be found satisfactory to the body of the
Proprietors. He would only further observe that the
Court of Directors were desirous of giving the fullest
information respecting the Company in their power, and
they would be most happy to answer any questions to
the best of their ability. In the usual course of business
he would call on the Secretary to read the Report.
The SECRETARY then read the Report of the Directors,
which was very long, and which commenced by regret-
ing, that at the last general meeting, a sufficient number
of Proprietors had not assembled to constitute a meeting.
It then went on to state that the Directors were desirous
of preventing the Shareholders from transferring their
shares to incompetent persons, and they had therefore
issued an immediate call upon the shares so that the
burden might fall on all alike ; they regretted to
state, however, that 260 shares had been transferred
before it was in their power to prevent it.
With respect to the estimated revenue to be
derived from the anticipated traffic, the Directors were
aware that the aggregate formed a sum equal in amount
to the entire cost of constructing the railway, or in other
words, the annual gross receipts to be derived from the
railway, would equal the capital, to be expended in form-
ing it, a statement in itself so startling and so unusual,
that the Directors were aware it required some
knowledge of the facts and details to be assured
of its accuracy, but which, when inquired into,
would be borne entirely out, and the Directors
believed that the construction of a tide-dock, giving
such facility and convenience, would bring to it a traffic
equal to the ability of the Railway to accommodate ;
and they grounded this belief on the large population of
the metropolis and its environs, on the large moving
population on the river, on the great advantages their
Dock and Railway would give, and also, and very much
in consequence of the low fares, which, it would be ob-
served, they had named for the conveyance of both pas-
sengers and goods, the . whole distance of 27 miles, from
Thames Haven to London; 'and they would draw at-
tention to the fact, that itt Belgium in ten months
of 1838, from the very low fares, upwards of
2,000,000 persons travelled on the railways, the whole
population of the kingdom not exceeding 4,000,000.
The Report concluded by stating that Messrs. Ernest
Vaux, James Esdaile, and Richard Baker Wingfield
were to go out of the direction by rotation, but, being
eligible, offered themselves for re-election.
The SECRETARY then read a statement of the accounts,
from which it appeared that the cash in hand amounted
to 1,8461. 10s. sd.
The Report was received, and adopted.
The three Directors were then re-elected.
Sir - STEPHENS wished to ask the Secretary
if any reference had been made at the Meeting
of the Proprietors of the Eastern Counties Railway
on Tuesday to this Company, and whether they intended
to bring the subject before the Board of Directors of the
Eastern Counties Railway ?
The SECRETARY said the subject had not been men-
tioned on Tuesday, but that the Eastern Counties Railway
took the most lively interest in the affairs of the Thames
Haven Company ; and the subject, he felt assured, would
re2eive their early consideration. The Secretary then
moved a resolution, to the effect that those Shareholders,
wishing to leave the Company, should transfer their
shares to the office, first paying up the calls upon them,
which resolution was carried:
A resolution was then passed, that all the forfeited
shares sold from this date should be sold at 2/. 10s. less
than the original cost, that sum having been paid upon
them by the original holders.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
and the Meeting separated.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
We are sorry to say that we cannot report the slightest
improvement in business this week. On the c ntrary,
although the production both of goods and yarn has been
very greatly diminished, it still exceeds the demand,
even at the wretched prices now prevalent. Many
articles have been sold this week at lower prices than
were ever before known ; and all this, we re-
gret to add, is without the slightest prospect of
amendment from any quarter, until a decline in the
price of food shall enable the working classes of this
country to consume the usual amount of manufactured
commodities. We. believe, indeed, that some little

'Mr. AITKEN then proceeded to propose the second resolution,
and said that the village of Wandsworth was a proof of the in-
jurious tendency of the Corn-laws. In 1822 that village was
in a flourishing state from its manufactures, but now it had
scarcely any. In 1822 there were 13,000 persons employed in
the manufacture of printed calicoes in Wandsworth, and 3,0001.
a-week were paid to them. What was the state of the case
now ? Why the establishments were all closed, and the work-
men were all gone.—( Hear, hear.) He contended that these
distressing results arose from the tax upon food. He was a
strenuous advocate for an extension ef the suffrage. He begged
to conclude by proposing the following resolution :
is of opinion that no measure short
of‘tliTeheantavrehialebotlhiitsionitineoeftnhge Corn and Provision-laws can ef-
fectually relieve the country from its present difficulties, yet
considers it useless to petition the House of Commons on the
subject, as it has no hope of obtaining justice from Parliament
as it is at present constituted ; and in confoimity with these
views this meeting pledges itself to commence the most active
and energetic constitutional agitation to effect the total and
immediate repeal of all taxes on food, and for the complete and
thorough reformation of the Commons' House of Parliament."
The resolution was agreed to.
It was subsequently resolved, that the resolutions should be
published in the Morning Advertiser, the Morning Chronicle.
the Times, and The Sun newspapers.
The meeting, which was most unanimous throughout, then
separated.

GREAT OUT-DOOR-MEETING IN
MANCHESTER.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.--011 C of the largest out-door as.
semblages held in Manchester within the last ten years, took
place yesterday evening, in Stevenson's-square. It was the
adjourned meeting from that held in the same place on Tuesday
last, and was connected with the Town-hall meeting in the
morning of the same day. The time fixed for commencing
the proceedings was six o clock, and it was at one time con-
templated to illuminate the meeting by torches ; but that plan
was rendered unnecessary by the great orb of night shining
brilliantly on the assemblage. The square, which is of great
extent, was crowded ere the opening of the meeting., and in an
hour afterwards not fewer than seven thousand men were
present, all decent and orderly in their behaviour, and appear-
ing deeply impressed with the moral power that they were
called upon to exercise.
JOHN BROOKS, Esq. (late Boroughreeve of Manchester),
was called to the chair, who pointed out the evils which Tory
policy would inflict on the country.
Counsellor Mooue exhorted the people to exert the moral
power they possessed in effectuating their own political salvation.
Mr. PRENTICE (of the Manchester Times) followed, and
recommended the people to work in unity for eitension of the
Suffrage, and the repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. G. THOMPSON next spoke for nearly an hour, and was
listened to with deep attention. He adverted to the majority
which Sir Robert Peel had obtained, and remarked that his
triumph would be short-lived. The people, the middle and the
lower classes, were now becoming united, and when that union
was effected, the power of Toryism and aristocracy would ter-
minate. For himself, he advocated the People's Charter,
which was a righteous instrument, and would, did he possess
the power, call that moment into political existence every man
whom he saw before him. He had never used his vote yet, because
he had never yet seen the man on whom be could rely. He
wished it to go forth, that henceforward the power and influence
of the Whigs were gone. They had truckled to their enemies
when in power, and now the people had justly deserted them.
Neither in Manchester, at the Town-hall, nor in the House of
Commons, would the Whigs have power. As a political party
they were extinct. He called upon the people to be united and
peaceable, and then the time of their deliverance was at hand.
in He exhorted them to be just, to fear not, and to look only to
the aristocracy for holding
nth.
vrilay'namely,:
RICHARD GARDNER, Esq., followed. He extolled the
working classes, whom he considered a much wiser people than
those who assumed to themselves all thel wisdom and talent,
defec-
tive and corrupt representation ; -----, breeches pocket was the
first monitor, and then came the belly, which was worse than
They had first found out where thteheei
the power, as the middle and humbler classes for allowing them
all. He did not SO much blame
to hold it so long—for elevating there ... into a sort of gods,
although they were men with like passionsod andr frailties to those
of ourselves. No real or permanent g.s.
_o the country /mild
he obtained till the Charter was estabilbed,
of Mr. Thomas Pott )
TIfOMAS POIIRR, Esq., (son er , con.
Universal Suffra
tended for the Charter, for - get 49 the only
means to obtain good government. A
ti:.nillion and a half had
been spent by the Tories at thelast
k f tehleec lon
9 all whieh.qmey
had been wrung from the_poe pockets o t 1
tpeople that en eiltga,rehy
might be maintained. He ondr4 u."O 14 intleting on the
power they possessed, Corn-law
Me. Alp ita4v (the able Anti- lecturer) addressed
the meeting, when there were loud shouts of " Leach, Leach."
Mr. LEACH (the well-known Chartist) w..
- received with
deafening cheers. He congratulated heartily the meeting on
the rapid strides freedom was inaking•ad Thanks to Sir R. Peel,
the principles of lihsrty were quici_ca yancing. The English
working man at one time possessed chest of drawers, a clock,
a bed, and other decent furniture, but now he had but a
pallet of straw. The condition of. the country was fright-
ful ; workmen were driven from their stated e i
Inpnoyment, and
hundreds upon hundreds of cUttar.l Vi'N'e Vow empty in all
parts of thn tow), '4,
ariitocretle portion of the coun-
try had so ground down the people., that
,they were almost
reduced to helplessness. lie rejoiced on the prospect of
union with the middle classes. art w willingly forget
all past differences, and unite heart and hand
n with the
gentlemen around him, as he
had no.rtiasou to suspect their
faith and honesty. The deliverance of their country from the
jaws of monopoly in every shapes was what they all then aimed
at. lie wished to see perfect union prevail. He was glad to
hear the Charter so highly extolled ; it was the only means of
restoring liberty and justice to the people. He was sure that
the meeting would delight in the proceedings
him' ,f and
evening ;
and he requested that all who, withaftfTV4be and the frtends
about sin}, ip the ptinciplei which. . 1 been submitted to their
consideiation—as the means of political salvation to the country
—would signify the same by holding up their hands.—(Here
the meeting responded to the call by holding up their hands,
and following the act by loud and enthusiastic citeeec )
Thanks were voted to the Cliairillan, whet; the meeting sepa-
rated in a few minutes, iti the same order as they
i canto together.

improvement has been experienced in some branches
of the country trade ; but it remains generally in a
state of depression perfectly unexampled at this period
of the year.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKEL, MONDAY, FEB. 21.
The market to-day has been quite as dull as that of the
preceding Monday. Those who have been obliged to
sell, have obtained extremely low prices for their goods.
In the wool market there has been very little doing ;
but prices remain firm.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, FEB. 22.—This was cer-
tainly the most discouraging market-day ever known in
this town, bad as they have been of late. Buyers were
few and spiritless, and the purchases few even at ruinous
prices. In the warehouses„perhaps, business is not quite
so wretched ; but cven.there the symptoms are those of
stagnation and ruin. As to prices, they are nominal and
accidental; on the average ruinous to the manufacturers.

MONEY MARKET Liul CITY NEWS.
PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TESTERDAY.
TIMES. —The premium on gold at Paris is 7 per which
at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25 324, and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold
is 0.90 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4304 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101/d. per
ounce, for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 74, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 94, it
follows that gold is 0.69 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 1084
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 1.33 per cent, against England. But the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the abovenamed difference.

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT
HOUNSLOW.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
On Tuesday, at 12 o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a jury
of inhabitants of the town of Hounslow, assembled in a room at
the offices attached to the extensive powder mills belonging to
Messrs. C. B. Curtis and Harvey, situate on Hounslow-heath,
to investigate the circumstances attending the deaths of Henry
Finch, aged 45 ; William Worlman, aged 35 ; and Alfred
Malthouse, aged 27 ; three of the tive unfortunate persons who
were blown up by an explosion at one of the above mills on the
morning of Saturday last. The evidence, given by James
Mathewson, engineer, William Major, John Hannis, and John
Johnson, workmen in the employ of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey,
at the mill, went to show that the mill in which the explosion
took place, was situate in that part of the works nearest the
river Colne, and was what is termed a corning mill, in which
the two deceased, Finch and Worlman, worked. The de-
ceased Malthouse, and the two other men injured, Peter
Thomas and William Colvin, worked in an adjoining place.
The men went to their work as usual in the mill, on Saturday
morning, and shortly after ten o'clock the whole of the work-
men were alarmed at an explosion resembling an earthquake.
On running out, the corning-mill was discovered to have been
blown to atoms, and the bodies of Finch and Worlman were
found quite lifeless, and Malthouse, Colvin and Thomas not
far from the same spot, also apparently dead. Mr. Frogley,
surgeon, of Hounslow, had a messenger despatched for him,
and he promptly attended, and rendered assistance to the three
survivors. Malthouse, however, died of his injuries on Sunday.
It further appeared that the employment of the deceased men
in the mill, was of that nature which was not likelto produce
sparks, or cause thereby ignition. At the time of the explosion,
there was about 1,200 or 1,300 Ib3. of powder in the mill.
The coroner and jury strictly interrogated the witnesses, as to
whether there had been on any previous occasion, any neglect
on the part of the deceased men, but all that could be elicited

was, that the greatest care and precaution was invariably taken.
No one could account for the occurrence, bnt it is generally
imagined that a spark might have been produced from the
friction of the machinery used in corning the powder, and thus
ignited it. After some discussion. the jury returned a verdict,
" that the deceased persons came by their deaths from the acci-
dental explosion of a powder mill belonging to Messrs. Curtls
and Harvey." Colvin and Thorns, still lie in a bad state, but
hopes are entertained of their ultimate recovery.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANC'EI?Y, Feb. 23.

PEYTON V. lit GMES.
The SOLICITOtt•GEYER&L replied to-day ill this case at great
length, and
The LORD CHANCELLOR reserved his judgment.

ROLLS' COURT, Feb. 23.

WOMAN V. ANDREWS.

Lord LLNGDALE gave judgment this morning in this case, the
facts of which have already appeared in The Sun To the bill
filed by the plaintiff in the cause, the defendants had set
up a plea to the effect, that the pLintiff haring become
bankrupt and obtained his certificate, had a second time
become bankrupt, and had not, as they were informed and believed,
paid 15s. in the pound ; and therefore that he was not in a position
entitling hint to make any claim agail: st the defendants, without
making his assignees parties to the suit, which he had not done.
It had been contended for the plaintiff that the words " they were
informed and believed" in the plea were not sufficient. His Lord.
was of opinion that these words were sufficient, and gave the parties
leave to amend their bill.
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER W.' ELY, V. BLISS.

The plaintiff's in this cause had tiled a bill for the recovery of the
tithes of a certain tract of land to which they claimed to be entitled.
The defendants set up the plea of the statute of limitation, and the
present question was whether that statute, namely, the 3el and 4th
of Wm. IV., applied to the case.
Mr. KINDERSLEY appeared in support of the plea; Mr. Psi's*.
TON for the plaintifili. There were a'io several Junior counsel at
either side.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 23.
(Before Vice. Chancellor KNIUUT Baum)
His Honour was engaged in hearing short causes of Hitle public
interest.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Wicium.)
DYSON V. NORRIS.

1

His HoNova gave judgment in this cause: The plaintiff was
the mortgagee of certain lands for securing payment to him of a
sum, the principal of which now amounts to 9,350/. Part of his
security consisted of a policy of insurance upon the life of the most.
gager. The mortgager was the defendant, Thomas Brook Morris ;
and the other defendants were parties who represented two gentle-
men, named Meadows Taylor and Henry Brown, who, according to
the allegations in the bill, were formerly interested in the mortgage
money, although the mortgage was made in the name of Thomas
Brook Morris alone. The bill prayed that the policy might be sold,
and the proceeds arising from the sale be applied in satisfaction of
the mortgage debt. His Honour, after going through all the transit_
actions between the parties, said the plaintiff must take the usual
decree of foreclosure, retaining the policy for what it might be worth

COURT OF QUEEN'S PENCE, Feb. 23.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins at Guildhall.)
BREEZE V. JARDINE AND OTHERS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a solicitor re-
siding in Wales, to recover damages from the defendant; Alr.
Jardine, a wine merchant, and Beaumont and Bradley, two
officers in the City police, for an ansault and false imprison..
ment, and for detaining certain property.
Mr. Jervis and Mr. Ogle viva's .1 tor the plaintiff.
From the evidence for the pros 'cut ion it appeared that the
plaintiff and his friend Mr. Williams, the High Sheriff of Ale-
rionethshire, had been down to Blackwall on the 27th of May
last to eat white-bait, and returned to town in the evening by
the railway. The defendant Jardine was in the same car-
riage with them, and plaintiff accused him of smoking a cigar.
Mr. Jardine denied that he had been smoking; an altercation
ensued, which ended in Mr. Jardine's being taken into cus-
tody, on the complaint of the plaintiff. On their arrival at
the station in the Minories, Mr. Jardine was taken to the
Tower police station, and charged with smoking. • The charge
was taken, and the plaintiff was called upon as usual to give
his name and address to appear, to support the charge. He
refused to state either his name or address, although re-
peatedly required to do so, and Mr. Jardine desired that be
should be detained until he hal done so. The other de-
fendants said that plaintiff had placed them in a most awk-
ward situation, and urged him to give his name and address.
Plaintiff still refused to do, although, according to the testi-
mony of one of the witnesses, he said he said he objewed to
give his name as a prosecutor, but would do so as a witness.
He was then detained, but refusing when offered, to give bail,
was ultimately conveyed to the Corrupter, and locked up for the
night. When taken before the Lord Mayor the next day,
Breeze was discharged, and after hearing the charge against
Mr. 'Jardine the Lord Mayor discharged him also, as he had no
jurisdiction in the case..
Before the defence was gone into, Lord DENstAN said that
certainly there was some case to go to the Jury, although he
thought it was not a case fur heavy damages, for the plaintiff
had, in a great measure, brought what had happened to him on
himself by his own absurd conduct. If the Jury took that
view of the ease, perhaps if they were to state their opinion, it
might save some time.
'1 he Foreman of the Jury, after the lapse of not more than
a minute, said, We find for the plaintiff, damages 20/.
Lord DENMAN-00 if that is the case, gentlemen, we
must hear the Learned Counsel for the defence.
Mr. Jzavis protested against the counsel for the defence
being heard. They had chosen to take the chance of a ver-
dict, and it was exceedingly irregular to let them enter into
the defence now.
Lord Darisra sr—The irregularity was mine. I thought if
the jury agreed with nue in opinion we might have saved time.
As it is, the case for the defence must be gone into.
Mr. Hill, on the part of the defendant Bradley, Mi. Platt,
on the part of the defendant Jardine, and Ur. Kelley on the
part of the defendant Beaumont, respectively addressed the
Jury'.
Por the defendant, Jardine, witne4sPs were examined, from
whose testimony it appeared that Mr. Jardine had no cigars
with him, and was not smoking previous to his entering the
carriage in which plaintiff and Mr. Williams were ; that on his
arrival in the Minories, when accused of loving been smok-
ing, he denied it, and that plait-vitt' insisted kin Jardine's being
taken in charge. That the, carriage was examined by the rail-
way officers, and that it did not smell of tobacco. That de-
fendant, Beaumont, was sent for, and that at his request they
all went to the station-house together, and that neither the drop,:
nor the breath of Jardine smelled of tobacco. That when •!ar-
dine was brought to the station-house, plaintiff re:es,,,t to
give his name and address, although repeate...ily urged
to do so, because he had given a person in charge;
that plaintiff was very much excited, and knocked the pen out
of the policeman's hand while the policeman was in the act of
writing Mr. Williams's name as plaintiff's bail ; that plaintiff
refused to allow Mr. Williams to give MI name and address,
and that ultimately Beaumont gave Breeze in charge for re-
fusing. to give his name and address, after having given Jar-
dine into castody. It further appealed, that when, on float
next morning, the policeman tendered to plaintiff his watch
and money which had previously been taken from him, and
requested him to sign the book, he refused to do so, saying
the entry therein was not true, and he would not. sign it,
and that as the policeman refused to restore the property with-
out his signing the book, Breeze replied, " Very well ; you.
have brought a pretty hornet's nest, about your ears."
Mr. JERVIS replied.
Lord Dzwatart summed up, and observed that he consi-
dered the plaintiff acted a most obstinate and strange part, in
refusing to give his name and address after having made a.
charge, but no doubt he had suffered considerable injury front
having been shut up for the night, and if they could in anyway
make out that the infliction of that j
imprisonment was a joint
proceeding, ho would be entitled to recover compensation far
it. With regard to character, although there hail been ens.
siderable obstinacy on all sides, he LUIS tint• consider that any
imputation rested on the charattbrs of any of the parties
concerned.
Verdict for the plaintiff, damages 151., and that the three
defendants were putt trespassers during a portion of the time
in question.
Mr. D, W.
Part of the trial, which lasted neatly six hours.
.°:arvey was present in Court during the greater